Weekend Favorites

I have to thank all of you who took the time to give me feedback about my new website. Everyone who answered seems to be having a positive experience, and is not finding the load time to be prohibitive. I’m glad to hear that!

If you are someone with a slower connection or old equipment, and you do find my website to take much longer to load than it used to, I encourage you to drop me a line. I’d be happy to try and speed up whatever I can. Nothing is written in stone around here!

Speaking of speeding things up, I realized this week that I am generating my images at a much higher quality than they need to be, which translates into larger files, which translates into longer load times. From now on, I’ll be saving my uploaded images at a lower quality that still looks good but is less than half the size of what it used to be. So that should help!

Ok, on with the usual Friday thing 🙂

Images

The mosaic below represents other people’s pictures that spoke to me this week on Flickr and Instagram. Click on the titles below the mosaic to get a better look at the images and see more from the photographers who made them.

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1. Progress on the pig by houseonhillroad via Instagram
2. Found this little beauty today! Just … by zuzu365 via Instagram
3. Motifs scanned, now auditioning print… by betz_white via Instagram
4. 72/365 Bungan Beach Australia by SiobhanSaunders via Flickr
5. 65/365 – 15 by moo o’hara via Flickr
6. Let the rainbow unicorn party prep be… by sunshineandgrey via Instagram
7. Clay day with the Baltimore Bead Soci… by humblebeads via Instagram
8. Catching air in West Texas, windmills… by erenhays via Instagram
9. looks like we are eating healthy but … by designlovefest via Instagram
10. Time to kick this project into high g… by sunshineandgrey via Instagram
11. It’s about that time. #getmyworshipon by whimsylove via Instagram
12. adios, L.A.! until next time. by sfgirlbybay via Instagram
13. These are the conditions of my indoor… by _beckysue_ via Instagram
14. Murrina flor verde-rosa by el rincón de amatista via Flickr
15. my mini quilt by house on hill road via Flickr

Links

Here are a few interesting things from around the web that grabbed me this week:

• How to Turn Your Phone Into a DIY Photo Projector for $1 – an cool idea from Photojojo. Hey, this is fun. I usually just use Chromecast to send my phone images to the TV, but this is a fun option if you don’t have something more high-tech, or if you just like the DIY look.
• National Craft Month – sale at Craftsy. Craftsy is having a big sale on classes for the next few days to celebrate National Craft Month. I snagged a $59 class for just $19 today. Maybe there’s something here to interest you, too? (P.S. this is an affiliate link, but I’d have shared even if it wasn’t.)
• Faux Painted Subway Tile – a tutorial from Sweet Parrish Place. The faux treatment is probably a lot less expensive than actual tile. You need patience and a steady hand, but the results seem really worth the effort.
• DIY Emoji Balloons – a project from Studio DIY®. These are so much fun! And they really look like the little guys on your phone 🙂

Have a terrific day!