Tuesday and Instagram

Happy Tuesday all.

For some unknown reason to me my Instagram photos are not loading on my sidebar and while it's probably easily rectified I shall put on my lazy hat and wait for my IT literate son to sort out the glitch. 

Meanwhile if you click on the newly installed 'followgram' link on the sidebar all my photos are displayed. As I have mentioned before I am having the time of my life with Instagram taking visuals of fanciful things and just recently discovered a free app called Frametastic and now my addiction knows no bounds!

I shall leave you with a serene shot of the most divinely scented candle and the most vibrant red nail polish my nails will be sporting by days end.

What girl doesn't enjoy having gifts bestowed on her...I Love It!

Thanks A-M & FF 

Frustration Central

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For the time being I have returned to this layout after getting excited about a new Blogger template called Dynamic Views which I set up and used for my previous post.
After spending a good portion of this afternoon with my adult son (who knows his way around a computer) to figure out how to add gadgets, feeds, Follow buttons etc etc and coming up with zilch we entered a Blogger forum to discover that indeed blogger has been promising to fine tune the Dynamic Views template for months and so add these essential tools for successful blogging. Or at least this was the most up-to-date information we found.

In a nutshell that template is virtually useless at this point in time because why have a blog that no-one can follow because you can't add any follow feeds to the blog, unless you practically have a degree in computer software to navigate adding any type of follow options.
Are you following my frustrated waffle so far dear friends?
I wish I had researched this beforehand! If nothing else I am gaining a crash course of the ins and outs of computer vagaries. Which I might add is one of the reasons I delved into this blogging caper!

Along with many others who wish to use this design I look forward to Blogger ironing out the Dynamic templates issues. Blogger..why release a template that is inferior?

So...back to basics for a bit until I calm down and feel enthused to try another layout.

Annie xx

A Change is as Good as a Holiday...or so they say

Today I tweaked and fiddled and foofed and procrastinated with the design of this little blog in the hope of simplifying the layout.

Now I'm not sure if I succeeded other than driving myself just a little bit insane in the process. Blogging has verified an aspect of my personality that I definitely knew existed...I like change.

Is this design permanent? Most definitely probably not.

Half the fun of learning is trial and error and having a bash and along the way I occasionally surprise myself. Considering this morning I thought I'd lost my blog in cyber space. Feeling the meltdown approaching I just had to walk away for several hours and return to the computer and give red roses and crystal her revamp.

Why am I publishing a photo of bright coloured lollies you may ask. No reason other than I feel like eating a whole packet right this minute.

And if you hear me thinking out loud about making more changes in the foreseeable future, please somebody ...STOP ME.

(yes I'm a drama queen)

xx

Sorting and Sifting...

My friend A-M popped in to help me fine tune this here blog. Who knew there's a ton of info to grasp when one ventures into blogland. Learning never stops, doesn't matter how old we are.

 Well we set to like only women can and created miracles (after tea, cake and chatter of course).

Very nice mani there A-Me and I so want the ring! 

Of course this set off a chain of events for yours truly because I realised my system left a bit to be desired if I was to become an efficient Miss and create posts in a timely fashion without trawling through squillions of pics. Hence over the last two days I've spent, oh about six hours sorting hundreds (felt like thousands) of photos into new folders...click...drag...click...delete...and so on until I had morphed into a robot.

Do you update your photo folders etc on a regular basis to enable easy blogging?
Must say I feel quite chuffed now it's organised, just wish I could be enthused to attack a pile of paperwork that's staring at moi.

But not right now. I need a drink!
xx