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This is my very first blog carnival to actually host, and it has been rather fun!

Make sure you also check out…

• Stories of a Traveling Diva for Hors d’oeuvres and Cocktails
• Group Writing Projects for Appetizers
• Herbal Connection for the First Course
• The Gonzo Papers for the Main Course

Here goes:

First of all, It’s Important to Get Off on the Right Foot…Catalog Number A1, so to speak!

Since this is Dessert, let’s talk about the Top Ten Tips – Having an Ice-Cream Sundae Party but you can’t be busy thinking about the 9 Hours, 37 Min, 45 Seconds & 1457 Calories…And contrary to popular belief, there are wines that go perfectly with dessert, like ice wines…Let’s just call them Rx Wine…LOL…Just what the Doctor ordered…

Secondly, if you joined the blog carnival in the hopes of Finding Your Cheese at the End of the Success Maze, you may also want to check out 10 Secrets to Business Success, Must Have SEO Wordpress Plugins + Search Engine Results, and the Fact Too Often Ignored.

It’s okay If You Can’t Be the Best at Something…, even if that is writing your resume…It may even be worth your while to look into Yaro Starak’s Super Virtual Resume and How To Get One…Problem solved!

Since this is a Progressive Dinner, many of the guests will spark up some pretty interesting conversations, many of them off the wall, including topics from a Bad Tax Idea: Getting Married without checking on the tax ramifications to How Tiger Woods Inspires My Parenting…LOL… For example:

If you’re a teacher, I’m sure you’re glad you’re not Grading Homework on Trivial History July 4 this summer, or else you might be Bugged and prone to saying Crap and Other 4 Letter Words, and then you’d have to figure out How To Deal With the Swear Jar…You’d be saying to yourself, “Are You Nuts?“

In political and social matters, we find out what’s Debi’s View in Athens, Alabama, USA. With so many Cultural Blunders in Tele-Sales, we remember that sometimes the state of affairs brings us right back to the days of West “By God Race Mattered” Virginia and Avoiding the Worst! I mean they can always find out How to Use Online Translation Tools for assistance.

Some of the guests at the dinners may even resort to name dropping…”We had a Memorial Day Special – Remembering Todd Christopher Weaver…Do you know of him?”, or “Have you visited the Ellis Feiman House in Autumn? It’s truly divine!” or “Did you hear about How Jacob Cass Raised Over $5000 in Sponsorship and Other Lessons?”

They may even talk a little bit about their summer fun…”We Visited One of America’s Castles, what are you doing this summer?”…”Oh, we look forward to relaxing in The Wicker Chairs when the Dock Dogs Come to Sippo Lake Park…”

No doubt there will be some rants like Top Ten Tips – Public Restroom Etiquette or An Open Letter to Jeep and raves like The Quest for Uncle Eddie’s, The Best Vegan Cookies, Wherever They May Be, which will run right into a “convo” about vegetarianism, veganism and the Herbal Connection: Land of Plenty.

Without a question, come Dessert time, everyone always ends up talking about Love and Riches…There will be some Swerving Headlong into Memory Lane remembering Powersaw Poetry – A Toothsome Tale of Love, and “Oh, speaking of teeth, how do you feel about Dental Plans vs. Dental Insurance?“

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Again, don’t forget to check out the other blogs in this Progressive Dinner Blog Carnival!

• Stories of a Traveling Diva for Hors d’oeuvres and Cocktails
• Group Writing Projects for Appetizers
• Herbal Connection for the First Course
• The Gonzo Papers for the Main Course

I hope you enjoyed this Food for Thought from Blog N’ Butter! Until next time…

What’s Your Blog N’ Butter?

Kimberly Edwards

P.S. If you Enjoyed our Blog N’ Butter blog, either let us know by Commenting in the Comment Box Below, Bookmarking Us for Future Reference, or Stumbling Us! Hope you enjoyed Dinner!

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Well, the day has finally arrived and we are in our Final Countdown!

