Basically, you put their widget on your sidebar. You can rent the spot next to it to other blogs to earn credits. But mainly, you can go to other member blogs, click on their widget and “drop your card”, and others can drop their cards on your blog.

You get credits for dropping your card and other cards being dropped at your blog, from which you can e.g. buy an advertising space on another blog.

It makes it easier to find new blogs to read, and hopefully someone will find this blog and visit regularly.

Sadly, most of the link exchanges are made up mostly of people filling their blog with pay-per-post, or trying to sell their own products,

What I’m interested in are blogs that give me a view of someone’s life, a unique way to get to know the writer, to glean glimpses of what makes them tick. I do like some medical blogs, but otherwise I prefer personal blogs over themed ones.

I’ve tried to blog on Livejournal a few times, because I love the way communication there works via comments – but then I find most journals there are themed, but maybe that’s because I’ve mostly followed different fandoms on LJ.

I do want to use this blog however, and I love the new design So I have to find some other ways to find online friends I guess. Entrecard is nice in that I can click through blogs through the adverts, and I like that I can look at my inbox and drop cards for everyone who dropped their card on mine.

I definitely like it so far, and I’ve already found some great blogs through it.

]]> http://silverpools.net/2009/03/28/entrecard/feed/ 11 http://silverpools.net/2009/03/26/i-lost-a-blog/ http://silverpools.net/2009/03/26/i-lost-a-blog/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:48:13 +0000 Fae http://silverpools.net/?p=137 Argh!

I remember this blog I really liked to read. It was of a young woman who immigrated to Sweden – originally with her husband, but they seperated in the end.

I was very well written and funny and she calls Migrationsverket the irritation office. Hehe

It also has the typical traffic sign with the elk crossing the street as a header picture.

I want to follow it again and now I can’t find it. *kicks google*

So I surfed around and found a blog that really made me giggle. It’s called Yummy Baby . Normally I’m not all that fond of mommy-blogs – I like children, actually, but I don’t want to read about them all day. This blog is different though, and I stayed there and read a bunch of posts.

The little one is adorable of course, but not only that – the blog is written entirely from her perspective. She’s almost a year old, and it’s fun to read about how she likes her mom’s computer better than her own, and what’s going on with her and her friends. Her mother started the blog when Amayra Muneez was just five months old, so you can follow her almost from birth and see how she changes. I hope this blog will be continued for some time, I’ll certainly be back to read!

• I updated my Wishlist. Now when you click on the tab up there that says Wishlist, it will take you to my personal save-up-list. Of course, every time I think I’m finished I think of five other thing to put on it, so right now there are only the absolute essentials.
• The pictures in the WiP section of the sidebar are now linked to their respective pages – so when you click e.g. on the Dragon pic, it will take you to the Dragon Luck WiP page.
• Trolly didn’t put the contents of his newest box on his blog. NOOOOOOOOOO! *giggle*
• I have coffee, and tonight there’ll be Robin Hood – Prince of Thieves on the tv. That’s doubtlessly a ploy along the lines of “Harrharr, we’ll just be showing crappy old movies so everyone will watch the hockey!” Not working, guys. Especially if you’re giving me Alan Rickman, who will be talking, which is better than coffee. And chocolate. And a lot of other things. A LOT. Rawr.
• I’m half done with the Quaker Sampler. It’s such fun to work with overdyed threads. Click the thumbnail to get to the WiP page with more pictures.

• I made a Finish a month or so ago that I forgot to announce. It’s an adorable PINN pattern. I just found a companion piece called Mermaid Heaven, and I think I will remake them both on Polstitches fabric. Click the pic to go to the page.

I’m impressed with Joni from Elegant Webscapes, not only for the beautiful design, but for not going insane with my ever-unprecise explanation of “something purple that flows, and flowers, fairies and cross stitch”.

I also got the newest WordPress and a few nifty plug ins installed. For example, the nifty thing you see when you mouse over ”Joni” or “Elegant Webscapes”.

Now, when you comment and I reply, my answer will appear here under comments, and will at the same time be emailed to you. I really like that feature, because I for one always forget to come and check back to see if any of my comments have received an answer.

Today I have been tagging all the posts – phew! The old version of WordPress didn’t have any tags. I’ve upload all the WiP’s to the sidebar. The pics are not linked yet, that will be fixed tomorrow.

I’ve also updated the WiP and Finishes pages. The rest of the pages will come over the next weeks.

I hope you like it as much as I do  

Click the thumbnail for a bigger picture.

 

Also, I will have this blog beautified! I just ordered a new design from Elegant Webscapes. They have made one design for me before, which worked out great – I can’t wait for the new look!

 

thought it would be a good thing to revamp the blog and use it for my stitching as well as for some real life updates. So I spent most of the evening browsing far more wordpress themes than I care for. I think I uploaded about five, but some had the wrong font, or the pages were messed up, or whatnot – but I really like this one. Purple and flowers, what more could a girl want?

I set up a few pages already. The About Me page is done, and I put a few pictures up on the Finishes 2007 page. I will have to put the rest of the Christmas cards up there, and the WiP pics aren’t there yet. I also want to make a page with charts I want to buy, since I always find them all over the place and put them in my Favourites, and they got to be insanely many. It’ll be nice to have them organised.

I think I will spend some time tomorrow to find other stitching blogs. If you know a good place to start, please leave a comment.

A special hug and welcome to all you lovely people from ILCS