Food Lover

Guest post from: Joe Castro I wouldn’t exactly call myself a foodie, but I do love to eat. I love fine restaurants, but I also like the not-so-fine restaurants (I don’t discriminate). I recently graduated from The University of Georgia, and there are so many wonderful, delicious, affordable restaurants in Athens. While I was there, I frequented many (maybe all) the restaurants in the downtown scene, my favorite of which was Last Resort Grill. It’s a funky, upscale creative southern cuisine (and I literally couldn’t describe it in any fewer words). The servers are temperamental townies, but the food can’t be beat. I actually prefer lunch and brunch at Last Resort (fried green tomato sandwich or French toast). My biggest regret (or at least biggest food regret) was that I didn’t visit 5 and 10 before leaving Athens. Everytime I see Hugh Acheson pop up on a Top Chef show on my direcTV, I want to kick myself. Lucky for me, I’ve got tickets to a couple football games this season, which gives me a few more chances to spend a week’s worth of pay on a meal good enough to be my last. I can’t wait.

Giada at Home

I appreciate the guest post, Jamie Guy

With good reason, Giada at Home is one of Food networks most successful TV shows. Nominated for two daytime Emmy awards, Giada at Home has it all, good Italian cooking and baking, party planning tips and a very likable host. She has one of those seemingly gentle personalities and while I'd probably find it annoying in person, on screen her over emphasis of emotion is essential to a culinary show. They usually have her work out of a kitchen in a rented Malibu home or out on the beaches Malibu, which really gives the show a laid back California feel.
One thing I especially enjoy is the added element of having to plan for a large number of guests. In fact, the show has helped in planning my own parties as I have a better idea of timing things baking and cooking Giada's recipes. Most cooking shows make a small amount and tell you to just double the ingredients the more you make; however, they rarely give you a good indication of cook or bake time for your additional portions. I've had to undergo many a trial and error to adjust the heat or time required to have a portion multiplied dish come out as well as it would had I made it with the exact portion shown on TV. This is why I will continue to check out this show via DIRECT.TV.

The music for the new Winnie the Pooh

Guest post written by kylie Sanders

I'm a music blogger and I just don't stick to one particular genre or region of local musicians. I really do try and blog about it all. That may be a little hard, but I think that I do a decent job of it. A personal favorite of mine though is TV and movie soundtracks. I just love listening to ones from some of my favorite shows and films and think about how these pieces of music relate to them.

I was looking up more info on Zooey Deschanel's music for the new Winnie the Pooh movie to write a blog post about it, when I came across www.domainNames.com. I took a pretty good look at it and after a little bit of thought I decided to sign up for a domain for my blog on there. So I did and I'm currently workiing on making the transition from blogging platform to website.

I love her music for the movie. It's just so fitting to the theme! But I also love her band She and Him so it's no surprise that I like this stuff.

DIY green dŽcor for our kids' playroom

Guest post written by Megan Radley

Having kids has been so great. Sure there are stressful times, but I've had the best times of my life with them, hands down. College was nothing compared to this. Right now we're planning on redecorating the kids' playroom and we're going to have all kinds of fun doing that.
I went online to find some really cool ideas about how we could make our own decorations for the room. While I was online I found some information on www.shopelectricityratestexas.com about energy savings plans and I read through it. After that ! I decided to order one of them for our home energy plan to help make sure we're more efficient with our electricity.
I found some old frames up in the attic, so I'm getting the kids to paint some artwork to put in those frames and I'm going to hang them all along a wall in there. I think that we may also paint a mural on the wall rather than buy more decorations. There will be less waste that way. Plus, the kids can get really creative with it!

Campus Bookstore

Guest post from: Bruno Smith

When I first started the process of getting a website up for my campus bookstore, I was really overwhelmed at first by all the domain and hosting packages available out there, but once I narrowed it down the process wasn't all that daunting. It took me a little bit of time to find a good designer that could help me get up all the photos and images I needed but Sarah ended up being wonderful and really helped me with all the aspects of the site. Everything is really flowing smoothly now, and we're really making significant online sales, so I definitely would say building the site was a worthwhile investment for my business. Not only that, but now I know a little bit more about web design for ! the future! In this technological era, you just can't afford not to have a great online presence so I took it upon myself to get one going for my little shop. I guess that's the kind of business ethics I have, and it's served me well in the long run.

Giada at Home

I appreciate the guest post, Jamie Guy

With good reason, Giada at Home is one of Food networks most successful TV shows. Nominated for two daytime Emmy awards, Giada at Home has it all, good Italian cooking and baking, party planning tips and a very likable host. She has one of those seemingly gentle personalities and while I'd probably find it annoying in person, on screen her over emphasis of emotion is essential to a culinary show. They usually have her work out of a kitchen in a rented Malibu home or out on the beaches Malibu, which really gives the show a laid back California feel.
One thing I especially enjoy is the added element of having to plan for a large number of guests. In fact, the show has helped in planning my own parties as I have a better idea of timing things baking and cooking Giada's recipes. Most cooking shows make a small amount and tell you to just double the ingredients the more you make; however, they rarely give you a good indication of cook or bake time for your additional portions. I've had to undergo many a trial and error to adjust the heat or time required to have a portion multiplied dish come out as well as it would had I made it with the exact portion shown on TV. This is why I will continue to check out this show via DIRECT.TV.

Ottoman slipcovers to dress up my dorm room

Guest post written by Mandy Gordon

My first year of college I didn't really bother to decorate my dorm room and it was the most depressing thing ever! I always found excuses to stay out of my dorm room. But before I went back for my sophomore year this year, I decided to decorate my dorm room to make it feel a little homier. Along with that, I bought some cheap little ottomans that you can store stuff in to use with my futon, but they're already looking pretty ragged.
So I decided that instead of having terrible looking ottomans or buying some new ones, I'd make some slipcovers for them. When I was home last weekend I used my parents' Clear wireless internet 4g to look up some directions on how to make some. While I was home I went with my mom to the fabric store to pick out some fabric and sewed them together that afternoon.
Each ottoman slipcover was really easy to use and I bought some sturdy cotton fabric in a cute print to make sure that I could wash the slipcovers in case they get dirty.