How to add HTML Code in Blogger/BlogSpot

Have you always wondered how to add those fancy codes to your blog? If so, then wonder no more!

When logged into your account, you just need to select your blog and follow the below instructions to add HTML code.

1. Select 'Layout' on left bar
2. Click on 'Add a Gadget' box in layout area
3. In the Pop-Up window, scroll down to select 'HTML/JavaScript', as shown below
4. Paste code into Content field
5. 'Save Arrangement'

Try it out by adding the team badge to your blog by added the below code:

<div><br /><div><a href="http://etsyireland.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" title="ETSY IRELAND"><img alt="ETSY IRELAND" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/3974423265_0a8a340d45.jpg" /></a><br /><br />

Get Team Badge - Add Button to Website

To add the Team Badge onto your blog or any other website, you have two options:

1) Save image
Simply right click on the above image to save onto your computer. You can then upload it as required.

2) Use HTML Code
Copy the below code and paste into appropriate HTML/JavaScript field.

<a ref="http://etsyireland.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" title="ETSY IRELAND"><img alt="ETSY IRELAND" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/3974423265_0a8a340d45.jpg" /></a>

Click here for tutorial on how to add code into Blogger/BlogSpot.

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How to make hexagons

Today, Fi from patchworkdelights takes us down memory lane with her tutorial on how to make old fashioned hexagons for crafting.

Fi explains why hexagons are so versatile: "Hexagons are great, they are simple and portable which means so long as you are organised you can take them anywhere. It is not uncommon to see me with some needlework on the train and these will be great travel companions (sorry hubby!)."

Read on...

How-to Register with the Crafts Council of Ireland

The Crafts Council of Ireland (CCoI) is the support agency for the craft sector in Ireland – they are funded by the government via Enterprise Ireland and run on a not for profit basis. Their main role is to act as a champion for Irish crafts.

Why register with CCoI?

If you are registered with CCoI you:

- Can get up to date information on all that’s happening in the sector – via e-mail, e-zines, Stopress (newsletter) and the web site.

- Can get your own page on the CCoI web site

- Can get access to reduced rate insurance

- Can apply for CCoI initiatives – which include: fairs, events, exhibitions, seminars, mentoring programmes, bursaries, research missions and much more

- Can form a network with other makers and apply for funding support

- Can apply to become a member organisation (cost €100 pa) with full voting rights

- Can benefit from PR and promotional activity that CCoI undertake to promote the craft sector i.e. www.give irishcraft.ie

- Can take part in networking events and meet other makers and influencers

And best of all registration is free!


Who Can Register?

CCoI recognise a broad range of craft disciplines including:

- Basketry
- Bookbinding
- Bookmaking
- Candlemaking
- Ceramics
- Tilemaking
- Mosaic
- Fly Tying
- Fresco Painting
- Furniture Making
- Glass Making
- Horology
- Jewellery Making
- Leather Working
- Lettering
- Metal Working
- Mixed Media Constructing
- Musical Instrument Making
- Paper Working
- Papermaking
- Printmaking
- Silversmithing/Holloware
- Soapmaking
- Spinning
- Stone Working
- Textile Making
- Thatching
- Toymaking
- Woodworking

See the www.ccoi.ie for a full list.

To register you simply need to be a craftsperson working in one or more of these disciplines who designs and creates their own work (see the registration form for more detail).

Getting Started

Registration Forms are available from Mary Whelan in CCoI – 056 7796131 / maryw@ccoi.ie or you can download them from www.ccoi.ie. At the moment there is no option to register on-line (its in the pipeline) but you can scan your form and return it by e-mail if you prefer. Mary will be happy to talk you through any queries you have on the forms.

The current registration form is very detailed – but the more information you give the more services can be tailored to you.

If you are a start up business you may not be in a position to fill in all of the business section – don’t worry, just fill out as much as you can.

The information you provide enables the CCOI to tailor a suite of services to your needs and your business type – whether you are a full time craftsperson supplying the consumer market, or a part time maker focused on the gallery / collector end or indeed anything in between…

Confidentiality

All information provided to the Crafts Council of Ireland is held in the strictest confidence. They do not pass your information to any other third party – or any other state agency.

Upcoming Events:

2011 has been designated the Year of Craft and the Crafts Council of Ireland is developing and co-ordinating a range of events and activities to celebrate this.

The World Craft Council will hold their annual conference in Dublin – this will be a 3 day event and elements of it will be open to all CCoI registered craftspeople and member organistations.

So make sure you are registered with the CCOI to find out all that is going on and to join in the activity – or indeed to have your own activities included in the celebrations.

For more information on any of the above contact Nicola Doran, at nicola@ccoi.ie or 056 7796153.

How to make a recycled Gift Bow

I hate to throw anything out, ANYTHING, but this is something that a lot of people won't throw out. What am I talking about? Gift Bags, you know the ones with ropey handles that have been reused one too many times & have a few too many creases, but still, I can't throw them out. Then they start to build up & I know that eventually I'll make something with them, right? Well no, not until I have to!

So bring on a weekend when I'm not feeling the best & I have a present for a children's birthday party but no Gift wrap. Finally I decide to use one of my old gift bags and try to make a bow or something that resembles a bow to dress up the present a little bit.

Here's the step by step:

1. Tear off the handles, sides & base of the gift bag (Try not to keep them, throw them in the recycle, ah go on). You can use one side to make one bow. Cut the bag into five equal strips of approx. 13 x 1.25 inches. I used a fancy punch (you can just make out what the image was on the gift bag in picture 1.) but I'm sure it will work just as well with straight solid strips.

2. Take the first strip in your hand, curl it & stick edge at the half-way mark.

3. Turn the whole thing around & repeat step 2.

4. You should end up with the loopy 3D figure 8 shown in picture 4. Make four more of these loopy figure 8s.

5. Put double sided sticky tape at the back of each loopy figure 8

6. To make the centre of the bow repeat step 2. but stick the edge at about the quarter-way mark, keep your thumb holding it together.

7. Curl the strip around your thumb.

8. Loop the tail edge & stick it in the middle. That's your centre done.

9. Turn two figure 8's upside down facing opposite directions and stick together.

10. Stick the next loopy 8 on top right side up facing a different direction from the last two.

11. Stick the last loopy 8 on top right side up again facing a different direction from the last three.

12. Stick the bow centre in the middle in between all the loops.

If you want to see the step by step in larger pictures you can find them on my facebook page in the album How to make a recycled Gift Bow