I will be going to a New Year’s Eve party and doing all the New Yearsy celebrating like many others. We’ll play games, eat snacks, toast at midnight,etc., but this year there’s a new game. We’re all expected to come with a list of five of our New Year’s resolutions, which we will then use … Continue reading
Posted in December 2011 …
Tech or trek…
I’m constantly struggling within myself, fighting the pull of the tech (iPhone, iPad, laptop) and the pull of the simple tech less existence I imagine… you know, the unrealistic yet appealing one where I have a garden (with deer who gaze, not graze), knit daily, make my own applesauce, and have a bathroom that sparkles … Continue reading
Yarn Along
I’ve never done a yarn along before, but I found this one on the Small Things site and thought it was a fun idea. I especially thought so because of the timing. You see, this year for Christmas I asked my husband to forego buying me gifts and instead allow me to “shop” my stash and … Continue reading
Loving the Eye-Fi to Dropbox function we set up
We like things to be easy. If they aren’t, we move on and leave the messy stuff in our dust. If you too like things to be easy, you should follow this straight-forward tutorial on how to hook up your Eye-Fi card for your camera (if you don’t know what that is, check out the link … Continue reading
How to schedule a blog post in Blogger
Sometimes the creative juices are just flowing, so you may be cranking out blogposts at some impressive post-per-minute rate. When that happens, rather than inundate your audience with 17 posts about new things you learned how to do (schedule a blog post, create columns in your blog, make taffy, create a card to be proud … Continue reading
Top Twenty-Four Apps.
In the spirit of giving at Christmas, we are giving you the gift of the top twenty-four apps all in one little list. We know… you’re welcome. You should know, though, that there was no way we were going to spend Christmas day typing a blog post (even for you), so we actually typed this … Continue reading
Day Twenty-Four. App Twenty-Four. BlogPress.
[Update]: The app is fixed an back to being awesome again! We waited as long as possible to post the review for today’s app because it was awaiting an update to make it stop crashing. That update came just a couple of days ago and one of our favorite apps is wonderful again. We are … Continue reading
Free “Does this Hat make my Head Look Fat?” Pattern
The first thing I need to tell you is that I knit this hat in less than two hours, including seaming it up… REALLY! I’m not a super duper speed knitter contestant. I just had some great big yarn and some motivation. Our heat and hot water went kaput for a chunk of the week … Continue reading
Day Twenty-Three. App Twenty-Three. HootSuite.
HootSuite is our app for today. If you don’t use Twitter or Facebook, then you can just skip this and look forward to tomorrow’s app review (see you then). However, if you have multiple Twitter accounts or want to be able to see streams from your Twitter, Facebook and Facebook Pages, Foursquare, and LinkedIn accounts … Continue reading
Day Twenty-Two. App Twenty-Two. Cards by Cardmon.
If you haven’t sent your holiday cards by now, then we have the app for you today! You can get out the cutest cards on the block in less than 3 minutes with Greeting/Holiday cards by Cardmon. We had fun this morning playing with the app and creating lovely holiday cards in no time (see … Continue reading