These penguins can be found at the Georgia Aquarium. They’re so adorable!
One Piece of Great Advice
It’s time again for another Writer’s Workshop hosted by Mama Kat at Mama’s Losin It! Here’s the prompt I chose….
Share one piece of great advice you’ve received from someone who knows stuff…
I am in the sign business. I make banners, interior and exterior signs, print media, etc. I’m doing something I enjoy and although it’s only been for a short time, I’m actually becoming what I might have been. This change started after my 40th birthday. At the time it was very difficult for me to visualize myself in this position. It was like starting my entire professional life over again and I was a little afraid to take that first step.
Just so you understand, I know the sign business…I grew up in it. But I have always depended on the “sure thing” of a regular paycheck. The one I received in exchange for administrative services. The paycheck that upon my 40th birthday I could no longer count on. The same paycheck that 6 months later, my husband could no longer count on either. So what could two unemployed yet resourceful people do?
Well, one day while “surfing the net”, I found this quote:
“It’s never too late to be what you might have been” by George Eliot
I’ll never forget how inspired I was when I read it. My doubts about doing what I knew I could began to dissipate very quickly. With two children to feed and a household to maintain, my survival skills kicked into full gear and I started working on my new reality. As my vision evolved, I began to believe in my own potential for the first time. So again, I am in the sign business. I’m becoming what I might have been. At last.
Here are all of this week’s Writer’s Workshop prompts:
1.) Share one piece of great advice you’ve received from someone who knows stuff…
2.) Write a series of tweets that ultimately end with a line that I actually tweeted on Friday night: ”And then I sat on those remaining in the pack…and pulled the glowing sticks from under my ass.”
3.) Gregory MaGuire (author of books like Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister) is wildly popular right now (as is the musical Wicked). Write your own “re telling” of a classic fairy tale.
4.) Luck, or divine intervention?
5.) Muffin Tin Monday…on Thursday? Every week Michelle hosts a carnival where you’re invited to link a meal you serve your kids in muffin tins. It’s kind of cute actually.
Read Mama Kat’s post then find out how you can participate.
I Comment Therefore I Am
It’s time for another blog celebration. This is my first week participating in Unknown Mami’s weekly I Comment Therefore I Am share. Here are some of the places I visited last week and the comments I left. Read More…
Writer’s Workshop: Elevator Pitch
It’s time again for another Writer’s Workshop hosted by Mama Kat at Mama’s Losin It! Here’s the prompt I chose….
Create one short (a sentence long) and one longer (100 – 150 words) Elevator Pitch describing what your blog is about.
Red Velvet Confections is both a creative outlet and a learning tool. I’m intrigued by the act of blogging, the community which embraces it and the nuts and bolts behind it all. Red Velvet Confections provides the means for me to learn and to inspire in a socially interactive and non-threatening environment.
It’s also a place where I’ll be able to display my design talents, find inspiration through other bloggers, meet new people, store some of the goodies I find as I travel the web and so much more.
What I hope it will ultimately become for my visitors is another unique destination filled with beautiful photos and graphics, tons of light hearted stories, creative tips and other delectable bits and pieces.
I want it to be a place to go hang out and just have some fun!
Here are all of the Writer’s Workshop prompts:
- I recently read all about the importance of us bloggers developing an “Elevator Pitch” via one of my new favorite blogs. According Wikipedia and Elevator Pitch is “an overview of an idea for a product, service, or project. The name reflects the fact that an elevator pitch can be delivered in the time span of an elevator ride (for example, thirty seconds or 100-150 words).” Create one short (a sentence long) and one longer (100 – 150 words) Elevator Pitch describing what your blog is about. (inspired by Darren from Problogger)
- The strangest dream ever… (inspired by Amo from Where A Woman Shakes Her Tablecloth.)
- Write a list of 10 things that can be done to stave off boredom. (inspired by Lourie from CA Girl).
- “How many homes have you had? Write a journal entry about ALL the places you’ve called ‘home’ in your life.” (inspired by writingfix.com).
- “Why wouldn’t they just start over? Write a story where a character refuses to go back to square one.” (inpired by writingfix.com).
Read Mama Kat’s post then find out how you can participate.
Five Blogs I Adore…
I just visited The Secret is in the Sauce and came away with a really interesting challenge…to find my blogging tribe. The challenge is to:
1. Make a list of five blogs I can truly stand behind
2. Get to know them, and
3. Give them an awesome comment, tweet about one of their posts, or offer some advice or insight if I can.
So, here are the five blogs I really love and look up to:
Hostess With the Mostess - I love to entertain and this blog has never ceased to inspire me to make my next event better.
The Secret is in the Sauce - I really appreciate the blog lessons I’m learning from this site. It’s all about Comment Love!
Cannelle et Vanille - The photography on this blog is stunning and the stories are warm and sincere.
1000 Awesome Things - This blog gives me lots of “oh me too” moments when I read about the many awesome things we love in life.
Mama’s Losin It! - I’m inspired to write because of the blog’s Writer’s Workshop.
In addition to the above, I read the latest posts on these blogs this morning and left them some comment love as well.
Mom, Reinvented
The Bear Bunch
Now I’m off to do some blog reading, commenting & tweeting. Thanks for stopping by and Happy Saturday!!!