The “Soup to Nuts 3″ Progressive Dinner Blog Carnival takes place tomorrow.

Blog N’ Butter is hosting the “Dessert Course” and we will be going live @ 12:00 pm…

That way, everyone in the world can access the carnival on July 31st!

Stories of a Traveling Diva is serving Hors d’oeuvres

Group Writing Projects is serving Appetizers

Herbal Connection serving the First Course

The Gonzo Papers is serving the Main Course

Blog N’ Butter is serving Dessert

I can’t wait to see you ALL Stumbling around the different courses of the progressive dinner of the Blog Carnival tomorrow!

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I hope you enjoy this Current Event on Blog N’ Butter! Until next time…

What’s Your Blog N’ Butter?

Kimberly Edwards

P.S. The Blog Carnival will be great exposure for your sites when you leave comments, a lot of fun, and has a lot of variety for everyone!

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It’s true…I am in The World’s Most Beautiful Woman Pageant online, and need your help with votes.

This online pageant will be a real, bona fide, live pageant soon, and you must “qualify” online to be invited!

Right now, I am teetering as having the Highest Rating for July in Canada! Help me stay there and move up the ranks globally too.

The World’s First International Online Beauty Pageant
Click and VOTE for me!

It is completely free to be a judge on the site…and who doesn’t like being an armchair judge?

I appreciate everyone’s encouragement, support and kind words with votes, messages and virtual flowers!

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I hope you enjoy this Current Event Beauty Pageant brought to you by Blog N’ Butter! Until next time…

What’s Your Blog N’ Butter?

Kimberly Edwards

P.S.
Beauty Pageant – ‘In Search of the World’s Most Beautiful Woman’® The world’s first online international beauty pageant. Entry is free and open to anyone 18 or older.

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I saw Daughtry’s new video for the song, “What About Now?” today!

It was so awesome and so very touching that I wanted to be sure all of our readers got a chance to see it for themselves!

Check it out here:

I hope that everyone watching this video was touched and got a spark to make a difference, no matter how small it may seem, in this world!

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I hope you enjoyed this Food for Thought on Blog N’ Butter! Until next time…

What’s Your Blog N’ Butter?

Kimberly Edwards

P.S. Download the MP3 for yourself and “take it with you”:

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Have you heard of the Alzheimer’s Memory Walk?

It only happens to be the nation’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer care, support and research!

Where is it being held?

All over the United States – in more than 600 communities!!! They are calling on volunteers of all ages to become champions in the fight against Alzheimer’s!

They are in serious need of team captains to put together a great team for participation in this event! Do You Have What It Takes?

How Far Do They Walk?

The Alzheimer Memory Walks are typically 2-3 miles in distance. You Can Do It!!!

When Does It Happen?

The Memory Walks are held in the morning on a weekend sometime in the Fall.

What Can You Do?

Be a Captain or Form a Team in the Alzheimer’s Memory Walk so that you you can walk with a purpose!

Why Should You Do It?

“Get on the Move” to help us get closer to a world without Alzheimer’s! Together, we can MOVE a nation! Some of my older aunts and uncles are afflicted with this terrible disease…Please help!

You should …

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I hope you start your own Alzhemier’s Memory Walk Team after reading about this Current Event on Blog N’ Butter! Until next time…

What’s Your Blog N’ Butter?

Kimberly Edwards

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Today, I wanted to share with you one of our other websites, The Make Money From Home Blog.

So, I thought I would share a glimpse of the reason my husband and I created this site!

We hope you get a chance to check it out! This article was written by Kenney.

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I grew up in a single family home. We were always penny pinchin’, we never had a car, never owned a house, and moved, at times, every year or every other year.

Don’t get me wrong, I love life! My mom and I made the best of what we had. In fact, we had a blast, but I swore that I would never live like that again and that when I made it, I would “share with the world” the quickest and fastest ways to make money from home.

I want to teach people how to Be their own boss, call their own shots, and make as much money as they believe they can.

