I've decided to sell advertising on this blog, the Texifornia main website, and my other sites to raise money for MercyCorps, an organization that's working in Haiti and other places affected by disaster, war, and oppression around the world. I'm not affiliated with MercyCorps - this is just something I'm choosing to do on my own accord. I also sell advertising through Project Wonderful which does not go to support charity (mainly, it goes to right back into advertising for my own site).
The following spots are available on Texifornia for $1.
Texifornia - Front Page
STATS: Around 95 hits per month
AD SPOTS:
Side Bar Text Link (Max 20 Characters) - 2 years
Side Bar Mini-Banner (Max 125 x 60) - 2 years
Side Bar Button (Max 125 x 125 ) - 1 year
Side Bar LARGE BANNER (Max 125 x 240) - 6 months
Bottom Banner (Max 468 x 60) - 2 years
Bottom Banner (Max 468 x 300) - 1 year
Texas Jokes Main Page
STATS: Around 250 hits per month
AD SPOTS:
Bottom Banner (Max 468 x 80) - 2 years
Top Square (125 x 125)* - 1 year (or 2 years for Zazzle affiliate links)
*This ad spot is only available to humorous ads related to Texas
Texas Joke: You Know You're Texan When Page
STATS: Around 125 hits per month
AD SPOT:
Top Banner (max 468 x 60) - 1 year
Texas Joke: Texas State
STATS: Around 95 hits per month
AD SPOTS:
Top Banner (max 468 x 60) - 1 year
Texifornia Blog
STATS: Around 20 hits per month
AD SPOTS:
234 x 60 or 125 x 125 or smaller banner in side-bar for 1 year.
A blog post about your Texas or California related product (will remain on blog indefinitely). For consumable items like soap or food, and some other products, I may require a sample to try so I can write a proper review. This is usually not the case for things like t-shirts or jewelery where I can see a lot about the product just from a picture.
FREE: Will list any Texifornian's blogs (Californians from Texas or Texans from Californian) in our blogroll for free, no donation necessary (but don't let that stop you...it's a good cause!).
For a complete list of sites I'm offering ad space on, click here.
To order, contact me and let me know what ad spot you're interested in.
Websites must be pre-approved, cause you see I'm sort of picky about what sites I link too...I don't want to link to places with porn, racism, vulgarity, or any of a number of other things I feel conflict with my ethics and beliefs. So, I want to screen sites first. But that being said, for just $1 donation to you can get up to two years of advertising? Not bad, is it? It's worth asking first, for, right?
And if you would like to offer advertising on your own site to raise money for a charity you care about, or find out more places where you can buy advertising that goes to support a good cause, click here.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Hot and Not Hot Wednessdays....on Thursday Again
Well, better late than never. Here's what's hot and what not this week.
HOT
Visiting family and friends in Houston.
NOT
Houston roads. OK, so I'm used to roads having more than one name now. And luckily we were warned ahead of time about all the tollways. But I didn't expect to find tollways we couldn't go on without an "EZPass" (a whole road, and no amount of quarters could get us onto it. And the clencher was a closed on-ramp that kept us zig-zagging through not so nice neighborhoods in downtown nearly an hour with three fussy tired kids who had already driven three hours. And that was even with and i-phone with Google maps!
NOT
Loobylu seems to be missing. She hasn't posted a new Mr. Linky since Christmas. Hope she's just taking a vacation and that nothing is wrong.
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HOT
Visiting family and friends in Houston.
NOT
Houston roads. OK, so I'm used to roads having more than one name now. And luckily we were warned ahead of time about all the tollways. But I didn't expect to find tollways we couldn't go on without an "EZPass" (a whole road, and no amount of quarters could get us onto it. And the clencher was a closed on-ramp that kept us zig-zagging through not so nice neighborhoods in downtown nearly an hour with three fussy tired kids who had already driven three hours. And that was even with and i-phone with Google maps!
NOT
Loobylu seems to be missing. She hasn't posted a new Mr. Linky since Christmas. Hope she's just taking a vacation and that nothing is wrong.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Hot and Not Hot Wednesday
NOT
An earthquake has leveled most of Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Hait's capital city, population around 200,000), and has affected nearly 3 million people -- one-third of Haiti's population.
HOT
Sending help. There's a list of places to donate on Charity Navigator. I will be giving to Mercy Corps, an organization I've been watching for several years after it was sited by Charity Navigator as having one of the most affective and well-organized responses to relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Below are two places that also support Mercy Corp when you click (that's right, all you have to do is click on a page on their site - advertising on the site pays for the donation).
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Just click the pictures above. Clicks support several charities, including Mercy Corps. I'm not sure if any of the funds earned for Mercy Corps through those site will specifically go to Haiti relief, BUT any funds going to this charity should help, since they free up more non-allocated funds to go to disaster relief. And it's quick and free, so why not try it?
Thanks as always to Loobylu for starting Hot or Now Wednesdays! Visit her Mr. Linky to see others who are participating.
An earthquake has leveled most of Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Hait's capital city, population around 200,000), and has affected nearly 3 million people -- one-third of Haiti's population.
HOT
Sending help. There's a list of places to donate on Charity Navigator. I will be giving to Mercy Corps, an organization I've been watching for several years after it was sited by Charity Navigator as having one of the most affective and well-organized responses to relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Below are two places that also support Mercy Corp when you click (that's right, all you have to do is click on a page on their site - advertising on the site pays for the donation).
