Tree

[vilakins]

This is a test of the new rich text mode to see how it works.

I never had a Christmas tree until a couple of years ago when I saw some beautiful glass ornaments in a shop and had to buy a tree to put them on. I got an artificial one as I hate the idea of killing a baby tree then displaying the poor dead thing for a month.

I have the Liberator on mine amongst a lot of planet-shaped baubles.

Here's the tree:

and here's a close-up of the Liberator orbiting above a blue planet with bands of white cloud:

Hmm, that was fairly painless. Now to post it and see how it worked.

[Edit] Not bad, but it uses different HTML from what I would use and has only a limited number of options--no centering, blockquotes, or closing the lj-cut and adding more text. Easy to use though!

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Greg actually suggested it! I've added a Minbari ship now as it's pinkish and shows up OK; all my other spaceships are too dark, even the Narn one. Pity I haven't got an Enterprise. Last year only one person noticed the Lib--a guy who out-geeks us.

[trixieleitz]

Hmm, I have an Enterprise. And a DRD. Plotting, now...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

A DRD as in 'Farscape'? I believe you can buy bags of 'em; I'd like to get some and fight the cats to play with them. I lust after some Farscape characters too, though it's a pity they don't make a light-up Stark, batteries not included...

[trixieleitz]

A DRD as in 'Farscape'?

Yep, just a wee one about 2-3cm long. I haven't seen bags of them, but I haven't looked for that sort of thing recently. These were being sold individually, and there was also a key-ring version. Tempting, but I think the antennae would break off if it was kicking around in my pocket all the time.

light-up Stark

An appropriately-costumed Action Man, and a white LED?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Nice idea, but I'm not that clever. And the thought of making tiny clothes and mask... urk.

Some people are good at it though. I have really cute little B7 guys made out of pipecleaners by the talented Harriet (they can be bought from the Hermit shop (http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7/Shop/Start1.cgi); click on Blake's Seven under Fandom then search for pipe or scroll down.

A friend and I wrote a silly story about my three little guys in turns by e-mail. We illustrated it with pics of them and my cats (photoshopped together by Marian--no crew or cats were harmed or even frightened in the making of this epic). It's on her site here (http://homepage.mac.com/shelobmarian/handmade/tiny_tale.html). There's a better pic of my Liberator there too. I also have pics of Claudia batting the Lib around on my site (http://www.farsight.net.nz/), on my 'about me' page (http://www.farsight.net.nz/personal.htm); these are the shots Marian played with.

[trixieleitz]

Speaking of pipecleaner people and Harriet, I thought you might be interested in this page of pictures taken by Steve Rogerson at a Gigi Edgley appearance. The first two pics are of a pipecleaner Chiana, and of Harriet with Gigi.

Your pipecleaner people story reminds me of one of the things I love the most about the fans I've encountered - we love our shows, but we also love to be silly about them :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I had seen those pics (I'm a regular visitor to Steve's pages; pity he doesn't caption all his photos) but I had another look anyway. Looks like she had a lot of fun.