I couldn’t resist this cute set of oh-so-Christmasy kitchen towels at Homegoods recently. For $5, a great way to add a little punch in the kitchen this season. 
And the colors are perfect in my kitchen too. The Christmas boxes are now out of the attic and decorating is in full swing, so stay tuned for some fun. I’m starting with my foyer table and this year, the starring colors will be lime green and white!
We have a slightly important little football game today and I have just one thing to say about that….ROLL TIDE!
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BLOG TIP: How to Enlarge Pics
OK, here’s a little tutorial on enlarging pics. If you didn’t already know this little tidbit, it’s best to load your pics first and then add your text. If you were wondering WHY your pics are not clickable for enlarging, then you’ve probably been dragging your pics around AFTER you have loaded them. You can’t do that and keep them clickable. And to get large pics, here is all you do. When you are composing a new post, you’ll see 2 tabs on your open post box, one for Edit Html and one for Compose. You mostly will use the Compose tab, but Edit Html comes in handy a lot too and you’ll see why. Don’t be scared of Html, it’s your friend.
After you have uploaded your pics, click on the html tab. You will notice that each pic you uploaded will have a whole paragraph of text to identify it. I’ve found it’s easier to go ahead and size those pics as soon as you upload them. Without any text in the way, you can easily identify where your pics are. You will need to count from the top if you are trying to enlarge only certain pics to make sure you are getting the right ones. There are 2 steps to enlarging pics this way. And you will need to change EACH and EVERY pic individually to enlarge them all, if you wish to do that. It sounds time consuming, but once you get the hang of it, it’s not hard at all. You’ll see lots of nonsense that won’t make sense, but look for this in all the bits of text for each picture you load (STEP 1):
It doesn’t matter if your px numbers are a little different than mine, that’s the part that needs to be deleted. Just highlight over it and hit delete.
(STEP 2) Then, look for a number like this in each pic’s paragraph of text: /s400/
Try it out and you’ll be hooked too!
Cute Kitchen towels!!
What a great picture, and love the towels. Thank you so much for the tutorial – what perfect timing! I have just started a blog, and have had a time with the picture situation. I won’t go into detail – I don’t think your comment section would be long enough for what I would have to say about my lack of “know how” on the subject. LOL Now I need to take the time to read it all and practice. Thank you.
Hi Rhoda! Your Thanksgiving sounds like it was wonderful. I’m loving those towels! If I recall, isn’t that green almost the color of your kitchen walls? They are just darling.
Lori
Thank you so much for sharing this information! It’s going over my head right now, because I’m still “Thanksgiving – it” with family. But, I’ve saved your info, and can’t wait until I can process it and learn! 😉
Thanks for the tip…I’m gonna give it a try! I love learning new blogging stuff. So many cool things that can be done!
Thank you Rhoda!
I printed it out so I can have it to do for a few times and maybe I can get the hang of it.
Man I can’t wait to see your decorating!
I’m cleaning out my attic right now trying to get things organized up there. THEN I can start my Christmas deocrating if I’m NOT down in my back! LOL
I am going to do an old fashioned looking tree this year with ribbon candy, gingerbread men, and red and white stripe candy canes and red balls. See my blog for the little gingerbread men my daughter bought for me last night at Cracker Barrel. SO CUTE!
Thanks for the tip Rhoda. Looks like you had a great Thanksgiving. Have fun decorating!
Hi Rhoda! You have a lovely family! Oh, thank you so much for the tip on enlarging our pictures. I’ve so admired those who have the large pictures! I’ll have to try it.
Be a sweetie,
Sheia 😉
Love the towels! Can’t wait to see your decorations! 🙂 Glad your Thanksgiving was nice!
I don’t know how you knew that I’ve been trying to figure out why my pictures won’t enlarge, but I am SO glad you gave me these instructions. I can’t wait to try it. Thank you so much. laurie
Our dinner was wonderful, and the resting up after and watching movies instead of ball games was even better! Glad yours was great, too. I love those kitchen towels…I always get a new set every year. I don’t know why, lol…it’s not like the precious year’s set is all that bad. It’s just a thing!
hugs
Sandi
What a great blog tip–I’m gonna have to refer back to this post and figure out how to do this. Thanks a lot for that! I love the Fa-La-La towels and your tablescape was lovely. Hoping that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving…
Thank you for the excellent tutorial! I’m saving it on a word doc for future reference. ♥!♥ Diane
Great tip! Love the towels…I have the exact same set!
Roll Tide! Nuff said! LOL!
Rhoda, you are my favorite person of the day! I’ve been wondering how to do this for some time, and I’ve just been too intimidated by other tutorials. You’re brilliant! You are also my favorite person because you have some GORGEOUS hand towels. Home Goods is my favorite store that I DON’T have. 🙁 I love them!
Thanks Rhonda… I always wondered why none of my pix were clickable!
Thanks for the tip Rhoda! Looks like you had a great Thanksgiving. Those towels are cute.
Hi Rhoda
Thanks for the tutorial on enlarging photos. I tried it and it worked great with photos whose height is more than its width. Also I am so glad that you mentioned about Blogger changing how the photos load. I thought I was going crazy because I’d load them and it would be wrong and then I’d do it again several times before I got it right. I thought it was me!
How wonderful to have 4 generations around your table for Thanksgiving.
Hugs, Rhondi
What a special treat to have 4 generations around the Thanksgiving table. Awesome indeed!
You know, I’ve been using Flickr to upload my pics and it’s super easy to choose the size that you want them on the blog! But you can’t click to enlarge them bigger than the posted size which is a bummer.
I’ll have to try this way and see how it works for me! Good tips!
Happy week ahead~ Les