So far I’ve been dabbling in blogs trying to learn what works and now I think I’m ready to go full off into an experimental niche blog. The experiment will be to see how well I can do and how much I can make as a pro blogger without compromising the integrity of my blog. Wish me luck?
I’m going to start a DIY blog. I have a lot of work that needs to be done around my home and my home office. I have no creativity and very little talent, so I think maybe that will be how people can relate to me. I’m going to try to find ways to release that creativity that I’ve never been able to tap into.
I’m going to start it off with a little interior painting project I have coming up for my son Corey’s room. Jay and I decided to let the boys decide on a theme for their rooms and then we’d get them going. Michael’s room was first, he’s 8 years old. He wanted a camouflage room. Basically, the painting was a disaster. One wall was to be camo and the other three were to be the lighter brown color. It’s been 3 weeks since we started and it’s just now done. The baseboards have spillover, the camo wall has a brown line down it, and half Michael’s door is brown.
I plan to do Corey’s room on my own because I kinda blame Jay for the other. Then on to my home office. I really want to get creative with my home office so that I can continue to be creative while working. I think the bland walls and lack of decoration makes my job pretty boring. Thankfully, I’ve found DoItYourself.com’s community with other skilled DIY’ers to help me out. Because knowledge is power and I’m feeling a little helpless.
When I was fourteen, two of my best friends and I painted my room, including baseboards, ceiling and one side of my door. We got it everywhere and the painting looked like crap. This past summer, Don and I had to paint over it (black and red!!) and we chose a very pale green with a beige trim, which looked great and since it was Kilz, it covered pretty easily. Problem was, since the paint job was so awful in the first place and we didn’t do much better this time around, the painting looks awful. Moral of the story, don’t let your fourteen year-old daughter and her friends paint a room unsupervised.
I wish you good luck on the DIY projects. I’ve always wanted to try on my own, but I’m not very good at it either, so I’ve been kind of put off. I can do crafts, scrapbooking, etc., but not very much household DIY. I can sand and stain wood though. I did two bookcases and a desk and they turned out wonderfully.
I’m sure I’ll follow your blog just like your others. Good luck on that, maybe I can guest post or something. ;)
September 14, 2007 @ 8:37 pmThat would be great!
September 14, 2007 @ 8:46 pmThanks for the encouragement. I’m really excited.
Good luck with your new blog and on your project. I was never one for DIY stuffs. I guess I could though if I really wanted to. Anyway, like I said before, Good Luck!
September 14, 2007 @ 10:00 pm