January 28th 2015 - Pinterest has arrived on my blog

January 28th 2015 - Pinterest has arrived on my blog

I have wondered for a long time HOW people have the "P" or "pin" appear on their images on blogs and websites, so I set about finding out.

 I started off by going through my blog to check I didn't already have, which I didn't think I did and I was correct.  I then hit settings and started playing about with those and also realised that my blog didn't show the tags/labels I have added to each post or have a search bar and a few other bits.  So I added these quite easily from the layout tab, but I couldn't find anything about the Pinterest bit on photos so I went and searched on Pinterest itself and there is loads, some not relevant to blogger but I eventually found a link that was.

I followed the insturctions and saved my template, added the coding  where it said saved it and went back to the blog page AND it worked! 

 I'm really happy and pleased with myself that I managed to do it.  My blog can now be linked to Pinterest via my pictures, it has a search bar and shows all the tags.  I even altered the background colour from Black to Purple, so its now now a really dark blog.  Another day I am going to try and find a really nice Purple blog template and see if I can change the template completely.  I need to work out how to link Pinterest to my blog as well.

A new year a new challenge!

Last year (2013) I decided to do a 365 photo a day challenge, it wasn't easy on some days but I continued and succeeded to finish it.  This year (2014) I have decided to set up a blog and try and enter as many competitions as I can.

Well here is my blog, and so far I have found a couple of good sites that list LOADS of competitions each day - this saves me trawling the net for them!!!  However, there are a few problems I have found - as I don't have a twitter account (and i'm not getting 1 as don't see the point in it) I am unable to enter the twitter comps
- as neither me nor my family have passports I am not entering the holiday abroad comps
- as I don't have a daughter i'm not entering any of the girly clothes or toy comps

so this has reduced what I can enter.  BUT if I don't enter the comps, I have no chance of winning.  So fingers crossed that I do actually win some.

Also, since we moved house 6months ago it turns out that ALL my boxes of books accidently ended up on the charity shop pile and went to it instead of coming with us, so I am in the process of trying to get new books as cheaply as I can, I can't remember all of what I had but have made a list of what I can remember and been buying few others at charity shops.