Hello all! I hope you’re having a lovely weekend; for the most part, I am. Saturday was a bit of a downer because I woke up feeling incredibly groggy with allergies and I had an awful headache for the entire day. Subsequently I wasn’t nearly as productive as I had planned to be, but nevermind. Today I’m pretty much all better except for some neck pain and a very slight headache—nothing preventing me from doing anything.

Earlier last week my dad asked me if I would create a website for our family farm, which I was more than happy to do, so I’ve been playing with that most of today. The design is close to being finished but some of the content will take awhile to be published because I’m not the one writing it. That’s actually fine with me because I’m probably a bit more at home playing with graphics and writing code.

And now for more crafty news.

On Thursday night I had an urge to make a needle book because I didn’t have anything decent to store my needles in (pin cushions are hopeless because needles can disappear inside, where they lie in wait to poke the crap out of your poor unsuspecting fingers!). I was feeling too lazy to design my own, so after much searching I finally found the cutest needle book pattern ever! Skebba designed the book to look like a letter which you unfold to reveal four pages inside for your needles. This is one of my most favourite designs for a functional item! Love, love, love.

My sewing is not overly neat because I’ve barely ever used a sewing machine, despite my mum owning one my entire life and my love of hand-sewing. One would think that I would have hours of experience, but no. I use the machine so little than every time I do use it I have to get Mum to show me how to thread it… However, I think I have finally unleashed the sewing machine junkie within me because I had a lot of fun. I even had to teach myself a couple of things (Mum had, um, gone to bed by this point so I couldn’t ask her, lol) as well: how to put new thread onto a bobbin, and how to catch the bobbin thread with the needle thread. Now I want to sew other things, but I’m not sure what. Any ideas?

Check out Skebba’s Flickr group for her tutorials!

Happy Sunday! ♥

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Jeez, talk about having to fluff about to get the comments styled nicely… The only downside of Wordpress’ 2.7 release is that styling isn’t has straightforward as it once was (until, of course, you find this useful post and the world becomes a good, comfortable, happy place again). However, I am pleased to say that after much fluffing I have them pretty much done. Not exactly how I want them, but I can’t figure out how to that right now and I’m totally over it at this point.

So, yes, it should work and you can all converse with each other in my comments. Which you should start doing immediately to make me feel more important and loved.

Please?

P.S., I totally love Emma and Jeremy Northam is so delicious in everything. Can I have him for my 21^st birthday?

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I am so indecisive sometimes! I have mentioned a few times lately how I have a new site design that I’m working on. The version I have settled with is the fourth and usually it doesn’t take me that long to work out what I want. Now that I have everything almost-finished and have even added it to my Wordpress themes, I think I want to do something completely different!

Are you kidding me, brain?! Seriously, stop this nonsense, will you? I don’t have time to be twittering around with this stuff at such a leisurely pace, thank you very much!

I think I will have to come to a compromise and settle for tweaking the design that’s almost finished a little more, before I actually reveal it. I really like having fluid widths so that anyone using any screen resolution can view my site with relative ease, but the new design is not fluid and the width is quite large. While I know many people are using larger screen resolutions, there are some who still use 800×600 and I don’t want them to have to hassle with a horizontal scrollbar. Plus that would just irk me as it would feel marred and too imperfect. Not that my designs are ever perfect — that doesn’t exists — but I do like to shoot for it.

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