Snow day -- and a note on my blog list

It's been snowing today. It just recently stopped. They've promised up to 10 cm today, but as it's very wet it won't be that much left on the ground. But the weather's kept me indoors today. No fun running between houses (i.e. the house where my sis and I lives and the main house where our parents live -- and where I sit using their computer) when you're being "attacked" by big, wet snowflakes. Not even the kittens wanted to be outdoors much today.

Above is a pic I took a few hours ago from my bedroom window. Below is two more I took just recently from the computer room (which has a window I couldn't open). The first one is most recent: the second I took while it was still snowing a little.

The blog list issue

As I'm already writing, I wanted to add a note about the blog list that has disappeared. What happened was I tried to update it, but it didn't work. So I made a new list. It worked, but I'd forgotten some blogs and when trying to add them, it didn't work. So I made yet another list -- and it flat out refuses to be saved. So now I have no blog list, updated or otherwise. Have tried that many times now for a couple of days. Even switching computers and web browser to see if that was the problem, but that had no effect. Not sure what the problem is (listing 187 blogs -- might that be it?) and so far I haven't made an effort to search the help forums or anything. Hopefully it'll resolve itself soon.

If anyone knows how to fix this, I'd love to know!

In the mean time, you can always go to my Blogger profile for some blog tips. It's not all the blogs I read, but many of them.

Lorelei's 24 h giveaway

Lorelei is hosting a 24 hour giveaway. By leaving a comment on her blog and spreading the word you have a chance (or several) to win these lovely pendants by Jade Scott. One winner will be drawn at 8:14 AM local time tomorrow Thursday 14th so be sure to hurry over to Lorelei's blog soon if you want to win these goodies.

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OT: Have you read about the Dynamic Views for Blogspot blogs yet? For a new way of viewing my blog, check out wildrosesandblackberries.blogspot.com/view. You can read more about what it all means here.

Oh, crap...

Yesterday I discovered that my photos on this blog doesn't always look as crisp as they do on my monitor. I was, for the first time, viewing my blog on my sisters computer. She has an old monitor. Watching my pics on that, I saw several photos still had a yellow tint, not the crisp white background I see... It really made me sad as I want my blog to feel airy and fresh, I don't want any border between the blog background and the photo background. It should all be white. But now it turns out it isn't. Not always. And I'm pretty upset about it.

What now? Try and find out which of all my hundreds of pics doesn't look good on my sis's computer and redo them? It's just a little extra tweaking, but it's all jpeg files and that means each time I edit and save the pic, it loses in quality. It deteriorates. And apart from that it's an enormous task. I have to live with this, try to think more about it in the future and accept the old pics, I guess. Will change the pics in my last entry though.

Re-designing the blog

If the blog looks a bit odd right now it's because I'm in the middle of giving it a much needed make over. The bead soup party became my motivation to do something about it, rather than procrastinate because it's a bit of an ordeal to fix it: it's like a game of domino where one brick sets of a long and winding reaction so you have to deal with new deatails all the time.

At the moment, I'm not sure if the background works, whether the layout is correct or if something looks wonky depending on your choice of browser and/or resolution. I'm not even sure that I'll keep these colours or my handmade background (even if you can't tell, it does have a pattern in it).

So please have patience with me while I'm working on this -- and all always all feedback is very welcome. Is there something not working? Are the colour of the links too similar to the text colour? Is the background or template just pure uglyness? Or do you like the new style? Feel free to let me know! If you don't want to write it publicly in a comment below, just e-mail me. You can find my contact info here.


UPDATE: After the teal came the rust and olive -- and now I'm on my third background. Not sure which I prefer. Perhaps I have to scrap the pic under the headline so it doesn't clash?


Picture source: animated clipart from Webweaver.

Why no links?

My blog is still very new so I haven't had the time to add interesting links and many other things yet. In fact, I haven't even told that many people, I even have a new blog. I will be adding more info soon. Or... At least hopefully I will update it before the end of the year.

If you are looking specifically for links to blogs and websites where you can learn more about beading and jewellery making, I would suggest you take a peak at the link lists in the left column on my other blog, Manekis Pärlblogg. Written in Swedish, but the majority of the links go to English-speaking sites.

Why wildroses and blackberries?

The name for the blog is not just a mix of two words inspired by vintage images because I'm a romantic, if anyone thought that. No, these are two things I love. They might have thorns, but are lovely to look at. The roses are so dainty and graceful and smell divine. Blackberries are sturdier and unpleasant to get caught in (ask how I know that...), but also have these shiny dark, juicy berries.

Also, they could symbolize our home, I realised some time after choosing the name. On the low stone wall, marking the northern end of our land, there grows a wild rosebush. And in the hills to the West and South of our farm, you can find brambles under the trees. Especially at the hill farthest away, near the Southern border -- opposite the rosebush -- there's a lot of blackberries.