WordPress vs. Blogger: Pros and Cons for Smaller Blogs
It was time. I couldn’t be more excited about it! After two years of blogging on Blogger and doing every step of design and redesign and tweaking myself, I’ve made the switch to WordPress and added a...
View ArticleMy Birthday Gift ~ An Investment In Myself
I’ve never been one to make a big deal about birthdays. I don’t ask for much and don’t make a big fuss. While I’m not throwing any parties for myself this year, I did ask M for something specific this...
View ArticleFrom Blogger to WordPress: Commentary 3 Months Later
The great blogger debate: Blogger vs. WordPress. There are other options, but these are really the big kids in the sandbox. After just over two years blogging my little heart out on Blogger, I made...
View ArticleBloggers, Get Organized ~ CoSchedule to the Rescue
With a full-time corporate job, I’m often asked the same question time and again. “Where do you find the time to write a blog??!” Creating Time For starters, I make time. I definitely don’t have...
View ArticleHow To: Super Easy DIY Blog Redesign in Under 3 Hours
Suffice it to say I had a really awesome Friday night last week. Because I’m Cool Like That While some might not consider sitting at my computer by myself an “awesome night,” I enjoyed every minute of...
View ArticleSo What Goes Into Sponsored Posts, Anyway?
So you’ve got a blog and you’d like to earn a little extra income for your efforts? Maybe you just love reading blogs and wonder what the heck goes into all these “sponsored posts” you’ve seen? While...
View ArticleHow To: Create Easy Video Montages For Your Family
Aren’t all those videos we take of our families on our cameras and phones so cute? We take them, watch them a few times and then seem to lose them in cyberspace (or in my case, they just consume all...
View ArticleMaking Time for the Things That Bring You Joy
Last year, while home at my parents house over Christmas, my mom asked me to clean out the last of the few boxes of my old things cluttering her basement. I obliged. In one of the boxes, I found some...
View ArticleBlogger To WordPress: Upgrading To The “Fancy Suit”
Just over a year ago, I was sitting in front of my computer Googling and “Pinteresting” (because that search tool deserves to become a verb almost as much as Google) anything I could find to help me...
View ArticleYour Happiness Hack: Dashlane Password Manager
Raise your hand if you’ve got usernames and passwords written down everywhere, emailed to yourself, scattered in your brain and sprinkled across your computer. Anyone? Anyone? Just me? No way! I know...
View ArticleBe Clean Be Green With Kids Link Up #7
Welcome to the weekly Wednesday Be Clean Be Green With Kids Link Up to share and garner ideas about simple ways to make family life a little easier, eco-conscious and sustainable. The ideas we share...
View ArticleFrom Chicago City Life to Windy Wooded Roads
This is the 11th post in The Blog Backstage series about the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How behind Honestly Modern. Periodically, I share a peek behind the scenes about how and why all the magic...
View ArticleBe Clean Be Green With Kids Link Up #8
Welcome to the weekly Wednesday Be Clean Be Green With Kids Link Up to share and garner ideas about simple ways to make family life a little easier, eco-conscious and sustainable. The ideas we share...
View ArticleBe Clean Be Green With Kids Link Up #9
Welcome to the weekly Wednesday Be Clean Be Green With Kids Link Up to share and garner ideas about simple ways to make family life a little easier, eco-conscious and sustainable. The ideas we share...
View ArticleBe Clean Be Green With Kids Link Up #10
Welcome to the weekly Wednesday Be Clean Be Green With Kids Link Up to share and garner ideas about simple ways to make family life a little easier, eco-conscious and sustainable. The ideas we share...
View ArticleBe Clean Be Green Link Up #11
Welcome to the weekly Wednesday Be Clean Be Green With Kids Link Up to share and garner ideas about simple ways to make family life a little easier, eco-conscious and sustainable. The ideas we share...
View ArticleBe Clean Be Green Link Up #12
Welcome to the weekly Wednesday Be Clean Be Green With Kids Link Up to share and garner ideas about simple ways to make family life a little easier, eco-conscious and sustainable. The ideas we share...
View ArticleBe Clean Be Green with Kids Link Up #13
Welcome to the weekly Wednesday Be Clean Be Green With Kids Link Up to share and garner ideas about simple ways to make family life a little easier, eco-conscious and sustainable. The ideas we share...
View ArticleFinding Our Groove in the ‘Burbs
This is the 12th post in The Blog Backstage series about the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How behind Honestly Modern. Periodically, I share a peek behind the scenes about how and why all the magic...
View ArticleWhy You Don’t See My Boys Faces on the Blog
This is the 13th post in The Blog Backstage series about the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How behind Honestly Modern. Periodically, I share a peek behind the scenes about how and why all the magic...
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