Testing....

 This is a test to see if we can move photos, and it appears this one, at least, worked. It's not an item I made, as it is life-size, but one I'm hoping to make in scale for my bookbinder's workshop project, based on this photo and the measurements that were included with it. (This Real Life press is/was offered for sale, and I love the sturdy wooden gestalt of it much more than the instructions for the press that came with the project). It's my hope that I can now begin to showcase photos of some of the pieces I have made in scale for that project.

It's become a very frustrating multi-step job to do the photo thing; we've had to move all old photos off my old camera off the card into a file. Moving a photo at the moment involves the "gallery" setting as well as moving between various files, but we're hoping to simplify the process. If we can't, I'll hire a computer guru to come and work with me at home for a couple of hours. The new computer we got earlier this year lost my entire address book while the info was being transferred, and the newer program has just made every function that much more complicated, and I'm not happy with the whole experience. There was some sort of non-communication with older, less pixilated photos on the old photo card. I'm barely literate in computer stuff....

I wish I could just verbally dictate to my computer, along the lines of "just take that photo of the press and move it to the top of the new blog entry"  -- but I suspect that isn't far off with all the AI stuff currently.

That would be a whole another thing, as I am very much NOT impressed with AI sub-titling; we end up laughing ourselves silly sometimes about the errors a supposed marvelous "brain" makes!

Just About Ready to Give Up....

 Well, here we are half a year later, and I'm still not able to move photos into my blog page. The Carpenter-in-Chief is trying to find time to help me, but all we know at this point, after a visit to a camera store and then a computer geek outfit, is that my new camera will not interact with old photos taken on the older camera. This has something to do with the amount of pixels, I understand. The solution is to move all old photos to a memory stick, delete them from the camera card, and then the current camera card should, once again, be able to interface correctly with the new computer. 

Time is very difficult to come by, as the C-in-C is involved in a lot of volunteer work. When he does have time, other things like a vacation to visit family out west or a dying garden  (we're in a drought) understandably take precedence, along with his increasing volunteer work helping newcomers deal with government paperwork.

The bookbinder's workshop I began last Fall is still being worked on, with a lot of the furnishings and the tools, machinery etc. being well under way or done, but there is no time really to deal with the actual building carcass. I had hoped to have the building ready to accept all the furnishings in six weeks from now, but that is unlikely to happen. 

The wooden shoe workshop needs its lighting done before I can finish that project. Several smaller projects I started to fill in time are also waiting for help, as it's becoming increasingly difficult to source needed materials on the internet (we have no hobby shops here in town!).

In the meantime, our son and his wife moved from Alberta to Nova Scotia, and we have yet to go visit and see their new house. We did visit with our daughters in Alberta, as well as with my brother on Vancouver Island, and while I was out there my youngest daughter gave me a book nook project kit that I'm dying to start on. However, given the backlog of projects currently on my storage shelves, I can't in good conscience start something else before I finish some nearly finished projects....

I'll soon have another birthday, and just hope I can hang around long enough to finish my projects (and that includes my other hobbies, like quilting, sewing and knitting).

I need to find the Fountain of Youth!

Still Around, Believe It or Not!

 A lot has happened since my last post - in October - and I'm still at it with  miniatures, although with all the mess I created while "cleaning up" not all that many minis have gotten done.

I'm still not able to get at my photos, but as I've now changed computer programmes, I hope to figure that out in the near future. I had been operating on Windows 12, but I'm now somewhat more modern!

Our mini get-togethers have changed to Tuesdays, and as I prescribed a thorough sort-out of all my far too many hobby projects, I've been taking various knitting, sewing and embroidering projects rather than mini ones to those.

Don't give up on me, I will now be able to at least blog again.