Just wanted to say I’m trying hard to reply to a back log of comments but I’ve been really busy the past week. I find it hard to get to old comments since new ones push ahead of them. I’m months behind and I’ll be approving a ton of them today but won’t necessarily be replying personally…it’s a tad overwhelming…..I’ll def try my best to reply to questions that are asked and if for some reason I miss something by all means post it again! I think it’s easier to approve the old ones and start fresh hehe!
I value every single thing you say on here and I thank you for all your comments. It’s just that I get a tad overwhelmed running the site myself so it’s hard to get to them all in a timely manner sometimes.
The same goes for E-mails. E-mails are REALLY backed up! If you have anything in particularly you need please do comment and I’ll probably reply faster!
I’m also behind on Tweets, I haven’t logged in recently so I imagine my timeline is out of control!
Again, thanks for all your communication. E-mails, comments, tweets..they are all the highest form of flattery for bloggers!
Sorry, the site has been up and down all day. My server has been having some major issues and I’m working on getting it back up as quickly as possible.
I’m super sorry about the problems today and hopefully I’ll be back up and working shortly.
Hopefully you haven’t experienced too many issues today with Musings. I just recently moved from a VPS to a Dedicated Server a few hiccups have come along with the move. I also recently switched from WP Cache to Total Cache which I feel speeds up loading time however I’m still experiencing alot of lag on my side of the blog world aka behind the WordPress’ Dashboard and you’re probably having the same laggy loading times or even 503′s here and there.
I’m really sorry about that.
Hopefully I’ll have everything ironed out shortly.
I know many of you already follow me on Twitter however if you’re a Google gal (or guy) you can now follow my RSS feed on Google Buzz. Sorry it took me ages to actually bother with this. I’m a geek but I’m a believer that social media can sometimes be over kill.
I just wanted to bug you one more time about BeautyBloggers.Org since the event is coming to a close on Monday, December 20th.
Just a brief recap….
BeautyBloggers.org is a collaborated effort of over 50 different beauty bloggers and brands that wanted to make a meaningful contribution to charity by raising money for Doctors Without Borders.
This organization is committed to bringing quality medical care to people in crisis, regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation. They treat rape victims in Papua New Guinea; they make sure women don’t die in childbirth in Pakistan; they helped flood victims in Mexico and earthquake victims in Haiti. They work in 65 countries around the world, and your donation will make an immediate impact. Click here to learn more about MSF.
Beautybloggers.org is a site created exclusively for this charity event which allows you to bid on makeup donated by various brands and some of your fav Beauty Bloggers. Bidders anywhere in the world are welcome and shipping is free. The amount of your winning bid will go to our charity, Doctors Without Borders.
Payments will be collected through a secure page set up with Doctors Without Borders. They accept credit cards and International auction winners may have to use Paypal.
You can bid on makeup items now until Monday, December 20th.
I’ve taken time out to donate a lot of MAC items and other bloggers such as Pursebuzz and the Beauty Alchemist have as well! Beauty brands such as Givenchy, Bobbi Brown, and others have also donated goodies to this cause.
I hope you’ll take a moment to give back this Holiday season by bidding on an item or too!
When I was 6 or 7 years old I seen Destiny of the Daleks for the first time and I fell in love. Many, many, many years later and many re-watches of the episode, among others reminds me why I’m a proud, card carrying member of the geek club.
As the Holiday approaches my mind isn’t on a big fancy dinner with friends and family, it’s not on presents I hope to receive or presents I’ll be giving out, it’s not on decadent deserts or chocolates, it surely isn’t on lights and holly and decorations, or Santa.
It is however on the most joyous gift of all from our friends across the pond.
Who.
It simply wouldn’t be a Happy Christmas without a most beloved Doctor. We’ve been lucky enough to have him for two consecutive years straight without having to wait for a later launch date. It’s so lovely to have close to the same release date as the original air time on BBC One.
Enjoy the sneak peek below and don’t forget to tune in this Christmas at 9PM. Ahh man only 80 minutes? No worries, the good Doctor returns this Spring with new episodes to keep us enthralled.
Getting is always a great part of the Holiday season but giving is even better in my opinion. I absolutely love gifting people in my life with that perfect gift, something that makes them smile, something that comes unexpected, something that they gush over. It’s truly the best gift of all to give a loved one a special present and get a very warm smile or hug in return.
Charity is also a major part of the Holiday Season, although it shouldn’t only be around the Holidays that you are giving to others.
BeautyBloggers.org is a collaborated effort of over 50 different beauty bloggers and brands that wanted to make a meaningful contribution to charity by raising money for Doctors Without Borders.
