Blog or BLAGH?

Blog or blagh?:

this is the part where i ramble about nothing... maybe something

Are you of the sort who thinks that a blog should be personal or that it should be for business/profit, etc?

I've been really getting into a lot more blogs recently and the more I come across the more corporate they seem. I don't exactly know my stand on this yet. But I do feel my self pulling away from these types of blogs. I like the more personal ones. The parts where the writer tells me who they are. The parts where they make me feel like I'm apart of their blog. I'm not just some authentic hit or a target audience. Granted, I think it's AMAZING that a blogs make money and generate business.

I don't really have a "destination" for this blog.. and I spent the better part of yesterday reading old posts to try and figure out what my blog came "across" as. Is it a craft blog? A personal blog? An inspirational blog? I honestly have no clue. I do feel like it's my blog. It's about the things that I like and am inspired by. I follow people who I feel a generally kindred spirit with or have inspired me.

There is a point in my blog writing where everything CHANGED. I stopped complaining about everyday life and I started journaling. I used this space on the web to connect with people and share my love of crocheting and journaling. It's because of Janel's 30 Day Journal Challenge. It shook me out of my perpetual slump and got my mind focused. I thought outside of my daily problems and turned it into art. Those prompts started something inside me that got me to this place where my blog is. I feel like my blog has just grown up so much and me with it. I still could complain here, and a lot of time I will come write a grumpy post. I hesitate on the PUBLISH button and just leave it in the drafts. Just getting the words out was all I needed.

So, I guess my blog is just a cronological list of what happens in my days, my thoughts, and my crafty spaces.

I don't want to make a GOAL for my blog, because I honestly suck at goals. I'm getting better at accomplishing what I set out to do. I just want to connect with people. I want to share fun things about crafting and myself. And I hope that really shines through.

What do you think about this blog and your own? Do you feel like personal blogs are more intersting or do you feel like business-ey blogs have more appeal?

Thankful For It All

There are so many things that I am thankful for. A few too many to even remember properly. There are the little things I don't think about so often that I am thankful for like running water and heating and air conditioning and clean drinking water. There are the big things that I am thankful for like God, a family of my own, a home and a country where I can be myself. There are ridiculous things that I am thankful for like nutella, I Love This Yarn, Apple Brand, Vintage Pyrex. There are things that I can't stand, but I am thankful for, like my past. Without it, then where would I be? I certainly wouldn't be myself.

I am thankful for you. Yep! You! The person who is reading this right now. You are so amazing to me. This simple gesture, reading, that you are doing is so wonderful to me. I don't know you and I can't see you, but I am thankful for you. Being able to blog makes me feel like there is this small corner of the world where everyone "gets it". They love to craft and find the extrordinary. They think that different is best. You are those people. You make me feel like I belong. You inspre me and drive me to create and think and express. You are so beautiful sitting behind that computer screen! I hope you know it! ;)

What are you thankful for? What ridiculous, little and big things are you thankful for?

This is my brain on paper

Welcome to the inner workings of my mind:

(^it should say *you... oh well.)

so as you can see, I'm on target with the Journal challenge so far, and when I get done here I will start on tonight's challenge! I'm really loving this idea. It's getting me to think about things that I should ALWAYS think about. It's making me realize I have SO much to be thankful and happy about. It's making me see that my life isn't so bad after all.

I'm really thankful to Janel for creating and hosting this challenge. It's such an amazing idea and her promts are so heartfelt! I really feel liberated in a way by showing my journal pages to everyone. It's like... no matter what these pages say, this is who I am... and it's okay. So, major thanks Janel, for giving me this feeling. It's kinda mind shattering.

I feel like the first three entries were kinda rushed, and you can see that in their design. I guess I was just getting used to journaling & doodling again. Adding colors really helped me out alot. I like black&white but I think colors are more my style :)

So far my favorite page is Day 5. The Blogs I Love. And I'd just like to take a minute to say to everyone in my google reader & the blogs i follow on blogger:

THANK YOU!

your idea's, favorite pictures, animals, stories and personalities make the internet so much more fun. you've inspired me. made me laugh.made me feel like i'm not alone in this world in the fact that i'm obsessed with random objects and crazy design.

you are really too cool to be friends, but blogs just make it that much more fun.

so, thank you for what you do and please don't stop!

well, I'm off to journal!

check out the Flickr Group & if you want to start now, it's NEVER too late! :)

ps; i officially love FLICKR! It just clicked with me the other day how to work it & it is so amazing.