Tumbled Words

The contest results are in. Damien was a great judge, and Shelly has offered us all her cute little contest logo for our blogs….

The participants were:

* KatelynJane’s Notebook Scared Silly
* SusieJ entered Definitely something foul going on over there…from her archives.
* Crystal at Song Of My Soul entered from her archives “Hey, at least I can laugh at myself, right?”
* I entered at MeeAugraphie,“The mask, three prompts combined.”
* Jessica at Life As I See It entered a post from her archives, “It’s Here.”
* Penelope At Cafe at the End of the Universe wrote “The Bathtub Below.”
* Cyn at Rage Against The Cliche entered “The Tears of the Phoenix.”
* Robin at Around The Island posted “Treed, or rather staircased.”
* Amy Palko at Lives Less Ordinary added “Scare Silly By The Fairies.”
* Cindee at CiNdEe’s GaRdEn entered “How I Scared My Daughter Silly.”
* The Wandering Author wrote “Wake Up, Little Susie.”

Now, to find out who won, you have to run over to Shelly’s and see! While you are there, click on something there, anything, you’ll be glad you did… And to see just how Scared Silly we all were, read these entries. I’m going to. You should have entered, you know… but she will have another soon, she can’t resist, especially since she now talks other people into judging them since she is so busy!

Tags: , Contest, Scared Silly, stories

I almost finished it! Too much fun — and a bit of frustration. I took a template I had used before and:

• added a photo background!! though I hate the line…
• changed the length of the boxes the posts are in from 450 or so to 600 whatever measurement that was (You don’t think I knew what I was doing did you?)
• changed some colors around
• lost and then found the dates and titles on the clickable vertical bars
• and other changes I had made many many months ago

I know the date and part of the title shows twice, and when you click for comments there is white writing on part of it on the clouds, but that is something to try another day, I have been experimenting for hours!

This is what it originally looked like as downloaded. See how small the boxes area?

This is what it looks like now!!

Remember to get to the next post you just click on the vertical gray bars… once you have clicked them all, you click on the arrowed titles beneath them on either side, like on other blogs to go to previous and next…. IT IS SO COOL. I HAVE LOVED HOW IT WORKS FROM THE MOMENT I SAW IT…

PS. I know that latest post picture is way too big, I haven’t had time to re-upload it.

And I finally got the Gravatar made and Gravatars enabled on all my blogs. It has been the best day!

On life: Leon is feeling better, up and eating and watching movies and sharing his Breyers popsicles with me. I left them alone until I was sure he really was better, ahhh, wasn’t I sweet?

His new career is going well. We actually work quite well together, well, except when I am the backseat driver in the SUV - and that will never change.

On my blogs: Today I treated myself to a morning/afternoon of blog maintenance and browsing templates. I upgraded to Wordpress 2.3.3 using Fantastico - and didn’t back up first other than the one it does automatically, I decided today is a just go for it day…. Whew. It worked. As soon as Fantastico adds Wordpress 2.5 to my Lunar Pages cPanel, I will just go for it, I think. I FINALLY added Comment Luv plugin to all my blogs. Trying to think of something else to add.. but may wait until I go to 2.5. (Note, if you use Version 0.9.9.9, you only upload the .php file, not the rest, he had a problem with it. Of course, I didn’t read that in comments at the author’s site until I redid the zip file time after time.)

Have a great day! It’s NASCAR time! Kind of strange having popsicles instead of beer, salsa and chips or something equally fattening.

Now to figure out how to add Tags, I mean, which words to use. I never bothered before, but since the line is right here on my admin page, I may as well.

Tags: blog, Fantastico, Lunar Pages, Wordpress