When the spring semester started I read my English 202 syllabus and thought classmate blogging was a great idea! The 500 word blog assignments each week sounded easy! How hard could it be? I get to choose my own subject! I had already started to commit daily to looking at my favorite design blogs. Here are a few: Vintage Revivals, The Lettered Cottage, House of Smith’s, Young House Love, The Estate of Things, The Stories of A toZ, Primitive and Proper. Please check some of them out because each and every one has a unique story, clever ideas, beautiful pictures, and really enjoy revealing their posts. It's very interesting to see what people have to say or make in the blog world. For example, did anyone watch last year’s Design Star on HGTV? Emily Henderson has a blog where she actually lists her favorite shops to go too! Only she lives in LA; however if anyone of us ever decided to visit at least we'd know where we could afford to go for high style decor at a low cost price. I thought that was very informative and rare! Nothing annoys me more than secrecy! A classic case of uncertainty is the show on TLC called Extreme Couponing. Every mom saves a penny and a nickel, but they never reveal their sources. They tell you to go buy a lot of newspapers and cut coupons. However, I always see them using the computer printing coupons off, but what websites are they visiting? What stores have the best prices? What stores double coupons? Has anyone else wondered this? I want to pay $9 bucks for $600 bucks worth of groceries too! Anyway as the semester progressed, I found out how much I'd rather not blog, which I found odd being a dedicated blog follower. Random thought: I think we should have been assigned specific topics to write about each week. I feel it would have challenged myself more because I literally found myself aimlessly searching for any random topic online. I never found anything passionate enough to write 500 words about that was worth reading. Maybe, I’m boring? Also, I think it would have been fun to see what other bloggers in the class thought about the “so-called assigned topic” too! If they agreed with me, didn’t, or put a spin on it. I don't think I will continue blogging unless it turns into a family blog where I could post recent pictures of my little family and post updates about who, what, where, and when for those who would actually care enough to visit. For those who enjoyed blogging, keep at it! Thank you online classmates and Professor Chism for a great spring semester!
