Problogger has started a meme called the ‘7 Link Challenge‘. What’s a meme? Meme Definition: An idea that is spread from blog to blog. Often a group of bloggers will start a topic and pass it around from site to site thus extending the conversation. So according to this meme definition and the 7 link challenge : The main aim [...]
Image via Wikipedia Thought I’d share a few new (to me) finds! Websites for Writers – a new site that lists resources for writers. If you publish articles about writing you can submit your site to the listings. Go check it out. Oh, and Maternal Spark is newly listed there….if you have a moment to rate me, that would be [...]
The Grain Foods Foundation teamed up with Feeding America to create the Bread Art Project, a fun website where you can create pieces of digital bread art. For each piece created, the Grain Foods Foundation will donate $1 to Feeding America– that $1 equals seven meals, 10 pounds of food, or four bags of groceries for those in need. As [...]
I read this post yesterday from The Writing Mother. She writes about how writing takes away from her family time and she says: We don’t ask our husbands to watch the kids so we can go off and do something we want. Right? Well, why the hell not? I know it’s hard to juggle and be everything to everybody. I [...]
Time is running out to enter to win a custom Hand Stamped Silver necklace with Swarovski charm from the Pretty Peacock. Here are the links to all the contests so if you haven’t entered yet you better get to it! An Island Life MomDot The Mom Buzz Ohana Mama Feels Like Home Sweet N Sassy Girls The Dirty Shirt 3 [...]
Do you like this necklace? You do? Of course, it’s super pretty. And it should be because it’s made by Ana of The Pretty Peacock. She is celebrating the opening of her new web boutique and to mark the occasion, Maternal Spark is hosting a wwWhip Up! We’re whipping up the web with 9 blog giveaways on 9 blogs between [...]
Now there’s a phrase with many meanings – The Big Push. Many mothers think about the birth of their babies when they are confronted with these words. Little H, however, stubbornly arrived via c-section, so that’s not the case for me. Today, I am speaking about an incident involving my dear daughter instead. We were at a local childrens boutique. [...]
Today’s Featured Creative Mom is Kelly of Macaroni & Glue Handmade – home of Freshly Crafted Paper Goods and Retrocrafted Paper Goods. H: How long have you been doing what you do? K: I created Macaroni & Glue in 2007 as a means to establish some much-needed balance between my inner artist and outer homemaker. With a long history in [...]
Image by freeparking via Flickr If you had a whole day to devote to creative things. What would you do? Would you focus on one thing or flit around trying to squeeze as much in as possible? Would you start a large project, or complete something in the works? Me? Here are 5 things I would do if I had [...]
Today’s featured mom has written her own post (you know I love that!) wherin she speaks about raising her writing career along with her kids. Enjoy. Budding by KJ Hannah Greenberg My interest in word play did not develop linearly, but through a series of fits and starts. In third grade, about the same time that the school bullies could [...]
