As you may have noticed, there hasn't been any posts, improvements, news, you name it, in the last year AT ALL. This is owned to the reason that I'm not sure yet what I want to do with this blog - I had an idea when I created it, but I am not sure anymore that I want to go through with it. Sorry, that's very cryptic. There MAY be something coming here in the future - possibly will, but I can't say what or when yet.
Just wanted to make that clear :)
Saturday 14 December 2013
Sunday 25 March 2012
Heading changes!
I'm currently trying to change the name ( aka blogadress) of my German blog - which wouldn't be so difficult, only I find it hard to come up with just the right new name I won't grow dissatisfied with. (What happened with the one I currently have over there, kreativekatzenkunst, which can be loosely translated as "creative cats crafts" to keep the alliteration or more precisely as creative cats art)
My brainstorming brought up some good ideas, but I'm still not 100% decided for a new name. Luckily I have great readers and friends who support me and come up with ideas of their own to help me along! One of this ideas was "Once upon a fabric" which is just totally charming!! BUT. English! So, not useable for my German blog, I don't want to use the English language there to sound cool or trendy or what not...
Luckily for me I'm also developing this blog... So tadaa~aa!! A new, absolutely perfect heading!
Thanks to my friend Cypriana another small part of this blog is "done" :)
My brainstorming brought up some good ideas, but I'm still not 100% decided for a new name. Luckily I have great readers and friends who support me and come up with ideas of their own to help me along! One of this ideas was "Once upon a fabric" which is just totally charming!! BUT. English! So, not useable for my German blog, I don't want to use the English language there to sound cool or trendy or what not...
Luckily for me I'm also developing this blog... So tadaa~aa!! A new, absolutely perfect heading!
Thanks to my friend Cypriana another small part of this blog is "done" :)
Friday 23 March 2012
To-Do-List
So, nothing new in some months! Yes, actually months. Why is that, you may wonder? (You, who found their way here..) Well, I've been concentrating on building up my German blog kreativekatzenkunst.blogspot.com
I started both simultaneously and soon realized that I had to pick one to concentrate one at first, because I couldn't possibly manage both. Plus, I wanted (and still want) to create the designs for this blog myself and that will take more time of course than just finding a nice premade layout design online.
Some time later I also decided to assign each blog a different function. My German one will be my public craft blog, to share my ideas and projects with the (German speaking, so far) world. Whereas my English blog will once be my shop blog, accompanying the etsy shop I want to create in the future. As "2spirits" or Two Spirits within me is my designated brand name for everything I create you can guess why I chose this blog's particular adress, amy2spirits.blogspot.com.
To motivate myself to work on this blog too I wanted to create a to-do-list with steps to take!
You see, there's still a lot to do. But it will be fun too!
I started both simultaneously and soon realized that I had to pick one to concentrate one at first, because I couldn't possibly manage both. Plus, I wanted (and still want) to create the designs for this blog myself and that will take more time of course than just finding a nice premade layout design online.
Some time later I also decided to assign each blog a different function. My German one will be my public craft blog, to share my ideas and projects with the (German speaking, so far) world. Whereas my English blog will once be my shop blog, accompanying the etsy shop I want to create in the future. As "2spirits" or Two Spirits within me is my designated brand name for everything I create you can guess why I chose this blog's particular adress, amy2spirits.blogspot.com.
To motivate myself to work on this blog too I wanted to create a to-do-list with steps to take!
The List:
- take a new picture for the "About Me"-section, the current one is just for the Under Construction-phase
- take cute pictures of my cats & craft materials to go in the header of this blog
- scetch my layout ideas to show to friends who could help me with actualizing the designs!
- enlist the help of said friends to help me with the design! (I'm a total noob when it comes to designing, so I really NEED help)
- maybe do a craft swap with one of my drawing friends to get drawn pictures for the layout design too?
You see, there's still a lot to do. But it will be fun too!
Tuesday 20 September 2011
Still Babysteps
I decided to blog each day about what's new to the blog (if any - if not you'll go without an update) and today I only have small improvements to offer.
Firstly, I added a picture of me, which I edited using a photo editing programm using my mediocre skills for that to remove the blah background from the picture. Taking a new picture with a nice background already went on my to-do list, so it will only stay around for a while. But still, I want you to be able to make yourself a picture of myself not only from my words. Our faces, the expressions they were, they are like our windows through which we present ourselves to the world. As we can't meet in person, you can at least see me smile at you in a picture.
