Fan Friday: Cowbell

Seeing as I've been running errands all day and it's 9:40pm and I have yet to write my blog post, today's Fan Friday is going to be nice and simple.

I've got a fever....

and the only cure....

is cowbell.

Enjoy.

Become a fan of Cowbell

If anyone out there has decided to go as Will Ferrel as the Blue Oyster Cult cowbell player for Halloween, please post a link to your pics. I'd love to see it.

Wonderful Wordless Wednesday

I know I'm kind of breaking the title of this blog by typing something, but I just wanted to write a little intro about my other new theme (besides DIY Monday and Fan Friday), Wonderful Wordless Wednesday. On these days I'm going to put up either something new that I'm working on or just a photo that I took that day that was particularly interesting, enjoyable, exciting, etc.

DIY Monday: 3-D Snowflakes

A new part of my blog is going to be DIY Mondays where I highlight a particularly cool craft for you to try at home!

This tutorial is pretty awesome, though I'm not entirely certain I could get it down on the first try. However, it would be super fun to make a bunch of these and hang them as party decorations, or, make them part of the party! Get some friends together, grab some cool paper, and get crafting!

How to make a 3D paper snowflake

Fan Friday: Mannyapolis

Every Friday I'm going to be spotlighting something (person, place or thing) that I'm a fan of on Facebook. Not only to get me more into the mood of regular blogging, (if you've been reading my blogs up to this point you probably know that I'm trying to make it a habit) but also to hopefully introduce my readers to some new stuff!

Today I picked my good friend Manny Castro who updates the lands of Facebook and Twitter on the daily weather situation in the Twin Cities.

He is:

Mannyapolis

His mission: Providing the most accurate misinformation and detailed reports of misestimation to the public in general.

Short and sweet posts yet more entertaining than any weatherman I know. Heck, Manny tweets everyday. I don't see Paul Douglas doing that and he's a professional, yet retired, weatherman.

Even if you don't live in Minnesota, you should be Manny's fan. Maybe he'll branch out if he gets enough out of state fans.

Become a fan of Mannyapolis on Facebook here

Follow @mannyapolis on Twitter

How many times??

How many times am I going to keep writing "I really should stop neglecting my blog"?? It's even making me annoyed; I can't imagine what it's like for all 5 of you that actually read this from time to time.

So in my annoyance and cluelessness about keeping this blog afloat as an integral part of my business, I reached out for help on the trusty interwebs. Alyson Stanfield had retweeted an offer by @problogger (Darren Rowse) on Twitter. 50% off his e-book "31 Days to a Better Blog" for a total of $10.

$10 to get a clue? Sign me up!

The problem was I got stuck on step one:

Create a tagline for my blog so I can easily describe to others what the aim of my blog is and hopefully guide my topics.

And as has been made CRYSTAL CLEAR by now this year: I have no blogging aim. This is why I struggle. My aim has been to wish for blog ideas to just randomly appear in my brain while I juggle a part-time job, social life (sort of) and my business. I thought I could take the MySpace approach to blogging and just write about my dog or this funny thing that happened to me on the way to work or whatever and magically EVERYONE will want to read it and then buy my art.

Yep. That sounds like a good plan. (insert eye roll here)

Then I looked at the top of my blog. The completely undesigned, boring and neglected blog. I made a cute little recipe. I thought it was funny at the time, but when I look at it now, it serves as a guide. I can write about THOSE things! WOW! I knew what I was doing after all, it was just buried back in the part of my brain that attempts to be witty. Now I just need to form that into some sort of catchy tagline like....

Sharing my recipe of life as a digital artist

Eh? I probably should work harder at this. Get out the ol' pen and paper. Suggestions are welcome!