Turning a New Leaf

For over a year now, I have been blogging to you about my wedding inspirations, ideas, my own wedding details and projects, and I have loved every minute of it! It has been so much fun to share my ideas with you about my wedding and weddings in general! While I love sharing Put A Ring On It with the world, you may have noticed that my posts have started becoming few and far between. Weeks will go by when I'll suddenly remember, "Oh no! I need to blog — it's been so long!"

The truth is, my mind just isn't thinking about all things weddings as I was a year ago, or 6 months ago for that matter! For so long it was all I was thinking — what flavors should we make our cake? Where should we seat our guests? What accessories should I wear? We have to get the invitations out! What kind of ceremony music to have played? Please see last post. But ever since October 14, 2011, my mind has strayed...and can you blame me? I'm a newlywed! I am experiencing all the pleasures of being one! It was so relieving to be done with wedding planning, that I hate to say that Put A Ring On It suffered!

And so, recently I have been deliberating whether or not to start a new kind of blog — one that caters to weddings, however one that isn't so centrally focused on my own. I don't know if it's just me being shy or too concerned about what others think, but posting about my wedding when it happened 7 months ago, seems a bit self-absorbed or trite. And I certainly don't want to come across as that! I understand that blogs in general are very self-centric and a bit of a desire to talk about oneself and get oneself heard, but I believe it can be done in a tasteful manner — one that is classy and not annoyingly selfish!

A blogger I follow — religiously so I'm afraid of — Holly Becker of Decor8 has inspired me to switch things up a bit and follow what my heart is telling me. Yes, I know that sounds obvious, but so often we get stuck in ruts and it takes an outside influence — whether it's an article, a person, a song, a movie, a fellow blogger — to wake us up. This awakening is so important, because if we stay stuck in the same old routines for too long, before you know it, years will have passed! Be willing to shake things up in your life and you will definitely reap the benefits! How could you not? It's creating change, which in effect produces a more interesting and wise YOU!

I read something the other day that was really true and can be very comparable to our own lives and how we live them. I was reading about interior decorating — from HomeMint — a new Home Decor line by, of all people, Justin Timberlake and designer Estee Stanley. It was elaborating on interior decorating and how we must embrace change in our living space. They stressed the importance of rearranging our furniture, our wall art, and our decor every once in a while in order to live in a space that's refreshing, inspiring, and transformative. Change is good — a little scary, sometimes, but good!

I'm just spinning off ideas here. Perhaps I should feature other people's weddings on my blog as well as my own inspirations from other bloggers, designers, wedding planners, florists, photographers, etc. Even interior decorating ideas and projects that translate seamlessly into weddings! I've been on an interior decorating kick for a while now, and I truly believe it has so much to do with having an eye for detail and what works as far as weddings go too!

In fact, I'm taking a class at AB Tech this summer about Interior Design and Decorating that I hope to learn a lot from! I will have to dish all about it when the class begins in July!