URGENT - PLEASE READ...

Google Reader™ will be going away in a few days... 
They've been threatening this change for a while, and I just kept hoping that 
they'd relent. I was wrong. In the next few days, that feature will disappear 
from my all Blogger blogs. I don't like it, but nobody asked my opinion.

If you follow me through Google Reader™, please consider subscribing 
to Brynwood Needleworks via Bloglovin'™. I've placed the new widget 
right above the Friend Connect™ widget to make it easy for you to find 
(It's over there -> in my right side bar).

Once you subscribe, you'll receive my posts to your inbox every day.

This is different from Google Friend Connect™ or Linky Followers™. This
change is only if you're used to reading my blog through Google Reader™.

We've been told that Friend Connect™ may also change at some time
in the future, so if you're not signed up as a Linky Follower™, you might
want to do that at the same time. I know that I'm going to miss my Friend
Connect™ widget if they ever discontinue it. Linky™ provides the same
feature and promises that they will be a great alternative for the future.

Change is a difficult thing for me.
If we remain calm, perhaps this won't hurt too much.
Please sign up now so that we don't lose touch with each other.
I'd hate for you to miss all the great things I have planned.

This Won't Hurt A Bit...

Just when you've settled into something comfortable, things change. I guess change is inevitable, but sometimes it's just a little inconvenient. So instead of viewing it in the negative, I'm going to choose to embrace and move toward that change.

I read my friend Anne's blog today at Fiona & Twig. She always has the most beautiful photographs, and she's famous because her work has been included in a number of magazines now. I love visiting her vintage images and elegantly, down-home Texas posts.

So, the really great thing about visiting Anne today is that I learn I have an option for something on my blog! I'm going to give you her link to her post (here), so that you can read it all for yourself, but if I boil it down to its essence, bloggers need a backup plan for keeping track of their favorite blogs and blog friends.




Thanks to Brent Riggs at Linky Tools, there is now a beta version for that option. (Brent is responsible for the link tool I add to the end of my Memory Lane Monday posts so that other bloggers can link up their own memories posted on their blogs). If you'll look to my right sidebar, I've now added a new friends widget which Brent calls "Linky Followers". It's easy to sign up for the service, where you'll be able keep track of your favorite blogs and your blog friends.

There's no cost and it's a great option if when the inevitable end comes to Google's follower service. As an added bonus for becoming my follower through this service, you can go back to my giveaway post (here) and leave a note to tell me that you're following me through my new widget and get another entry in the giveaway!

Just click "Follow me" on the widget (either above or in my sidebar - they'll both work) and register. The instructions are easy to follow, and it doesn't take long. After you've and added your name on my widget, add your comment to the giveaway. I know...I'm not completely thrilled that there will be a change in our future either, but I have so many things I still want to tell you, show you and celebrate with you. I'd hate to lose touch because we put off doing this.

More fun stuff tomorrow. See you then!