I'm baaaack! Where I've been and Motivation Chat

Hello, friends!

It's been 12 days since I've posted anything here and I feel so out of the loop! There is no big important reason as to why I've been gone, basically I just wasn't feeling inspired or motivated. I think the typical reason this happens to bloggers is because we feel like we've run out of ideas to write about in terms of content, but for me, I have posts in my drafts and several things waiting in the queue, so to speak, that need to be photographed...I just haven't felt like it and it was stemming from my layout/design. 

My layout has been the same since I started my blog back in August of last year. Sure, I changed it from black, white and baby pink to black, white and fuchsia, and might have changed a couple fonts, but it was seriously time for a makeover. I wasn't feeling like I really wanted to keep adding content to a space I wasn't happy with when I looked at it and was uninspiring. I found a blogger that designs custom layouts and even had ideas in mind of what to tell her I wanted, but I just couldn't bring myself to pay for it to happen! I wanted to learn to do it myself, and felt like I should learn, not rely on someone else to do it for me and to stay in the dark about how these things work. I don't mean to offend anyone who has done that and in the future I may still have it done, I just enjoy designing and wanted to expand my knowledge base and not "Ooooo and aweeee" over cool designs and wonder how they did it.

So, hopefully you guys consider my new layout and design an improvement like I do! I'm really pleased with it, and no, it isn't perfect, there is still room for more improvement, but I'm so proud that I taught myself (a small fraction) of Photoshop and html and was able to follow basic instructions on things I didn't already know to create it.

I was really happy with my last design for SO long, but just as the quote says, progress is impossible without change. I feel like I made so much progress this past week that I've been working on this whole design...I needed to make it more streamlined, more professional and a little more fun. As a bonus, I also learned so much so I was able to make progress with my own skills.

I don't plan on being gone for that long again any time soon! I just didn't want to keep posting here while my page was "under construction." Overall, I'm feeling much more motivated and excited to get going again and I can't wait to get back to it!

Let me know what you guys think about my new look!