Debbie (ArtyCrafty, godzoned or DebrArty) – a person of many names
Arty Crafty
artycrafty.wordpress.com
No. of Kids: Two children. Ethan 3.5 yrs old and Mishael 6 yrs old
Current City: Christchurch
What’s your blog all about?
I am an over obessesed scrapbooker, hobby artist, crafter & very bad speller. I get the shakes if I don’t craft after 3 days. If I don’t make anything for 2 weeks people are feeling my forehead and asking if I am sick.
I also love passing on my skills to others free of charge so decided to start up a tutorial/craft blog – much to the disgust of my hubby – lol but I do tutorials from my home at $15 per person – they only cover material costs for the class and a tiny bit of my time. Not out to make masses amounts of money there – there just seamed to be a bit of a demand for it.
My blog has developed as time has gone by. This one was started in 2008. I have blogged about cooking, paper crafting, sewing and crafting with my kids. Now that I have a good feel for my blog finally I’m relaxing and added my DebrArty business on a separate page, but it is mainly all about free tutorials and posting up my own creations.
At the moment I’m doing crafting activities with my kids and trying to whittle down a very large, growing bookmarked list of “things to do”.
Why did you start blogging?
To share my crafting, Art, crafting experiences and teach others how to do different crafts.
What is your favourite part about blogging?
When a reader is excited about a tutorial and tells me about it. One of the popular ones is making a soft toy dinosaur.
How do you manage juggling family life with blogging?
I mainly blog at night and when my kiddos are at school preschool. Or on weekends.
I pre-type up most of my posts and schedule them to be released at 1am in the morning.
Any advice to new/other bloggers?
Choose a subject and stick to it. ie: do you want it to be about your travels? crafting? Parenting advice? cooking? And give back to your readers something like a giveaway from time to time or a tutorial.
It doesn’t have to be really professional – as my videos aren’t but its the enthusiasm that comes from you that intrigues your readers. I also have linked my blog RSS feed to my facebook and twitter walls which generates readers.
Always return an email to your readers comments. They appreciate this and it builds great relationship and re-pore. Means a good chance they will come back.
Top 3 favourite posts from your blog?
Dinosaur soft toy
Making stamps with rubbish
Mouse in the house – dressups
Top 4 favourite blogs?
The DIY dish – a tutorial blog.
Polycraft – a digital image blog (great for colouring in pages).
Make sew along – a sewing blog.
Fiskateer lead blog – part of an awesome community that supports all types of crafting.
I pay a visit day-to-day some web pages and websites to read posts, however this web site gives quality based
posts.