Wishing You A Happy New Year!

The start of a new year has me reminiscing about the past year and looking forward to the new one. Lots has been achieved but what’s past is past & now I go forward with a new collection of life’s experiences & great expectations for work, rest, creativity and prosperity.

I hope your 2011 will be prosperous, exciting, fun, happy and accompanied with good health.

I’m looking forward to a great year of blogging too. If you’re reading this please take time to say Hi.

Dear Blogging Friends,

I have been contacted by a blogging friend notifying me that she has been unable to leave a commnt on this blog. I don’t know what the problem would be or what may be causing it.  If you are reading this could you please help by trying out the comment function. 

My comment button is found at the end of each post and I’ve called it Creative Chit Chats.

If it doesn’t work for you please contact me & let me know, including any error messages or anything else that’s happening or not happening. You’ll find the Contact link in the sidebar near top.

Many thanks in advance.

Wishing You All A Very

 Happy & Prosperous

New Year

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There are many wonderful entries for Pink Saturday which is hosted by Beverly at How Sweet The Sound. Take time to visit participants’ blogs and see how Pink  everyone’s Saturdays can be.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

My apologies to all Pink Saturday visitors. I’m writing a quick post from another computer because I have had some problems with my computer plus there’s a possiblity that someone has hacked into my blog & added some malicious code somewhere. I am in the process of getting it all sorted out.

I am planning on posting my Pink Saturday post as soon as the problem is fixed. I hope to visit you all very soon.

I’m considering changing the name of my blog. This blog has always be named EP Designs but I’m thnking about changing it to The Creative Treasury. I don’t know why I do things out-of-the-blue like this but thought I’d trial the change.

The name EP Designs has been used since my ‘hobby business’ days and it’s the business name I registered. I think it’s because I got so used to that name. I’m in the process of ‘renovating’ this blog but wanted to give it a more ‘interesting’ name.

I don’t know if this is a good idea or whether it will just confuse people who visit here. If I keep this title I’ll also change the header design.

The other names I’m considering is Decorative Treasury or Timeless Treasures

I’ll have a think about it for a short while, but would love to know what you think. Should I make the change? Or should I go back to the original name?

…. But Not Always In The South. That’s Britanny’s tag line in the header of her blog.

Brittany from The Greer 5 would love to get to know her readers more so she has organised a quick survey. There’s no signing up or private information needed. Brittany seems to be enjoying her blogging and likes to know what her readers prefer. She loves doing reviews, doing giveaways, sharing tips, tricks and recipes. So pop on over to her blog and check it out then have a go at her survey – it only took me about 20-30 seconds to complete.

Wishing all Mums a special day!

   Do you celebrate your milestones in the blogging world? When a new blog is activated and a first post published, your first fifty or hundred blog post seems a long way off. I believe that if you have a passion for something, be it business related, creative, or personal, then you’re bound to have lots to talk about ….. Then simply write it down. Annette from Under The Loope has reached her hundreth post by writing about her jewellry making. Her designs are fabulous and she has gathered a nice little communtiy of followers who comment on each other’s blogs & encourage each other.

Or how about celebrating a milestone of visitors to your blog. When getting started you feel like a tiny tadpole in the middle of the ocean and wonder if anyone will ever find you & visit. When I first discovered Sew Delish early in 2008 they were celebrating 2000 unique visitors to their blog within a short time of blogging. Sew Delish held a competition to mark the occasion.

There are a zillion blogs out there with expert advice on blogging and how to drive traffic to your blog. I’m certainly not one of those ‘experts’ but I do read blogging tips and take note of ways to get known out in the bloggersphere. I have too much to learn but in time I would hope I had learnt enough to write up & manage a successful blog.

What I see when I visit the blogs I like is that people are writing posts on what they do, things they like, places they’ve been, how they work …… in no time they have written numerous posts. OK, so there’s more to managing a successful blog than writing interesting posts for followers to read, but my post is not about giving you advice on blogging …. I’ll leave that to the ‘experts’.

My point is to say how easy it can be to reach milestones with your blog especially if you’re consistently updating and writing, and commenting on other blogs. If you love what you do and you love to share your news then you too can reach your first hundred posts in no time.

Have fun with your blog and enjoy it …. and let your readers know when you’ve reached a milestone.

ciao for now