EN - As always, click on the images to go to the originals!

ES - Como siempre, clickeen en las imágenes para ver los originales!

EN - As you might have notice I am a little bit away these days. We are looking for a place to move in Oslo, but haven’t found one yet, so we come and go from Porsgrunn to Oslo. It’s a bit exhausting, but well, that’s life! Hihi. Here I leave you with some of my last favorite finds!

ES – Como se habrán dado cuenta estoy un poquito distante estos días. Estamos buscando un lugar al que mudarnos en Oslo, pero no lo hemos encontrado aún, así que vamos y venimos de Porsgruun a Oslo. Es un poco agotador, pero bueno, así es la vida!! Los dejo aquí con algunos de mis últimos favoritos!!!

BIG Sushi Time Cat Clock – $75 at Allen Designs

Alice set – $28.60 at The Little Happy Shop

Big dots and bunting teapot – $67 at Ninainvorm

Heart-Shaped Melamine Bowls – $29.95 at Williams-Sonoma

Rice Rectangular Food Boxes – £11.00 at nettlegreen

Sagaform Retro Side Plate – $12 at huset

There’s 2 weeks loft to enter and have a chance to win a custom blog design, and goodies from awesome artists, like Anne-Julie, Michelle Allen, etc!! / Quedan 2 semanas para participar y tener una chance de ganar un diseño de blog y muchas cosas lindas de Anne-Julie, Michelle Allen, etc.

EN - To all those taking part or wanting to take part in the Birdie Know-it-All Contest, the guidelines have been UPDATED to clarify an error that we were seeing in some entries. Please check out the updated guidelines clicking on the contest banner.

ES - Para todos aquellos que han entrado o desean entrar al concurso Birdie Sabelotodo, las reglas del concurso han sido actualizadas para clarificar un error que estabamos viendo en común entre algunos de los tutoriales que se presentaron. Por favor lean las reglas actualizadas, clickeando en el banner del concurso.

EN – I felt inspired today by a post by Dinu, one of my older readers, to share a bit of my WordPress experience so far. If you are thinking you have found here an expert, look somewhere else, hehe, my experience with WordPress started last year by chance. I was using Blogger just to upload trip and cat pictures and had heard of the beauty of WordPress, but as many I know, I ended up opening a blog on WordPress.com, really confused between what the .org and .com difference was… DOH!! Like if there’s anything similar between them! But well, what can I say, I didn’t know better. Anyways, as soon as I realized .com couldn’t be the wonderful thing I was hearing about, I searched a bit better and understood what the fuzz was about, a wonderful magical package called WordPress, that you could unwrap like a gift and drop inside your hosting to do magic!!!

And here I am, 1 year after, and I can say really that I have SO MUCH FUN playing around WordPress, and I am SO ADMIRED by the amazing developing community that creates incredible extensions everyday, that I always suggest everyone: MOVE TO WORDPRESS!! Hehehe, I feel like a WordPress spokeperson, but I swear I am not getting any money, hehehe!!

So anyways, I felt like sharing today with you some of my WordPress Bookmarks and Resources, in the spirit of the 2.0 community!!! Scroll down under the spanish translations for the listing!!

ES - Hoy me sentí inspirada por un post de Dinu, uno de mis más antiguos lectores, para compartir un poquito de mi experiencia WordPress hasta ahora. Si está buscando a una experta, busquen en otro lugar, jaja, my experiencia con WordPress comenzó el año pasado por casualidad. Estaba usando Blogger hasta el momento, pero únicamente para postear fotos de viajes y de mis gatos, y oí hablar de lo grandioso de WordPress, pero como muchos que conozco, terminé abriendo un blog en WordPress.com, realmente confudida sobre la diferencia entre .com y .org… DOH!! O sea, NO TIENEN NADA DE PARECIDO!! Pero bueno realmente no sabía nada al respecto. Así que ni bien me di cuenta que el .com no era la octava maravilla de la que oía hablar, busqué un poquito mejor y encontre este hermoso y mágico paquete del que todos comentaban!!! Un paquete que uno podía desatar y simplemente tirar dentro del propio hosting para hacer un poco de magia!!!

Aquí estoy, 1 año después, y debo decir que me he divertido tanto jugando con WordPress, y estoy TAN ADMIRADA de la increíble comunidad de desarrolladores que crea extensiones cada día, que siempre le sugiero a la gente: MÚDENSE A WORDPRESS!! Me siento casi como una vocera de WordPress, pero les juro no estoy recibiendo dinero!! jajaja!

