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like skulls and studs i have to thoroughly resist the temptation to talk about when i wore all that the first time around partly because it makes me sounds ancient and partly because it really wasn t the first time around nothing s new is it fashion just goes around and around i ve gone off on one again haven t i ok back to the card the gorgeous turqouise stripe backing paper and the blue pink checks on the die cut heart comes from the 6x6 les edition de infocrea pad from 3djean and that gloriously neon frame is a very old bampop design the skull charm is from the ribbon girl and everything else was either loitering around in my stash for years or borrowed like the heart bunting die so i can t really give you any more info on those call myself a professional sheesh anyway so what do you think a good balance of cute and edgy for a teenage girl s card who am i kidding i like it now and it s a loooong time since i was a teenager goes off to polish up skull earrings i ll be back later this week maybe tomorrow maybe thursday with the final approach in my push up bra blogging series i was planning a round up post for the final final post where i ll try to tie up any loose ends and answer any burning questions so do you have any if you do or if there s anything at all you d like to raise or suggest just leave a comment on any push up post email me my address is in a link in my blog sidebar facebook me tweet shout really loudly when the wind s in the right direction you get the idea i m happy to keep any questions anonymous p s i need less than 90 now to reach my target so if youve got 1 to spare you can donate it here julie posted by julie kirk at 08 38 8 comments labels cardmaking hearts punk teenage girl skulls stripes email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 18 april 2013 push up bra blogging 10 the freezer meals approach hello hello another day another opportunity for me to prod you into some blog action with a new chapter of push up bra blogging as someone commented to me after yesterday s instalment oh gosh chapter 9 already and now it s chapter 10 how d that happen i remember drawing up my schedule and thinking that the series was going to take me right up until the end of april which seemed aaaages away and now it s next week but then the year 2000 once felt like the space age future didn t it and where did that go so let s get on with things before any more time passes us by chapter 10 takes us well and truly into the 3rd stage of the series so far we ve had the why and the what and today kicks off the how element of the course as in how am i going to blog more productively how will i find the time and we really do need to look at how you re going to put all your newly inspired blogging plans into action because as the philosophy of the entire push up bra series states it s not simply about the amount you ve got it s how you handle it that counts i m talking about handling blog content here stop looking at me like that today s advice harks back to what we talked about in chapter 4 the push up bra approach where we discussed the idea of making the most of what you ve already got but now we re building on that with a method of getting all of those projects and ideas out there and on to your blog it s also the approach i ve been teasing you about the one which i use to keep me blogging consistently throughout the year the one i truly believe can help you get yourself on track so here it is see if any of this is familiar you decide to have a mammoth baking or cooking session in the kitchen during which you set aside a chunk of time to make meals soups stocks cakes preserves etc decide that while the kitchen s already in a mess you may as well just keep going and make some more think that if you re going to have to wash almost every pan and work surface in the room anyway you might as well use a few more then use the fruits of your labour to stock up your freezer or store cupboard and in doing so you make life easier for yourself in the coming weeks where all you ll have to do is pull something out of the freezer defrost it and voila you have a meal anything familiar or at least anything that makes sense there well regardless of whether or not you ve ever actually done this in your own kitchen it s one of the best analogies for my personal tried tested method of efficiently combining blogging with life offline and here s how to apply it note my main examples are taken from my experience as a crafty blogger but you can easily adapt them to your own specialism i used a similar technique to get this course up and running and that didn t involve craft projects 1 make blog worthy content in bulk this is the part where you set out your utensils ingredients and make the freezer meals so to speak the easiest route to blogging more craft projects means making more craft projects the easiest route to blogging more tutorials is to create more tutorials the easiest route to blogging more stories is to write more stories and so on however this does not have to mean finding a great deal more time or many more separate occasions in which to be creative take advantage of any opportunity you do get to make or make a start on several projects in one sitting i ve found that that the items i produce from a couple of hours making cards and layouts either at home at crops or weekend retreats can keep me in blogging fodder for months to come similarly this is how i go about preparing new kits for my etsy shop i like to set aside a day or two to really focus and make many kits in one go when i began planning out this series i created 12 new draft posts from the start and dropped my rough notes for each chapter in place there and then grab your notebook make a list of whatever it is you plan to blog about more often eg scrapbook layouts art journal pages sewing projects photographs jewellery etc etc etc just to get you thinking about your productivity levels write down the times you do get chance to produce new content eg weekends a monthly crop an afternoon off a twice yearly retreat a summer break etc etc try to think back over how many individual items you ve made you could apply this to photos you ve taken or stories which have popped into your head too in the last month or so all of what you ve written down is potential blog content right there already in your life under your nose due to work family having to stop making things ocasionaly so you can eat your creative periods may very well be irregular few and far between once a month 3 months apart or whatever but that does not mean that your blogging has to follow the same pattern you can transform the things you create during these irregular or sporadic productive periods into satisfyingly regular content but first we need to get them off that pile of stuff on your desk and make them look presentable bloggable 2 set up a bulk photo shoot this is the photography equivalent of making a mess in the kitchen while the kitchen s already messy because you only have to clean it up once clear well lit photos are an essential factor in upping your blogging game but it comes at a price it costs you in time therefore in order to get this to work efficiently you re going to need two things i organisation and ii a tripod let me explain why you might be like me or you too sj someone without any professional lighting equipment to use relying solely on the rare occasions here in the uk when the sun is shining enough for