misosouper, a shopping blog

1.  In celebration of Earth Day, Ideeli is giving away an Amazon Kindle–in 5 hours.  Start your engines, and sign up for Ideeli (and the contest) here:  http://www.ideeli.com/invite/misosouper

2.  In other giveaway news, check out vivabox’s Mother’s Day contest; I’m a judge, along with some other fantastic bloggers, like Jolie Nadine, Aly Walansky of SheKnows (among other places), and Andrea Proulx of Mommas Review.  Write an essay for your mama, and you could win a vivabox full of goodies for Mother’s Day AND your mom’s birthday.

3.  Have you entered misosouper’s awesome giveaway from Miss Indie yet?  Do it!

4.  I’ve been writing a series of guest posts for Indie Fixx, and some readers have been e-mailing me/commenting with follow-up questions about working, promoting, and surviving in the biz.  On Friday, I’ll dedicate a post to some proper answers, so if you have anything pressing you want to ask (really…anything!  I can’t guarantee that I’ll answer all the questions, but ask away), e-mail me at anna {at} misosouper.com, or leave a comment on this post.

5.  And finally, before you leave, be sure to update your RSS feed to the new address.  Feedburner is about to burn out, so you certainly don’t want to be misosouper-less.

photo by radio rover, who shares both my aesthetic and sense of humor

Lots of happenings at misosouper:

I’m excited to be beta-testing and blogging for a new fashion and social shopping website whose info shall be announced here shortly.  What this means for you is that misosouper will be sharpening its focus to design, while the fashion content will migrate over to my other as-yet-to-be-named blog.  To break it down:  see those categories on the right?  Shift “Fashion” over to another site.  Just more misosouper goodness to love.

As misosouper makes this switch, we’ll be running a special on advertising.  Until the end of April, take 20% off all ad spaces. If I do say so myself, advertising on misosouper is a fantastic way for your boutique/studio/Etsy shop to gain exposure in front of readers who covet smart, lovely, affordable design.  Shoot an e-mail to anna {at} misosouper.com if you’re interested.

And finally, FeedBurner, the service that powers misosouper’s RSS feeds, has been up to some serious shenanigans (dropping subscribers for no reason, spouting strange error messages) as of late.  We’ve switched over to FeedBlitz, so we’d really appreciate if you update your subscriptions by clicking on this link:  http://feeds.feedblitz.com/misosouper.  If you’d rather have your daily dose of misosouper delivered by e-mail, click here.  Thanks for your continued awesomeness…we couldn’t do it without you.

xOxO,

Anna

photo by bunnyrel

No new object to post about today–although if you’re resourceful, you might be able to track down this electronic behemoth on Ebay–but a lot of news.

*The site will be undergoing a redesign this month, to accomodate more space for ads, and to declutter all the button/logo/doodad action happening in the sidebars.  Consider it a spring cleaning of sorts.

*The giveaways will continue!  Thanks for all the kind and helpful feedback.  (Have you entered this week’s drawing from Madras 641?  If not now, then when?)

*If you have a product, site, or service that you think I’d be interested in reviewing or regifting to my appreciative audience, please let me know.  Or, if you would like to advertise directly in my sidebars, let me know that too.  Indie or big box, big or small:  misosouper will consider them all.

*And starting next week, misosouper will feature not one, but two handsome/useful/fun objects Monday-Friday:  one in the morning, and one in the afternoon.  I’ll be debuting new features, like weekly link roundups and Polyvoracious guides to shopping the sales.  Don’t forget to burn my feed so that you don’t miss a thing.

*As always, thank you for being loyal, lovely readers.  Looking forward to sharing good things with you in 2009.

Photo by Radio Rover

…here’s hoping your holidays are.

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In an act of cosmic synchronicity, this is Misosouper’s 200th post, which also coincides with Misosouper’s 200th comment (seriously!  I couldn’t have planned that if I tried), which also coincides with my 30th birthday (on Tuesday, but really, it’s my birthday week, and that’s what counts).

I’m going to step away and savor the moment.  On December 29, I’ll be back with a giveaway that’s perfect for a naughty new year, and some big announcements for 2009.  Happy, happy holidays.

Lovely photo by Mzelle Biscotte