Blogging Tools: Further Experiments in Monetisation

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Back in April, I posted a review of several different monetisation techniques I’d tried in the hopes of breaking even on my hosting fees. Blogging Tools 2: Experiments in Monetisation was one of my most successful posts and still gets hits, so I thought I would write an [...]

Sparkle Shopping: Sketchers Shape-Ups

My apologies for the photo – bare legs, creased skirt and all, I wanted to take a photo before I started wearing them whilst they were still new and shiny!

It has come to my attention of late that I live quite a sedentary lifestyle. I don’t go jogging, a [...]

Sparkle Shopping – Yum!

This Sparkle Shopping post won’t be of interest to those of you outside the UK, so I’m cutting the post here so it’s easily skippable.

If you’re in the UK and like takeaways, click to read

Blogging Tools 2: Experiments in Monetisation

Image by penguincakes

The response to the last Blogging Tools post was fabulously positive, so I have decided to make another detailing my current “research” and experiments in making a little money from this blog. As I have outlined in previous posts, it does of course cost money to self-host a site with [...]

Sparkle Shopping – Handmade and Fabulous!

Welcome to the second installment of Sparkle Shopping this week, split into two because I didn’t realise I’d have so much to say about the Aveeno Products! This post is about a few of my favourite discoveries by diy sellers on Etsy and DaWanda, and like my Visual Sparkle posts, it’s [...]

Sparkle Shopping! Aveeno Review

Eventually I intend to create logos for various different post types however I realise the attempt above is rather poor. It was thrown together using MSPaint at work, in about 30 seconds, so please don’t judge! This post was originally going to include a showcase of recent Etsy discoveries, however my [...]

Zine Review: Shavings

Firstly I need to make an apology, this review is long overdue and it’s entirely my own fault – I mislaid a folder containing various bits and pieces I was working on for this blog, including a couple of zines and a notebook, and I’ve only just un-covered it. It seems I managed [...]

Making 2009 Sparkle, Month One Conclusions

Image by Neil Phillips

The photo is yet another cute little fellow that was tagged “eft” on Flickr, it’s a pretty hard topic to illustrate, I’d draw something but… I can’t.

So, my final impressions on EFT are good. My impression, from the way it worked for me, is [...]

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