you to achieve those well lit photographs you re looking for like some sort of cinderella everything must be captured before the sun goes in or else you might be grabbing a moment while your baby naps or before the latest episode of fashion police starts whatever it is we re all working under time constraints and so we re going to dive bomb this photo session flash mob it get in and get out smash grab no time wasting allowed you ready ok here goes have everything you need to photograph readily on hand maybe keep all of your un photographed projects together in a box or in a separate pile on your desk wherever but have them within easy clear reach then the next time you have time to yourself grab the projects and take them to your studio what you don t have a photography studio me neither but you can make one here s mine welcome to my side of the bed if i said here s where the magic happens you d get the wrong idea but what i mean is the blog photography magic fortunately and no i didn t plan it that way both the cabinet and the walls are white so it makes the ideal studio backdrop and while you don t need to do anything as extreme as redecorate you could look around your home for a good bright corner which could suit the task chances are if you ve seen any craft project on my blog or a product in my shop then it was photographed in my bedside studio whenever i find time to have a bulk photo shoot i simply make myself a cup of tea to keep my spirits and fluid intake up clear everything off the cabinet roll up the window blind to let in as much daylight as possible grab my box of un photographed items or scour the room for them if i ve been lazy mooch around the house collecting little props if that s what i want to include in my photos that day set up my tripod turn on my camera and yes about the tripod business i really really do recommend you get one it undoubtedly improves the quality of your photos no more shaky blurriness but it also means that you can leave the camera set up in position while you simply swap out the item you just photographed for the next one in the queue no picking up and putting down no turning the camera on and off it s all there waiting good to go this saves so much time it becomes like a mini production line and they re really not as expensive as you might fear especially as you don t need anything fancy mine cost less than 10 from aldi a few years ago but places like amazon and argos had similar priced ones last time i looked seemingly shops beginning with a sell affordable tripods maybe it s something you could drop hints about for your next birthday then once you ve taken all those images and if i ve got a few months worth of finished projects to capture and i want full length shots plus close ups this can run into the 100s of pictures you re going to need to do something with them 3 bulk edit the photos next time you get chance this might be straight away while you re in the photo groove or it might have to wait until the next time you get a free afternoon but if you do have to wait don t start worrying that you re slipping behind you re not because once you ve set up this workable system eventually you ll reach a critical mass where at any given moment you ll always have a box of projects waiting to be photographed a set of images on your computer waiting to be edited plus a set of edited images waiting to be blogged and your readers won t know anything about when it all happened or how far apart these actions were they ll just see the finished blogged results and then you ll have finally put an end to the mad rush to make photograph and blog a project in the same day there s more on that idea to come in chapter 11 next week but until then i know it won t always work like this there are definitely going to be times when you might need to photograph something sooner than you d planned eg for a deadline but with this system in place whenever that occurs there s nothing stopping you exploiting the situation and grabbing that box of unphotographed items and snap them at the same time as the rush job killing two birds with one stone again it s like making an extra freezer meal while the kitchen s still upside down from the last one make it work for you to save you time in the long run but you can t edit photos without photo editing software do you have some because i really think you need it i don t use anything fancy mainly just microsoft office picture manager and picasa free to download but it really is advisable to learn a few basic techniques to brighten crop and re size your images i won t go into it all here this isn t really what this series is for but i m sure you can find out a few tips by googling that said a quick word if you re a blogger blogger re sizing your images before uploading them means that you won t be taking up unnecessary space on your free blogger account which only allows you so much storage i re size all mine to 550 pixels wide which is plenty big enough for online viewing this drastically reduces the raw file size from my camera down to around 100 or 200 kb saving me so much space it also means i can override the odd default image sizes offered in the blogger settings instead i just hit original size and get nicely sized images that seem to fit better than the other options ok i don t want this to turn into a technical talk series here so i ll move on 4 now blog all those projects you ve photographed one at a time one at a time so we ve made all those meals wedged them into a full freezer messed up the kitchen used every pan and spoon in one fell swoop and now here s the fun part we get to eat them but after spending all that time spent preparing them are you going to defrost them all and serve them all up on the table at once no i thought not then why do you do that on your blog ok ok you might not do this don t throw things at me but i ve read many many blog posts where the blogger does just that how many times have you seen someone blog a catch up post where the blogger apologises for not being around much lately and then blogs a fortnight s worth of content in a single post and you can almost put money on it that in another week or two they ll be back along with another catch up post and yet another month s worth of material all crammed into one place if you do nothing else after reading this series please tell me you ll stop doing that as interesting as each item in that binge post may be it runs the risk of getting lost meanwhile the blogger runs the risk of doing themselves out of an easy month s worth of content but this doesn t have to be the way the cycle can be broken by blogging the majority of your separate items individually don t throw everything into one post do allow projects the space to breathe and be appreciated in a post of their own do take close ups and detail images of your work if you re concerned about your reader having enough to look at this method also makes you more aware of why you re sharing this particular item as there won t be a lot of other things going on in the post to distract your reader it can force you to see what s interesting about the item the photo the story what s worth pointing out to your reader what makes it worth blogging this could be a technique a supply a style a tip the back story etc etc and if you ve got more material on a similar subject eg you ve made a set of matching items or in variations of colour using a similar method etc etc th...
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