Hello 2023

I'm going to dust this ol' blog off so I can have some accountability, even if no one reads it, I'm at least putting it out in the world.

Here we are at the end of another year. Resolutions. Goals. Intentions. However you want to label it, we all seem to attempt it. I'm no different. I've been in a kind of limbo since 2020 and COVID and I really need to get back on the horse so to speak.

There are a number of areas I want to focus on this year. So, in no particular order:

1) I intend to read/listen to12 non-fiction books this year. I already have the first one queued up on Audible. I figure one book a month is very doable

2) I intend to be more active. Pre-COVID I was walking 2 miles a day. With my kid taxi schedule I won't be able to attempt that for a bit. To start, I am committing to walking outside for 20 minutes a day as soon as I get home from work. 

3) I want to have a more positive attitude. I'm committing to 5 minutes of affirmations each morning as soon as I wake up (instead of scrolling through emails or social media) and naming 3 things I'm grateful for each night before bed. I plan to keep a notebook to track my feelings and progress.

4) I've been putting off getting a mole removed. I will schedule an appointment with my primary care doctor so I can get that referral. Hopefully, I can have this resolved by summer. (I would also like to get in to the dentist -- funds permitting -- for a full cleaning/filling type appointment by the end of the year.)

5) I will finish my photo organization and back-up project by summer. It's one of those things that is easily derailed by other things.

6) I intend to reduce my debt by at least half (excluding my car loan that I'm starting over with but that's a story for another day, or not) by the end of the year. I will schedule no spend months like no buying books in January. Using the snowball method, I should be able to be debt free in 18 months (excluding my car loan). 

7) I want to take a real vacation. Not that visiting family isn't great or a priority, but I want to go somewhere I've never been before. If I can't make this work for 2023 due to funds (see that whole debt thing above) I want to at least have something planned for 2024 and saving toward it.

8) I want to work on my writing more. As Joely Sue Burkhart said, it could be a good side income. That means working my craft and actually completing something! I have a project I've been working on and my goal is to have it drafted, and hopefully edited, by July. (Dare I link this to Joely?!)

9) I will finish my scan and shred project by the end of the year. No. More. Paper. Like the photo project above, this is easily derailed by other things.

10) I always seem to lose some of my PTO at work. I will schedule mental health days and take at least one day off every other month for no reason other than me time.

Well, look at that...I ended up with a Top 10 List.

Okay, for the accountability aspect of this whole thing, I will post my results weekly. Since this is publishing on a Saturday, I'll stick with that. 

On the off chance someone reads this, what are your intentions for 2023? 

Happy New Year! I hope 2023 is an amazing year for all of us.

Fantastic Food Friday: My Top 10 Favorite Food Links

I've discovered some new foodie loving blogs in the last couple of weeks. I'm all about sharing the love.  Not to mention it gets me out of posting my own recipe this week and it's been some time since a Top 10 List graced the blog.  Without further ado, here's a mix of new and old favorites. Happy cooking. Enjoy.

1. For the Love of Cooking
   

   A simple collection of recipes.

2. Gluten Free Goddess

   Cook. Taste. Smile.

3. My Husband Hates Veggies
   

   A charming little blog in which our heroine cooks, eats, and throws dinner parties, all the while attempting to trick her husband into eating his vegetables.

4. One Perfect Bite
   

   The food here is simple, inexpensive and easy to prepare - it's peasant fare that meets the needs of today's health-conscious cooks. I hope you'll pull up a chair and join me at the table. The recipes are great and I think you'll enjoy the stories of the people and places behind them. The coffee pot is never empty and you're always welcome here!

5. Pantry Eats
   

   A tasty adventure using pantry staples and food storage.

6. Pots and Plots
   

   Kitchen witchery for the everyday cook from a Mississippi writer. (Kait Nolan started the Retake Homemade movement.)

7. Recipe Girl
   

   Dishing out the best recipes for entertaining and every day.

8. Simply Recipes
   

   Think of this site as our family sharing the recipes in our recipe binder with you.

9. Wholesome Mommy
   

   A blog for modern moms that long for a simpler time. I’ve set out to prove that eating wholesome and organic food isn’t just for the elite and cooking from scratch is within reach for anyone. Thanks for joining me as I find new ways to make wholesome living easy and affordable!

