Happy New Year! It's is January 1st and we are officially in 2017 (how did that happen, eh?) and so what better way to kick things off round these parts for another year than to do my what has now become annual post that I do on the first day of the year. I did one at the start of 2015 and another this time last year at the beginning of 2016 so here we are again for round three. Sit down, make yourself comfy and get ready for a little chat. P.S. In case you may be wondering, of course my yearly favourites posts will be coming in the next week, so look out for those!
I have really enjoyed blogging this year. Obviously, I have always enjoyed my blog ever since I started it back in August 2014, but I feel like as time goes on my love and enjoyment for it just continues to grow. I love writing the posts and taking the photos but most of all - interacting with you lovely lot (whether that be on here or on other social media). You're all fab. As for this coming year, for the most part I just want to continue what I'm doing - but as always, try and keep getting better at it. I want to keep trying to up my content and my creativity and keep on improving. My blog continued to grow this past year (THANK YOU!) and I feel like there is no better motivation than seeing that little number going up to keep on trying to make this this little online space the best I can. As part of that, I am thinking about possibly giving my blog another little re-brand/makeover at some point this coming year, just to give things a little update and make things a little more swish. Whether I will actually get round to it remains to be seen, but it's certainly something that I've got on my 'Top-Do' List.
As has been the case for what feels like ages now, I definitely want to keep up with my normal posting schedule of Monday's, Wednesday's and Friday's. I initially thought I would have to change this sometime last year as I was hopeful that a new job would be in the works, but sadly that never came to be so I am sticking with my three times a week thang which works perfectly fine for me right now and I will cross the bridge of possible amendments when it comes to it *hopefully* in 2017. I will get a new job, I will, I will! Other than that, I want to hopefully try and do another one or two months in 2017 of daily blogging (other than #DitsyDecember of course). I have done these in the past couple of years on Dainty Ditsy (remember #AllMonthApril, #EveryDayMay and #AllMonthAugust?) and I love these months - they take a lot of preparations and a lot of work, but they feel so worthwhile in the end and I love the opportunity of basically getting a load of content out all in the space of one month. Sometimes I have a heck of a lot of ideas and feel like I have nowhere to put them all so they certainly come in real handy when that happens. Again, obviously this depends on my work/lifestyle arrangements throughout the year but I hoping I might be able to at least squeeze in one at some point in 2017! Finally, and one which I talked about in last year's edition of this post - I am tempted to try and 'book' myself some time off posting round these parts sometime in 2017. I have continuously posted on here ever since I started Dainty Ditsy two and a half years ago without a break and while I am perfectly happy about that, I feel like if the situation rises in 2017 when it would come in handy for me to press pause for a little while (we're literally only talking probably a week - I love my blog too much!) I will. I promised myself I'd do this last year and never got round to it/had a time when I felt like I wanted or needed to and it may well be the case that the same happens this year but I'm just putting it out there that it's something that might happen. I still love Dainty Ditsy and everything that comes with it, but I want to keep things fresh - and also keep myself fresh and revitalised too!
Feature-wise, there isn't really much that'll be changing. I love all of my 'series' I've got going on - old and new - so if anything, it may simply be a case of a couple of new additions here and there. I would like to add something new to the mix possibly in 2017 (whether that be a one-off, or something more long-running like my 'Polish Pick' posts) - again to keep things new and fresh - but who knows, eh? Right now, the only big change I am thinking about doing is possibly giving my 'Loves and Lusts' posts a shake-up. I have now done this end of the month post thang or two years now and while I am completely happy with the nature of the post itself and want to continue doing an end of the month round-up, I am wondering whether a little refresh of the format might be a good thing. I haven't completely settled on whether it's a set in stone thing, or even what the change will be - so I guess you'll have to wait and see for the end of January to see. Content-wise, I started to introduce a little more lifestyle stuff into the mix during 201q6 and really enjoyed it so I'm hoping that's something I can keep up with this year too. Dainty Ditsy will always be mostly beauty-based (as you'd see from what I put up in 201q6 - the majority of my posts remained in the beauty field!) but I love experimenting and trying new things and at the end of the day, I want to post on my blog about whatever I fancy. I always think like to think of my blog as an online extension of myself and my loves, my passions and my creativity and that's part of the reason I love blogging so much.
So hopefully we're all caught up now, ready for the New Year! Here's to 2017! I know 2016 was a bit of a roller-coaster year for many (myself included), but let's try and make this year better. Or if your year was in fact pretty smooth - even better. We can do it people...
Feature-wise, there isn't really much that'll be changing. I love all of my 'series' I've got going on - old and new - so if anything, it may simply be a case of a couple of new additions here and there. I would like to add something new to the mix possibly in 2017 (whether that be a one-off, or something more long-running like my 'Polish Pick' posts) - again to keep things new and fresh - but who knows, eh? Right now, the only big change I am thinking about doing is possibly giving my 'Loves and Lusts' posts a shake-up. I have now done this end of the month post thang or two years now and while I am completely happy with the nature of the post itself and want to continue doing an end of the month round-up, I am wondering whether a little refresh of the format might be a good thing. I haven't completely settled on whether it's a set in stone thing, or even what the change will be - so I guess you'll have to wait and see for the end of January to see. Content-wise, I started to introduce a little more lifestyle stuff into the mix during 201q6 and really enjoyed it so I'm hoping that's something I can keep up with this year too. Dainty Ditsy will always be mostly beauty-based (as you'd see from what I put up in 201q6 - the majority of my posts remained in the beauty field!) but I love experimenting and trying new things and at the end of the day, I want to post on my blog about whatever I fancy. I always think like to think of my blog as an online extension of myself and my loves, my passions and my creativity and that's part of the reason I love blogging so much.
So hopefully we're all caught up now, ready for the New Year! Here's to 2017! I know 2016 was a bit of a roller-coaster year for many (myself included), but let's try and make this year better. Or if your year was in fact pretty smooth - even better. We can do it people...
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