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K-Cup Carousel on Sale $17.99 28% off w/ Free shipping orders over $25.00

You've gotten the deals on K-Cups, now you can get the spinning carousel to display them in.  I have one of these and it's a nice way to hold your K-Cups and have a variety out for guests and family.

Looking for K-Cup variety for the winter season?  Here are some favorites all on sale with free shipping for orders over $25.00 from Amazon.

Coffee People Donut Shop K-Cups

Gloria Jean's K-Cup Flavored Coffee Variety Pack

Gloria Jean's Pumpkin Spice K-Cups

Coffee People Santa's Buzz K-Cups

Coffee People Medium Extra Bold,

Coffee People Wake Up Call K-Cups

Coffee People Jet Fuel K-Cups

Coffee People Black Tiger K-Cups

Why You Can’t Make Money Blogging | Copyblogger

If your business model is “I want to make money on the Internet,” you’re not going to get very far. The Internet is profoundly indifferent to your desire to make money with it.

via www.copyblogger.com

Interesting article. We keep reading that blogging is dead. Over time my blogs are making me a bit of steady cash. I've learned that blogging is about giving something to your readers: information, a laugh, a link, a picture... By giving something of value away over time you can get a reader base. If your affiliate links are things your reader base might actually want to buy, you can get affiliate sales. If your ads happen to be links that your readers WANT to click then you can get ad revenue. If you get freelance writing jobs from other content providers, exposure on the job market, professional clout, or other publicity from your blog all sorts of different types of opportunities can come your way.

My point? Give first, then you will receive later. There is no get rich quick scheme that really works. There is only one way to get rich in this world - work for it. Keep blogging and your audience will find you. Figure out what they like to buy and advertise it. Over a long period of time money actually can start coming in.

Tips for How to Blog (Almost) Every Day

I read an interesting blog post on Chris Brogen's blog: How to Blog Almost Every Day.

Here are some of my blogging habits that help me find fresh ideas for posts:  popurls.com is a nice aggregator of new web content.  I also like to check Google.com/trends for the top web searches of the day.  (Gives me ideas of what's buzzing at the moment).  I love to check the Google news page for my blog tops as well as using Google alerts as another commenter noted. 

I love to carry my small digital camera around with me so I can snap a quick picture of anything that catches my eye out in the world.   I can also Twitter from my cell phone and have a Twitter feed on my blog, so that helps add fresh content when I am on the go and it's harder to do a full blog post.

Also, I advise don't stress over creating a post every day.  It's fine to post every 1 to 3 days in general.  Just keep the blog fresh and interesting.  Keep your audience in mind - I like to have a fictional audience in my mind for each blog and pretend I am talking to that person when I post.  For this personal my target blog audience is my mom!  For my Crohn's Disease blog the audience is someone just diagnosed and wanting advice. On the Sci Fi blog my audience is my friends who are Sci Fi fans.

Remember - blog posts can be short.  I completely agree with Chris that perfectionism is the enemy of forming good habits.  Do not fear mistakes - just point yourself in a direction and keep going!

Kahlua Coffee - Keurig K-Cups Pre-Sale 36% off .39 Cents Each

Kahlua flavored K-Cups coffee at .39 cents each is great price on a yummy winter specialty coffee.   Available on October 15th, you can pre-order these now.  Remember to order something else to get your total over $25.00 for free shipping.

Personally, I would go for an actual shot of Kahlua in my cofee!  But this does sound good.  If you have a Keurig in your office and can't be hittin the sauce during the day this is a good way to get your "yum" in.

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Here are links to some of the other sale K-Cups which Amazon has a great price on, by the way...

Coffee People Medium Extra Bold,

Donut Shop K-Cups

Coffee People Wake Up Call K-Cups

Coffee People Jet Fuel K-Cups

Coffee People Black Tiger K-Cups

For the spelling impaired: kurig, kuerig, k cups, coffee pods

Designing A Hat is Not Rocket Science

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Originally uploaded by mar1annec

Here is my latest knitted piece. I am proud of this one because I designed it from scratch using charts from the Alice Starmore Book of Fair Isle Knitting.

Jin laughed at me buying this book, which for the most part is made up up a bunch of knitting charts that look like black and white dots and squares. But it really did spark my creativity. I love that she has the charts organized by how many rows you have to work with, but then you have to figure out how many stitches across each one is. I used a bunch of sticky notes to isolate the chart and line I was working on for each row of knitting.

Took this pic on the MacBook camera so sorry it looks so bad!

Here is the book I used for the fair isle charts:

Nice Weekend

We had some nice cool weather this weekend.  So the hubster filled the tires on the kids' bikes (as well as raised both seats!) and we did some riding around.  I set out a deck chair and supervised.  The boys both got really good a riding and were buzzing around the cul de sac like experts.

Hubster also replaced our kitchen light.  Yay!  He did a fantastic job and it looks so much better.

Here's a pic of the kids pretending to fix their bikes and riding off into the sunset.

My vantage point:

Sunday Funnies

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Cat Bordhi Insouciant Socks

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Originally uploaded by mar1annec

I finished my first pair of socks! I am proud. I even got the stripes to match up. Fun yarn - it auto-stripes. (Adriafil KnitCol is the name of the yarn)

The sock method is from Cat Bordhi's new book "Personal Footprints for Insouciant Sock Knitters." It is a very creative way to make a sock. You basically knit a tube with two ends that are the tow and heel. Then you open up the tube and make the leg opening come out.

In this way you avoid short rows, picking up stitches, and the whole sock is knit in the round. You don't have to make a gauge swatch, there's no math, and you only have to keep track of rows during the toe and heel. Pretty snazzy.