Reasons You Should Attend a Blogging Conference

1. Meeting your online friends in real life is amazing!
2. You can talk about blogging and not be worried that others won't know what your talking about. (or that they will think you are crazy)
3. Vendors, vendors everywhere!
4. Free goodies from awesome businesses!
5. Networking

After attending the Casual Bloggers Conference I feel like I can conquer the world. Well not really but here a few highlights.
My favorite class was on organization. It was taught by Marie Ricks from House Of Order and Sarah Kimmel from Organized Mom (dot) net and Tech4Mommies (dot) com. They gave me some really great tips and ideas. More to come on this one!!

I was also privileged to meet the wonderful founders of The BlogFrog Holly and Rustin. You all know that I LOVE them already but it was amazing to meet them in real life. We all went to dinner on Friday night and it was like we were old friends!

I was also so excited to meet my friend Lolli from Better In Bulk. She is just as fantastic as I thought she would be. We both said it felt like we had known each other for years. That is the great thing about meeting blogging friends we really have known each other for just over a year. We met through BlogFrog and we have been emailing, blogging and tweeting. She taught an amazing photography class that goes along with her Bloggography series. Here we were enjoying a sandwich waiting to hear Courtney from C-Jane Enjoy It. She was amazing. More on that later too!

(I obviously did not take either of these pictures so I can not be held responsible for how they turned out!)

Coming up this week right here. How to improve your SEO, finding your voice, faith in blogging and MUCH more about how to get organized (or rather how I plan to get more organized!)

How to get Urine/Sweat stains out of your Mattress

If you have kids you have pee stains I know it. If you don't lucky you or you are a liar and in denial. I have pee stains on more than one mattress. I also have sweat stains on pillows because well I sweat a.lot . It's a gift I know. I digress. Anyway I have tried many different ways to get urine/pee out of mattresses and I have been very unsuccessful so I did a google search and what do you know? Another mom had pee stains too. So I borrowed her recipe and it totally worked so I am sharing it with you. All you need are these few house-hold ingredients and a spray bottle. I bought a really expensive one (NOT) I used one I had for my kids hair. It worked great. You will need: 3 Tablespoons Baking Soda 8 ounces Hydrogen peroxide 1 drop dish soap Mix together well and use right away. My mom discovered that if it is not mixed well the baking soda will clog the sprayer. You also can't store this apparently it doesn't last in the bottle and it is no longe

Master Bedroom Makeover Board and Batten

I highly recommend a few items although you don't HAVE to have them it just makes this project go so much faster. I bought a pancake compressor with three nail guns included saved me on this project and a miter saw. I bought both from Home Depot and they didn't pay me to say that it is just where I happen to shop. I actually had this all measured out and went to Home Depot and they cut the mdf primed boards for me. However I later purchased the miter saw and was then able to cut things right here at my house. The nail gun I used is a 16 gauge gun that can shoot nails up to 3 inches. I used a 2.5 inch nail to cover the thickness of the board and wall. Ok so I recommend deciding how you want your boards spaced first and measure and mark on the wall where you want them. I tried to do every 16 inches because that is how far apart my studs were but then I realized my wall wasn't an even length and so I have some that look a little off on the ends. Lesson learned

I heart Faces Week 47~ We heart tooshies!

I am trying this again. I never win but it is fun to enter and see everyone else's photos. Go on over to I Heart Faces to see more entries.

Rudy Family Rukus~Parenting tips and humor meet in one big "rukus"

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