Mom Gen Craft Corner

Personally, scrapbooking is one of my hobbies. I buy already made scrapbook materials from bookstores and other stores that sell them. Well, most of my friends told me that it is a money wasting hobby so sometimes, I use recycled materials. Buttons from my old clothes, cut-outs from magazines and other varieties of things that I can still use.

I have been to Etsy site a number of times before. Most of the shops I saw there were selling jewelries. But now, for the first time, I saw a shop that sells plastic envelopes. Perfect for my scrapbooking materials. Mom Gen’s shop here at etsy sells quality plastic envelopes in all sizes, an ideal place to store my small trinkets, buttons, pins, cut-out papers, and more. She’s also selling Hard Punch Circles available in blue, pink, green, and orange. I can see myself using them for my end-of-summer scrapbook project.

She also has another site that sells scrapbook supplies. Check out GenGenStudio. Just look at those scrapbook embellishments, whoa, I am craving to have them. That Happy Father’s Day rubber stamp, my father would be happy to receive it. After this summer, he will fly back to the other country to work. I know she can give satisfaction to her every customer.

So, who’s Mom Gen, the woman behind these? Mom Gen is the owner of Mom Gen Crafts Corner, a blog with a cute blue background and an artistic banner. She is a married woman to a wonderful guy as she says. A freelance designer, a blogger, beader, crafter, music lover, a friend, a sister, a child of God, what more could I say.

Her blog features sellers from either Etsy or Artfire. Sharon of Night Sky Jewel, Victoria of Wire Wrapped Jewelry, and Erika of Price Designs and Price Originals were just some of the lucky sellers who were already given high quality reviews here. If you want to be featured in her blog, just contact her. It’s free.

Her blog also contains details about the products she is selling online. Just look at these 24 Pieces of 4x6 Patterned Scrapbooking Paper. These kinds of papers are best to use in your scrapbook for touch of unique and colorful background. It is also ideal for your school projects. Remember, presentation of the project always counts.

You can also connect to her via Twitter as happymomian and on facebook.

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A Teacher's Online Portfolio blog review

A Teacher’s Online Portfolio is owned by Rachelle, a public school teacher here in Saipan, CNMI. This blog is a compilation of useful resources and sites for all the subjects she teaches. She also posts some of her teaching experience, classroom decoration and activities here.

Layout: The layout looks like a diary complete with a pen that serves as a search engine. There is also a cup of coffee on small plate with a spoon on it. The idea is the whole place looks like it was placed on a table of some sort. Sidebar was also arranged and categorized neatly. A sign that she’s a real teacher because I believe that teacher’s should be neat in their working place. There’s also posts navigation on every posts so everyone would be able to read posts related to what they are currently reading. Anyway, I think you will definitely love the theme.

Content: Teacher Rachelle publishes posts in relation with what she teaches. She also tries to connect what she teaches on real life situations. Just check out her post about the moon and the planet Venus. She stated that on she taught her students the earth and solar system this fourth quarter and then she gave them an assignment regarding how the moon change phases every day. The idea of the planet Venus above the moon gave her inspiration for her work. Her students also saw how the moon and the stars were arranged that day. She also said how glad she was when her students seem so amazed at what happened after that day.

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Random Blog Contest blog review

Random Blog Contest is an online contest blog/directory owned and maintained by Jenn. The idea of this blog is simple. This blog is place where you can find a list of contests to join online.

Layout: The layout is simple. I say it is neat and organized. There are 100 X 100 ad place here so if you want to advertise something, just ask them, contact them via their e-mail. The sidebar has also been arranged and categorized and I think it is just ideal for this kind of blog to have this kind of template.

Contents: Random Blog Contest contains a list of contests that anyone can join online. So, I guess, sometimes there may be a limitation. Example is, this contest is international while this one is only available to a certain country like UK. Also check out Obstacles and Glories Blog Anniversary Giveaway, the contest deadline is up to June 14 so anyone can still join. Just make sure to follow the instruction indicated to join it.

Suggestions: I guess it would be better if the contests are categorized whether it is international or just available on a certain country across the globe. Most readers would look for contests open international while others would want to be strict and choose to join local contests only.

RBC publishes fresh contents everyday so it would be better for those who are contests addicts to subscribe here via e-mail to receive daily updates. If you have comments, questions, or suggestions for the site, just email them at randomblogcontest@gmail.com .

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My Mom's Best

My Mom’s best is a site created Sherry for the love for her mom. Wow, sweet isn’t it.

Layout: The layout is quite simple. The idea is it is pure white and plain. There is a foggy image that serves as a background and the whole area is transparent and the theme has only two columns.

Content: The blog does not only contain things about her mom, she also posts things related to herself. I think it also serves as her personal blog in a way. See her post regarding what she thinks about smoking, ear piercing or getting a tattoo. We’ll anyway, I think I don’t want to get in that hobby. Okay, I have my ear pierced since birth and it is because my mom wants me to be pierced while I am still a baby. She said my ears were still soft during those time.

