It is, it’s just… well… batch processing images so I don’t destroy the original files still feels like it’s playing catch up. But the very sad state of my website isn’t going to get better until I have photos that are a good size for viewing, and that is about 1M which is about as…
Author: Michaela de Bruce
Patterning and printing
I’ve been able to finally Make rather than Find files so my pattern book is getting the massive edit it desperately needs. But I had to uninstall the latest Inkscape to go back to what I used before all heck broke loose with my hard drives. The UI is just so different. The old UI…
Cleves rescued!
My beloved first truly North Rhine frock seemed beyond repair, but I trimmed the under-linings just enough to not need to piece the skirt more than I had originally. So that was about 30cm from the waist and maybe forty from the hem. These were my “if I can scrape through I’ll keep them” allowances…
Gosh
I’ve had a little time to myself and have genuinely got my research to the point I’ve been able to tackle my folders of my costumes. And also open up my WIP boxes of my Cleves frocks as I have found them too overwhelming. You see this health stuff has set back everything. Ditto my…
Progress is progress right?
My Anne of Cleves folders are still consuming so much time, but in a way I’m getting a semi fast run through what I have and what I thought I have. But I also managed to get my Anne of Cleves frock out and pressed- thank goodness all my work on basting the layers has…
North Rhine portraits update
Now that I’ve got my life somewhat in order, I’ve finally been able to put all my portraits of women from NRW together to work out where my double ups are, and to make sure I’ve kept a record of where each image of the same work comes from. I had kept out images I…
Genuine progress
I found missing parts of my papers in amongst my research files! Such a relief because I was scrambling for months trying to rewrite my papers for different formats. I’ve taken my pearlwork off my frame* to put Elsa on there because I really need those extra stones on asap. It’s easy to put her…
Who benefits from my research?
It’s Not who I want to benefit, no, not even people on SocMed. A hint: One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. I had made huge strides in productivity for two days but I still kept having difficulty moving files. What looked like the familiar…
I was right!
The usual blame is: You have too many files; You shouldn’t use large images on documents (also you should avoid long filenames, what?); You should use a third party program; You should use icons not thumbnails (even though the issue persists when you do.) So far so much gaslighting, I actually fell for it- well…
Journaling woes
So as per my posts about the effort to recover files, journaling for files includes all the information about where to find the file, the history of where it has been etc. But there is more information connected to files and folders than even that. I’ve had issues with files taking forever to show in…