This is what drives The Make Money From Home Blog. I know how hard it is out there…Trying to make ends meet and sometimes feeling like there is no hope.

…Searching to find some truth among all the bullcorn scams…Trying to find what really works, so you can get right to Continue Reading…

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We talked about Saving Energy cleaning just the other day in an earlier blog post:

What Lengths Will You Go To Saving Energy Cleaning

…But what else can you do to save your coins everyday?

Well, in our household, you only turn on the shower when you’re ready to get in…that’s for sure! Turn off the water when brushing your teeth until you need it.

Turn those lights OFF when leaving a room!

We use those “green bags” that breathe releasing the gases that cause our fruits and vegetables to rot, keeping them fresh longer.

The list can go on and on…It’s the “right thing to do” saving your money. Sometimes it is crucial!

Many people are saving their “pennies” now to roll for Debt help.

I know when we were in university, we were certainly saving and rolling our pennies for this reason – our Credit card debt!

Nowadays, with the high foreclosure rate and bankruptcies, no doubt people are in some serious need of Debt relief.

I was “stumbling” around online again today, when I saw this site, and thought that this site offers a lot of different opportunities to save money with your financial decisions.

Often times, a great place to start is with Debt consolidation. Places like Bills.com can do that for you and give you competitive rates to do so.

When you Consolidate debt, essentially you are allowing the company to go in and talk to all of your creditors and negotiate payments with them, then they roll your debt all into one current loan with a much more manageable monthly payment, only paying interest on 1 loan, not 3 or 5 or 10…

This saves you $$$!

If you’re not in debt, Bills IQ allows you to do bill pay online…meaning saving money on postage, envelopes, saving paper for the planet, and reducing the possibility that your payment may be received or opened late by that company…thus, resulting in a late payment and a late fee for you. This is also often reported to the credit agencies and works against your credit rating!

Anyway, I thought this was a good resource to help you continue in your quest to save money! Credit counseling may be necessary and BillsIQ provides that as well.

Save Your Money, but work towards not having to save it for your debts, but for something much more worthwhile!

My dad knew a man at work that saved up for vacations with his wife by taking bottles back to the store and getting the money for the deposits back…Pennies Add Up!

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I hope you enjoyed this Great Find on Blog N’ Butter! Until next time…

What’s Your Blog N’ Butter?

Kimberly Edwards

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Pro Blog Network News:

Thanks for cruising by the Blog N’ Butter Blog Network!

Just thought we’d let you know what’s hot inside this network right now!

1. First, there is still quite the debate and a lot of controversy surrounding the Net Neutrality Issue, especially because the issue has been passed on to the Senate now from the House in the United States. This is major for every blogger, business internet user, or email checker alike in the world!

If you want to find out more on Net Neutrality, type “Net Neutrality” in the search bar to see all of our posts and videos.

2. Find out how to get rid of mosquitoes & biting flies this summer on Your Health Today:

• 10 Choices for a Natural Biting Fly Repellent
• How to Get Rid of Mosquitoes Without Harming Yourself

3. Also, don’t forget to check out our cool new Polls in the sidebar, so that we can learn a little bit more about you, what you want, where you’re from, and what you think about hot topics. This is so that we can create a tighter community. Go ahead and check them out for yourself, and share your opinion.

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I hope you enjoyed this Pro Blog Network News on Blog N’ Butter! Until next time…

What’s Your Blog N’ Butter?

Kimberly Edwards

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My mother had to go get new, updated glasses about 1 month ago now.

When we went in to get them at her eye doctor, I was astounded at the astronomical prices we were going to have to pay. I didn’t realize how much lenses and frames could be. Wow!

So, when I “stumbled” across this place online today, ZenniOptical.com, I was floored at the prices. They have some Incredible Stylish New Frames From Zenni that will not make your pocketbook faint.

I’m not sure what it is you need…I suppose you’ll need an eye exam, and then you’ll know your prescription before you order from here. However, it seems they have everything over here that they offer at the eye doctor, just at much cheaper prices.

