I am a big reader and I don’t know that I have read a book that has changed my views on anything. I have read a lot of books that have opened my eyes to things but not changed my views. Right now I am reading Dog The Bounty Hunters first book. I am amazed by how much he has gone through and yet still has his faith. So it has made me realize that I need to be strong in my own faith even when life totally sucks for me.
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Month: August 2010
Check This Contest Out
The girl that designed my blogs is having a launch party for her business! Everyone should drop by and check it out! She does a great job and she has tons of cool prizes!
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From Wacky Jacqui’s Designs:
I am going to have a week long launch party event. I finally have a launch date for my website and I’m excited. There will be prizes given out by me and 25% off my 2 largest packages. This event will be from August 23rd to August 30th.
Now on to the prizes I will be giving to lucky winners.
3 winners- Custom Made Buttons
2 winners- Pre-made Design Package
1 Winner- Animated Header
2 Winners- I Heart Blogging Package
3 Winners- Custom Made Twitter Background
GRAND PRIZE-
A Blog make over that include everything I can do.
• 2 or 3 column design
• Custom background
• Custom header (basic or animated)
• Matching font color
• Sidebar titles (unlimited)
• Custom signature
• Custom post divider
• Social network icons (unlimited)
• Convert to a 3 column layout (if needed)
• Custom blog button (2 included)
• Matching profile picture
• Navigation bar with text or images
• Matching twitter background
• Favicon
• Deletion of Blogger navigation bar if desired
• Installation
Total of 12 prizes to giveaway.
Rules to enter:
Mandatory Entry- Follow this blog. You can only enter each prize only once AND you must write a post about the prize you want to win in order to enter. You must include the link back to the post you wrote about. Make sure you leave your E-mail so I can contact you.
-Sorry no multiple entries-
Please help spread the word for this event I am hoping this will bring me more traffic and more business. If you would like to donate any prizes to this event please let me know at Jacquisdesigns@gmail.com
Want learn more about Jacqui? Keep reading to hear what she has to say:
1.) What got you interested in Blog Design?
What got me interested is that I couldn’t find any “pre-made” designs out there that I liked for my blogs so I started to create my own. I started to learn the HTML of it all and got to work on creating my own designs. soon after I started to do little designs for blogger friends and it just took off from there. One of the people I was creating for told that I should start my own business. From then on I have been working on it.
2.) What kinds of things will be happening during your launch party?
Prizes, 12 Prizes will be given away: Buttons, Animated Headers, some packages and i will be giving away as a grand prize “Every thing I Can Do” blog re-design package.
also if you would like to purchase any of my 2 largest packages within the week of my launch party they will be 25% off.
3.) What is the one thing that you would like your potential clients know?
As of right now I’m only doing blogger blogs. WordPress will come soon but I want to learn everything about blogger designs before I start on WordPress.
I make fresh and clean designs, I want to make your blog to look amazing. I don’t mess with the template much so your page will not take forever to load like other designers layouts do. If you mess with the codes in the template a lot, or have a really complicated template installed your page will load really slow, and readers do not like that. they want to go on to your blog and read not have to wait 1-3 minutes for your whole page to load.
I DO NOT ask for your Blogger password at all during the design process. I don’t not feel comfortable giving my password out to anyone so I would not ask you to do the same. I know that people contact me about this and when I tell them that I don’t need the password to install the design they are shocked since all the other designers ask for it. From what I have seen with other designer sites are that I’m the only one that doesn’t ask for your password. (and I’m the cheapest and I give you a whole lot for bang for your buck).
I will make your blog look the way you want, I will involve you into the process also. I will send you everything little thing i create for your approval, if you don’t like the font i will change it. if you do like it at all I will create something that you are happy with. after I have installed your design and let say a month passes by and you want me to change the font or want it to say something else I will change it for you at no cost to you. I want to make you the buyer happy no matter what.
4.) What should potential clients know before contacting a blog designer? Before contacting a blog designer you should know what you want, and the feel you want for you blog. so you want it to reflex what you blog about (being a stay at home mom, giveaways, hobby’s) ; do you want it to have a certain theme (stars, clouds, flowers); and what colors do you want it to have. If you don’t know what you want or any ideas you have for your blog I will help you in any way I can, I’ll try to get ideas from what you already have as a blog design or what you write about.
You should feel 100% comfortable with the designer before you purchase and ask questions if you have any before buying.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
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My Poor Knee’s
I am going to be starting again where I left off when it comes to the 30 days of truth. I haven’t done it in a few days but I am getting back on the bandwagon but today I am going to post pictures of what happened yesterday when my legs decided to stop working and I fell.
Those are the best pictures but lets just say they are killing me and so sore. I had a hard time sleeping because every time I would turn over or the blanket would rub up against it I would wake up. The left one is super swollen and is the most painful. The MS makes my legs just give out and stop working. A lot of people with MS use wheel chairs because you never know when your legs are going to stopping working. To top it all off I ruined my favorite pair of jeans!!!!!!!
