How to Beef Up Your Security on Facebook

Do you know what information you are sharing with your friends through your Facebook profile? Have you viewed your page as a visitor so you know what the public can view when landing on your profile? We're going to walk you through the Privacy Checkup which Facebook recently launched on the desktop, and guide you through how to secure your Facebook … [Read More...]

How to Create a Pinnable Photo

Learning how to create a pinnable photo is the first step in using Pinterest as a tool for generating traffic to your blog. I find it consistently ranks as my #2 source of traffic after Google searches.  Making sure your images are optimized for Pinterest lets you take advantage of all that this fabulous platform has to offer. How to Create a … [Read More...]

Tea Towel Embroidery

There is so much going on with Back-to-School, I really wanted a craft to work on in the evenings. I finally decided to pull out some embroidery. If you haven't tried your hand at embroidery, I highly recommend it! It doesn't take many supplies to get started but adds a lovely personalized touch to anything from pillow cases to linen napkins. The … [Read More...]

The 5 WordPress Plug-ins You Must Have

My first "proper" blog was on Blogger. I say proper because I used to have a blog on something called Maxpages and it was a hot mess! When I started my blog, I signed up with Blogger because it was really easy to use. I didn't have to know anything about coding and the little HTML that I knew I could put to use.  WordPress seemed like something … [Read More...]

How to get rid of writer's block

How to Banish Writer’s Block

As a blogger, your time and attention is constantly torn. You have social media accounts to engage on and grow, traffic to monitor, correspondence to maintain, editorial calendars to create, deadlines to meet and accounting to follow through.  Writer's block happens when you sit down at the computer and have absolutely no idea what to write. … [Read More...]