My Blog has a new home!

Hello friends! After three weeks of complete stress, angst, anger, and work….my blog has a new home here on the WordPress platform. It’s still A Blog Called Wanda! You can still type in ablogcalledwanda.com to get to my home page! The story is very long and very upsetting but I’ll try to make it brief. Three weeks ago, my blog hosting home of 15 years (Typepad) sent me an email advising they would be going out of business as of September 30th, and if we did not do something with our content, it would all disappear forever. Well, they made it sound like ‘no big deal,’ just transfer your information somewhere else. It was, in fact, a VERY big deal. Everything I tried on my own did not work. I consider myself a fairly tech savvy person…but the only thing that would transfer over were the words…no photos! I was truly about to give up. I was so sad to think that 15 years worth (2025 blog posts) of projects, photos, and stories would be gone! Many tears were shed, and lots of anger directed at Typepad for leaving us in the lurch like that with no assistance.

I ended up hiring a software engineer off the website Fiverr. He turned out to be a super genius, and also a tenacious person. And also extremely kind and professional. He would not give up on me. We messaged each other hundreds of times over the past week, navigating a 15 hour time difference! To think that someone in Indonesia that I’ve never met decided to go the extra mile for me is amazing. The good part of the internet…  Yesterday he sent the final word – there are photos!! (Yes, more tears)…. It appears that most everything is here now. Some photos are missing here and there but overall we are live. Whew. It’s going to take me a little bit of time to get used to a new platform and editing software. But I will figure it out!!

I tried to keep it looking the same so you all would feel at home here too. My links all seem to be working on my sidebars and in my posts. Please do me a favor, and let me know if you see something strange or something is not working properly. My email is stampcatwg@aol.com.

Coming soon – I hope to post my photos from the Pretty Pink Posh new release this week! (SO CUTE) and then in a couple of weeks we will have the brand new Greetery Holiday release! (It’s on my desk and it’s stunning!)

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Be well, take care! XOXO