Did You Know I Received the ROAR award?

Did you know I have received the ROAR award?

Like many other bloggers I've come in contact with lately, I have been awarded with a ROAR .

I am supposed to give three writing tips and pass the award on. There are so many good writers out there and I do not feel qualified to give any tips. Since the only writing I do is blog based, I am going to focus my non-qualified tips on blog writing.

1. Roam-get out of you own blog world and into the big cyber world of other blogs. It's all about networking-read other blogs, comment and link back. This is a good way to make blog friends and raise traffic to your blog as well as your blog's page rank.

2. Opportunities-take advantage of opportunities with your blog. Whether you blog for money or for self satisfaction or anything in between, be sure to take advantage of all opportunities presented to build your blog. Opportunities to post ads bring money to your paypal account. Opportunities to play these little games result in more traffic and links for your blog-and they are fun too! Opportunities to learn and share with others seem to be inherent in blogland. Be sure to take advantage of every opportunity you get with your blog.

3. Align your blog-I like to keep my blogs within certain parameters. Keeping the blog aligned or focused is a good way to build readership and maintain a stable blog. It also helps me keep the blog going in the direction I want it to go and allows me to have a "pattern" to follow while posting.

4. Reply-we all love to see comments on our blogs. One way to get more comments, and more traffic, is to reply back to these comments, the more prompt the reply, the better the interaction.

Ok, yes, this is more than three tips but I wanted to take the opportunity to use each letter in the ROAR award to present my tips!

I would like to take the opportunity to send this award on to some bloggers I have only just met as well as some of my old favorites!

zootalk
inklings
kiwipulse
fron tools
everyday weekender

Did You Know How To Make Envelopes from a Calendar?

Did you know how to make your own envelopes?

One of the young girls at church (4 yr old) is fascinated with "good mail". She loves to get and send mail. She loves it so much that she saved her pennies to buy her very own box of envelopes.

I gave her some envelopes I had that a friend had given me years ago (she worked for a card company) that had flowers and graduation designs on them. My little friend loved them. I wanted to find some other envelopes for her and thought maybe I could make some for her. I found a great idea on line to make your own envelopes out of an old calendar. Perfect timing as it was the end of the year and I had a good sturdy calendar to use to make the envelopes. I opened up an old envelope and folded it to a size to fit within the calendar page. Then I traced around it, cut it out, folded the tabs and taped them together to form a really cool envelope. I also sent the pattern with her so she could make some envelopes on her own.

Did You Know I do not Really Enjoy Movies With Subtitling?

Did you know I do not really enjoy movies with subtitling?

Well, it is not like I watch that many movies with subtitling. I guess mostly if I see a film with subtitles, it is on an airplane en route overseas. There was one show in particular that I remember with subtitles. It was a French film that was played on the plane. I rally believe it was rated R and was rather rough and the language was terrible. I was so happy that my ten year old son slept through that one!

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Did You Know How Many People Have Died From Earthquakes?

Did you know how many people have died from earthquakes?

According to a new calendar I have, only two U.S. citizens have died in earthquakes since the year 2000. In 2006, 6604 persons worldwide were killed in earthquakes. In 2004, nearly 300,00 people worldwide lost their lives to and earthquake. This number does however include those deaths from the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Did You Know About Getting New Christmas Lights?

Did you know about getting new Christmas lights?

As I was taking down the Christmas lights today, I was thinking of the new lights we will buy next year. We had talked of getting new ones this year, but decided that we would wait til we took these down and throw them out. They are very old and I learned this year about LED holiday lights. I doubt if the ones we used this year would even pass a Phase I environmental assessment, as they are not very environmentally friendly. So I packed up the old lights, with an eye to getting something a little better next year...

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Did You Know About my New Year's Eve Indulgence?

Did you know about my New Year's Eve indulgence?

While many folks were imbibing the New Year's Spirit(s) on December 31/January 1, I was indulging in something much better! We had decided we would have an ice cream supper, but reason won out and we did go pick up some tacos from the corner Bell before we splurged. Here is the concoction that I completely enjoyed on New Year's Eve...

Did You Know About Land Investment?

Did you know about land investment?

In all honesty, just from what I have noticed in our area, it is true that land is getting harder and harder to come by and small plots are costing a pretty penny. It seems as if everyone wants a piece of land these days, before the supply runs out. Homeowners, commercial businesses, hospitals, stadiums, airports, everyone needs a plot of land to do what they want with it.



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