Saturday Afternoons

My song choice for this afternoon to keep me mellow which is the opposite of how an evening on the Folksy help pages turned me into a quivering imbecile . It began with the ‘simple’ instructions on how to ‘Post an Image to the forum’

The example

This thread is a place you can use to test whether you can do it. Use ‘edit’ (just below your avatar) if it doesn’t work first time so you can go back in and have a look at what you may have missed out.

<a href="http://folksy.com/items/123456"><img height="200" src="http://image.code.JPG"></a>

Blah Blah Blah

You can just copy and paste this code replacing the link to your item (or your shop) and the link to the image source of your code.

It’s the word JUST gets me every time and has become my nemesis.

My attempt went like this.................

Oct 11, 2011 6:43pm Billybees

(imagine a blank box)

MMM… lets see
Oct 11, 2011 7:02pm Billybees

(imagine an identical blank box)

sips wine and proceeds
Oct 11, 2011 7:03pm Billybees

(same as above)

and again
Oct 11, 2011 7:12pm Billybees
(ditto)

puts straw in bottle of wine so can use both hands copy pasting typing etc

Oct 11, 2011 7:21pm Billybees

(you guessed it....nothing)

deep breaths and silently repeats the mantra ..calm as still water .whist sucking the dregs from the bottle and copy . checks. pastes. checks, adds, checks sucks, opps lost the straw ..adds long straw to shopping list and presses SAVE REPLY button

Oct 11, 2011 7:38pm Billybees
(ohh look nothing!)

feels slightly deflated but not giving up but needs to open another bottle, cleverly join two straws together for the next attempt, re read re paste and re post … “I am just going to my fridge and may be some time”

Oct 11, 2011 8:07pm Billybees
(yeah ...surprise... joking)
Last try for tonight

Oct 11, 2011 8:10pm Billybees
(same image as the example using the example code!)

well its an image ….not the one i was hoping for but i feel an improvement has been made …off to put my head in the oven ..its ok its electric so will only make my hair fizzy not actually finish me off for good ! :)

Everything I do is done in the same easy calm methodical manner

I'll leave my foray into the dangerous dark spawn of the Devil known as Facebook for another day!  

Chin-chin

A new dawn a new day....or about 11.30 am

I joined Folksy, a British based site where you ‘can buy and sell all things handmade’ and since I happened to have some handmade items, and my cousin is a dab hand with a needle and also had some handmade items, I thought I would give it a shot…this was about a month ago.

My initial thought was that I would start a shop and lots of people would see our fantastic items and be virtually queuing to buy them. I could then begin to make some more fabulous items between rushing to the Post Office and finding some inspiration with friends over a glass or two of wine celebrating my success. Tada ….easy peasey

This was not to be ……. My first dilemma was photo’s. I have hundreds of photo’s but not one good enough to compare with the very professional photos seen in the other Folksy shops. In all honesty Billy (my cat) could have taken better ones blindfolded with his paws in mittens.

This is Billy when he was a kitten

My cousin and I, I’ll call her Barbara, for that is her name, spent 8 hours photographing. I hammered a couple of nails in the bedroom wall ….. what we do for our art ! And hung some black velvet as a back drop. Dusted, polished (not that it needed doing of course!) the wooden drawers to use as a plinth and set to work. After flashing, lighting, zooming, macro-ing, sitting, standing, climbing ladders and using all functions on her camera we have what I hope are some decent photo’s of our work.

Some decent photo's of some of our work!

My haphazard and mostly disastrous journey into all things internet-ish

Hi everyone my name is Lu and I’m an internet numpty.

Although I have been in possession of a computer for a number of years, back to a time where you plugged your PC into a phone cable, or phone cable into your PC and waited to see what would happen, a time when a blog, face book, twitter, google and social networking was still in its nappies along with the people who have so thoughtfully brought all this bewildering array of gobbledegook.

It is only in the last month I’ve become acutely aware of how unable I am to proceed in any direction other than down that well trodden, at least my me, rocky road to confusion, like quantum physics, black holes, time travel, Dr. Who and the novel

Kill Kill Faster Faster by Joel Rose ….I just don’t understand it.

I feel as though I’m from a land that time forgot, an alien race, I have a missing gene I lived in a time where blackberries, apples and oranges were simply fruit. There is some joy in being middle aged, I don’t have to pretend my name is Jack Wills and I don’t care that I wear knickers as big as Texas …yee haa !