Quote Of The Moment...

This is something that I want to strive for.

I strive to achieve this in life.

I have decided to change the way I blog a bit,

I know that with my blogging I am very reserved,

I bite my tongue a lot cause I think that no one would want to hear what I say.

But I have a voice, and I have a opinion. 

So from now on, I am going to learn how to voice that.

Each and every one of us is entitled to their own voice and opinion.

Funk...

Pinterest

Lately I have been in a bit of a funk,

WIth areas of my life and now it has moved onto my blogging.

Lately I have had an urge to overhaul my blog posts, and parts of my blog design.

I have two questions for all you awesome blogger!

1: What do you do to get out of a 'blogging funk'?

2: Know any talented blog designers?

I look forward to chatting to you all!

Feel free to email or just comment!

THANK YOU!!!

Like Me...

Girl With Curls has had some changes!

First one is link, at the moment my blog is going through the transition of the address being...

jess-barnes.blogspot.com

Changing to...

www.thegirlwithcurls.com!

Another change will be the email address, over the following weeks that will be changing to..

girlwithcurls.blog@gmail.com

Another change that has happen is Girl With Curls now has a Facebook page!

Please stop by and say hi!

So many changes,

So exciting!

Hope your all having a great week!!

Facebook Page

Sponsoring Opportunities...

Would you like the opportunity to promote your blog or shop?

It is a new year! 2012 is going to be a great year!

To celebrate and welcome in the new year I have a special for each and everyone of my readers.

For the month of January & February I am offering FREE sponsoring!

You can choose either a 200x200 or 200x100 size spots.

What do you get??

*Free Advertising

*Mentions on Twitter

*Chances for guest posts

Requirements:

*My blog button to be featured on your blog

*Email me your button code, website and twitter details

Email address: jess.life.liveit@gmail.com

Any questions please feel free to email me.

I can't wait to meet some awesome bloggers!

*Please be aware there is no cut off date for this offer,
Please email me though you details as you as possible.*

Guest Bloggers Needed...

Would you like to be a guested blogger?

All you have to do is send in your posts from one of the 6 topics...

Theme is Christmas

Topics to choice from:

*Tradition or Memory

*Music

*Books

*Receipes

*Pinterest Favourites

*10 Things That Make You Happy

All post are to be email through by 25th November.

Posts will be featured on the blog from the 1st December through til the 10th December.

All bloggers will be notified by the 29th December to when their post will be posted on the blog.

Email: jess.life.liveit@gmail.com

Girl With Curls!!!

Welcome the fresh new look to my blog!

New name and all!

Still the blog that you all know,

Just developing myself as a blogger!

Thanks to some amazing talented girls I have been able to bring my idea together.

So let me now introduce you to the creating team behind this new look!

First of all...

Eleanor

I meet Eleanor back in 2009, she is such a talented artist and I love her work. One of her piece of artwork which I have in my room was a huge part of the inspiration for my header drawing.
Thank to her great work on this project!
Check out her blog 'Lady Proteus' or her facebook page!

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Christa

Christa is my amazing blog designer.
She put my ideas together and formed it into the finished product!
Her talent for designing is awesome!
It was great to work with her and I look forward to working with her again in the future!
Check out her blog C.JAE!

C.JAE

I highly recommend both of these lady to any one that wanted their blog worked on!

They are super talented and awesome to work with!

So what do you all think? Like it??

Check back tomorrow for a 

awesome GIVEAWAY 

to celebrate the launch of my new look blog!!!

The Good & The Bad

The internet

It has so much information in it

It was the worst parts of the human race within it

Like pornography, violence, abuse etc

It is home to people that take pleasure in child abuse and people that commit fraud.

There is a whole lot of bad things about the internet.

And has a lot of people scared of it.

But there is also a lot of good things that can be found on the internet.

There are amazing talents being shown and discovered through people's pictures and videos.

You can learn so much,

Unsure of how to do something or what something is?

Just ask Google!

Seriously, Google is amazing!

Some people are scared of what things they share online,

I understand this, 

DO NOT go sharing you date of birth, address, telephone number, social security number...

That's just stupid and is asking for trouble!

But something are ok to share...

For example,

Through my time blogging I have met some amazing people, read some inspiring stories, been given advise through other people's experiences.

I have learnt so much off some awesome people out there in parts of the world I would have never meet if it wasn't for the internet and the blogging world.

I am thankful for those people that right blogs

That let me in to their lives and share a potion of it with me.

That open up and share with people the hard experiences that they have gone through.

I enjoy blogging,

it is my hobby, my passion

I love sharing a part of me with people

And for me it's not that easy, 

I am not the best person when it comes to trusting and opening up

It takes me a long time to do that with friends, sometimes months, sometimes years.

But blogging helps me work on that.

Blogging helps me find out who I am.

It give me strengthen and confidence.

And thanks to all the amazing blog that I have read,

And the awesome people that I have meet.

I am consistently reminded that I am not alone,

There are other people out there that understand how I am feeling and what I am going through.

And that there are people that are good in the world,

That like me for me, 

That care about me.

Thank you to all those people that blog.

You have inspired my life more than you know.

There is good & bad to all things in life, 

But I choose to look for the good!

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100!

maryjcolvig

Today I reached 100 followers!

Thank you to all of you that follow my blog!

Thank you to everyone who takes the time out of their busy day to read my posts!

I am grateful for every single one of you!

Thank you to all those awesome people who leave me comments! 

They brighten my day, and put a smile one my face!

I love hearing feed back from my post.

Thank you to every one of you that blog!

You are my inspiration,

By reading your blogs you encourage me to continue with mine.

Thank you to the bloggers that give advise,

You make me want to improve my blog!

Each one of you are super talented!

I have loved getting to know some of you 

And look forward to getting to know more of you!

And I look forward to what the future has install for me and my blog!

Thank You!

To celebrate reaching 100 followers I am going to be holding a giveaway, 

Stay tune... more information later in the week!

I'm Back!!

I've missed the blogging world over the last few weeks, but I needed a break.

After being run down over the last few weeks,
It finally hit me and i got sick.

But the break has given me time to think about my blog and what I want to do with it.
Reflected back over my blog and have decided to make some new blogging goals...

-Be more personal... I am not a very trusting person and because of that I close people out, it takes a while for people to get to know me and for me to let people in. But I want to let people in a bit more, and hopefully I can do that through my blog.
 
-Take more photos... I love photos, but always forget to take them, I used to think that if I was always worried about taking photos, that I would then miss living the moment. But looking back on times when I have taken more photos my opinion has changed, because by me taking photos in that moment means that I can re-live that moment again so much clearer through photos, then just the memory alone.
 
-Get to know more bloggers... There are so many people out there that have such a talent for blogging, they are so creative. I love reading their blogs, they inspire me so much! But I am always to scared and afraid to contact them, sure I'll leave a comment here or there, but I always think to myself, i'm a no body, just a little blogger, why would they want to read a email from me. But I am going to try and make some blogger friends.
 
-Be more organised... I want to organise my blog, have some order to it. I also want to finish designing the layout to my blog, it's been a slow progress so far, learning bit by bit. I also want to make a blog button. I know how to make them as I made one for the "10 Simple Things" project. I just don't know what I want my blog button to look like. I also want to have my posts organised and ready to go, instead of just having to do it at the last minute and ending up being late. (in particularly my 10 simple things posts).

They are some of the main things that I am wanting to do, fingers cross that I can achieve them!

Any advise is welcome!

Love Autumn time!

*Photo from Photobucket*