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by on July 6, 2008 in Blog, Off Topic

I’m going to blog just one time about web design, don’t worry I won’t spam anyone with this again! :D

If you’re interested in a custom WordPress blog on your own domain, check out my business site: www.amywilliamsdesign.com

If you choose one of the hosting plans on the Hosting Plans page, I’ll do your blog for $200. Using another host or one you already have, $250.  You just have to let me know what you want your header to look like, what colors you prefer, and if you want a 1, 2 or 3 column layout. If you want any pictures used in the header or elsewhere on the template, just send me those. I’ll also include up to 5 plugins installed, activated and customized as needed! In 2 weeks or less (you’ll need to be available by email daily for design feedback) you’ll have an installed and customized WordPress blog ready for you to share your wisdom to the internet =) I’ll also transfer all your posts and comments over to your new blog so you lose nothing!

To get this offer, fill out a quote request and put “MOVING FUNDS OFFER” in the Additional comments and questions space. Yes, all this income (and most of my other design income) is going directly to savings to help us find and get a new place to live this fall.

I’m it!

by on June 23, 2008 in Blog, Off Topic

I’ve been tagged! By Compostings

Blogging tag games are a good thing – better than the traditional chain letter. Usually, in a chain letter, the sender threatens you with some kind of imagined “bad luck” or curse if you do not forward the chain letter. Those kinds of things are stupid. But blog tagging is a nice way to create traffic and awareness for your blog and for others and there is no hooey associated with it. Here are the rules:

  • Link to the person who tagged you.
  • Post the rules on the blog.
  • Write six random things about yourself.
  • Tag six people at the end of your post.
  • Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
  • Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Here are my six random things:

  1. I dye my hair to keep it red – I had fiery red hair until I started having kids, with each one it goes more brown. I’m still a redhead at heart with a redhead complexion, so I dye. Chemicals and all.
  2. I’m allergic to most my favorite foods – if I love it, it gives me a migraine, including strawberries (no, I can’t eat any of that jam I made! It’s for the kids so I can keep dyes and high fructose corn syrup away from them.)
  3. I’d dump my husband in a second for Will Smith :drool
  4. I don’t actually want to “be” a web designer. If I hadn’t had kids, I’d be an archeologist, probably specializing in Mayan and Egyptian cultures. Maybe if I ever get rich and get my student loans out of default and the kids are grown, I’ll do that. Yeah right!
  5. I’m having a hard time thinking of 6 random things so I’m using this one as one :p
  6. I can’t wait for the Stargate Worlds MMO to come out. Hoping I get into beta.

And here are the people I am tagging:

Double Danger

Gardening in Suburbia

Little Beach Homestead

Not So Crafty

Alberta Home Gardening

Oklahoma Grown Veg

A hearty serving of spam

by on June 10, 2008 in Blog

I had to blacklist a lot of porn and medical phrases and add a anti-spam spot to the comments form, just this morning I had 25 comments that had to be zapped  :irked: Please, please use the “Contact Me” link over to the right if you have any problems submitting a comment. I love them! I don’t love the nasty porn crap I got subjected to this morning however (to be clear, I’m not anti-porn…but this stuff is nasty) and the medical stuff is annoying. I don’t have erectile dysfunction. Lots of other dysfunctions, but not that one! ;)

garden-of-eatin.com

by on May 25, 2008 in Blog

Moving over… gradually getting it done, but all the posts and comments are here now, and all new gardening posts will be made here, not on the blogger blog. Thank you for reading!!

Note about images: Posts older then this one with images will not open up their images to full size.

Quizzicals

by on May 8, 2008 in Blog

I Am Cilantro
The bad news is that there are
some people who can’t stand you.
The good news is that most people love
you more than anything else in the world.
You are distinct, unusual, fresh, and very controversial.
And you wouldn’t have it any other way.
What Spice Are You?

This one is cracking me up:

I am a Lemon

You have a very distinct personality. And if you’re
not being sweet, you’re a little hard to take.
You’re a bit overpowering, especially
in one on one situations.
And while you are very dominant, sometimes
your power is needed and appreciated.
You can liven up a dull situation, and you
definitely bring a fresh outlook.
You are a bit of an acquired taste, and
you tend to grow on people over time.
People feel refreshed and rejuvenated
after spending time with you.
What Type of Fruit Are You?

I am a
Canna


What Flower
Are You?

Place to go on the web

by on May 7, 2008 in Blog

Blotanical. A clever mix of blog and botanical (er, right?). Here I am finding a whole bunch of awesome gardening blogs and meeting a whole bunch of awesome gardening peoples (I like the words peoples. Don’t ask me why, I don’t know), and learning a whole bunch of gardening ideas, tips, tricks and stuff.

The points system is set up pretty well to give folks an incentive to visit other’s blogs, leave comments, pick good posts and even log in. The whole set up is actually well done, though being able to view people’s plots from “Picks” list pages would be handy. I have a hard time adding people’s blogs to my favorites when I find them through the Picks system. Same with the “Most Favorited Blogs” page. But over all, a minor frustration. From a graphic/web designer’s viewpoint, the page isn’t so zen/feng shui on my 1680 wide screen, but that’s not even a frustration, just a matter of aesthetics. No annoying flashing, easy on the eyes colors. I think you can join without a blog, to participate as a member, but I’m not sure on that. A forum might be nice, but I don’t know if it would add to or take away from the community-ness of it all.

Garden of Eatin’

by on May 2, 2008 in Blog

I changed the name of the blog. There’s a little place on I15 going between Idaho Falls and Pocatello with this big beautiful garden and a sign: Garden of Eatin’. I just remembered that I always wanted that sign on my garden (it’s been over a year since we moved from Idaho) so I figured my garden blog name is the next best thing.

Plants still aren’t looking great. The strawberries are still growing and that is really making me think transplant shock. I have plenty of seeds to start over, and quite a few beefsteak and roma plants still inside…time will tell if I’ll have to start some or all of them over. I have come to the knowledge that complete and proper hardening off is important!!