Welcome Wagon Friday 8/27/10

Can you believe it's already the last Friday in August? Still hot, but moving steadily toward fall. 

Here's my picks for this week: 

Buttermilk Hill is a darling little blog with lots of good food and pretties. You'll get that "down on the farm" feel. 

Nancy's Vintage Trailers is a blog about those cute little vintage trailers some of you bloggers have that I am head over heels for. If you love old trailers all dressed up in vintage pretties, this is the blog for you. 

Nanniepannie's Blog happens to be the sister who shares a house with Days At Buttermilk Cottage. (And I already love that one!) 

The Tiny Tudor is all about home projects and documenting and sharing her journey with other bloggers. 

So go give these gals the "welcome to the neighborhood" greeting. I'm sure they'll appreciate your kind visit.

Also, a note about Word Verification. If you don't want to have spam on your blog, but not make everyone have to type in Word Verification, here is what works for me. 

1. Go into Comment Settings. On: Who Can Comment? Click 2nd choice, which is Registered Users. 

2. Scroll down to Comment Moderation. Click on: Only On Posts Older Than __ Days. I put in 5 days. This is easy for you to moderate, without making your reader jump through unnecessary hoops to comment. 

3. Scroll down to: Show Word Verification. Click "no."

4. Save your settings and you're good to go. 

Believe me, you will get a thank you from me and a lot of others for doing this. I hate to find blogs I like only to have to type in word verification in order to comment. I will never make anyone do that. If someone is kind enough to visit my blog and wants to comment, I am going to make it as easy on them as possible so that they are likely to return. 

Tomorrow we will have a tutorial on blog photography. Pat from Back Porch Musings, who is as phenomenal a blog photographer as I've ever seen, is going to give us her best tips. Go over and check her out if you aren't familiar with her. Divine photography!

Next week in our blogging series we will have a tutorial on creating blog banners.