Originally Posted by
Iceblossom
I'm glad you figured out the picture posting -- and you can even embed them in the text which is something I haven't gotten down yet.
I would also second the suggestion to look at maybe getting an estate sale/auction company involved -- looking at the general map around Lawrenceville, I see several options including "A Perfect Piece". Just as you introduced yourself to us, a similar introduction or mention of "a quilter's house, complete with long arm set-up, sewing machines, lots of fabric, etc." It can seem like a lot of money to go for a professional, but they know the market and going rate and can do most of the work for you, most operate on a flat fee + percent of proceeds so they want to sell high too. There are also more work for you options -- I used to get a lot of stuff from MaxSold, which is sort of a hybrid between ebay and garage sales. Sadly, they don't operate in my new area. Finally, there are places that specialize in Long Arms, like Long Arm University. Looking at their Machines for Sale page can give you an idea of some of the things you will need to know about your set-up:
https://longarmuniversity.com/MachinesForSale.html
I recently moved from a house I was in for some 30 years... it is a lot of work to clear out a quilters house! Wish I was a thousand or so miles closer, I am in the market for a long arm.
Okay, so, first things first - it's easy to upload inline photos - it's just very old school - at least in technology terms. This forum is running on a very old forum software version - I'm sure the mods here work their collective asses off to keep up with all the daily work that goes into holding this community AND they probably (
absolutory sure they have) know about updates to make it work in a modern way - including 3 clicks to upload any image or video in seconds BUT, and this is a big '
BUT', the transitions are never easy or without problems especialy if there's custom work that's been done that might or might not be updateable.
Whatever, not my job and
full applause to the mods for the work they do.
That being said, here's how you upload inline / body images:
Go to Postimages, it's one of many photo holding sites, I like it mostly because they haven't gone out of business OR, worse, they hold your images hostage unless the poster pays them - AND if you don't pay them, you end up with blurry images on your site instead of the image the person originally uploaded. Feels a lot like hostage taking....
Basicly, you go on that page, pick your size, I default it to 800x600, pick your image then is processes it and offers you a bunch of options to copy or link to your image, the
URL part.
I use the Direct Link option (second down on the list), hit the 'copy' symbol at the end of that line and paste that the in the URL box you get once you hit the Image button on this site. Hit Tab to see that the image is in the box below (ignore any cropping, doesn't matter).
Hit
Ok button and in seconds, your image is uploaded.
From start to finish, it took me more time to lay this quilt out an take the picture then to upload it here:
Easy.
Secondly, GREAT advice, I'll take every bit of that and call all of them.
Yes, I wish you lived closer to my mom's house also. I can't imaging how expensive the shipping on one of these long-arm machines is - can't be worth it I assume.
Anyway, back to the work of dealing with cleaning and sorting out all the rest of her stuff, I'll deal with the sewing / quilting room another day as I get smarter about my options.
THANKS again!
- Patrick