People are always asking me how I find cute things on Ebay, and honestly you just have to search for what you want! I thought I'd make a post on some of the cute things I've found on Ebay recently, and include links for those too lazy to search xD
I've been asked many times to make a video of what's on my iPhone, but I never seem to get around to it, or if I film it, it's ages until I get to edit the video and by then I have more and different apps. Though I haven't downloaded anything new in a while, I thought I'd make a blog post about what's on my phone, and then at least I've still shared with you guys what apps I use, even if it's not in a video. I have an iPhone 4s and it's the 16GB version.
Before I start, I'll show you my lock screen (yes I took these screenshots at 3am) My lock screen wallpaper changes a lot, but right now I'm addicted to playing Fire Emblem Awakening on my 3DS, so this wallpaper is from that game.
So after spending around 2 hours changing up my blog after writing my previous post, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the websites I found with Blogger templates and things that I used on my blog! Plus it would be a good way to get back into blogging~
First I had decided I wanted simple and cute social media icons for the side of my blog. I'm not a graphic designer, and I didn't really want to be messing about for too long trying to create the icons I wanted, so I decided to Google-fu for some. Searching 'cute social media blog icons' or words to that effect brought up some nice icons, but many of the icon sets I found didn't include one for Youtube, which being a Youtuber, is something I had to have! However, I stumbled upon these icons, and found them to be perfect! Not only is there an icon for Youtube, but you can download them in many different colours so you can pick the set to match your blog, and there's also a blank icon in the set so you can make your own! I only used six of them on my blog, which you can see at the side, but they're my most important links on the internet, so it's nice to have them displayed in such a cute way~ I chose the bubblegum pink ones, if you're wondering.
As for the theme of my blog, Blogger's pre-set themes just weren't doing it for me. I like to be able to customise them, but none of them had the look I wanted for my blog, so it was back to Google for some more searching. Searching 'blogger theme', or 'template' brought up lots of results, but again, none of the themes were cute enough for my liking, or the style I was looking for. So obviously I began searching for 'cute blogger theme/template' and this brought a lot more results! I first came upon this blog post, it has a lot of links for templates and themes, and even background images and headers, all of which useful when customising your blog. Through that post I found this site, which has a lot of cute themes, and although I didn't use one of them for my blog, I will save the site for future reference.
I finally decided upon a theme from this site, and chose the subtle stripes theme. I really liked the background and scalloped border on this theme, and I even stuck with the original header rather than creating my own (although I will probably make one in the future) The download came with the XML file containing the HTML for the template, the font (although I ended up using CAC Pinafore) a blank header to customise and a Photoshop PSD file of the header for those owning Photoshop. It was very easy to add the text I wanted in PS, and I also saved a smaller version of the header with just the text for the signature at the end of my posts!
After that it was just a case of adding my pages and widgets down the side, including an Instagram widget from SnapWidget, and of course my cute little social media icons~! I really love how my blog looks now, so hopefully this will spur me on to blog more this year! I even transferred my frainy.com domain from my Tumblr over to this blog, so make it seem more official and perhaps force me to keep this updated? Either way, I hope you enjoyed this post and it was helpful! Let me know what you'd like me to write about next!
To be honest, I've not really had the time to blog, nor have I had anything interesting to blog about! Looking back at my old blogspot (which I've forgotten the login for) it made me want to get back into doing reviews and posting about my new creations and purchases again. I make videos for pretty much everything I can on Youtube, but there'll always be things I don't get around to filming, or that I don't want to make a video for. For example, posts about a new growing obsession with Pullip ball jointed dolls, or new anime I'm watching, or cosplay; and since I don't want to bombard my Youtube subscribers with videos about things they might not be interested in, I might as well blog about my interests other than crafting.
Thinking about it, a new year would be a great time to start blogging again, even if it was only twice a month, that would be 24 new blog posts each year, and something that people can read about my interests and life without watching videos. Of course, I'll probably blog about things I've filmed about, or mentioned on Youtube, but it'll be nice to have somewhere else to share it as well.
I've already made a video about my goals for 2014, but I'd like to add one more, to blog!
I want to revamp this blog, change the banner and theme a bit once I have photos that will better represent what I want to write about. I want to share photos of the Pullip doll I just ordered and I'm waiting her arrival, I want to show progress photos and maybe DIY a custom doll, show you how I'm trying to make a cosplay sword for my Mirai Kuriyama cosplay, more hauls, reviews, and just general life things.
It'll be fun! I hope...
I'd also love ideas on what you'd like me to blog about! It can be anything I haven't mentioned, or maybe even something specific like a review on a certain shop or item I own~
Well, I'm gonna go spruce up my blog a little, and think of other ideas to write about!
Today's blog post is a sponsored review for The Fashion Filth! The shop owner is very sweet, and she also makes hair bows and shorts, which I also love :3
So Instagram recently released a new Vine like feature to its app, the ability to record short videos as well as post photos. I for one welcomed this new addition to what is one of my favourite apps, but it sort of upset me that people were angry with Instagram for introducing this feature and that short videos belonged to Vine. Now I like Vine also, but I do believe that Instagram did do videos better, and in this rather serious and informative blog post I'll talk about why I like Instagram video better, but also why I'll still use Vine.
Sorry I haven't been posting here in forever, I'd like to update more but I never get the time > <
I've been wanting to sell at an anime convention for a while now, so when I heard about ONECon, I decided I would try and take my shop along and get a dealer's table :3
So lately I've been making charms and necklaces and things like crazy because I'm worried I won't have enough to sell over the whole weekend xD
Just a small amount of the things I've been making xD
I also bought these jewellery trees from ebay so I could display my charms and necklaces in a cute way ^^
And this is what charms look like clipped to the white one :3 It's a little full here, I've taken most of the doubles off and I'm keeping it looking neater so people can actually see the charms xD
I also went and printed off photos of my decoden phone cases to put in a portfolio, so that people can see what I've made and order custom cases in person (which I'll ship out after the convention)
I really like how the portfolio looks so far, I'm going to get photos of my supplies so people can request certain things too :D
The convention is on 24th and 25th of August, so I have lots of time to prepare for it, so I'm hoping I'll have enough made by then! I have a growing list of charms to make, and I want to make at least 3 of each one so I know I'll have enough of those, not to mention the amount of resin necklaces I want to make, and decoden phone cases! I've been making things nearly every day, so I'm hoping to keep it up and have enough to sell!
And if anyone is going to ONECon by any chance, I hope to see you there!
I'll be most likely wearing my new galaxy seifuku :D It's so pretty!
Anyway, thanks for reading, I'll hopefully be able to post more often!
