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eMail Frenzy!

Please accept my sincere apology for the excessive emails that you have been receiving from my subscription services. 

Due to my new blog design and to the updating my original blog, con-tain-it into 5 separate blogs within the Love Shack Living domain...you all have received over 15-20 emails in the past 24 hours.

This is a one time situation due to the expansion of my blog and services and will not happen again.  For many this is very excessive since I've recently learned that prior to this design change...NONE of my subscribers have been receiving regular emails.  ANY that you had been receiving were from my old subscription services that have since been terminated.  Oh boy!

I cannot thank you enough for your patience during this time.

 Fondly, Roberta

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New Blog Design and Name Change

Please excuse the mess while this blog is under construction! 

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For the past few months I have been working on (actually avoiding ;) the logistics of updating my blog.  Originally I had hoped to have it all done in time for my 4 year blog anniversary...but you know how that goes ;)  To date I have written over 475 posts for my two blogs, con-tain-it and B.O.B.I.'s and it has always been a struggle to keep the navigation of my blogs (and their posts) as streamlined as possible.

The reality is that I have too many categories for one blog (let alone two blogs ;) and so I have been researching for the best way to separate my current blogs out without having to have a separate reader subscription service for EACH blog.  OR from having to find a new blog platform...cause typepad is the best as far as this end-user is concerned!

So I have found a way to set up a main blog page {known as a landing page in they techy world}  which will collect all of my blog posts from my 5 total blogs and deliver them into my subscribers mailboxes.  This main blog page is title: Love Shack Living:  A little ole blog where we get together and I have acquired the domain for it: www.loveshackliving.com ;) 

The following blogs will all be automatically uploaded into this main page:

Love Shack Baby: Where living large is a state of mind (because it is my first blog: con-tain-it) All of the original posts are still located here for now.  Eventually the main posts will be for the categories of interior design, small space living, organization and life here in the Love Shack.

Love Shack Giving: Inspiring ways to give back (formerly B.O.B.I.'s Business of Bliss & Inspiration) Encompasses all of the original posts and archives will remain here where there will be no changes other than the banner.

Love Shack Larder:  Where everybody gathers cause good food matters.  Will include all of the original recipes from con-tain-it will be (exported into this blog),as well as, any other posts regarding health and well-being.

Love Shack Nonsense:  Where love rules and life happens.  Will include all posts related to the loves of my life...family, friends, travel, books and anything else that happens in my less than ordinary life.

Love Shack Studio:  A funky little place where we make it all happen.  Will include all posts related to the work I create in my studio such as sewing projects and art journals.

UPDATE:  Here is a screen print of the temporary banner with the navigation bar below to show you all how much easier it will be to jump from blog to blog depending on the subject matter ;)

NAVIGATION BAR SHOWING ALL THE BLOGS, AND THE CURRENT ARCHIVES.

This may sound like a lot for you as the reader, but in actuality it will make it easier for you because the individual blogs will load faster (yeah ;) and the categories will be able to have more details so that you can find that certain "chicken" recipe without having to scroll through every single recipe in the current categories..."Yummy in my Tummy" or "Foodie Friday"...for instance.

For the next few weeks...all of the blogs archives/categories (with the exception of Love Shack Giving) buttons located at the top and bottom navigation bars...have been linked back to their original locations (in con-tain-it) so that if you are looking for an old post you will be able to retrieve it.   As I work through the list, and I determine which posts I will transfer and which ones will just stay where they are, the blogs will be updated accordingly.  I will start with my recipe posts first and then on to the decorating/organizing posts.  It will be an on-going process and I will keep you all in the loop as I go ;)

In the meantime, I want to thank you for your patience and to wish you all  a wonderful weekend.

Fondly, Roberta 

There is a shrine in my closet...

At least that is what DH is calling my memorabilia that I've hung up on the wall in my closet...and I must say that he is right!  {write this down honey ;}  Months ago, when I was completing The {21} Purge, I pulled out a small basket from underneath my bed on Day 13 and talked about how "some day" I was going to get around to displaying my clothes from when I was a child in Africa and Taiwan.  Well this weekend I decided was the time...since we had so much rain...to tackle this long, awaited project.  As Toni says...one project at a time!

 

Patio Perfect

Wow!  It's feels so good to have my patio all completed now after a week {or more ;} of interruptions from Mother Nature...remember...It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature?  It is very satisfying to look back at a year ago when I did my first patio makeover and thought that it was just the perfect Petite Patio then...

NOW...take a peek at it and WHAT a big difference ;)