The Inspired Flow

How This Site Came About

Ilona Erwin's Reflecting Pool

I started writing these pages in 1998

After the humble pages were initially started on the original Reflecting Pool, they soon grew not only into multiple pages, but into entire sites. Go directly to Topics To learn more about the story of how my online world has grown and multiplied, read on… This whole adventure began on Geocities, which then became Yahoo-Geocities, and now that part of the internet is no more, except in the archives of sites which copied all the content. No more free websites on Geocities made the end of an era, you might say. Not that I am complaining because they were very good to me over the years with free and very stable hosting. I made a place for the writing and webmastering I had begun there on this new site, Ilona’s Reflecting Pool.

If you could support my internet activities with Amazon purchases through the access from my pages I would appreciate it -I finally made enough to pay for the domain name here as an affiliate, but this could be supported further with help from visitors to the site. I have handpicked Amazon selections to check out. These are chosen to relate to the topics I center on within these pages.

If you would like to read more of the story, the following portion of the post gives a history of how the original Reflecting Pool of Geocities days became a number of different websites. The Garden Pages took on their own domain for some time now (since 2006). The Childbirth pages are still being incorporated fully into this site. They needed a complete overhaul. I moved Loving Christmas totally to its own domain, lovingchristmas.com. For descriptions of the pages and sites that grew to become this site and the others, Loving Christmas, Ilona’s Garden, etc. click on the tab “Info Pages”.
This became my primary website with articles on landscape design, landscape plant information, gardening tips, gardening history, how to grow everything from roses to vegetables. Many of the ideas, photos, and tips come from my garden.
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Much of the site is written to help beginning gardeners, while many articles appeal to experienced garden enthusiasts.
The main growth of this site has been the Advent blog, while many pages of the site are carried over from early pages dedicated to Christmas traditions.Loving Christmas site logo The traditions range from recipes for Christmas dinners to family celebrations. Holiday decorating ideas and tips to create inspiration are part of the main site’s offerings. The advent blog includes daily devotionals for several years with posts that include special recipes, fun ideas for children, and crafts.
From Ilona’s Garden Journal blog, this site evolved from posts that journaled the daily highlights in my garden and life into loads of different types of posts on home decor, garden ideas and tips, and landscape inspired projects.home & garden companion logo Mostly personal opinions on gardening, etc. the nuts and bolts gardening information is mainly moved over to Ilona’s Garden.
  I have changed many things and they are still evolving. Ilona’s Garden Journal, the original blog which I started in order to make notes about my garden and to try out the “new” blogging platform. It is now a self-hosted website, Ilona’s Home and Garden Companion

Topic descriptions

General topics on Ilona’s Reflecting Pool The following descriptions are from the way the site took form originally, with “sections” of pages that covered the interests that I had begun with my original site.
  1. Opinions and advice on Childbirth (not published at this time)
  2. Exercise
  3. Snippets of poetry, Quotations and Jokes that I liked
  4. Holidays
  5. Biblestudy
  6. Hungarian
  7. Celtic culture
Some came to their vanishing points, while other branched and grew. teacup

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