Today’s post is actually a very long one, because instead of breaking it down I decided to just do a full post covering all the basics of Feedburner so that you don’t have to be jumping post back and forth. I originally wrote this post about a year a go because a lot of my Design clients where having trouble understanding how to set up Feedburning and the importance of not having a “naked” feed.

Just in case you haven’t heard about Feedburner before, you should know that it is one of the most popular and fully featured free service for syndication of your blog feed. Once you have set up your free Feedburner account, you can choose to redirect your blog feed through Feedburner, instead of simply offering the default feed which are automatically generated for your blog in either Blogger or WordPress.

There are many reasons why burning your feed through Feedburner will be beneficial for both you and your readers, and don’t get me wrong Feedburner has had a lot of little issues in the last couple of years (then it became a part of Google) but for being a free service I totally give it thumbs up, I’ve personally tried other paid feed services and after a few weeks I always came back to Feedburner. Sometimes I hate it and wish they had better capabilities but overall they are a pretty awesome service and in this post I want to explain why and the basics to get you running =]

In this post I will cover all of the following:

• Why use Feedburner?
• How To burn your feed
• How to activate FeedCount
• How to automatically publish to Twitter
• How to activate Email delivery
• Additional recommendations

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I am so very excited to be a stop on the blog tour for Amy Barickman’s new book Fabric Flowers, I had the pleasure to receive the book and give a couple of flowers a try, it’s pretty hard to pick because the book has 25 beautiful flowers with the patterns and detailed instructions.

I am a fabric flower lover so I was thrilled to be asked to participate, the flower I am going to show you is the lily bloom, I added my own spin and changed the center of the flower, hand stitched the edges and add some leafs =] I am super excited about how it came out.

The instructions were super easy and in the back there is patterns for all of the flowers. Here a peek to the Lily bloom flower page (how cute is the bag of the second picture in the below image huh?)

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Today I’m starting a new section here: Blogging tips. This next April I will be celebrating this little blog’s 3rd blogoversary (can you believe that!!?) and even though 3 years of blogging do not make me an expert by any means, there are things that I know now, that I wish someone had explained to me way back when I first started. So I am going to use a few post that I had already written for my Design website and I am going to update them and share them here (along with some new content of course!) because I know that they can help some of the ones that are just venturing in the Blogging world.

In this new section I am going to cover the most frequent questions I get asked by my clients, but if you have a special topic you’d like me to blog about, just mention it on the comments and I’ll try my best to cover it.

So to start, I am going to talk about blogging platforms, I will cover the 3 most popular ones with my clients (Blogger, WordPress.com and WordPress.org) When starting a blog or when having a re-design most bloggers question what platform they should go with, and to be honest it’s about band-with, size, investment and flexibility. So it depends on what is more important to you, so to help out I worked on a comparison table that will cover some of the most important points.

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A few weeks a go I decided that I wanted to make Conner a warm hat for our outdoor adventures (not that we actually go outside much when it’s snowing) but he definitely needed something thicker than what he had. Luckily I have different colors of fleece for projects that I still haven’t had the chance to make, so I used small pieces and made him a cute little hat with teddy bear ears. And as usual I wanted to share a tutorial and the pattern so you can make some too, and keep the babies in your life warm and cozy!

The first har I made (when I made this tutorial) was a month and a half a go, so Peanut was only 2 and a half months, I made the hat just like the pattern I’m sharing, but he grew out of it pretty fast, so I made a second one (photo below) adding 1/4″ around the pattern.

Since I made this pattern measuring Conner and not with an actual hat, I’m not sure about the sizes. The best way to be sure the hat will fit your baby perfectly is to measure the circumference and then measure the pattern, that’s what I did for the second hat, I just added 1/2″total to the width of the pattern. But you can also just use your copy machine and make the whole pattern bigger.

Now that I’ve warn all of you about the sizing, let’s start making this cute hat!

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You might have wonder why this little space was so silent, well I’ve been working really hard sketching, vectorizing and painting the new Illustration print line for my shop =] And I’m beyond excited to finally (an officially) launch it today!

As I mention in a previous post, one of my goal for this year was to go back to pen and paper, draw more and try new things. And this is a new as it gets, I had the idea of selling prints for two years now, but I was always too busy to invest time on that little venture.

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