And gosh, I’ve learnt a lot today! Dragged out my worn and sorry PHP knowledge for a refresher. Ditto for JavaScript and CSS. I’ve set up the basic template, worked out how to add in multiple widgets (for the categories cloud and calendar) and generally tweaked and bullied the whole thing into submission. I think it’ll be a couple of days before it goes live though – still have to do the same for a couple of other blogs before I can redirect the domain!

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Yay! Played around in Photoshop with layer styles and custom shapes (creating my own) and I’m rather pleased with the result, oh yes I am *preen*. You’ll be seeing it online soon enough – hopefully by the end of the weekend!

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And no, you can’t see it yet But I can say that it’s based sort of on a vintage postcard look.

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Working on the new template for the Recipes site and getting to know the system a bit in preparation to shifting all my blogs over from Blogger onto the new servers. Exciting stuff! And a lovely flexible system – so many options!

A bit of catch-up: It’s not really that I haven’t done anything creative in ages, just that I haven’t been blogging them – one of the reasons I’m moving away from Blogger is that it’s so slow to post anything and with most of the posts on One Creative Thing being short, it makes it even more frustrating when it takes a full five minutes to put it online. Hoping this will improve as I switch over to WordPress. Mostly I’ve been knitting over the past month – I’ve made a mohair lacy scarf/shawl, a pair of toasty orange wrist warmers, a headscarf (which I have frogged and am about to remake) and finished the knitting for my art deco space invader bag. Now I just have to steel myself to do the embroidery on that one. Busy! Nothing musical happening, unfortunately, but I think it’s starting to glimmer back into existence. Time will tell…

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