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We found some super Christmas Blog sites out there (quite a few here at Googles Blogspot :) and we wanted to let you know what you can find at some of the great Christmas blog sites.
The first site to mention isn't a "Christmas blog" in itself, but they have an outstanding post on 10 Fantastic Christmas Inspired Tutorials that we thought very cool :)
MyInkBlog has a post of tutorial links for you to create your own Christmas Wallpaper, Creative Christmas cards, Christmas Greetings Postcards, Illustrations, Glittery Postcards, a tutorial link for drawing Christmas Trees, Santa Hats, Ornament Balls, and Christmas Backgrounds. Make hand designed Christmas cards for your friends and family with this handy link guide to some great tutorials.
The Spanish-Teaching.com/blog is a blog for Students and Teachers of Spanish. The Spanish Christmas calendar is more than worth the trip :) Here is but one of the interesting facts held in this site: "In Spain, it's January 6th that children receive their presents left by the Three kings (Los, Reyes, and Magos) rather than Father Christmas or Santa Claus." Nativity scenes are widely used in Spain and often brilliant in design.
Christmas4All.blogspot.com is really a 2007 Christmas blog site but very informative. With posts on How to Say Merry Christmas in different languages, Christmas Prayers, and a link to the GatewayToJesus (which houses some incredible Christmas Blog Stories. Link to Thoughts-About-God.com that has a great representation of the Christmas Story with an awesome graphic image to go with this post.
ChristmasSprite.com is a Christmas Blog Site full of Christmas History, Traditions, Wallpapers, Games, Lyrics, and much more. The Christmas History includes the First Christmas Card, Christmas at the White House, Chronology of American Christmas, and History of the Ornament. Here is a bit of this history here: In Germany, some people hide a pickle shaped ornament very well in the tree (hidden last) on Christmas morning whomever is the first child to spot this pickle gets an extra surprise gift!
Listen Into Blogs and Social Networks Christmas Blog Site Coolies for more :)
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Stevie has a great list of 5 photo fixer sites that we have been playing around with lately. She has designed some incredible brilliance with her selected "tweakable" photos :)
Here is an example of some of the creations Stevie made:
Check out more on Stevies MySpace
Most Photo Adjustment sites offer color tweaks, brightness, redeye fix, contrast, adding text or stickers but not all have animations. For animations visit MyTheme.
Stevie's 5 list:
Let's see what some of the "draws" to these sites are :)
PhixR.com way fast to register, start to upload your pics straight away. The adjustment editing area is right there :) Here you can also transfer your photos from Live Journal, Image Shack, Buzznet, Drop Shots, Facebook, Flickr, Fotolog, SmugMug, Picasa, PhotoBucket, Fototopic.net, and WebShots. PhixR is another "no fluff" site becasue you are creating the fluff with your pics. PhixR is an photo adjustment site with photo effects like Oil Painting, Dot Art, Funnel, Charcoal Drawing, Black and White, and Spray. With these type effects, I just recommend playing around and having fun with a couple of photos to figure out what effects you like best. Blending or Mixing a photo with another is the huge draw to PhixR I think :) This is very cool, layered effects of one photo or another where you adjust the transparency of both. This feature isn't offered everywhere and some that do offer it are much more difficult to use than this one :) Also the fixer "Noise reduction" is brilliant here at PhixR, a tool used to get rid of the fuzzy stuff in a photo.
FlauntR.com Turn your photos into creations at FlauntR then apply them to mugs, hats, t-shirts, mouse pads, calendars, and more. Free to register, find out more about FlauntR on the show :)
MyTheme Online Photo Editor @ blibs.com Awesome photo editor and MySpace layouts and graphics arena :)
SoSauce.com Name, email, password, birthday, and area code to register here with a confirmation email. Free to sign up Photo Sharing site geared toward Travelers, Historians, Local info, and Site Seer info. If you are looking for a great coffe shop in Paris, or a Winery tour in California, my thought would be to check here. Also, if you know of any great destinations and you have Photos to go with them, sign up and let others know here at SoSauce.
Picnik.com Free to use but even better when you register for free. Also an upgrade option. Way quick to sign up, no confirmation email.
Flickr.com is really a photo holding, friending, photo sharing site. But Flickr is one of the free holding sites for your "Tweaked" creations. And only about $25 a year for an upgraded pro account.
Our Blogs and Social Networks Photo Persuasion show has some great info for people needing to "adjust, tweak, fluff, dress up, sparkle out, resize, and/or change the formats" of your photo images. Add descriptions, keywords, even "tag" to add a live hyperlink to sections of your pictures.
