Resolutions & Yay-a New Year!

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I've had better years, and I'm looking forward to the New Year. I'm all about simplifying. I need to cut loose a bunch of stuff, mainly my blogs. It's time to re-vamp again. Cleanse, Delete. You will see in a bit some changes so don't be alarmed, it's still me, just getting rid of some baggage.

My two sites Tina Winterlik and Adventurez in Mexico are my most popular but I want to drive my traffic over to Paintingathon, my painting site.

I think I'll get rid of all the social media sites or at least not have them the focus any more. For some reason, Blogger has done something and my tabs links are not working so I need to change all that.

I tried and learned a lot of things this year. So I must give myself a pat on the back for that.

My social media skills advanced alot and I learned more about the market and what was going on out there.

I created many new videos and short films and my skills really improved and I am pleased with that. If you go back and look at the little videos I made with Animoto, you will understand my pleasure.


Film and video is something I still really like but editing is so much harder and excuse me...but BORING so that made re-think alot of things.

You see I created a number of versions of ADVENTUREZ IN MEXICO in a documentary style. And well I am not sure if I will ever share it. I might today... but need to watch it again. I may only put it up for today and then take it down. A sort of Sneak Preview and Christmas and New Year's Gift all rolled into one. A Special Thank You to all my readers. If I follow thru with these thoughts you should see it a bit later today.


Anyways other discoveries this year, I CAN PAINT!! I am proud of myself, and I know it will take alot more practice and time but it's coming and it feels really fantastic.

So I am looking forward to the New Year to see what wonderful amazing surprising things it has in store. I feel it's going to be "Special" because people believe it will be. They are creating it, generating it, projecting it. So it will be.


I'm doing my best to Project and be Positive to so that 2012 Rocks! 


Well those are a few of my realizations and sort of a resolution. Nothing to exacting. I like it loose like that. Happy New Year's All!

Wishing Everyone a Safe Happy New Year & Feliz año nuevo!

Karma Cleansing Ceremony Photo by Tina Winterlik  © 2009

Karma Cleansing Ceremony Photo by Tina Winterlik  © 2009

Oh p.s if you want to see what they do in Zipolite in Oaxaca Mexico at Shamhala on Dec 31st check this out! http://adventurezinmexico.blogspot.com/2011/12/zipolite-shambhala-karma-cleansing-oax.html

LOVE IS BETTER THAN MONEY!

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This video was created last year when we returned from our second winter in Mexico. So these photos were from the first journey the year before. It was a tricky journey. Lots of people thought I was crazy. I just knew in my heart it was critical my little girl needed to get to know her Mexican father but more importantly learn her culture and the language. You can't learn that in a two week trip. You need to be immersed. So that's what we did. We landed in Cancun and bused it down to Zipolite, stopping at Merida, Palenque, Agua Azul, Mishol-ha, and San Cristobal. I believe it gave her a wonderful glimpse of how gorgeous Mexico is.

I have created 74 videos and you can find some of  them on Vimeo and the rest are on Youtube. I hope you'll check them out. I started to make a 2 hour film and it's in progress, so stay tuned.

If you have any questions please contact me, and be sure to check out my blog Adventurez in Mexico http://adventurezinmexico.blogspot.com/



I just love this song by Mysti Mayhem, BETTER THAN MONEY, the words love is better than money just summed up everything so beautifully because it really was how I felt. The 'LOVE FOR MY DAUGHTER IS SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN MONEY.'

I was totally into just living in a little room on the beach, basically camping almost, no fridge, just a cooler, and making do with what we had. We had a fantastic time. It wasn't always easy, we really had a small budget so it was stressful at times, but we were basically adopted and felt very  loved by the Mexican family we rented from and the people  there and friends we met helped so much.  I would love to go back, I hope to soon.

Love From Oaxaca

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Was just going thru some videos, I came across this and thought I'd share it, this is from when Angel and I were in Oaxaca and there was a Contest to travel for Flight Centre. I made this video. I look a little rough, it was really really hot. I love Angel, she's so cute as my little cucaracha. Happy Friday All!

