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Where I blog and what would I be doing if I wasn’t blogging
Well, I missed TT yesterday. I had an assignment that needed to be done and to tell you the truth my creative juices are not flowing.And yet I’m still creating. How can that be? I think I have too...
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A Helpful Little Blogging Tip
A little visitor at our bird feeder yesterday. The other day I was looking through Google Reader and saw a post by fellow blogger, Jennifer at Town & Country Living. She had recently moved her...
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Google Reader on the Way Out!
Have you heard? Can you believe it? It just never ends… I’ve been having fits because my feed was not showing up in Google Reader and now they are abandoning it anyway. Do I hear a collective “arrghhh”...
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I just discovered the InLinkz Link Manager
Could it be that I am the last one on the planet to hear about this? Here’s what InLinkz says about the InLinkz Link Manager: It is a widget that you can insert in your blog to display lists of...
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Summer Classes and Challenges
I’m taking part in several classes and photography challenges this summer. I can’t believe that July is only a few days away… where did May and June go? I wanted to get everything straight in my head,...
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Getting Ready for Blissdom, and Eating Spinach
In October, my daughter (www.aprettylifeinthesuburbs.com) and I are going to a blog conference in Mississauga together! How amazing is that? Tickets and flights are purchased, and a room at the hotel...
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5 Things I Learned When I Moved my Blog
This post is simply about some of my experiences when I moved from Blogger to my own dot com, and started using WordPress. The Layout At a whopping 1400 pixels wide, a blog is very difficult to read on...
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InstaBG for Twitter and Google+
Caution! geek post alert! I discovered this neat site, InstaBG that generates a cool image of an Instagram feed. It’s so simple to create, I just signed in with my Twitter account, and let InstBG...
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Snugg iPhone Cover
A few weeks ago, the people at The Snugg contacted me and asked if I would be interested in trying out one of their iPhone covers, and I could choose which ever one I wanted. Now, how cool is that?...
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I’m Scared
There are only 10 sleeps until I board a plane all by myself and head to Mississauga, Ontario to attend Blissdom; a Canadian blogging conference. I don’t travel alone… ever. I get flustered, and have...
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Whoa! What Can Happen in One Second!
I felt compelled to drop in and say hi… since I’m finally back on my feet. Not five minutes after I published my last post about being scared, I stood up at the kitchen table and somehow put my back...
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Veni, Vidi, Vici
I came, I saw, I conquered! …that would be my fear I conquered. I went to Blissdom Canada and I survived. I’m gonna tell you right now, I was a good 15 – 25 years older than the majority of the over...
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Have you Thought About a Business Card?
You might remember that earlier in the year I attended “Blissdom“, a blogging conference in Toronto, Ontario. One of the things I was advised to do before I went was to get a business card ready. Uh,...
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A Look At Popular Cloud Storage Providers
How do you protect your files? It’s something I think about all the time, and I kind of need to get up to speed on the latest and greatest. As a matter of fact, I just backed up my blog to my computer...
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This is so fun! Google is adding an extra sparkle to photos posted on Google+ and look what they did to my rosemary tree!
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Meeting Blogging Friends in Real Life
The long awaited day had finally arrived – the day I was going to meet some blogging friends in real life. The plan was to meet at the Botanical Gardens at 9:30. When I woke up yesterday at 5:00 a.m. I...
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How to Write an Action to Re-size and Save Images for your Blog and a Special...
I’m pretty sure most of us know that our images need to be re-sized before uploading to the web. The photo needs to fit within the width of your blog, and it needs to load fast or you will lose...
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How to Create a Project Gallery (and 5 Reasons You Should Have One)
Many of us have some type of navigation system, typically situated at the top of our blogs in the form of tabs, or pages, etc. There are also Archives, or Categories, or Search Functions, which are...
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How to Create a Project Gallery Part II
In Part I of my series on setting up a Project Gallery, I went over some reasons on why it is a good idea to have one, and what you can do with it. Today I’m going to give an overview of the process,...
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How to Create a Project Gallery Part III
If you’re new to this series, I’d suggest that you check out Part I, and Part II, before continuing on. Create a Page From the Dashboard, choose Pages > Add New, and give it a name. I’m calling...
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