Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Adrenal fatigue – the effects of stress and high cortisol

I find any kind of material written about health issues of the frightning nature and often retreat back into a novel with my donut and coffee. Many times, I have started to research various health issues and quit to read fun blogs instead. Scary stuff!.

I happened to see this women to women topic and article, when I was googling for some information. It was presented so well that I forgot my fears and began to read to learn more about the topic of Adrenal Fatique. I must say I did get a good feeling about the topic. Especially when I read further about the article on what to do for this problem. Which you can find in the article below this one on what you can do with what you Eat in your daily diet that can make a difference with this problem.

I wanted to show you this not just for an outlet for my litle dose of humor, not as just a lead into my urging one to read blogs, but because I find the topic of importance to ladies of my age. It could help someone who was not looking for the topic.

And then it is perfect as my lead into a topic about releaving stress by comfortable reading among other methods probably touched upon in links to this article. After all many of us feel the need to make new years resolutions. Kept or not kept already, It's never to late to make changes. Changes for the better can be done anytime. I have to share this with you. I hope you too can read on for more information. Comments welcome.

Adrenal fatigue – the effects of stress and high cortisol:

The original, life-saving role of the adrenal glands

To understand how adrenal fatigue develops, it is important to understand the original, evolutionary function of the adrenal glands. The adrenals are walnut-sized glands located on top of each kidney, and are important control centers for many of the body’s hormones. The outer layer of the gland, called the adrenal cortex, produces hormones including cortisol, DHEA, estrogen and testosterone. The centers of the glands produce adrenaline, the hormone named after them.

The basic task of your adrenal glands is to rush all your body’s resources into "fight or flight" mode by increasing production of adrenaline and other hormones. When healthy, your adrenals can instantly increase your heart rate and blood pressure, release your energy stores for immediate use, slow your digestion and other secondary functions, and sharpen your senses.

"Let’s emphasize two points about this healthy stress response. First, it takes priority over all other metabolic functions. Second, it wasn’t designed to last very long.

Stress and the adrenal glands
Unlike our ancestors, we live with constant stress. Instead of occasional, acute demands followed by rest, we’re constantly over-worked, under-nourished, exposed to environmental toxins, worrying about others — with no let-up.
Every challenge to the mind and body creates a demand on the adrenal glands. And the list of challenges is endless: lack of sleep, a demanding boss, the threat of losing your job, financial pressures, personality conflicts, yo-yo dieting, relationship turmoil, death or illness of a loved one, skipping meals, reliance on stimulants like caffeine and carbs, digestive problems, over-exercise, illness or infection, unresolved emotional issues from our past or present and more. The result is adrenal glands that are constantly on high alert.
The destructive effect of high cortisol levels
What is cortisol? In its normal function, cortisol helps us meet these challenges by converting proteins into energy, releasing glycogen and counteracting inflammation. For a short time, that’s okay. But at sustained high levels, cortisol"


I am going to read as much about this aricle and links as I can. I hope you can see in the article what I see. There are interesting points to consider about Carbs and caffeine and salt. Nothing new in that. But I see the points layed out to me so I can better understand the way it works against my body. That is why I would like you to read more on this article. You gain a kind of Understanding with out fear not often found in some medical sites and books that I have found before.

Friday, December 26, 2008

Stress and Fatique during the Holidays can be relieved by Blog reading.

Now that Christmas day is over do you feel you can now fall into more of a relaxed state. For me, I think so. There has been so much stress due to holiday activities lately. New Years bring more still for other people. but not for me. There is still the after christmas specials and sales on winter items as merchants make room for spring items. But lets not call that stressful. Shopping in that way is fun.

Still the new year with taxes and other new economic changes will certainly bring stress and tiredness. I have been thinking that up coming New Year is a time to begin to deal with the stress in a more subdued way. That thought is because I have been thinking about an article I read on Adrenal Fatique. A very clear article written by Marcelle Pick for Women to Women.
http://www.womentowomen.com/adrenalfatigue/adrenalglandnutrition.aspx


Eating to support my Adrenal glands.
I know my eating habit includes caffeine, and Carbs. Due to a Pre-diabedes condition that I have; has made me aware that both of two need to be in a low priority in my eating habits. I feel best when I eat protein and green vegetables. And often too with some shopping exercise, which is also good for stress levels.