De cualquier manera, en el espíritu de esta comunidad contributiva 2.0, sentí hoy que debía compartir con ustedes algunos de mis Recursos y Favoritos de WordPress!! Así que miren a continuación!!

Bookmarks

Other people’s incredible WP stuff!!

• WordPress category at Noupe’s blog. Always AMAZING links and posts there!! / Muchos links y artículos increíbles sobre WordPress allí!
• WP ZOOM – 10 gallery themes. Listing 10 themes for galleries & portfolios. / Con 10 temas excelentes para galerías o portfolios.
• WP Salon. Listing WP themes. / Lista de temas para WP.
• WP ZOOM – 45 free premium magazine styles themes. Listing of magazine themes for WP. / Listado de temas estilo revista para WP.
• We love WP. Incredible WordPress design gallery. / Galería de diseños WP increíbles!!
• WThemes. WP Themes Showcase. / Galería de temas para WP.

Plugins

Maybe some of them can be useful to the ones of you using WordPress!!

• cforms. For the wonderful Contact Form!! / Para tener un formulario de contacto!!
• Configurable Tag Cloud. Yes, a great addition to make a pretty tag cloud!! / Éste es un plugin increíble para crear una nube de etiquetas como la que está en la columna izquierda.
• Custom Smileys. A wonderful plugin I use to display my wonderful emoticons by Elise!! / Un plugin que te permite mostrar otros emoticones que los default de WordPress, y que yo uso para mostrar estos bellos de nubecitas hechos por Elise!!
• flickrRSS. Allows you to integrate the photos from a flickr rss feed into your site!! Like i do on the left column!! / Permite integrar fotos de tu flickr en tu blog!!!
• Lightview Plus to use LightView. For the wonderful overlay of images! / Para mostrar las imágenes sobre el blog de manera muy hermosa!!
• My Top Commentators. To know your most faithful followers!! / para saber quiénes y cuánto comentan!!
• PrestoGifto. To integrate you Cafepress store!! / Para integrar Cafepress en tu WordPress!!
• Subscribe to comments. Very helpful when you are offering something in your posts, like I offer my templates, and you get questions and requests! / Muy buen plugin para que tus lectores se mantengan informados de las discusiones en tus posts!

EN - Well, I hope some of this helps you in some way!! And as usual, just live your questions in here if you have any!!I promess I’ll try to gather also some Blogger resources for all of you using it!!

And please, if you have some links to share with me, DO SO!! Leave them here on the comments!! I love to add more and more stuff to my Google Reader, that’s for sure!!

ES – Bueno, espero que esto les sirva de algo!! Como siempre, dejen sus preguntas aquí si tienen alguna!! Les prometo que trataré de juntar también algunos recursos de Blogger para aquellos que lo usan!!

Y por favor, si tienen links que compartir conmigo, HAGANLO!! Déjenlos aquí en los comentarios!! Me encanta agregar más cosas a mi Gogle Reader!!!

So my flue is almost gone, luckily Thanks to everyone that wrote me with tips to get better… Amazing suggestions like drinking some “grog” *giggle* and I thought that was what pirates used to drink!! Hihihi

Anyways, I feel much better now, and I already started packing for my holidays wohoooo! Ho – li – days!!! I can’t believe they are so close, and that I flying into summer (it’s winter down here), so it will feel nice for sure. Specially fun will be to experiment the long days of norwegian summer I do promess to post some pics

Back to blog related news, remember first giveaway winner, Ameera’s Mum? here is the result of the giveaway. She wanted of course something that fitted the Blog’s title: “A princess story”. And this is what I made for her (click on the thumb down here to see it full size and working).

I started now working on the second’s winner design. So I’ll be showing it to you guys really soon Please let me know what you think on this one!!!!

Last but not least, just got a pic from the cards for a friend’s nephew baptism hihi you can probably guess I made the little angel, and I am really happy with the way it looks finished I think he picked like the perfect paper (see the texture? it’s so pretty!!)

*hugs to all and thanks for reading!!!*

Today I took a little bit of my time and did a bit of revamping to my Birdie Says shop at cafepress.

Since the cafepress template system is a bit aged (all made out of tables) is a bit more messy and complicated than touching the css, or at least i have gotten the hang now of touching css templates and then it became a bit of a headache!!

So anyways, if you can, please pass by and let me know what you think!

I also revamped with the same style the www.BirdieSays.com shop

*hugs to all of you*

es/ Mi set de íconos para el sitio! No está para descargar porque es para uso personal.
en/ I present you: my icon set!! Sorry it won’t be available for download since it’s for my site, but I am available for icon sets requests!