Mummyzilla
mummyzilla.blogspot.com
No. of Kids: P: 2 years and 9 months, and J: 1year old!
What’s your blog all about?
My blog is mostly about the crafting that I do. I try to accomplish one project a week, so I focus on one area at a time. I love sewing, creating art, and providing a fun and stimulating environment for my two daughters.
Why did you start blogging?
I wanted to share what I create with others, and give some inspiration about what can be achieved. I love to do things from scratch so I like to share those things with others. It also provides a great incentive to follow through on my projects, knowing that there are people who want to see my results.
What is your favourite part about blogging?
I enjoy sharing the things that I have learnt with others, and I really love helping others to achieve their own goals by providing information and advice. I also really love the feedback, especially when I put something up that I’m proud of.
How do you manage juggling family life with blogging?
I try to only post a couple of times a week, and I usually post in the evenings when I would have otherwise been on the computer anyway. I do find that blogging does suck up some time that I should be using for housework, so I try my best to limit computer time in general. I also keep the list of blogs that I follow (and regularly look at) small otherwise I would spend hours enviously looking at other peoples crafting efforts.
Any advice to new/other bloggers?
Blogging is a great way to share some of your ideas/philosophies with others, and a good way to connect with a different community of people. It can be easy to look at other blogs and think ‘I could never do something as good/interesting/fantastic as that’, but you’d be surprised by how inspiring your own ideas can be. Also, blogging is a selective look at someone’s life, you never know what someone might find worthwhile.
Top 3 favourite posts from your blog?
This post, and the one that follows it is one of my favourites. It was a great project to do, and I think P will get huge amounts of value from it.
This is one of my favourties because I just love art, and this was the first time I put up some of my own artwork on the walls of my house. Every time I look at my art, I feel inspired.
This is my first (and so far only) tutorial, and I’m so proud of having something that I created myself (with some inspiration from a friend), and that I could share with the world at large.
Top 3 favourite blogs?
chasingcheerios.blogspot.com The posts on this blog are so inspiring. J is almost the same age as her younger daughter, and its great to read the activities she has created for her two girls. I’m not particularly Montessori oriented, but I just get so many ideas from here.
seasidesiblings.blogspot.com – I really enjoy reading Lou’s blog, because she has a similar philosophy to me, and I get good ideas from her. I also really enjoy her writing style, and this has alot to do with whether I will return to a blog.
mahkacrafts.blogspot.com – Something about this blog just speaks to me. Its one I found through blogtoberfest, and I just had to follow, I can’t quite pin down why.
