During a bored half hour today I designed the label for our christmas preserve mission. Here is it…

Font is Sketched Rockwell (a free font from dafont), very Juno don’t you think? Anyway, I like it. I’ll be jigging it around for the labels that will go on our sweet goods and home brew stuff :D Making stuff is FUN kids!

• Oo this week FinestImaginary’s etsy store got featured in the decor8 blog, how cute is that? Anyway, it’s driven a butt load of traffic to the etsy store and over 70 new people have added it as a fave :D
• We made some cranberry curd over the weekend, for some christmas gifts, turned out so yummers. AND it was made from dried cranberries, fresh ones are pricey in the UK (even this close to xmas).
• I’m going to have fun times designing some home-produce lables. Definitely putting notes on them about returning the freakin’ jars, god. Jar’s are so elusive.
• Oh man, I’m yet to play it, but did I mention that I bought ‘the game of life‘? Through my sheltered childhood I never got to play it… but now I have it. Screw the age rating. Anyway, it’s all electronic and shit. Fancypants.
• I’ve spent WAY too much on takeout coffee this week, but hell, I’ve adored every freakin’ sip.
• Did you see this cat?
  
• Other things of note : They’re killing off batman? this isn’t really a good thing, but hell, it’s a bit ambitious!; Eating gorgonzola before bed and having cheese fueled dreams; homemade spicy thai crab cakes; christmas spirit - although we already drunk half the jack. hum.

Oh my, I’ve recently developed quite a problem. Instead of doing what normal people do on their lunch hours, that being, you know, eating lunch and stuff… I’ve taken to window shopping. Mainly for shoes. Shoe’s that I’ll probably never wear (seriously, I live in trainers and converse.. sometimes flats), but shoes that are so so pretty that I can’t resist building outfits around them. I worry though, one day I know I’ll find the right pair and snap them up, but dear god what if they’re huge heels? I can’t handle heels, really.

About the legs by finestimaginary

The current love of my shoe lust life exist in miss selfridge. *Here is where I would show you a picture, but they’re not on the website anymore :O* They’re dark purple, with laces, bits of PVC but mainly suede, and oh so oh high. I would fall, I keep having to remind myself this… I would fall right over! I know, right? So why do I keep going and touching them? Crazy lady.

So, my dear readers, here is where you have to confess your window shopping sins. What impractical entities do you lust after?

I think I mentioned in last weeks ‘Weekly Good Stuff’ that I was having fun playing around with wordpress at work, and finding out just how powerful this blogging platform is… Well, I figured it would be good samaritan like of me to share the stuff I’ve been figuring out. Here’s the first tastey tidbit.

Pulling in meta/custom fields from other pages.

I needed to pull in some contact details for the sidebar on one page that already exsisted as custom fields (meta) on another page. I’ve been using the flutter plugin, but that’s basically just a fancy way to display custom fields in the admin (making it easier for end users, especially if you’re developing for people who ain’t so savvy). So, I needed to get this data from the entries on one page (contact) to the sidebar on another (about-us). After some googling and searching the WP forums, I found some code that kind of did the right thing. It references the actual database, and the post ID, so it’s not very versatile. However if you’re figuring the post ID of the page you need to reference isn’t gonna change, then you’re in business.

<?
$pages = $wpdb->get_results(”
SELECT * from $wpdb->posts
WHERE post_type=’page’
AND ID= ‘67′
ORDER BY post_title
“);
//the above checks the database for posts that are actually pages, it then (I think?) finds the ID //of the post you need by number. The order by probably doesn’t need to be there anymore, //but I left it in just incase!

foreach($pages as $page) :
$address_line_1 = get_post_meta($page->ID, ‘address_line_1′, $single = true);
$address_line_2 = get_post_meta($page->ID, ‘address_line_2′, $single = true);
$city = get_post_meta($page->ID, ‘city’, $single = true);
$postcode = get_post_meta($page->ID, ‘postcode’, $single = true);
$telephone = get_post_meta($page->ID, ‘telephone’, $single = true);
$fax = get_post_meta($page->ID, ‘fax’, $single = true);
$email = get_post_meta($page->ID, ‘email’, $single = true);
// this bit is to pull any meta from the child page
//in this case it’s the custom fields that are used to display the address/contact details.
//echo ‘<h2><a href=”‘ .  get_permalink($page->ID) .  ‘” title=”‘ . $page->post_title . ‘”>’ . //$page->post_title .  ‘</a></h2>’; //this would, if uncommented, show the page title.

// right, here I’m echoing the variables that exist in the page we’ve referenced (67 ie. contact)
echo ‘<li>’ . $address_line_1 . ‘ </a></li>’;
echo ‘<li>’ . $address_line_2 . ‘ </a></li>’;
echo ‘<li>’ . $city . ‘ </a></li>’;
echo ‘<li>’ . $postcode . ‘ </a></li>’;
echo ‘<li>Tel: ‘ . $telephone . ‘ </a></li>’;
echo ‘<li> Fax: ‘ . $fax . ‘ </a></li>’;
echo ‘<li>’ . $email . ‘ </a></li>’;
endforeach;
?>

There we go… now I’m no php developer, so this is probably really hacky/shit code… but it works hah. So, I figure if you need to use it, you can. Also, this is why hiphop ain’t so good, I spend my time finding out shit for other sites! Bah. Soon, soon.

Ooo, so with the threadless sale and all I had to pick up at least one shirt. This is the one I spent my $15 on…

It’s cute, nah? Also, Adam purchased this shirt (which he’s been wanting for ages but they never have his size… alas, the sale has brought with it good news and reprints!). He only got it ‘cos it looks like him.