Wordle

I am still working on my post that I hinted about in this post but in the meantime I thought I would tell you about a really fun website I found today....you can see how I keep myself amused when the shop's quiet!! Its called Wordle and here's the blurb....

"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."

I created one for my shop, which I love, I did a 'print screen' and pasted it into paint, I then cropped out all the edges so I was just left with the 'word cloud' and saved it as a photo. Here it is:

I really love this website, you can either paste some text to create your 'cloud' or write your own words, I just thought of words that came to mind when thinking about my shop, but you can paste poems, favourite quotes, songs, the list is endless and you have a 150 word limit so you can really get creative! There is a massive choice of colours, fonts and layouts and you can just keep playing around until you get the look you want.
Once you have got your cloud you can save it to a public gallery, print it or paste it into paint and save as a photo like I did!! I can now use my cloud for whatever I want, on bags, leaflets, printed as a picture and framed, and it's completely free!

Take a look at the website and have a go!