10. A Year of Slow Cooking
    

    A New Year's resolution to use the crock pot every day.

Achieve Your Goals - Part 10 - A Top 10 List

10) The 10 Reason Why People Fail (hmm...is thinking this may be a repeat)

9)Why Goal Setting Makes You Cringe

8) What is Your Dream Job?

7) How To Be Happy At Work

6) 10 R's to Apply if You Want to Succeed

5) Don't Die With Your Music Still in You

4) 10 Reason You Should Write Something Each Day

and because links are broken

3, 2, and 1) The Foundation for a Better Life

Mostly compiled from here

Achieve Your Goals - Part 9 - A Top 10 List

10) How to Stay Focused

9) Use Written Goals to Pursue Your Dreams

8) Tip for Financial Independence

7) Make a Wish List of Financial Goals

6) 10 Ways to Have a Happy Workday

5) The Art of the Finish

4) Staying Motivated

3) Budget More Time

2) How to Make the Time for Your Personal Goals

and

1) Conquer the Fears Lurking in the Dark Corners of Your Mind

Compiled from here

Achieve Your Goals - Part 8 - A Top 10 List

10) 12 Ways to Make 2009 Your Best Year Ever (hmm...maybe a bit late for that one, LOL)

9) 10 Things You Can Do Today To Jump Start Success

8) Achieving Goals by Improving Your Character

7) 5 Boundary Setting Tips for the Work Obsessed

6) How to Land Your Dream Internship

5) Suture for a Living: Pedometers & Physical Activity

4) Do You Make These 7 Mistakes?

3) Abe Lincoln's Productivity Secret

2) How to Press the Reset Button on Your Life

and

1) Branding Yourself with Happiness

Compiled from here

Achieve Your Goals - Part 7 - A Top 10 List

Sorry about the two month hiatus of my motivational Top 10 Lists so without further ado...

10) Hack Attack: Sustaining Motivation

9) Why You Should Risk Dweebhood with Written Goals

8) Daydreaming Without Doing? Try Planning Without Commitment

7) Success Sunday: GRS Readers Share Their Stories

6) 8 Ways to Save

5) How to Find a Meaningful Life

4) How Priorities Make Things Happen

3) Top 10 Goals

2) Change Your Life's Direction

and

1) 10 Keys to a Successful Romantic Relationship

Compiled from here

Sites for Book Lovers - A Top 10 List

Well, this actually turned into a Top 20 List LOL

I've not checked all these out yet and they are in no particular order aside from the ones I'm currently involved with being at the top of the list.

1) PaperBack Swap is your source for swapping books online - Read...Swap...Save! (Free except for postage.) As you may remember I joined this site six months ago and I'm loving it. I'm cleaning out the shelves of books I'm just not going to read again and getting books I want to read. (Please use the link in the sidebar if you sign up or at least say PeachesNCream sent you.)

I'll always have a lot of books in my home because I am a book-a-holic (no, ifs, ands, or buts about it) and have been ever since my sister checked out The Black Stallion from the school library (don't think she even got around to reading it...crazy horse girl she was back then -- heck, still is, LOL).

2) Shelfari introduces readers to our global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers (for now). I'm also on this one though not very active. I believe this is hosted by Amazon.

3) SwapTree is a place where you can trade books, music, dvds, or video games that you own for thousands of items that you want all for free (except for the price of postage).

4) LibraryThing is a home for your books. Enter what you’re reading or your whole library. It’s an easy, library-quality catalog. Consisting of a community of 600,000 book lovers. LibraryThing connects you to people who read what you do. (Available for a small yearly fee.)

5) Feel like sharing your reading experiences with people close to you? At Booksprouts, it's easy to start a club, join a club, invite your friends, choose a book, and discuss! It's free, so join already!

6) blippr is all about making all things media in your life better. blippr is much more than just a trendy set of letters. It's a really easy way to discover, talk about, and organize great apps, books, games, movies, and music. We figure that hey, why not make it easy to talk about and then find even more great stuff to talk about? Come in and give it a shot!

7) 22book is dedicated to the creating, sharing, and viewing of book lists. Start out by browsing some of the featured lists to the left and then open a free account and start creating lists of your own.

8) BookJetty is for readers who want to keep track of good books they want to read, to check book availability in local libraries (from over 300 libraries in 11 different countries), to know what friends are reading, view Google Books preview, Amazon rating and sales rank, bookshelf widget on my blog, and probably more.

