North Carolina Mini-Vacation

This afternoon, my wife and I are heading up to North Carolina for a mini-vacation. I call it a mini-vacation because we’ll only be there until Sunday. I would love a 10 day vacation, but it will still be nice to get away.
We’re going to the Asheville area, where my parents have a vacation home. [...]

Wedding Site Makeover and E-Mail Marketing

So my wife Katie runs Does the Dress Fit, a wedding resource site. She goes a great job researching and posting articles. The site is just over a year old and we decideed to give it a new look. Using the Lifestyle theme I downloaded last week, we completely changed the way Does the Dress [...]

Ordering a Creative Vado HD

After doing a lot of research and reading tons of Amazon comments, I’ve decided to purchase a Creative Vado HD 720p Pocket Video Camcorder. The Flip MinoHD Camcorder
dominates the mini video camera market right now… I feel like I’m buying a Zune when everyone else has an iPod. I’m placing my order on Amazon this [...]

StudioPress Lifestyle Theme

Yesterday I purchased my first premium wordpress theme. After a lot of searching, I settled with the StudioPress Lifestyle theme. You know not know the name StudioPress, but I guarantee you’ve seen their Revolution in use. I chose the Lifestyle theme because it gave me exactly what I was looking for in terms of style [...]

Top Free Wordpress Themes for 2009

Smashing Magazine put out a list two weeks ago of the 100 Amazing Free Wordpress Themes for 2009. Some of these themes are stunning… I would never imagine them being free. The list features dozens of magazine style themes, portfolio themes, photo gallery themes and more. I’m confident you will find a theme on this [...]

Painting Kitchen Cabinets

Last weekend we spent some time repainting our kitchen cabinets. Since we moved in we were really turned off by the color of our cabinets. It was like a weird pinkish tan color. It completely clashed with the dark counter tops and stainless steel appliances we have. After looking through a lot of kitchen magazines, [...]