So, I did it again -- forgot my blog's anniversary. It turned eight years old on the sixth! Let's celebrate with the most mundane photo subject ever:
I'm still rather smitten with the wide aperture/shallow depth of field that my new lens has, obviously. It's pretty amazing what a difference f1.8 makes compared to f5 when taking a picture at dusk. I took this after mixing up a marinade for my tofu (mixed in its empty container).
So, eight years of blogging, yep. Back when I started, we still thought websites had to be about something. Thank goodness that's changed!
I was in college when I began my first blog (although I did have a website even before that), and it was very much just a journal of random bits and pieces. You know how it is when you're young and experiencing things for the first time (the city bus! using an oven!) all on your own; it's so exciting.
During my last year at university and then my subsequent move to London, I fell into the craft world, and my posts tended to focus on the things I'd made. I think it was in April of 2007 that I finally 'admitted' that twelve22 was becoming more of a food blog than a craft blog -- and since then, I feel like I've settled into a hodgepodge of subject matter. Almost like when I began, actually.
It's funny to me to think of people entering the blogging world now and seeing it as an establishment -- rather like a tween trying to imagine the world before cell phones, I guess. Eight years feels rather aged in the blogosphere, and it makes me want to say things like, 'When I was your age, we didn't even HAVE a crafting community! Wordpress? Forget about it! We coded everything by hand!'
It's true, we did.
Happy blog birthday :o) You're so right!! I started my first blog when I was in high school... about 7 years ago. I coded everything by hand... and was hosted at a domain... remember when it was cool to "host" people. Yeah :o) I really enjoy reading your blog and looking at your pictures.
xo,
Linnea
Ooh! I'm honored to be the first to say, "congratulations on your blogoversary!"
Ironically, I just took my entire site down, hoping that I would spend less time internetting. But instead of writing my own blog, I'm just spending more time reading other people's blogs! Ha! The 'net is a cruel mistress.
But yeah - I can't remember life before it. I spose I was busy watching Nick at Night and playing Oregon Trail.
Eight years - fabulous! Thanks for helping build a great 'establishment'
Congratulations on being able to maintain such an interesting blog for so long :)
Congratulations on your anniversary, eight years is indeed a long time. I have enjoyed being one of your readers for several of those years.
Wow, 8 years, that's a long time - congratulations on sticking with it. Very impressed with the photos using the new lens and also all the beautiful cookies. Happy blog-versary
Congrats!
Oh it's so true. We did code everything by hand. Sometimes I miss that.
congrats on making it to 8 years :)
Hi Anna...Congratulations on 8 years...i guess i'd just like to say a huge thankyou!! I'm pretty new to the blogging universe but as soon as i set my own one up yours was one of the first i headed to because i have read the crafters companion from front to back (it's sellotaped together in some places) I find your blog a big inspiration for me! Whenever i'm a bit uninspired i just pop over and read an archive and come out feeling great.
So...thanks!!
(hope that doesn't make me sound like a nutter!)
bex