Category: Blogging

So I’m slowly catching up on 31 Days to be a better blogger.

I now have an Editorial Calender (something I had already done on one of my two business blogs) and a heap of post organised for the next couple of months. Lots of exciting goodness awaits, can’t wait to share it all with you.

I’ve updated some of the pages of my blog. I have a new About page, my Scrapbook resume is more up-to-date and I’ve added a few more links to Pages I Love (go check them out, I’ll wait til you come back ) Just a quick note on Pages I Love – it’s kinda like my blogroll but a mix of websites & blogs. I have too many to list in the sidebar & it could get kinda messy lol

I’m going to be adding a poll later today (maybe tomorrow – it all depends on Miss K). I want to here from YOU, my readers as to what you would like to see me blog about.

Ok so I have fallen a tad behind with the 31 days to a better blogger. Things got a bit busy here *sigh* don’t they always lol

Day 4 of building a better blog was to look at a top blog in our niche. Since my niche is both mummy blogger & scrap blogger, I ended up looking at two bloggers.

The scrap blogger – Katie the Scrapbook Lady

The mummy blogger – MagnetoBoldToo!

Day 6 was some reading. I do have to share a couple of the links cause I think they are great reading for all bloggers.

How to get traffic for your blog

10 Reasons Readers Don’t Leave Comments

I’ll be back a little later with some more catching up

This blog post over at Three Little Princesses made me chuckle.

But it is true. The first time Miss K saw Dorothy she bawled until I changed the channel, same with In the Night Garden. We also said we’d never have anything Wiggles or Hi-5 in our house. Well we’re doing pretty good with Hi-5 but the Wiggles, not so much. Fortunately not on TV yet. And then there is Dora the Explorer, don’t get me started on that one. Miss K really hasn’t shown any interest.

She does, however enjoy Star Wars, Star Trek, AFL and will sit and watch The History Channel with her dad.

What do your kids enjoy? What do they hate?

Since joining Aussie Mummy Bloggers I’ve found some great new blogs. I thought I’d use my post today to share with you a few of my favourites (in no particular order).

• Lori @ Random Ramblings of a SAHM I found Lori’s blog when Miss K was about 6 months & I love her style of writing. She’s going thru a really tough a really tough time atm but I for one am glad she is blogging about it all cause it is a topic that isn’t discussed enough. If u read this Lori *huge hugs* from a semi anonymous reader. U have more strength than u know & u r an inspiration.
• Kelley @ Magneto Bold Too. Kelley is just AWESOME. I’ve been a reader of her blog for AGES. She rocks the Parties of Awesome, and some gorgeous shoes.
• Toni @ Chick Chat. Toni & I ‘knew’ each other a few years ago on a scrapbooking forum so it’s nice to ‘catch up’ again.
• Liz @ lizosaurus. Just found her but she loves cats. Enough said. Cats rule!
• Jodie @ Muddled Up Mumma. Another recent find but a great read.
• Kate @ Picklebums. I ‘know’ Kate from the digi-scrapping world. Love reading her blog

hmm I could go on. But I will stop there (honestly I got side-tracked reading blogs again LOL)

Do you have a favourite Mummy blogger? Link me up so I can add to my ever growing blog list

So I mentioned yesterday I had signed up for the Aussie Mummy Bloggers 31 days to build a better blog group & today is Day 1.  And I’m struggling already.

Our first task was to write an elevator pitch – selling ourselves & our blog. What our blog is about? Who’s the audience?

The idea is to have a short and sharp piece that you can say about yourself when the opportunity arises…The goal is both to communicate what you do and entice the person receiving your pitch to want to know more….Knowing what your blog is about helps you in developing every aspect of it. (Thanks Louisa)

Writing the tagline for the blog was easy – Love, Life, Parenting and Scrapping. Sums up what this blog is all about really. Expanding that I found a bit harder but here is what I came up with

Why Nightwolf’s Den, and what’s it all about? Well my online alias has always been Nightwolf & I see this little corner of the web as my Den and it’s all about Love, Life, Parenting and Scrapbooking.
My blog originally started as a way to share one of the loves of my life – crafting (specifically scrapbooking), then it grew to include snippets of my mundane life. Around June 2009, the Den expanded and as we prepared to welcome Miss K, the wolflet, it became a bit of a mummy-to-be blog. Now it’s a bit of everything.

So that’s what you’ll find here Love, Life, Parenting & Scrapbooking.

Not sure if I’m happy with this so I’m throwing it open to suggestions. I do have an About Me page but it really needs freshening up so I’ think I’ll combine the two somehow. Something to think bout I guess.

I’ve signed up over at Aussie Mummy Bloggers. I’m joining a group there who are taking the 31 days to a build a better blog challenge.

I’ve managed to get some paper scrapping done. Creating pages for Miss K’s albums.

 

Been busy checking out the wonderful posts over at Scrapping Shoebox. The team are very creative & I can’t wait to se what they come up with next.

the post a day idea has kinda fallen thu lol I thought it might but that is ok. I will, however make sure I post at least once a week – therefore will be taking part in post a week 2011.

Been pretty busy lately. Have done a little digi scrapping. Another page for Log Your Memory

no paper scrapping. I really want to get my 2010 JYC album finished.
Been busy working on The Scrapping Shoebox. Check the previous post for details of the contributor call. Working on an organising ‘challenge’ for the site. Um what else, enjoying summer, trying to organise my birthday (which is next week) and bub’s first birthday.

Anywho off to find some photos to print, I feel like doing some scrapping

So what do you think?

Still working on pages & widgets. Hope to be finished tonight

On a side note, please spare a thought for those in Queensland affected by the flooding and those in Western Australia affected by fires.

Originally I was going to create a blog for all facets of my personal life and spirituality. But the fates have decided that I can’t keep up with more than one blog (I’m really slack at updating even our business one – but work is quiet over Christmas so it is ok). Seriously I start a blog, post one or two times and then, well it gets left by the wayside. This is the longest blog I’ve had. I started out on blogger many moons ago and then I moved over to a free WordPress account and then I started playing with WordPress on our work hosting for our work blog. To cut a long story short – I ended up moving to this one.

I digress though. This blog has really become my one blog of everything – scrapbooking, art journals, photography, life, heck everything really. So tonight I while I am working on a new theme I’ll be redoing my Categories (& maybe a few tags too), sorting my widgets, adding a few new things (like my ad/affiliate link thing) and maybe adding a few new pages. I may even rename the blog (but the url will stay the same.

Oh yeah, I’ll b back shortly with iphone app saturday (I know, it’s a day late lol)

so off to work on my template & think of a new name for this, my little piece of the web.

pick a theme LOL

I’ve gone back to the plain theme cause I’m really not happy with that pink theme.

So back to the drawing board to create my own theme – might be the project for tonight while the little one is asleep 😉

In other news I’m gonna revamp some themed posts – iPhone app Saturday will be coming back this Saturday. Hoping to b back tomorrow with the starts of a new theme that is me for 2011 – all organised hehe