9) BookGutton is a new way to read online and it's free.

10) GuruLib's mission is to help catalog, connect and share books, movies, music and games between home libraries.

11) Listal is a place to list, rate, tag, and review items. Share with others and discover new things to enjoy. A social network -- See what's popular among your friends or find people with similar tastes based on ratings. A user contributed database, including videos, pictures, reviews, lists, and more.

12) Goodreads is a free website for book lovers. Imagine it as a large library that you can wander through and see everyone's bookshelves, their reviews, and their ratings. You can also post your own reviews and catalog what you have read, are currently reading, and plan to read in the future. Don’t stop there – join a discussion group, start a book club, contact an author, and even post your own writing.

13) BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books. BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want. Every time you give someone a book, you earn a point and can get any book you want from anyone else at BookMooch. Once you've read a book, you can keep it forever or put it back into BookMooch for someone else, as you wish. There is no cost to join or use this web site (your only cost is mailing your books to others).

14) FetchBook - New & used books - Find the lowest price - Compare 140 book stores, 60,000 sellers, in a click.

15) Fantastic Fiction has Bibliographies for over 20,000 authors. And information on over 270,000 books.

16) BookCrossing is earth-friendly, and gives you a way to share your books, clear your shelves, and conserve precious resources at the same time. Through our own unique method of recycling reads, BookCrossers give life to books. A book registered on BookCrossing is ready for adventure.

17) BetterWorldBooks collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide. With more than two million new and used titles in stock, we’re a self-sustaining, triple-bottom-line company that creates social, economic and environmental value for all our stakeholders.

18) Rare Book Room has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world.

19) Backstory is a blog where authors share secrets, truths, logical and illogical moments that sparked their fiction or memoirs.

20) Everyone is familiar with Amazon for New and Used books but I want to include Powell's which is a New and Used bookstore in the Pacific Northwest and I trust the used books from Powell's over Amazon every time.

Achieve Your Dreams (Part 6) - A Top 10 List

10) The 5 Secrets to Success

9) When to Quit

8) Ten Goals Worth Pursuing

7) Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation

6) Do You Love What You Do?

5) 4 Simple Steps to Start the Exercise Habit

4) How to Go From Busy to Accomplished

3) Creating a Life Plan

2) How to Increase Your Income By Creating Empowering Beliefs

and this week's
1) 11 Ways to Cure "Someday Syndrome"

Compiled from here

Achieve Your Dreams (Part 5) - A Top 10 List

10) When Everyday Life Gets in the Way of Your Dreams

9) Keeping Goals in Mind

8) Fixes to Help You See Better

7) How to Use Your Dreams to Get Financially Ahead

6) 31 Days to Fix Your Finances

5) Luck is No Accident

4) Making Fake Deadlines Real

3) 9 Mistakes That Can Kill Your Personal Growth

2) Can You Afford to Follow Your Dreams? Can You Afford Not to?

and this week's
1) How to Improve Your Relationship with a Weekly Review

Compiled from here

Top 10 2007 Vintage Port Barrels

10) Quinta do Vesuvio Vintage Port A Capela -- Balanced and refined, with violet, raspberry, and pepper. -- scored 93-96

9) Quinta do Vale Meao Vintage Port -- Structure with harmony. Long and medium sweet, with creme de cassis and wet earth. -- scored 93-96

8) Sandeman Vintage Port -- Blackberry and mineral lead to chocolate and fresh dark fruits. Long and pretty. -- scored 93-96

7) Niepoort Vintage Port -- Long and layered, evoking violet, blackberry, and citrus. -- scored 93-96

6) Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port -- A classic nose of blackberry, currant, and green lemon leaf. Ripe and medium sweet. -- scored 94-97

5) Quinta do Noval Vintage Port -- Sweet and deep. Blackberry, mineral, and dried flowers. -- scored 94-97

4) Dow Vintage Port -- Intense, with blackberry, wet earth, and a full finish. -- scored 94-97

3) Warre Vintage Port -- Medium sweet, with blackberry, licorice, and dark chocolate. -- scored 95-98

2) Graham Vintage Port -- Intense and sweet, with blackberry, currant, and grape skin. -- scored 96-99

and

1) Taylor Fadgate Vintage Port Quinta de Vergellas Vinha Velha -- Racy and perfumed, with cassis, mineral, and wet earth -- scored 97-100

