A few ways I can help someone else this year.

Tax season is here and recently I received a receipt for money I have donated to a particular charity in 2011. As it turns out I made donations that totaled about $350 rounded up. I know that I have given to multiple charities and I have made a lot of donations to the Salvation Army for which I did not ask for a receipt, but somehow, $350 seemed like a small number even if it was less than 12 months since I started donating monthly. I want to be able to donate in the thousands. Last year I was not able to donate as much as I wanted, so this year I want to be able to give more. Not only money wise, I also want to help people through my Blog.

Family is very important to me, and since tomorrow starts a new year for Cocoons2Butterflies I want to dedicate the month of February to Marriage and Family Relationships. It is the month of Love, and the month of hearts, not only for Valentines Day but because it is the American Heart Association's Heart Month and it's also the perfect month for the Go Red campaign.

I am still going to be writing my daily Blog Dare Prompts but will add an additional Post several times a week to include the topic of Family, Marriage, and Heart Health.

My goal is to help people by giving helpful information about how to keep your marriage strong, how to have good relationships with your families and how to take good care of your heart.

What are a few ways that you feel you can help someone this year?

Make your own Valentine's Day Cards - Freebie Included!

Valentine's Day is coming soon, and I just made this cool Valentine's Day card with my family's picture.
I made this card using one of the MyMemories Suite Designer Templates, they are so easy to use and so much fun, and in Honor of Valentine's Day  I want to give you guys another Freebie Designer Pack from the makers of MyMemory Suite Scrap-booking Software, to make cute personalized Valentine's Day Cards, for your kids, or for the family and friends, and that's not all! You can also get a free tutorial on how to make these cards using the Free Designer Pack and the MyMemories Suite Software.

These is the Free Designer Pack that I used to create my Valentine's Day Cards, just click on the image to Download.

And if you would like to see the Free Tutorial on how to use the MyMemories Suite to create these cards then click HERE

And I am going to be implementing Freebie Monday and I will be giving away different templates every week. So keep coming back for more free templates that you can use and create your own photo albums to post online or print and share.

Remember that in order to enjoy these Freebies, you do not need to have the MyMemories Suite Software, they are .png files that can be used with other software.

For a Chance to Win the Software Completely Free, enter our Giveaway contest!

But if you are interested in getting the software for yourself you can use the following $10 discount code  STMMMS85137

What I want for my birthday.

My birthday is in March 30, and this Blog's birthday is actually on Wednesday February 1, 2012! I'm so excited and can't believe that this Blog has grown so much in only a year! I have been so blessed!

What I want for my Blog's birthday is more comments from more people, my mom is my most faithful reader and I am so proud about that, but I wish that more people would read me and communicate with me. I want to build some friendships, get to know people, be influential, help more, do more.

I know that through Voiceboks I have made some lasting friendships and we have a nice relationship, and I want to have something similar going on in here.

I know this takes effort on my part, be friendly first so others come back and be friendly too.

And for my own birthday in March I want to have a nice dinner at a restaurant with my family and friends, and just have a nice time. I'm thinking about going to Shiro Japan! We all love it!

What do you want for your birthday?