"Artful Blogging"

My copy of "Artful Blogging" magazine arrived over a week ago.  I have been reading one or two articles a day - dragging out the experience as much as I possibly can. This is my last copy of my subscription, but at $67.95 for a year .  .  . that is expensive. The magazines are over $17 each and they only come out 4 times a year. I admit that I start looking for mine at least a month early and anxiously await the mail each quarter. It is just so much cost!

The articles are very similar in content - each writer states how important blogging has been in their life and there are multiple pics of their sites with an occasional partial posting from their blog. Every time I read through the magazine, I am inspired, defeated, encouraged, discouraged, enthused and left flat. I don't feel I will ever have the type of blog that is in this magazine. My photos are not great - I don't have super stuff to share or rave about. My life is pretty boring for others to watch.

I do wish I had rooms and displays that are pictured in this magazine. If I went around my house "staging" pics for my blog . . . well, that would not take very long at all. I don't feel my home is very photogenic - like me, I guess. The beauty in my home comes from how I feel in it, not the image it makes. The colors, layout and, yes, clutter, are all part of the charm of feeling at home. I guess that is why I am not "artful", LOL!