So blogger has been fantastic for me so far. It has a simple setup and is much easier to customise the look than livejournal with a cleaner and quicker admin area as well, and if you have multiple blogs you can see them all via the dashboard. I love the "followers" setup instead of "friends" and you can comment from a variety of logins as well, including with your livejournal id.

The only thing that annoys me about blogger is their lack of comment moderation/deletion section. I imported my blog, then chopped out a bunch of posts to try and clean up the content relevance and reduce BS. lol... I thought since there was no comment moderation area, any comments linked to posts I deleted would be removed too... NOOOO it is not as simple as that. The comments stayed in the system, so when I tried to use RSS feeds to do some fancy things that will be unveiled at a later date, I had all this old irrelevant stuff coming out.

Questions to their help forums went unanswered... three days of searching google finally gave me an answer :D

If anyone else out there has a blogger/blogspot journal then here is a cool little app for comment moderation. You type your blog in and it will display all the comments, even the orphaned ones. Then you log in and delete the ones you don't want with the little trash can icon. I tested in both browsers and found that it works better in firefox than it does in IE - less error messages.

http://lvchen.hostse.com/deleteAComment/Delete_A_Comment.html?lang=en

So there you go.

PS: you can look up anyones blog with this thing, but you can't delete comments unless you login with your blogger password and have admin authorisation.

PPS: Oh yes... I am moving things around again because I have too many hobbies and too many opinions!
I have a couple of new blogs set up: (I've been a little secretive, just like Rena)

http://costumewardrobe.blogspot.com
Moving all the costume related posts over to this blog from my website.

http://thequiltedhen.blogspot.com
All of the quilt related posts have been moved from my site in to this blog.

http://happybobbin.blogspot.com
All the embroidery related posts will be moved to this blog, but I haven't done that yet

http://backyardhens.blogspot.com
My beautiful hens blog and all their chickeny business!

5 eggs from my lovely hens. New Record! I think everyone is laying except Elsie, but she still looks like a baby compared to the others.

Baby peach tree is blossoming! So pretty.

Hens are dust bathing

And I made quiches to try and use up some eggs! They're laying too fast! Hopefully my "chicken egg pies" are a success.

http://backyardhens.blogspot.com/

Mark says I'm still cool...
Actually aside from teasing me for having a chicken blog he says it is a good chicken blog... so nya :P

http://backyardhens.blogspot.com/

OMG quilting is hard... ok, not so much hard as awkward and time consuming and is giving me a pain in the shoulder somehow. I have to re-look at my posture/setup to try and take more of the weight of the quilt. I think I will just need to do an hour at a time... especially as I am having to barricade myself in on all sides to give myself enough table space for maneuvering.

I have quilted the two centre blocks... 10 to go... I am doing "stitch in the ditch" style around all the coloured areas. I shall have to do something more on the black border too... not sure what yet.

I saved money and wasted money at spotlight today too... I found 200 safety pins (for holding all the layers together) for only $8 which saved me about $20... It also saved me another trip to spotlight as the other packets would have only given me 75 or 90 safety pins and I ended up using 96! My wasted money was my purchase of bicycle clips for $10 which are supposed to help hold a rolled up quilt together... and nope... didn't work for me. Too difficult to turn the bugger around in the machine with the edges all rolled up. I could definately see the benefit if I ever want to hand quilt though.

I can't wait to get to the binding part, even though that is hand sewing... mainly because I know what I'm doing there (I think) and won't have to make it up as I go along anymore...

My computer is now completely dead. If you need to contact me I shall have intermittent access to web-mail, but I can't access anything anyone has sent me recently, so if you were expecting a reply, please resend!

NO BIDS YET

Camera I found on ebay by accident - starting at 99c with $11 postage in Australia

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Voigtlander-Bessa-Vintage-Folding-Camera-Leather-Case_W0QQitemZ120434596834QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Vintage_Cameras?hash=item1c0a761be2&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

Lots more material added

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29577744@N06/sets/72157619482642082/

I have uploaded the first lot of photos to my flickr account with details and prices.

Fur Fur Fur! - 12 items currently available and more to be added soon.

100% rabbit ready for your medieval or costume projects.

Brown, Grey, Tan... some are flawless coats you could wear.

I hoarded these during my early re-enactment years, but haven't done anything with them for a while. You may remember when I lined hats with fur as well as the collar of my wool cloak. They're beautifully warm!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29577744@N06/sets/72157619482642082/

You are welcome to ask questions here or over on flickr.
Tell your friends if they're interested.



I am about to add some other fur bits and pieces and accessories! Keep checking back!

Aimee Majors art leads me to Google Oiran, which leads me to Audrey Kawasaki's beautiful art, which makes me want to draw... but my journal is stuck at home!

What inspires you?

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I am totally inspired after finding custom on demand printing for fabrics. YEP! Make your own fabrics!! What a brilliant service. Now we just need the Aussie dollar to get a little healthier so I can afford the exchange rate. I wonder how much postage is...

http://www.costumewardrobe.com/blog/2009/04/custom-on-demand-fabrics/

I got the bottom of my steam punk skirt finished today... 15m of lace down... I think... I forget how much is left... And I hate the way this fabric dissolves into little balls of fluff! Seriously irritating!

Anyway... its blogged on my website linked below.

Steam punk skirt lace

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Animania was photographed and put online in a gallery on news.com.au
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/gallery/0,23607,5038212-5007151,00.html

And who should be first up... What a familiar face!! It is level4chaos!!

I tried needle tatting tonight and found it to be faster and easier than shuttle tatting! If you're interested follow the link.

I also added a little widget to my site that lets me post this from my site. Hopefully this isn't as annoying as the twitter feeds though. I don't know if I will continue with the x-posting of my craft stuff to LJ or keep LJ for personal stuff only. Time will tell.

Needle Tatting

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Actually it is how to make one. Thought some people might be interested in this

http://www.instructables.com/id/Awesome-led-cube/?utm_source=leader&utm_medium=ledcube_leader

I made one.

http://www.costumewardrobe.com/blog/

http://www.costumewardrobe.com/blog/?p=135


I made that!

Kuromi says: Fly with me to the new Blog

I spent all day today transferring it into its new little home, despite how much I love Joomla... *sigh*
But the plus side is that now everything has tags and is in the one "blog" category instead of being painfully and badly catalogued.

Also I spent most of last night playing with Kuromi images. So Kuromi is now official mascot for a little while.

I am contemplating mucking with my website again. I am not really satisfied with "blogging" into joomla as there is no support for tags and if I write something about a new topic I have to create a category for it to keep things organised. I am thinking about making my website purely for articles again and either installing some blog software or starting up something on blogger. I don't want to use LJ unless i was to create a brand new user for it.

What do people who are doing blogs think about all the different options. Do you like to read peoples websites, blogs on sites like blogger or LJ?... do you have particular favourites? (not favourite blogs, but a preference in type)

I don't know. I did create a blogger, but I haven't been using it. The one downside there is I haven't been able to find how to search all the blogs on blogger. Though that is pretty easy on LJ. The comment systems are pretty much the same for either I guess.

Should I create another LJ, or use the blogger, or install new software on my website so it is all under my domain?

Also... I want a tatted mask... and I have too many hobbies!

OMG I need a break from this now...

That is the bottom frill complete. I now have two layers of lace to do while attaching this layer to the next bit of velvet.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/29577744@N06/3355563469/

I literally feel like I have been doing this all day. And I kind of have. I started measuring and cutting at about midday. I was gathering and pinning this before dinner and then worked fairly solidly on it for the past two hours too. I used up two bobbins of thread on it as well!