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gearing up for the ultimate blog party 2011!

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Ultimate Blog Party 2011

This summer, am going to party! A virtual party, that is! I am joining the Ultimate Blog Party 2011! This will be the first time am joining a blog party + am so excited. Thanks Mommy Willa (of PMC) for the post!

So, let’s get this party started!

I welcome you all to my humble abode (the second one, actually, visit my first blog here), I am Vix, or Jared’s Mum to Google Friend Connect, or Ma to my adorable 19-month old baby boy. I enjoy early morning or late afternoon strolls with my son, reading, moon-watching, + going on enjoyable baby’s day out. If given a chance, I would also love to try my hand at crafts making like cross stitch + scrap booking (I finished my first one with 100% effort from my sis + 10% annoyance from me ;)).

I simply love blogging, apparent with the birth of this blog, I’ve only had this recently + celebrated its 1st month last March 28!  Yay! I also enjoy reading, visiting + following other blogs + it will be a delight to stalk yours next. So please swing by + let me know that you dropped by from UBP 11 + I will be delighted to return the favor.

For details + other party favors, do visit our gracious host at 5minutesformom!

Party on!

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off to a good start

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This blog officially goes live last Monday via an entry to the newest blog meme in blogosphere, when sahmone speaks by Mommy Mitch, which proved to be rewarding as I also won my first giveaway (for this blog) of $5!Yay! Thanks much Mommy Mitch for you generosity!

And I guess we are really off to a good start since my application for Google Adsense (for both my blogs!) was just approved! That’s another yay!

Worthy of mention, too, are my lovely blog followers… thanks so much guys and expect me to follow back soon (if I wasn’t following yet, that is!)…

Although things here are just starting to take shape and I have a gazillion of stuff to do including:

  • learning this alien thing called WordPress
  • studying this self-hosted jargons
  • installing several widgets
  • creating pages + menus
  • creating a new facebook fanpage (and adding a widget here to go with that) for mumwrites
  • sorting through ideas to write for my entries
  • creating a badge (hopefully someone will be kind enough to help me *wink*)
  • finding a suitable template

In the meantime, I hope you guys visit back + leave your comments + feed backs…

Happy Thursday!

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of coming up with my own blog meme

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I totally love joining these weekly memes + anyone who’s been here in my space can really tell how I got smitten by these lovelies! I have at least a single meme for every day of the week, I guess. I really enjoy doing them + have so much fun bloghopping with other participants, if I have the luxury of time, that is!

Now, an idea has been traversing in my mind for a while now + it really excites me! I’d love to host my own meme one day soon + here are a few of what I am toying in mind:

  1. just jivin’ – where every participant will post a music video each week + tell exactly why they chose that video
  2. try it out tuesday – being mothers am sure we discover something new every single day, with this meme we will post a new product you’d recommend to other mommies. not necessarily something you’ve tried, it can be something you saw on tv + would like to try + would like to tell the other mummies, too 🙂
  3. mailbox monday – I noticed that when I became a blogger, I’d usually get something in the mail at least once a week. This meme is an avenue to showcase these stuff. It can be a new ARC you got from Booksneeze or Tyndale, a letter from a friend across the miles, a freebie you won from a giveaway, items you ordered online, free product samples, or even postcards (but not to be confused or to compete with postcards memes). You will share a photo + a little background about it.
  4. nice to know you wednesday – this will be a series of Q + A’s to allow us to get to know each other a little better. We shall answer 5 interesting (yep, I promise to keep the questions interesting ;)) questions every week. You can also post related photos, if you wish.
  5. top 5 friday – I really love lists, don’t you? + this is my way of incorporating that love into my blog. In this meme, we shall be listing our top 5’s every week, depending on the topics (which shall be open for suggestions, of course!), a definite listopia!

So what do you think? Am doing an informal survey to check which one will get the highest number of participants, please leave your choice in a comment below. Thanks mummies 🙂

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