August 2008

When Did A Snail Replace My Computer?

August 29, 2008 1 comment

So, I must say that the last month or so has been extremely frustrating for me. My computer has been running at a snail’s pace and locks up on me constantly. Anything I was working on was lost to the great abyss. When you work at home from your computer, that’s not good. Not good at all. The other evening I asked my husband if he had a hammer upstairs. He asked me, “What do you [...]

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Personalized Keepsake Artwork

August 27, 2008 2 comments

Earlier this week I came across an interesting business success story on Entrepreneur.com. “Spelling Out Success“ is about a young couple who took a game they played with their children and turned it into a multi-million dollar business. Sticks and Stones takes pictures of items found in nature that make letter shapes. They take the different letter pictures and frame them together to spell out your custom name or message. Christmas is coming up and I think [...]

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Top 50 Recipe Blogs 2008

August 23, 2008 37 comments

After a few months of this blog being open, I realize that most of my readers are interested in recipes as much as I am. So I decided to scour the web to bring you this list of 50 of the most awesome recipe/cooking blogs that I can find. On these recipe blogs, you will find some of the most creative recipes around. I limited the recipe blogs to ones that offer the most unique and uncommon [...]

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Little Profits Prompt Me To Temporarily Close My Candle Business

August 14, 2008 2 comments

As you may know, I have been making and selling candles online and locally for the past 4 years now. With the increasing rates of raw materials and fuel, sales dropped dramatically and I have made the choice to close down my small business operation temporarily. As a side hobby I have started this blog and I also contribute to another small business blog, Small Business CEO. Last week I wrote my first article over there, [...]

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Fudgie Chocolate Cake Cookies

August 4, 2008 1 comment

This past weekend I tried a new cookie recipe that I found in my Taste of Home baking book. I bought this giant recipe book at Sam’s Club and it has over 400 pages and 100′s of recipes. This particular recipe is found on page 26 under German Chocolate Cookies. It is also found on their website, click here. I renamed my cookies because the recipe calls for a german chocolate cake mix but I used a [...]

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Would You Like To Win A Brand New HP All-In-One Printer?

August 1, 2008 0 comments

Small Business Trends is having a drawing to win a brand new HP Office Jet Pro 7780 All-in-One printer. All you have to do is take a super quick survey to enter to win. The drawing is only available to U.S. residents and ends 8/8/2008. I already entered and it took me maybe 2 minutes to do so. Fingers crossed, I hope I win! Click here to enter.

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