Who knew? I bought a laptop a month or so ago, with Windows 7 pre-installed. After the horrific time we had with Vista, there was no way I was buying anything with Vista loaded on it. At the same time, we had our desktop in for 'surgery': Vista was removed, and Windows 7 installed.
Now, I had to download all the programs I'd been using before this surgery....one of which was Yahoo's Sitebuilder. Download, install...check.
Open, edit...check. Save...AAAAARGH. Errors. Wouldn't save a thing.
Tried a few times, thinking it was just a glitch, and each time sighed (okay, SWORE would be more like it) and closed the program.
I finally contacted Yahoo yesterday, and figured it had to be a compatibility issue, after all, Windows 7 is only 6 months released? and during the contact us process, when it asked for the operating system....Windows 7 was nowhere to be seen.
TODAY, I heard back. Wow. Only one day! And yes, it was a compatibility issue, but the tech in his reply gave me step by step instructions. I was almost afraid to try to edit and save, after all, I'm coming down with my first cold in ages and have a scratchy throat; I really did not feel up to yelling four letter words at my laptop. Thankfully, that was not necessary.
On a crochet note, I bought a pattern (yes, sometimes I do use someone else's patterns) from MsPremiseConclusion on Etsy. She's also a member of Etsyhookers team, and during a promo thread on Etsy, I checked out her budgies. They were so cute, and suddenly I had a picture in my mind of our tiny little tree out front with colourful budgies adorning its branches. Wouldn't that make people look twice? To see a picture and check out the listing, just follow me...
I will have to post a picture when it's done. Of course, I will have to put the birds in place when no one's home to stop me. :)
Friday, March 26, 2010
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Finally got around to it...somewhat!
I am emberrassed to say just how long I've been thinking of and talking about doing this, so I'll just say after a 'little bit' of time, I've finally gotten around to taking out some of the crochet and craft magazines I know I will no longer use, took pictures and listed them on Etsy as commercial supplies.
I do have more, but baby steps! Put them together with my yarn and thread already in my destash section, and there's projects in them thar listings. Check them out.
Now, I also have a bag full of Avon skin care products and 'with purchase' items that were sent as part of a seller's program, please, grant me the determination to break out my camera and take pictures and get them up on eBay. And grant me the good fortune of having people want to save $$ to take them off my hands at cost or very little above! In some cases, below cost!
Procrastination is my enemy.
Also, I did add a new handmade item, from my Easter Stuffies pattern set I'm re-working, and got a little creative with the main picture:
Clicking on the picture will take you to the listing.
I do have more, but baby steps! Put them together with my yarn and thread already in my destash section, and there's projects in them thar listings. Check them out.
Now, I also have a bag full of Avon skin care products and 'with purchase' items that were sent as part of a seller's program, please, grant me the determination to break out my camera and take pictures and get them up on eBay. And grant me the good fortune of having people want to save $$ to take them off my hands at cost or very little above! In some cases, below cost!
Procrastination is my enemy.
Also, I did add a new handmade item, from my Easter Stuffies pattern set I'm re-working, and got a little creative with the main picture:
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Spring is coming! Spring is coming!
And although our winter so far has been relatively mild temperature wise and snow wise, I am still looking forward to spring.
Looking forward to hanging clothes on the line instead of paying astronomical hydro bills to keep my family in clean (and dry) clothes. Looking forward to colour to replace the drab brown and white. Looking forward to opening my windows and smelling my lilac tree in bloom!
I decided one day a few weeks ago to use one of my free square patterns to work on an afghan. This helped use up some of my skeins of blue and purple, and some off white yarn I had--although I did have to buy more of that for the border. The finished afghan turned out app. 48 x 64", I was quite happy with the way it looks. In person. I'm not overly happy with the way it looks in the photo! I will have to re-take, but trying to figure out how without recreating the overall 'purple' tint that I couldn't get rid of even in editing. (The wall is actually peach--not pink--peach!)
But, here it is. And I'm sure I would never get the over $200 that some would say to charge based on charging an hourly rate, so decided on a price of $125. (Clicking on the picture will take you to the listing)
Looking forward to hanging clothes on the line instead of paying astronomical hydro bills to keep my family in clean (and dry) clothes. Looking forward to colour to replace the drab brown and white. Looking forward to opening my windows and smelling my lilac tree in bloom!
I decided one day a few weeks ago to use one of my free square patterns to work on an afghan. This helped use up some of my skeins of blue and purple, and some off white yarn I had--although I did have to buy more of that for the border. The finished afghan turned out app. 48 x 64", I was quite happy with the way it looks. In person. I'm not overly happy with the way it looks in the photo! I will have to re-take, but trying to figure out how without recreating the overall 'purple' tint that I couldn't get rid of even in editing. (The wall is actually peach--not pink--peach!)
But, here it is. And I'm sure I would never get the over $200 that some would say to charge based on charging an hourly rate, so decided on a price of $125. (Clicking on the picture will take you to the listing)
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