Fun Stuff.

I recently visited my old elementary school, and found a ceramic tile that was part of a school project. It's still there, mounted in the mural on the wall! How neat. It's funny how my young self portrayed my family members. My dad look sort of strong but stern, with those big yellow eyes, and my mom is almost ridiculously cheery and whimsical - big curls, big round eyes, flouncy dress. I don't know what the devil I'm wearing -flowers, stripes, blue, purple? I was kind of a fashion-confused child, so I guess it fits, hahaha.

I just put up a BUNCH of new items in both Eventual Invention and Pied Crow - and I already sold one of them! This little journal went home already:

And I finally put up those cairn pendants I mentioned a while back, like this one:




Clickables - they take you to the listing, where you can see more photos! Or you can check out all my new faux stone jewelry or the other new journal... :)

Lots of Things to Post About....

 But little time. I just wanted to note that you can see I changed my tag cloud over on the right hand side from a ZoomClouds thing to a simple, html-based cloud. ZoomClouds didn't use my actual entry tags, only the entry text itself, and the links directed to a page filled with ads. All the relevant entries from my blog were down at the bottom of the page, below ads for other bookbinders! Sucky. So I did a bit of googling and found a better solution. 

You can find simple, easy instructions here: 

Compender: A Simple Blogger Tag Cloud Widget

It's the only one that I've found that is so fabulously simple to use. It took me all of about 15 minutes to get it installed and all the variables adjusted to my liking. 

Definitely read the comments - skim over to the ones that mention adjustments to the html. They tell you how to change the number of times a tag shows up, the font size, etc. I made a couple of adjustments myself to color and text alignment, so feel free to ask if you'd like to know.  :)

Sweetness.  

Smoots!

Some of you more observant blog readers may have noticed the new gadget at the bottom of the column on the right. Now you can measure in Smoots! How cool is that. Just type any measurement - such as 50 feet, 6 inches, 20 yards, etc - into the box and hit the Measure button!

I meant to do this sooner, since October 4 (my birthday, coincidentally!) is Smoot Celebration Day, but I'm just now getting around to it.

So go ahead, try measuring the distance to your grandmother's house, or the length of your living room, or even your own height! Whenever I hit the search button, I always think of Oliver Smoot getting up, lying down, getting up, lying down, getting up, lying down....

For more about Oliver Smoot, and the Smoot measurement, check out the links below the search box. :)