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Oh baby…

Posted by 2 Sisters 2 Cities on January 17, 2013

oh baby giveaway

So, I have a little announcement to make on 2 Sisters 2 Cities today…I’m having another baby!  And to celebrate, we are hosting a $25 Amazon Gift Card giveaway over the course of the next week!  Just enter through the Wafflecopter widget below and leave a comment with your guess as to whether I’m having a boy or girl.  There is also a chance to earn bonus entries by following 2S2C on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, RSS, and/or e-mail.  A winner will be picked at random so you don’t have to guess correctly, but it will be fun to see which way the votes sway!  We’ll be finding out the baby’s gender next Thursday and I’ll  be doing a special baking-related gender reveal at that point.

Some data points to assist with your baby gender guess:

  • My two-year old son, Baby T, is a boy.
  • I’m one of four girls.  My husband is an only child.
  • The Chinese gender calendar predicts girl.
  • My main pregnancy craving has been ice cream (thank goodness for the new ice cream maker K got my for Christmas!)  My last pregnancy, I craved salty snacks.
  • My intuition says it’s going to be a boy.

My due date is in late June which puts me in pretty much the same pregnancy timeline as Kate Middleton, Jessica Simpson, and now Kim Kardashian.  I think it would be really fun for my baby to share the same birthdate as the royal baby (and not so much with the latter two!)

I can’t wait to see what everyone guesses!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

The Rules:   No entries will be accepted after January 24th, 2013 at 12:00 am, EST.  Entries that do not follow the entry requirements will not be considered.  One winner will be chosen at random and will be announced on January 24th, 2013.  (The winner does not have to guess the gender correctly to win.)  The chosen winner will then have 30 days to respond by e-mail to claim their prize.  Please note that this giveaway is fully sponsored by 2 Sisters 2 Cites.  Void where prohibited.

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Two Sisters (and a) New City

Posted by 2 Sisters 2 Cities on October 1, 2012

Greetings From Cali

So I have been MIA once again.  I do have a really good reason this time.  2 Sisters 2 Cities is taking on a new city with New York sister K moving to the San Francisco Bay Area!

My boyfriend’s work gave him an amazing opportunity to transfer to their San Jose offices in California and we decided this was an opportunity we couldn’t refuse.  We basically have one month to get everything ready.  Since we made the decision, it has been a blur of cleaning, packing,  job hunting (for me), finding an apartment, finding a moving company, and selling the things we don’t want to move.

We went out to the area this weekend to look for apartments and check out the area.   Everything went very smoothly and we found an amazing apartment in a brand new complex.  I am completely exhausted from the flight last night but I am recovering bit by bit.

There are a lot of changes coming down the pipeline that I am both excited and scared about.  All of this change at once is completely out of my comfort zone and leaving my family and friends back on the east coast isn’t going to make it easier.  However, I can’t wait to explore new areas, learn about a new city, and make friends on a new coast.

Does anyone have any tips for me about moving across the country and/or undergoing major life changes?  Do you have any tips of things to check out in the bay area?   Do you live in the area and want to be my friend (haha kidding…kind of?)

Be patient with me in the next few weeks.  Once I get a new job locked down I will have a lot more free time after work to post.   I can’t wait to share with you my experiences of a whole new area!  Stay tuned for more California move news!


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These are a few of our favorite things…

Posted by 2 Sisters 2 Cities on January 22, 2012

K and I came up with a list of some of our favorite blogs to read and added a Blogroll to 2 Sisters 2 Cities.  A lot of them are cooking-oriented, but there are a few others thrown in there that focus on other topics (design/decorating, DIY, mom blogs, fashion, etc.)  Once you have finished reading every single post we have written the past couple years, you should stop by and check some of them out! ;)  The blogroll can be found on the bottom of the right-hand column and looks like this:

Do you have any must-read blogs that you recommend (including your own)?  Let us know in the comments section!

-m


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Recipe Index and Print Friendly Buttons

Posted by 2 Sisters 2 Cities on January 21, 2012

Hello Readers,

M and I have been trying to update our page lately to help our readers browse and use our recipes easier.   Recently we have added a recipe index to help you find our recipes faster.

