Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Library Thing



Number 11 LIBRARY THING *** Today I had a look around librarything.com this site lets you catalogue books. It also has reviews, groups and gives you a chance to review books too. I catalogued 5 books today and they should appear on this post. There is another feature that looks like a bit of fun, it is a "suggester". For the books you have catalogued it will suggest books you might like as well, it also suggests books you probably wont like. I think this will be a site to add to my favorites - for all those "spare" moments!

Monday, April 16, 2007

On Line Image Generators














http://www.imagechef.com/ic/poem/ This is the link to the site which enabled me to make this flower. If you can read the quote you might recognise that it comes from "Alice in Wonderland".


There are a few different web sites to generate images, worth a play around.


SEWING
On a quilty note, I did some sewing over the last few days. Remember the bag I was making ... I have posted a photo for you. I used some fabric from a range that I wasn't all that excited about but when they were all put together it looked really great, hope the recipient liked it!


The dreaded Double Wedding Ring, I got to it too. When you are doing patchwork the seams generally are 1/4 of an inch. This is because patchwork has it's origins in the USA which uses the imperial system. To help patchworkers most sewing machine companies sell 1/4 inch preeser feet. These are the little feet like things that hold the fabric down. In total I have about 6 different feet, for zippers, butttons, embroidery etc. Well I was busy sewing along and kept thinking something is not quite right, you guessed it...the 1/4 inch foot I was using was the zipper foot. So now my seams are too big, as a resdult the the sewing is now sitting next to my table saying unpick me. I HATE unpicking!!!!!! I suppose that is why I got onto the computer. Nothing like procrastination.
Anyway I have made a decision...........I vow to have the quilt finished by the time I finish the 23 things learning blog!! Now I have set that in print I have to, don't I?








Saturday, April 14, 2007

RSS FEEDS plus page elements



Well I made a blogline account and subscribed to a couple of feeds. I particulary liked the weather one, always had a bit of a fascination with weather. My home page on my computer at home is http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR023.shtml I like to see what is going on. When I was at school I did geography and we briefly touched on cloud shapes I wonder why we didn't do more weather stuff? After 5 years of learning about rice paddies I had had enough of geography so perhaps weather was taught in form 6 (year 12 to all you youngies out there.)

Whilst I have been playing around with bloglines I have been procrastinating and fiddling with a few other things, I added a page element with a link to my web page that I set up whilst at Box Hill TAFE. The link for some reason is right at the bottom of my blog.
I also read some of the blogs by other people in the library. Wow they are really good, I posted some comments on them, it seems a lot of travel is done by library people. It must be my turn soon.

Well I guess we did go away at Easter. Warrnambool, although not exotic is certainly a great place for a holiday. We did a lot of walking, we saw a light and laser show, played some tennis and just relaxed. The light and laser show was really interesting, it was all about the Lochard. A boat that sank in the area killing all but 2 people about 150 years ago. One of the survivors Tom Pearce actually survived three shipwrecks before dying in an accident on land. Can you imagine getting into a ship after one sinking? I wouldn't, let alone after 2 then 3.

Friday, April 13, 2007

OKAY I GIVE UP!


Help! RSS feeds... I have fiddled and fiddled and nothing is happening....well not in my brain anyway and certainly not on the computer. Maybe the computer is broken. Yes that is it. It couldn't be me, could it?
I think I will bury my self in bed, just like the picture and it will all go away ----
things always look better in the morning!