Make it Yours Day

Tis the season for lots of holiday projects, recipes and crafts!  What are you working on?

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1. Link up something you’ve created, crafted, cooked, etc.
2. Link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.
3. If you’re super-duper nice, you’ll put my button in your post.  Or, if you’re super nice, you’ll put a text link back to my blog in your post.  Or, if you’re simply nice, you’ll put my button somewhere on your blog.  Wouldn’t you like to be super-duper nice?   I truly appreciate you linking back here.
4. Visit the person who linked up before you.  Everyone loves comments, so please don’t just post and run.
5. Thanks for playing nice.  Now go have fun!

Make it Yours Highlights

Thanks for linking up last week!  Here are a few of my favorites:

Something tasty: 

Caramel Applesauce Cake from My Little Blogspot.

Something Pretty:

Cranberry Centerpieces from Cherished Bliss.

Something Festive:

Rick Rack Christmas Trees from A Pumpkin and a Princess.

Something Fun:

Outdoor Christmas Garland from Creative Passage.

Looking forward to seeing what you have to share at Make it Yours day on Wednesday!

Sunday Sweepstakes Linkup

Got a giveaway going on?  Link it up here!

Facebook Tips to Grow your Blog or Business

Are you on Facebook? I’ve had a personal Facebook profile for a while. I’m definitely not one of these people with thousands of friends – I pretty much only friend and accept friend requests from people I actually know in person and want to stay in touch with.

But when I started my business so many people said, “OMG, you simply must have a Facebook presence for your business!” So I created a business page.

But then it pretty much just sat there neglected and alone because I really didn’t know what I was supposed to do with it, how to leverage Facebook for my business or even how to do some pretty simple things on my biz page.

Enter Karen Clark of My Business Presence.

I first heard Karen on a teleseminar that she did for The Mind Aware about Facebook and how you can use it to build the online presence for your business.

Karen is an expert in all things social media related. She knows her stuff: Facebook, Twitter, Linked in…you name it.

Here are just a couple of things I learned from Karen:

• Did you know that social media websites (like your Facebook business page) can show up higher in search engine rankings than your blog or website? And a Facebook page is a whole lot easier to set up and maintain than a blog or website to boot.
• With 750 million Facebook users, there is a huge chance that some of them just may be your perfect customer or reader of your blog. What an opportunity.
• How to drive people to your Facebook business page from your Facebook personal profile.
• How to improve the odds of Google and other search engines finding your business page.
• One of the most important things I learned from Karen was an easy method to work Facebook in a way that is efficient and helpful to your business without being a major time sink hole.

If you’re looking for a way to build the online presence for your business or blog, I highly recommend Karen Clark at My Business Presence. On her website, you’ll also find free tutorials, reports and videos on how to help build your online presence. Go check it out!

Do you have a Facebook page for your blog or business?

Linking up to Tatertots and Jello’s Weekend Wrapup Party!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I just love Pinterest.  I swear I could spend hours scrolling through the gorgeous images.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Make it Yours

Happy Thanksgiving!  What do you have going on this week?

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Please Play By These Rules.

1. Link up something you’ve created, crafted, cooked, etc.
2. Link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.
3. If you’re super-duper nice, you’ll put my button in your post.  Or, if you’re super nice, you’ll put a text link back to my blog in your post.  Or, if you’re simply nice, you’ll put my button somewhere on your blog.  Wouldn’t you like to be super-duper nice?   I truly appreciate you linking back here.
4. Visit the person who linked up before you.  Everyone loves comments, so please don’t just post and run.
5. Thanks for playing nice.  Now go have fun!

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Easy Thanksgiving Centerpiece

This is a repeat of a popular post from last fall…Happy Thanksgiving Week!

Inspired by the most recent Woman’s Day magazine cover, I made myself a festive fall centerpiece.  These are some of the monsters I grew in my garden this year.  I had these overgrown summer squash displayed with my pumpkins for Halloween, but I thought they could use a little spiffing up for Thanksgiving.  All it took was a little bit of paint.First, I sprayed them with white paint.  Then, using a brush, I painted the stems gold.  Finally, I splattered on a little more gold paint.   I really like the natural look of the twisty stems.   

What’s on your table this fall season?

Make it Yours Day

Thank you all for hanging with me while I was AWOL!  We had 50+ projects linked up which was way more than I had hoped for.  

I love this time of year!  So many great ideas to try!  What have you been working on?

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Please Play By These Rules.

1. Link up something you’ve created, crafted, cooked, etc.
2. Link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.
3. If you’re super-duper nice, you’ll put my button in your post.  Or, if you’re super nice, you’ll put a text link back to my blog in your post.  Or, if you’re simply nice, you’ll put my button somewhere on your blog.  Wouldn’t you like to be super-duper nice?   I truly appreciate you linking back here.
4. Visit the person who linked up before you.  Everyone loves comments, so please don’t just post and run.
5. Thanks for playing nice.  Now go have fun!