Here’s the real kicker…They have Zenni Optical $ 8 Rx Eyeglasses. Are you kidding? If you wanted to, you could get your eyeglasses from here for $8…That’s unheard of…I have heard of places you could get a pair for $100, even some specials where you could get 2 for that. But $8? Wow!

Literally, what we were looking at at the doctor’s office was well over $300, and the ones we really liked were over $400…I’m not kidding!

Whether it be Variable Dimension Frames From Zenni, or getting Photochromic lenses, they have it. Plus, you get the Anti-Scratch Coating, UV Protection, and Lense Edge Polishing & Beveling for Free.

When I saw this site, I wanted to share it with you, as I’m sure, if you wear glasses, you have been dismayed at the crazy prices you have seen at your eye doctor’s office too. I wish we would have seen this site beforehand.

However, I’m sure my mother will maybe buy a few other styles from here too, being that the prices are so much cheaper. Why not?

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I hope this Great Find is helpful to you from Blog N’ Butter! Until next time…

What’s Your Blog N’ Butter?

Kimberly Edwards

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Food For Thought:

My husband and I were chatting over dinner tonight about how much we remember from being a child or a baby…What were our earliest memories…

…And we got on the topic of conversation that people don’t remember their infancy, for the most part…

On the contrary, we came to a conclusion…All of the things we were taught as a baby, we remember.

We are born into this world without a knowledge of anything. People start talking and fussing over you…You don’t know the language, you don’t know what to do…

…We have to learn everything.

So, to say that you don’t remember your infancy is preposterous, essentially…Everything we were taught as a child…how to talk, how to walk, how to eat, how to smile…everything, we remember to this day…

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I hope you enjoyed this Food For Thought on Blog N’ Butter! Until next time…

What’s Your Blog N’ Butter?

Kimberly Edwards

P.S. Feel free to Share Your Thoughts on this idea, or what your earliest memory as a child is by Commenting in the Comment Box Below.

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Seriously…I think we all realize, either for environmental purposes or financial purposes, that we need to reduce our energy use.

Energy Conservation has been a huge issue as of late, as many people speak of their carbon footprint…

What have you done to save energy? I’ll tell you a few things we’ve done, some that work, some that are okay, and some that seem silly…

Who doesn’t wait until the dishwasher can barely hold another mug, dish or spoon? Especially when trying to save money, and when you have a very busy household, it is important to conserve.

We always make sure our laundry loads are full, and we have succumbed to using cold water for all washes with special organic, cold water detergents.

Who hasn’t gone back to using the old broom and dust pan whenever they can? I know we have…especially on our tiled floors, but that just doesn’t seem to do it all the time…

Initially, we got a Roomba for my mother, as it can be difficult for her to vacuum the house with her arthritis. These little vacuums run all by themselves, can go under chairs and couches, bounce off walls, won’t go down stairs, and when they are out of charge, they go back to their charger. As we have a large house, we had that little Roomba running all day and all night, as soon as it would charge, it was out to work again. It lasted months, but then it just wouldn’t pick up as much dirt, and the charging times got a little longer. Apparently, the newer model works better…Will have to check into that for sure! Love this thing!

Instead of hauling out that huge, heavy vacuum every time there is a spill, why not call in the dogs…LOL…Actually, in our household, we have 5 little dogs, and you barely have to spill anything before they are happy to “lap it up” for you…LOL…Handy…

Then, there are Energy Star appliances and gadgets? Often, they save you a ton of energy consumption, meaning they save you money and the environment.

We have checked out the new Dirt Devil AccuCharge Stick Vac and Hand Vac. Apparently, they use 70% less energy…and this makes the AccuCharge the 1st cordless cleaning technology that has earned itself an Energy Star approval.

I’ve had a little Dirt Devil (like a dust buster) since I went to college, and we won’t talk about how long ago that’s been, but it still works and is in the front hall closet…The only thing is that you have to deal with a really long cord.

