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My Blogging Story: Part 5

April 18, 2012
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If you haven’t read my entire blogging story up to this point, you’ll want to start with Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. When I left you last with my story, the new year of 2011 turned the calendar.  My entire world as I knew it for 5 years had completely blown [...]

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Photography and Blogging: How to Take Better Photos

February 28, 2012
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I haven’t written a lot of posts about photography, simply because I am not an expert.  But, I wanted to take the time to devote a post to the importance  of great photos in blogging.  When I have written tips about blogging, taking pretty pictures is one of the things that I’ve mentioned time and [...]

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Photo Editing with Photoscape

January 28, 2012
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There’s been a lot of screaming all over blogland when recently, it was announced that Picnik photo editing is closing down in April.  Lots of bloggers have been using Picnik for a few years and have enjoyed the ease of use and all the fun bells and whistles that this online photo editing software provided.  [...]

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The Business of Blogging

July 28, 2010
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Occasionally, I get a wild hair and decide to sit and write up a post about blogging.  Today is one of those days.  My friend, Sarah, did a nice post recently about advertising, so I thought I’d expound on that and give my experience with that and blogging.  I hope by doing this it helps [...]

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A New Look!

April 11, 2010
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Welcome! If you had to glance twice to be sure you’re in the right spot, fear not, you definitely are in the right place. My blog whisperer, Darcy, has been working very hard behind the scenes for the past week and we are so happy to have the unveiling of the new and improved Southern [...]

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Balance, Blogging, and Blissdom

January 23, 2010
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See that chair up there?  The one I spend way too much time sitting my derriere in?  Let’s talk girlfriend to girlfriend (you guys are welcome too) about a subject that I’ve been pondering over for awhile. How in the world do we keep our lives balanced and keep up with this worldwide land of [...]

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10 Tips for New Bloggers

September 25, 2009
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After blogging for over 2 and 1/2 years, I can definitely say that I’ve learned a few things about the subject. I started out “green” just like a lot of you new bloggers out there.  I had to learn how to do posts, how to spruce up my blog and make it look all purdy, [...]

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Windows Live Writer

March 28, 2009

I posted awhile back about enlarging photos and have since found a much better method for posting to your blog and loading pics . Windows Live Writer. All you need to do is get this downloaded onto your computer and you will be in blog heaven, loading pics faster than you can snap your fingers, [...]

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Fa-La-La! and a Blog tip

November 29, 2008

Are you over all that food yet? We had a very festive day with lots of good food and time with family. There are 4 generations sitting at this table, Peter’s daughter Stacey, Peter, his mom Barbara, and Grandma Eleanor. That’s pretty neat! His two sons got busy with work and couldn’t make the trip [...]

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Guesting on the Skirted Roundtable

October 7, 2008
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I’m so excited that I was asked to be a guest on the Skirted Roundtable with Joni, Linda, and Megan and we had so much fun.  You can click here to hear the whole podcast.  They asked me to come on to talk about the Nate Show and blog stuff in general, so I was [...]

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Changing your Blog Background

April 7, 2008

(click to enlarge) I’ve been asked by several people recently about how to change your blog background, so I thought I’d do a little tutorial for those who are interested. It’s fun, easy and really changes the look of your blog, so give it a try. Believe me, I’m not a computer guru, so if [...]

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