Hiya guys! Hope you are all having a fabulous day!
So, last week was my wee blog’s 1st birthday!
Yay! Cannot believe that it has been a
year since I started my blog!! It’s actually
flown in…and I’ve had SO much fun this past year learning new skills and finding
new hobbies, and getting the chance to use my creativity more!
Anyway guys, I thought I would recap why
I started the blog and tell you all about who have been my inspirational blog
idols – the people who have helped inspire me to be more creative and put
myself out there to start up this blog! As
well as this, I thought I would list my top four most viewed posts and the top four
favourite DIY crafty posts I have most enjoyed doing this past year!
Let’s get started!
I started my wee blog so I could have a
place where I could post design tips, DIY crafty projects and photographs of my
travels, in the hope that I would inspire some of you out there to try out some
of these hobbies/little design-y tricks!!
And, I really hope that I have
done that.
So, I have two main blogger/vlogger/YouTuber
idols that have defo been my
inspiration for starting the blog and doing DIY stuff and putting myself out
there in the blog world for all to see!! And they are Mr. Kate and Shameless Maya ! If you haven’t heard of these two, definitely check them out because they are amaze and so creative…plus you’ll get to see who has inspired me to use my crafty creative side more!!
(To be totally honest, I’m not too sure how I
came across them on YouTube (??) … but ever since I did, I have watched every
video they have on their channels and keep up to date with their new ones! Obvs!!)
So, Mr. Kate is a super quirky and
creative DIY blogger/interior decorator/stylist! She is the first YouTuber that I really
started watching and I think I actually sat one day and made my way through all
her DIY videos, like her nail art ones. This
was definitely the main reason for me developing a keen interest in nail art!
I loved art in school but I haven’t really
had the chance to do much drawing/sketching since University, so since
discovering how much I love, love, love
doing nail art, I got the chance to start up art again…just on my nails this
time…or other peoples nails! Its just
another art form that I have learned! So
I’m really quite lucky I came across Mr Kate’s channel otherwise I would have
never found my passion for nail art!! Which
would be a very sad-faced Lin!
My next YouTuber idol is Shameless Maya!
Again, she was one of the first
blogger/vloggers that I started watching. A bit different to Mr Kate, in that her videos
are more about her, I guess, because mostly it’s about how she has shamelessly
promoted herself through her social media – and got herself out there! Her main tagline (or motto) is ‘Do you.
Be you. And stay true boo!’ Which is
a fab saying…as you are you…so be you!
Shameless Maya does a lot of camera ad
tech videos too, which is good to learn as well, as I’m also into photography. That is another thing I realised I loved when
I was at college/university! Having had
‘perfection, perfection, perfection’ drilled into us with mood boards and
presentations and work like that has made me a perfectionist. But I think it has also taught me or made me
realise that I have a good eye for photos and displays and things like that. I don’t mean to sound arrogant but I like to
think I know what a good layout is.
Anyway, anyway…her camera tech videos
are interesting!
So yeah, those are my blogger idols who
have helped me realised to just be me, be creative, be helpful and write posts
that hopefully people will read and like and realise themselves that they can also
try the DIY things out too!
Okay, that was a lot of text!!! Hopefully
if you have got to this part, I haven’t completely bored you!! Now, you will get some visual-ness with
photos form my top 4 most viewed posts and my top 4 most fave posts I have done
this year!!
(You can click on the title and it will
direct you to the actual blog post if you would like to read more about it!)
Top
4 most viewed posts:
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this week I decided to clean out and arrange my craft boxes and I found a box
of loom bands. Remember them? They were quite the craze in the summer! … I
kind of went through a wee phase of making loads of them, a little bit
embarrassing I know. … So, for this post, I’m not going to show the steps involved to
make these creations. …
This idea came to me
after a couple friends asked me some creative-y/design-y questions, and I
thought it would be a good idea to answer their questions through my blog. … Okay,
this week’s question was about nail art, water marble nail art to be specific. A friend had seen a video of it on Facebook
and was wondering ‘how is it done?’ …
For
this week’s post I thought I’d blog about what I made my lovely pops for
Father’s Day! I wanted to make a gift instead of buying one, like I did
for mama for Mother’s Day. So, I made something that he would use…a
bookmark! … this was a good wee crafty project for it as
my dad loves painting, so it was a good way of incorporating the artiness into
the making of the bookmark! …
… you might have seen that I quite like taking
photographs with the whole focussed/out of focussed thing going on! … Well
I just found out this week (in a nail art video) that it is called bokeh … a
photography style which I guess many photographers use. … As I have said, I saw a nail art tutorial … So,
this week I thought I would try to give this nail art a try …
Top
4 most fave posts I’ve done so far:
This week I’m going
to do a wee organisation-y post, an easy DIY that anyone can do! … This
is quite an easy and fairly cheap DIY, that you don't have to spend a lot of
money on for a cool, quirky little storage idea!!! … I tried a few things out but most of them
never really worked … It was basically
just ‘trial and error’ to see what worked and what didn’t!
For
a while, on Instagram and Pinterest etc. I have been seeing people update
random items … to give them a new look! It’s amazing how a bit of gold paint can make
something random and ordinary look quite elegant and funky. Love this idea! … I
decided I would use up some nearly empty bottles of old just-about-gloopy nail
polish. …
Hiya folks!
Hope you all had a fab spooky Halloween weekend, dressing up, going trick or
treating or just staying in watching scary films!! … I was a little bit stuck on what to dress up
as …
so after some ‘research’ I thought I would go as a Cat Burglar. … My
post this week is basically about ‘my version’ of a Cat Burglar costume and the
DIY aspects of it. …
Since
making my fave red bobble hat, I’ve had loads of pals saying that they loved
it! And they were asking me if I could make them one, which is basically
what I have been doing in my spare time this week! … So,
basically all I really use to make the hat is a 36-peg round knitting loom with
the hook, and the needle to finish off the hat…and wool of course! …
So that’s it for my super long (and
hopefully not boring) 1 year birthday blog post! I hope you enjoyed reading about who inspired
me to start my blog…and totally check them out too because they are both fab
creative people!!
Anyway guys, that’s me…I won’t take up
any more of your time! Thank you SO SO much for reading!!
Have a fabulous day and as always, take care!!
Okay, love you, bye x
