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autisticabbey · 2 months

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My customized Pallas and Diamond Moon St. Patrick's day and Charon mesh laundry bags, folding laundry baskets, and reusable movie cups Saturn bath towels set, and my DIY Saturn puzzle piece socks and Charon puzzle piece T shirt and designer sneakers.

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manypersons · 3 years

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Things I’ve Always Wanted to Do

So in 2019, it started up a list of “Things I’ve Always Wanted to Do” and I think it really reflects who I am as a person. “Notes” are there to provide an update I guess. I hope you enjoy.

Explore an abandoned shopping mall

Expand my library substantially

Cliff dive

Learn to play piano professionally

Make a piece of art I can be proud of

Sing my heart out

Live in a small house

Read by the light of a fire

Smell incense often

Sharpen all my pencils to perfection

Spend and entire day writing (note: have done this)

Tour Europe

Get all the German shepherds I want

Collect clocks

Bake something spontaneous but delicious

Wear nerdy/dorky t-shirts daily (note: has been achieved)

Watch musicals

Buy those books from my childhood that I miss

Complete a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle in one day

Grow a garden

Live in Washington

Paint a sunrise

Collect cute mugs to drink hot chocolate from

Sleep with a cat in my bed (note: it’s been years :(...)

Paint a random piece of furniture for fun

Watch and finish a TV show in one sitting

Bake and eat two dozen cookies by myself

Gel pens, a whole of gel pens

Get a Harry Potter costume and not just for Halloween (note: you’ll love my costume this year

Go to Comicon, at least once

Watch all my favorite bands live

Publish a book (note: I’m working on it Mom!)

Find love (note:....still nothing)

Live with someone interesting for a month

Videogame binge

Rewrite old stories I wrote when I was younger (note: actually....that’s the novel I’m working on right now....I did it ya’ll)

Try new and exotic food

Separate trash and recycling, even for a short time

Volunteer (or take a job) at a zoo

Give a speech in a public setting (note: I usually give to a room of about ten people)

STUFFED ANIMALS WILL ALWAYS BE COOL

Make lasagna from scratch

Random DIY

Learn to make Italian Delight from memory

Finish something I’d left undone for a while

Splurge on hardcover books

Get a job I’m happy to wake up every morning for

Spend the day in a retirement home for no reason

Speak my mind (note: trust me I do)

Eat a block of cheese like it’s an apple, there’s no law against it

Fake an illness to get out of doing something

SHOUT. Just SCREAM to the world.

Meet somebody different

Watch movies, a whole lot of them

Not be afraid to write in sharpie (note: this was ironic because the list itself was written in sharpie)

Hike to nowhere in particular

Make quirky jewelry I’ll never wear

Stay in bed, it’s okay to be lazy

Get along without electricity for a week

Appreciate the little things

Rescue an animal (any animal, anyway)

Scented pine cones

Live in an attic

Sit on a roof

Buy people presents for seemingly no reason

Roadtrip, but we don't want to murder each other at the end

Sing LOUDLY to the radio

Buy a tub of icing just to eat it

write somthing really tiny

THEN WRITE IT BIG!

Be like Cheyenne

Dye my hair

Have a good time with someone

Be in a parade (note: I actually have plans to be in a parade tomorrow, I'll update you all)

Move furniture randomly

Let an elderly person teach me a lesson

Prank somebody (but don't hurt them)

Learn to write in different fonts

Spend the day in a bookstore, but not but anything

Know that it's okay to be broke and to struggle

Walk someplace instead of drive

Travel to the Galapagos

Pet a wolf (note: I've since done this, I'll save the story, because it's wild..........I just wrote it, here's the post: https://manypersons.tumblr.com/post/633529760164839424/i-just-remembered-that-i-promised-yall-the-story)

Have mismatched dishes, but a neat set of silverware

Buy crisp new jeans

Visit all 50 states (note: so far I've only got 11)

Learn new languages (note: got a 5 on my AP Spanish test last year and my biliteracy seal, but I would not say I'm fluent)

Fill a wall with a map of the world, preferably hand paintedwith

Make my own

Grow my nails out really long

Write a poem (note: I've done this, I guess?)

