"B" is for Buttons

Buttons clogging up the bottom of your post?

Does it look like this?

Looking for a neater, more organized way to display those buttons?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for generating traffic and promoting the linky parties BUT.....

 

doesn't that look better?

And it takes up about 1/4 of the space.

(Layla, Jamielyn and Sarah please, please don't be mad that I used your buttons for this example.)

Lately I've been getting a lot of emails asking how do I make my buttons shrink down on the bottom of my posts?

Here's how:

1. Copy the button as usual into your post.
2. Open the 'Edit HTML' tab to see the button as code.
3. Find the code for the particular button.
4. Go to the end of the code (either png" or jpg").
5. Immediately after the " add the following: height="100"width="100".

Go back to the 'Compose' tab to make sure it worked, normally I use 60x60 on my posts but the buttons above are 100x100.

A little shout out to Carolyn over at homework who sent me the instructions a while back, thank you!



I understand bloggers spend hours and hours (and sometimes dollars and dollars) to make their buttons a specific shape and size and I don't want to undermine your blogging efforts but I do like a clean looking post.

Therefore I'm hoping I didn't offend anyone who has those really wonky sized buttons, I'm happy to include your button on my post but I like to keep it neat and tidy.

Good luck shrinking the buttons.
Make them mini!

"P" is for Pink

In honor of the Pantone color of the year - honeysuckle - we held a pink party just for kicks.

I sent the kids hunting all over the house to find everything close in color to honeysuckle pink to dress up our party.

(A week off from school over Christmas and there's lots of time to kill.)

Even baby Daisy joined in her new doll high chair.

We made a cake:

The girls loved dressing up the table:

We collected everything; jewelry, fabric, pencils, straws, candles, napkins, a wire basket, plates, cupcake liners, and on and on.

It was a fun way to spend the morning and show some honeysuckle love.

My girls were so excited and loved being a part of the collecting, creating and organizing process.  I love that they have an interest in these things, it's true the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

I'm linking up to:

"L" is for Linky

The Pantone Linky Party

Pantone's Color of the Year for 2011

Honeysuckle

image from Pantone

Pantone is the authority on color for the home, fashion, and graphic-arts industries.
Check out this post at Decor8 for the real low down.

I'm not one for being too hip and trendy but I do like the color and I am seeing it everywhere.

Pink is optimistic, it looks good, and honeysuckle is bright and intense.

We had a little Pantone pink party here last week while the kids were off from school:

Complete with Daisy in her honeysuckle high chair:

I'll have more on the pink party later but for now let's link up.

I thought it might be fun to find the color of the year in our everyday lives because I'm pretty sure most of us are already using it in our homes somewhere.

So where is your honeysuckle?

To enter your link:

1. Scroll down until you see the blue frog face.
2. Click the button to view/add your link and follow the steps.
3. Be sure to add your specific 'honeysuckle' post, not the main page of your blog.
4. Here's a button to add to your post:

The party is open for all of January.

"K" is for Kid's Table

The Christmas Kid's Table

It's no surprise that there will undoubtedly be a kids table for the Christmas meal.

I brought the kids picnic table that I made in from outside and gussied it up.

All the cousins are supposed to sit together and eat, somehow they only end up sitting for about 5 minutes right? 

I tried to make it more enticing by adding some craft supplies.



Don't you just want to stick your hands in that crate?

So after the 5 minutes of eating is done let's set it up to get busy:

What are you going to make?

Go ahead and draw on the table

We'll see how it goes - only 5 more days!

I'm linking up with:

And just for a sense of scale here is girl two and buddy boy having lunch today:

I'm also linking to:

"P" is for Pantone

Let's start 2011 with some color.

Inviting you to link up the 2011 Pantone Party

Hopefully by now you've all heard Pantone's Color of the Year for 2011 is Honeysuckle.

Pantone is the authority on color for the home, fashion, and graphic-arts industries.  

I'm not one for being too hip and trendy but I do like the color and I am seeing it everywhere.

Pink is optimistic, it looks good, and honeysuckle is bright and intense.

image from Pantone

Most creative people pay attention to color in their every day lives, their surroundings and their clothes, a lot of choices throughout the day are based on color.

I thought it might be fun to find the color of the year in our everyday lives because I'm pretty sure most of us are already using it in our homes somewhere.

Like this rug in our den:

My shirt:

These lanterns, wrapping paper, card stock and paint pen:

This bag:

Stop me now.

Where do you have it?

Won't you show us your honeysuckle?

Please join me and fellow bloggers for my first linky party:

Save the date. 

Let's start 2011 with some color.