Last week I was asked to do a mini workshop on Blogging for our Brooklyn's Women's Writing Workshop. As I prepared my workshop guidelines and reviewed my notes from the AWESOMEST eBook on Blogging for Women "Blogging in Pink: A woman's guide" I remembered how I first found out about Blogs and how I got interested in them to begin with and I remembered the Brooklyn Blog Fest. Two years ago I was reading a local Brooklyn Family magazine and saw an article about Louise Crawford a mom Blogger who runs the BlogFest. I found out where the BlogFest was, and headed myself out there with barely a day's worth of planning for it. I went by myself, I didn't know anyone, I did not talk to many people either but I sat there and I gathered information, took many business cards, and the whole concept seeped into my blood and it became a goal of mine to become a Blogger.
Last year I found out about the even the day before the even, and when I tried to get tickets they had been sold out. I was very disappointed, but this year I get another chance, and an even better one because for the first time I am going to the Blogfest not as a simple observer but as an actual Blogger. This time I won't feel embarrassed when people ask me, What's the name of your Blog? What do you Blog about? This time I plan of having Business Cards! I am a real Blogger, finally! I get a chance to mingle with hundreds of Brooklyn Bloggers, I will get the chance of getting my name out there and increasing the readership of my site. I am so excited I can hardly contain myself!
So anyway, I encourage all of you to go ahead and buy your tickets now, they do sell fast. It is $15 but with fee's and such it end's up being about $18.88
If you plan on going send me a shout out and maybe I'll see you there in person. :)
Happy Blogging!! :)
Cocoons to Butterflies, is not only about helping our children reach their potential, it is about every one of us. It is about finding a way to make our dream develop into butterflies and fly. It is about finding our true potential, it's about life. Please join me in this journey through the unexpected, the wonderful and the mysterious that leads us to our true potential, our own butterflies.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Household - Brand New House without moving
As many of you know I was struggling with clutter and I was working through it. Then I left for Puerto Rico and my husband did the most amazing thing a husband could ever do. He remodeled the house when we were in Puerto Rico. He made a new Dining Room, A new Living room, a new home office. And for the first time in many years I must say that I have a peaceful place in my home to relax and do my work and I am so happy with it. I love my hubby!!! That was the best dating anniversary/mother's day gift EVER!!! I LOVE YOU!!!
And for those of you who are wondering and would like to see the transformation here I have a picture of the space before. The picture was taken while I was playing around with my daughter and the camera, it is actually a shot of my foot, but you can see basically the whole room.
And for those of you who are wondering and would like to see the transformation here I have a picture of the space before. The picture was taken while I was playing around with my daughter and the camera, it is actually a shot of my foot, but you can see basically the whole room.
And this same room was turned into 4 different spaces, 4 AMAZING SPACES!! :D
I'm proud of my new house!
Do you ever think that remodeling could make such an amazing difference?
Monday, May 2, 2011
Health & Beauty - Insect Bites and Sun Burn, how do you deal?
This past few weeks in Puerto Rico I encountered myself actively dealing with insect bites and sunburn. The first time we went to the beach I bought a Sunblock Spray for kids and waterproof 70 SPF. I sprayed my girls and continued to enjoy the time at the beach. At the end of the day my daughter Gaby had burned her shoulders, and I had burned part of my back, so I had to run to the pharmacy to buy some after sun care to relieve my daughter's pain. We were surprised because we did put sunblock on each other. But after taking a look back I realized that we made a few mistakes of sun safety.
#1. We put sunblock on ourselves at the beach. It is recommended that sunblock be applied 30 minutes before being exposed to the sun to give the lotion time to be absorbed into the skin and work better.
#2. We applied Spray sunscreen in a windy place. There was a lot of wind at the time we applied the sunscreen so most of it must have blown away instead of sticking on each other.
#3. We didn't double check that we reached all the needed spots. We did a quick spray and were not very thorough. It is necessary to make sure to put on sunscreen in all exposed areas for good protection.
And the other thing we had to deal with was mosquito and midges bites. For those of you who don't know what midges (or Majes in spanish) are, they are a tiny little bug, the size of a fruit fly more or less, and they gather in places near water and come out mostly at dawn.
The last day we went to the beach it was raining early so we were able to enter the water late, when the sun was not at it's peak, it was cloudy so we didn't even put on sunblock (another no, no of skin safety) and when the sun started to set and we gathered our seashells and towels and headed towards the car, we took a few minutes to stand at the peer and that's when I noticed the Majes flying around my legs. I didn't think much of it, I mean I had not been at the beach this late in more than 2 years so I wasn't really thinking the bites were going to be too bad, but there I was back in NYC with over 25 bites in my legs and back. Tiny little bites that looked like mosquito bites except smaller, as my mosquito bites tend to swell a lot and appear bigger than a quarter. These bites were more the size of a pea, but itched for over a week. I tried researching online about these biting midges but there wasn't much helpful information. So I just put on calamine lotion on them 2 to 3 times a day and wished for the itch to go away.
Now that the weather is getting better, how to you take care of your skin and protect yourself from sunburn and insect bites?
#1. We put sunblock on ourselves at the beach. It is recommended that sunblock be applied 30 minutes before being exposed to the sun to give the lotion time to be absorbed into the skin and work better.
#2. We applied Spray sunscreen in a windy place. There was a lot of wind at the time we applied the sunscreen so most of it must have blown away instead of sticking on each other.
#3. We didn't double check that we reached all the needed spots. We did a quick spray and were not very thorough. It is necessary to make sure to put on sunscreen in all exposed areas for good protection.
And the other thing we had to deal with was mosquito and midges bites. For those of you who don't know what midges (or Majes in spanish) are, they are a tiny little bug, the size of a fruit fly more or less, and they gather in places near water and come out mostly at dawn.
The last day we went to the beach it was raining early so we were able to enter the water late, when the sun was not at it's peak, it was cloudy so we didn't even put on sunblock (another no, no of skin safety) and when the sun started to set and we gathered our seashells and towels and headed towards the car, we took a few minutes to stand at the peer and that's when I noticed the Majes flying around my legs. I didn't think much of it, I mean I had not been at the beach this late in more than 2 years so I wasn't really thinking the bites were going to be too bad, but there I was back in NYC with over 25 bites in my legs and back. Tiny little bites that looked like mosquito bites except smaller, as my mosquito bites tend to swell a lot and appear bigger than a quarter. These bites were more the size of a pea, but itched for over a week. I tried researching online about these biting midges but there wasn't much helpful information. So I just put on calamine lotion on them 2 to 3 times a day and wished for the itch to go away.
Now that the weather is getting better, how to you take care of your skin and protect yourself from sunburn and insect bites?
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