I hope you can find time to read the article. I found it to be a good reminder of many things we have already heard about. I found that the articles mention of caffeine and what it does to us; is a good motivator for me to cut down drastically. I had wanted caffeine as natural stimulant for to my Adhd problem. Maybe one partly causes the other.

My changes can be small steps at first. Maybe I should switch from Pepsi to non caffeine soda. Eliminate soda, probably not entirely! Caffeine in Chocolate, which relaxes me? Maybe I can go to moderating the amounts of consumption. I have liked to have just a taste of Christmas- cookies, pie, misc. After the christmas cookies are gone, it will be easier....... Maybe?

I have already switched from coffee to noncafeinated tea most of the time. I especially find that mint tea is my answer. I find it free all summer long in the garden. And I can easily find it for winter consumption. [I just need to harvest it next year- new years resolution.]
Often the reason I slip to coffee is that thoughts come to mind like these:

- Wouldn't cookies or pie taste better with a cup of coffee.
- Flavored Coffee latee, umm yumm
- Coffee when your tired gets you in a mood mode to work.
- Coffee is natural and cheaper instead of expensive prescribed pills.


Well now just thinking about the hopeful changes has reduced my mental stress already. I am hoping that the article has provided a needed clue to others, who just had not thought of the foods that contribute to our fatique problem.

I hope you too can find your own mental stress releaving oasis- way of relief of beginning stress. Yoga or any other new method are other ways.

Mind meditation of a calm happy place.

I think I will kick back now and read some blogs on my blog list. [I have added a couple more.] With my tea and feet up, I think that will be just what I need at the moment. Another world in a blog. Sure they can be inspiring, but relaxing and pleasurable at the same time. Refreshed after my break, I'll deal with some work later. Join me. Happy Blog Reading.
jo


* Soon, I hope to tell you a couple charming craft ideas that I picked up during the christmas celebration.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I would like everyone to have the greatest of days today. Even if you do not celebrate christmas. You can still celebrate and enjoy the day for the great spirit the people in our community seem to be sharing.
Either way. Have a Merry Day!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

My Cottage Wannabe Reminder

Welcome to my cottage site. I am trying to turn my little home into the cutest cottage like I have seen in decorating shows, magazines and blogs. So therefore my unfortunate title evolved into what it is. My house is a cottage wannabe. I am a cottage decorator reader wannabe. [What I really mean is that I am a person who wants her home to be a pretty little cottage.!]

I seemed to have adopted the shabby cottage look. You can see by the photo on the right that I am into shabby cottage. I would like to go from cottage Ick to cottage chic. and from Shabby schick to schabby chic.

My main hobby is collecting styles in the blogs.
But there are certain kinds of cottage decor that I am attracted to at the magazine stands and in my blog collections. Now, don't take my home as an example of my taste. Not now any way.

My taste.
I love French country in the new form and the traditional form. European or old world is great too. And comfort decorating could be my style as well. I am a supporter of the romantic style. I am crazy about vintage and victorian decor.
I do love the Shabby chic look. I may prefer something with just Cottage Charm in the end.

One can't forget the garden media. And the Crafts and makeovers.
I find it is a consuming interest. I have to have something in the subject now and then. Television shows, magazines, videos, and blogs.

I shall eventually learn a lot from the many blogs I collect and read!
I am going to confess now. The title should have been "cottage blogger wannabe" . I would love to be a cottage blogger like I see in the beautyful blogs that I enjoy. I have a cottage and I am a cottage chic wannabe person. Maybe I could do this, If Only I could straighten my cottage out a little. Maybe then? I want my home to look like those I have been wishing about for years. The old disney motto is : If you dream it, it will come true. It's possible I have dreamed a lot. It can happen. Do you think?

Really though for now, I think I just would rather just enjoy the great work done by the others. I am at the game in the side lines cheering the players, on so to speak. I just admire their skill.

I actually created this blog for an excuse.
I like to be able to store some blog rolls. Recently I had rolled a few onto my genealogy blogs, and it just didn't seem the right place. It didn't pertain.

That is not the only reason I think they shouldn't be there at a genealogy blog. The other reason is that I don't want my readers to wander off to some gorgeous website opportunity that I present to them. Then they forget to return to my genealogy blog. I know, I would do that myself. Here well, it's okay. If you come here, it's okay to go off to the blogs. I am not predicting that I will be found anyway.

