Whew!

So it's been a little busy around here...
The QGA auction is finally over, so I can relax a little. I had my Tennis team party today, and that was fun. Rosie has a beautiful home...
It's gotten colder here, I don't have the official, but we were supposed to hit 34 last night...
I mailed out the Christmas cards on Monday after dropping Jason off at the airport. This time it's Wyoming. I know, right? I mean, wth? I didn't even  know his company even had a job up there, but oh well. I guess, I really wish I could have gone with him. Not for the cold or even the snow, but to see the graves of my grandparents and even a couple greats. Of course, he's also only 6 hours from a close girlfriend of mine....who just had her 4th baby boy!
So life has been busy. So busy in fact, that I'm going to blow off my KSQG Christmas party tomorrow. I'm just too tired-it's also an hour away...
So the auction is over and now I have to focus on presents. The good news in me skipping the party tomorrow is that I hope to get a bunch of pc work done as well as some phone calls. We'll see.
I also recently found a neat site called Meetups-It's local and I'm hoping to find a bunch of new friends there.
Anyway, I've been on here too long again, so I'll leave you all with pictures...

Yes, this is Cozumel from June of this year....!

 I needed proof that we were in a 4x4 off roader. I love my hair!

 At the beach! If you look close, you can see the reflections in our glasses!

 The ruins on the mainland. Tulum? I think I spelled that right?

 Ok, we couldn't really do pictures here, as we were repelling down the side of the tower...

It was great!

 Festival International de Louisiane

Working the Crepes a la Cart booth!

 Oh yeah...

 Just look at that ocean! Well, hubby's not bad lookin either... 

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Yay!
And just in case-Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Busy, Busy, Busy

So, I've been rather busy this past week, not that my house has anything to say about that...
Nope, it was all done on this contraption we call a computer. Monday when I got up, Tuesday when I got up, Wednesday after Tennis. Thursday was guild all day, so I only got to check my email. Friday when I got up, Saturday when I got up.
Now, you ask, what was I doing and did I get a lot done? I was working on the Guild blog and posting my examples on my blog as the last 4 post show. Did I get a lot done? Not really. Well, that's not completely true--yesterday, I completed the Guild Blog. I created a new site for the pictures using Shutterfly. I found out about that through another guild blog I found. That is really neat too. Click Here for that. And I learned GOBS of stuff through other blogs and trail and error about blogs. I made a button for others to use on there blog-i.e. I sorta learned how to code...lol

Now, this week I'm hoping that since Jason is home for 3 days of vacation we will do something in the bathroom, but that's looking rough since he pulled/strained a muscle in his upper back. dork.
Today, we are going to go see about my car and if I really need two new tires. Then run some errands: Office Depot, Super 1, Alberstons.
Mom's coming at 6 and we have tickets for the Heymann Center "Pride and Prejudice". I really hope its good.

I have tennis tomorrow morning, but not sure how that's going to go. I was off my game on Wednesday, so I hope I don't screw up tomorrow.
This Friday, Mom, Ching, Letia, and I are going to the Houston Quilt Show-well, we leave Friday and go to Laporte then Saturday, we'll go to the show and then come home that night. Yep, I'm driving-hence the tire & breaks check. Well, we still have to get a hotel room, but hoping to use Jason's points.

I'm also hoping to complete one if not two projects before the trip. The first is what I'm calling a travel companion. I hope to take pictures and do a real post. The other is a Shower Pocket by Never Done Project. I have to visit the quilt shop for the special fabric, but I wont need much. I'll probably still put this one in a Ziploc bag, so I can leave my soap in the pocket.

Well, Jason's out of the shower now, so I guess I'll pay some bills and figure out the problem I just found on my travel companion pattern...
Later gators,
Danielle

WOW

So, you're not going to believe this, but Google won this one. Totally didn't see that coming.
When I select the link, it brings you (separate page a must) to the Google Drive site. However, its very downplayed and for the most part (like Google) is simple and user friendly.
Literally: wooowww.
1. Easy view of the title
2. There is a search button (circled in red on right). Supposedly, you can search for anything in the doc.
3. Thumbnails on the left side for easy scrolling...
4. A PRINT button!!!

Now, the one thing Sky has that Drive doesn't. A 'Download' button directly on the page. I know, weird, right? Well I found it under the 'File' dropdown menu (below). I even clicked it and chose 'open' and it worked smoothly (as expected).

So....ding, ding, ding....we have a winner!
Thank the Lord, because I'm tired of this...
Now to go straighten out the guild's site and create a google drive for them..
Danielle

Yay!!!!

So I did it!!!! yay!!!!
So now what? Well, I'm not excited about the way skydrive displays the pdf inside their web page. I don't care that their stuff is at the top as a header, that's to be expected. I'm not totally happy with the properties displayed on the sidebar. No one needs to know who posted it and so forth.

Or when it was posted, or modified or the path or any of that junk on the right side of the page.
Now, I did just find the Download button at the top left of the screen. But, there is no clear print button, or search (not that you might need that).

