I’m going to walk you through how to create your own social media icons for your blog. You can create icons that match your design, even if just by using the colours in your palette. 🙂 Requirements Photoshop: I suppose this isn’t really required but […]
Goodreads Reviews Can Outrank Your Blog Reviews
Like many bloggers, I cross-post my reviews. I post them on Nose Graze, Goodreads, and sometimes Amazon. A few months ago, someone asked me if cross-posting book reviews will hurt your SEO. At the time, I did a lot of research before answering that question. […]
5 Coding Projects I Hope to Complete in August
The past couple of months I’ve been so busy with custom design work, wedding planning, trips (California, Boston, New York), and finishing up school work that I have barely had time to work on my pre-made products. Well I’m blanking out my whole month of […]
10 Books from BEA 2013 I Still Haven’t Read
These are 10 books that I got at BookExpo America last year (2013) but I still haven’t read yet. Looking at my haul from last year I have only read 18/37 of my books in total (excluding two that I gave away without intending to […]
10 Free Photoshop Brushes for Design & Painting
I’m going to share 10 free brushes that you can install and use in Photoshop. I didn’t create any of these brushes myself, but I have used them all and created an example graphic for each one! Brushes Pack .05 – Watercolor by MyShinyBoy These […]
Sitting at Starbucks – Photography & TV
New Books Only one new book this week! I’ve been hearing some amazing things about this one. 🙂 Exquisite Captive by Heather Demetrios Goodreads Bee Photography After a lot of cleaning and unpacking last week, Coding God and I took a break by sitting outside […]
Do Blogs Go in and Out of Fashion?
As bloggers, we all have moments of self doubt. We worry that our blogs aren’t good enough or that nobody’s out there actually reading our content or that we’ll never get new readers. It’s very common for bloggers to struggle with this. But here’s a […]
Do You Ever Accidentally Lie About Whether You Like a Book?
Just to immediately clarify: I DO NOT mean this for book reviews. I mean more like when you’re in the middle of a book and someone asks you, “How is it so far? Do you like it?” Have you ever accidentally lied in your response? […]
How to Not Get Locked Out of Your Blog (iThemes Security)
This post focuses on WordPress lockouts when using the iThemes Security plugin. First I’m going to talk about how you could accidentally get locked out of your blog, then how to remove that lockout, then after covering that, I’ll talk about how to avoid it […]
Can You Be a Booktuber if You Only Read eBooks?
This idea came to me when I was chatting to someone on twitter. She was super excited when I posted a BEA haul video because I was “vlogging now”. But I replied saying I probably wouldn’t do many more—if any—videos. Are book haul videos still […]