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Amanda Formaro is a published author and professional blogger with over 18 years online experience. Her work has appeared on websites and in magazines such as Parents, Family Fun, PBS Kids, Disney's Spoonful, SheKnows, Redbook, Mixing Bowl and more. Please contact Amanda to inquire how she can provide fabulous crafts or recipes for your site or brand. You can visit her blogs here.My name is Amanda Formaro-Davis, mother of four wonderful children and four amazing step-children. I am very happily married to Chef Antoine Davis and we live in the beautiful midwest state of Wisconsin with ourm youngest daughter. I love to cook, bake and make crafts. I worked full time in finance until my third child was three months old. At that time I quit to stay home and raise my kids. As much as I loved being a mom, graham crackers and dia…
…sold my website of ten years and shortly thereafter bought the domain AmandaFormaro.com. It wasn’t until after I sold that first website that I realized the true importance of my online presence as a freelancer. With my first website sold and gone, how would people find and hire me? Your story may be different, but the end result remains the same. You need to own your name and here are several reasons why. It’s Budget Friendly and Low Maintenance…
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…ir honors. I really appreciate all the traffic that they have sent to both Amanda’s Cookin’ and Crafts by Amanda over the past year, they are always in my top referrers! I’m looking forward to another great year of working together. 🙂 All Free Holiday Crafts – 100 Best Holiday Crafts of 2012 – What a fabulous year – 9 of my projects are in the top 100 for All Free Holiday Crafts! They are Recycled Light Bulb Birds, Super Easy Ladybug Caps, DIY Duc…
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…rst blog, there really weren’t any instructions out there. You just opened a free blog and learned as you went along. It was unchartered territory. Note: I don’t recommend opening a free blog like you can get on Blogger or WordPress. You want to have complete control over your website, which is why you will need this guide. How to Start a Blog on WordPress First of all, WordPress in my opinion is the best platform out there for bloggers and it’s d…
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…Special thanks go out to Parents.com, the online portion of the print publication Parents Magazine, for featuring my Halloween painted jar luminaries in their Halloween holiday round up! I have worked with Parents Magazine several times in the past and always appreciate their professional and friendly staff. 🙂…
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…I recently completed an assignment for Parents.com, the website for Parents Magazine. They asked me to make a collection of toddler friendly Christmas ornaments for them. You can see the completed pieces here — 6 Toddler-Friendly Christmas Ornaments to Make. Thank you Parents, always a pleasure working with Meredith Corporation. 🙂…
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…Just a quick thank you to the fine folks over at PBS Parents. I’ll be sharing my Cardboard Tube Coiled Snakes on their site here (originally posted on CraftsbyAmanda.com). PBS has always been close to my heart and I’m honored to be sharing with their audience….
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…Blog Tuesdays With Dorie My TWD Recipe Posts ———————————— NEW! Be sure to subscribe to my newsletter, Foodie in the Craftroom, to receive updates and tips from both Amanda’s Cookin’ and Crafts by Amanda! Visit http://www.amandascookin.com/p/subscribe-to-newsletter.html…
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…ased to 15 crafts per month and then a couple years in, Disney bought the Canadian company. I continued to work with Disney for a few more years until 2008 when there were many, many changes going on. At that point, I had created, written and photographed well over 500 projects for the site. I’ve kept in touch with them, especially as they began rolling their Kaboose content over to Spoonful.com. Spoonful was created after Disney sold the print ma…
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…o San Diego where I met with Hewlett Packard and the My Printly team. It’s amazing the passion and spirit that the team at HP has for print! I’m super excited to try some of the products I learned about and can’t wait to share projects with you every month over at MyPrintly.com. My first project will be a printable you’ll be able to download for free and use for movie themed parties or, like I did, to hang in your theater room! I look forward to w…
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