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The Recipe Index has all our recipes we have shared with you over the years listed in categories.  To select the recipe you want to view, just click on the recipe title and it will bring you to that recipe.
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For example, if you were looking for a breakfast food to make, you would scroll to our “Breakfast” section in the index.  There you could see that we have a recipe for Buttermilk Pancakes or a French Omelette (note to self- share more breakfast foods with you, which is perfect because I just made something this morning for breakfast that I am pretty pumped about sharing with you.)  To see the recipe for the Buttermilk Pancakes, just click on the words and it will take you to the recipe.   Mmmmm, I forgot about the recipe for Buttermilk Pancakes…best pancakes ever!  We are working on cross-referencing items like the Cranberry, Banana and Walnut Muffins under both Bread and Breakfast, since technically it could be considered both.

The next addition to our website was actually added this morning.  I know when I read blogs, I like to have a link to click on to get to a printer-friendly version of the recipe or post.   I like to have paper copy of recipes when I am cooking because I don’t like bringing my computer or phone into the kitchen.   So now, you will notice a print friendly button on the bottom of all our postings. image
If you find a posting that you would like to print,  select the Print Friendly icon at the bottom of the posting.  From there it will take you to a page that looks like this:image
You can change how the view looks by changing the size of the font, taking out the images,  and deleting sections.  Lets start by changing the size of the font.image
At the top of the print friendly version, there is a green bar.  On the bar, there is a text pull-down menu.  Click on the down arrow and select the font size you would like the posting to print out with.  I like the small font because it will most likely print on to one page (depends on the size of the recipe though).
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To get rid of the images just select the “no image” box and the images go away.   Not that we want you to get rid of our images, but we understand that color ink can get expensive!
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If you want to print just the recipe portion of the post for your files and get rid of the intro to the recipe, hover the mouse pointer over the paragraph you want to delete.  It will automatically be highlighted in yellow with a “click to delete” in red at the top.  Click on the paragraphs you wish to delete to get rid of them.  If you accidentally click off a part you didn’t mean to delete, click the undo button at the top.
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When finished with making the changes you desire, select print and your printer dialog box will come up.  Print out the recipe and then run to your kitchen and make it!!

M and I hope to have a lot more additions to our site to make it easier to use.  Let us know what you would like to see to make your experience at 2 Sisters 2 Cities better.

Thanks for reading!

-K


Filed Under: About 2 Sisters 2 Cities Tagged With: blogging, organizing

2010 in review

Posted by 2 Sisters 2 Cities on January 6, 2011

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

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A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 4,600 times in 2010. That’s about 11 full 747s.

 

In 2010, there were 97 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 106 posts. There were 190 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 398mb. That’s about 4 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was March 11th with 475 views. The most popular post that day was The MBTA #9 Bus is Not Your Private Town Car.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were universalhub.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, WordPress Dashboard, and otherpiecesofme.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for herb garden, 2 sisters 2 cities, poco proof press for sale, hobby letterpress, and poco proof press.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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The MBTA #9 Bus is Not Your Private Town Car March 2010
4 comments

2

About 2sisters December 2009
2 comments

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My new hobby- letterpress December 2009

4

5 Fun Bridal Shower Gift Tips March 2010
1 comment

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Quinoa with Roasted Garlic, Tomatoes, and Spinach July 2010


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Merry Christmas from K & M!

Posted by 2 Sisters 2 Cities on December 25, 2010

We just wanted to wish all our readers a very merry Christmas this year! It has been a great year and are both so excited to have the whole family together at our parents’ home- along with their 10 foot tree! We hope you are having a wonderful holiday as well. Thanks for following us this past year…we hope to have many more posts in the upcoming year!


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Hello Readers!

Posted by 2 Sisters 2 Cities on December 27, 2009

We are two sisters, K and M, living in two different cities with two different lifestyles. This blog is to share our adventures in New York and Boston. K is single and just starting off in New York City. She works in fashion and loves to cook healthy and inexpensive food on a budget. Her hobbies include cooking, baking, working out, shopping, and partying with her friends in the coolest city in the world. M is married and works in finance in Boston. She loves to experiment with new dishes and focuses on recipes that are easy to prepare after a long day of work. M’s hobbies include cooking, reading, eating out, traveling, skiing, crafting, and letterpress.

We started this blog to share our cooking, baking, crafting,  and other life adventures.   Growing up in a creative home, we feel like sometimes our over-the-top inner Martha comes out and we would like to share it.   Over the past few years we have each wanted to start a blog on our own, but we each thought it would be too daunting a task to take on by oneself.  This blog is not only for the two of us to share our recipes and adventures between each other, but to share them with our family, friends, and co-workers who are always asking us for the  latest recipes and project ideas. We hope you enjoy!

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