Here's a new site I've created, http://www.inhometrends.com/ to try a software that creates affiliate sites. I love home decorating, and thought this might be a good fit. There are all kind of sub-categories to find specific accessories like, clocks, mirrors, lamps, etc. I was really impressed with the selection! So much to choose from!
-Teresa
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Thursday, September 15, 2005
South Beach Diet Recipes
I found a great resource on ebay of south beach diet recipes with resale rights and decided to put them online with Google Adsense--will see what happens.
The recipes look great, even if you're not dieting! Try some here:
http://aboutcenter.com/south-beach-diet-recipes/
Teresa
The recipes look great, even if you're not dieting! Try some here:
http://aboutcenter.com/south-beach-diet-recipes/
Teresa
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Yorkie Ping
My daughter, Kaitlyn, has created a site about Yorkie dogs called, http://ilovemyyorkie.com.
She has a 3/4 Yorkie and 1/4 Shi-Tzu mix, Junior. He's a sweet little dog and she adores him--especially after begging for one for 3 years. She would get the free classifieds every time we went to the store, looking for a small dog. I helped her build her website, but she did most of it on her own: decided the layout, found the content information, and now she can crop and resize the pictures people send to her on her own.
She is getting visitors who are sending her pictures, but I don't know how they are finding it.
I'm trying to blog and ping her URL so we can at least get it listed in Google.
Take a peek at her site--she's done a good job! :) (I am a little biased!)
-Teresa
She has a 3/4 Yorkie and 1/4 Shi-Tzu mix, Junior. He's a sweet little dog and she adores him--especially after begging for one for 3 years. She would get the free classifieds every time we went to the store, looking for a small dog. I helped her build her website, but she did most of it on her own: decided the layout, found the content information, and now she can crop and resize the pictures people send to her on her own.
She is getting visitors who are sending her pictures, but I don't know how they are finding it.
I'm trying to blog and ping her URL so we can at least get it listed in Google.
Take a peek at her site--she's done a good job! :) (I am a little biased!)
-Teresa
Saturday, January 29, 2005
New Directions
I know I haven't posted for a long time. I've had to re-evaluate the direction I was taking with my online business. First, I've gotten a part-time job with a company as a graphic designer for a scrapbooking company. This is the second scrapbooking company I've worked for in recent years--It is a big industry in my area. I'm enjoying it, and it give us the income that we need, but it leaves less time for me to devote to my online ventures.
Secondly, I've decided to not pursue the momsmakingit.com route. This has been hard for me to let go of, because it was my baby and I've put a lot of time into it.
After talking with a successful online affiliate and getting some good tips from him, I've spent some time developing a new site: http://aboutcenter.com/creditcards which is basically a site to search for the right credit card.
I'll use the root of the site to develop other niche sites without needing to purchase a new dedicated domain name, server space, etc.
I'm also excited about the things I'm learning in an online class from Sharon and Roy Montero, who are Search Engine Optimization experts. I've just need to go over the ideas a couple times to really digest everything.
I'm excited about the possibilities. I know it can work because I've personally talked to many people who have made it work. So... I'll keep plugging along.
--Teresa
Secondly, I've decided to not pursue the momsmakingit.com route. This has been hard for me to let go of, because it was my baby and I've put a lot of time into it.
After talking with a successful online affiliate and getting some good tips from him, I've spent some time developing a new site: http://aboutcenter.com/creditcards which is basically a site to search for the right credit card.
I'll use the root of the site to develop other niche sites without needing to purchase a new dedicated domain name, server space, etc.
I'm also excited about the things I'm learning in an online class from Sharon and Roy Montero, who are Search Engine Optimization experts. I've just need to go over the ideas a couple times to really digest everything.
I'm excited about the possibilities. I know it can work because I've personally talked to many people who have made it work. So... I'll keep plugging along.
--Teresa
Saturday, November 27, 2004
Jump-Start Holiday Shopping
OK. I did it.
I got up at 5am so I could go to the early morning, “After Thanksgiving Day” sales yesterday. I went through the sale ads while the turkey was cooking and made a list, by store, of items that would be good gifts for our list. I debated if it would be worth the crowds and the time, but I’ve barely started my Christmas shopping, so now is as good a time as any to get a bunch of it done, especially at the great sale prices.
I even enlisted the help of my husband, Dave. There were several stores on our list that opened at the same time and there was no way I’d be able to get the deals. So my husband went to the electronics stores for me.
