testing:: is this thing on?

Can you see this? It's me, Displaced Urbanite. My last two posts have completely disappeared from my blog- they're gone from the main page and gone from my edit posts page. It's as if I never even posted them!

I just switched over from .blogspot.com to my own .com yesterday and it seems both of the posts I posted after that disappeared, but they were published and one of them received a comment, so I know they're out there somewhere? Has this every happened to anyone else?

Edited to add: I just noticed the sidebar edits that I made to my page yesterday are also gone. What's happening to my blog?!

housekeeping

Happy Thursday, everyone! A few Displaced Urbanite housekeeping notes-

1. I now own displacedurbanite.com and I've updated my RSS feed accordingly. You should still get the old feeds from displacedurbanite.blogspot.com, but feel free to resubscribe to the new feed over there in the sidebar (you know, in case I decide to migrate on over to Wordpress in the future).
2. There are a few extra links over in the sidebar now, too. You can now follow me on Pinterest and on Tumblr (where I'll be posting iPhone photography exclusively). I'm trying to get the iPhone photography off of this blog and reserve it for my higher-end photos. Plus I thought it would be cool to have a blog of just pictures, no? So for that, Tumblr it is!
   
3. Lastly, DU has a slightly updated look. I simplified it quite a bit to allow for the content of my posts to stand out. What do you think?

And now back to your regularly scheduled postings.

Perfectly imperfect

Happy 2011! (When did that happen?)

What are your resolutions? Did you make any? Want to hear mine? No? Don't worry, I'll tell you anyway. This year I will not beat myself up for not being perfect. Really. That's it.


A Beautiful Thing by Lisa Barbero
Specifically speaking, when it comes to blogging. You see, I love to write (I majored in it in undergrad, for cripes sake), but I've found that over the course of my blogging journey (which sort of resembled a bouncy ball zinging all over the place), I've let my quest for perfection cripple me to the point where I just stopped blogging altogether. Yes, over the past few months, I had a ton of other things going on- 9 credits of grad school, a new job, my wedding, getting ready to move into a new house (more on those last two three things in a later post)- but I'm sure I could have squeezed some time in a few times a week.

But I didn't.

Because my fashion photos weren't perfect, because my outfits weren't perfect, because I didn't have the perfect thing to say, because I didn't have the perfect blog layout or logo, because I wanted each of my blogs (all 3 of them) to have their own separately perfect niche content...perfection, perfection, perfection.

But you know the funny thing about perfection? It's kind of boring.

So instead of reaching for perfection, I decided to simplify and just do what I love. Here's how:

• I moved all of the posts from my fashion/inspiration blog, Moxie/Grace, over here.
• Instead of blogging about indie design over my indie/handmade blog, The Blooming Wildflowers Project, I'm going to create a special category here for such posts.
• I completely nixed the idea of creating a marketing blog since I got a new job as a Marketing Director and I'm responsible for the blog there.

So now instead of trying to compartmentalize all of my interests into different niche blogs, I'm just going to blog here at Displaced Urbanite. Whether fashion or indie or handmade or just about life in general, whatever inspires me. I'm freeing myself from the constraints of perfection, embracing the work-in-progress nature of my blog (and of my life), and allowing myself to just be.

Imperfect by Fourteen23