Remember when I last re-opened my blog and stated I strictly wanted to post about style only? Well, seems like that was where I was wrong. Cutting out many possible post choices only made it harder for me to blog. I felt like nothing I wanted to post about, was good enough for this blog. I raised the bar too high for myself. I took outfit photos but never posted them because I felt like there wasn't enough pictures or they weren't diverse or good enough. And that led to me not wanting to blog at all.
But I thought that all would be fixed after I got to Japan, because that would be interesting enough to blog about, right? But it turns out when I got there, I realized I wanted to enjoy the trip and live in the moment, not stop in the middle of something and take outfit pics in the deadly heat of japanese summer. Everybody who has ever blogged, knows it's a lot of work to deliver something as simple as an outfit post.
Also I didn't wanna bother my friends to do the photographing for me, because if they don't blog themselves, I have no way to return the favor. It would just be annoying to them. And taking good outfit pics by yourself is... well, hard.
Another problem I've had for a longer time already, is that my current camera is way too big and heavy to be carried along with me to places and many times that I've actually had it with me, I haven't even took it out of my bag to take the pictures I wanted, because it was "too much work". Taking pics with my phone is much easier and faster, but I used to think that the quality of them wasn't good enough for blogging (which is funny because if you look at the pictures in my posts, the quality still isn't the best because I just aren't that good with cameras haha).
Anyway, I've been thinking about getting a smaller camera soon, so it should fix that problem.
After Japan, I totally lost my inspiration for this blog and thought about closing it for good many times. I had too much stuff I should blog about, but I didn't, because I didn't know where to start and didn't have any will to do it.
But for some reason I just couldn't bring myself to do it. This blog means too much to me and it's been a big part of me for the past almost seven years. I didn't want to end something I would regret later. And I'm glad I didn't, because I recently got my motivation back! I finally realized what my readers and friends have been telling me all along: "I liked your blog better before". Reading my old posts, I understood that was true and it's okay to post about normal life and not everything needs to be super duper amazing. Even though I had people constantly telling me that, I guess sometimes you just need to figure it out by yourself. Especially when you're the kind of person like I am who always thinks they're right lol.
Trying way too hard to be perfect, took all the fun away from blogging. Also trying to keep the posting schedule too tight made me super stressed, so in the future I'll try to not think about it too much. I don't want to make any promises I can't keep.
That said, the future posts might be about anything, but if something is for sure, I will keep posting about my nails (because that's a thing I feel super passionate about, but the things I want to say about them would be too long to post on instagram) and I have a whole series about my Japan trip planned (so you will still get to know what I did during my trip yay!), even if they're mostly pics I took with my phone. I won't force myself to take outfit pics if I don't feel like taking any, but if I do feel like it, I'll keep those posts coming as well.
The blog also has a new layout! The new start after hiatus wouldn't feel as fresh without one, haha. There's no dramatic changes to it, because why change something that works fine and is what I like, hmm. The pics are once again taken by my super talented friend, Heikki! Please go give him a follow if you like the photos.
You probably noticed, but the header is a bit different than usually. How do you like the slideshow? Which one of the headers is your favourite? I've tried to have the header as a slideshow before too, but even when I got it to work on my computer, it didn't work on tablet. Now it should, but please let me know if you have any problems viewing it!
But now, I'm excited about getting back to blogging! I feel a bit rusty, but I'm sure it will get better soon. I haven't really read any blogs for a while, so I have a lot of catching up to do with the blog world.
Has anyone missed me during my break? ;)
