12 May 2018 17 Comments
in Tags, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Roald Dahl, Three Day Quote Challenge, Three Days Three Quotes
The lovely Sandra over at A Momma’s View tagged me for the Three Days, Three Quote challenge.
You know I love these challenges!
This time I have decided to concentrate on some pearls of wisdom from Roald Dahl!
Okay, so I may not be able to totally throw it away, but I do think there are many households who need to check themselves on screen time, and invest in some books…
Seriously, there are families out there with NO BOOKS! By choice too!
I open this tag to anyone who would like to take part!
11 May 2018 65 Comments
in Humour, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Adding GIFs, bitmoji, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, GIFs, Giphy
You know I have my faithful Bitmoji avatar which I use on most of my posts. I do love her!
She’s got the feisty nature I might not really portray in my day to day life!
But I wasn’t feeling fulfilled…
I was getting jealous of those bloggers who were using GIFS within the body of their texts.
And it is possibly something most of you know how to do, but if you’re anything like me, you would be in awe of those little moving pictures too!
So I discovered how to add GIFs to my posts!
Isn’t that just the coolest?
Then Colleen, the Fairy Whisperer, asked me how I managed to get the GIF in my comments, and I knew I had to share my newfound knowledge! You can’t call me a selfish blogger!
So, here is a quick step-by-step guide to how to add a GIF from http://www.giphy.com
1)Â Â First, get on the Giphy website and then search for whatever you want!
2)Â Â Click on whichever GIF takes your fancy, and it takes you to this page. Then select the Media link as indicated below.
3) Use the second link down that says Social. Copy it and paste into the body of your post, or even in a comment!
And you get this!
Now, if that’s not cool, then what is?!
Hope you benefit from my GIF tutorial!
11 May 2018 32 Comments
in #CarrotRanch, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #CarrotRanch, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Charli Mills, Flash Fiction, Origami, The Charisma Of Cranes
Charli’s prompt this week:
May 10, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story defining “the charisma of cranes.” For centuries, cranes have inspired art and philosophy. You can write a crane story or create something new out of the phrase. Go where the prompt leads.
The Crane
Meena watched, hypnotised by the sight of Jin Su’s hands, deftly working that piece of paper.
It seemed like mere seconds before that flat sheet of paper, took the form of a magnificent bird, a crane.
“Wow! How did you do that, Jin? Teach me!”
“Sure, grab a piece of paper and we’ll go through it step by step.” Jin Su waved his hand towards a pile of origami paper.
A little while later she stood back, surveying her handiwork.
Not so much charisma of cranes as crane catastrophy!
“I think I’ll leave this folding magic to you, Jin.”
https://carrotranch.com/2018/05/11/may-10-flash-fiction-challenge/
11 May 2018 26 Comments
in Awards, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Mitch Teemley, The Mystery Blogger Award
Dear Mitch has nominated me for the Mystery Blogger Award.
Thank you so much, Mitch, I am honoured that you think I rock!
I am a little snowed under with things at the moment and have taken part before, so I am sharing your post as a thank you!
I shall, however, answer your questions, because I love a good Q & A session!
Five Questions for my Nominees
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Thank you all so much for the votes!!! Click the image for my Winner's Post!
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But I Smile Anyway... 