Extreme blog makeover!

If you've stopped by before, you might notice a few changes. My lovely daughter has taken it upon herself to give me a little blog makeover. She's in the process of making over my other blog, as well (which is currently in blank slate mode). We have few tweaks to go here, but I think it's looking good.

Not bad for an unsocialized homeschooler who's learning how to do this via Google, huh. (After working on this, she's glad that she is paying someone to redecorate her own blog!)

If you give a teen a blog...

If you have a teen-aged daughter, she might just enjoy reading my daughter's blog. And if she enjoys reading my daughter's blog, she might want to check out her Summer-Long Giveaway. And if she enters her Summer-Long Giveaway, she might just win some fun gifts. And if she wins some fun gifts, she might just share with you!

Just Us Girlz

I'm guest blogging today over on one of my favorite blogs -- Just Us Girlz -- which happens to belong to my daughter! Hop on over to read about one of my favorite Easter memories. (Get it -- hop... Easter... grin!)


And be sure to share AnnaKate's blog with the teen girl in your life!

Baby blowfish, anyone?

As a (sometime) blogger and rookie marketer, I'm always curious to know what drives people... to my blogs, to my website, to my store. One nice thing about Blogger is that I can see how many hits this blog has received -- broken down by day, week, month, and even since its inception. I can even tell where some of my readers are coming from if they clicked to my site thru another blog. And I love seeing that my readers are from all around the world.

But one of the most interesting stats I can check is the listing of search keywords that bring people here... what do they type into Google or whatever that pulls up a list of possible sites and ultimately leads them here?

{Drumroll, please!}

Did you see that top search phrase? Unmade bed; 106 searches. Then again, at #5, bed unmade. Again, #8, unmade bed white (just to narrow the field a bit, I guess).

Well, I do hope that my post, Why I Make My Bed, was an inspiration to these folks. And, just in case you're curious, unmade bed was not included in my labels (or tags) for that post.

I'm not sure I even want to know how someone went from searching baby blowfish to my site.