This organization is committed to bringing quality medical care to people in crisis, regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation. They treat rape victims in Papua New Guinea; they make sure women don’t die in childbirth in Pakistan; they helped flood victims in Mexico and earthquake victims in Haiti. They work in 65 countries around the world, and your donation will make an immediate impact. Click here to learn more about MSF.
Beautybloggers.org is a site created exclusively for this charity event which allows you to bid on makeup donated by various brands and some of your fav Beauty Bloggers. Bidders anywhere in the world are welcome and shipping is free. The amount of your winning bid will go to our charity, Doctors Without Borders.
Payments will be collected through a secure page set up with Doctors Without Borders. They accept credit cards and International auction winners may have to use Paypal.
You can bid on makeup items now until Monday, December 20th.
For my auction I donated a lot of MAC Cosmetics. Bobbi Brown has donated an Eye Couture Set, AfroBella has donated a Benefit Glitz Glam & Gloss Set, and many of your other favorite beauty bloggers such as Karla Sugar, Product Girl, and more have donated various makeup items for the cause.
I hope you’ll consider heading onto the site and bidding on an item or two to show your support for our charity.
Sorry for the slowness today and the lag. You may experiencing problems loading the site today but I’m working on getting it back up and running shortly. My server is having a few issues and hiccups.
Just a public service announcement for the l33t Guild watchers among us, the Fawkes and Codex Highland Poster is available for sale at www.thinkgeek.com
Well…
Not quite on sale.
It’s actually backordered! But no worries those damn monkees are working hard to restock shortly.
The poster is $19.99 plus shipping with various coupons hanging around for $5 to $10 off of $30 buck purchases so have a little search around Google to save some cash.
I’m still shaking my head that I paid near $30 for a poster but hey, I NEED this framed, hanging over my gaming box.
It’s a must.
Happy Haulin’!
P.S. 100% of the proceeds go to Child’s Play to buy games, books, toys and videos for sick kids in complex pediatric care worldwide. Vork isn’t going to be too happy that the monies aren’t going to a new guild hall….
You’ve probably been experiencing a bit of slowness this week (particularly today) and lag time on Musings or maybe you’re having a problem even getting to the site.
I know I’m having a hard time logging in to post today or even answer comments as I’ve had to reboot my server several times this morning because of a heavy load on it. The past few days has been the worst because I’ve had various forums across the world hotlinking images from my site.
Basically hotlinking is embedding an image that is still served on my server. This means everyone is accessing that image on high traffic forums and causing serious lag time here or even in some cases bringing the entire website down. I’m already using all my system resources and paying quite a good deal of money to do so. At this point it’s either move my entire site to a new server and pay a higher host fee or just hopefully urge others to stop hotlinking.
There aren’t any shortcuts for stopping this sadly without causing havoc to my site and feed.
I’m telling you this in the hopes you might help me out. If you see anyone hotlinking my images please urge them to remove the image and either link to the original post or upload the photo to the site they are on and just source www.musingsofamuse.com.
This morning the problem seems to be originating from QVC forums, MUA, and an International forum however this pretty much happens alot everywhere including blogs that grab my images and hotlink them.
Total Beauty Media and Break Media created Modern Man to appeal to the male demographic. Think of it as Total Beauty’s little brother, with grooming advice, tips, tricks, style tips, and the latest and greatest reviews geared towards men, heck even gadgets, we know how our guy’s love gadgets (Heck I’ll read the gadget section myself!).
So if you have a guy at home that you think is need of some extra help in the man grooming realm or you’re the proud owner of a metrosexual you might wish to direct him over to www.modernman.com.
Soon I’m positive we’ll see some new Harajuku Lovers Fragrances pop up. The originals delighted us with their cute little do’s and snazzy little outfits. The Winter versions made us say “Awwwww…” when we seen them all bundled up for the cold weather! And the Summer versions just had us in fits of excitement as they flashed us their belly buttons and painted tips and toes.
I’m hopeful this Fall, the girl’s will surprise us with some awe aspiring Fall couture!
Until that time you can get your fix by heading to Target and exploring Back to School with the Harajuku Lovers. Yup, that’s right, school and office supplies featuring all five girl’s can be found at your local Target.
Notepads, folders, small dairies, note cubes, and other fun offerings are available at Target with price ranges from $2-$12.99. Seriously, who doesn’t want to head back to school sportin’ a G or Baby binder! Damn shame I’m not still in school because I’d be all about it….
Ok, ok, I admit it, I hauled a note cube for myself. How can I honestly NOT grab at least something?! I wanted some of the folders too but I know my limits, can’t scare away clients while sporting a Harajuku Lovers notebook, it’s simply not considered professional in some circles, damn. I think the note cube set me back $6.99 or $7.99, not bad since it’s huge!
