Is Your Log Home Photo-Shoot Worthy?

Here's a chance to have your home shown in a national catalog!

Black Forest Decor is needing a beautiful, upscale log home for their next catalog shoot. Your rooms will be the backdrop for the beautiful products in the Black Forest Decor Summer 2008 Catalog, and your home will be highlighted in the catalog with a small bio and appreciation note from Black Forest Decor.

This is a great opportunity to showcase your home!

Here are the requirements:
Location: Georgia
Fees: will pay $500/day rental fee
No. of Days: 2
Sq. Ft.: at least 3,000 sq. ft.

Contact: info@blackforestdecor.com

If your log home doesn't fill the bill, recommend a home! Send Black Forest Decor the address, home owner's name and phone number, and if Black Forest Decor selects the home you recommend, they will give you a $100 Gift Certificate for a finder's fee!

If interested, please contact Black Forest Decor at: info@blackforestdecor.com

Hope to see your log home in their next catalog!
Cabin Girl

Vacation Time and Fall Colors

Just got back from a quick trip to Branson, Missouri. The countryside was beautiful even though the leaves hadn't really started changing color yet. The traffic in Branson was horrendous!! Gridlock about 12 hours a day! We quickly learned how to get around on the lesser used streets, but it was still a real mess trying to get from one place to another.

Being in the Ozarks was refreshing, though! Those rolling hills and terrific vistas just took my breath away at times. So much green, and so many shades of green! (can you tell I live in western Oklahoma?) Made me want to stop and look into building a log home of my own. It's too bad Branson has become so congested with traffic. I can see that at one time it was an ideallic oasis for the rustic lifestyler. It's a beautiful location.

One day of our trip, we went down to the historic district and enjoyed some good home cooking at one of the cafes there. The next day we went down to Branson Landing and found a wonderful mall that gives you the feel of old time business districts where shops are lined up along the street and you stroll from shop to shop while checking out street vendors or catching a ride on the street car. I think I have Christmas pretty much taken care of with all the shopping I did!

We found two great restaurants in Branson - one at Branson Landing - Cantina Loredo which offers gourmet Mexican food, and one up on the top of the hill across from Branson Landing called Candlestick Inn. This was a true dining experience as we ate Champaign Chicken Breast and watched the Branson Landing water show across the river far below us.

Now, where should we head for next year's fall color tour trip?

Keep it rustic!
Cabin Girl

Hurrah! the Daily Recipe is Back!

You'll be glad to see that the Daily Recipe feed is back in operation. I guess it just takes a little whining to get the Gods to smile down on you! I hope you enjoy checking out the new recipe each day as much as I do. I'm working on getting an RSS set up so you can subscribe.

We're so excited about building Cabin Lifestyles into a true networking site! I'm working on some ideas for widgets - like maybe a weather widget where you can keep track of conditions at your favorite vacation location. Thought maybe I'd throw in ski condition notices during the winter months. I'd also like to put some of our stuff on an RSS feed so that when new photos are posted, members can get notification.

I've also thought about some additional news feeds on general topics like travel, health, outdoor sports, etc. Or would that just be cluttering things up too much? Hmm... How about some input as to what you'd like to see here? At this point, the sky's the limit!

Cabin Girl

Just When You Think Technology Is Working...

My apologies to all our members who've been enjoying the Recipe of the Day! Our feed link suddenly went down and our source site is under a redesign process, so, we're trying to fill in with some additional recipe feeds until we get a new feed set up from the Living Cookbook again. Hopefully, you'll find some great stuff in the new recipe feeds we have going. The page link still works - there's just a different layout now, so don't hesitate to give it a try.

Thanks to all our shutter bugs out there! The photos are great! Keep 'em coming! We'll be announcing our $100 gift certificate winner Dec. 20th - so get friends and family busy voting for your photos! Beginning Jan. 1, all the rankings will be cleared and we'll look for more great pics to compete for the next gift certificate!

Let me know which areas you like most about the site and, please feel free to make some suggestions as to what you'd like to see in addition to, or instead of... We want to make this YOUR site!

Keep it rustic!
Cabin Girl

Trying this out

Today we launch a new method of inviting our members to participate on Cabin Lifestyles. We're doing a blog and hope you'll post a few thoughts here, too!

The membership at Cabin Lifestyles is growing and I've had the opportunity to email with a few of you out there and must say you are some of the nicest people I've met!

We hope you'll share some of your log home experiences and suggest new ideas for the site - things you think our members will enjoy. So, post a thought or two and let us know what's on your mind when you come to Cabin Lifestyles!

Cabin Girl