DESIGNING MY OWN WASHI TAPES I recently bought some candy striped washi tapes which I really love, but they are quite hard to find, quite expensive, and usually come with a pretty hefty postage rate as well. I thought how cool it would be to design my own. I recently made some from…
COMPUTER NEWS - LINUX ZORIN OS ON SECOND LENOVO THINKPAD I had a dig around on Ebay and found loads of ThinkPads, and found one almost identical in specs to my own but a slightly later model, and cheaper than what I paid for mine. I bought it for my hubby, and it…
COMPUTER NEWS - ACER UPDATE Since my last post, there have been further developments. Not booting into Linux The USB drive with the Linux installation on it functioned perfectly and I was able to install Linux Zorin on my hubby's Acer laptop. However, the computer would not boot into Zorin whatever I tried.…
COMPUTER NEWS - FURTHER LINUX ADVENTURES I hesitated over the title of this post and eventually decided upon "Adventures" rather than "Problems" - one must keep a positive attitude! For a while since Richard's visit (see this post), everything was running smoothly with the new system. The Lenovo ThinkPad 14-in laptop running Linux…
COMPUTER NEWS - TRANSITION TO LINUX Over the past few weeks, I have been gradually transitioning from Windows to Linux. There has been a great deal of news going around the Internet about the drastic changes Microsoft has been making to their latest operating system, Windows 11, resulting in individuals, corporations, institutions and…
HIDDEN PAPERCLIPS FROM EMBOSSED TOILET PAPER ROLLS - ADDING THE EMBELLISHMENTS I have completed the embossed toilet paper rolls project for now - although I may come back to it and make some tags. For the moment I am setting aside the making of elements for albums and doing something different - I…
2025 - END OF YEAR REVIEW It's been a relatively quiet year, all told. Not a great deal to report on our normal activities. Most of my activity this year has been art-related. Studio changes I got some great new shelving units for the studio and reorganised things to make life a lot…
TIMES TABLE ART I have recently been watching some very interesting YouTube videos from Mathologer. I don't claim to understand a lot of what he says because maths is not my subject. I am keen to learn more, though, because there is something deeply fascinating about how numbers are the foundation of all…
COMPUTER, COLORECTAL AND CATARACTS, AND ONLINE ART COURSE What an extremely busy time it's been recently. So much so that I've fallen behind a bit on the online art course, but it doesn't really matter, as the course is designed for us to work at our own pace. Obviously it's good to keep…
ONLINE ART COURSE - TWO MORE INK SKETCHES, SOME INTERESTING OBJECTS AND TEXTURES, AND MY NEW LAPTOP It's been an interesting and busy few days. Online art course - small ink drawings Hammer My hubby joined me again in this lesson. Of all the small sketches to be drawn with the ink pens,…