Thank You For Reading My Blog

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To ALL the people who read my blogs. I really appreciate it and it really makes me feel good that this news/info/photos/videos are being shared. That makes me feel GOOD!  It really makes me HAPPY. It makes my day when I get over a 100 pageviews, or like the other day it was 200 and that just thrills me.

So thank you again. Today I hit the 10,000th  pageview.

My 10,001 pageview

Wow! that's really alot. Amazing. Thank Everyone. Cheers, have a good sleep. day. Depending where you are. Cheers.  Tina aka Zipolita

10,000 Page Views Since September

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So this is very COOL. Today sometime my blog will hit 10,000 pageviews. WOW. This is really something for me, since I only really started faithfully blogging on it since September 2010. I have had this blog a long time but at one point deleted a bunch of stuff and just started to find my voice.

It took a bit, but now I know what I like to blog about I LOVE IT. I love sharing all the great videos, just like that funny one the other day Gotta Share  that's how I feel and guess so do alot of other people.

I remember I had my Adventures of Angel blog, I had it like 4 years and only had about 600 views. So this is a BIG DEAL to me, because my Adventurez in Mexico Blog http://adventurezinmexico.blogspot.com is about to hit 10,000 pageviews too. But probably tomorrow or next day as it needs more than this blog Tina Winterlik

Overview of pageviews

Audience Stats

Here are my stats of Adventurez in Mexico

AdventureZ in Mexico Audience Stats

AdventureZ in Mexico Overview

So what's next.  Well people are always telling me "Get Some Advertising on there" and I know I should but I don't want just anyone, I want something GREEN, and they really have to align with my way of thinking. That's why I came up with the Billboard Blogpost idea http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com/p/introducing-billboard-blogpost.html   http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com/2011/04/billboard-blogposts-real-estate-on-web.html  And I ENCOURAGE you to take advantage of my offer.

It's very reasonable, basically it's  one time fee  and here is what you recieve.

Billboard Blogpost on Tina Winterlik

Package #1 Photography, Video, Copy, Links (Local Clients) $250 Cdn

Package #2 Copy & Paste Relevant Info from your Blog, Website or Facebook Page 

(Local and International Clients) $100

Package #3 Need a Social Media Manager - Let's Talk! 

Pay by Paypal

Anyways think about it,  you can see what other people said Testimonials .

So What's Next! I created a portal yesterday for my Zipolita blog http://zipolita.blogspot.com  to have a place for everyone to easily find my blogs, Facebook pages, Twitter & Linked in links.

I thinking that I would like to try Blogtv and I'm going to see if I can put the interface in there, I think that might be really FUN! I'm  a little nervous, but I think I could meet some SUPER cool people that way and we could talk about GREEN stuff.

What else...well I hope to start painting, my gosh it's been so cold, and yesterday it POURED all day, it was so grey. It was a great day to stay inside and fix my blogs. Anyways I hope we will get some nice weather here and I can start painting more.

And maybe start making some beach glass jewelry. You know before I had Angel I had a huge beach glass collection and I would sit for hours making jewelry. When you have a kid, sometimes part of your life gets put on hold for a bit. For me it was painting and my jewelry, but she's 8 almost 9 now and we are starting to do things together. She's a fabulous storyteller, so we will be working on that more too.

My other goals are to finish unfinished projects, I need to finish my actual MOVIE for Adventurez in Mexico. It will be 2 hours and have narration and music and I hope people find it very eye opening and helpful if they want to go on a trip to Mexico and if they are thinking about taking their kids.

I still have my Social Media Workshops, so I have to work on those. Let's see I want to make 3 more 5 minute films for the Possible Futures Contest for Four Years. Go. 

I have nearly 1000 Twitter followers too! I have 945 so I'm close, so I'm Super Happy with that too! https://twitter.com/#!/zipolita

Well I better get on with my day. Have a great one! Tina aka Zipolita :)