How to put a LARGE clickable picture on the Folksy Forum

Folksy is an online marketplace for British designers and makers, it has it's own Forum where you can chat and showcase your items, here is a quick guide to how I put a picture onto the Forum, and like anything else... it's easy when you know how.

Doing a small thumbnail of an item is easy peasy, you just go to the item you want to show and copy the url at the top of the page, then go to the forum and past the url into the REPLY box, this gives a small thumbnail of the item you want to showcase.

If you want to show a larger image on that will take you direct to the image in your shop, there's a little bit more you have to do.
I've done a few screenshots of me putting a picture on, I hope this will make it easier to follow.

I find it easier to have two tabs open, one of my shop and the other of the forum page.

On the forum go to the Reply Box and click on the 'upload icon' (the line with an up arrow)

 A new box will open, choose 'From the Web' and click on 'Show More' this will give you 2 boxes. 

Go to the image you want to show and right click 'Copy Image Location' and paste it into the top box.

 Next copy your image url and paste it into the bottom box.

Click on the 'Upload' button and hey presto your image is on the forum post, press 'Reply' and you're done.
It's a clickable pic and it will take you directly to the image in your shop.

You can use this same process if you want to show a picture from elsewhere on the web, for example, a blog or twitter etc.

I hope this has been helpful to you.

Jan x 

Flight of the Purple Heart

Wow, what a whirlwind weekend, but I'll tell you guy's about that in another post, today I want to tell you about one of my canvases. 

Those who know me from the  Craft Forum may remember that one of my paintings has been accepted for the Christmas Exhibition at the Apex Gallery in Bury St Edmunds. The Apex Gallery is advertised as a new and exciting contemporary art gallery. It is in the centre of the new 'arc'shopping centre and in the advertising blurb it says it would be of interest to "those seeking to look at or to buy high quality contemporary work".There is a nice bar and Coffee Shop there as well for those who want a break from the hustle and bustle of shopping.

All the art displayed will be based on the following quotation: “...Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything...” Plato.

So on Wednesday I set out with my painting feeling ridiculously excited and handed it over to the exhibition organiser and Gallery Director Cate Hadley.

The painting I submitted is different to anything I have shown on this blog, it is part of 'the other side of me' and here it is.

Flight of the Purple Heart

The Exhibition opened Saturday, 3rd December and runs until 16th January 2012, I hope that if you are in the area you can pop in and have a nosey, and maybe a coffee and cake while you are there, and talking about popping in, don't forget to pop over to Handmade Monday and check out what everyone else is up to.


Jan x