While I have the blog space, I'll just have a little fun. I'll be sharing my shabby cottage [ick]. I'll share my little cruising for new ones now and then. We will learn what I think are good blogs. I may attempt once or twice a few views of the styles or the kind I don't like.
Comments and suggestions are always welcome. If your reading, please don't mind my poorly written blog or my awful grammer. [My cousin got all the smarts in that department.]

So far, I have done a good job nuturing my hobby of blog collecting..

I am hoping you can share some of my results of my sunday cruises of the web. I will add more here. I know I will eventually want to share some of my favorite ideas that I find on them. I am not sure, if I will be allowed to do that. Maybe if I can I can share some of my magazine clippings. If I am allowed to do that.

Thats all today from the cottage wannabe blogger reader. It's
just jo

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Carmel apples for a Halloween treat. story.

 
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For me it is just the thing. I am expecting you to join me.
I know they are a bit messy.
I've got rubber gloves, wash cloths and a towel. I am ready.

Okay, We each can have a half. I cut and you choose which half you want.

 
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Mmmhhhh it looks so good. I can hardly wait.

No problem, my knife was sharp. It's not a Halloween chain saw Massacre

 
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Just the perfect Halloween magic trick. WE cut it in half.

It's just had only a little nibble.

 
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I don't know who did that, It wasn't me.

Take my word for it, it will be really good.

 
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Monday, October 27, 2008

Do your Ads ever strike you as leaning towards humorous on your blog

It's true. I have found the choices the adsense places on my blog to be in the category of humorus from time to time. I have had adsense on another blog for half a year. I had put them at the top of the page, so they'd be seen. Usually, I would scroll by in order to see the rest of my blog and I really paid no attention to them.

Until one day this ad appeared on my page about Behrens. It suggested a search source for Behrens. I see where they get the name for it. Ad sense[d]. I thought - wow, I could be my own best customer. Not a good idea, cause I am not suppose to click on those ads. Nor am I to intice my friends and relatives to do so for me. Talk about a Pandoras box. That's what that ad seemed to be to me. An ad that says open me , open me open me. Then if I did give in, it would be zing! zing! I am down on the dead blog list.

So that day I kept looking at all my pages to see just was posted there. I now make sure that I look at them. Actually I look forward to see what will be new each time.

Some are embarassing.
The one ad I found a little puzzling was the one that was placed and then later disappeared. It was an ad for ADHD. LOL. I could see no topic that made it appear. LOL. No really. Yeah, maybe my own ADHD caused me to skip off topic now and then. Well okay, that probably that was the case for motivation of that ad placement. It did disappear though.

Can you forsee the possibilites they have in their ad topics.
Last night, It occured to me the possiblies they are cabable of. In fact, I might risk having more ads just for the laugh.

Let me paint the picture here first, so you can see what I mean. I had previously posted about the search program that Ancestry .com has to find your man in the Franco Prussian war casualites list of 1870. Then because of my blathering about my man being taken as prisoner and nearly died with typhoid - typhus.


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Also because another relative had made a reference to the sickness as being another name; I decided to check and see, if I was really correct in calling it typhoid. I was thinking then, that if I had it wrong, I should correct it on the blog. My new found topic of typhus, which is caused by the scratch and the feces of the louse or lice. So I posted a interesting linking to an article on typhus.

No typhus is not funny. And no ads to that are possible. But ads for ridding oneself of fleas and lice is very possible!

lice product - Google Image Search

No kidding. And that is what they did! I found humor in that they are capable of all kinds of ads like that. If I had allowed them three ads to the page, can you imagine what ads I would get.

I am sure there might have been one for the morque or the funeral parlor. If I publish an article of accidental death, maybe there would be a placement for sympathy flowers for all occasions. I wouldn't be surprised to see something about cemetery plots. Tombstones. Accident insurance. I mean my imagination has no limit at what they could come up with. What else would they come up with?

Ship lists bring ads on shipping.
Bad spelling brings ads for dictionaries? Badly done rooms bring out decorating books?

Other blogs ads
Have you seen any good ones on the web. Had some doozies yourself?

I don't mind really. My only purpose for adsense is to try and make a little from that blog. If it were possible, the money would be donated to german churches for their time that they spend helping me by researching their old books.

