Blogger in draft

 I came across Blogger in Draft thanks to a tip of from Doreen's Backyard Beads Blog. It is an easy way to change your blog and I know several people have revamped their blogs using it and they look great. I haven't really played around with my blog design yet but it has a host of other features that are much better than the standard Blogger. For example there is a spell check on the Compose toolbar and also an add video button.

When you add pictures you have many more options. You can upload from your picasa web albums, your computer and it also shows all the photos already used in your blog. You can a caption and edit the link to the picture.

Paisley Pendant

To use this you just log into http://draft.blogger.com/ and then tick the option at the top right to make Blogger in Draft your default dashboard.

Backyard Beads Giveaway

As always I start my day with a little hop around the internet polymer clay world to see what interesting inspiration and tips I can find. Today I happened across some more wonderful blogs (I wonder if there is anyone who has seen every single polymer clay artists blog?)

I came across a post on Backyard Beads announcing the opening of Doreen's Backyard Beads ETSY store. I love these Wild Things beads and am sure she will do well with her store - go check it out! If you look on her blog you will see she is doing has a  giveaway, the prize being these beads pictured. Congratulations on opening your store and I look forward to seeing more of your beads.

 

Doreens Wild Things Beads you could win in her blog giveaway

(I also noticed that Doreen seems to be very good at finding giveaways from other people looking at her blog so I shall keep an eye on it so I don't miss out on entering other giveaways. Thanks Doreen)

Inspiration from Zuleykha

I have recently been very inspired by the work of Zuleykha who has 2 blogs one in Russian http://zustitch.blogspot.com/2010/02/giveaway.html and one in English http://zuclay.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-birthday-giveaway.html. They both have lots of pictures on. I recently bought her curling petal cane tutorial and am looking forward to trying it. I will post some pictures when I have done it

Update 27/2/2010- here is the cane

Curling Petal Cane made from tutorial available here from Etsy