Travel video! Our Hawaii Honeymoon was on Kauai and it was amazing! (More photos and post about the souvenirs I bought coming soon!) Thanks for subscribing!
Our Hawaii Honeymoon - The Video
Travel video! Our Hawaii Honeymoon was on Kauai and it was amazing! (More photos and post about the souvenirs I bought coming soon!) Thanks for subscribing!
Thoughts About Lo-Fi One-Take YouTube
What do you think of lo-fi and/or one-take videos? Should they make a comeback or should they remain in 2006? Tell us in the comments below!
What do you need help with right now?
Seriously, I want to know! In the form of a blog post/PDF/course/email/etc. what can I help you with right now? I've been very self-absorbed since my hard drive crash that I have not done anything for anyone else (besides my husband) in the past few weeks. What do you need? What kind of blog posts do you want to see? What can I provide in blog form?
Please comment on this post, send me a Tweet, Facebook comment, Email, or however else you'd like to tell me. I can't wait to read all of your responses and perhaps even help a few of you out. Thanks so much for reading!
How to Come Back from a Hard Drive Crash
This is going to be hard to write, but here we go. So, the unthinkable has happened, (for whatever reason) your hard drive has crashed. Everything is gone. You can try and get it restored, but that can get expensive or even impossible. For your own mental health, try not to entertain the idea. So your files are gone and with it, your will to continue to blog even after your computer is fixed. What do you do? (Well...? I'm waiting for an answer. I need help!)
The only thing that seems to be working for me is to create a list of the downsides and then find a stronger and more important upside for each. Everyone's list will be different but I want to share with you mine:
Downside: My files since May are gone.
Upside: ALL my files from before then are safe on external hard drives.
Downside: My personal photos are lost.
Upside: My professional wedding photos and video are safe with their creators.
Downside: I can't make videos until my computer gets fixed.
Upside: I can use my husband's computer every so often to update my blog.
Let yourself learn from this, don't let whatever happened, happen again. Spend some money to make sure your computer files are backed up online or on an external hard drive, and NEVER save things for the last minute again.
I hope this helped you emotionally start to heal, it's what I am attempting to do myself. If I am slow to reply to comments or emails it's because of this. I will be back to making videos as soon all of this gets sorted out. Then I'll be sure to re-read my post about how to get back into blogging after a break, I think I'll need it.
To cheer myself up (and hopefully you get a giggle out of it as well) I'm picturing Brad Pitt singing Let It Go. Here's a pinnable for you...if you happen to share my particular brand of humor. :P
First photo used with permission from FreeImages.com/len-k-a.
Be Back Soon!
By the time you read this, Jim and I will already be on our way to our honeymoon! We waited because we wanted it to coincide with a wedding of two of our very good friends. They have also asked me to help them film the day since that's what I do, film everything all the time always. I'm so excited to watch them get hitched and also to spend the first real vacation with my new hubby in a place where we can just relax, explore, and not worry about anything but each other. So I will not be posting anything here for at least a week, I won't be uploading YouTube videos, and I won't be worried about posting anything to social media. (Except for Instagram, you will defiantly get Instagram updates because photography.) I might film part of our vacation. (Okay, of course I will, I just don't know how much and I'm hesitant to commit to a 'honeymoon vlog' till I see exactly how much I end up filming.) I'm so excited and I know this means I'm missing out on VidCon, but for the first time since I starting going to that con...I really don't mind. See you next month!
VidCon & BookTubeAThon Updates
It's true, I'm not attending VidCon this year...but I'll be on my honeymoon so who really won? ;) I will also be attempting BookTubeAThon again as well, more so for the fun of it.
2015 Goals: Revised
Normally I would not do this. Normally I would (and have) simply see how the year went and at the end review what I accomplished and what I did not and move on. However, there has been a change in my life since I first created my 2015 goals, that that is I've moved across the country. So, as it is my blog and it is my right, I am revising my 2015 goals now, as we are more than halfway through the year. Let's do this!
1. Get Married!!!
Staying the same, because duh.
2.
