Free Printables Roses, Update on previous post about Google Follower Changes and how it might affect you.

Here are a couple more vintage rose ads I found in my needlework magazines from the 1920s. I thought they were really beautiful and removed the lettering for you to add your own words or photos. I thought you might like them for gift cards, scrapbooking, miniature flower catalog covers or a nice miniature framing for a tiny photo of a loved one to frame in you mini house. I'm sure you can come up with many more ideas.

In my blog of Jan 8, I mentioned what I had read in my Google Blog overview and posted the message from Blogger Buzz about Google changing the google followers policy to only include Google Account holders as Google followers. It might affect you if you do not belong to Google. I have noticed that many of my followers are missing. If you noticed you are no longer a follower of my blog you just have to sign up with a Google Account and refollow me. You might enjoy belonging to Google. There are many benefits: Google Gmail, Google books to read for free, Google blogs to make your own easy to use blog and Google+ to connect and follow other Google+ followers and see what they are posting that they enjoy. Thank you so much to my followers, you inspire me to post more and I always enjoy following other blogs. I have always thought it was great to be able to ad images of people I follow down on the left side of my pages, it makes it so much more easy for me to follow others. If you are not on my favorite blogs list you and you would like me to ad you, please let me know and I will ad your blog and follow you. I don't always comment but enjoy reading so many wonderful blogs.

Mini Hugs, Jean

Free Printables a Rose Miniature Carpet, Baby in Pink Painting and Important Google Followers update

I thought miniaturist's might enjoy this carpet which can be printed onto fabric for other scales to for your personal projects. There was just a small part of it in an antique magazine but I loved the design so I cloned some of the parts and gradually turned it into a full carpet. The edges are not as nice as I would have liked them to be but if you could trim it or add fringe to match. I loved the baby painting and thought you might to. It is also from an antique magazine. I thought you might like to use it for gift cards or framed in miniature etc.

As of January 11 there will be an update on Google Blogs and I am posting the info below. I wanted to add this update from Google about everyone who is not Google Blog connected will be removed from our followers.

Posted: December 21, 2015

In 2011, we anounced the retirement of Google Friend Connect for all non-Blogger sites. We made an exception for Blogger to give readers an easy way to follow blogs using a variety of accounts. Yet over time, we’ve seen that most people sign into Friend Connect with a Google Account. So, in an effort to streamline, in the next few weeks we’ll be making some changes that will eventually require readers to have a Google Account to sign into Friend Connect and follow blogs.

As part of this plan, starting the week of January 11, we’ll remove the ability for people with Twitter, Yahoo, Orkut or other OpenId providers to sign in to Google Friend Connect and follow blogs. At the same time, we’ll remove non-Google Account profiles so you may see a decrease in your blog follower count.

We encourage you to tell affected readers (perhaps via a blog post), that if they use a non-Google Account to follow your blog, they need to sign up for a Google Account, and re-follow your blog. With a Google Account, they’ll get blogs added to their Reading List, making it easier for them to see the latest posts and activity of the blogs they follow.

We know how important followers are to all bloggers, but we believe this change will improve the experience for both you and your readers.

Posted by Michael Goddard, Software Engineer to Google Blog members