I promised more nerdy-ness today, so here ya go!
You’ll have to wait til Monday for the full Dabbled Interview, but here is a preview of some of the awesomely cool geek crafts by the cool chick at The Domestic Scientist!
Apparently i’ve lost a ton of feed followers with the move to Wordpress (I looked at the stats and I lost half my readers!), and I need your help–I don’t want to leave anyone behind! I know that a lot of you who read Dabbled also have blogs, and we have readers in common. So I ask a big favor, and to encourage you, I’m also offering a prize!
So, here’s the skinny. Hopefully there are enough of you left to make this work!! If you would be so kind as to include an announcement on your next blog post telling people who follow Dabbled that they may need to update their feed (They need to go to http://feeds.feedburner.com/Dabbled to get the updated feed, if they haven’t seen any posts in the past few days). That’s it, just include that in your next post, and leave a comment here with a link, to enter the contest. I’ll pick one (or more, if there are enough entries) who will win a prize! So, tell your friends, please!
So what’s the prize?
Well, you can pick… Either a set of 10 postcards of the “Wizard of Oz – Poppies” print (they’ll be in the new store when it’s up!) or I’ll do a picture just for you — whatever you want – for web use or print use- , and you can have it digitally delivered to you (anything from a picture to a party invite, to a blog header). An excellent opportunity!
And I finally got a sketch for “Worn” for illustration friday this week… I’m working on coloring it, but the sketch is here for your perusal! Meant to be done in the Poppies style, I call him Mr. Buttons. His gears are a little worn and he’s a little worse for wear, but he always has candy for us kids!
Time yet again for another flickr Roundup.. I was thinking that it’s always fun to see interesting cake ideas for the geek in your life..and there are so many different kinds of geeks, too! Computer/iPhone geeks, gaming geeks, star wars/star trek geeks, so there is much to choose from! (Hey, we are all a LITTLE bit geeky I bet!)
So without further ado, here are some of the interesting geek/nerd cakes & cupcakes that I’ve found in my flickr travels. Hope you enjoy! Links to the original items can be found below the big pic.
Tomorrow we will be spotlighting more geeky fun!
1. Geek out to the max Cupcakes! iPhone Icons,
2. Rubic’s Cube Birthday Cake Love the idea of the m&m’s!,
3. Hans Solo encased in carbonite…very clever Star Wars cake!,
4. Motherboard cake – great computer geek idea,
5. Gamer Bride- the bride is apparently ‘playing’ her wedding cake,
6. Star Trek Wedding Cake – wow, this is an actual classy star trek cake!,
7. Tetris Cake – they have a bunch of how to make it pictures, too,
8. Geek Cake – everyone loves code on a cake, right?,
9. Death Star Cake – now THAT is a great simple idea for doing a Star Wars themed cake!
Along the geeky food line… remember Guacamole Han Solo and Jar Jar Salad?
Still a tad discombobulated here at Dabbled, but I’m making progress on getting the basic stuff set up. You can now go peruse the Craft tab, the Art tab, and the Food tab. I created a new Archive page… too, and made my 404 page more lovely, since I have a feeling people will run across it! I still have some work to do cleaning up the sidebars, and I’m going to be adding more stuff too. Like a Shop, and Free Downloads, and other Goodies!! Let me know if there is anything you’d like to see…
And yes, things are still a little broken. I’m trying to work through documenting all the “moving from Blogger to Wordpress” steps and gotchas I ran into… and there were a bunch. If you’re interested I’ll write that up soon.
But I’d love any feedback you have for me!
And please, if you’ve been following Dabbled via Blogger’s Followers feature, update to the regular RSS feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/Dabbled. If you were a blogger follower, please let me know if you received any posts after the “Sunday Inspirations” post.
edit: oops, just see something I might have broken!
xxoo
Dot
If you’ve been reading Dabbled a while, you’ll know I’m a huge fan of shrink plastic. With 4th of July around the corner, I was reminiscing over our brunch which turned into a shrinky-dink making party last year!
Now you know I prefer to make shrinkies using #6 plastic recyclables, rather than buying the storebought materials, but this idea from Photojojo is pretty nifty: Make Photo Necklaces, Earrings, Magnets and More Using Shrinkable Plastic
Other clever uses:
Part of the fun of moving to wordpress is playing with all the new features.
I promise I’ll be back to posting my regular crafty-arty-foody stuff, but I’ll also be posting about some of the cool features I’m implementing on the new Dabbled site (as part of the move from Blogger to Wordpress).
One of nifty features is Gravatars (Globally recognized avatars) — basically little pictures that show up next to your comments. You can sign up for one at gravatar.com, but if you don’t have one, then a standard little graphic will show up next to your name.
Well, a standard graphic just won’t do for my dear readers! So this cute little robot will show up next to your name if you don’t have a Gravatar already set up. Nifty, huh? I got the idea and directions from this site, if you want to try it yourself on your own blog.
Wanna check it out? Easy, just leave a comment!
Note: If you’re not seeing the new posts in your feedreader (apparently, this is the case with Blogger Followers) PLEASE go here to add the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Dabbled. (and if any of you would be so kind as to note my feed problems in a post on their own site, and include that link, it would be a huge help… I’d hate to lose readers over this move.)
Just trying to figure out what might be still broken! Do let me know if you see any broken links. I know old links that went to search functionality are still broken.
And do let me know if this is showing up in your feed. I’m particularly concerned about Blogger “Followers”, as the move might have broken their feeds.
Thanks, and sorry for the construction mess!
everything else.
