The title says it all – my blog is turning four!
Four years of my life creating something that could easily disappear due to internetty reasons beyond my control.
Four years honing my writing skills and training my visual eye. Both skills that you need a lifetime to perfect – four years is a good start though.
Four years making new friends, virtual as you might be, but our conversations are real. It makes it all worthwhile. Thank you!
I have my own little blogoversary tradition of creating a photo gallery with 12 photos, posted each month of the past year, and I’m not going to break the tradition. So here you go:
The past blogging year saw me do some things quite differently: I started writing more, and I got more personal. And, cherry on the cake, last month I started co-hosting a photo challenge, a new step for me.
The travel theme became less and less important on my blog – I even became a tad disenchanted with travel in general (how about we leave something for future generations to explore?!) – and I only traveled to Krakow last year.
Another tradition of mine has been to highlight some of my own favorite posts from the past year, in case you missed them. I liked that I was able to get into a creative mood a few times, despite my life being quite hectic at the moment.
My top 7 picks, in a random order:
- Visiting Porvoo and A Trip Down Memory Lane – because of the colorful photos I stuffed into the post
- The Invisible Beauty of Pigeons – pondering about daily things
- Modern Fairytale – a story I enjoyed posting
- T-Shirt Poem – getting creative (?)
- A Treasure Impossible Sweet – felt like rhyming!
- The Time I Wasn’t Glamorous Enough – sudden inspiration to write
- The Art of Hello – very much enjoyed writing this
Another change I’ve noticed in my blogging self, possibly due to my real life self’s current busyness, is that I’ve lowered my own standards a bit.
For example, I can full well see that the squares in my gallery in this post are unsharp. But there is nothing wrong with the images, and you can check by clicking them open. I tried changing their size but it didn’t help.
Normally, this type of thing would bother the heck out of me and I would google for answers until I solved the problem.
But now… now I’m just going to publish the post as it is, assuming it’s a WordPress glitch in the square gallery that I can’t fix anyway. I could choose a different gallery layout but I only have a couple of options to choose from and I know that the layout will be completely different if I use them – and I want squares this time!
Now I don’t know if lowering standards is good for the blog (probably not!) but I think it’ll be good for my stress levels! I’m going to cruise along at a relaxed pace and enjoy the scenery. I’ll leave the problem-solving to other people. (For now.)
I wish all of you smooth sailing in your blogs and let’s keep chatting!
Thanks for reading – now, and all those other times!
Super-fantastic Blogniversary 😍😜
Big hugs 🤗
Sid
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Super big thanks dear Sid! xxx
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sounds like Rajinder up there is a bit of a scammer?:=) tee hee
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Hmm, what do you mean? Do you think it’s a bot? I’m so bad at spotting those! Maybe bots are good at personalisation these days. It could’ve been a real blogger too because many aim for commercialization of their blogs…. hmm
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oh i thought you were replying to him in a (gently) sarcastic/humourous/ironic way …. I just felt that he wasn’t a real blogger . but i could be wrong. i get such a lot of them on my blog. I delete them all with glee:)
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I delete the obvious ones and I don’t reply to them. But this one I’m not sure. But I guess they can learn to personalize their spam? Also what’s the point, what’s the gain – where does the bot want people to click since there isn’t even a site? I don’t get it
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i don’t get it either:) i don’t know why they bother. where does it get them? yes i have been getting personalised spam, where they pretend to be real people. what a weird world it is….
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Hmm well in that case I’ll delete that thread!
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Happy Blogversary! I have been away from several months, abandoning my blog and stopping to read the blogs on my feed * sigh *, so I will definitely check the posts you listed and the photo challenge 🙂
Ciao, Sara
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Ciao Sara! I hope you were doing something fun? 😊 Happy to see you’re back!! 🤗
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I moved temporarely to South Tyrol and I had no time to write or read! The free-time that I had was employed to trek and discover that wonderful area! ❤
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Ah, sounds lovely!!! Time well spent then.
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I’m feel like I’m having a ‘moment’ I feel like I have already commented on this post but perhaps it’s the ‘private’ conversation we had on this subject so forgive me if I’m repeating myself. Congrats on 4 years and many more! 🙂
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Oh and amen to that perfectionist thing and learning to press submit anyway. There should be a Perfectionist Anon group set up for us wee poor souls.
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Hahah! Yep!!
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🙂
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Thanks for reading this and some of the linked oldies – not many do, as you probably know! So it’s that much more appreciated 😊🌷
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It was hard! I kept seeing more and more interesting titles…could you be a bit more boring, it would help with my schedule… 🙂
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Congrats on the 4 years! 🙂
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Thanks Julie! 😊
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Congrats on four years of blogging. It is quite a while to be blogging. Interesting to hear it has been less about travel and more personal. As our lives evolve, blogging also evolves. I guess that can make our blogging content interesting, and there’s always something new for you to blog about 🙂
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True, blogging evolves as life does, and I’ve also notice my blogging style evolve because I’m better at it now – I’m not as shy to share stories from my life and I’ve gotten to know so many other bloggers 🙂 Thanks Mabel for dropping by, do come again! 😉
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Yay!! Congrats on 4 years of blogging!! The evolution of a blog is always an interesting journey. 🙂
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Thanks! It is 😊
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Well done – lovely blog. Hope Im still around in four years….
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Thanks! Hope so too, blogging is quite addictive once you get going! 😊
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Happy blogiversary! 😄
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Thanks! 🙂
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Congratulations on your anniversary!!!
Blogging is one of the best choices I have made. I’ve been at it for over a year and I’ve the finest people in the world. It is such a huge part of my life.
You have taken some beautiful pictures. They look wonderful.
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Thanks! Same here, blogging has changed so many things for me and given so much! It was a spontaneous decision on my part, such a stroke of luck really! 😊 Happy blogging to you!
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Congrats!!!
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Thanks! 🙂
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Nice. Congratulations. I’m back from a hiatus. Hope to post more often now. Kudos to you for keeping your blog alive after kiddos. 👌🏻
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I hopped over to look at yours some time ago – glad to hear you’re back!! 🙂 Keeping it alive after kids at first kept me sane – it was an easy hobby while they were napping – but now that they are toddler-aged (and never sleep), life is pretty hectic and I’m not as motivated about blogging as I was. But… all the bloggers I’ve met here keep me going because the sense of community is so great!
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Hahaha…I think our kids might be around the same age now. My toddler son has FOMO already and just doesn’t want to sleep even if can hardly keep his eyes open. 😄
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Hahah! I was looking at pajamas at a store a while ago and saw one that said “We never sleep” – to this day I still regret not buying it! I might’ve used it as daywear just to let the world know 😉 heheh
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great blog! congrats on 4 yrs!
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Thank you so much! 😆
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