I use this:
I have sewn… There was the awful 4-H-green and white dress I made when I was 10ish (for 4-H)… And there was that one stress-filled week before Halloween of ‘02 where I made my 3-year-old son an astronaut suit. Like he cared. He won’t remember my pain, but I do… I do… I spent WAY more hard cold cash making it myself than just buying a way-cooler pre-made astronaut suit. Suffice it to say, the power cord on my very lovely, looks-like-I’m-a-serious-sewer sewing machine has not been plugged into the wall since. I do sew on buttons though *kicking and screaming*. Oh, and Awana patches. Well, last year anyway. My poor kids wore last year’s patches all this year.
So… technically… I can sew.
But I don’t. One thing is: it’s actually quite expensive. It used to be a great way to save a few pennies in the family budget. The other reason I don’t - there is math involved. No thank you. Me & math - not so much. The antithesis of ME: math, logic, measurement, any form of problem solving where emotion does not sway the outcome. Well, in my personal experience emotion in sewing DOES sway the outcome, but not favorably. Not. At. All. Favorably.
There. It’s out. Can I still be a mother?
P.S. In case you didn’t notice - I wrapped! I wrapped!!! A great big “You Rock” to Liz at Big Satchurday. If you have a Wordpress blog and have always wanted to get your text to wrap around your picture - Liz has got your back! It was Liz’s fridge I featured on my last Fridge Friday, and while it was a treat to learn about her British fridgie… she has more than just a fridge full of French and Italian cheeses and British sausages… she has got serious technical skillz! So, Wordpressians, visit her post on How To Add Images/Photos With Wrapping Text In Wordpress. Ok, you can leave a comment before you go…
The new site looks awesome! You can’t sew, but at least you married into great web design. You can still be a mom, I decree.
JENNY! Oh - I am so happy to see you have WRAPPED! I was worried about all those lonely isolated images I was seeing on wordpress.com blogs.
Note : if you are self hosted you can just use a plug-in as explained in my post. BUT actually getting into some HTML is no bad thing anyway. So stuff the plug-in and get HTMLing. At last. I am a proud mother.
PS - Jenny - I checked your ‘code’ (doesn’t that make you feel like a programmer!), and it is perfect - no mistakes. Only thing I would suggest is to go back in and change the title to something WITHOUT an apostrophe for now. When a visitor to your site hovers their cursor over your image the “I don’t sew message” that comes up has personal issues with the apostrophe. Try it and see. There is a special may to avoid this happening but for now, just change the message to “I do NOT sew” or something without an apostrophe.
PPS - I am not ill. You have to be this pedantic to be a coder.
oh - thanks for the wrapping tip - will need to try that (now if I could just get my technical support up and moving…ahem)
Ok, so I get where Liz is at on the coder = anal retentive. But she must be ed-u-macated too, because I had to whip out the Webster on “pedantic”.
Piggy-backing on your confession - Heat n Bond is my best friend.
I sew, Jenny. But ain’t nobody sews patches and does it well. It’s not possible, really! JenGi up there, if she were honest, she’d tell ya her sons AWANAS vests smell kinda like Bubbalicious. Wonder why? Hmmmm….
I can’t sew so I married a surgeon. He can sew in perfectly straight lines. I love it. He sews all my boys scouts patches! Ha!
You wrapped! Jaysus, I looked at the steps and sure am glad there is a plug-in. I think I will give the plug-in a go.
If you want a drop cap, visit my blog and steal the code from each post. I just save it as a draft and copy and paste it into each post.
I love learning code… it makes me feel hot,,, geek “hot” that is :)