Secondly I'm working on my blogroll. I have a few blogs I liked to read enough that I always typed in the links myself to check up on their progress, but this was tedious work. But no longer! I hope to discover new fun blogs too, which I can follow in the future. If you know of a crafty or simply fun blog you think I should know about, well do just that! Let me please know.
Firstly, I added a picture of me, which I edited using a photo editing programm using my mediocre skills for that to remove the blah background from the picture. Taking a new picture with a nice background already went on my to-do list, so it will only stay around for a while. But still, I want you to be able to make yourself a picture of myself not only from my words. Our faces, the expressions they were, they are like our windows through which we present ourselves to the world. As we can't meet in person, you can at least see me smile at you in a picture.
Secondly I'm working on my blogroll. I have a few blogs I liked to read enough that I always typed in the links myself to check up on their progress, but this was tedious work. But no longer! I hope to discover new fun blogs too, which I can follow in the future. If you know of a crafty or simply fun blog you think I should know about, well do just that! Let me please know.
Sunday 18 September 2011
Nothing new, as yet
But I'm already so grateful for the wonderful people out there who are explaining things to me and anyone else who's not knowledgable of HTML I simply *had* to write about it.
Amanda from kevin & amanda is explaing here how to add a signature to your posts, and I can't wait to try this out!! I'm thinking something cute (maybe a star?) and a "read you soon!" or something like that. I'll have to doodle a bit for a decision and search for free graphics, but I'm sure I'll come up with something nice. Meanwhile I've already found two pretty solid looking tutorials on how to put up post dividers in your blog, one by The Cutest Blog on The Block and one by Shabby Blogs. Between these two I'm sure I'll manage! I found beautiful free post dividers offered at Reflecting the Designer and am itching to try them out! (Oh, and the cute button-strap beneath the header? - still under construction, I want to create something personal there - it's actually one of the free post dividers offered by Shabby Blogs! ♥ It fits perfectly in the crafty & cute atmosphere I want to create for my blog.)
Blogbulk (found a tutorial on how to add a little picture to your blog post titles - I so want this! The template I'm using for my German craft blog comes with that and it's so adorable!) and Simply Fabulous Blogger also offer a TON of tutorials, which I'm sure will be extremly helpful to me! If you're as clueless as me (and even if you're not, I'm sure there's something to see for you as well!) definitely check them out!
Amanda from kevin & amanda is explaing here how to add a signature to your posts, and I can't wait to try this out!! I'm thinking something cute (maybe a star?) and a "read you soon!" or something like that. I'll have to doodle a bit for a decision and search for free graphics, but I'm sure I'll come up with something nice. Meanwhile I've already found two pretty solid looking tutorials on how to put up post dividers in your blog, one by The Cutest Blog on The Block and one by Shabby Blogs. Between these two I'm sure I'll manage! I found beautiful free post dividers offered at Reflecting the Designer and am itching to try them out! (Oh, and the cute button-strap beneath the header? - still under construction, I want to create something personal there - it's actually one of the free post dividers offered by Shabby Blogs! ♥ It fits perfectly in the crafty & cute atmosphere I want to create for my blog.)
Blogbulk (found a tutorial on how to add a little picture to your blog post titles - I so want this! The template I'm using for my German craft blog comes with that and it's so adorable!) and Simply Fabulous Blogger also offer a TON of tutorials, which I'm sure will be extremly helpful to me! If you're as clueless as me (and even if you're not, I'm sure there's something to see for you as well!) definitely check them out!
Babysteps
As opposed to my German craft blog, (also brand new) for which I used a design template kindly offered by The Cutest Blog on the Block I wanted to try out what *I* can do with this blog, design wise I mean. I don't know nothing about HTML, so this is very complicated but also fascinating for me. I'm reading FAQ's and How to's and already managed to turn this blog from "blah" to "hm, it's something". (You can see which helpful sites supported me doing that at the end of the righthand sidebar.) Don't you think? But there's still more steps to take, until it's finished (and I'm satisfied).
Next thing I want to tackle is post dividers. Stay tuned!
Next thing I want to tackle is post dividers. Stay tuned!
Saturday 17 September 2011
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