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Market Yourself BETTER With Canva.com

Creating eye catching graphics can be harder than you realize, until that is, until you come across canva.com.

Trust me, having a template that allows you to creates stunning graphics can be a time saver for a blogger, or business person alike.

I run across a ton of sites, and I am telling you, this one is different. Please read on………..

Many ladies like yourself are starting new adventures. Whether it is starting a new small business, or teaching classes or getting your name out into the local community; …more than ever we need professional looking graphics when we present ourselves to the public.

Even the smallest of businesses are getting on board with showing themselves better on social media. We are needing to put our best foot forward to stay ahead of the trends. Presentation can be everything in a market where your customer can turn away in a matter of just moments.

If you are hoping to land a better job, or simply get people in the door to your new business, working with excellent graphics can really keep people engaged longer.

Combining the right fonts, styles, colors and prints can be a way to look sharper in a readers eyes.

Let me introduce to you a website that I LOVE. Its called Canva.com.This simple design software is online and FREE to use.

Here are a few things you can make:

Cards for family birthdays
Sharp invitations for your social networking party
Flyers to post at your local coffee shop
Posters for your business advertising
Large banners to hang outside your shop
Résumés that make you look chic and fresh
Certificates for that new program you are starting
Infographics for your blogs
Book Covers for that book you always wanted to self-publish
Presentations for that small bible study
Social Graphics for your twitter, google plus and facebook fan pages
Business Cards for your purse when you meet that important person
Letterheads that will open the doors for you
Postcards as a thank you notes
Desktop Wallpapers to inspire you
Photo Collages that make family scrapbooking easy
Gift Certificates as a thank you gift
Magazine Covers for that new start up
Menus for that special dinner party

Here is how you can get started with your first graphic on their site:

Simply Select A Project

Next select a free image and work with their overlays. Pixabay.com is one of my favorite sites for free graphis. Canva ALSO allows you to upload your own graphics. From there you can discover all the options that are available. Simply save it in a PNG image for the best resolution.

Look! Transform your facebook profile!

Here is what I made for my facebook profile.

Make A Blog Banner, such as I did for a friend:

There are so many options available with Canva

Canva for Work

If you enjoy the free version of Canva, they also have a paid version that is intended for team collaboration. This version is designed to allow teams to work more efficiently with one another.

A significant feature with the “Canva For Work” are the options to save your templates, logos and fonts that will be accessible for the entire team to work with. Moreover, it will have time-saving features and access controls for teams, where it makes it easy to collaborate with other member. You could share, design, give comments and like each other’s work.

The regular free version of Canva has limited filters and fonts for designing. They have a trial version which is free for 30 days. You can cancel the subscription anytime, and they will inform you 3 days ahead of your bill will be schedule if you want to see what is available with the paid version.

What do you think? Are you ready to design with Canva?

Check out the interesting articles below:

Great Articles On Canva

Canva Design School Blog

Business Cards By Canva

Make your card stand out with a background – you can choose a solid color or pick from a variety of images and textures in our design library. Then, start adding your information to your card through the text tool and select from over a hundred different fonts to suit your style and theme. Finally, you can download your complete design as a JPEG, PNG or print-ready PDF file.

Post Cards by Canva

Send post cards through the mail to your family about your upcoming parties and events. Canva will make it look like you spent hundreds of dollars on your graphics.

CD Covers by Canva

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Highly Rated Bunker Prepping Movies- “10 Cloverfield Lane”

A Highly Rated Prepping Movie

“10 Cloverfield Lane”

The thriller with John Goodman, rated PG-13, centers on a young woman who, after a car crash, is held captive by a doomsday prepper. He tells her the outside world is uninhabitable due to a chemical attack. She eventually decides the fate that awaits her above ground is better than dealing with what’s happening in the bunker.

My Friend Christopher Mangan recommended it to me

You might call this movie a “Preppers Nightmare” as it involves an Underground Shelter which has almost practically everything you would need to survive underground for about a year or two.

The “Nightmare” is the portrayal of Actor John Goodman’s character, Howard. By the way, his portrayal in the movie is excellent, along with Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s character of Michelle, and John Gallagher, Jr.’s character of Emmett.

The title of the movie, now on Blu-Ray with DVD enclosed is “10 Cloverfield Lane” and it is directed by J.J. Abrams, and the fantastic music score is done by Bear McCreary.

I had to ask him if this movie had any zombies in it…

No, no Zombies! The ending is a surprise as to who or what the attackers are, and no it’s not scary. It is suspenseful and it is character-driven. Again, excellent performances. I saw it four or more times in the movies and I had to get the Blu-Ray, which I picked up the other day. The Soundtrack reminds me of Bernard Herrman’s music scores for some of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies, such as Vertigo, Psycho, North By Northwest, etc.

Expired Food Storage Testing – One Brand NOT To Buy

We are always experimenting with our food. What tastes good, and what doesn’t. Long term food storage doesn’t have to taste bad. You just need to know what brands to avoid.

Pasta Is A Great Buy!

Pasta is always a great buy. You can store pasta for years and it will still taste pretty good. Mix it with a canned item. I stumbled across a three bean salad in the can which can be mixed in with small shells to make a nice lunch or dinner.

Think about what you can put together that can sit on the shelves long term without going bad. Cans are almost always a great buy, because even if they do go past their expiry date, they are generally pretty good.

Heavier Plastics Are A Great Long Term Buy!

Another really great purchase is dry mixes in heavy plastic. Betty Crocker or Marie Callenders bread mixes are great. Avoid any brands which air might over time spoil the food. These heavier plastics tend to keep well long term. We had to dump all of our Jiffy mixes which didn’t taste good after their expiry date. On the other hand, Betty Crocker brands seemed to hold up many years after their expiry.

Easy salad ideas with pasta!

What an easy dish to make from prepping supplies

Passover crackers NEVER Go bad!!

Unlike other crackers, they seem to stay fresh!

You can eat 5 year old Passover crackers, and they taste great!

My morning breakfast, – stick them in the toaster, and put jam or nutella on them. YUM!!

Juffy gets a huge thumb down. Buy Betty Crocker brands

Even when her foods expire, they taste great!

See here, made in 2015,

Betty Crocker expired in 2008,

Jiffy expired in 2012.

Betty Crockers brand tasted great, while Jiffy almost had a chemical taste.

On the left,- Betty Crocker

Jiffy is on the right. See the difference?

The Love Of Historical Childrens Clothing – Designer Kerri Smits “Henri Grace” Collections

Amelie And Henri Company

If you have a grand daughter, or a daughter, and adore the styles centuries ago, you might want to shop Designer Kerri Smits “Henri Grace” collections. Amelie and Henri Studio

This handmade children’s clothing brand is made in the USA. If you love their collections, they share their patterns for you to make yourself in their Pattern Group on Facebook

If you love vintage and historical sewing patterns, you are going to love their styles.

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