As you can tell, with my month-long break in Malaysia, I barely blogged at all in December. That was quite a hiatus I took from the blog, and I’ve missed blogging dearly.
Unfortunately, missing blogging, and actually starting blogging again after such a long time away from the blog, isn’t easy. In fact, I even had trouble coming up with this post. How to get the words flowing after haven’t written anything in so long? Even my fingers are rusty. I haven’t even updated my personal blog in over a year, so that one’s even worse.
There are a few ways to do it, at least, for me and the beauty blog, that is. If I’m going to break out of this post-holiday blogging blues, I
- Read other beauty blogs for inspiration.
- Do not force myself to come up with something, just for the sake of filling the day with random, unsubstantial posts.
- Go through my holiday shopping haul. I like this one because they give me ideas on what to write in future. Plus it’s fun to play with makeup I can’t get here 😛
- Surround myself (if not in person, then at least on social media) with other beauty bloggers.
- Bite the bullet and write this post 😛
What about you? If you haven’t blogged in a while, or just got back from a long vacation, how do you get back on the blogwagon?
Image: The Botanical Gardens, Penang
Happy New Year Tine!
For me..well…though it looked like I haven’t stopped posting, I actually did as most of the postings were scheduled so I had to get back to writing too.
What I do is get inspirations from photos I took (stock photos) and it helps 🙂
Thanks for your awesome tips
Nikki: Happy new year Nikki! It’s good that you scheduled posts for your break. I thought of doing that, but was too busy in the end to write anything.
But you’re right, the photographs did help heaps 🙂
Hey Tine! Happy New Year!! And welcome back to the blogosphere. Too bad I missed you while you were in Msia. Next round, k?
Syen: I know! 🙁 It sucks that I missed you and the rest of the #evurl girls. Didn’t get to catch up with you the last time I was back, and this time was a no go either. Sigh.
Come to Melbourne instead? 😛 😛
Happy New Year Tine! 🙂 All the best!
For me I just read other blogs and take a look around me at the products I have/tried/own- but the latter can be a little overwhelming because then I think “So much stuff to review… so little time” haha! 😛
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Stephanie: Oh I know what you mean. I’ve got heaps of stuff to review as well, and well, like you said, too little time. By the time I’m supposed to review product A, I move on to product B! And so on. Vicious cycle I tell ya 😛
I usually look at my “parking lot” board and pick a few things that i remember bring excited about, this gives me the fuel i need…happpy New Year 🙂
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Ella: Parking lot board! I love it! 😀
Happy New Year Tine!
….I don’t know where my mojo has come from but lately I have really been inspired so my tip is when inspiration strikes churn in out like butter and then refine and proof it later before you choose to trash or publish it.
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Mystique: Good idea. That’s why I have a text document labeled “Blog Drafts and Ideas” for that purpose 😛
Happy new year!
Eh did you see monyets in Botanical Gardens? I had a treasure hunt once that took me to Botanical Gardens and one of them damn monkeys ran off with my map and clues/questions. Ish!
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LeGeeque: I did see monyets, a lot of them. Unfortunately I’m scared of them (ironic, being one myself :P), ‘cos I had some chase me around years ago 😛
Wow that looks amazing. I can tell why you might be distracted from blogging after a beautiful holiday.
Now my inspiration for blogging is my 5 month old daughter 🙂
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Cuteandcurls: Oh what amazing inspiration that is! 🙂
It sure is 🙂 unfortunately any blogs related to her I put it on password protected 😀 I actually emailled to you the password if you ever would like to see my munchkin 😀
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I was too busy to blog in December and then my router died a few weeks ago so no internet so I couldn’t blog even if I wanted to. I guess a forced break can be good for the soul sometimes. I’ve got loads to blog about and lots of things to review, now it’s just finding the time to do it. But first I have to catch up on my blog reading!
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Annabella: I couldn’t agree more. That ‘forced break’ can indeed be good for the soul. I didn’t realise I was that addicted to Twitter until I had no access to the Internet on the go when I was at Tasmania last year. It was good to slow down 🙂
Happy new year 🙂