Now, if we have adsense on a blog about romantic homes or romantic life as a topic, would you want to have adds about lice and fleas on your page. No. But then that would not be the subject on such a nice page about pretty homes. How do they get such nice ads for Romantic homes, Romantic living? Victoria, etc?




romantic home magazine - Google Image Search

I look forward to the new ad with anticipation for the big reveal-surprise.
I am sure if you were like me, you would further enjoy each ad placement.
It's like opening a crackerjack box to see the surprise gift.

cracker jacks - Google Image Search

Measly, though it was. It's like the message inside the fortune cookie. The surprise and anticipation I find is a reward for a new post to the blog all in itself. I guess I have to start paying attention to the ads on other peoples blogs.

Who are the creators of the ads?
The thing I most think about; when I spot the ad and then read them is about the people who decides what gets posted on my page. I really would like to know what they are like. I bet there are more than one and they sit by each other at their computer ad office. I bet they share comments and they have their own little private jokes between them. Imagine how many blogs they must observe.


I had an idea one time to make this blog called Secret Victorian. I am sure the ad would lead to Victorias Secret Lingerie.


Don't you wonder sometimes, if they ever get stumped. I mean I have seen some short blogs elsewhere. In that case they have little to work with.
If there was one for this page, it would be an ad for getting adsense ads.

There for a time on my genealogy blog, I saw the same old ad to same old search link. Like a standby. I wonder if they really read all of the blog........ Or do they ever fall asleep while reading it. lol.

I say that because mine is the opposite of short. It is probably only interesting if one is related to my family, vast as it is.

Maybe I should try being and employee of Adsense
I bet I could come up with some doozies, all by my self, that would bring up some interesting ads! One of my future posts is about the employment my family had of helping others to hunt deer, pig or boar. [Rotwild und Schwein oder Eber]


I can' wait to see, if they show them selves in the same light as they have in the past. Would it be something about taxodermy, or guns, or gun rights, camping gear, flashlights? Hotel rooms for the trip? It will be interesting to find out. Be sure to check back and see.

I'd love to hear what you have found or experienced.

Do you agree with me though, about the person who places the ad on your blog. Wouldn't you say it's got to be a job for a creative person. That person does have some creative genes, and he must have a sense of humor for sure. At least mine does, I am not sure about yours.


Hmmmmm. I wonder where one gets the applications.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

A TIP FOR MYSELF AS I LEARN HOW TO BLOG

I took a peek at Mark Bernsteins web page about beginning blogging. I do like his style of writing. I wish I could do as well. His flows is so easy. I think my writing gets choppy at times. Probably cause I tend to end in prepositions and then I try to corrct that error. Also, I do not always make complete sentences.

I am not sure about the 'blogroll' comment. That is one main reason, why I am commenting on his post. I would love to find out what others think of this. It is the advice one reads from others, who talk up blogging for beginners. It usually says to link to others.

I too think one should have an agreement if one were to act like a friend. If one was on a circle or clique. A circle a web ring. etc.

I am not out to try and make big ratings with this blog. Though I would like it to be pleasing to the eye and reader, if they happened to cross my path. But this is merely my reading list. They are not my buddies. Though, I would not mind at all if they were my buddies. I suppose I would be in heaven, if they were my friends. If they do not mind my comments on their blog now and then, because I can not resist, then I would do so.

But I a hermit or recluse do not think that I could be that active. I live my dream through the others blogs. I am kind of a silent lurker, at the side lines. you might say. I suppose the alternative is to get a feed or have their blogs go to your dashboard.

At any rate read the article and see what you think about idea of linking to others.

from....
A List Apart: Articles: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web: "Make good friends

Read widely and well, on the web and off, and in your web writing take special care to acknowledge the good work and good ideas of other writers. Show them at their best, pointing with grace and respect to issues where you and they differ. Take special care to be generous to good ideas from those who are less well known, less powerful, and less influential than you.

Weblog writers and other participants in the Living Web gain readers by exchanging links and ideas. Seeking to exchange links without ideas is vulgarly known as blogrolling. Begging high-traffic pages or famous writers to mention you is bothersome and unproductive

Instead of begging, find ways to be a good friend. All writers thrive on ideas; distribute them generously and always share the credit. Be generous with links. Be generous, too, with your time and effort; A-list sites may not need your traffic, but everyone can use a hand.

