Sunday, February 24, 2013

A Marvelous Mess Party~ Link Up Your Craftiness!

I hope you all had a lovely Valentines Day!!!
Mine was simple and fun..... there are so many crafts you can do around Valentine's Day and the kids at the library just love crafting. 

Here is a fave of mine from the party:

Lemon Cupcakes from Pinkie for Pink. There is something about sweet lemon desserts that just completely quenches my sweet tooth..... and that is saying A LOT.  These cupcakes look delicious. 

I just recently made a wool roving cupcake for a co-worker as a present. I can make these cupcakes in any style you'd like.......  
You can find it on my Etsy Shop HERE.
*smile*

Enough promoting..... on to the party!!!!!



Tuesday, February 19, 2013

How Can You Benefit By Hosting a Promotional Giveaway?

How Can You Benefit By Hosting A Promotional Giveaway?
If you want to ensure that your blog remains or becomes popular, with many people coming in to visit it, one of the best ways of doing so is by organizing promotional giveaways. These types of giveaways are sure to attract a high traffic and will also help make your blog more popular and versatile.
What Are Giveaways?
If you are a relatively new blogger, you may not know what a giveaway is. Free giveaways are small contests that are organized by bloggers. They aim at increasing awareness and publicity. You can ask people to like your page, post comments, interact and also give your opinions, whether you are promoting a product or just doing a giveaway for your readers. After people have entered into your giveaway and left comments, you can randomly pick a winner and send them their prize.

Having a promotional giveaway can come in handy for your business as well.  A lot of bloggers use this type of platform for the sake of promoting their own business. So, if you too have a business you’d like to promote, these types of giveaways will not only improve your blog traffic, but at the same time will also benefit your business as well.
To learn about different giveaways, try and explore the different details that blogging giveaways need to include. There have been a lot of successful giveaways on various blogs and when you organize one, you need to keep all of your details at hand. Whether you use a site like Rafflecopter, or just list the rules on your blog, it still takes a lot of planning.
Setting up a Giveaway
There’s no doubt that when an individual receives a free parcel and they love your product, they are more likely to buy it the next time around. If the product they receive is not business oriented, you still will have benefits. You will most likely receive a great reader who will be more inclined to visit your blog consistently after the giveaway. This doesn’t mean you should slack on your content, however, because it’s important to have a quality blog that’s great for both giveaways and offering important tips and information. Before hosting a giveaway for yourself or for a company, be sure that you have all the information needed.

Bloggers who have hosted giveaways, depending on what they giveaway, usually boost their traffic rate immensely due to the visits and interaction they receive. Once you excite and entertain people enough to make them participate in a giveaway, you are sure to notice the difference on your blog. Also, if you host a giveaway that seems to work for your readers, do a similar one in the future!
A blog is successful only when you have an interacting community where fellow bloggers enjoy participating in different posts and engage in conversation. So, by hosting promotional giveaways, you can promote your business or another company and make your blogging platform successful and productive. Keep in mind as you become an experienced blogger that there are other ways to bring more traffic to your site, but giveaways are one of the most tried and popular methods to achieve consistent readers.
About the Author: Corinne is a relatively new blogger who is beginning to understand the ropes of giveaways. She thinks that giving away promotional keyHYPERLINK "http://www.underabuck.com/" HYPERLINK "http://www.underabuck.com/"chains is another great way to increase interaction on her blog!

Saturday, February 9, 2013

The Blizzard of 2013!

We're in the orange blizzard zone on this map. :-) It is definitely accurate.....the wind is zooming around our house right now and the snow hasn't stopped since Friday morning. Not to mention hurricane force winds and combined with a temperature in the teens, so we've got a below zero wind chill. 

I love a good storm. 
So does Buddy:
This is what the snow was like on Friday afternoon; maybe 3 inches and very powedery.
When we woke up this morning:

We tried taking Chloe out. But, Boston Terriers do not appreciate cold Maine winters or Blizzards for that matter. She tried to play. Kind of.
But soon found herself staring longingly at the door. 

We let her in and made her a bed by the cookstove. We've had it going since yesterday morning. 


Our Buddsies love's the snow. In fact, that's how he spent most of today. 
Running through feet of snow, pouncing on snow banks, disappearing in all the white.....

 of the Blizzard of 2013.
Stay safe and warm friends!!!!!

Here is the latest party!!!!!!