Crochet Motif:: Set A

I'm stopping on this particular town that I'm calling Motif City. Yes. After my traverse at the Scarf Village and my wild adventure in Hats Galore, I am slowly moving to a new place in the crochet world.

I am so captivated by this little yet so undoubtedly challenging craft. Every now and then, I see them every time I look up and search for crochet lace. I constantly tell my self:: that's easy, I can do that...and so I did.... But I was wrong....

When I created the first one I was like:: whaaaattt??? Look at the picture, it's so perfect! Mine was curly and not even...

And so I learned that motifs are usually blocked. I'm pretty sure you already know what I mean. But unfortunately for me, I don't have materials available for blocking (i.e. pins and blocking board). Although I'm still thinking of other ways on how to do it. And so I evilly decided to paste them on my notebook. Ha ha ha! Yes, sir, I did! So that will explain why my background for these silly creatures have lines....

I also noticed that making motifs can help me in practicing my tensions. Cause motifs will surely challenge every niche you got on crocheting.

I found the pattern from Magic Thread. Says the motifs are from a Japanese magazine.

OK no more blab...here's my version::

Motif 91

Motif 89

Motif 92

Motif 90

Motif 88

Motif 87

Motif 88 is not finished, I forgot to add the last round and just cut the yarn. I was too lazy to finish it....lol

The motif below is from the MyPicot website. Pattern # is 4012. I made it for 2 hours. I am planning to make a table cloth out of this one so good luck to me! ☺

Can't miss to arrange them in a portrait!

How about you? What did you challenge your self today? (>‿◠)✌

Setting Up Sharing Widgets Using Markerly::Blogger

I've always been intrigued by websites or blogs that has sharing widgets (the buttons that appear over pictures when you hover your mouse). So I decided to add them to my blog as well. But more importantly, these widgets can help me drive traffic (hope so...). So I went on a research and found Markerly! Yey!

I'll show here how to add it to your blog. It's very simple! Later I'll post another topic about how to exclude your banner from the sharing widgets.

A. Go to this link:: Markerly Standard Widgets

B. Customize your widget::

     ✿ Choose the type of services that you want to appear on your widget. I chose Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, and Email::

     ✿ Select if you want the widgets to appear on images as well as on text. The widget for text will appear once a word or group of words on your page is highlighted. This will allow your viewer to post that text to FB or twitter, etc.

     ✿ Select a color for your widget. This is my favorite part. This allowed me to customize the color of the widget to compliment the theme on my blog.

     ✿ Select if you want also a widget for page sharing. This usually appears on the left side bar of your page and will allow your viewer to share your blog or blog post. I want my posts to be shared so I chose ON.

You will see a preview of what your widgets will look like on a page on the left side of the screen.

C. Scroll down, enter your email and hit the GET THE CODE button.

D. You will then be shown a code and will be told to copy and paste it to the <body></body> tag of your blog. (What???)Don't fret, I'll show you how...

E. Highlight and copy the code.

F. Go to your Blogger dashboard, select Template::

G. Then click Edit HTML. This will show you the html version of your blog. If you are already a pro on this, you might skip this steps. But if not, then just follow through. Just remember, DON'T try to DELETE or EDIT any text inside the box if you don't know what you are doing. Just follow the next steps and you're safe...Yey!

H. Click inside the box and hit CTRL+F on your keyboard. This will open a Search box inside the html box.

I. In the Search box type:: </body>
then press Enter. This will bring your selection to the tag in your html code.

J. Place your cursor above the tag then type::

< !--markerly-->

This is a comment tag. This doesn't affect the html code. I placed it so I'll know where I will find the Markerly script that I pasted on the html code of my blog next time if ever I wanted to set some changes.

K. Just to be sure, go back again to the code you got from the Markerly website. Copy it again then paste it below the comment tag you just typed. Your html code should now look like this::

L. Click Save Template button.

M. View your blog and enjoy your widgets!

You might observe though that these widgets appear on ALL images on your page. And you might be like me going i-don't-like-that-on-my-banner!. Next post I'll help you with this one.

'Til next time! (>‿◠)✌