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I spend a lot of my time with my girls and pups taking pictures, which we post in blogs and on flickr. The joy of digital cameras is that you can delete the bad pictures, and crop the images so that the pics you select are exactly what you want to share with your [...]

Isn’t the quote “You can never be too rich or have too many friends?” I completely agree about the friends piece, but if you aren’t rich, you can never have too many coupons! There may be quite a few great coupon and deal sites online, but it’s always a good thing to have [...]

I love 1800 Flowers.com. I’ve used them to send presents to all the mothers & grandmothers in our lives, and every present has been happily received. I’ve also been the recipient of gifts from 1800 Flowers.com, and have been thrilled with the quality of the flowers and gifts each time.
I’m not a big [...]

When we were looking at buying a home in Austin 6 years ago, things were different. The dot-com bubble hadn’t burst, home prices hadn’t risen, it was a seller’s market, and the foreclosure rate wasn’t so high. The information we learned then isn’t applicable now.
Thankfully, you can find just about anything [...]

Our oldest daughter is kicking my husband out of his computer room and taking it over as her bedroom. This is happening much slower than she would prefer, but she’s thrilled that it’s happening at all. Because BG is our fashionista child, she has been thinking a lot about design and poring over [...]

When someone says the words “Accident Compensation“, people think of our overly-litigious society, and often of someone getting money that isn’t deserved. While this can be accurate, it isn’t always.
My husband was the passenger in a car accident that left him with whiplash. We didn’t want to sue, thinking that his neck pain [...]

Are you a foodie? Do you consider photographs in cookbooks drool-worthy? Have you ever used the world “food porn”? Do you take pictures of your meals? Do you snub your nose at anything that isn’t made from scratch?
If so, you’ll want to check out www.foodconnect.com. Food Connect is a new [...]

Winter in New England, especially February weather, is dreary. While I dream of cruises to Alaska in the summer, in the winter I’m all about going on a Hawaii travel cruise! The folks at Travel Store USA make it easy to compare the prices of different cruise lines, and then arrange flights and [...]

Last fall I needed to find a new host for my 4 blogs. My website had previously been hosted by a friend, and something suddenly happened which meant that my blogs went down without warning and I had no way of knowing when they might come back up. I was very upset, and [...]

Valentines Day is coming, so the people of the world are thinking of sending flowers to their loved ones. There are an incredible number of companies set up for flower sending online, but not all of them have good products. We have received a lot of beautiful flowers from 1-800-flowers, and they have [...]