Thank you all for coming to the first Fiesta Friday Blog Party. I hope everybody had a great time, met new friends, caught up with old friends, learned a few things, and so on. As your host, I now have the unenviable task of selecting the posts for this week’s Fiesta Friday Features.
Don’t be sad or mad if you don’t get selected this time. I do give everyone a fair chance. It’s a weekly affair, so you’ll have plenty of chances to be featured in the future.
Besides being honored here, features will also be pinned onto my pinterest board (I’ll create a new Fiesta Friday Features board) and mentioned in my Facebook page to give them more exposure.
I’m also in the process of creating a button that you can display on your blog as a Fiesta Friday participant or a Fiesta Friday Feature. It’s a hand-painted image and it’s taking me a little more time than I thought to finish, but I do want to give you a pretty button that you’ll be proud to display. So bear with me, I’m trying my best to get it done quickly.
So, no doubt that’s what I’ll be doing this weekend. But in the meantime, it’s Friday so it’s time to party again! And this will be my contribution:
You may be able to guess what that is. I’ll post the recipe maybe later today or tomorrow. Right now I gotta run and get to work! But enough about me, tell me what you’ll be bringing. Food, drinks, stories, quotes, jokes, music, activities, or even crafts will be appreciated. Inspirations can come from all kinds of sources.
Link-up will be open for 5 days this time (until Wednesday noon). I find that later links don’t get as many views as the earlier links, and I need time to select features. But let me know if this doesn’t work out for you and I’ll make an adjustment.
Clicking the image above will bring you to the party!
If you’re new to Fiesta Friday, please read the Fiesta Friday guidelines on how to join.
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Now, onto the features. Drum rolls, please… Our First Fiesta Friday Features are:
Eliopita from Margherita@La petite casserole. This is so unique with the addition of Fanta in it. Orange-flavored soda in an olive bread? Don’t you all agree that this recipe needs to be tried?
Chicken Burrito bowl from Aditi and Nikhil@Confused Bawarchis. Really, does it need an explanation? I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love rice bowls. I once thought about opening a restaurant specializing in rice bowls. And came up with the perfect name for it, “International House of Rice.” After thinking it over, I decided the name was unwise. Unable to come up with an alternative name, I shelved the idea.
Maple Taffy from Hilda@Along the Grapevine. Embrace the snowy weather, Hilda said, and have a little fun. I can’t agree more.
Finally, Justine@Eclectic odds n sods brought us flamenco dance and music along with her childhood memories of summer holidays in Spain. What a way to complete our party!
The Novice Gardener 
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just followed you on Pinterest and FB. Stalking you via the Internet! 😀
That’s good, we can stalk each other! 🙂
Blog parties would be so much more fun if we could leave graphics in our comments.
But you CAN link graphics, Russel! Right there on the post. You just click on the link, and it’ll let you load any image. You can leave videos or GIFs on the comments, too!
I’m talking about actually leaving a graphic in a comment, not just a link to a graphic or video somewhere else.
The blogging platform where I was from July 2008 to January 2012 allowed us to leave graphics in our comments, and blog parties were so much more fun. I had an annual Super Bowl blog party that always got 500-600 comments, half of them with photos of food, players, drinks, cleanup, etc.
That’s a YouTube link. Yes, you can do that. I’m talking about actually leaving a graphic of my own that I upload to my comment, not a link to anywhere else.
I guess we’ll have to get a link tool, which is why I got InLinkz to begin with. Except you can’t do it with the free blogs. But I sorta got around it and was able to add the links on my blog, manually. If you had an upgraded or self-hosted blog, I think you can have other people link graphics, but still with a link tool.
You can link graphics or videos, or anything else. The key is “link.” Links don’t take up significant space like graphics and videos do.
According to the WordPress forums, the reason why wordpress.com blogs cannot upload graphics or videos directly into a comment is because they don’t know who to credit the space usage to, and wordpress.com blogs all have space limits. So do the credit the space usage to the person in whose blog the comment appears, or do they credit it to the commenter, even though the commenter is not at his/her blog?
I’ve been complaining about the lack of this function since January 2012, just a couple of weeks after I started blogging here, and I have an upgraded wordpress.com blog.
Many people don’t know how to resize their pictures so I often find a blog that takes a minute or two to load. The reason is because the blogger is uploading pictures that are 7 or 8 megabytes! All that does is slow everything down and use up storage space.
As I suggested to WordPress, all they need to do is to create a small script that resizes all comment graphics or videos to, say, 300×200. I got no comment on that so I guess they summarily didn’t like my suggestion.
P.S. I can insert a graphic into a comment anywhere as long as I first put the graphic on my own web site and then link to it. Link, again, is the key. One can link until one’s heart is content. Uploading graphics and videos directly into my comment on YOUR blog, though, can’t be done.
It doesn’t make sense the explanation WordPress gave, but since mine is a free blog, I can’t really complain too much. I’m not happy, though, that I can’t have other bloggers link directly on my blog even when I have paid for a link tool service. I have to do it manually. 😦
That mourning dove graphic is a link to YouTube, so the YouTube servers are storing that graphic, not the WordPress servers. Server space is valuable, so WordPress would prefer that someone else host those graphics and videos and that all they have to do is a host a link, which might take all of 10 kilobytes, whereas the video takes about 2.8 megabytes.
No, I meant the links on the post itself, not on the comment section, like the ones I have on this post, with multiple thumbnail pictures from other blogs (which I call links).
So all of this time we’ve been talking about different things. You can put almost anything you want into your post, either via links or by uploading directly to your post. I’m talking about the comments, though. Comments are very limited as to what the commenter can put in them. We can’t even format our comments! At some places I could format my comment so that it’s blue text on a green background!
Okay, I got you. 🙂
Thanks so much Angie for hosting this fab party! I am looking forward to hanging out with the other guests and checking out what they’ve brought along. Am quite intrigued about what you’ll bring to the party… love that blue bowl. Is there a flame going? Can’t wait to see what it is!
You’re welcome, Lidia! Hope you’re having fun! Yes, that’s blue flame you were seeing. Watching the Olympics right now, but will post that recipe ASAP, 🙂
Hi – once again I am having trouble posting a picture. I got the URL right this time but it says the file is too large HELP! I do not paste and copy things, just your basic computer skills. I am enjoying the “party” but this part is becoming very frustrating to me!
I posted a picture I believe – I actually figured out how to copy and paste 🙂 Let me know if I have done this wrong…
Oh darn – I did post a picture but it links back to my picture and not my post 😦 Will I ever figure this out ?
I’ll go and take a look and fix it for you, Juju.
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