Spring Cleaning and Blog Proceeding

Hello!

(or "I wish it felt like Spring here") CLEANING

As you may have noticed upon arriving at my blog, the style is new, and fresh, and (I think) better. My hand-drawn wreath and scratchy lettering is just for my Etsy shop now ;] Thanks to a friendly fellow Etsy seller, my blog is looking clean and put together. While I know a little bit about coding... really just how to manipulate it once it is already there... I am not good at starting from scratch, so I decided to put my big girl panties on and work with someone who actually knows what's up for pretty cheap. I decided I wanted to make my blog look more professional but still feel fun and happy. I think this template met my desires. 

As you may also notice, I have added a link/page that connects to an about me page (on google plus) and another link/page that connects you to a new online store that I am trying out. This store is run by big cartel, and I really love the fresh, clean look of things. It has some of the same products as my Etsy page, so you could buy from either place, but I do enjoy the feel of the new online store from big cartel. The only thing with the new store (right now, while I'm trying it out) is that you have to pay with Paypal. Let me know what you think of the new store! Seriously, tell me!

PROCEEDING

In addition to the aforementioned changes, I wanted to develop more of a plan for this blog, what will appear on it, and when. One reason is that I want to push myself to continue to invest in the things I care about in my personal life, namely creativity (DIY, up-cycling, arts & crafts), music (appreciating what I already love and always finding new artists), and reading (anything from fiction to cookbooks to religious writings and everything in between). I don't want to make this blog random and fill it with too many things, but I also don't feel ready super-specialize the topic of my blog right now. I think going with some main categories that I want to pursue anyway will help me to keep updating the blog and keep investing my time the way I want to.

SO, I need you. Please. I would love your feedback and or ideas about my ideas. I have been trying to be clever in thinking up names of the main themes for my blog (creating, reading, and music).
- I would love to share a sort of mixtape/playlist on here once a week. Hopefully I can give some of you a nice little soundtrack for the week. These are my cheesy ideas for what to call the series: Mixtape Monday, Sunday Serenades, and Tuesday Tunes. I like the idea of the playlist coming out at the beginning of the week, though.
- For reading, I probably just would like to write up a summary, recommendation, and thoughts about my most recent reading endeavor (similar to my daring greatly post). I thought of some weekly names, but I don't know that I could truly post about a book every week. I'd like to read that much, but it may not be realistic. So, Sunday Summary, Folio Friday, or, for a monthly version, Monthly Manuscript?
- As far as creating/DIY goes, I'd love to post about some of my own projects (like the pocket notebooks) and also maybe some DIY instructions that everyone can follow; my cheesy series name ideas are as follows: Wednesday Workshop. That's it. I struggled with this one.

What do you think about my cheesy series names? Do you have better ideas? (I'm sure you do.) They don't all have to be name based on a day they would air, but I do want to try to make a more or less predictable schedule. Do you even like the ideas for what might be posted? Do you prefer some topics over others?

I'd love to keep this blog true to me, and to it's name, which leans more toward the creative and DIY side of things, but I would love any suggestions. Feel free to comment, or just tell me, what you think. In fact, please do! I have enjoyed being back on this blog so far. I'd think it was great if people enjoyed reading it too. Thank you to those who do!