Current Web Readings

Video
You have to have a FB account to view this video, but it is really good.

Storybook Woods
I think I have shared this blog here before. It is wonderful! So with Autumn FINALLY here, this blog is sure to have some great posts and beautiful pictures!

Change Your Facebook Privacy Settings to KEEP PRIVATE

Great idea for organizing!
Clever Ideas to Declutter

The Best Camera iPhone app
This is TOTALLY AWESOME!! I read about it first on Scott Kelby's blog (yeah, I know I am no professional photographer, but still like to learn to be the best I can be). I want me an iPhone SO BAD so I can get me this app!!! :D I am thinking of buying it for my hubby for Christmas! :D

Wraps Per Inch
How to determine the weight of yarn if the label does not say or is missing.

What's UP???

So I realized today that I have been posting a LOT of stuff on my Facebook page and next to nothing here. I think part of it is because I get feedback on my Facebook page. People thank me for sharing a link or a thought.

I realize that most of the people who even take the time to read my blog are probably like me - they LOVE to read, but have so little time to respond. Especially when you can't just click a "like" button, or comment on the page you are on and click submit. Blogger (like most blog interfaces) makes you jump through hoops to comment.

But it feels so GOOD to have FEEDBACK. To know that you are not just doing this for yourself. Although, to be honest, I am doing this blog for MOSTLY myself. Hence, this post.

I realized that while I am getting feedback on Facebook (and it feels so good to feel appreciated!), I am not able to search through my past Facebook posts. At least not easily like I am able to on my blog. So all those great thoughts and quotes that I put on my Facebook account are long lost in a see of sharings.

So here I am. To share in a way that I can search through at a later time. And if I do post something that is in someway helpful to someone else, that is comfort enough. Why do I need the appreciation? Can it not be sufficient that I have helped someone without knowing it? I clean and cook and make sure the children are fed and clothed .. and I do not do that for appreciation. But I know one day I will face the Lord, and He knows and I am sure appreciates how I care for His children.

CHECK IT OUT

Ok, first, look up in the URL! There is now a cute quilted heart there!!!

Thanks to Ayumills for the tutorial on how to do it!!!

The link above also goes to some AWESOME tutorials. LOTS of time to look through. There are some cute sewing projects there too!!

If You Can't See This... Hello Nick! :)

I have sitemeter on my blog, which allows me to see where people who are visiting my blog are coming from (referring URL as well as city and server they are using). This is mostly for the safety of my family. I like being able to share pictures and the goings on in my day. And if someone is going to access my page, I have a right to know how they got here.

I mostly set up sitemeter on my blog to know what search words people were using to access my blog. If it was something inappropriate, I want to know, so I can change the wording to prevent my site from coming up in search engines for that phrase or those words.

Recently I have been getting hits on my site from an unknown source. Someone is preventing themselves from being known. And it was linked back to an adult site.

So my super genius beloved created a program that prevents them from accessing my page.

Unfortunately, it also prevents those who do not have JavaScript enabled from seeing my page as well. I might lose a few readers, but the safety of my family is more important.

If you have any questions about this, please let me know. I will be happy to talk to you.

So know that unknown user will enjoy being sent to Nick Jr instead of whatever he might have been up to here.