Wednesday 5 December 2012

No pretty pictures .........

........ maybe I could resort to colourful language instead! 

 With my daughter's help we deleted half of my posts - nearly 300 - in order to free up storage space but still ended up with the same message.  It looks as if I shall have to buy more space even though we can't figure out why this should be necessary.  We have emailed Blogger for an explanation and advice and must wait for a reply.  I just hope I can post on my other blog or I really will have a problem - I am ready to post my latest batch of work.

The drawing has gone better than I expected and I have done all that is required for the present and am feeling more relaxed about it.   They are all simple line drawings so far and the next step is to add tone, then after that the detail is added.  Not nearly so scary when the whole process is broken down into these stages and an excellent way to learn. 

I did a bit of gardening yesterday and cut down plants that have done their thing for this year.  I know that they look beautiful when sparkling with frost but they also look dreadful when soaking wet and blown about by strong winds.   There are still quite a lot of leaves to drop and we are continually sweeping them off the paths or vacuuming them up off the floor when they have been brought indoors on the soles of our shoes.   Someone is not as good at wiping his feet as I am!



8 comments:

Maggi said...

You may have deleted your posts but your photos will still be on Picasa. Try deleting some that are unimportant and see if that frees up any space. It seems that a blot of bloggers are suddenly having this same problem. You need to get it sorted out as we can't do without photos of your lovely work.

Carol Q said...

I don't understand that Heather. I must have started blogging in about 2008 and so far no problems (touchwood!!) Hope you're surviving the wet weather. We seem to be heading into cold now!

joy said...

Have you tried resizing your photos, so they are much smaller? It helps too, to save them on your own CD rather than on an external site.

The Weaver of Grass said...

We were always told to leave the Autumn leaves as the North wind would do a better job at removing them than we could.

Ro Bruhn said...

I hope you get blogger sorted, I miss seeing your lovely creations.

sharon young said...

Glad the drawing is beginning to feel more comfortable. I can't imagine what blogger can be up to, I post loads of pics on my diploma blog and didn't know anything about a limit, I hope you get it sorted.
Many thanks for your comment on my blog, I seem to have lost your email address again.

Suztats said...

If you need to make your photos smaller, Jane Eborall has directions on her blog post:
http://www.janeeborall.blogspot.ca/2012/12/more-snowflakes-and-information-on.html

Hope it helps.

The Weaver of Grass said...

Re your comment today Heather about wood warming you three times. My father in law used to say that larch warmed you four times - once when you chopped it down, once when you sawed it up, once when you put it on the fire and once when you jumped about the room putting out the sparks which flew out of the grate.