Blogging Tips

Hi all. Long time... As you may have noticed from my lack of posts, I've been having a severe case of Bloggers Block. I don't know if it's due to lack of time, motivation or the fact that my allergies have gotten worse and I now seem to be allergic to just about every type of tree out there. Not good if you live in the Pacific Northwest!

I was checking out Google+ Communities and came across The Blog Hangout. It has everything from How-To's to Linky Parties to Blogging Tips.
Anyway, I was going through the community to pick up some tips and noticed some blogs use Bloglovin to keep track of all the blogs they're following. Well, I think I will give it a try and see if it gets me out of my rut and into more regular posting by picking up tips from other blogs. If you're on Bloglovin too, let me know in the comments and I'll check out your blog.
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How I Get Icing in Those Little Bottles - Starting Today

If I had seen this tip yesterday, I could have saved an awful lot of cleanup time. This is one of those ingeniously simple tips that when you see it you'll do a face-palm for not thinking of this yourself.
Of course, I was in too much of a hurry to start decorating my first official Christmas Cookie batch, that I didn't stop to get organized. Well, I thought I was pretty organized; I had my icing ready, several bowls with colored outline and fill-icing and all the little bottles ready to go. What took f.o.r.e.v.e.r was trying to get all the icing into the itty bitty bottle openings--not to mention the cleanup afterwards. That's were this awesome tip from The bearfoot baker comes in. Like I said--genius! Here is the link: How I Get Icing in Those Little Bottles:

Anyway, I'm sure I could have a ton of time from decorating the Peppermint Candy Cookies. Even though I only used three colors, I had Katie help, so we needed everything times two. But now I know and next time will be better--if I manage to remember to actually put this little gem to use. ^__*

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Color Spots June 3, 2012

A Color Spot using a quick picture I took of some garlic -- right before I chopped it up for dinner :)

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