Try to learn to carve wood

Visit the set for Twilight before it's torn down

Spend the night under the stars

A big black truck

Order that cool thing I saw on tv

Get a meaningful tattoo

Write my own song

Make a friend that is just as it even weirder than me

Forget the rules, even if it's just for a short while

Revisit all those places I remember

Crosstitch something amazing

Always smell like lavender

Make a piece of art using glitter

Be forever frustrated because that glitter won't come out of my carpet

Throw a party and invite no one

Make flashcards for something not school related

Get better at using pastels

Live in Alaska

Visit a local bakery

Be EXTRA, all day, every day

Visit all my last teachers

Be myself, even if people don't like the real me

Write movies for Universal

Swap lives with someone for a day

Study abroad

Own a whole bunch of yellow pencils—to touch, to smell, and to write with

It's "thank you for your apology", not "it's okay"

Just be happy, as often as my brain will allow!

Wow a feel like a just handed over a big chunk of myself. Please use this wisely and more that this list is definitely subject to change.

#me #things I've always wanted to do #wow personal

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dawnajaynes32 · 6 years

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Is it Time To Rebrand?

By Rachel Evans Heath

Rebranding is daunting and carries with it a plethora of uncertainties. But it may also be just the thing to relaunch your company into a more successful line of business. So how do you know if it’ll be worth it or not?

Truth is, no one can really tell you for certain. But below are a few ideas from my own experience that may help you in deciding for yourself what to do next.

I personally started my business with no brand. I knew what line of work within flowers I wanted to do, and what line I didn’t want to do. I had to pick a name because the business license application needed one. I made my own logo using only the intermediate graphic-design skills I had acquired over the years. I designed my own website, business cards, brochure… you name it I had to do it DIY style.

I don’t regret this because I simply had to do it this way. I had to get started somewhere and I didn’t have the funds for any other options.

But I was left feeling all of the following things:

I didn’t like telling people the name of my business. I was embarrassed by it.

I was constantly afraid a graphic-designer client would see my logo and know it was homemade.

I didn’t feel like my brand represented where I wanted to go in the floral industry.

Does this hit a little too close to home? If so, you may be due for a rebranding.

The first thing that I recommend doing, is finding a friend who can share their experience and mentor you in rebranding. (I’m hoping this blog post will serve you in that way. Consider me a friend sharing my experiences with you now.)

I didn’t know how valuable this would be until I serendipitously found mine. I spent a weekend attending various flower symposiums and I happened to meet Tristin Teal Johnson of Project Floral in Denver at one conference, and then again at the other.

First of all, let me just say, I think Tristin is one of the nicest people I’ve met. Talk about friendly! She made me feel like we were the best of friends right away. When we asked about each other’s businesses I told her the name of mine, then quickly said, “But I’m in the process of rebranding.” –Like I said, I was often embarrassed by the name of my business, feeling it didn’t properly represent me.

Tristin lit up and exclaimed that she had just finished rebranding her business. She immediately wanted to talk more about it, but we were out of chatting time. So she gave me her phone number and told me to give her a call anytime to talk about it.

I told you she was the nicest.

I ended up calling her a couple weeks later and we talked for an hour about rebranding. I took notes, because I always take notes, and hung up feeling inspired.

With Tristin’s permission, I’m going to share with you some of the ideas she offered me in that conversation.

Her first three points are excellent markers in deciding if it really is time to rebrand or not. So think these over carefully as you contemplate whether or not they relate to you.

“Your brand defines you. And it’s ok to outgrow it.” I love this thought. Because as individuals we are constantly trying to grow and better ourselves, so it makes sense that our business should grow too. And your brand needs to reflect that improved version of itself.

“Renaming is acceptable in business, and it doesn’t set you back.” This was what I maybe most needed to hear. I had stressed over the idea of rebranding setting me back, or losing any of the hard-earned regard I’d made in my community. And true to her promise, when it came time to rebrand, I found absolutely no setbacks from the name change.

“Rebranding is taking your past platform and giving it a new face to match your reimagined goals.”