The number #1 stores on our lists were almost ½ an hour away, so we had to get a good head start and leave soon enough. My husband headed for his first store, Best Buys, and my 14 year-old daughter, Courtney, and I headed for Target with our hot chocolate travel mugs to warm us up on the cold, dark morning.
When we got to Target there was a line outside that had just begun to file in. We parked and got in with the tale end of the line. It was crowded, so you couldn’t easily get a cart through, so I had my daughter man the cart nearby as I went to the crowded area to get the items we were looking for.
I was able to get a little more than half of the items on my list. But some of the main presents that I wanted, a GameBoy Advanced with the Spiderman game for my son, and a Karaoke machine for my daughter were both gone. Oh well. I was debating about the Game Boy anyway, worried that it is very expensive, (especially any extra game we would buy n the future) and will my son be responsible enough yet not to lose it.
My husband and I kept in touch with our cell phones. He informed me he was only able to get 1 of the three items on his list and he wasn’t going to stand in the huge line for the 1 item, a DVD player. I was able to get one a Target for just a few dollars more.
I got a call from my husband while he was at his second store on his list, which happened to open the next hour anyway, informing me that they were handing out vouchers to the first people in line who wanted certain items. The item he wanted, a $99 camcorder, was already gone, in vouchers at least, to the first people in line. In ways this system is good, because the first people in line are rewarded for being there first, but it’s definitely not worth it to me to stand in line in the middle of the night to get first dibs.
Oh, Dave also informed me he was never going to do this again.
He said, “The older I get, the fewer things there are that I’m willing to stand in line for.”
My daughter and I headed to a couple more stores, which were not crowded at all by this time, about 7:30 in the morning. I was able to get a few more items that were on the 1 day sales which they still had plenty of items in stock.
So, in general, I still think it is worth me getting up early and going to these sales. Yes it is early, and it is crowded, but I can get quite a bit of shopping done in a short amount of time at huge savings.
I’ve got to get all this shopping done sometime. I might as well get a jump-start on it.
I got up at 5am so I could go to the early morning, “After Thanksgiving Day” sales yesterday. I went through the sale ads while the turkey was cooking and made a list, by store, of items that would be good gifts for our list. I debated if it would be worth the crowds and the time, but I’ve barely started my Christmas shopping, so now is as good a time as any to get a bunch of it done, especially at the great sale prices.
I even enlisted the help of my husband, Dave. There were several stores on our list that opened at the same time and there was no way I’d be able to get the deals. So my husband went to the electronics stores for me.
The number #1 stores on our lists were almost ½ an hour away, so we had to get a good head start and leave soon enough. My husband headed for his first store, Best Buys, and my 14 year-old daughter, Courtney, and I headed for Target with our hot chocolate travel mugs to warm us up on the cold, dark morning.
When we got to Target there was a line outside that had just begun to file in. We parked and got in with the tale end of the line. It was crowded, so you couldn’t easily get a cart through, so I had my daughter man the cart nearby as I went to the crowded area to get the items we were looking for.
I was able to get a little more than half of the items on my list. But some of the main presents that I wanted, a GameBoy Advanced with the Spiderman game for my son, and a Karaoke machine for my daughter were both gone. Oh well. I was debating about the Game Boy anyway, worried that it is very expensive, (especially any extra game we would buy n the future) and will my son be responsible enough yet not to lose it.
My husband and I kept in touch with our cell phones. He informed me he was only able to get 1 of the three items on his list and he wasn’t going to stand in the huge line for the 1 item, a DVD player. I was able to get one a Target for just a few dollars more.
I got a call from my husband while he was at his second store on his list, which happened to open the next hour anyway, informing me that they were handing out vouchers to the first people in line who wanted certain items. The item he wanted, a $99 camcorder, was already gone, in vouchers at least, to the first people in line. In ways this system is good, because the first people in line are rewarded for being there first, but it’s definitely not worth it to me to stand in line in the middle of the night to get first dibs.
Oh, Dave also informed me he was never going to do this again.
He said, “The older I get, the fewer things there are that I’m willing to stand in line for.”
My daughter and I headed to a couple more stores, which were not crowded at all by this time, about 7:30 in the morning. I was able to get a few more items that were on the 1 day sales which they still had plenty of items in stock.
So, in general, I still think it is worth me getting up early and going to these sales. Yes it is early, and it is crowded, but I can get quite a bit of shopping done in a short amount of time at huge savings.
I’ve got to get all this shopping done sometime. I might as well get a jump-start on it.
Thursday, November 18, 2004
The Perfect “BAD” Examples
As my girls were flipping through the TV channels last night they stopped on a show that made me think.
