Rumblings from Nifty Galoot

Found a wonderful artist the other day… An alert for ‘Imagekind’ led to a blog post announcing her art gallery on Imagekind. I was blown away by it!

The cute illustrations made me smile and amazed me with the life and energy in them. The bright colors, expressions, and details are wonderful.

Okay… Maybe I’m getting a bit carried away with the superlatives… But, then again… It’s hard not to praise such beautiful work.

Cuddly Friends by Rachelle Anne Miller — View Larger

One of the great things about the Imagekind affiliate program is that I get to find, promote, and write about great art. This is one of those times when I absolutely love the opportunity!

Today is a double feature for Rachelle… I featured another of her works at my Nifty Piks – Photos and Art blog. ‘Storytime with Grandma’

Rachelle’s blog also has more of her work and some great tutorials on how to do illustrations. Makes me really wish I could draw.

Tags: Rachelle Anne Miller, Cuddly Friends, Illustration, Cute, Drawing, Imagekind,

In the last few days I’ve been exploring the web and learning about comments and plugins for WordPress. What have I learned? I’ve learned that the default for most blogs is to have nofollow set for an author’s website, or links in comments.

There were a quite a bunch of plugins I found to remove nofollow from comments.  The ones mentioned most often were:  LinkLove, DoFollow, and NoFollow Free.

They all looked like good choices, with DoFollow the simplest if someone wants to remove nofollow from all links in comments. Just install it, activate the plugin, and you’re done.

By default, LinkLove leaves the nofollow set until a comment author reaches 10 posts. That could be a good choice for some folks. There are instructions for how to change the number of posts to something other than 10, if a different number is desired.

I decided to use NoFollow Free. It takes a tiny bit more time setting up, since you’ll likely go to the options page and customize the settings, but you have options for whose posts you want to remove nofollow from, and the number of posts before it will do so. It also allows removing nofollow from a author’s website, links in comment contents, or both. Plus… There’s a built in option to put back nofollow if blacklist words are matched.

CommentLuv is a plugin that will go to a comment author’s website (if they fill it in) and posts a link to their last post at the time of the comment. A fun way to share a little luv by making it easy for readers to check out a commenter’s site. It may also encourage folks to comment on your site.

And lastly…  You may have wondered about the… U Comment – I Follow design:

You can find one for your blog in a number of colors or a css version  from Randa Clay Design.

Made a ‘World’s Best Mother-in-law’ design for NiftyWares shop:

Best Mother-in-law

There are lots of great Mother-in-laws and Valentine’s day is a good time to let them know it.  So…  The heart design seemed like a nice way to do it.  The design is on adult shirts and gifts.

I also blogged the design at Nifty Wares Shop News.

Been working on websites some more, and added a couple more ‘Give Peas a Chance’ designs to PeacePeas.com. Also added another ‘Peas on Earth‘ design to the shop.

The shop has all kinds of Peas-Peace designs on many styles of t-shirts and gifts. There should be something for just about anyone that wants to promote peace, with peas.

I have some other blogs, you can check out my Technorati Profile to see my favorite blogs.

Was looking at orders from my Cafepress shop, and saw an order for the ‘Christmas Lutefisk’ design.

Christmas Lutefisk Infant Bodysuit

If you are Norsk, or have been around them very much, you know what Lutefisk is, and if your not Norsk and don’t know what it is… Well, you don’t really want to know!

Dogs – Mostly Raven, who is a mix of German shepherd, Norwegian elkhound, and English setter.

This is my Dog Gallery at Imagekind.

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Worked a bit this morning on a ‘Rivers and Streams‘ group I’m moderating at RedBubble.  A new experience, haven’t moderated a group before.

Ground hasn’t frozen yet so did some more plowing.  Have a few hours left to finish the field.  Probably won’t freeze much tonight.  Should be okay yet tomorrow.