I got my first ever Japanese fabric!! Happy happy happy!! (Actually I got it about the same time as the hussy but only took pictures today)

And I did some bloggy stuff. That’s why I’ve been scarce around the internets. When I’m in research mode I don’t keep up with email or blog reading much. Yes oh so boring bloggy stuff. It makes me happy when I figure out something for my blog. And if you don’t want to read the boring bloggy stuff about gallery pages, stop reading here and enjoy this happy dance inspired by the way Isabelle dances.

You’re still reading? So, interested in the bloggy stuff huh? Ok. So seeing as you’re interested I’ll keep talking. Er, you know what I mean. You’ll keep reading…

So anyhoo, I figured out how to use Wordpress to make a gallery of my unfinished and finished projects! No, that one exclamation point is too calm. It doesn’t convey how happy this makes me. Imagine me jumping for joy. I CAN USE WORDPRESS FOR A GALLERY!

See, before I had to copy and paste and move cells around tables. I didn’t have an easy way to do it, especially since the new projects were on top. If my new projects were on bottom no problem, I could have added a new cell easily. But on top meant everything needed to shift. Do you get what a pain in the ass that was to do? To shift things to the right by one cell meaning with a three column gallery the third picture in the first row would become the first picture in the second column, oh god just talking about it is making me cringe. And not to mention that I needed to make a new project page for every new project. Yes thanks to my obsession with the nice and orderly on here.

Sorry went rambling on there for a bit. Are you still reading?! So figuring out how to make a gallery was a big thing. It involved figuring out how to make a category page for my “pictures” that looked different from the rest of my blog and used 3 columns. To make everything line up all the pictures needed to be the same height. So I had to make new thumbnails of some of them so they’re bigger than before. Then I had to hide that category from showing up in my dropdown category list. I also had to exclude those gallery posts from the other areas in my blog so you wouldn’t see it in the archives or single pages. Whoo I’m tired of typing. See how involved this was? Ok on I go. I had to figure out how to make the previous and next navigation still work while skipping the gallery category. And I utilized the new tags system that Wordpress has to link each project with all related posts. Oh the one thing I couldn’t figure out is how to exclude the gallery posts from my feed. But that’s ok. I’m ecstatic about the rest.

So what does that mean basically? Well, now when I have a new project for the gallery everything is automated. I just write a new post, check the box for which gallery I want, and I’m done. DONE! See why that deserves a happy dance?

Wow you got all the way to the end? Ok well just for that here’s a picture of Isabelle, eating ice-cream. Another happy happy happy for me.

Last month I figured out how to change my headers based on date. And last night I finally put it to use on my blog. I know that doesn’t mean much to you but I was so excited. So excited I made Alan sit down and click through my archives. You can see all my old headers just the way they were way back when. It was one of the last things I wanted to fix when I moved over from Blogger. And the solution is so much easier than the way I used to do it too! Yes boring boring blah blah for you but it makes me happy, so a happy dance it is! (a weird little happy dance that was scrawled out super quick and now I realize that skirt is too short but who cares if it’s not accurate. I don’t really dance like that. I just like drawing weird funny little dances.)

Wow I can’t believe it, I think it’s been a week since I’ve properly read my feeds. And I still haven’t caught up. How did so much time fly by? It was the damn learning php thing. It just gobbled up all my free time and I didn’t even realize it. But victory is mine! (is that a line from a movie?)

So you may or may not have noticed but I’m not on Blogger anymore. I spent hours yesterday after Isabelle fell asleep switching everything over to Wordpress. It wasn’t working properly at first. I wanted all my links to remain the same but I wanted them to go to the Wordpress side. So when it wasn’t working I had a bad feeling down in the pit of my stomach that it was because of all my Blogger posts that were still safely on my server. So I had to delete, YES DELETE, all of them from my server. Scary thought at first. But I backed everything up and gave it a try. And it worked! And even better, I still have the Blogger archive monthly files up so I can go back if I want. So that deserves a happy dance!

Note: I do not dance like this. Hee hee I just like drawing my silly happy dances. I think I should draw a whole series of them…

I’m so excited because now I have the comment system I want. Now I just need to decide which works better for me, emailing people back or just editing comments with my reply in them. That might not be very interesting or important to you but I think that deserves another happy dance, because I am a goober.

Note: I do not dance like this either, though of course I did briefly to figure out how to draw this…har har har!

Anyhoo, the title of this post: Jumble. Why? Because I’m going to blather on about something else. I was being a klutz yesterday and was running down the hallway and bashed my foot against a thing that was sticking out, the base molding thinger-ma-bob. OUCH! When I say bashed I mean BASHED. My little toe on my left foot is looking a pulpy mess. Ok that’s a wee exaggeration. It is bruised, swollen looking, and hurts. It does not look pulpy. How can I tell if it’s broken? I think I will google that. And a little injured piggy is a prettier picture than my pulpy little toe. Hence the picture.

And off I go on another subject because I’m talkative today. (well I’m not really talking. You know what I mean. how about I’m writative today?) I just bought a doll for Isabelle on Ebay. I like handmade dolls but this one isn’t. But I got it because I need a backup. The description for it said it’s from 2002. So I must have bought this one five years ago. When I bought her I thought she was cute. Her name is Simone. I was going to give her as a gift I’m sure or maybe I was going to keep her, because I really liked her. I even bought an extra outfit: a pair of pink polka dot pajamas with bunny slippers. But the dogs got to her. She has a wound on her belly that I put a bandage on and one leg is now longer then the other.

Well the other day I pulled her out of a drawer and gave her to Isabelle. And she loves playing with her. Isabelle keeps bringing Simone over with her shoes and says shoooo, wanting us to put on her shoes. It’s so cute!! So I thought I’d get her a new unchewed pristine dolly for the great deal of $7.

Not much going on here. Just madly reading away at Harry Potter. I did go to Joann fabrics yesterday and bought some more muslin, twenty five yards of muslin to be exact. I had a coupon for forty percent off so it was only $14.85!!! $14.85 people!!! Sorry this is really boring but saving money makes me happy. So happy I could do a happy dance!

Ok I don’t really dance like that. I just thought it was hilarious and had to draw it. So once the Harry Potter reading is done there will be some mad sewing going on here. Well not mad sewing like this:

Hee hee heee! I should have said I’ll be madly sewing away. Or maybe I will be sewing mad. Mad at Alan. I’m so mad at him right now. But I don’t want to talk about that. I’m mad at you Alan! Grrrr!!!