Magic Memory Making~: February 2010

Friday, February 26, 2010

The R.S. Women's Conference

Hope you are staying warm and toasty tonight!

A very special thank you to all of you who attended the classes last night. I am happy you have come to visit the blog.

I just wanted to share with you that I was having trouble resizing my header photo but from the very excellent instructions that Shelli added I was able to do it tonight. That is the fun of blogging there is always something new to learn. Thanks Shelli! Check out drpic.com when you are ready to resize your header photo. It is easy to use and does a perfect job once you know what to do.

A big Thanks to Steve and Marae for all their help as well. Blog on! Send me your questions through the comments!

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Testimony

"I can shake off everything if I write;
my sorrows disappear,
my courage is reborn."
Anne Frank

I think this is so true. Writing is so cathartic. It helps me understand who I really am, how I feel and operate. I love to take it out, put it on paper/computer screen and examine what is really inside of me. Have you found this to be helpful in your own life. I find it to be a Godsend. Writing is liberating! Try it, you' ll like it!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

How to Use This Blog

I was asked to give a presentation at a Women's Conference for our Stake Relief Society organization about blogging on the Internet. The building does not have reliable Internet access. Thus the dilemma...How to teach an Internet Class with no Internet? That was problematic along with the time allotment...30 minutes.

At best the class time would allow me to briefly share a few things and there would be virtually no time for a question and answer period or any time to evaluate where each class was in terms of their current knowledge of blogging. So I made a decision to actually create this blog as an electronic handout for the class participants.

Once you have a Google Account you are ready to begin. If you have already started a blog please become a follower of this blog in the allocated space at the right on the sidebar.

I have already done several posts on this blog about how to create a blog and how to use it. If interest continues I will make more posts on various aspects of blogging.

My disclaimer is I am not an expert on blogging, but I am practiced at it. I have written well over a 1500 posts in the last few years on various subjects. So I have learned how to navigate around the blogger platform and the blogsphere and can share the tips I have learned with you.

If any of those terms are unfamiliar to you, I urge you to go to the sidebar on the right and go to the Glossary of Terms Link regarding blogging. Clicking on the link with open it for you.

I would like to use this blog as a means to interact with you individually. Please comment. That way our interactions can be two-way communication. Other people will benefit from your questions as well. So don't be shy, please. You may also e-mail me at bonniejmattson at yahoo dot com. Or you can look up my phone at lds.org.

If just one of you gets the joy that can be had from becoming a blogger I will consider my time well spent. I have put a button or badge on my sidebar that has a picture of our street and says "One Designing Woman" which is the logo for my main blog. By clicking on it you can go directly to my main blog and you can peruse it and find some ideas there.

The price you pay will be learning far too much about my life, for which I apologize in advance. But if you see anything along the way that you would like to learn to do, or are curious about...let me know. Any comments on any of my blogs come directly to my e-mail first, so I will always get your messages right away. The advantage to comments on the blog is that others can benefit that way.

So come along with those of us that are blogging~what a fun way to keep some commandments!

Turning The Hearts

Passing it on...
Line upon Line...
Precept Upon Precept...

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To Nurture & To Bless

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From the Family: A Proclamation to the World we read:

"Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children."

To nurture is to be in charge of the influences that contribute
to the development of an individual according to the dictionary.

As Women we are the ♥ of the Home

Blogging helps us become the Glue of the Home
By keeping our families connected.

Sharing Your ♥~ One Post At A Time

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"For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God, for we know that it is by grace we are saved after all we can do." 2 Nephi 25:23

Leaving a Legacy

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By Nicole Nordeman

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Memory Keeping At Its Best

Exactly What Is A BLOG?

A Blog is a shortened name for a Web Log which is a place where you can go on your computer and save your memories, share your memories, communicate with others and discover the real you.

Why is this such a fantastic medium for Memory Keeping?

1. It is an easier way to keep memories than writing long hand in a journal or typing one on the computer. It is easier than keeping up with photo albums, scrapbooking, or worrying about all your pictures stuck in a box somewhere.

2. It is easy to store. Your blog is stored in cyberspace. It does not require any shelf space, there is nothing to dust, and in the event that your house catches on fire you don't have to it grab and run. The files are available from any computer at any time even if your computer is destroyed, crashes or is stolen. Blogging is better than fire insurance. Seriously, think about it!

3. Blogging is a fun way to keep the commandments to record our lives and experiences and memories for the future. Something that is fun is more likely to happen than something that is a drudgery.

4. Blogging is completely free once you have a computer and the Internet access. If you have tried scrapbooking you know how costly and messy it can be. It is fun but not everyone has the time and money to do it.

5. Blogging is very convenient. You can do it just about any place and you can stop and start whenever you want. You simply save your post as a draft and come back when you can. Once I did some scrap book pages of a two day trip to Disneyland with our kids and grandkids. The scrapbooking of that event took nearly as long as living it..
Who has time to do each life event twice? Most of us are scrambling to get it done the first time around!

6. Blogging is multi-tasking at its best. You can keep the commandments, record your life, save important articles and quotes and points of inspiration, organize and preserve your photos and anything else you keep on paper. You can scan your documents and include them in your blog You can quit writing letters and spending so much money on long distance phone calls, be the glue in your family, make new friends. You can find blogs written by experts in any field y0u can think of and learn, learn learn...all for free.

7. You can make your blog private or you can make it public or you can select who can read it.

8. You can print your blog and make it into a book to keep or give as a gift.

9. With your digital camera and your blog you never have to pay for photo developing, stamps, or therapy again. When you write and read about your life you begin to realize how beautiful it is in all its facets. It makes you grateful, your family happy, your Family History teacher ecstatic and it is legal, uplifting and calorie free.

10. It keeps your mind active and gives you something to do beside watch TV when you are old and gray. You can sit back, read about your wonderful life and remember your joys, your sorrows and your challenges and triumphs. Keeping this commandment has many layers of blessings for you.

11: Your Father in Heaven will be pleased and you will set a great example for others. As Elder Ballard has told us ( I have made his name into a link with the talk he gave attached. Click your mouse on the link to read the talk) a blog is an excellent missionary tool as well. As you record your experiences, your spiritual thoughts and your testimony who knows who may be influenced for good!

12. You'll be able to keep up with rising generation who already find e-mail antiquated.

♥ So What's Not To Love? ♥
Come on along and enter the Blogsphere~
The possibilities are endless.

Writing For Health and Well-Being

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You can blog for others but it is important to realize how valuable this is to you as an individual. It is a wonderful stress reducer and a happy road to self-discovery. It been found to benefit a person not only psychologically but physically. It is wonderful way to keep our brains active and creative. We discover our blessings and gratitude produces happy people. Happy people are healthier people. So in the words of President Spencer W. Kimball....'Do It"...You won't be sorry!

"There is nothing more enlightening than reading journal (blogging) entries from several years prior to get a grasp of the growth that has taken place for you as an individual.

Journaling (blogging) is also a way to examine your own thoughts, values and beliefs. By understanding yourself better you are better able to make more intelligent decisions and take actions that are in line with your deepest values. Notebooks for journaling (and blogging) allow you to put your subconscious on paper and therefore decide what thoughts benefit you and which do not." This quote is taken from an article that can be found here.