Please Update Your Links

From browsing around other people's blogs who link to me, it seems that there are still quite a few of you who haven't yet found my new home:



http://seasidestitcher.blogspot.com

Here's a Bot-a-blog subscription link to be notified when I update my new blog.

What Kind of Alcoholic Beverage are you?

You're a Pint of Guinness!


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Never would have guessed that one! In fact I've only drunken Guinness once, and that was on St Patrick's Day this year when I only downed the stuff to earn enough tokens to get a stupid Guinness hat. Which I've still got! lol

As far as stitching goes, I've completed about a quarter of the Mirabilia Cherub, done a few bushes on Paradise Island and today I did a couple of hours stitching on Carnivorous Cat while watching Lethal Weapon 1. I picked up the box set in Smiths today for £15.99, unbelievably cheap.

I actually had a little bit of a spending fest today, I also bought the box set of the Back to the Future films, (good old Marty Mcfly), Mission Impossible 1, Torque, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow starring Jude Law and White Guys - a comedy with Damon Waynes dressed up as a white woman cop with another fellow.

Last night I spent the entire evening working on a new blog layout for the New Year, here's a preview.

Made an Icon

I made myself a Diary Icon for you to use if you link to this blog, as I know many people do. If you want to upload it onto your own webspace/blogspace the URL to retrieve it from is: http://www.knownspace.co.uk/images/vash_diary_icon.gif

I found the little Blue Dinosaur graphic (Bob) on a blinkie making website. It's so cool that I found this little graphic because the character comes from one of my all time favourite video games, Bubble Bobble by Taito.

Word Verification

Those darn spammers have been at this weekend, I've just got back to my computer at work on Monday to find no less than 5 spam comments on this blog. I've deleted them all now, and have enabled the Word Verification feature which will hopefully stop some of these auto-posting spams.

I've been stitching on "Above the Clouds" a lot this weekend. The castle is now complete and I've started on the Dragon's head. All those blends are a bit of a pain though. I'm not sure I've stitched the Turrets correctly. The pattern seemed to indicate doing a double height half stitch - how are you supposed to stitch that? There was no additional notes of explanation in the chart and information that came with the kit, so I started out doing just normal fractional half stitches, but they didn't look right either, so I ended up stitching the grey of the turrets over the half stitch of the stone. It doesn't look too bad, only one or two of the Turrets look a bit bulky from the double stitching.

Blog Update

Today I've done virtually little stitching. I've been on the computer all day, first of all doing some lessons in Fireworks MX (I've used Fireworks 3 previously, but it's well different) after the lessons I played around and made a really nice logo with Jade's face on it.

Then I got a bee in my bonnet about updating this blog. After a consultation with Angel San - I learned that my web host won't support the MySQL and PHP needed to support more sophisticated blogging programmes so I took another look at redoing my blogger template myself. Thanks to Angel San for a couple of tips.

What do you think?

Invisible Gulls

Just found a bloody spam auto-posted on this blog! What a cheek. Have had to disable the email-posting option now.

Anyway, the reason for this post: Tuesday night, I was just walking home when there was a white splat about 3 metres ahead of me on the path. I immediately looked up but there wasn't a bird in the sky. Do we have invisible seagulls now in Penzance I wonder.......

My Stupid Cat and Blogs

Did the Stitching Blogger's Question this morning via email - but it still hasn't been posted. Got a bounce back from blogger just now it said:

(expanded from
): Command died with status 1: "IFS=' '&&exec
/home/bloggermail/processmail2||exit 75 #bloggermail"

What the **** does that mean??

And now my silly cat is sitting outside the door wanting "in" but instead of just doing the sensible thing and pushing it open, he's sitting outside occasionally complaining and then a foot comes in and pulls the door towards him, in the process trapping his paw in the door.....

Oh he's just figured it out now. He finally pushed it open......

ROFLAMAO

Haloscan

Just added Haloscan's commenting system to this blog to allow me to do Trackback Pings.... and now... whoops! I've got two lots of comments. The trouble is, if I delete Blogspot's own comment link, then I will lose all the old comments which have previously been made on this blog - at least I think I will anyway?

Anyone got any ideas?

Blog Image Post

A New Blog!

Well, to be honest I only created this account so I could actually post a comment today on Petra's own blog (http://doyouknowthewaytomars.blogspot.com) , but I keep getting loads of "excess bandwidth" warning messages from Bravenet about too many people looking at my current blog and pictures over at http://vashxstitch.bravejournal.com so maybe this can be the new home for my blog in 2005?

Hmmmm We'll have to see ;-)