Richard's Blog http://www.downton.me.uk Just my strange ramblings... don't worry they take up no more room than an elephant in a gin and tonic. Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:39:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Towcester Flame Off 2011 http://www.downton.me.uk/2011/04/11/towcester-flame-off-2011/ http://www.downton.me.uk/2011/04/11/towcester-flame-off-2011/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:38:52 +0000 Dickie http://www.downton.me.uk/?p=143 Continue reading →]]> I only visited the 2011 Flame Off this year on the Saturday, but still managed to take 556 pictures.

Below are a selection of those pictures that I took during the day

This annual event organised by Tuffnell Glass and Totally Beads is held at Towcester racecourse in the Midlands. It’s a great opportunity to meet like minded people, have a curry, and a darn good time… roll on next year!

If you would like to use any of the pictures please ask first.

]]> http://www.downton.me.uk/2011/04/11/towcester-flame-off-2011/feed/ 0 International Festival of Glass http://www.downton.me.uk/2010/09/17/international-festival-of-glass/ http://www.downton.me.uk/2010/09/17/international-festival-of-glass/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:13:56 +0000 Dickie http://www.downton.me.uk/?p=125 Continue reading →]]> Below are some of the pictures I took during the International Festival of Glass in Stourbridge. Including the Lampwork glass bead fair, British Glass Biennale 2010, and the excellent time Sarah and I had during a glass blowing taster course… Enjoy

]]> http://www.downton.me.uk/2010/09/17/international-festival-of-glass/feed/ 0 All over again http://www.downton.me.uk/2010/02/23/all-over-again/ http://www.downton.me.uk/2010/02/23/all-over-again/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:03:56 +0000 Dickie http://www.downton.me.uk/?p=104 Continue reading →]]> Well hopefully this post will not reside on my blog like a bad smell. (the last Journal post was there for 2 and a half years, all on its lonesome) So anyway We have finally completed the 2009 Journal… a bit late I know, but life got in the way (these things happen)

We just have to wait for the printers (M R Printers of Horsham) to run off the 300 or so copies that we need, so I can then post off the members’ copies to them.

It’s been an “interesting” experience, but one that I have enjoyed. I really quite like playing around with design tools. There are so many ways you can do it, and you could spend years tweeking things trying to get them just right, but at the end of the day you need to stop and hand the darn thing over.

Well… I don’t think I will be doing next year’s but I do hope you all enjoy looking at this edition… Happy reading.

]]> http://www.downton.me.uk/2010/02/23/all-over-again/feed/ 0 GBUK Journal 2009 http://www.downton.me.uk/2010/02/10/gbuk-journal-2009/ http://www.downton.me.uk/2010/02/10/gbuk-journal-2009/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:40:58 +0000 Dickie http://www.downton.me.uk/?p=99 Continue reading →]]> After rather a long time in the blogging wilderness I though I ought to update everyone on the state of the 2009 GBUK Journal.

Well all the pictures were in during December 2009 and I started on the main layout… All was going well, then Christmas hit! and January was a complete washout from an ability to work on the Journal point of view (for various reasons). So the upshot is, I have just started working on it again.

There is probably about 3-4 days more work to do, and then it can be handed over to the printers. Woo hoo

To whet your appetite, this edition has 80 (yes eight zero) artists’ work this time with some 230 pictures of beads and will be a 52 page A4 book. Please bear with me on this, but you will get your copies, they will be mailed out to you all as soon as I get them back from the printers.

Stay tuned !!

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]]> http://www.downton.me.uk/2007/08/03/its-all-over/feed/ 0 Rather useful photo search http://www.downton.me.uk/2006/09/30/rather-useful-photo-search/ http://www.downton.me.uk/2006/09/30/rather-useful-photo-search/#comments Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:37:59 +0000 Dickie http://www.downton.me.uk/2006/09/30/rather-useful-photo-search/ Continue reading →]]> I have just found something while having browse about, and thought it was worthy of my first blog post in a long time.

Have you every tried in vain to find a photo that matches your new layout theme… or just needed to find a picture in a particular colour?

Well now you can with Yotophoto

Yotophoto is the first internet search engine for finding free-to-use photographs and images.

To use the colour search just type in a hex colour value into the advanced search page and voilà…

So for example, to match the colour of my company’s logo… a delightful shade of orange, I can search for #FF6600

I can think of some really good uses for this, plus the images are all royalty free…even better.

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http://blogus.xilinus.com/pages/javawin

Now this might come in useful for something I’m working on at work !!!

Also Found this one moofx from mad4milk

Plus some help here

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This might be interesting to you

]]> http://www.downton.me.uk/2006/03/31/web-20/feed/ 0 Listamatic http://www.downton.me.uk/2006/03/31/listamatic/ http://www.downton.me.uk/2006/03/31/listamatic/#comments Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:07:00 +0000 Dickie http://www.downton.me.uk/2006/03/31/listomatic/ Continue reading →]]> Stuck on how to style your lists…?
Can’t seem to work out how to style a list to make it into a nice menu…?
Well help is at hand…

Enter Listamatic.

Basically it’s a really nice site that gives a whole load of examples (HTML and CSS) for many list styles and designs. Go have a look.

]]> http://www.downton.me.uk/2006/03/31/listamatic/feed/ 0 Glass beadmakers is live http://www.downton.me.uk/2006/03/03/glass-beadmakers-is-live/ http://www.downton.me.uk/2006/03/03/glass-beadmakers-is-live/#comments Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:36:57 +0000 Dickie http://www.downton.me.uk/2006/03/03/glass-beadmakers-is-live/ Continue reading →]]> Well that’s it… it’s finally up and running, slightly later than intended, but the new GBUK website is finally up and running.

The final push was to sort out some discrepancies in the look and feel. (I’m sure there are some more), and also to make the site a bit easier to navigate.

More Pages will be added in the next few weeks, for starters we need a “How to do it” page, and a “What is Lampworking” page, so that should keep us busy for the next few weeks.

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