. ..............Just click the pictures above. Clicks support several charities, including Mercy Corps. I'm not sure if any of the funds earned for Mercy Corps through those site will specifically go to Haiti relief, BUT any funds going to this charity should help, since they free up more non-allocated funds to go to disaster relief. And it's quick and free, so why not try it?
Thanks as always to Loobylu for starting Hot or Now Wednesdays! Visit her Mr. Linky to see others who are participating.
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Souvenir Saturday - Texifornia Tee
I like to search for funny and interesting "stuff" related to Texas and California. This week I found a particularly Texifornian T-shirts at Zazzle.
LIKE IT! Though I might argue that Texifornia has a lot larger population than one!
I'm gonna try to do this "Souvenir Saturday" every week. Originally was going to make it T-Shirt Tuesday, but that just excludes entirely too much good stuff (like bumper stickers and postcards and strange little figurines). Should be fun!
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LIKE IT! Though I might argue that Texifornia has a lot larger population than one!
I'm gonna try to do this "Souvenir Saturday" every week. Originally was going to make it T-Shirt Tuesday, but that just excludes entirely too much good stuff (like bumper stickers and postcards and strange little figurines). Should be fun!
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
A White Texas Christmas!
God blessed us with a White Christmas this year. Snow during the holidays was not uncommon back in the mountains of California where I spent my high school years, but this has been my first white Christmas since coming to Texas over 10 years ago! We were spending the holidays with family in Fort Worth. The snow started falling mid morning on Christmas Eve and kept coming down all day. The wind made it hard to stay out for too long, but we still made a few ventures out and had a good snowball fight. It stopped snowing that night but the snow was still there Christmas morning. The sun came out and melted the places where the wind had swept most of the snow away, but where it had drifted up it stayed. The day was glorious...warm enough to go out and play but cold enough to let us enjoy the snow all that day.
Though much of the snow gradually melted, there was still patches left when more snow started falling yesterday. This snow falled slow and thick...coming straight down without any wind. Most was gone this morning, but it was wonderful while it lasted. All of it is gone now, except a little mound where my son's snow-man was yesterday, but this was the longest, deepest snow I've ever seen here. What a wonderful Christmas!
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
What's Hot and What's Not Wednessday
It's time again for What's Hot and What's Not Wednessday...that great little meme hosted by Loobylu.
Here we go...
HOT
A mid-day snow flurry in Texas, in December! Here in Waco it melted nearly as soon as it hit the ground, though the flakes were big and beautiful. Up in Dallas I heard it stuck for a little while! (Hey, if it snowed in your area too...leave a comment and let us know how much snow you got! I'd love to hear!)
NOT
Seasonal colds and fussy babies.
HOT
These alternative Santa T-shirts designs from A Christmas Trail! Love em, love em love em...
A very Texas Santa (though wait...Sun Glasses? He might just be a Texifornian!)...
And a Californian Kris Kringle...
So fun!
Here we go...
HOT
A mid-day snow flurry in Texas, in December! Here in Waco it melted nearly as soon as it hit the ground, though the flakes were big and beautiful. Up in Dallas I heard it stuck for a little while! (Hey, if it snowed in your area too...leave a comment and let us know how much snow you got! I'd love to hear!)
NOT
Seasonal colds and fussy babies.
HOT
These alternative Santa T-shirts designs from A Christmas Trail! Love em, love em love em...
A very Texas Santa (though wait...Sun Glasses? He might just be a Texifornian!)...
And a Californian Kris Kringle...
So fun!
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
What's Hot & What's Not Wednesday
It's time for Hot and Not Wednessday - I missed it last week, so this covers two weeks of what's hot and what's not.
NOT
Seasonal colds.
ACTUALLY, SURPRISINGLY HOT
Thanksgiving plans that fell through, then fell together in ways I couldn't have expected.
HOT
My son's excitement over making pumpkin pie.
NOT
That in spite of being all excited about making it, he didn't much care for eating it. My middle child wouldn't even try it...and my husband can't eat it because of food allergies.
HOT
Getting to eat nearly a whole pumpkin pie myself, shared only with my 1 year old (the only one of the boys who couldn't get enough of the pie).
NOT
People mis-using the Bible and putting it on an T-shirt so others can do it too.
HOT ('cause it's not)
It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, even here in Texas!
If you would like to take part in What's Hot and What's Not Wednesday, head over to Loobylu's Mr. Linky and join in!
NOT
Seasonal colds.
ACTUALLY, SURPRISINGLY HOT
Thanksgiving plans that fell through, then fell together in ways I couldn't have expected.
HOT
My son's excitement over making pumpkin pie.
NOT
That in spite of being all excited about making it, he didn't much care for eating it. My middle child wouldn't even try it...and my husband can't eat it because of food allergies.
HOT
Getting to eat nearly a whole pumpkin pie myself, shared only with my 1 year old (the only one of the boys who couldn't get enough of the pie).
NOT
People mis-using the Bible and putting it on an T-shirt so others can do it too.
HOT ('cause it's not)
It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, even here in Texas!
If you would like to take part in What's Hot and What's Not Wednesday, head over to Loobylu's Mr. Linky and join in!
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