Head to Target now to snatch up some Love, Angel, Music, Baby, and G goodies. Who knows how long they’ll stick around for?
If you’re reading in RSS please visit my blog to view the complete slideshow.
If you’re like me, you’re probably a compulsive blog reader. Like right now I can’t keep my eyes off of blogs that are letting the shiz fly about Mel Gibson, such a train wreck, can’t take my eyes off all the hoopla!
Sometimes you definitely don’t want to miss a trick when it comes to what your favorite beauty blogger is babbling about, I know that’s the case for me.
That’s while it’s a great idea to add your fav blogs to your Google Reader.
I’m always shocked when people say to me, Google Reader? RSS? What the hell are those? Are you speaking American (total Bush-ism there, hope you laughed!).
For those that are a tad on the geeky challenged side here’s some simple instructions for keeping abreast of posts on your fav blogs.
If you already have a Google E-mail account, yay for you, this will work easily.
Step 1
Head on into your Gmail Account and look towards the top menu bar. You should have something that says Reader. Click it! Here’s where all the action will take place. On the left hand side you’ll see a blank space, this space will list blogs you “subscribe” to. On the right hand side you’ll see a blank space as well, this space will show you posts from each of the blogs you subscribe to. Note: My areas are not blank since I am subscribed to a few blogs as you can see in the photo below!
Step 2
Head to your favorite blog. Look around the site and see if you notice a Feedburner, Subscribe to my Feed, or RSS icon or button.
Here’s a few examples:
Now click the icon to “subscribe” to the blog.
Step 3
You’ll be presented with a page asking how you’d like to subscribe. Select Google. Another page will pop up asking where you’d like to add it to, select Google Reader.
Step 4
Repeat Step 1 and head back into your Google Reader. You’re done! Congrats! You should see a subscription to the blog in your Google Reader. Google Reader will now alert you each time the blogger posts. Simply head into Google Reader in the morning or afternoon and check back to see new posts. Each time a post is posted it will appear in bold under the subscriptions tab (left side). If I there are no new posts, you won’t see the blog listed so you’ll know it hasn’t been updated yet.
Step 5
Head around the Internet and subscribe to your fav beauty blogs, gossip sites, etc…..most everyone that blogs has a “feed” that you can add to Google Reader.
I hope you’ll make Musings of a Muse one of the first blogs you subscribe to today (that is if you’ve never tried RSS before). Click here to subscribe!
Looks like we started our journey over the hump today and the weekend will soon be here. Phew, thank god! I need a little R&R.
After loading up Musings of a Muse in your browser this morning you may have noticed a brand new look. I wanted to go ahead and introduce you to some of the fun new features on Musings in this intro post.
If you look to your left hand side I have some new icon options for you. There are two important icons here which are Daily Dose of Beauty and Submit Your Own Review.
Daily Dose of Beauty is a brand category that won’t appear on the front page but will simply be available if you mosey on over and click the icon. It’ll be updated daily with new products, beauty tidbits, and other fun stuff. If you already subscribe to Musings via RSS, you’ll be alerted automatically of new updates to this part of my blog.
Now here’s the really exciting part! Submit Your Own Review is another new feature here and yes, easy to guess, its all about submitting your own review to Musings. I really love reading all your comments and thoughts on a product but I also wanted to give you a way to express your very own unique, individual review of products you are loving or hating at the moment. Simply click Submit a Review and you’ll be magically whisked away to a form that will allow you to submit your own lovely review. I hope you’ll enjoy this feature. I’ve wanted to have something like this on Musings for a long time and finally I can bring it to you.
Although its not new I wanted to just take a moment to tell you the categories are available on the left hand side of the blog now. I know when I visit blogs I love to have a long list of fun stuff to read through. These categories offer you the option to search through posts by brand, by review type, and many other ways to enjoy reading Musings.
A new widget has been installed on the right hand side of the blog now as well. This is where you can view my most popular posts, recent posts, recently reviewed products, and also recent comments. This is a handy tool for catching up on what’s going on around here.
And finally the right side also features the new As Seen by the Muse category (aka Daily Photo) you can click on this and enjoy a new photo daily. Could be beauty, could be me moblogging something that caught my eye, or something I’m currently obsessing over. You can visit and view the picture and even comment on it if you like.
I also have some other features that will be live shortly which will include a makeup gallery, a possible forum, and a few other bits and bobs.
I sincerely hope you’ll enjoy these new features. I know some of you expressed you aren’t loving the new design but I’m hopeful you’ll give it a chance and grow to love it.
Have fun exploring and by all means let me know what you think!
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