What I Will & Won’t Post/Say/Do
I will post DIY Crafts that:
- give me a big bang for my buck (things that look sooo expensive but are not).
- are doable. Meaning what you get in the photograph is what you will be able to get in real life. I mean those photographers and stylists over at Martha Stewart have won awards to make things look perfect.
- do not take hours and hours and hours of labor to produce several flowers, when in reality you need 50 flowers to achieve the look you wanted (and if you don’t mind doing that there are lots of great tutorials on the internet!).
- have ingredients and materials you can actually order and get at a reasonable price online or at your local places. I’m not going to post something that needs a band saw. I did post a beautiful leather bracelet that needed some special stuff, but I looked it up and the kit was like $12 and for the cuff, I felt that was worth it.
- I will post links to these materials if I can. Like the gorgeous faux fur for the Prada knockoff scarf that I am obsessed by.
- I will say DIY when it really is a DIY.
I will not:
- write my posts to make it seem like I actually created what you see in the photographs, with a tiny mention of the blog/site where you have to look really hard for it. That is why I use the quotes option so much!
- I won’t claim tumblr or pinterest as my source as I see blogs in the real world doing all the time. Can’t they use google image search or better yet say they can’t find the source? Because unless that person at tumblr/pinterest actually took that photograph, did that drawing, made that design… then they are not source material! Just plain lazy.
- I won’t post alcoholic drinks because I have followers of all ages. There were some amazing bizarre Halloween alcoholic drinks I wanted to post and just couldn’t deep down in my gut. I certainly can’t stop underage drinking, but I don’t want someone underage seeing candy mixed with alcohol and then trying it.
In general about me:
- I go through my followers’ posts. I actually do. I’m following way too many people (over a thousand) but I love looking at what people post. It’s interesting to see what other people like.
- I love seeing the work of super talented people that make jealous in a good way. I find it comforting to know there are such creative minds out there.
- I like cats, Supernatural, True Blood, Jane Austen, movies big time, photography, loyal friends, Medieval History, gorgeous textiles, Japanese Street Style, Scandinavian style, Etsy, www.regretsy.com and stuff like that.
What I absolutely hate: People who message me or reblog and comment on my posts writing really nasty, cruel things for the Hell of it to sound “clever”. Truly. Like the person who posted that one of my complaints sounded like a “first world blog problem” - first of all, SO OLD - I’ve heard that phrase so many times now it has lost its “hipsterness”, second of all it was in a comment in a reblog so that this person’s friends could see how “clever” this person was. Comments that are nasty and snarky add absolutely nothing to the conversation have no place here. Please do not follow me if you are this type of person - we will only annoy each other and you will tell me in a public nasty comment that you can’t follow someone like me, etc…
