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I’ve been creating things and colourful messes, for as far back as I can remember. If I wasn’t drawing, I was writing, and vice versa. The two are kind of intrinsically linked for me, so it’s funny I didn’t hit my blogging stride earlier. I’ve picked art at every opportunity since my GCSEs; at this time pretty much all I did night and day was draw and paint, write about my drawings and paintings, and fit in my other subjects inbetween. It was great!
Nowdays, between jobs and cider, I haven’t been creating quite as much but I’m turning that around. This blog is proving a great opportunity to get the stuck in again. Over on YouTube I try to make something bi-weekly, a little challenge I set myself. I’ve designed (almost) everything for this site as well as do design work for others when the opportunity arises. Whilst, most recently, I’ve been learning to code via a Skillcrush blueprint! So this site should get even cooler as I bump up these skills. You can explore my creative work over at creator-of-things.com if you’re interested.
Below I’ll write about things I’ve done over there, and also my current creative endeavours. My on-going fight with Javascript quite frankly needs to be documented.
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Since starting up my blog, I have had a few friends ask how I did it. So here, low and behold, are all the steps I took. If you are interested at all in starting a blog to document your travels, hobbies or thoughts, these 8 steps should help you…
View PostGuys, the time has arrived. I am finally onto the build stage of my portfolio! The landing page is done…for now. There are few elements that are a bit off, but instead of scrutinising even further – imma leave it and return at a later date. I need a break…
View PostWith HTML and CSS under my belt, the next module on the agenda was Github. March 3rd – Progress Report I’m half way through my Github module as part of the Break Into Tech blueprint, and I must say it’s not as terrifying as I thought it would be! I’d…
View PostSo I finished up last year and began this new decade by refreshing myself on the HTML and CSS module of the Skillcrush blueprint. Going over principles I’d already struggled with and then grasped perhaps 2 years ago was somewhat distressing because it highlighted to me that I had let…
View PostI planned for 2019 to be the year of me getting ‘out there’. So for my first event of the year, I went to Travel Eat Slay‘s first ‘Sip & Paint’ evening. So many firsts! The event was hosted in the Good Hotel at Royal Victoria Dockside. Firstly getting these…
View PostSo throughout the remainder of February planning went really well. I really enjoyed the process of working through my ideas, and thinking through how I could achieve the results that I wanted. As the days of the month flew by, the development plan I’d designed really helped me stay on…
View PostI only had the bright spark to devise this project and subsequent plan on the 18th Feb, so I’m slightly on the back foot, but I need to kick off now to ensure I finish in time. Also if I give myself too much time to plan, I’ll overthink everything…
View Post…and it has been for quite some time! HTML and CSS were no walk in the park, but they definitely came a lot more naturally than Mr JavaScript over here. I have been working my way through the Skillcrush web developer blueprint over the last weeks, and am very happy…
View PostYou don’t even want to know how long I have already spent thinking about this blog. Worried if the name was good enough, if the topics I wanted to write about were good enough; ultimately doubting if I was good enough to even start a blog. And yes, I know…
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