Tips for keeping ideas safe!

I’ve been reading a lot of various craft blogs lately, and a few people mention writing down their ideas on pieces of paper. Well, I thought I would share how I record my ideas and inspirations!

Tumblr. (If you don’t have a tumblr account, it’s REALLY easy to set up) You can put a really simple ‘Share on Tumblr’ badge in your bookmarks, and that way any time you come across a pretty thing you want to make, you can click on that, select ‘photo’ choose the picture you want to save (it loads all the photos on the webpage), and it’ll automatically put in a link to the page you’re on!

Here’s how:

Once you’ve signed up for an account, click Goodies.

The first option is to add a Bookmarklet.

You’ll need to drag that ‘Share on Tumblr’ bookmarklet into your bookmarks toolbar. It should apear then like this (second from the right):

Once it’s there, you can go to to a page that displays a tutorial, or craft you want to save, and post to your tumblr, and click on the bookmarklet. When you do this, a new window will open where you can select if you want to post a link, text, quote, picture etc. I usually choose picture so that I can easily see what crafts I have saved.

It will automatically put a link in the text to the site you’re on (if you’re linking to a particular blog post, make sure you are on the post page, not the homepage (http://taliacarbis.com/2009/04/28/tips-for-keeping-ideas-safe as opposed to http://taliacarbis.com), and you can select the photo you want to post (it will collect all the photos that are displayed on the page).

All you need to do then is select ‘creat post’ and Hey Presto! It’s done!

I find this a really effective way of keeping together all my ideas and tutorials that I find online in one place- and a great thing about it is if I loose a pattern, I can just go through my history on tumblr and find it again!

You are welcome to check our my tumblr here: http://sunshinetalia.tumblr.com and follow me. Let me know if you decide to make one too so I can follow you!

Tags: howto, ideas, inspiration, photos, sunshinetalia, tumblr, tutorial, web2.0, website

Deviant Art

So I have been back onto Deviant Art. You should totally check out my friend Cam’s stuff- he’s amazing.

Some of my own stuff has made its way on there. Here are some of my top ones, and a link to my deviant art page.

Tags: deviantart, nature, pepper, photography, photos, sunshinetalia, tree

Planning A Wedding

I have a few friends who are planning weddings at the moment (or at least thinking about it *coughs* carmen), and I thought of a really great idea to get ideas and inspiration.

All I did was do a quick search on del.icio.us for ‘wedding’, and I came up with hundreds of sites that other people have found useful!

As I import all my old email messages into my new email account, I am getting lots of links that I sent to luke to look at stuff before our wedding, and also lots of things mum and I sent to each other. I am currently opening them, and bookmarking them in del.icio.us is I found them useful!

Hopefull this link will work for you- it should be a search in del.icio.us for all the things tagged with weddings. If you’re not a member of del.icio.us then I would recommend that you get online and do it- it makes bookmarking so much easier!! If you do sign up, feel free to add me to your network (i’m sunshinetalia), and then I can send you anything I find directly!

Tags: del.icio.us, ideas, links, sunshinetalia, wedding