Suggestion: Hmm, actually, I think, if this blog is dedicated to her mom, she should only post things about her moms and what she think about motherhood and topics related to that. I also believe that she should change her layout. We’ll, it is not because I think the place looks really simple but because I think that because she have her domain name, she should also think about getting a blog makeover for her place. A good name plus a good layout. Instant make-over. Anyway, if she doesn’t want to change her layout, I think her sidebar deserves to be organized a bit.

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Show Me the Money blog review

Is this the right page? Did the link redirect me to another page? I didn’t convince myself that this already the site I have been looking for. It was just a matter of time when I told myself that this is the right page.
Show Me the Money is a blog owned by Lankapo from Malaysia which is soledy made for Money Making tips and ideas, the title says it already. The whole blog is based on Facebook layout. I was really amazed at how the whole page was made. Even the navigation bar, they look exactly the same. And also the comment area. I love how Lanka made this site.

There are also posts recommendations on the bottom of every blog posts. I believe these post recommendation thingy is the best way to keep a thread alive. Keep these plug-in up!

For those who want to make money online, visiting this site is a must for everyone. Not only it will help us to understand how money moves in these PTC and PTP sites, we can also get the latest news about them fresh from the experts.

This site helped me to realize that there’s much more thing about blogging, that it is not only about yourself and but you can also share them to everyone. I also read in her post that there is such thing as Blogspot Site Map in Web Master Tools. I don’t know that something like that exists. So Google uses your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase coverage on your WebPages. Thanks Lanka for the info.

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Home and Parenting blog review

Home and Parenting. These are what we would all experience when we have our very own family. This is what motivates Mye to create this site. Home and Parenting was created to share information about home and parenting for mothers and fathers lurking out in the blogosphere. Most of the articles here tackle things about home, children, parents and everything within the household.

Author: Mye is a mom who has twin daughters who finds blogging a diversion from the serious and busy life in the city as a working mom. She firmly believes that parenting is not just a matter of rearing up the children but a continuous process of learning and growing up.

Layout: The layout of Home and Parenting has a touch of the vintage color, the color of the parchments that was used years ago by our ancestors. It is also the color of old books that we stock up in our shelves. I believe this means that you will truly realize being a parent when you get older. As time goes by, as time flies while you were looking at how your children grow, you will realize how hard it is. I also love the artistic style of making the navigation, a book and pages made to look like a heart. I guess it because that being a parent means loving.. And you can’t be a good parent if you don’t have love in your heart.

Contents: This site features post of moments she have along with her family. Check her post about the Reciprocal of being a Mother. She shares how they celebrated Mother’s Day and how she was surprised by her husband and her twins. How sweet!

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Ling Life to the Fullest blog review

Living Life to the Fullest. That’s what Levy believes everyone must do so, to inspire everyone, she made a blog entitled, Living Life to the Fullest.

Author: Levy is a Filipina, a mom of a 2-year old boy, a wife of a geeky husband, and a woman who gave up her career for her family and is now a housewife and taking care of them.

Layout: The place has a green background and cream for the main page. It is composed of three columns and a banner. The buttons on the sidebars are organized and categorized that gives a neat impression to readers like us. I also love hoe her page stats buttons were arranged. It looks cool and unique at the same time. Her signature on the bottom of every post looks very much artistic to me. The way the flowers and the leaves were made is very much creative.

Contents: The contents were solely made to let us realize that we should live our life to the fullest. Check this inspiring story of a Baby Jonathan who was deaf from birth, but received a cochlear implant at 8 months. The way his expression changes when the device is turned on and he hears his mother’s voice for the first time is pretty amazing. His father videotaped the moment. And I know from that moment, I greatly want to thank Levy for sharing this.

Suggestions: I suggest using another background for the page. I think the color does not complement cream.

Live our life to the fullest everyone!

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The Pinay Blogger blog review

The Pinay Blogger is owned by Jade, a Filipina-Dutch. She made this blog solely to share tips on improvement, personal development and family.

Author: Jade is a lady who was born in Manila. She was married to a Dutch man for about six years already and she’s a Dutch at nationality but I daresay she’s still a Pinay at heart. She started blogging on the first month of 2008 and have liked it ever since then.

Layout: The layout looks unique to me. I love the way the theme was made. The main color of the blog is cream and I am so much surprise that it looks good with that. I also adore the idea of putting those social feeds above the book shelf. It is like they are part of the banner at all.

Contents: The place contains topics mostly about tips and things about her life. Check out “Family’s Health”. Here she talks about how being sick means the need to earn more money. And then she suggested finding a good health insurance is a good idea for me, because everyone should prepare for the future and not always deal with the past. Health is a serious topic and everyone should be knowledgeable and smart enough to live a happy and healthy life.

Suggestions: Hmmm, I don’t really have much suggestion to deal with. I just think that her “Meet the Pinay Blogger” section should be put somewhere on top of the sidebar. It would be easier for readers like me to get to know well the author of a certain blog that we like.

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