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I first saw the cellphone beanbag chair last Christmas in one of the many catalogs that fill our mailbox during the holidays. They were super cute, and I thought they would be a good solution to our cellphone situation here in B.F.C. You see in order to get a signal strong enough to make a call our cellphones need to be propped up against a window in the front of the house, facing the nearest tower. Doing this will get up to four bars of reception, but if you pick up the phone or move it the signal is lost. (We had to sit on the planter wall and lean towards the window without moving in order to have a conversation before we got bluetooth headsets!) The problem was the phones occasionally fell over for one reason or another and as a result they had gotten a few scratches. The other issue was that the window frames we were leaning the phones on were interfering with the signal reception. I was going to buy the mini beanbags for us for Christmas last year but then I saw the price ($9.99 each plus shipping) and thought “I could make that!” Fast forward to yesterday, and voila! One custom leopard print cellphone beanbag chair! I got a free beanbag chair pattern online from Budget101.com that I used as a template to make a scaled down pattern. I used a piece of graph paper (printed from a free template I found at this website) and drew the three pattern shapes in the scale that I wanted, cut them out and proceeded to follow the instructions on the pattern page. The only thing different about the beanbag I made is that there is no zipper, I simply hand stitched the bottom closed after I filled the beanbag with dried chamomile flowers. Yep, mine is stuffed with chamomile flowers. I was going to stuff it with lavender flowers but unfortunately did not have enough. Since I live in B.F.C. I have to be adaptable and use what’s here, hence the chamomile flower stuffing. The total cost of my custom cellphone beanbag chair was about $2 and a few hours of my time. I am very satisfied with how it came out and would have to say that the cellphone beanbag sewing session was a success. I think I’m going to make a few more to give as gifts to the people I love. They are so cute, who wouldn’t want one?
Yesterday I spent 12 hours working on the site, specifically on the installation of photo gallery software called ZenPhoto. I have to say that experience was in no way zen, at one point the whole site had been wiped out and I was ready to give up on the entire project. But those who know me know that I am determined, a little stubborn even, and there was no way this virtual world was going to get one over on me. After taking a break I dove right back into the mess and figured out how to recover the blog, the website, and finally got the ZenPhoto installed and running! It seems to be a very good photo gallery package with lots of flexibility, and the dynamic gallery function is what really sold me on this particular handler. So there will be more changes to come, and the photos link will more than likely come and go over the next week or so while I continue to build the galleries and configure ZenPhoto to my liking.
I have to say I’m liking WordPress very much. It’s only been a couple of days and I think I’m getting the hang of tweaking this thing. What I like most at this point is that it’s dynamic, and so easy to change the look of the site with the themes. I used to hand code HTML and make templates, which had to be changed for every single page in the site manually. With WordPress it’s as simple as uploading themes to your webspace, logging into the Dashboard and selecting the theme you want to use. WordPress uses the information that you’ve entered into the database via the Dashboard to dynamically create pages as they are accessed, so as you make changes to the template the program automatically updates every page. Once your basic site information is entered and the pages are built you are done, except for the blogging of course.
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After all these years of using Blogger.com I’ve taken the plunge and upgraded to WordPress. There will be a learning curve, so please hold your pithy comments until I’ve finished.
