Memorial Day

Well, I should have gotten these up here at least a week earlier.  But if anyone wants one, here are two for Memorial Day.  Have a wonderful holiday weekend!

 

Angel blinkie

Well, we all need a guardian angel.  So I'm going to share this one with ya'll.

 

                                   

More Mom blinkies

Just a few more Mom blinkies.

 

    

    

    

    

    

If you have a request on a "Mom" blinkie just email me, or leave a comment.  Thanks! 

Mom Blinkies

Well, we plaster it all over our bumpers, so I made a few bumper sticker style blinkies for our journals.  I hope ya like them!

          

         

    

Have a good one!

How to put pictures/graphics in your journal

 I remember the first time I tried to put pictures in my journal.  It was a bit of a mess.  Luckily someone was kind enough to send me easy to understand directions on how to do it.  I'm sure that most of you already know all of this, but I wanted to put this on here for those who are new to the journals and posting pictures.  So here is a detailed explanation on how to save pictures to your computer and upload them to your journal.

 

SAVING

First, right click on the picture/graphic you want to save (whether it is on a journal, on a web site or in an email).  Now see where it says "Save Picture As...", that is what you want to click.  Now you can save the picture on your computer (I have created a specific file for this).  You can save the picture with whatever name you want.

 

UPLOADING

Now that the picture is on your computer you can save it in your FTP space.  AOL provides you with this space for free, and it is fairly easy to upload the picture/graphic to your journal from there.  Or if you prefer to, you can get more space if you need to at some place like Image Shack, or one of the many other places that offer free image storage.

 

To save it to your FTP, you need to find it first, lol.  Click "Keyword" and type in My FTP space.  This should bring up your personal storage space on AOL.  I put mine in my favorites so it is easier to get to when I need it. 

 

Now, click where it says "See my FTP space".  You should see a file that says "Images", click on this.  Now click the upload button.  Type in the name of the file, it must be followed by ".jpg" (not the quotation marks though).  For example, if your uploading something titled flowers, type it like this>>>>>>  flowers.jpg

 

Click the "continue" button.  This will bring up the Upload file, click the "select file" button, and locate the file on your computer (wherever you saved it).  Open the file and then click the send button.  The length of time it takes to upload depends on the size of the picture/graphic file and the speed of your connection.

 

PUTTING IT ON YOUR JOURNAL

To place the picture/graphic in your journal, click the "add entry" button on your journal.  You can do it the AOL way by just clicking the "Add pictures from AOL Hometown" link---then click the images button that comes up---choosing the picture and clicking the "add picture" button.  I don't like this though, the pictures are much too small.  Blah!

 

Instead you can click the "Add pictures from AOL Hometown" link---then click the images button that comes up, locate your picture.  When it shows up in the box on the right, RIGHT CLICK it and go to COPY.  Now close the Add a picture box, go to your entry, right click wherever you want to put the picture and click paste.  Viola!  Your picture should appear in it's original size. 

 

You can do this to add pictures to your "About me" section too.  Just go to add entry first, get the copy of whatever picture you want (don't paste it in the entry section, just cancel out of that) and go paste it in your About me section.

 

I hope I've covered everything in easy to understand directions and that this information is useful to someone.  I know that since I do this all the time, it seems simple to me, but the first time I tried it was a bit confusing.  If you have any questions, feel free to email me and I will try to help.  Please put Coloring Inside the Lines in the subject line so I will know it isn't a spam mail, lol.  I will try to get back to you ASAP.

 

Also, here is a link to the AOL page for help with journals.  AOL Hometown - Help   I believe they have a pretty detailed explanation on how to add pictures.  However, I think it is using your AOL Album or something like that.

 

Another place to go for instructions is here> The Big Picture

 

Again, if anyone ever needs help feel free to send me an email with your questions.  If I can help I will be happy to.

 

Happy picture posting!

About Me Sidebars

Okay, here are some more sidebars I've been working on.  If you would like one of these personallized for yourself, let me know.  Send me an email with SIDEBAR in the subject line.  In the email please indicate which one you want and include whatever information your would like me to put on it.  I'm not sure how much will fit on each sidebar, so please don't send me a novel to put on there, lol.

How long it will take me to send it to you will depend on how many requests and how much time I have to work on this.  But hopefully it won't be longer than a day or two. 

 

 

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Have a wonderful weekend!

More flowers...

Well, can ya'll tell I am just dying to get out and work in the garden?  LOL  Flowers seems to be the theme of the month for me.  I hope you like these.

 

 

  Two years ago I planted sunflowers.  I had some that were probably about 10-12 feet tall.  The stems were like small trees.  What a glorious thing to see in the morning.  Like a big smiling face.

 

 I really love pink roses.  My favorite bouquet of roses is when it is all different colors.  This graphic I originally made larger and set as my desktop background.  But I wanted to share it with ya'll so I reduced it a bit and put it on here too.

Have a great weekend!

Some flowers for Mothers Day

Well, I don't know what is going on with Image Shack tonight.  I keep trying to go there to upload my pictures, but it won't do it.  So I'm just doing it through AOL tonight.  Here are 4 graphics I did for Mothers day.  Snag 'em if ya want. 

Just please remember to right click and save to your computer and then upload them from there.  If anyone needs instructions on how to do that just let me know. 

Thanks!