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February 22nd, 2010 -- Posted in EZ-blog Oven, work/career |
You can’t tell to look at it, but my blog has been moved over to a new host. If you notice anything “glitchy”, please let me know so that I can fix it. Or ask my wonderful engineer hubby to fix it (have I mentioned that he’s wonderful?). 
Thanks hon for patiently helping me with this big transition of all my sites!
On the subject of family, I’ve also taken this opportunity to update my Family page. Both of my munchkins celebrated a birthday in the past few months, so their tickers needed to be updated. This time around, I’ve just created the type of ticker that counts up and says how old they are now instead of counting down to their next birthday…
Speaking of updating pages, my Friends page could probably use a little bit of updating too! For instance, I have a little blurb in there about my neighbour friends but of course since we’ve moved I don’t have the same neighbours!
Another change on the blog is placing all my Blogroll Links and links to my websites on their own page. I pruned down the list to include blogs that are posted to on a regular basis and/or friends I still keep in touch with regularly as well. I plan to share some of my other fave blogs in a “link love” post format sometime… There are so many wonderful creative women out there!
I’ve updated my “Site support” sections as well to try to get good results with not too much distraction. I’d better become more successful at this mompreneur stuff if I want to be sharing what I’ve learned with other WAHMs on this blog! I don’t consider pennies a week to be successful! 
One thing I did learn about writing a good blog is to keep posting your new material and don’t get stuck in too long of a “lull”.
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Blogging Tip: If you’re a new blogger, try to think of various topics you want to post about and mix them up a little: share a recipe one day, then post about your kids a couple days after that, etc.
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One new feature I’ve been playing around with is the Scheduler… I can write blog entries when I’m feeling up for it and then schedule them to be posted at a later date and time! A few of my entries over the past couple weeks were posted using this feature and I’ll bet you can’t tell which ones!
Thanks for reading my “Creating Kris” blog! Whether you are a WAHM, aspiring mompreneur, creative scrapbooker or card-maker, new home-owner decorating her space, or just a friend or curious online guest stopping by for some inspiration, I’m glad to have you along for the ride!
February 4th, 2010 -- Posted in EZ-blog Oven |
It’s time for a new name to reflect this blog’s changed identity. It has grown into something different than it originally started out as, so now it will have a new title to go along with that! I’m excited to introduce you to… the “Creating Kris” blog, where a young mom shares her creative projects: scrapbooking, stamped cards, home decor, free blinkies, etc.!
What I like the most about the new name is it’s dual meaning… Not only am I a Kris who creates, I’m a Kris who is being created. I grow and learn and discover, and my friends (online and off!) are part of that process. 
Wondering why the change? I’ll explain…
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January 19th, 2010 -- Posted in EZ-blog Oven, family, pain / disability, pics, scrappy / stampy |
I know things’ve been a little quiet on the blogging side of things, but I assure you I’ve been turning my creative inclinations towards other passions lately and it has not all gone to waste. I took advantage of a good sale to print out nearly 300 digital pictures and have been working at getting my albums sorted out.
As a first completed project of the year, the “Family 2007″ layouts are now totally scrapbooked. This album (or rather section of an album; it shares space with 2008) was mostly complete for the longest time even before 2009 rolled around. Then I’d somehow skipped over November and December ‘07 in favour of jumping right into the beginning of 2008 and ending up scrapbooking from January to June of ‘08 in one big cropping weekend in October (which I paid for dearly in pain afterwards due to a fire alarm!).
In my recent album organizing efforts, the unfinished area stood out as a priority. So I finally chose some digital pics to print out from those couple months and got to work…
I finished the title bar to the first 1/2 layout of November (Paul’s 27th birthday), and then added another 1-page layout (of Stella’s 3rd birthday) on the other side. On the next pages, I did a 2-page spread with the title “Here comes Winter” and I think it turned out really nicely…
For the final layout of 2007, I did a 1-page layout which was kept to just one un-cropped photo and a block of journaling – all about my experience of being “Always behind the camera!” and why I love scrapbooking for my family.
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October 16th, 2009 -- Posted in EZ-blog Oven, work/career |
I have 2 blog entries started with the latest scrappy/stampy projects… but I don’t want to post the hand-stamped card entry until after my hubby goes to the baby shower at work on Thursday (you just never want to spoil a surprise). And for the latest scrapbook layout, I did both sides separately so the 2nd side of the 12×12″ double-page album layout needs to have it’s photos uploaded and all that.
So in the meantime, I’ll bring you an important and much-needed blog announcement! In my exploration of life as a WAHM and savvy web mompreneur, I’ve always been open about my business activities – for the sake of honesty and transparency, but also to help other moms find out what it’s really like out for the average mommy blogger and webmaster (who is not of Dooce-caliber-fame).
It’s tough out there but I am doing my best to make something happen. You hear all the time about people earning $ from the web just doing nothing, so it absolutely infuriates me that I’ve gotten next to nowhere after a couple years of working hard to try to earn some income from my already-in-progress projects (and those couple years came after a decade of volunteer work and running websites and groups for free!!!).
If I ever get famous though, I’m taking my friends with me, dammit. I know so many talented, crafty, and hard-working women who are running their own businesses (either on their own, online or offline, or through an established Home-Sales company like Stampin’ Up or Creative Memories) and just aren’t tapping into what is promised. There’s gotta be some tips out there to help create success, and I’m on the lookout…
Here are the changes that’ve been made in the past week or so to increase privacy, but also increase website success:
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