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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
12:52 AM
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So I decided to add those last bits to the site after all. I liked the green, but I like this new one even more. It definitely wasn't what I was planning on. It was just the sketchy start of something else entirely- hence the menu items "stuff" and "etc." In the end, it's exactly what I wanted.
The old layout is only a few lines of code away thanks to Nils' awesome infrastructure :D
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
11:24 PM
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It keeps changing! It's looking pretty good in Firefox, has a couple quirks in IE and I haven't even started thinking about Chrome or anything else. It's missing the blog title, and a background image or two. It's clearly a work in progress. A pixel high mis-match in IE is currently breaking my spirit, so I'm going to go ahead and pretend it's not there and move onto other things. Maybe everybody uses Firefox and will never notice.
Yesterday I learned an interesting way to make rollover images in CSS. I resisted at first, balking at the idea of using a "hack", but came to realize it works rather well. In the past, I've made buttons with two images- one is the the normal state, the other is hover. Here, a single image is used with the two (or more) states side-by-side or stacked.
Single Image with Both States
In the normal state, the first half is shown, and on rollover/hover, the position of the image is changed so that the second half shows. It feels hacky, but there's no flicker like you might see with the old method. It looks pretty slick! About here I was going to show the CSS, the HTML, and the final button, but I realize that it's a lot simple, and a lot clearer to just point you to my sources :)
Webvamp: CSS Image Rollover or Chromatic: CSS Image Rollovers: Accessible, Standard Compliant, Flicker-Free
Now go hover over my menu items.
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
7:04 PM
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I started playing the new Pokemon HeartGold Version and despite all evidence that the game is for little kids, I like it. In fact, I really enjoy it. It appeals to my fondness for adventure games, my love for tiny things, and the insatiable need to collect them all.
| A particularly cute touch is the "Pokewalker." It's like a Tamagotchi and pedometer rolled into a poke-ball so you can take your Pokemon "on walks." Your Pokemon gets happier the more you walk, so I suppose it's supposed to get kids to get up and move around. I loved my tamagotchi as a little kid, so I find it adorable. |
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Design*Sponge recently posted a tutorial for making a gorgeous wreath centerpiece out of strawberries and chocolate mint plants.
 Image from Design*Sponge
This little wreath arrangement uses chocolate mint plants, strawberry plants, and pastel alyssums. The wreath should last about a month with regular watering and indirect sunlight, and will then need to be replanted where it has room to grow.
I love the idea of using such a pretty arrangement that wont just get thrown out after a few days. With the weather warming up I'm looking forward to some nice sunny barbecues, and I think I've found just the thing to put in the center of our patio table. It makes me think of clear, Swedish summers- always a good thing. Again, here's the original posting, and step by step instructions.
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
1:18 PM
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Nothing much to post today. We found a rug for the kitchen. Probably too nice for a kitchen, but I love it anyway. I've got to get around to painting the last wall and testing some colors on the cabinets. I'm leaning towards a white or a grey-ish tone, but I'm not sure yet. Appliances are white as well- thoughts?
I started scultping a new face. I'm trying to model her after an illustration I found and it's a lot more difficult than the generic, emotionless face I did before. Tonight's Snackluck might bring some progress.
Qwerty seems to like it. He made himself comfortable before it got anywhere near the kitchen.
And here's a song:
M'Black - Heartbreak
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
12:13 AM
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A few friends and I started The Snackluck Craft Club. "Snackluck" because it's a potluck with snacks, and "Craft Club" because we're crafty people who enjoy crafty things.
Our first meeting was only half planned but fully enjoyed. We ate snacks, colored with crayons (not kidding) and made badges and bookmarks while trying to figure out what to do during future meetings. It was about that time that we realized we might just be recreating kindergarten- eating snacks, coloring with crayons, and needing a nap at the end of the night. Not a bad formula for a rocking Wednesday evening.
From there, our second meeting explored origami. There was a flock of origami nuns (yes, nuns), a handful of teeny, tiny origami turtles, deceptively difficult origami foxes, and a staggeringly difficult origami heart.
Oh yes, and straw stars. Little did I know, but you can make stars out of straws. I made about a dozen of them, and I'm pretty sure I'll never do it again. And yet I'm still pleased that I know how.
Tonight was meeting number three and marked the start of an adventure in small scale sculpture. Our sculpting friend makes some beautiful dolls out of clay and will be teaching us over the course of four meetings. Today we made our armatures out of steel wire, some thinner wire, and floral tape. The armatures took a little while to do, but nothing compared to starting the face. It's about an inch tall. Here's my progress after about 3 hours:
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It's definitely not finished, but it's coming along.
Our "homework" is to finish up the eyes, nose and mouth so we can add to the rest of the face next time (it needs some more forehead, cheeks, and chin.)
We're sculpting the heads on the ends of chopsticks to make it easier to work with. I've played with clay in the past, but nothing on this scale. I've never done a face before, so this is certainly a challenge. |
Totally unrelated to Snackluck:
I got a fantastic box from my mom in the mail. Behold the bounty!
She was cleaning out the garage and sent me a whole box of yarn, patterns, and the fabric above. Some are from past projects of mine, some are from past projects of hers, and some I've never seen before. I have no idea what I'm going to do with them, and I'm a little afraid to cut into some of them, but it was such a wonderful thing to open up and look through.
Totally unrelated to Snackluck or Fabric From Mom:
I went to Vancouver during the Olympics. Look, it's the torch!
Lastly, I planted some new herbs. After the tragic death of most of my basil, I'm moving forward with Parisian Carrots (cute and round), Garlic Chives, and Cinnamon Basil. I may have jumped the gun a bit but they should be OK indoors. It was 60 degrees that day! It's not my fault it's been freezing this week :)
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