How To See Who Has Viewed Your Instagram Stories

If you are curious who has viewed your Instagram Stories, 

here is how you can find out who has watched.

Instagram Stories Quick Start Guide for Beginners

If you are a Snapchat user, than you probably already have Instagram Stories figured out.  It is almost identical, minus the filters, but a lot easier to navigate for the beginner.

If you are an Instagram user that has never ventured over to the world of Snapchat, here is a quick start guide on how to use  Instagram Stories.

(if you have no idea what I am talking about, do a quick update of your Instagram app)

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Instagram Stories will only show for 24 hours (like Snapchat).  And they will not appear in your regular feed.  So you can keep your beautifully curated Instagram feed and still post that picture of those cute shoes you found at Target or your broken toe.  It will be gone tomorrow.

Instagram Stories show on the top bar of your Instagram home page.  You can click on any of those profile pictures and watch their story.  They will continue to play until you X out.

And if you want to use Instagram the old fashioned way, just scroll down.

Setup Family Sharing on Your Apple Devices [How To]

With the launch of Apple Music, we had to set up our family on the Family Share plan.   Up to six family members can use Apple music under one account if you are connected via Family Sharing.

Apple has a great tutorial on their support site that tells you how to set up Family Sharing, but it left out some details that I would have found helpful, so after 4 hours of tinkering, searching the internet, setting up family share and then disbanding the family to set it all up again, here are a few things I have learned.

1.  First, decide who is going to be the family organizer.  We just assumed it was best to make my husband the organizer since we had all been using his Apple ID for purchases previously, but the organizer receives a LOT of notifications (at least when you are dealing with four underage kiddos) so we ended up disbanding that family and setting it up with myself as the organizer.  I worried not having the original Apple ID as the organizer would cause issues with purchases, but it has not.  If you do not have a credit card on file you will want to set that up.)

2.  If your kids don't have Apple IDs already you can do this WHILE adding them to Family Share.  This will allow you to set up IDs for kids under 13 without fishing birthdays.  You don't have to create Apple IDs for them ahead of time.

I didn't know this and went through and set up new ones for all of the kids first and had to go and change their birth dates (which is more steps than you would think) after the fact.

3 - After everyone is set up for family share, make sure everyone is set to share purchases.
You can check this at  Settings > iCloud > Family   (on each persons iPad/iPhone)

4 - If your family previously shared an Apple ID for purchases and/or you created new Apple IDs during the set up, you will want to add the individual Apple IDs to each persons device.

You can do that at  Settings > iTunes & App Store

Also you will want to make sure to add the Apple ID under Messages (Settings > Messages > Send & Receive) and Mail (Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > iCloud) as well.  This won't effect family sharing, but will come in handy if you have changed or added Apple IDs and will prevent frustration down the line!

At this point you should be all set to share purchases!!

IMPORTANT NOTES

** When you want to download an app purchased by a family member, go to the App Store on your device and search under your family members purchased apps. (They should be listed under  My Purchases)

** Not all apps are 'shareable'!!  To find out if the app you are buying can be shared, click on the app in the App Store and scroll down to information and it should say Family Sharing.

**You can only switch to a different family group once per year.  So our little mistake of making my hubby the family organizer...we are now stuck as a family for the next 365 days.

**Children under 13 can't be removed from a family. If you need to, you can transfer the child to another family or delete their Apple ID.

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Cake Frosting Tutorial

Pumpkin Petunia's post pointed (that is fun to say...I love alliterations) me to a fun cake frosting tutorial from Giver's Log.  They have a fun technique to make cake frosting come out perfectly smooth like this:

After frosting the cake (she uses the frosting tip from Wilton...which I never wanted, but after seeing her tutorial I might have to break down and buy) she lays parchment paper over the cake and uses her finger to flatten the icing underneath.  She then repeats the same steps for the sides:

She says you can use a dry paper towel too...but that sort of weirds me out.  But the parchment paper I can handle!

It is almost as smooth as fondant!  Almost.

And I bet it would be even easier to do on a cupcake!