Some of sites we discussed included my top 3 :)
Photobucket: One of the very best "all inclusive" photo sites. Only $3.95 a month or less than $40 a year to upgrade here at PhotoBucket but free to use and no pressures to upgrade ever :) Get prints, share albums, tweak and resize photos. Photobucket also has a great selection of Slide shows to put it all together :)
Slide: Is the bomb! :) Rocks for sure, more info on show, but Slide.com will put the purse, belt, and shoes on your photo outfitters for a great slide show :)
Flickr: One of the biggest Photo sharing, holding, and friending sites on the Internet.
PiccyFix: Top Photo site for format changes with much more.
Picnik: Tab Folders and Grass Picnik Welcomes You to Sign up for Free. With all the basics, why choose Picnik over the others? Try the "Create Tab" and see for yourself why Picnik is rockin'. Upload 5 photos at atime unless you want to go premium, then up to 100 at a time here about $25 a year for the upgrade to premium option with many perks.
SoSauce: Travel Geeks Global Curiosity Local Expertise
MyThemeAnimator @ blibs.com/editor: A link from MyTheme to the editor pages but MyTheme also has some awesome MySpace Layouts and Graphics.
FlauntR: From FotoDesk Professional Photo Editing Easy and Free
PhixR: The Online Photo Editor Choose to Sign Up for Free (only takes 15 seconds) No email hassles :)
We cover in depth what you can do where on the show :)
But for sure PiccyFix.com is the place I go for format changes from PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP. No registration here at PiccyFix, Instant and Free. You can choose to host your pics here or show them off in the gallery and PiccyFix can adjust your photos much more than just format changes :)
Resize, Rotate, Flip, Colorize, Crop, Tint, Adjust Brightness, Contrast, and Add Effects and Borders at PiccyFix :)
Listen into Blogs and Social Networks Photo Persuasion for more :)
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I have found a brilliant "Blog Style" Christmas themed site to help you in your gift giving decisions over this Christmas season :) Chock full of great articles on Christmas gift giving.
"10 Great Christmas Gifts For Teenage Boys
Did someone say teenage boys were easy to shop for? It might seem like that till you actually go to get them something only to find you’re in a state of confusion. Here are a few ideas to help make life easier during Christmas shopping time. For you and for him.
Jeans, because he could always use another pair. All you have to be careful about is to buy what he would like, not what you like. Get him a pair that’s similar to the style he usually wears and you’ll probably have made the right choice. It would help to find out what cut of jeans he currently wears.
A snowboard would make a perfect gift during winter if he doesn’t already have one. You could get one that’s very reasonably-priced and most teenage boys love the thrill of a new sport." READ MORE
Thanks and Kudos to Irene for the great ideas, information, and articles :) Merry Christmas!
Stephanie Haile aka Wavecritter Google me :)
Shake Yourself! with the coolest of snowglobes! Glade snowglobes! The ABC Family site is incredible Christmas fun :)
You choose the scenery, your "Style" and get the coolest of personalized Snow Globes for your site and for your friends :)
My son, Wyverex, has created his ... Quite "Dapper and Dashing" :)
Much more at the ABC Family site for Christmas fun: TV schedule, sweeps, search 4 Santa, videos, games,boards, and tips! Check it out :)
ABC Family: 25 Days of Christmas
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One of the many "new" graphic "Coolies" out there for Christmas decorating are the plethora of Snow Globes to choose from :)
Christmas Myspace Comments
Free Code Source has a three page selection :)
Christmas Myspace Layouts
Christmas Myspace Graphics
PopDarts is another cool graphics and layouts code site with a great selection of Snow Globes as well :) And even though the copied HTML source code did not work here at Blogger, there is a Gigya option to post directly to Blogger from the site as a post or in the sidebar.
Pownce.com will be shutting down December 15th 2008 :( To all you Powncers out there, you will still be able to access your content until then and Pownce has created a way to export all of your content :)
"Pownce Acquired by Six Apart
Pownce has been acquired by the blogging company Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad and Vox. To find out more about the acquisition please read the announcement by Six Apart CEO Chris Alden, and the announcement by Pownce Founder Leah Culver." READ MORE
Pownce members across the net enjoyed the site immensely and Pownce will be missed by Blogs and Social Networks active users everywhere :)
CU Pownce!
Visit My Goodbye Google Lively Post :)
Stephanie Haile aka Wavecritter Google Me :)
If you haven't taken a visit to ProjectPlaylist.com recently, check out the "dress-up" they received with new colors and fluff! Try it out and send in your feedback. You can always go back to the original format if you want :) I personally Dig It, Kudos to Project Playlist!
Stephanie Haile aka Wavecritter Google Me ;)