So?
I'm now going to try Google's Drive. As I said earlier, I already had the account, so logging in was easy.
Here we go again...
Quilters' Guild Acadienne Newsletter August 2012

Mind you the end result of all this is to make my blogging on the guild's site enormously easier... hope*


So, I have blogger (google), Drive (google), Skydrive (microsoft), Email (Yahoo), Flicker (Yahoo), (soon to have smartphone-windows) as well as the guild's blog in blogger (google). And unless I want the guild's blog always linking back to mine (no), I will also have to set up one of the drives for downloading stuff...omg. Of course that is what all the posts today are about. Finding the best choice for the Guild.
   Then I found a really nice guild blog from Canada that has given me some really good ideas for ours...
Anyway, back to the focus: post so I can check out the link...lol
Danielle

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Update: I will be moving the link of this blog to the new Guild Google Drive, since I will be deleting the newsletters off my drive.. don't need them both...
Danielle

So here goes nothing...

Hi all...lol
So I'm going to post two pdf documents that I uploaded to my skydrive. I am going to use both the "Public" and "View" link to test it out and see what is actually 'see-able'. In other words, the minute I'm done with this post, I will log out of both blogger and skydrive and search the internet for the pdf (which is just my guild's newsletter) that is Public. What I think the difference is, is View is for a link you place in a post and then anyone who views your post and clicks on the link will be directed to the pdf. Public is as if I just posted the pdf to the internet, I think...
So here goes nothing...

QGA Newsletter for October 2012 is the Public one. View only.


QGA Newsletter for September 2012 is the View only.

And they're off!

hehe...
Danielle
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Update: removing the public link and making view only. I didn't see any difference and I wasn't able to search for it anyway...lol oh well.

Trying to upload a pdf (testing)…

So I'm writing about linking a pdf on my page. There isn't one attached yet, since it's taken my several days to research this. I just don't understand why this is so difficult...

I'm doing this so that I can get my quilt guild's blog up and running efficiently. Our newsletters are in pdf, so I'm hoping to get them on the site...

I just created a Windows Skydrive for when I get my new phone, plus the search I did online said I should have a cloud site to pull from… so here goes…
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Well, I did that, and I'm not sure what to do now... I think I need an organizer for the stuff I have:
1. I created the skydrive for when I get my windows phone, I can take pics on the phone and put them on the skydrive to later retrieve to blog on (thats the hope)

2. I have a blog through Blogger (google).
    I have a Docs account for when I was trying out an idea for my recipies. A flop for what I was looking for-not Docs itself. Well, I think Docs is now just simply apart of Drive. Fine by me, as long as i can use it.

3. I created a objective account for the Guild--its own gmail, blogger acct and password.

Now, I think I have to create a Docs/Drive for the guild as well... on to more searching..
oh and by the way, just in case anyone is reading this, it's Quilters' Guild Acadienne.

oh yeah, and I have a yahoo email address...LOL

***Ok, so I think i may have something here. I  found the skydrive online site...duh!!!! Now, this is nice. I'll have to play with both drive and skydrive to see if i like one better than the other, but sky is nicer to look at thats for sure!
More to come I'm sure...
Danielle

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Here's to my baby: I love you so much, you make me so proud!

 

 

 

hmmm....

I'm so bad at this, I tried for a while. I really did. And then life happened...
What you ask? I have no idea! I think it was a combination of holidays, the part time job I no longer have-yay, and just the normal small stuff. I mean its May next week-and I'm not sure how I got here. I have photos to post, and print...
I was on top of the world in January, what happened? I haven't even decorated at all for any holidays-I just feel so behind on all of it. I get a couple days to catch up and what do i do? I blow it.. I have lazy days or just a complete lack of energy.. I can tell you right now, I'm not pregnant. And, I'm okay with that. I think God knows that too. He knows that I'm just overwhelmed I guess. We are now remodeling the master bathroom, finally. Or, well, trying to. I've got over a thousand dollars of supplies just sitting in my living room waiting to be used. But we are getting there. It only took a year to get motivated to do it...
Now its 11:30 at night and i need to go to bed so i can get up early for the Lafayette guild tomorrow. Have lots to do-Hope I'm sleeping soon. blah, blah, blah..
lol
hoping to catch up soon. At least I got something done each day of off-ness. I mowed today and cleaned-we're getting company this weekend, so I had to. Kid frienly too!
Ok, going to bed. Night world..
Danielle

January UFO Challenge

      Alright, so I made a new page and got everything up and running for the UFO challenge and am sooo proud of myself! And as a small reminder to myself, I am posting the number Ms. Judy picked:

#5 

      Now, on my list I have a clothes pattern for my WIP and a cute wool bookmark--so I really hope I can finish for the month of January! I have all faith in the handwork, but the pattern will be more challenging. I started the pattern last year at the end of a sewing class I took and just haven't had the time to come back to it.

     Now if I wasn't so lazy and backlogged on my camera pictures and my phone as well, I would get up and take a pic of both of these projects, but I am, so you'll just have to wait until I finish..

     I almost hate to admit this, but I saw the number Ms. Judy picked before I assembled my list. Sooo, I sort of cheated on picking out the WIP, but completely forgot when I picked the handwork. The reason I mention this is that I'd really like to finish the shirt pattern so I can wear it this spring...I guess I should be ashamed, but I'm really not...lol

The bookmark should be pretty easy, and it's actually the best pick, since it will be my first wool project ever, so I should be able to finish and move on to something else soon after.

Oh, and by the way, (not that anyone is reading this) I got a new laptop for Christmas! This is to explain why I'm suddenly very active on my blog... :0)

Yay!!

Keep the hope of the new year alive people and keep those projects going!
Danielle