• September is HERE! Single Blog #Win! $50 Your Way Giveaway

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    September Giveaway. Hello little Peanuts. As you can tell I’m pretty much still on vacation mode! Holy MOLY!! Vacation made me MELLLLLO!!!  I truly only want to play in my craft-room.  Walmart had Alice size t-shirts on clearance for $1.00!  Needless to say Alice has gotten a non-stop supply of t-shirts.  I imagine my daughter doesn’t have to do laundry for at least a month!!  From Harry Potter to 1st Day of School designs. My Cricut Maker machine is the BEST INVESTMENT E-V-E-R!!  I’m made stickers for my daughters car. Selena (the daughter) bought Alice plain notebooks verses the fancier ones and I sent stickers. Deer, bears, and moose. Alice requested a couple extra’s; squirrel and a weasel.  A WEASEL?!?! She’s 8! WHY a weasel?!  ANYWAY…..  stickers came out super cute and made a .10 cent notebook look fancy.  Then I printed and cut the 1st Day of School frames, words like teacher, date, grade, height, weight, what she wants to be when she grows up and a place for her to write her name. It will be fun to watch these things grow as over the years. Best part? These vinyl sayings were placed inside the frame, she can…

  • Why You Might Want To Consider Releasing Equity From Your Home

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    Releasing equity from your home is a hot topic lately. Owning your own home is one of those watershed moments in your life that tells you that you’re doing OK. When we first move away from our parents, many of us do so on a rental basis. It’s a few years later that we buy our first property – often shortly after we’ve settled down into a long-term relationship or got married. Our homes are our security, and a house we own is a place we’ve decided to stay for the long term and put down roots. If you’ve saved, sweated, and sacrificed for years to pay off the mortgage on your home and own it outright, you’re probably very proud of yourself. You’re also probably feeling less financially stressed than you used to! For many people, mortgage payments are the single largest expense we deal with every month. Once the mortgage is paid and that financial commitment is gone, our monthly expenditure drops. That means more money to spend on the things we like! For the above reasons, the idea of then charging a debt against your house again so you can release equity from it might sound counter…

  • Decorating With Canvas! AFFORDABLY!!!

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    Now, if you guys really thought I could spend 6 weeks with Alice and not create at least ONE canvas you do NOT know me at all! If you are shaking your head and asking “whaddaya mean there is only ONE” well, then you know me REALLY well! I absolutely love decorating with canvas. Check out my sweet fish. I mean my sweet Granddaughter Alice! Seriously, though she is half fish. I was in the pool more this vacation than in my entire life! Alice would live in the pool if she was allowed. (See? Vacation didn’t do my attention span any good! I still get easily distracted! Oh look! Shiny!!) My canvas is by Parrot Print and just like their tag line says they DO bring images to life!! The hardest part of ordering from Parrot Print? Deciding which picture to use! And by which picture I mean which one of Alice. I have beautiful nature pictures but my favorite subject will ALWAYS and forever be Alice! Shipping is wicked fast. My canvas arrived without a single dent, scratch or flaw. My craft-room is so bright (I know… it’s a terrible problem to have. NOT!) but, it is hard…

  • Essentials You Should Have in Your Digital Marketing Campaign

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      Businesses, especially the established ones, set aside a part of their budget for a digital marketing campaign, ad spots, billboards, radio airtime, or TV commercials to market their products or services. Of course, these options aren’t exactly cheap. These days, thanks to the Internet, the playing field has been leveled out. With the help of a reliable digital marketing strategy, even small businesses can be discovered by people from their target market––despite being previously unknown and unheard of. Generally, digital marketing strategies that work for small businesses are going to be useful in marketing campaigns of all scales. You may already have social media marketing (SMM), email marketing, content marketing, video marketing, influencer marketing, and search engine optimization (SEO) in place, but how exactly do you make sure that all of these will work in sync? Listed below are the essentials of any digital marketing campaign: A Reliable Plan Any digital marketing campaign should start with a reliable plan––or else you’re bound to get lost. At its worst, you might end up in a bad financial place if you fail to recognize that you’ve been making costly mistakes. It is indeed a terrible idea to start a campaign without…