Happy Holidays - I'll Be Back and Better than Ever in 2010

I know I have been really bad a blogging lately, but the latter half of this year has been pretty rough, especially with having to deal with personal family issues (my mom being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer) and also launching the Southern California Dream Wedding Giveaway, both of which has taken up a lot of my time and which explains the lack of my blogs. Additionally weddings, volunteer work, family, and raising a kid takes up a lot of time too. Anyway, come January 2010, I will be re-dedicating myself to my blog.

I actually got my Tarot cards read during a recent holiday party and the psychics told me that I have way too much on my plate and need to dump things that do not feed my soul, so I will be doing just that and concentrating on things that I love...wedding/event blogging being one of them. I look forward to inspiring my fans and future fans a like in the coming year with great blogs. Thanks for your support throughout 2009!

Remember to be happier, healthier, and wealthier in 2010!

-Percy

Masterpiece of Words

I've come across a Website that can manipulate words that you enter or words from your blog into a really cool design, which they call "word clouds." Wordle, according to their Website, "is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like."

What I love about this site for events is that you can customize the words you want and use them for say...save the date cards, informal invitations, or for just something cool to put on your event website. They have numerous amounts of colors, fonts, and other gizmos so that you can create a unique "word cloud" that reflects you. Have a go at it at Wordle and see what you can create. The above "word cloud" was used by inputting my blog address and it pulled words from it creating the masterpiece. I was going to add some color, but I loved the simplicity of the black and white and the awesome font...very late 80's feel for me.

-Percy

Photo of Percy Sales Events "word cloud" from Wordle

They Say...Do What You Love

My passions are event and wedding planning...what are yours? I also love to blog, because it gives me the opportunity to share my passion to the world...so why not get paid for doing what you love to do. In this case, I have found a great site, through a friend, that networks me with businesses and products that I think are worthy of my readers. It gives me an opportunity to review some great new products, sites and uses for my entire event and wedding planning needs, and in turn pass on the information to my dedicated fans. The site is called PayPerPost and basically it's blog advertising. Think of it as commercials for your personal blog, but the nice thing about it is that you get to blog about the stuff you really enjoy writing about and relevant to your passion!

Regardless if you are a party thrower, party goer or anyone in between, and you have your own blog, you might want to look into hooking up with PayPerPost and making money for blogging about what you love to do. What are you going to do with all that extra moola? I'm thinking of Paris and Prague for my 40th...did I just say that out loud. I think it's a great way to support your passion and a new way to network and meet new friends and business partners. So do yourself a favor and check them out.

-Percy

Photo from personal stock photos