This was one of the biggest problems I had with my brand. I didn’t feel it represented where I wanted my business TO GO. Tristin told me that you want a brand that will take you into the next 10 years of your business, and that just wasn’t what I had.

This idea also helped me in the creation of my new brand. I was able to visualize what I wanted for my business’s future and, from there, start to work with names that fit that goal.

After you’ve found a mentor and decided you DO need to rebrand, find an advisor within the industry.

So let’s say Tristin’s first three points have also inspired you to rebrand. It’s time to start brainstorming ideas for your new brand. And if you’re anything like me it helps to talk it few a couple times with someone.

Here is where I think a lot of us make a mistake. It’s crucial to find someone within the industry with whom you can talk about your branding ideas. Someone you feel comfortable calling to bounce business ideas around with. Someone who doesn’t know you outside of the flower realm. Someone who will kindly, but directly tell you if your ideas may be leading you to a dead end.

Why not a close friend or family member? In short, they don’t know the industry. They may have great creative ideas. They may be fabulous at coming up with clever names that are funny and sweet, but what might sound wonderful among friends might sound amateur and thin once it’s taken into the business world. It may feel harsh to not validate your aunt Sally’s ideas, but let’s save the clever wit for the next family reunion t-shirt.

This leads me to Tristin’s next point: “Be FEARLESS with Change”

Once you’ve settled on a brand, it’s important to change everything. New website, new logo, new cards, new brochures, new social media handles, possibly a new email address. Don’t forget to update your social media profiles with your new website URL and links to all your new pages. Don’t try to reuse anything. Start clean and fresh. New brand means NEW BRAND. It very well may all need to go.

I will say this, however, feel free to leave a few clarifying statements in carefully selected places for the first month or so to inform customers of the name switch. I like to leave a small statement in my email signature clarifying what my business used to be, in case they don’t recognize my new business name from which I’m emailing.

I also sent out a post on all my social medias and an email to my entire email list, announcing the name change. This is a one-time thing. You don’t need to say it more than once, and people don’t need to be bombarded by it.

Make sure you inform all event planners and vendors especially of the change, as these are your recurring collaborators that you want to be sure can find you later.

Tristin’s final piece of advice: “Don’t settle until you find a sense of peace”

The last piece of the puzzle is to not settle for anything that doesn’t feel right. That’s how you (and I) got into this mess in the first place, and it’s best to get it right before going forward. If it doesn’t feel right, keep trying. It’ll come to you. And believe me, it is SO worth it to feel that sense of peace, knowing you have a brand you have confidence in.

I’m so excited for all of you to find that sense of peace as well. Trust me, it’s worth the hard work.

A special thank you to Tristin Teal Johnson for all her insight and support during the emotional uncertainty that is inevitable when rebranding. Project Floral does amazing floral work and installments. Take a look at what she’s up to through Project Floral’s Instagram and Facebook accounts.

Is it Time To Rebrand? syndicated post

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ulyssessklein · 7 years

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How to split your Instagram pics into grids to build suspense

Split your images into grids on Instagram to get more mileage out of your cover art, concert posters, festival announcements, and video launches.

Later this month I’m releasing a new single, and I’m trying to get as many people as possible to “pre-save” the song on Spotify so it’s in their queue and ready to be heard right on the drop date.

One obvious way to promote a single or album ahead of its release is to share the cover art. But rather than simply posting the image once on each social platform with a link to the Spotify pre-save campaign, I decided to chop the cover artwork into smaller photo tiles that could be posted one at a time on Instagram and, because of the predictable way Instagram displays photos on your main profile page, they’ll eventually come together over the course of a week like puzzle pieces that display the whole image.

This gives me multiple chances to share information about the pre-save while teasing the artwork and, hopefully, making my audience curious enough to follow along as the whole cover is slowly constructed.

You could split an image into tiles to share:

the cover of an album or single

the poster for a big album release party

tour dates

an interesting still image from an upcoming music video

or pretty much anything else that’s newsworthy

I saw the band Wilco use this photo strategy on Instagram to announce the dates of one of their Solid Sound Festivals a few years back.

To split your images, use one of these tools:

Pic Splitter — This super simple app for iOS devices gives you an easy way to select a grid pattern and create tiles from a larger image.

