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!

Thanks for visiting my site again! keep checking back for more updates!

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All Moved In!

So we’re all moved in… well. We’re at least all moved OUT of our old place!!

Our bedroom is the only finished part of the house, so everything else is just scattered in the enourmous space we have (it’s taking a bit of getting use to!) Mum and Luke are painting the last wall of the lounge room today, and then there’s the floors to do- but it should be done by the end of the week!! Then we’re on our way to doing the main area- kitchen, study, living area, dinning area. Which is exciting!

We had some great friends, Rachel, Aaron, Pete and Jordan who helped us move yesterday. Thanks guys!! Rachel did some cleaning as well, which was a real blessing! Pete took some photos of the move, which you can view here.

Oh, and Luke had a little accident in our car… no one’s hurt, but if you could all pray (or do just whatever you do!) that it doesn’t cost us heaps and heaps, and that it gets fixed quickly, that would be great!! Thanks. xox.

And my mum showed me this awesome thing today: http://www.simplesavings.com.au Check it out!

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