New look for the blog

I've had a bit of a play with the blog and made it a bit prettier. I felt it needed a bit of a facelift. I do have plans for a whole new purpose designed website/blog but that is going to take a while and then once the graphics are done I'll have to either figure out the new wordpress site out or rely on a very kind friend to put it all together and tweak it for me. So for now, this will give me the fresh start that I feel I need right now.

I felt a bit like I needed a fresh start too. I've been off work for a month with depression on my doctor's orders. I'm back at work as of this week but I'm still struggling somewhat with day to day tasks and my emotions but I'm definitely better than I was.

I haven't had the energy to focus on my blog / business plans at all in the last month as I spent most of it either sleeping or just trying to relax (and stay somewhat in control of the housework). But I'm starting to think about it again. I did do a few little relaxing bits of organising and creating while I was off and have gathered together the photos in folders so I hope to put them into blog posts in the next few days.

I hope you like the new blog look. Please do leave a comment if you would like to. I'd love to hear from you.

The Best Blog Format

A lot of the blogs that I follow seem to have a regular flow of blog posts and some of them seem to have set days when they have a particular type of post (like "must try Monday" - a post about recipes, and Pinterest Tuesday or something like that, where the blogger shares photos that they have found particularly interesting that week.

Being new to blogging I'm not sure if I should try that format. I'm worried that if I start, due to my hectic lifestyle at the moment I would not be able to keep it up. I have a few things that I have been working on and not yet got around to blogging about and I have tonnes of ideas and to be honest I feel quite overloaded as it is right now. I wish I could spend more time on my blog as I really love doing it. And I definitely want to grow the business that I'm hoping to build up (an idea that came almost directly out of the blog and feedback that I received).

Am I too self-critical? Maybe one quality blog post a week is better than 3 a week (two of which are filler - or could be if I feel pressured into producing something just because it is Storage Saturday or whatever).

Are you a blog reader? Do you prefer blogs you read to have a particular format? A you a blog writer? What sort of format, schedule etc do you use for your blog.

Comments most welcome.