Today I am talking about appearance, no not in you and me but in blogs. I have a WordPress self hosted blog and it does automatic updates. I check out the newly added blog items when it updates and continue on my writing. But last week my blogger friend and host of the Ultimate Blog Challenge posted about efficient ways to customize your blogs appearance! I had no idea what I could change until I followed Paul’s instructions! One of the topics he discussed was changing the background color. I’ve
I’m participating in the 365 Day Photography Challenge and I decided to pick the most favorite from each month and then at the end of the challenge pick the best photo of the year! I’m doing this with all your help! For January you picked your choice for each week and the pictures choosen are pictured above. Now I need to see what will be the best of the month! So these are the five groups from January with the favorite from each group enlarged after the groupings. Can you
We are more than half way through the February Ultimate Blog Challenge already! Today’s suggested topic is to post a picture and see if it can go viral. Sometimes a simple picture post gets the most shares, likes and comments. Last fall Rich, Alexandra, Lia and I went hiking in North Carolina. We visited some beautiful waterfalls and hiked through some beautiful wooded scenery. While hiking in one part of the mountains I saw this simple painted rock nestled in the leaves with a simple message. I knew I had
If any of you saw the last few pictures I posted for the 365 Day Photography Challenge, you may have been wondering what the plywood was for. Well I’m still de-cluttering and we had such an over loaded pantry that needed a total overhaul. During the weeks we were decluttering our kitchen the pantry ended up being a catch-all for any extra food items. So over the weekend Lia and I tackled the pantry! Before we started clearing out the pantry we made a trip to Lowe’s for a piece
Last Monday I took the suggested topic for Day 8 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. The topic was to post a photograph and have a contest to Caption this Photo. I had so many cute captions for the photograph of Lia at the beach, you can read some of them in the comments on my Caption this Photo blog. And the winner is…. All the names could have been winners and there was no way to decide on caption alone so I took all the suggested names with captions and