Thank You PicMonkey

For as much as I blog, I often feel like such a rookie. Yeah, maybe I'm being a bit harsh on myself, but my blog is totally DIY, make- it-work just like everything else in my life.

• My formatting is always cursed with random spaces and fixing it each time has come down to a methodical science (why does everything quadruple space when I paste from word?)
• My fonts are sometimes inconsistent even though I continue to select the “default” font
• My blog design is not near what I imagine and envision, and I spend HOURS googling HTML code to fix things that I typically can't figure out how to fix
• I've made dozens of attempts at a new logo and background, yet I do not love any enough to actually commit 
• My layout is not how I'd like it, but once again I waste time trying to learn HTML to fix it, and it still doesn't fix
• My efforts to recruit followers (yeah, I only have 21) have also been a fail
• I have no idea how to easily watermark photos or add cute tags
• Making photo collages has always been a nightmare using some janky online collage tool or trying to rig them in Photoshop

The problem is that I want to be an expert. The reality is that I'm not. I'm a self-taught blogger with an extremely creative eye who is trapped in frustration because I can't make my blog look the way I want it to look or do the things I want it to do. My figure-it-out methods have simply just not worked.

So, why am I venting these frustrations that have irritated me for the past year? Because I want to say THANK YOU to PicMonkey for giving me a glimmer of hope.

Pic Monkey makes photo collages. Pic Monkey is easy. And best of all, Pic Monkey is free! Hallelujah, amen, thank goodness... and I don't even have to register to use it! Check out some of my DIY Wedding collage examples below that I made from PicMonkey.

 

 

So, to end this note, tell me, what makes/has made your blogging life easier? All tips and advice are MORE than welcome.

Thanks for listening!