31 Days to Building a Better Blog Starts … NOW!
I’ve said for some time now that I want to do the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog program. I’ve read about it for at least a year now, and everyone I know that has done it, and stuck with it, has said how much it improved their blogs.
This ol’ thing? She needs some [...]
Around the Web & Back Again – Update #2
Who am I kidding calling them a weekly update? Yeah, I know. I was feeling ambitious.
I’ve finally been losing weight again. I had to have Mike take over my Weight Watcher points for me. He cooks for us most nights, and he would often ask me what I wanted for dinner, and I’d pick something [...]
Around the Web & Back Again: Weekly Recap #1…
I’ve been craving a change. It isn’t the first time I’ve felt this way, but once again I find myself wishing I could consolidate all of my sites into one big site. In the end, it is all me, but sometimes I feel like I’m spread out. Pieces of me in different places. Twitter. Facebook. [...]
Curing Your Own Meat Has Nothing to Do With Cookies!
I find it somewhat ironic that I write on a blog called “Big Pink Cookie” and I do not write a thing about baking or cookies, and my husband Mike writes at CoffeeCorner and talks about food, not coffee. (Ok, there are a few coffee related posts here and there, but you get the point.)
Over [...]
The Big Business & Life Goal…
Last night, Christyna of B.E.E. Ventures came to speak to the Houston Fast Track Photographer / Pictage User Group (PUG), and it was nothing short of FABULOUS! She talked about creating sustainable income for your business and things you can do to take your success to the next level. She really sought to speak to [...]
Testing out MacJournal…
Prepping for a road trip, I wanted a way to post to my blog while offline. I’m hoping that MacJournal does the trick and allows me to write blog posts while offline that I can post later on.
… And, it worked! Although it thinks it timed out. Hmm. Well, either way – yay! Blog posts [...]
Social Media – The Revolution is NOW.
BigPinkCookie (aka BlahBlahBlog) will turn 10 tomorrow! 10 years of blogging! Eeeeeeee!!! I sort of have dual blogiversaries for this site actually, because I launched May 8, 2000, and then didn’t use it much until September 2000. So think of this as the celebration kick-off!
It was fun watching this video while thinking of how much [...]
It is All a Matter of Perspective…
I logged in to WordPress to write a post, and then I saw the number. This blog has 29,330 comments. 670 comments shy of 30,000 comments. Real comments, not counting the spam ones Akismet has caught.
Whoa.
Granted, it has been around since 2000, but there have been a few starts & stops along the way. Just [...]
The Big Four-Ooooh…
Yes, you read that right. I turned 40 yesterday. At least that is what the math works out to, because I don’t personally believe it. I still feel about 27, or maybe 32. Definitely not 40. Or not what I thought 40 would feel like – although I did go to the orthopedic last week [...]
Can’t Touch This!
Oh, that just cracks me up! The guy wearing the shirt & tie! Oh, it is excellent!
Blogging update: I’ve posted daily for June with the exception of two days over at the wedding & boudoir photography blog — one day, I had been out running errands all day, and I fell asleep at 10pm and [...]
I’m Famous on the Internet…
I’ve joked about being famous on the Internet for years now, and I’ve known many internet celebrities over time thanks to blogging. But when I took up photography full time, I thought I was leaving my “geek life” behind. It made me sort of sad.
Then, as time went on, my internet geek life and my [...]
June Daily!
My friend Laura has recently challenged herself to blog daily, so I decided to join her on it – my challenge for the month of June is to blog once a day. Now that it is June 1st, I’m trying to work out if it will be once a day at the wedding & boudoir [...]
Sydney & Chris – Married!
My dear friend Sydney came back to Texas to marry Chris, and Elaine & I had the honor of photographing their wedding for them. It was an incredible, wonderful day. I gushed a lot more about it over on
What a Beautiful Way to Start the Day…
My friend Sarah posted a link to this video on Twitter yesterday, and I finally listened to it. Taylor Swift’s Love Story meets Coldplay’s Viva La Vida by Jon Schmidt – it is *gorgeous*. Check it out. Wonderful!
(Although Mike & I think they cheat in the middle with some cymbals overlaid on the track, [...]
Stamped Logo Choices…
I’m at a crossroads in a decision, and the indecisive part of me can’t decide. I recently worked with Sara of Sadie Olive on redesigning the blog header for Christine Tremoulet. I love it. I’m thrilled with it. It coordinates with my studio, and makes it all feel so tied together. Thing is, we did [...]
Everyone is Beautiful…
As women, we’ve all become too conditioned to not see ourselves as beautiful, and it is a sad thing. All of us – every single one – has a wealth of beauty. Most of us have just taught ourselves to ignore it and only pick on our own faults.
I have discovered an amazing power when [...]
I Missed the White, and I’m Feeling the Love…
I missed the plain, simple white design of fabulousness by Derek Powazek. So I switched back. The other one was pretty and colorful, but this one just feels like a better gathering of all my web stuff in one place.
I’m going back to blogging here when I post photos on the wedding photography and the [...]
On Kinnearing…
I still remember when the Yarn Harlot posted her first attempts at Kinnearing on her blog – but I had no idea it had gone so far:
Most excellent!
Beautiful Tube Photos Inspire Me…
I found this site the other day, and then forgot about it until I saw it in Pixeldiva’s “Things I Find Interesting” post. Then I realized, I should write more about it.
New Perspectives of the London Underground
These photographs amaze me. Something so simple, so everyday and common place probably for the photographer, captured so perfectly. [...]
The Cult of Done Manifesto…
Oh goodness. How I needed to read this today.
The Cult of Done Manifesto (from Bre Pettis.)
There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
There is no editing stage.
Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are [...]
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Hi! I'm Christine. I've been blogging here since 2000. I am married to Mike. I have a son, Jason. We have a cat, Mona. We live in Houston, Texas.
I love helping other photographers and other small business owners improve their businesses. Most of my posts here are related to that, although sometimes I write about personal things as well.
I am currently available for business & blogging consulting and assisting you with WordPress. Contact me for more details.
I am a wedding and boudoir photographer and I'm available both in Houston and for travel worldwide. I would love to be a part of your wedding!
You can buy prints of my photography.
In addition to photography and geek things, I sometimes knit. I even used to have a knitting podcast, PointySticks.
