So I finally upgraded WordPress here at Rambivilous. True to form, I lost all the previous Ramblings here at the site. Fine by me as it was older than dirt! So we’ve got a great new look /design here (thanks Brian at Templatelite !)
Currently, just posting my adventures in Soap Makin and general directions for a few new WordPress sites more…
I’m getting ready to try making my own soap. The recipe I’ve picked calls for Tallow (basically melted down-Rendered Beef Suet/Fat; I’m using Suet). So today I made my own Tallow! Decided to post my adventures as I was really nervous about doing this and felt a bit lost. As I type this, my tallow is cooling on the back porch.. However, I just found an AWESOME video on YouTube that I’d wish I’d seen yesterday!
No idea how much Suet is needed to get the amount of Tallow I want.. So I started out with (2)-5.5lb bags of Beef Suet that my meat market sold @ .99 lb, they also ground it up for me so I didn’t have to go through the mess of cutting it up!
I decided to do it in a crockpot, with water and salt added. Started with 2 crockpots and 1 of the 5.5lb bags. I’ll do the next 5.5lb later today.. Wasn’t as scary as I thought. Below are the pics I snapped with my phone throughout the process:
9AM: 2 Crockpots with 1 bag divided in 1/2 per pot. The bag sitting there is my other 5.5lb bag, that I still need to render
There are two ways your blog is currently set up to insert an image into your post. 1. Using WordPress default image gallery or 2. Using NextGen gallery
Using WordPress Default
… this one’s a doosey until you get the hang of it, but well worth it. This is the area you control your photo’s.
The main sidebar Reminder lesson: A Gallery is a group of pictures. An Album is a group of Gallery’s
(Please note these directions are for MY users, but may be helpful in general. Once you get the hang of it, you may find you’d like to do the steps in a different order, that’s fine.
To actually set up NextGen Gallery see this walkthrough: NextGEN Gallery Review vs. the user guide below)
Options tab you’ll use are: Add Gallery /Images, Manage Gallery, Albums and maybe Options more…
All about Posts.. the how to’s of posting/editing etc.
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