2 years blogging

Well it's that time again! Vanilla Craft Blog turns 2!!! WOW!!!!

It's hard to believe I started out 2 years ago and have been keeping this up for so long.  I certainly never thought I would have over 1000 followers!!!

I thought I would share with you what I learnt from 2 years of blogging. I hope this might help some of your new bloggers you out as well.

When I first started this blog two years ago, the first name didn't work out. I changed, my style changed and 'Cupcake Crafty' wasn't working for me. I didnt want to restart, but I evolved out of that blog and changed the name to vanilla craft blog. I bought a domain name and that helped my traffic a lot.

At times I've pressured myself to post once a week. When I've made myself do that I haven't been happy with the post and wish I hadn't posted it. I've learnt that taking a 2 week break to then upload a beautiful photo filled post is much better than a quick 'currently' post.

I've also learnt that bloggers block is a thing and it's a right pain. But somehow I get through it with a steady stream of ideas. But sometimes it happens,  we get busy with school and other activities. Like currently I've had a massive art internal and lots of sailing training and I just haven't been thinking of ideas. Browsing Pinterest, craft gawker and Instagram feeds usually gets my imagination running again - right now, it's finding time to do this.

HTML and CSS is also a massive thing I've learnt. Everything I code is self taught, well google taught. Forums and tutorial sites are definitely my first port of call and then I work it out from there. As I learnt more CSS I've been able to do more of my own editing. It really does just take practice.

Thank you all so much for supporting me and my blog these past two years. I can't repeat enough that you is why I blog and I love it so much and never want to stop. I hope that maybe what I've learnt will benefit you and your blog as well.

- harri xx