9square for Instagram — This app for Android devices lets you crop photos into grids and post them directly to Instagram.

ImageSplitter — This is a free website where you can upload a photo, choose the appropriate grid, and download a zip file with the component tiles. Note: The image files it creates will not always be numbered in a way that corresponds to the order you should post the pictures to Instagram, so see step #10 below.

Ten tips for splitting promo images:

1. This works best on Instagram

As I said above, Instagram has a standard, predictable way of displaying photos on your main profile page. So Instagram seems like the obvious place to try this technique of splitting a photo and then reconstructing it piece by piece. You could mimic the technique on Facebook or Twitter, but it’s not as natural a fit, and plus, I think it’s cool when the artists I like do something that’s exclusive to a particular platform.

2. The chopped up images must be shared sequentially, so be patient!

This only works if you post all the pieces of the image in sequence. If you’re teasing the thing over the course of a week, but in the middle of that week you want to post a really awesome photo of a rabid flying squirrel eating a burrito, well, you’ve just interrupted the whole flow of the tiles, and now they won’t correctly fit together to form the final image.

3. If your final image is square, split it into nine smaller squares.

Again, that’s just the most natural fit for how Instagram displays photos on your profile page. So choose a 3×3 grid pattern (for a total of 9 images).

4. Start with as hi-res an image as you can…

… because you’re about to share much smaller components of that original image. Some pixelation or blurriness might be inevitable, but try to minimize it by starting off as high-res as possible.

5. Tiles should be posted from the bottom right to the top left.

If you want to build the final image correctly, you’ve got to post the tiles in the right order. Assuming you’ve split the image into a 3×3 grid, you’d upload the tiles to Instagram in this order:

Bottom right

Bottom middle

Bottom left

Center right

Center middle

Center left

Top right

Top middle

Top left

6. Provide context in the caption every time.

If followers are just scrolling down their feed, one little tile might seem really strange on its own, especially if there are words being cut off. That’s fine, as long as you use the caption to let everyone know it’s SUPPOSED to look like that. It’s important to provide that context with each photo you post because you can’t expect that all your Instagram followers have actually been following along the whole time and know what’s going on.

7. You might need to use two calls-to-action.

If someone is just scrolling through their feed, they’ll need to know that they can go to your profile to view the grid as it comes together. That’s request #1. Then if you’re trying to use each post as a way to drive some other action (pre-saves, pre-sales, ticket sales, video views, giveaways, etc.), you’ll need to work that second request into the caption as well — and consider using the link in your Instagram bio to accommodate the second call-to-action.

8. Don’t forget hashtags.

Ever. Hashtags give you a great way on Instagram to connect with communities beyond your existing audience.

9. Share the campaign updates — but probably not the photos — on other social platforms.

If you want, you can use each post as a prompt to go onto Facebook and Twitter to remind people that you’re slowly building the image over on Instagram, and ask them to follow you there.

10. Double-check the order of your tiles.

Whether the split tiles are stored on your phone’s camera roll or in a folder on your desktop, make sure they’re organized in such a way that it makes it easy for you to grab the correct pic and post them in the correct order, as outlined in step #5 above. If you can, compare the tiles to the original, and reconstruct them in your mind to be sure you get the sequence correct before you post ANY of them.

Well, that may be more information than you ever asked for about creating grids on Instagram, but there you go! If you have additional tips or questions, please comment below.

Also, follow me on Instagram to see the full cover artwork come together, and pre-save my upcoming single on Spotify if you want to be among the first to hear it (and be entered into a drawing to win a free t-shirt too). Thanks!

The post How to split your Instagram pics into grids to build suspense appeared first on DIY Musician Blog.

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autisticabbey · 4 months

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My customized Makemake bath towels set and my DIY Makemake puzzle piece socks, my customized Nemesis bath towels set and MY DIY Nemesis puzzle piece socks, my customized Pallas bath towels set and my DIY Pallas puzzle piece socks, my customized Diamond Moon bath towels set and my DIY Diamond Moon puzzle piece socks, my customized Pallas and Diamond Mardi Gras mesh laundry bag, folding laundry basket, and reusable movie cup, my customized Pallas and Diamond Moon Valentine's Day reusable movie cup, and my customized New Silver Millennium mesh laundry bag, folding laundry basket, and reusable movie cup, and my DIY New Silver Millennium designer sneakers and puzzle pieces T shirt.

