tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90690687492804006892012-02-16T14:44:43.161-06:00sharing links from my surfing excursions and a little info along the wayPamnoreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-62118073103209986972008-05-02T14:00:00.000-05:002008-05-26T15:24:21.910-05:00

I love working with color, whether it is on the computer or off.  Color inspires me and fills me with the urge to do something, make something.  Check out the beauty of these strings of inspiring colors you can find at the ColorSchemer web site submitted in the Scheme Gallery. I just like to look at them, but there is a ColorSchemer Studio you can purchase or download to try.  Schemes

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-34767727281404806592008-04-28T10:51:00.000-05:002008-04-28T11:26:40.732-05:00

I'm happy to tell you, if you are a Mary Engelbreit fan, that MaryEngelbreit.com offers desktop wallpapers.  Some are not terribly crisp in quality, but we can overlook that this time.  There are about 37 wallpapers unless my counting was off, and screensavers, coloring pages, crafts, and recipes as well. You can Tour ME Studios, shop for Mother's Day specials, learn more about Mary, sign up for

Pamnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-35653739240723212282008-04-26T19:29:00.000-05:002008-04-26T19:32:28.755-05:00

I love the simple, casual look of this Reversible Shoulder Bag pattern from Beth at Lula Louise.  You'll find complete pattern and sewing instructions.  The pattern can be scaled down to make a fun little bag with a shorter shoulder strap.  She also has compiled a list of free patterns for knitted market bags. Here is another shoulder bag tutorial from tiny happy.  The Lindie Bag from Craft

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-71859235229283701302008-04-25T16:15:00.001-05:002008-04-27T15:51:42.074-05:00

Windows Live Writer is a blog publishing tool. It does not take the place of blogging programs like Blogger or WordPress, it enhances your blogging experience by making posting to your blog fun, fast, and easy. Windows Live Writer: If you click on this thumbnail, you'll see better what the application looks like once you've installed and begun to use it. There is a horizontal toolbar full of

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-15409987779585224462008-04-23T14:44:00.000-05:002008-04-23T22:29:33.210-05:00

Have you tried the smiley plugin for Windows Live Writer?  It makes adding smileys or other tiny graphics to your blog entries so quick and easy.  This is by far my favorite plugin. The fabulous part of this little plugin is that you can add custom smileys, your favorites, or delete the ones that you know you'll never use.  Though I wish I could rename the tabs so that I could use one for say

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-82426655157850962272008-04-20T18:51:00.001-05:002008-04-23T16:27:15.266-05:00

When I first used Blogger some time ago, I liked the ease of dragging the page elements in the edit layout, but I didn't realize you could do anything beyond that. I thought it was limited to "what you see is what you get." It's amazing how wrong that assumption was! Over time and with the ease of searching through blogger tip blogs, we now have a wealth of help in tweaking our blogs and

Pamnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-61845581888967094882008-04-05T17:38:00.000-05:002008-04-05T17:39:02.734-05:00

Our winter was severe this year, and now overlong.  Spring is just barely making noises so I've needed some visual cheeriness while waiting for the warmth of the sun.  I found a fun way!  I've got a few different blogs in my Google Reader that bring me to places I would never find myself.  One such place, How About Orange, is featured on Apartment Therapy, though not the blog, the couple. [

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-50343943202024068722008-04-04T13:35:00.001-05:002008-04-04T13:35:49.094-05:00

I haven't been surfing much these days, but did follow a few "bunny trails" recently.  I love when one site leads to another and another.  I also love pink and brown so this site, Pink Loves Brown, caught my eye.  She has the cutest pocket mirrors and other things too, like magnets, pins & brooches, and paper goods.

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-83096481812557217042008-03-25T14:38:00.000-05:002008-03-25T14:40:09.732-05:00

So many blogs so little time, but still, I've been hoping for a little more time to peek into a really neat blog called How About Orange.  Jessica Jones is a graphic designer.  And you'll see she has a fabric collection called Modern Flora™ Fabric Collection.  The hobo bag at the left is made out of one of the fabrics.  You'll also find, among many other things, her own tutorials for fun things

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-11981217761277667352008-03-24T14:38:00.002-05:002008-04-23T15:16:06.533-05:00

I found it rather ironic that right on the heels of posting my happiness over figuring out why I couldn't publish a post with images from Live Writer to Blogger, it happened again two days later.  Same resulting upload failure, but a different error.  This time it was a change Picasa made.  There was a small discussion on the Blogger Help Group, but no info on how to fix the problem.  It was

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-29706278758019564402008-03-22T15:41:00.001-05:002008-04-22T13:27:26.257-05:00

Sometime back, a sweet friend had displayed her desktop wallpaper on her blog, and I just had to know where she got it from. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a Debbie Mumm design as I love Debbie Mumm stuff.  I'm very happy to share that you'll find no less than 27! absolutely gorgeous desktop wallpapers.  Their quality is exquisite.  You'll also find Free Projects (don't miss the

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I got this error when trying to publish to Live Writer. The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error. I thought at first it was just something in that particular post. Or maybe the server wasn't working, but I tried publishing from different blogs and using different graphics. After a lot of trying to figure it out, it narrowed down to the fact the post would publish but not

