Over my time of blogging there's been several reasons why I have enjoyed and love it and continued to carry on doing it. These points are probably similar to what other people would say but let me know why you love blogging to!

#1 Creative Freedom | The main reason I set up this blog was a place to share my love for Design and it still is. Although I've wavered between creative & lifestyle blogger a lot I love that I have my own space to share anything I want.

#2 Connecting with people | I've met some truly amazing people and had some great opportunities through people! It's great to know that there is a huge community out there to help each other or give advice. 

#3 Developing skills | I've said this before, but I've learned so much in terms of photography, writing and time management through this blog. All skills I know will be helpful for me in the future

#4 It's made me more confident | This is more in terms of sharing my work. But putting my work, thoughts and ideas out there has given more confidence to speak about it in person and in front of people.

#5 I experience life more | Ok this is a bit of a weird one but before I started blogging I wasn't going out much. However, now I try to make time in my life to have little adventures, see new places and visit exhibitions. It's helped open my mind up and has definitely influenced my work as well as posts for this blog. 

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Recently I've been kind of feeling down about my work and been in a bit of a slump. I've still got work done, including my #create365 but I just haven't felt completely happy with it. But I feel that today I've started working myself out of it by doing things that have been working my mind in different ways and have really made me think about my work in a different light. 

#1 Getting feedback | Both this week and last week I had two presentations for two of my modules, mainly the modules I've been feeling a bit off with recently. Having a time to get feedback has definitely helped as it's been from people with fresh pairs of eyes.

#2 People with a kick-ass attitude | Mainly for this point it's just been watching and hearing people be extremely passionate about their subject and hearing how they work. This week I've watched the James Victore Bold & Fearless Poster Design video series and it has really made me think about stuff a lot! 

#3 Stepping away | Although I haven't done this fully with all work and all projects, stepping away from projects that have been making me feel a little suffocated and working on something else has helped me kind of procrastinate from doing it and in the process let me think through new ideas.

#4 Play about | Every week I make multiple doodles during the times I'm doing stuff for my #Create365 and in a weird therapeutic way, doing random doodles just helps clear my mind of junk and even just lets me play about with my materials in new and interesting ways. 

#5 Not looking for inspiration | I'll admit it I am a inspiration/research-holic! I will forever look through Pinterest, Instagram and tumblr looking for awesome things to influence me. But stepping away, reading a book and getting lost in real life just opens your eyes up to the influences and the inspiration around you. 

Obviously by now you all know I'm taking part in a little creative project throughout 2015. The main reason I started this is because I want to just push myself and creativity more. I had originally said I would easily work in loads of different mediums and just create anything that came to mind but so far I've just mainly done sketchbook work. 

At this point, I don't think it's a secret that I am a pretty busy person- even if I do spend a lot of my time on my laptop. During a normal week I'm in Uni 4 days (not full ones though), work twice a week (usually weekends), go out as an Avon Representative, see Darren and other things like this blog, twitter chats and meeting up with friends. So yeah I'm pretty busy.

Learning has always been something I've loved to do, as nerdy as it sounds. It's not like I got amazing grades during school but I loved sitting in my History and English classes taking notes. I've already mentioned it in a Sunday Summary but this semester at uni I've got a new module called Propaganda, PR and Misinformation. 

Ah another really late blogmas post! I've been busy spending the day illustrating little doodle type things on gift tags, getting a few last minute presents from Matalan and finally decorating and wrapping presents! I also spent about an hour this morning taking a load of different photos to have 'just in case'! 

I've said before but this year marks the fourth year since I got into 'blogging'. Although the first 3 years of that my blogging knowledge was extremely limited and stretched to whatever sort of blogging tumblr covered. But since then and since starting this blog I feel I have learned a lot from design to social media to content. 

So about a month ago I came out all singing and dancing saying I was going to be starting this new series called 5 Tips Friday. Since then I've been, well simply, not happy with it at all. At first it was having it as 5 Tips and now it's more I'm just not so sure on the idea and whether to continue or not.

This week I'm back! I was really busy with course week last week and didn't have time to upload a new Friday Tips* but I'm back today. Today's topic is Inspiration and what to do with it when you have/find it. This has been a topic I've wrote briefly about before here but today's post will be kind of different to that so I would recommend reading it.

Welcome to the first edition of 5 Tips Friday! To start this series of, we're going to start right at the beginning- the design process. The design (or creative) process is really the fundamental for creating a good piece of design. Although you may stray from it slightly, the design process is there for a reason- because it works. 

It's kind of crazy to think that this month I have been blogging here for about a year and a half, with 'blogging' over on tumblr for a previous 3 years. Throughout that time and my (current) 2 and a half years studying Graphic Design, I feel that I want to give something back. With so much knowledge that I've gained and knowing how quickly the industry can change, I felt I would start with this blogging series "5 Tips Friday", to use as a way to give back.