Many prominent web writers travel a lot – to conferences, meetings, trade shows. Sooner or later, they’ll come to your corner of the world. Offer to feed them. Invite them to parties. Offer to introduce them to interesting people. They might be too busy. They might be too shy. But the road can be a lonely place, and it’s always interesting to meet thinking people.

Sma"

It sounds like good advice. It is food for my thoughts today. I am grateful I found this site. I could credit to someone for the suggestion, but I have forgotten who suggested it.

One more food for thought is the question one asks oneself sometimes when you visit the sites which have no comments. They say to comment, but do they mean it?.

I remember when I started the genalogy blog, I didn't know how. I had it all enabled and I got a spam. They were pushing something that had nothing to do with my topic. It was such an obvious ad. So even though I welcomed comments, I told my relatives that they could try to comment, but I didn't know how to work with it. I at least know how to do so now. But I am not sure how to reply to a person who comments. I am going to try and figure that out, soon.

It does seem my relatives either are not reading or don't care to comment.
In that case I guess I should read more on that subject.

Well, maybe after I read a little more of my new blogs that I added this morning in the wee hours, when I woke up so early.

If any one comes to this blog, and cares to comment on Mark Bernstien's comment on blog roll, do so freely.

I would love to know how others handel the blog rolls. I found that under Gadget the link Item does not always work. So I have placed url's into my blog roll there as well which do not have feeders.
I shall have to explore the google reader to see if it is for blogs as well as books.
thanks
just jo.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Creativity in the Web site.


Göhrde
Originally uploaded by thoguenther

I love creative staging in photos. Creativity in a website is a good thing. This one is so very creative! This one can go really far in the web world.
I think if I had something like this, I could keep out the deer, but still keep smiles on our faces.

I wish I had the patience to make one. I actually had an idea of something like this only on the ground in simpler version in my garden. I just can't say enough about this one.



I made a comment and asked him what the story was about the web. Did he make it, did he find it?.

I think maybe it was Spiderman's web. What would spider man wish to catch in his web?

Wouldn't you love to dress it up a little bit for halloween. I suppose many would put in a huge spider. But not me.

I like the idea of a web picture like this for the heading of my blogs. But I don't know how to get it there on the side from flicker. I have been thinking maybe to use some halloween fake web 'stuff.' But I wondered how fake that would look. If I discover a spider with a web somewhere in my house that would by my bonus. lol.




Tho Guenther did some photography in the Goehrde area. It is a fantastic area in Germany near the Elbe river. Some of his items especially appealed to me this week. I was so glad to have found it. Flicker is wonderful, is it not?
Thank you.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Let's Try On Some Stone Siding for a French Shabby Cottage Look




Since I love French decor, I thought maybe my little cottage wannabe could try on a take of the french cottage look. It couldn't hurt to be a wannabe cottage owner of a French stone cottage. See the result at the left. { Sorry, I am not an artist}

My shabby cottage Ick could be a little French field stone cottage. A little field stone siding should jazz it up. Imagine turquoise blue or french blue shutters along the sides of each window. Then we could add some trim paint in the same color. Definately some Pink geraniums in some pots for color Punch for that look. Now that would be a picture. Hmmmm.






Yes I do believe it is enhanced. Maybe in front there could be some stone gravel that is so French. Along with that, maybe, I could find a spot for a bench. I see we forgot the bicycle that one usually has with an attached basket of planted flowers Hmmm.

It might have been nice to have shutters with the stucco siding that it had before. Before it was imagined to be field stone . It is amazing what a little color pop can do.

Rats. I forgot it was a thatched roof? Or is it suppose to be tile?.

There is castles and there is cottages.

http://www.thevisualrecord.com/dbphotopages/photopage.php?photo_id=312

I have always loved the stone cottage look. Don't you love the stone castle look too. We can save that look for another day. There is something about stone siding that is so good looking. I think rocks look good everywhere, anywhere. [picture diamonds and emeralds]

eagleriverpewter.com/bishop.html

I kind of like my shabby cottage in field stone. But it would involve a regression to lots of rustic wood. Maybe.
I do really lean toward those french homes in a regtangular shape with a light shade of peachy gold or sandy color. With variations of this color, but all in one tone. Not too shabby! Check out the French garden house on the side. It s not a mansion, but not a cottage. It says elegant curb appeal all by itself. And Cote de Texas has a blog further back about some beautyful homes. She also has an article on some Sweden home styles. They have some interior colors that give wonderful new meaning to gray blue and combinations on the light side, which I love. I wish Hgtv would have shows as good and thorough and beautyful like that in their shows.

