The Hunt Life

The Hunt Life

Monday, 10 August 2015

My Husband hates my blog?


Okay so maybe Hate is too strong a word but there is certainly some dislike towards my blog! He tries to hide his true feelings whenever I am doing anything blog related but I see his roll of the eyes or hear is quiet hmmmmm. I'm sure he can't be the only husband out there that has these feelings about their wife's relationship with their blog.


So what are the main gripes my husband has with my blog.....

.....the whole house maybe trashed and piles of laundry may be stacked on one side of the table but the other side of the table where the afternoon light comes in perfectly and the set up looks great is always spotlessly clean and ready for blog photos. 

......he has to wait 10 to 15 after I have cooked dinner while I take 1500 photos of the plates to try and fine the perfect recipe picture.

.....I stay up till all hours of the night reading books for the monthly book club which keeps him up.

.....I paid someone to redesign my whole blog and changed it again 6 months later.

.....I wake up in the middle of the night with blog post idea's and have to turn on the lights to write everything down before I forget.

.....I can't go out for dinner without kneeling on my chair trying to get the best bird eye view of dinner, apparently this is embarrassing.

.....I spend extra money on products that I want to use for my blog.

.....My make up and outfits are constantly changing to keep up with current trends so I may spend more than we can afford.

.....I occasionally create recipes that don't get eaten and end up sitting in the fridge going bad waiting for him to clean the fridge out on the weekend.

.....I take 1 million and 1 photos of interesting and odd things whenever I am out.

.....If my phone dies I commander his phone for photos.

....I take photos of him when he doesn't think he looks alright because I want to post about him.

.....I spend hours talking to him about blog idea's, recent posts I read and loved and anything blgo related.

All in all my husband is very understandable when it comes to my blog, I feel that if he can put up with all of this and not say something then he might just be a keeper.

How understanding is your husband/ boyfriend or your blog?
Do you think he's issues are granted?

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Monday, 2 March 2015

Top Blogging Blunders

When I first started out blogging I made many "blunders", I posted more of what I would call diary entries than actual thought out posts. I spent hours blogging to no readers and had really no idea what I was doing wrong or right for that matter. Here are a few blunders I made hopefully you can learn from my mistakes.


Switching points of view (POV)
Throughout posts I would start writing them from first person POV and somewhere along the lines it would transition to third person POV, this made anything I wrote hard to follow and created a disjoint from me and the reader. I now focus on maintaining first person POV, I would suggest this POV as it is easier for readers to follow and creates more of a personal connection to the post.

Ignoring social media
When I first started I honestly had no idea how twitter worked and thought facebook was only for personal use, somewhere along the lines I noticed that all my favourite bloggers where constantly tweeting, facebooking, pinteresting, google+ing and using every other available social media platform to get their new blog post noticed. Since creating a social media presence I have noticed a increase in views and new readers, I even created a printable daily blog planner to ensure I don't forget any of my platforms.

Maintaining a Anonymous Blog
I am sure that I was not the only one who began writing posts under a nickname and not including any traceable knowledge of who I was, I thought that people I knew would be able to find my blog and whilst I wasn't embarrassed about what I was writing I just didn't want my family and friends reading it. I soon realized this was ridiculous, no one will be able to find my blog unless I tell them about it and how would my readers be able to relate to what I wrote if I stayed anonymous? 

Unreadable fonts
Whilst it may be fun and exciting when you first start out to use all sorts of different crazy fonts this can be distracting and hard to read. It is also important that you choose a font size that is big enough to read comfortably but isn't overly large, you don't want readers squinting to read your posts but you also don't want readers craning their necks back to read either.

Hectic header graphics
Playing around with headers is important, you want the header of your blog to represent the theme of your blog but at the same time it should be clear and readable. When I first worked out how to create my header the whole thing was horrific, I used a graphic space them with a very cursive title and 6 small images of myself in the title, this meant that it was to read the title and there was no main focus. I now stick to a very simple and classic image as I want my blog to feel timeless and elegant.

Writing novels of text
It can be easy when you are writing something you are passionate about to write and write and write without creating any page breaks or paragraphs. I find as a reader this is overwhelming and I end up skipping half the post because I feel bombarded, just placing a few spaces between paragraphs and breaking the text up can completely change the feel of your post and make it far more enjoyable for a reader.

Central text alignment
I like many others thought it looks pretty cool having my text in a central alignment, I thought it made it stand out against the blogs that always kept their text in a standard left alignment. It wasn't until I started reading a few other blogs that also had a central alignment that I realized just how difficult it was to follow each sentence when they where all over the page. As soon as I noticed the issue I high tailed it back to my template and left aligned all my text.

Well those are the main blogging blunders that I managed to discover and fix throughout my last few years as a blogger, there are many others that I am sure I still continue to do and in another year I am sure I will be posting part 2 of blogging blunders with those listed.

What do you think of my blunders?
Do you have any blunders that should be included?

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