I don’t know if it is still called “The Simple Life,” but it features Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie touring middle-America in a bright pink truck and trailer.
As we watched, to me it left the perfect example of what I DON”T want my girls to be;rude, vulgar, spoiled, selfish, perverted. The list could go on with the bad impression I got of these 2 young women.
I wonder if their parents watch the show and are horrified to witness their girls’ behavior and lack of respect for everyone else on the planet, or are their parents the same way?
I wonder if these girls have such a lack of self-esteem that they make fun of everyone else around them to boost themselves, or do they really think money is the ultimate ranking status of self-worth?
I truly believe these girls will never find happiness, as they live lives filled of “themselves” and any kind of “feels good” from vulgar humor, perverted sex and drugs and other substances to escape their reality.
I talked with my teenage girls about this perfect “BAD” example of what I want for them. I need to do some more thinking of the good examples in the media of teens they can look up to and respect.
So far…
…I haven’t thought of any.
(I came across this article, Girls Gone MILD, by Stanley J. Leffew
--I wonder if he was watching that same show when he wrote this???)
I don’t know if it is still called “The Simple Life,” but it features Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie touring middle-America in a bright pink truck and trailer.
As we watched, to me it left the perfect example of what I DON”T want my girls to be;rude, vulgar, spoiled, selfish, perverted. The list could go on with the bad impression I got of these 2 young women.
I wonder if their parents watch the show and are horrified to witness their girls’ behavior and lack of respect for everyone else on the planet, or are their parents the same way?
I wonder if these girls have such a lack of self-esteem that they make fun of everyone else around them to boost themselves, or do they really think money is the ultimate ranking status of self-worth?
I truly believe these girls will never find happiness, as they live lives filled of “themselves” and any kind of “feels good” from vulgar humor, perverted sex and drugs and other substances to escape their reality.
I talked with my teenage girls about this perfect “BAD” example of what I want for them. I need to do some more thinking of the good examples in the media of teens they can look up to and respect.
So far…
…I haven’t thought of any.
(I came across this article, Girls Gone MILD, by Stanley J. Leffew
--I wonder if he was watching that same show when he wrote this???)
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Modern Day Pancakes
The other day my little boy, Garrett, who is in kindergarten brought home the wordless picture book, Pancakes for Breakfast, By Tomie De Paola. I love Tomie De Paola’ s illustrations and have for years ( for several years I illustrated children’s educational materials, so I especially paid close attention to his work.)
This simple book taught me lesson on gratitude.
The story goes through the day of an old woman who lived on a farm. She decided she wanted pancakes for breakfast. She then proceeds to have to milk the cow to get the milk, gather eggs from the chicken coop, churn cream to make butter, go out and purchase syrup from the maple syrup man (at least she could buy that and not have to drain it from the trees herself.)
The cute story goes on from there—but it really made me think.Usually, we have cold cereal, a bagel, a yogurt, instant oatmeal you can heat up in the microwave. Pancakes takes about 2 more minutes, but is still so easy!
All I have to do is take out the pancake mix, add water, plug in the griddle, get out the syrup and butter.
I’m so grateful I have the modern conveniences I have today that make my life easier:
A furnace, a washing machine and dryer, a stove, milk from a gallon jug, etc.
Of course, with all the freed-up time we now have compared to 50 or 100 years ago—we have no problem filling it up with other things. But at least these modern day conveniences give us more choices in how we spend our time.
I guess I can make modern day pancakes-- every once in a while.
-Teresa
momsmakingit.com
This simple book taught me lesson on gratitude.
The story goes through the day of an old woman who lived on a farm. She decided she wanted pancakes for breakfast. She then proceeds to have to milk the cow to get the milk, gather eggs from the chicken coop, churn cream to make butter, go out and purchase syrup from the maple syrup man (at least she could buy that and not have to drain it from the trees herself.)
The cute story goes on from there—but it really made me think.Usually, we have cold cereal, a bagel, a yogurt, instant oatmeal you can heat up in the microwave. Pancakes takes about 2 more minutes, but is still so easy!
All I have to do is take out the pancake mix, add water, plug in the griddle, get out the syrup and butter.
I’m so grateful I have the modern conveniences I have today that make my life easier:
A furnace, a washing machine and dryer, a stove, milk from a gallon jug, etc.
Of course, with all the freed-up time we now have compared to 50 or 100 years ago—we have no problem filling it up with other things. But at least these modern day conveniences give us more choices in how we spend our time.
I guess I can make modern day pancakes-- every once in a while.
-Teresa
momsmakingit.com
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