Well, I guess it might be worth a shot trying out the new Dirt Devil AccuCharge cordless vacuum. It will save the dogs from, well, “working like dogs“, and will save us energy and money!

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I hope you enjoyed this Food For Thought on Blog N’ Butter! Until next time…

What’s Your Blog N’ Butter?

Kimberly Edwards

P.S. Check out this awesome vacuum here:

P.P.S. Let us know what You do that Saves you Energy when Cleaning by Commenting in the Comment Box Below!

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Don’t be caught saying, “I wish I would have…” or “I was going to do that, but…“!

Go on and Enter now to have a featured Article in the Soup to Nuts 3 Blog Carnival.

This will be “held” like a “Progressive Dinner” – That’s one where you start off at someone’s house for hors d’oeuvres, off to another home for appetizers, to another for the 1st course, another for the main course, and a final destination for Dessert (we are holding the Dessert course right here, on Blog N’ Butter)!

If you’ve never participated in a blog carnival, here’s all you need to know, it’s the best way to attract visitors to your blog and to connect with other bloggers.

Of all the carnivals out there, why is Soup To Nuts the one carnival you shouldn’t miss? Because there is no other carnival that provides you as much exposure. It’s that simple!

Every website and every blog attracts their own organic traffic.

In Soup To Nuts, unlike other carnivals, you don’t benefit just from the traffic that comes to one blog, you get visitors from five different host blogs.

Why is that? Read on…

People visiting the carnival can easily navigate from one host blog to another, just as in a progressive dinner where you go to a different house or restaurant for each course.

Another unique benefit of Soup To Nuts is that you get the opportunity to spotlight five different posts. You can enter a post in each of the five courses. If you publish multiple blogs you can submit five entries from each one!

Check out this post for all the rules; if you have any questions write a comment there and you will be provided an answer.

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I will be hosting the Dessert course here at Blog N’ Butter this time around.

Stories of a Traveling Diva is serving Hors d’oeuvres, Group Writing Projects is serving Appetizers, Herbal Connection serving the First Course, The Gonzo Papers and serving the Main Course.

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It is not expected that there will be a Drinks After Dinner Reception this time…which means once the deadline passes, submissions will not be accepted for inclusion. {Enter now}

Please Remember: To truly benefit from any carnival you need to do more than submit an entry. It’s necessary to visit the carnival, check out other blogs and write comments. That’s where your big payoff comes.

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I hope you enjoyed this Current Event to help you Advertise Your Website from Blog N’ Butter! Until next time…

What’s Your Blog N’ Butter?

Kimberly Edwards

P.S. If this post has made you particularly hungry, check out my Cooking With Kimberly site for some great recipes to tide you over until the Progressive Dinner Blog Carnival…LOL…

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To All of My Fellow Canadians:

Have a Safe and Super Canada Day!

I hope everyone will get to enjoy some R&R and the Fireworks tonight! Maybe some of you have hit up your local carnivals…If you’re from my area, you’ll no doubt be in Port Dalhousie tonight!

Either way…Have fun!!!

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Did you know that Canada Day was originally named Dominion Day? I bet you didn’t…LOL…

I hope you enjoyed this “Current Event” from Blog N’ Butter! Until next time…

What’s Your Blog N’ Butter?

Kimberly Edwards

P.S. Let us know what you do for Canada Day? What are your Canadian traditions? Inform us in the Comment Box Below!

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How unbelievably amazing is this idea? You could just sit and watch this for hours, if you were in the area. Every floor moves independently from the others and can turn 360 degrees.

The 1st skyscraper of this kind will be built in Dubai…Lucky ducks!!! This is so cool…

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I think it is amazing that it will actually create energy too…Really progressive thinking. It would be cool as a hotel!

I hope you enjoyed the presentation of this Current Event on Blog N’ Butter! Until next time…

What’s Your Blog N’ Butter?

Kimberly Edwards

P.S. Tell us what you think about this new architecture that has been presented here by Typing it in the Comment Box Below!

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