New Features

The longer I seem to have this blog the more I can see ways I can improve it. and so thus I have decided to start adding various features and will listen to requests.

Current Features:

Moved Blog – I moved my blog to the main url and am working on a redirect of the old url please if you have me on your links page please update these. and part of this move I have changed my blogs name to simply “Brooklynne Michelle”. The rest of my pages should be up soon too. P.S. this means you also need to update your feed please do that.

Patterns – I have been doing a lot of knitting over the years and I would say that over the past three years 92% of my projects have been of my own design. I like to think that these designs are rather cool and nifty so I have started offering my patterns online right now there is only one sock pattern and it’s for sale but in the future I will also include free patterns. If you have any questions please let me know via the new contact me button.

Sponsors – I have added a sponsors page. This is a page where I will link to people who are rather rad and sponsor this blog in some way. I though about this for a long time and decided that I wanted to make a seperate page for these instead of putting this on the front page. If you want be a sponsor for this blog please contact me.

Theme – I have changed the theme a lot these past few days looking for the right theme. I’m not sure I have found the theme I’m looking for so please bear with me while I continue to find the one I find perfect.

Future Features:

Made Mondays - I am going to start a weekly feature where I review handmade/indie craft and other things along those lines. I plan on starting it this next monday. I hope you like it and if your somone who thinks that a product of yours would fit this section feel free to yet again contact me!

Handspun – I have been spinning a lot recently and part of this means that I have ben spinning things that aren’t quiet my thing thus in the future there will be some of my handspun yarn for sale.

So those are the things that are coming up over here at chez Brooklynne I hope your as excited as I am.

You Spin Me Right Round!!!!

You Spin Me Right Round!!!!

So I have been doing a lot of spinning lately, well it all started when Ryan had given me some beautiful roving, it just begged to be spun up. and so being an obedient slave to wool I did just that.

agsouthpacific1

agsouthpacific2

It cam out probably between aran and bulky weight and really cool  looking it’s just a 2 ply.  I’ve knit a hat with it but it’s a present for a friend who I don’t know if they read this blog so I”ll share it with you later when she has it. This is Anna Gratton’s South Pacific and boy is it pretty I kinda want to get 1200grams of it so I can knit a jacket with it but maybe that’s a bit much….

P.S. You may have noticed also that I have redesigned the blog AGAIN, I think this one will stick a bit longer I’m really happy with it.

New Posts!

New Posts!

You may have been alerted recently through various ways that I had posted some new posts. For some of you whom have been reading this blog for a while these posts may have seemed like you’ve seen them before. You have! I recently (after switching blogging platforms over a year ago) imported all of my old blogger entries. Unfortunately for a lot of you I had forgotten to turn off my alert software till halfway through the process. Luckily the process happened way too fast for the ping.fm alert thing and you only got about 7 or 8 instead of 50.  This post is all to say sorry for that and to let you know about some changes.

One I am going to delete my old blogger blog. You can now read through all of those posts on this blog, they are any posts before September 2007, or you can browse through any posts in the Blogger Import category by clicking the link in left sidebar or this link here.

Two there is  a new button, in the content section, at the bottom of each post that says Share/Save. That button makes it easier for you to share an individual post with people. What you do is click on the link and it will take you another screen that shows you all of your options on how you can share it(there are a lot). the most popular are bolded and at the top. For example lets say you really want to “Digg” my post you would go down and click the Share/Save button then on the next screen you would then click the Digg link. This will take you to the Digg.com website where you have to sign in(or sign up if you don’t already have an account) and “Digg” the post. If no one else has “Dugg” the post in the past you will have to submit it first this only take a second longer. Now you have shared that post and other people can “Digg” the post too if they also think it’s worthy of “Digging.”

Three you may have noticed a little bit of icons that have been added to the left sidebar with a bunch of icons under it, these are my “social homes” places where I “reside” while online. Now this isn’t all the places and hopefully I will be adding more soon. but it is most  of them. They include Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and Last.fm just to mention a few. Go ahead and add me to any of them your also on! Update: This now has all of my social homes on it. I think.  If you know I’m on a website that isn’t listed here then please let me know.

Last but not least you will see a few links under them even these are the blog rings I belong to. I keep meaning to get on a few more but those are it for now. So go ahead and have a look at a few other people who have blogs with at least some common thread.

And finally this is a simple image to help you see what I may mean by left side bar and other terms I may mean:

Diagram of The Blog Areas

Update: I have added another little widget into the left sidebar since making this post it is under my list of “social homes” and this is the online status of my various chat identities so if you want to chat or talk message me

New look for the blog!

I got bored… that’s all

phew!

Sorry I’ve been busy, busy, busy! I hope you all are doing well. I’ve been meaning to post here for weeks now! I really will try to post more often, but between getting the site all sorted and actually starting a business I barely have time to blink. Life is good, it’s December now and I don’t know how that happened… I do know that it’s hot, almost too hot to knit. It’s been 75 all this past week, and I’m starting to look at cottons for nice summer dresses, something long and with at least 3/4 length sleeves but made of a thin fabric. I really love this fabric from this website and want to order 10 yards to make the perfect summer dress!

I have to wear a lot of long sleeves in hot weather because of the sun. I burn really fast in places with an ozone layer so I burn even faster and and worse in this country without the ozone layer. which brings me to an interesting point aerosol is banned here everything like that in a can is some other gas that is ozone friendly!

I think I’m finally starting to blend in some, I pick up lingo fairly fast so that’s helpful, already I’m used to ordering a burger with chips(not fries), I have a mum now(not a mom), I stopped pronouncing Seatoun as Seatown and now as Seatoon. I still have trouble with some of the words that are or are based on Maori words. I really like it here and in general things are good. I do miss San Francisco and Micah and Sarah.

Well I guess that’s it for now!

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