Take it to the cottage level, but with only the colors and textures. Perhaps the grays and blue possibilities with the whites and creme variations.
It is one cottage look I could consider. It would be better than the look I suspect that would involve rather rustic looking decor. There would be lots of warm tones needed for our shabby field stone cottage interior, right?. Something like the traditional provincial look shown in the seventies or earlier? There is always a new look even for the old style. And some basic looks are never gone.




I have always loved this color blue. And also more of a French Blue. Which means less green tint in the paint.

Yes, I love french blue. The color here is too turquoise. Maybe it should be more of a gray blue with pink geraniums. Or lots of lavendar. I can grow lavender.

I really have to keep things straight here. Lets see stucco with french blue or gray blue or the field stone with the same. Shutters or just the trim. Often time there is tile on the roof. We should keep some solar sky lighting too, don't you think? That would really be nice. It would let in lots of sunshine. [ Aso naturaal.]

Enough already for one day. We have really done a good job with the look.

I'll have to think on it. See more blogs, etc.

I am looking forward to some on french decor. Maybe with some outdoor accessories. I think I have a couple in my roll. See you soon.

just jo

A Cottage Wannabe Hunter For Her Trophy Case.



Welcome to my cottage site. I am trying to turn my little home into the cutest cottage like I have seen in decorating shows, magazines and blogs. My house is a cottage wannabe. I am a cottage decorator reader wannabe. What I really mean is that I am a person who wants her home eventually be a pretty little cottage. Once I learn the knack.

In the mean time, I am looking for a cottage Charmer about her charming cottage. teehee!. I can learn from her. Actually I wonder,if I would rather just enjoy the great work done by the others.

I will be going Hunting!
What I will be doing is hunting down blogs that I want to read off of my blog roll. [My trophy case.] It will be kind of like a man going out to hunt his pheasant or wild turkey . [ A deer hunter waits, and I don't wait] I go out into the forest of the wilderness of the web. I look here or there with the right bait and frame of mind [ google search engine words] and check on my prey when one appears.



Yup, its the right one. Bang! I got it with one shot. I drag it home. Stuff it, display it and tell everyone about the little old pheasant[ new blog roll on list] I happened to have bagged yesterday. I am so proud I display some of The feathers all over the place. Maybe more comments or examples of the favorite parts. Then someone usually asks about reason there are feathers. Then I can tell hunting stories of how I got my bird. [ something like how it almost didn't make it there on my blog.] I could raise my own pheasants or wild turkeys, but why? There is not the thrill of the hunt!. The skill in finding the fine specimen of the bird. And the fulfillment and enjoyment I feel when ever I look at my bird so proudly displayed on my special collections shelf. [ My blog roll] And then there are the books about the subject which tells me what I need to learn about getting such a bird. [Blogs on how to do a blog]

Actually, I think it is nearly the same feeling I get about shopping and traveling. I love to find and explore new thrift shops, antique shops. [ love mine close to home too] It is the thrill of the hunt. For some it is the haggle, then the bagging it, or getting what you want after how many hunts for it. You then proudly get it home, which is sometimes an achievement in itself. That is like exploring new wilderness. Or taking a vacation to a new place. We sight see. To me it's all the same. Its in there with searching for blogs in the unseen wilderness of the net.

I can't afford to be a cottage chic blogger or even a French decor blogger or any other Charming decor blogger. So I live through these blogs. Just as I did as a book worm in the characters of the novels I read.

Learning about the subject.

Part of the attraction to decor blogs is the need to read and learn how others have been blogging about decor. Whether it is French or other old world european decor. Maybe about Castles or Cottages. So long as it is nice looking homes and gardens. I need to figure out what makes one more appealing than another. I can get two for one here. What a deal. I can learn and I enjoy the pictures and material in the blogs at the same time. And the third charm factor as mentioned is the thrill of the hunt. Since it is what I love.


