Recapping the Recaps

Since 2012, I've been posting yearly recaps on this blog. Mostly as a virtual photo album crossed with a journal for myself but I also love reading those posts from bloggers I follow as well. I did not do one for 2015 I realized and it was the year where so much happened. One of my goals for this blog this year is by the summer time I'd like to finally recap last year and get prepared to recap this year as well. In the meantime (and because my birthday is coming up and the passing of time is on my mind) here is a recap of all my previous recaps.

What I Wore in 2014

My fashion blogging really took off in 2014. I experimented with: editing and no editing, lighting, shutter remote, having someone else take the photos, indoors, outdoors, and a lot of other factors. I enjoyed the journey and expressing my personal style, even if I did not meet my goal of a new outfit photo a month. Here's to 2015 being a year of more fashion photos and being me in what I wear.

 
  
 
 

2014 in Review (video)

I find those first few moments when you start recording vulnerable and interesting, so I compiled them together from this past year as my recap video. Thanks for watching my videos in 2014 and thanks for subscribing, it's meant a lot.

A Year In Review - 2014

Since I've already shared with you what I did this year, now it's time to look back on what happened on this blog. So here are my favorite posts from 2014.

The most popular post this year was when I announced my engagement to Jim!

I promised to doodle more this year and I did! (The project resulting in that will make it's online debut in 2015!)

I showed off my Kyoto engagement ring before I had decided about a diamond one or not.

I really love the photos I took at Wes and Caitlin's Oregon wedding.

It's nice to see that some of my wishes have started to come true.

I shared lots of photos from every day of my Japan trip and made two videos.
Day: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // 7 // 8 // 9 // 10 // 11
Videos: Japan in Winter // Vlogging in Japan

I showed off my calla lilly vintage heirloom diamond engagement ring.

I enjoyed defending selfies.

It always makes me happy to look at my little photo collection of the Disneyland castles I've visited.

I love the photos Jim's cousin Jennifer took at our engagement party!

I sort of kind of went to Comic Con again and took lots of photos with awesome cosplayers.

I took a ton of photos at my cousin Dianna's wedding.

Nerd Burger (Cazz) and I did a blogger/youtuber box swap. (I got tons of neat stuff.)

For the past few years I've been doing these yearly blog review posts. See 2012 // 2013.

This Year I...

Last year I made my first "This year I..." post (the year before I called it A Year in Photos) So to keep the tradition alive, and since 2014 is just about done, here we go:

This year I... 

went to Japan.

got engaged!

bonded with my cousin over both being engaged at the same time.

Jim took me to see CATS for my birthday!


dressed straight out of the 20s for Dianna's bachelorette party.

attended three weddings. 1 out of state. (Oregon) 1 // 2 // 3


went to VidCon for the 4th time.


had mine and Jim's engagement party!


released a new product every month in my Etsy shop.

took a lot of outfit photos.


ended the year spending Christmas with my family.


did one more thing I will only hint at for now. I filmed myself every month answering the same questions. What I'll end up doing with that footage is yet to be determined.

A Year in Review - 2013

Alright, so I've done a post about my personal year review, now it's time to review the blog. I'm sure everyone's read a ton of these posts already so I'll stick to the hits. If you compare this year to the last, I've defiantly upped my game as a blogger, but I still have a long way to go. Here's to 2014, may it be a grand year for blogging!

My most popular post from 2013 was my post about the International Geek Girl Pen Pals Club.

My most popular craft post was these Harry Potter Inspired Winged Key Necklaces.

I started to post old photos from My Makeup Hobby, but there are still quite a few I still need to post.

I premiered the It's So Easy Bein' Me music video I made for the band Artichoke.

My Harry Potter craft fair experience was two days so it warranted a two great posts.

I said goodbye to DailyBooth with a few favorite selfies from the site.

My friends and I went to RenFair.

My cousin got engaged!!! What? This was a big family milestone.

Jim and I traveled to New York City and I captured our time there via photo. Here are the 4 posts I made about our trip. 1 // 2 // 3 // 4

2013 was the year I started doing outfit posts. More than half were casual cosplay, but are you really surprised? I want to do more outfit posts next year, casual cosplay and not. (links below)

1. Snow White and Rose Red

2. T-Shirt and Jeans

3. Jenny Lewis Dress

4. What to Wear to Watch Doctor Who

Thanks for reading, see you in 2014!
J.

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