Hi Memo,

I've been blogging for less than a year. Now that I'm retired, I have found that I missed writing. I was in marketing(product management and process consulting) for a software company. So, I started writing about my garden, writing about how we built our house and our recent trip to Tuscany. I decided to make my blogs about tips and sharing my experiences. That's the mentor in me, another role that I played when I was in a corporate environment.

You can start with my gardening blog and link to my other blogs from there.

The house building blog started as a book, but when I saw the publishing charges for all of the photos and drawings that I wanted to have in full color, I decided to move all of my writing to the blog in small segments instead of long chapters.

Cameron

Here is a link that might be useful: Defining Your Home Garden

Cameron, Thanks for the links. Your blogs are fascinating and very well laid out (of course, since you are a professional) I have a lot more reading to do before I get through all of them but I am enjoying your writings. I now have them tucked away in my "Cottage Friends Blogs" file.

MeMo

Oh, thanks for starting this thread! I started blogging a short time ago. Has some 'issues' with blogger, but finally figured it out. Back in business. Yippee!

The theme of mine is creativity. Occasionally I post about gardening, but every post includes a garden photo.

I look forward to reading your blog, as well as those of everyone else.

Here is a link that might be useful: Creative Soul

A friend on another forum who has recently started blogging, said she has a "test blog". Now when she wants to rearrange or change HTML code or whatever, she does it on the test blog first so she doesn't mess up her real blog! Sounds like it's maybe the thing to do eh?

MeMo

You can leave your blog in draft, but you can't see how it really looks until you publish. The test blog sounds like a good idea. I find I have better control using HTML than the Compose editor.

Cameron

Memo, great blog and I love the name Quilted Hills.

How's the goose doing? Poor little guy, perhaps he/she needs to see a vet otherwise the legs won't heal right. Must be in a great deal of pain, God love him.

Edna

Edna, The goose is doing well. He's starting to move around a bit, enough to keep spilling his food and water or getting too far from it to reach it. I keep a close eye on him. Rick looked him over pretty good and he said he'll heal. I guess he knows more than I do but I still feel awful that it even happened. Thanks for caring.

Thanks also for dropping by to check out my blog, Edna. I hope you'll stop in again.

MeMo

Yay! Fellow cottage bloggers! Thanks for starting this thread Memo. I'll have to add you all to my list. I've been blogging for a few years now. But I keep switching hosts so I have to start my blog anew each time.

Here's mine:
Who Is Tracy?

Tracy

Awesome Tracy! I left you a comment ;)

I thought about that when I started on Blogger (what if I hate this template and site?) but I just went ahead and started and so far it's going great.

MeMo

Hey all bloggers, if you want a GREAT, FREE photo editing software you must must must try PhotoScape. It is so incredibly easy to use. Start at view. Click your image to bring it up into the main tray. Do your changes down at the bottom. It has unlimited undo. When you get it like you want it just click save and it will save to your hard drive in JPG. Then you can just grab it while you're in blogger directly from your hard drive. To add text and other very cool things like frames, texture etc to your pictures it's just a matter of clicking or typing it's that easy! I tried several photo editing sites to do my Header and what a PIA. This was so simple and I'm so happy! Just thought I'd pass it on.

Check out my new header!
http://quiltedhills.blogspot.com

MeMo - who is going back to play with it some more!

Here is a link that might be useful: PhotoScape Free Download

I use The GIMP and have been using it for years. It's probably one of the best image manipulation programs out there, comparable to Photoshop. Best of all it's free, open source. So download away.

It's super easy to use, too.

Tracy

I've got to look into these new sources!

Cameron