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autisticabbey · 10 months

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My DIY Vesta puzzle piece long sleeve shirt, my DIY Red Beryl Galaxy puzzle piece T shirt and designer sneakers, and my decorated Red Beryl Galaxy vintage heels

#abbey mclane #actually autistic #writer #my own diy designer shoes #my own diy puzzle piece long sleeve shirt #my own diy puzzle piece t shirt #sailor vesta #ves ves #sailor red beryl galaxy #sailor moon #boardwalk empire #descendants of boardwalk empire

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autisticabbey · 1 year

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My DIY Moon puzzle piece long sleeve shirt and Ceres puzzle piece T shirt, and my decorated Nemesis vintage heels.

#abbey mclane #actually autistic #writer #my own diy puzzle piece long sleeve shirt #my own diy puzzle piece t shirt #my own diy designer shoes #sailor ceres #cere cere #sailor nemesis #descendants of boardwalk empire #boardwalk empire #sailor moon

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autisticabbey · 1 year

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My DIY Moon puzzle piece T shirt, Ixion puzzle piece long sleeve shirt, and Ceres Easter designer sneakers

#abbey mclane #actually autistic #writer #my own diy puzzle piece t shirt #my own diy puzzle piece long sleeve shirt #my own diy designer sneakers #sailor ixion #catsy #sailor ceres #cere cere #sailor moon

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autisticabbey · 6 months

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My decorated Parallel Moon vintage heels, and my DIY Parallel Moon puzzle piece T shirt and Green Stars (Star Healer) puzzle piece socks

#abbey mclane #actually autistic #writer #my own diy designer shoes #my own diy puzzle piece t shirt #my own puzzle piece socks #sailor parallel moon #the sailor moon sisters #sailor star healer #sailor moon

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autisticabbey · 1 year

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I did some DIY fashion for the past week, including my DIY Pluto puzzle piece T shirt and long sleeve shirt, my DIY Venus designer sneakers and my decorated Venus vintage heels, my DIY Juno puzzle piece long sleeve shirt and my decorated Juno vintage heels, and my DIY Second Silver Star puzzle piece T shirt and designer sneakers

#abbey mclane #actually autistic #writer #my own diy designer shoes #my own diy puzzle piece t shirt #my own diy puzzle piece long sleeve shirt #sailor pluto #sailor venus #sailor juno #jun-jun #sailor silver star the second #descendants of boardwalk empire #boardwalk empire #sailor moon

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autisticabbey · 9 months

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My DIY Golden Sun designer sneakers and puzzle piece T shirt

#abbey mclane #actually autistic #writer #my own diy designer shoes #my own diy puzzle piece t shirt #sailor golden sun #the sailor rothsteins

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autisticabbey · 1 year

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My DIY Venus puzzle piece T shirt and long sleeve shirt, my DIY Emerald Earth puzzle piece T shirt and designer sneakers, and my decorated Second Silver Star vintage heels.

#abbey mclane #actually autistic #writer #my own diy puzzle piece t shirt #my own diy puzzle piece long sleeve shirt #my own diy designer shoes #sailor venus #sailor emerald earth #sailor silver star the second #sailor moon #boardwalk empire #the sailor rothsteins #descendants of boardwalk empire #thompson descendant

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autisticabbey · 11 months

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My DIY Gaia designer sneakers and puzzle piece long sleeve shirt, my decorated Gaia vintage heels, and my DIY Star Maker puzzle piece long sleeve shirt and T shirt

#abbey mclane #actually autistic #writer #my own diy designer shoes #my own diy puzzle piece t shirt #my own diy puzzle piece long sleeve shirt #my own diy designer sneakers #sailor gaia #harrow adoptive descendant #descendants of boardwalk empire #sailor star maker #sailor moon

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autisticabbey · 1 year

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