Wow, two posts in one day? Lucky girl I am! When I got a house full to myself, I thought I should probably catch up on all those posts that I should have made but couldn’t make because I have two babies, a job (but we would so love to change that), a husband and a house that has to be cleaned. I spent today pretty much pinning to my heart’s content on pinterest.com, so how about a little November recap of the things you probably missed but you should defiantly check out? Read on to get your fill!

Toilet Paper Rolls are a popular hit, and 18 Creative Ideas for Toilet Paper Rolls was something that you shouldn’t miss!

Here’s some tips to decorating your table for Christmas with a Thanksgiving twist. More so, this was a Thanksgiving post but we’ll get to Christmas tables later.

Not last, but least, make a snowflake ornament.

A sure fire-way to Love Your House.

Blog Stats

Well folks, Once a month I’m going to cover some juicy details on how this whole blogging thing is working for us.

I’m going to cover;

Visitor Goals

We averaged 171 unique visitors, and about double that with visitors overall. Not bad considering we became live on October 12th. The unique numbers is what we’re keeping an eye on. We would really like to become a part of the SAY Media network. The minimum requirement to get into the network is a website has to have 25,000 monthly viewers. We like Say Media because the advertisements are clean. Google Adsense also has clean advertisements, but Say Media is more our style. Another thing I like about SAY Media, is it is a part of Six Apart. For those of you who don’t know what Six Apart is, here’s a quick refresher.

About ten years ago when I first discovered the world of blogging, there was a very famous content management system. In my personal opinion, it was more famous than WordPress. It’s called Movable Type. Movable Type was created by a husband and wife team, and it was open source. Meaning anyone could contribute and help build the platform. Over the past 10 years, I’ve seen it grown, I’ve seen where they charged money for it, and from the looks of it today in 2011, it’s free and open source again.

However, that husband and wife team were able to build their mini media empire into something grand. They have other resources available that helped them build their brand. The reason why we want to become a part of the SAY Media network is because the brains behind the company started with a blogging publishing platform. Therefore, SAY Media knows bloggers. I feel comfortable conducting business with a company that knows about my business, which is blogging.

The Top 10 Keywords

Amazingly, the top ten keywords make me think I should start a blog dedicated to kitchen things only. :) These are what people typed into a search engine (yahoo, google, bing, etc). Through their search, they found my website and clicked on my link to find out more.

They were;

1. Small Kitchens
2. Small Kitchen
3. Small Kitchen Layouts
4. inetflavour
5. small kitchen design
6. small kitchen designs
7. martha stewart kitchen design
8. martha stewart kitchens
9. thanksgiving wreaths
10. fireplace mantel decor

The Money We Made From Blogging

In the 16 days that we were live, we hosted some affiliates. No one that read our website purchased a product, so therefore there was no money made. We did however get into an advertising program in November, and it’s already making us profits. How much? We’ll cover that next month. We have to follow precise rules with our affiliates and advertisement networks. You may have noticed some changes on this blog (such as a privacy notice, etc), that complies with our affiliates/advertisers rules.

If you missed it, the posts we think you should read;

Lower Your Utility Bill

Our Dream House Revealed

An awesome resource for visuals aids (kinda ironic how I don’t have a visual aid for this link).

Our proof that we’re hillbilly’s.

In part 1 of our series of This is Why We Blog, I spoke about one of our juicy details of why we blog. I’m picking up where I left off. The last thing I mentioned is that we want to reach a goal, no matter how long it takes us, to make $30,000.00 from our website (including other adventures).

So why exactly do we want a goal of $30,000? Why not more? Why not infinity?

Well hey, if we get more and if it’s for infinity then bring on the mulah baby! If not, that’s okay, God has a plan and if he wants this to be a success, then he’ll make it happen.

Back to the goal. For those of you who know us personally, we live out in the country. It’s a subdivision planted in the middle of no-where. Well, this is going to shock the heck out of you if you know us, my husband wants to move even further away! I can hear the gasps now. He would really like to live on some acreage, have a garden big enough to feed our family for a year, and have lots of wooded trees (and a wood burning fireplace).

Now before you guys tell us we’re insane, let me tell you why we want this.

We live in a subdivision where we are required to pay an HOA every year. We can’t do anything to the exterior of our home without super strict guidance from the HOA. We can’t have a small garden in our backyard. We can’t put solar panels on our roof. Whatever we want to do to our house, we can’t do it at all. We can’t even replace our electric fireplace (which I think a joke) and replace it with a real one if we wanted too.

And the biggest reason of all why we were thinking about moving, is to have a cheaper mortgage payment. My husband and I gathered a list of things of what we would like to have. We’re going to share them with you.

I bet you’re thinking $300 a month, “Are you crazy?! $30,000 won’t get you a $300 a month mortgage payment with the lists you guys are wanting!” Whoa there, friend. You’re absolutely right. We realize this. However we also live in a 4 bedroom 2 bath house 3 car garage. Our house was built in 2007, so we’re not that crazy. I do think in reality, this is what we may end up finding;

Also, my husband has had experience in farming before, so he thinks it will be easy-breazy to have a decent garden. In matter of fact, the below illustration kinda explains it all on what we want to do (minus the farm animals).

by Column Five Media via

Will this work? Will this not? Will we move? Will we stay put? Who knows. It’s nice to dream though, right?

Oh, and here’s the list of others that blog and make a profit from it too. This is their 2011 September Blog income reports.

Magnet4marketing.net $406.38
Smartpassiveincome.com $31,112.40
Youngprepro.com $5,003.05
Onlineincomelab.com $6,882
Thefinancialblogger.com $11,837.64
Nichepursuits.com over 100,000k in one year
Pennyonthefloor.com $1,434.29

There’s plenty more sources out there as well. This list has a good source of bloggers and how much they earn a month, on average.