I'm going on my own little trip down blogging memory lane.
Since it's Throw Back Thursday, as well as the day before Valentines Day, I decided to revisit one of my first posts.
It's January 2012, my 8th post in my first month of blogging.
I really had no idea what I was doing, much like 3 years later.
But there was this gal named Debbie-Doos, Ms. Doos as I call her now, and she had a thing called the "Newbie Party". I jumped right in to that, but it was her monthly magazine copy cat challenge party that got me excited.
She would get tons of participants every month, and I thought why not?.
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And darned if that Ms. Doos didn't feature my little Valentines Vignette on her blog. Much like the Velveteen Rabbit, I felt real in the blog world getting my first feature, and for that Ms. Doos, I thank you. You created a monster didn't you... I'm still here.
Re-post below.
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OK, I have to start small, I'm new.
Nothing big and ambitious for my first try at Debbie Doos Copy Cat Challenge.
I decided to give it a whirl and duplicate the Country Living magazine vignette.
I was looking through a new mag on my nightstand and saw this little Valentine set up.
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I thought how cute- could I do that? Naaahh.
Then I learned Debbie has a monthly copy cat challenge. I'm not good at math but I could put that 2 + 2 together!
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I do have an abundance of random playing cards because I am not playing with a full deck, but I didn't particularly think the card banner in the inspiration photo was "Valentine cute".
So I came up with my own.
I pulled a couple pages from the 'ol red encyclopedia, printed out BE MINE on the computer, and cut it out. Then I ransacked the school supply drawer for a glue stick.
I located ribbon and scallop scissors and I was in business.
The only things I didn't have a match for were pink spray paint for the tray, or the cool paper straws.
I also opted to use a hydrangea since my rose bouquet didn't do a thing for the display - and my white tea pot was buried somewhere in the garage.
I had some left over tags from Halloween specimen jars and made them personal for Brawn and I. Doesn't everyone make specimen jars around October?
I even have a couple of the same glass jars but they were packed away in Halloween bins and I wasn't gonna dig through those!
Notice Brawn's decanter, it's a vintage reproduction from some king that I picked up at a garage sale.
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Your vignette is so much cuter than the magazine you copied. I miss Debbie-Doos newbie parties. They were so much fun.
ReplyDeleteI remember this well and that inspired me to my own version of your copy cat! I still put it up for V'day in various forms.
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I hadn't seen this cute project, Bliss...love it! I like seeing some of your earliest stuff! Happy Valentines Day!
ReplyDeleteYep, yours is way better. But then yours always are! Showoff.
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I think it might have been at Debby Doos that I met you. I was a newbie then too and appreciated her party very much. Your copy cat project was darling!
ReplyDeleteI have to say my friend yours is better. Have a great weekend
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I have to say I like you copy better MUCH BETTER..for sure! Lovely
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Yours, definitely.I can see why Debbie Doos featured yours, it's adorable! What I love about holidays like Halloween and V-Day is that you can use those thrifted decanters once owned by a king as part of your decor.
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ReplyDeleteI can't believe that was your 8th post (I remember it too) and now I see that your cute banner must have been the very thing that inspired my Christmas banner for the café, a couple of years later - isn't the mind a wonderful tool.
ReplyDeleteI remember this post - must have been right when I started blogging. I love the banner. Way cuter than theirs.
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