Guest Post Friday
Editors Note: Melissa is an amazing person. I have gone through some of the things she has and her blog really helps out. It helps me see that I am not the only one that goes through what I am going through. This post today funny enough is something I need to hear and yet I just asked her to write about whatever she wanted to write about. I invited her to post once a week if she feels up to it so this is her first post! I hope you all enjoy her as much as I do!
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Since this is my first time guest posting over here, I thought I would introduce myself. My name is Melissa Mashburn and I blog over at Sugar Filled Emotions. I am very excited about Margaret giving me the opportunity to guest post on her site. I have gotten to know her on Twitter and my life is that much more blessed by having her in it.
“Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.”
Wilfred Peterson
The most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself. Most of us have heard something similar to this at some point in our lives. Yet, how seriously did we actually take it? I know I gave little to no thought to the notion of loving myself for most of my life.
What does it actually mean to love yourself? I believe that loving yourself is not really so much of a feeling as it is a decrease in self doubt, self loathing, and unforgiveness of yourself. Loving yourself means that you take your well being seriously. Doing the necessary and practical things that you need to do to take care of yourself.
It seems simple. Yet, so many of us find it so difficult. We are hard on ourselves. We dislike who we are. We do not think we are worthy of anything good, and we find it impossible to forgive ourselves, even when we have done nothing wrong. When we have a poor relationship with ourselves it taints our other relationships.
People who have a healthy amount of love for themselves usually have certain characteristics:
- They tend to focus on feeling good.
- They allow themselves to feel happy and enjoy sharing it with other people
- They treat themselves well.
- They do not allow others to mistreat them.
- They are caring and supportive of others, because it makes them feel good too.
- They put themselves first so they can better take care of family and friends.
- They find a quote, motto or thought that resonates with them and practice it. (I made my own personal motto)
- They allow themselves to succeed.
Developing love for yourself can start with something as simple as having the intention (desire) to love yourself more. However, at some point after you gain that desire, it will become necessary to follow it up with some action. It does not have to be anything big or drastic. In my opinion, baby steps work the best, especially if you are anything like me and have spent the better part of your life not loving yourself.
One of the first things I did when I was learning how to love myself was to take some pictures of myself to share with others. For the last few years, I have hated how I looked. I disliked having any pictures taken of me, and there was no way I would post an accurate picture of myself even on Facebook. I thought I was clever in the way I got around having to do it. I would just post old childhood pictures. The time came when I decided to take a chance and let everyone “see” the real me. I knew that it would be impossible for me to like any serious picture of me, so my daughter and I worked together to create the silliest pictures we could. Being silly with my daughter allowed me to be more comfortable with the whole picture taking process, and also put me more at ease when it came to choosing one to show the world. It made me feel good to accomplish that.
Some suggestions for you to try when learning how to love yourself are:
- Acknowledge when you accomplish something, even something small, and praise yourself for it.
- Write yourself “love notes”. These can be notes to yourself, inspiration quotes, anything that makes you feel good. Put them in places where you will see them and read them throughout the day. My favorite places are my bathroom mirror and the front door.
- Take some time for you. Even if it is only 15 minutes, make clear that this is time for you. Read, take a bath, talk to yourself, thinking about nothing….
- Find ways to reward yourself daily.
- Nurture yourself.
- Focus on solutions rather than worrying about the problem. Being proactive in solving your own problems really does make you feel good about yourself.
- Replace any negative thoughts with positives ones. Or at the very least, when you have a negative thought, immediately follow it with a positive thought. I try and find at least three positive things about every situation.
- Allow yourself to succeed.
Who you are is more important than what you are. You are valuable and nothing can change that.
Day 16- Something or Someone I Could Live Without & Writers Workshop
This week I chose #1 which is Dear Mommy and/or Daddy…(write a letter to yourself from one of your children). Since I don’t have human kids I am going to write a letter to myself from my girls(cats). Enjoy! Let me know what you think of it!
Dear Mom,
Sylvia and I have a few demands that must be met or we are going to raise up and have a rebellion. First we need more catnip! We are not getting enough of it a day and it is a total joke that you expect us to share it! You should know by now that cats DO NOT SHARE ANYTHING!!!!!! Hell we can’t even share the bed at night let alone our weed! Secondly we need you to sleep somewhere else so that we can properly stretch out on the bed at night. There is no need for you sleep in that bed. So it would be greatly appreciated if you would relocate to a different spot at night. Lastly we also need you to not wake us up when you get back from where ever you are all day. We need our 20 hours of beauty rest and we don’t get that if you wake us up when you get home!
We would like you fix these problems ASAP!
Love
Elinore & Sylvia
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This topic is easy! I can sum it up with one name Josh my husband!!!!