I have found that there are some visions I like. Some have the right Decor charm that I would like to add to my collections. [not necessarily cottage decor] I guess I get attached to some bloggers who voice the same likes. Like I felt and saw , when I read a blog at the side. Cote de texas blogger mentioned her likes or tastes, I thought 'gosh I do too'. 'She likes what I like'! So I bagged it. And brought it home. And it is not necessarily cottage design. But it resembles some of my taste. [ Often times some shops shown in blogs have the decor I love]

Then there are days, when I don't know what decision I want to make. So I bring it on home to decide later. I am an awful decision maker. I guess that is why I seek out those who always just know what works.

I have bagged a few blogs in my hunts to start with for now. Tee hee. I am hoping to get another hunt in this weekend. You'll like my hunting hobby trophy.
Thats all today from the cottage wannabe hunter. It's
just me jo

Another person summary of the idea.







I found this blog today. Biggleswade Cottage she said this:



Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Wannabe
I've decided I'm a "wannabe". I want to be as cute and clever and creative as some of the blogs I read, sigh. There are some extremely creative ladies out in bloggyland. Do they know something I don't? Have they invented the 30 hour day and didn't tell the rest of us? Do they only get 4 hours of sleep a night like Martha? Oh well, guess I'll have to live with being a "wannabe" for now...unless the comedian hits the lottery!










My little Shabby Ick Ccottage>
[I can't draw either]



I love castles and cottages.
I have always loved the cottage look. I like the castle look too. I live in a small home. It is as they say if you have a taste for wine, and a beer budget What do you do? You drink beer!. I guess that is more or less what I have been doing in the decorating sense. I have been living thinking cottage. I have grown to love the public media " cottage idea " I have never really fallen out of love with it. It takes so many forms. I have followed the ins and outs of it. Missed some of course. I have been an advid follower of the media with all photos.

Love, love decorating media.
So much so that I never get rid of my favorite magazines. However, I still love to view all kinds of decorating. I also have been a loyal watcher of Hgtv until the last year or so. When Decorating Cents was canceled and the increase in shows of real estate emphasis this last year I have fallen off my daily viewing. In fact there are many days in a a row that I turn on the television. That is a strong statement for me. Believe me. I was an avid viewer with a television on in two rooms at once, so I wouldn't miss anything. And I recorded my favorite shows at the same time. Or the Vcr was at a moments notice to record a favorite shot. No more. The consequence of this is that I have found BLOGS.


I have run into so many blogs. I particularly love the blogroll off the google layout. Maybe blog rolling is my way of learning blogging.
I would love a little critique and comments. A little help would be great.

My Shabby Ick Cottage Night View

Oh how I wanna have cottage chic!


I would love to be a cottage blogger. Maybe someday. In the mean time I am studying other blogs. I will learn by others. I know I have found so many wonderful blogs. I suppose I will mention a few now and then.
Such as this one.
There is so much information on the blogs for a beginer blogger. After one signs up one spends half their time looking for all the information one needs to make ones blogs pleasing. There is far more information out there on topics how to make money and how to use the right words. But I as a new bloggers need so much more than that.
http://fromgodsperspective.blogspot.com/2008/07/ladles-jellyspoons.html

I really need a little guidance.

Here is a little photo of my cottage kitchen in the night view.












Well, I am being funny?



Actually, I really do love black and white together with a color and lots of white. Which is okay. Mixed in right with the Traditional ways. and new ways. And just the right Look. It would still qualify under the term cottage. As in toile -- the French influence.

I have always had the yen for French anything. In the movie 'The French Touch' Meg Ryan character had the same yen for a little stone cottage. Not so formal. Not too rustic. I go for comfy as well. I especially love the office of Fifi 's blog in my blog roll.

Then again I love white and white blends with nearly everything. There are some well done photos in the blog next to this called Something white.

Maybe sometime I can show my favorites. If I figure out how to get permission. I might still add some more favorites.

I live and sleep decorating or should I call it the new hgtv word for it -stageing. I admit I am not really creative. I need to be inspired. I am a bit of a copycat. And there are so many wonderful sources showing me choices to copy. I can't make up my mind!.

So I keep the hobby of cruising for ideas and inspiration. [That's my excuse and I am sticking to it.}
I am sorry it is an affliction. I can't help it.
As long as the blogs are there I will find them and I stay a cottage wannabe.

"just me jo"