Tuesday 20 November 2012

All change!





(Apologies to anyone who reads all my blogs as this appears (with minor changes) in them all)


I have just spent the best part of today re-jigging all my photo albums for my Blogs .  It was prompted by Google telling me I was running out of room.  This led to having a grand sort out.  On the one hand it was great to have all the new (purchased!) room, on the other hand it was a load of work re-assembling various folders to share with you.  Whatever web album storage I look at, it never seems to do what I want it to do, which is simply to replicate my photo collection as it is in my computer.  The major problem is (with Google web albums and others) that I can't nest folders within folders as I would like to and I end up with a bunch of small folders all jostling for position.  I then have to rename them all so that they will clump together in some logical way.  For example all the albums to do with any of my miniatures need to start with the same word, so they've become  - yup! - Minis.  This doesn't make files particularly simple to construct and probably not that easy to find.  I promise I have done my best with a duff system.

The re-jig means that any blog prior to this date which has a link to an album will be defunct.  I am sorry for that but it would have always been so at some stage.  I was already having to remove the older albums to make room for the new ones.  Hopefully, with all the extra space I now have, the future links will last a lot longer.  

On the whole it will be fine.  When I write a post and create a new album or add photos to an existing one I will give you the link.  You won't have to go hunting and searching for it.  Additionally, if at any time you are visiting  the blog and just want to find something not being written about you can click on the link in the right-hand column labelled  All albums  and that's where you will end up.  When you get there if you click on the drop down arrow of the 'Sort By' option where it says Album Date you can select Album Title instead.  That puts them all in alphabetical order (obviously!) and should make it much easier to find what you want.  The first clump of albums is Clavering then a bunch of Garden albums then a mass of Minis.

Happy wanderings.

Sunday 18 November 2012

Birthday Treats

Just a few more things to add to the Chocolat collection box . They were bought with my birthday pennies when we visited California.  The story of the trip will be in Clavering at the end of the month and the details of the dolls house part of the trip is in Bentleys. 

I love the doilies and have done for a long time, so these were a treat.  The syringe is for piping decorations on the cakes and chocolates I hope to make - assuming I make them and assuming this syringe works for that - lot of assuming going on here.  Sorry I didn't take the hasp and padlock out of the bag - hope you can see it if you click on the photo as it is very nicely in scale.  This is for the outside toilet door probably.  As for the senior squished up the corner.  You might not know it but this is Judi Dench!  Well it is the resin figure I shall have sat at the counter drinking chocolate as in the movie.  I hadn't seen her before so was happy to acquire her.  She was just a tad pricey at $14.99.  I suspect I will now see a zillion of her for five bucks.