{"id":492,"date":"2010-01-10T10:02:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2010-01-10T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T09:37:25","slug":"gone-all-yarnharlot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"gone all YarnHarlot (a bit)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second attempt at writing this post. The first was a masterpiece, but the blog ate it with no warning. If it eats this one, I may not write it again…<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve been meaning, for a while, to try and blog more regularly – it was a beginning of November resolution, if you will. However, certain things got in the way, such as work, the small people I look after, and so on with the excuses.<\/p>\n

Also, for a while I’ve felt that I need to make more of an effort with the photography if I’m pitching to a wider audience than my sister & my bezzy. The blogs I admire such as yarnharlot.ca<\/a> & soulemama.com<\/a> have stunning photographs. In the case of the latter, she even manages to make piles of small children look stylish & never has piles of random crap in the background.<\/p>\n

I have several excuses here – I’m not home in daylight hours at the moment during the week, and also every time I come to take a picture of my knitting I tend to think “there isn’t much progress there – maybe I should do more before blogging it…”\u00a0 and I just end up knitting instead. My second excuse is that I have 3 cameras at my disposal (bear with me here). The first, my phone, is surprisingly good for a phone, but is still pretty low res & has no flash (which is usually a good thing, actually. We have a medium camera, unfortunately its charger has gone AWOL & is suspected to be in Steve’s car, which is currently at the menders. We also have a “proper” camera, which I should get out more often because it takes fabulous pictures effortlessly, but for some reason I feel self-conscious using, even in a room by myself.<\/p>\n

So, very little happened. If I’m honest, work was the biggest thing that got in the way, and not being able to focus on anything else in a meaningful way for a short while.<\/p>\n

However, when Stephanie (yarnharlot.ca<\/a>) said she was taking a break from her almost-daily posting due to offline personal issues, I thought “this is the spur I need – I’ll help out with the posting vacuum that will ensue” and resolved to post maybe not daily, but at least several times a week.<\/p>\n

It’s quite telling that since that thought went through my head, I haven’t posted *at all* and Stephanie has posted 3 times.<\/p>\n

However, with the recent snow I’ve been inspired to take a heap of knitting out to the garden and get decent photos in the searing while light. I did it while the children were out, so there are no grinning faces at the corner of the picture like usual.<\/p>\n

Another important feature of any blog, apart from content, good photos & regularity is finding the writer’s “voice”, part of which may be self-reference & development of themes. With that it mind, I give you the Bonsai Tree:<\/p>\n

\"bonsai!<\/a><\/p>\n

Still alive, do we think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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