Abieka

Blog? What blog?

Sometimes doll photography can
be very challenging 28/365

So when life is a little challenging with lots of projects on the go, a few deadlines slipping away and a bit of personal stress happening, what does a sensible person do?  Scale back maybe, reduce commitments, reschedule stuff, you know, things to reduce the load.  Now what does Ariel do?  She joins the A Blythe A Day Keeps Boredom Away photography group on flickr, where they all, well, upload a pic of blythe that they took that day, every day.

Okay, I promise I won’t do the third-person-narrative again in this post.

Sunshine girl (ABAD 25/365)

I am totally loving this photography group. It’s a brilliant creative outlet, and the natural progression from my last post about photography. Even better, I’m getting to know other blythies who are incredibly talented and brilliant. I’m amazed by the photography of flickr members like rockymountainroz and renata, and they seriously inspire me to improve my picture-taking. Now I listed only those two photographers because I’m trying to cap the time I spend on the internet, and there are so many amazing people on flickr I have trouble keeping up with their photostreams. And the artists, craftsters, designers, doll customisers, fellow blythe collectors…

Beautiful CP - Vadha 16/365

Fuzz fairy 27/365

…I strayed off topic a bit, but if you love blythe, then flickr is an awesome place to web-surf. There are hundreds of blythe doll groups with different themes.  Here’s four:

1. Blythe Blythe Blythe! - a popular photo pool for any and all things blythe.
2. Blythe walk of fame (25+ faves) - pics in this group have been chosen as favourites by at least 25 other flickr members, so they’re pretty good in there.
3. Photographing blythe - a group for blythies who are photography enthusiasts.
4. Blythe - all the anniversary girls - shameless self-promotion, I’m admin to this group. It’s a photo pool for the special anniversary blythe releases.

Awwwgawd the layout on that list is bloody awful. Sorry. I’ve gotta do something about that.

It’s been just over a month since I joined ABAD, and it’s been so engrossing, I forgot that I had a blog with dreams and ideas, lol. The pics in this post are my contributions to the gorup. Er…I might technically be 4 or 5 pictures behind…best be off then, to catch up. XD Instead of a proper blog update, here’s a few more of my shots for the ABAD group.

Take me seriously 1/365

The glow that illuminates 26/365

Pallas in Viola 6/365

Georgette 15/365

That look 13/365

More angels 18/365

Holiday 4/365

Dainty Artie 24/365

The gladdest thing 1/365

Glow 5/365

New look!

Pretty colours! Thank you to john78 at assorted web-template sites for this great looking theme. I haven’t taken it for a full test run yet, and I need to tweak my links around a bit (I was using a 2-column template before). I like vibrant colours if you haven’t guessed. I like this theme a lot. Yummy.

Simple dumb luck sent me to his themes, because a good theme is hard to find. Search for “john78 wordpress theme” will give you his themes and other great designers too. Or follow the links at the bottom.

Oopsie - wordpress plugin vagaries

Two posts in one day! This is just a quickie. I really hope you don’t see a problem by the time you see this post. It had been a burning issue for me to figure out how to get rid of the “blogroll” of wordpress links and replace it with my fave links. I thought I’d nailed it…but something has gone wrong and somehow I’ve got repeat link entries:

I’ll fix it tomorrow. Or the next day. I hope.

If the displayed pic doesn’t show clearly what’s wrong with my side-column, I’ll fix that tomorrow too. I hope.