This list compiled from the list in James Suckling's article 2007 Vintage Port in the July 2009 issue of Wine Spectator. Nana introduced me to Port many years ago. I love Port. I wish I had the opportunity to enjoy it more often. Port is one of those wines that truly gets better with time. In Mr. Suckling's article, he notes that most wine lovers enjoy drinking Port with only 8 to 15 years age in the bottle. However, a great Vintage Port can improve with age for more than a century! The score range in the list indicates preliminary analysis of the unfinished wines -- pricing is not yet available. I think I know what I plan to watch for...yum.

Achieve Your Dreams (Part 4) - A Top 10 List

10) Dreams to Action

9) The 10 Commandments of Goal Setting

8) How to Learn From Unfulfilled Goals

7) Why Don't Companies Ever Hire Me?

6) 15 Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Your Career

5) What Are Your 2009 Fitness Resolutions?

4) Top 10 Tools for Sticking to Your Resolutions

3) Stop Procrastinating Right Now

2) 10 Financial Reasons to Turn Off Your TV

and this week's
1) Investing in Yourself

Compiled from here

Achieve Your Dreams (Part 3) - A Top 10 List

10) How to Make Resolutions Stick

9) 5 Steps to Accomplishing Your Goals

8) How to Create a Nifty Visual Savings Goal Reminder

7) How to Eliminate Debt in Bursts Instead of Incrementally

6) How to Be Awesome at Follow-Up

5) Tip of the Week: Useful Passwords

4) The 5 P's: Breaking Down Big Dreams into Little Steps

3) How to Take a Compliment

2) How to Finish Your Work, One Bite at a Time

and this week's

1) It's a Wonderful Life and the Value of Social Capital

This list compiled from here.

Achieve Your Dreams (Part 2) - A Top 10 List

10) How to Use the Art of Positive Realism For Maximum Success

9) Find Your Personal Marathon

8) Defining Success: If You Don't Know What You Want, You Won't Know When You've Gotten It

7) Mark the End of the Day and Finish On-Time

6) 11 Steps to the Job of Your Dreams

5) 3 Scrappy Project Management Techniques to Master (plus 2 tips)

4) Write Your Ideal Scene

3) 3 Easy Steps to Breaking Bad Habits

2) How to Create the Abundance Mindset

and this week's

1) Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

This list compiled from here.

Memorial Day Top 10

10) Watching the space shuttle land.

9) Reading. At least for me LOL

8) Computer time. Cam playing games on the Cartoon Network.

8) Computer time. Me chatting online with BFF Julie.

7) Naps. Need I say more?

6) Sports. What Memorial Day Weekend would be complete without the Indy 500?

6) Sports. Way to go Angels!

5) Robbie at the Splash Pads.

4) Ian at the Splash Pads.

3) Alex at the Splash Pads.

2) Cam at the Splash Pads.

And number ONE...four goofy boys!








Hope you all had a safe and happy holiday. And a huge Thank You to the men and women who made all the above pictures possible.

Achieve Your Dreams (Part 1) - A Top 10 List

During one of my blog-hopping moments I came across 100 Killer Blog Posts to Help You Achieve Your Dreams.

If you’re on a quest for personal development, you’re going to need a lot of motivation. Some of this motivation can be found in blog posts, written about working on goals and finding the strength to do what you really want to do. Read on, and you’ll find posts that can help you make your dreams a reality.

Well, with a title and intro like that, I had to share. Because going through 100 "self-help" blog posts seemed a bit overwhelming, I decided to break it down into 10 posts of "Top 10's." I hope you'll join me on the journey...

10) How to Build Confidence and Destroy Fear

9) Hack Attack: Motivate Yourself

8) How to Choose Achievable Goals

7) Get D.U.M.B.! The Value of Unattainable Goals

6) Yes, You Can Achieve Financial Independence

5) How to Really Land the Dream Job

4) Network Your Way to Job Security

3) Peer-Pressure Yourself into Achieving a Goal

2) Learning to Give: What I Can Do to Fight World Poverty

and this week's

1) 12 Personality Types to Avoid to Make 2009 Your Best Year

This list was compiled from here.