I've never seen it, not even for school or anything.
3.
This one is on Jim's list. Animals!
4. Read 25 books.
Staying the same, though I might be a bit behind...due to the getting married and moving across the country thing...
5. Make new Etsy business cards.
Staying the same...and I have yet to do that...hmmmm.
6.
Business or not, I need to stop thinking so hard about not 'selling out' and just work hard no matter what. Work hard but always be honest about it. That's my new goal.
7. Assess what's important to me in life and remove the clutter.
Keeping this one the same.
8. Organize my digital files.
Keeping this one the same.
9. Take a road trip.
Keeping this one the same...and I think it's qualified....lol
10. Honeymoon!!!
OH YEAH...3 more days!!!!!
5 Things I Shouldn't Have Brought with Me on My Cross-Country Move
1// Barbie Accessories
These (mostly shoes) were in a little box that was with other little boxes that all contain random items and jewelry making supplies that I think I just all threw together in a cardboard box labeled 'craft supplies.' I guess I now have to find a craft for them.
2// My Sticker Collection
I've had this collection since I was probably 5 years old, my childhood bestie and I were avid sticker collectors and I recently found out she still has her collection as well. Oh and this is not all of it, this is just the favorites box. (Let me know if you want me to do a video showing all of them off!)
3// This Harry Potter article from a 2001 newspaper
I'm sure at the time I was saving it because of the great 'Inside Hogwarts' bit and the 'Quidditch Explained' part. Think this would do well on eBay? I'm not sure how much I personally need to save it anymore.
4// My Disney Pin Traders Pins
Ok, so I actually have a reason I brought all of my pins. That reason is I am planning to do a video on them soon. The one time I showed off some pins in a YouTube video it got more than the average views that my videos get. So it's smart to make a full collection video...also, I'm proud of them...and I miss Disneyland. *sniffle*
5// My Drum Key
Yeah, I haven't played the drums since 1998...so this one's a mystery. I found it in one of those random craft supplies boxes...still not sure what to do with it.
Mrs. Potts | Disneybound Lookbook #4
I miss Disneyland so much...this is from spring when I did a Mrs. Potts Disneybound. I forgot I had filmed the footage but I found it. I might also have one more DisneyBound from before I moved that I still need to edit as well...I'll wait till the next time I'm homesick for the parks. For this Disneybound I was inspired by the earrings I've had since I was very little. (Probably bought for me when the movie came out...though I did not get my ears pierced till long after.)
More Disneybound Lookbooks: // 1 // 2 // 3 //
See me at Disneyland in my Disneybounds on my Instagram!
Pizza Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Hair Bows
New in the shop today!!! I'm so excited to finally release these hair bows! I had the idea for them ages ago when I made my friend Kristen a pizza hair bow. The addition of the colored band made it instantly more geeky and awesome. So are you a Leo, a Donnie, a Raph, or a Mikey? (I'm probably a Donnie.) Enjoy the pictures and let me know what you think! If you want one of your own I currently have two of each here in my shop!
Reached by Ally Condie | Book Review
I really liked Reached by Ally Condie much better than Crossed. Below is my video review, I hope you enjoy and subscribe for more videos, thanks for watching!
Here's my book review of Crossed.
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Happy Birthday HUSBAND!
Jim! It's your birthday! You are 29, the final year of your 20s, and for the first time ever you have a wife! I love this tradition I started two years ago of dedicating a blog post to you on your birthday. I lope you like it as well. You deserve it, and so much more. I know you sometimes feel guilty for dragging me all the way out to Maryland so you could pursue your science, but you really don't need to feel that way. I love you and I want you to succeed. Let's travel the world and have all sorts of adventures! Don't ever doubt how much I love you. <3
Love,
Your wife
Jenny
P.S. It's fun to see what I wrote in past years, check it out: 28th Birthday | 27th Birthday
New Bookshelf Tour!
There's a lot less here than in my last bookshelf tour. See just how much less in the video below. *sniffle* I'm okay, there's still a lot of TBR books here so I'll be okay...
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