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-87438047644380347752008-03-19T16:05:00.002-05:002008-04-23T15:15:33.487-05:00

Just in case you have never tried it or heard of it, I wanted to mention Windows Live Writer.  It is a great little program for easily publishing to your blog.  It works with WordPress, Blogger, and most major blogging services.  It makes inserting photos, videos, links and other content quick and easy.  Especially if you have more than one blog.  One of the nicest features is being able to work

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-35156158504886575582008-03-17T15:56:00.001-05:002008-03-17T18:58:43.071-05:00

I really love and prefer to use Mozilla's Firefox web browser.  I know IE supports tabs now, for browsing, but I just find Firefox to be cleaner visually.  I love that when I reopen Firefox I can have it set to reopen my windows and tabs from my last session.  Another thing I really like in Firefox are the Add-Ons.  I use FireFTP for uploading my files.  It is the easiest FTP program I have ever

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-22112904081174452902008-03-11T13:46:00.000-05:002008-03-11T13:51:57.909-05:00

Because I had updated to another program, I had occasion to want to remove Windows Messenger but could not for the life of me find a simple way to remove it from my computer.  I feel silly saying that it is one of the joys of my life (because I have only had Broadband Internet for less than half a year) to be able to just sit down at the computer and type a question in search and come up with an

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-77809786354192164962008-03-10T19:15:00.000-05:002008-03-10T19:16:09.528-05:00

I had to share my current desktop wallpaper.  It's still extremely winter here, and it just makes me feel better when I see this summer breezy feeling photo on my monitor.  Mostly I wanted to share this because as wallpapers go, Better Homes and Gardens wallpapers are very high-quality, and very pretty and colorful. There are lots to choose from in quite a few different categories, and some of

Pamnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-64194476836029681272008-03-09T11:41:00.003-05:002008-05-02T14:14:17.190-05:00

This picture couldn't be more me, at least the me I aspire to be.  I love love love color which probably explains why I've been getting Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion magazine for years and years.  Color and Mary Engelbreit just "go" together.  I think, even more than her designs, that's why I love her.  I got the latest issue in the mail the other day and it is certainly full of color.  It

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-25124879142510775742008-03-06T16:31:00.000-06:002008-03-06T09:53:33.429-06:00

Whether you like to listen on your iPod or just play the mp3s on the computer or a cd player, LibriVox has all the free audio books you could want.  Volunteers read (record) chapters of books which LibriVox then releases for free.  Their objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the Internet. There is a very large catalog of books.  Choose Pride

Pamnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-64851765733906501032008-03-05T09:51:00.000-06:002008-03-06T11:37:38.131-06:00

Here are some links for some fun fonts, like SP Love Life at the left, for scrapbooking or otherwise.  Scrapsupply.com has some really great free fonts.  Click on Fonts in Categories and look for the green Free buttons. There are 24 free fonts at Two Peas in a Bucket.  There's a great dingbat-like font there as well as others which are like little text graphics.  Really fun stuff.

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-8874843876142060512008-03-04T10:26:00.001-06:002008-03-05T19:18:32.214-06:00

I ran across a nice looking recipes template for Blogger, but the template download link resulted in a .rar file which is for data compression, like a zip file.  Tech-Pro.net gives a nice explanation of Rar files.  They are not so easy to open though, meaning unless you find a program which will open it, because they cannot be opened using your regular unzipper.  Tech-Pro.net recommends

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-42118422176545145012008-03-03T13:22:00.000-06:002008-03-04T13:23:50.422-06:00

Have you ever seen the amazing Paul Potts (Wikipedia article)or the equally amazing and adorable Connie Talbot, both of Britain's Got Talent fame?  Saved YouTube videos which are in .flv format are fun to have but a little useless unless you have an FLV player.  Martijndevisser.com is one you can try, but it involves opening the .flv file into the program or dragging and dropping the file into

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-21588650397097477972008-03-02T13:51:00.000-06:002008-03-04T13:52:33.301-06:00

The Google Notebook is a fabulous way of keeping track of things you find while surfing the Internet.  Ideally it keeps all your little "clips" for you, complete with pictures and automatically includes the link you clipped it from which is especially important if you later want to give credit to the person/place where you found something.  There are helpful editing features, like adding

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-73652911338477503062008-03-01T15:05:00.000-06:002008-03-04T15:06:34.662-06:00

The Prepared Pantry is a family-owned business which sells baking mixes, kitchen tools, baking ingredients, and gourmet foods. They even have free baking lessons. The thing I was the most happy to find was eBooks. I don't know why, but a well-put-together recipe eBook just tickles me.  They have a 250-page How to Bake: Your Complete Reference Book (which comes in chapters week by week), free

Pamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069068749280400689.post-88703333302579127542008-02-29T15:34:00.000-06:002008-03-04T15:49:22.983-06:00

For printable calendars I really like CalendarsThatWork.com.  You can either get a Premium Membership for 12 months or sample The Free Collection of 22 different formats.  You can download the current month and the next month.  The calendars are very nicely done and each is downloaded as a Microsoft® Word document.

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