Top 10 Tear-Jerker Movies

Okay, I watched number 10 last night...a tear-jerker, make sure you have tissues handy, movie...which inspired today's Top 10 List.

10: P.S. I Love You (2007) with Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. One of those rare movies that is equal to the book or at the very least such a close second as to be considered equal.

9: The Notebook (2004) with Ryan Gosling/James Garner and Rachel McAdams/Gena Rowlands. I haven't read this book yet. But as most of Nicholas Sparks' novels are tear-jerkers for me, I suspect I'll find this another situation where the book and movie are fairly equal.

8: Love Affair (1994) with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. A re-make of An Affair to Remember that holds its own without distracting from the 1957 version which funny enough is a re-make of a 1939 film called Love Affair.

7: Forrest Gump (1994) with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright (Penn).

6: Ghost (1990) with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.

5: Beaches (1988) with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey. Another rare movie that is equal to the book.

4: Term of Endearment (1983) with Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson.

3: Somewhere in Time (1980) with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour.

2: Love Story (1970) with Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal.

and the all time classic --

1: An Affair to Remember (1957) with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.

I just realized that someone dies in over half the movies I listed. Am I morbid?

A Wine Top 10 List

According to the May Wine Spectator magazine I just got, these are considered "highly recommended" or "smart buys" so in order of score:

10) Glen Carlou Grand Classique Paarl 2005 ($20) A dark, winey version, with solid grip to the macerated black current, fig sauce and espresso note that pump through the finish, where a nice hint of iron lingers. A rock-solid South African red. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and Cabernet Franc. Drink now through 2011 with a score of 90 (Outstanding: a wine of superior character and style).

9) Buehler Zinfandel Napa Valley 2007 ($19) Soft and elegant, this has a delicate sense of complexity, offering floral raspberry and cherry aromas, with juicy, layered plum and spicy cinnamon flavors that linger on the lively finish. Drink now through 2014 with a score of 90 (Outstanding: a wine of superior character and style).

8) Vina Santa Rita Cabernet Sauvignon Maipo Valley Medalla Real Special Reserve 2006 ($20) A rip, concentrated Chilean red, with a broad swarth of macerated currant, fig paste, espresso, loam and black licorice notes all carried by dense but integrated tannins. The finish lets sage and mint notes chime in. Best from 2010 through 2012 with a score of 91 (Outstanding: a wine of superior character and style).

7) Peter Lehmann Shiraz Barossa 2006 ($16) Ripe and round, this is generous with its smoky cherry and black currant flavors, persisting against mildly grippy tannins to create a long, layered finish. Best from 2010 through 2016 with a score of 91 (Outstanding: a wine of superior character and style).

6) Jean-Louis Chave Selection Cotes du Rhone Mon Coeur 2006 ($23) Alluring, with dark cocoa, game, braised fig and roasted plum notes laced with hints of iron and garrigue. The nice solid, muscular finish lets a loamy edge echo on. Drink now through 2010 with a score of 91 (Outstanding: a wine of superior character and style).

5) Gini Soave Classico La Frosca 2007 ($27) This stylish Soave delivers aromas and flavors of peach and honeysuckle, with a dry almond not. Full-bodied, with a lovely, silky texture and a lingering mineral finish. Feels like a top Condrieu. Drink now with a score of 92 (Outstanding: a wine of superior character and style).

4) Joseph Phelps Sauvignon Blanc St. Helena 2007 ($32) Vivid, ripe and tropical, offering pineapple, dried mango, peach and apricot flavors, with mineral grace notes that gain momentum on the finish. Offers refreshing acidity and light body. Drink now with a score of 93 (Outstanding: a wine of superior character and style).

3) Carlisle Syrah Sonoma County 2006 ($25) Very rich and concentrated, this is dark, potent and full-bodied, offering layers of blackberry, wild berry and currant, with hints of cassis. Ends with a blast of pepper, mineral and cedary oak. Drink now through 2015 with a score of 93 (Outstanding: a wine of superior character and style).

2) Chateau de Pibarnon Bandol 2005 ($50) This intense and focused French red show concentrated mineral, plum and dark cherry flavors that are flanked by tobacco box notes. Lithe yet powerful, with a long, elegant and finely chiseled finish of slate and white pepper. Drink now through 2015 with a score of 95 (Classic: a great wine).

and, because I doubt anyone reading this can afford a $75 bottle of wine, the number one wine is:

Merry Edwards Sauvignon Blanc Russian River Valley 2007 ($29) A rocket beam of vibrancy, with effusive honeysuckle notes and ripe honeydew melon, citrus, pear and apricot flavors that have amazing structure, depth and body. Ripe flavors end with a mouthwatering finish, where the mineral and spice details echo on and on. Drink now through 2012 with a score of 96 (Classic: a great wine).

My Favorite Authors - A Top 10 List

In all honesty, I have too many favorite authors to list but these ladies are all in my current TBR (to be read) pile so here you go in no particular order.

1) Karen Marie Moning Well, not my current TBR but only because I've read everything she's written and am waiting for her latest due out this August.

2) Diana Gabaldon Again, not actually in my current pile but again because I'm waiting on the next book in her Outlander series to come out this September.

3) Charlaine Harris I've read all her Sookie Stackhouse a.k.a. Southern Vampire series and the 9th is due out this year in hardback which likely means (unless I get it from the library) it'll be a year before I'll get to read the next in this series. HBO's Tru Blood is based on these books.

4) Lynn Viehl (including pen names)

5) Angela Knight

6) Jordan Summers I won her book Red from the box o' books and can't wait to read the rest of this series.

7) Holly Lisle

8) Karen Rose

9) Melissa Mayhue

10) Lisa Hendrix

Another Top 10 List

The photography version -- this time from StumbleUpon.



1: Street Installations

2: Now, I'd call this an ice storm LOL

3: AntiLimit

4: Tiger

5: Love in black & white

6: Young Gallery

7: Cat

8: Shadows

9: I don't even know how to describe this one!

10: Replacing World Landmarks

For Fun -- A Top 10 List

Freeware caution: always scan free downloads of anything for bugs and other threats before dumping the programs into your hard drive.

Picasa Organize: manage your photos in one place, and find photos you forgot you had. Edit: eliminate scratches and blemishes, fix red-eye, crop, and more. Create: turn photos into movies, collages, slide shows, and more. Share by uploading seamlessly to Picasa Web Albums to share with friends, family, and the world.

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. So you want to write a completely new metaphysics? Why don't you use FreeMind? You have a tool at hand that remarkably resembles the tray slips of Robert Pirsig, described in his sequel to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance called Lila. Do you want to refactor your essays in a similar way you would refactor software? Or do you want to keep personal knowledge base, which is easy to manage? Why don't you try FreeMind? Do you want to prioritize, know where you are, where you've been and where you are heading, as Stephen Covey would advise you? Have you tried FreeMind to keep track of all the things that are needed for that?

Serif DrawPlus is the amazing drawing and graphics software that enables you to create stunning vector graphics, family trees, room layouts, and even web animations -- no experience required!

The Font Thing With The Font Thing you can: browse installed and un-installed TrueType fonts, browse fonts in sub-folders as a single combined list, view sample text and individual characters in your choice of colours, change sample text "on the fly" or easily switch between your own standard text samples, print font samples, associate notes with fonts, install or un-install any number of fonts, and much more.

Trading Card Maker Immortalize someone you love by putting their face on their very own collectible trading card! Or make a whole deck and create a card game. The possibilities for embarrassment are virtually limitless! I know I'm embarrassed!

Palette Generator Choose or upload a photo and a palette of colors based on the colors in the photo will be generated automatically. Use it to help with art projects, website design, or even with decorating your home.

The Imagination Prompt Generator Are you looking for some random writing prompts or story starters for your journal, blog, or other creativity-related project? Well then, you've come to the right place! Creativity Portal's Imagination Prompt Generator will inspire you by outputting one of many randomly generated "Imagination Prompts" at the press of a button.

Photo to Sketch converts a photo to an excellent sketch with only one click! You can convert your photo to: Pen sketch; Pencil sketch; Pastel sketch; Brush sketch; or add a texture effect.

Repetition Detector is a software which allows you to detect repetitions in texts. Process text without size limitation. Word and letter count. Top 50 of most frequently used words. Highlight small repetitions (two identical words which are close). Highlight intermediate repetitions (words used too often inside two or three pages). Highlight each occurrence of a word by clicking on it. Take into account similar words, i.e. with same beginning. Customizable and automatically saved parameters.

Scrabble to help you settle challenges during game play or build words from those difficult tiles.