ING Things

I've reached a milestone today...it's the 10th anniversary of this joyful puttering blog. I continue to marvel at...and be grateful for those of you who follow along. Some of you have been here from the start...others have joined in somewhere along the way.  

I'm so grateful for the kind words of encouragement and support through email or blog comments. They mean the world to me and remind me why I show up here every day.

The very first post that Clarke helped me with back in 2015 was titled Dreaming Out Loud...and I've been doing a lot of ING things ever since. Here are just a few:

collecting, creating, and connecting

puttering, painting, and puzzling

looking, laughing, and listening

reflecting, refocusing, and wrapping

gardening, grieving, and giggling

decorating, doodling, and digitizing

crafting, collaging, and coloring

felting, fusing, and, finding

painting, pausing, and paying attention

stitching, storytelling, and celebrating

My life is full of joyful abundance!

I used to check out my stats on a regular basis...but I don't anymore because it just doesn't matter. But I did check out my numbers on this milestone anniversary and here are just some of my 10 year stats as reported by Blogspot:

3,637 posts

3,597 comments

565,649 visits from over 20 countries (most of these come from clicks from Pinterest)

132 followers by email 

96 Collages continues to be the most visited post (because of Pinterst) with over 18,000 views.

Rainbows and Swirls comes in second where I feature my Swirls of Color project and share my binding technique with over 8,000 views.

Thank you so much for making it to the end of this post...and for following along! It's not over till it's over! 

Milestone

This is a view of the morning light in our backyard yesterday.

My thumb is quite a bit better today....and I was even able to do a little stitching at the sewing machine...but mostly I'm still letting it rest.  So it's a pretty good day to celebrate a milestone.  

Overnight last night I passed 200,000 views on the blog since I started 8 years ago.  That's just mind boggling to me.  

So....just for the fun of it....here are some of my stats.  Remember...typing is something I can easily do with only one good thumb.....and I won't know if you just skip the rest of this post. Thank you for getting this far!

I'm not one to worry too much about....or even pay too much attention to the stats....and I'm not doing anything at all to grow my readership.  I'm just sharing my joy.......my stories.....and my creative adventures.....every single day.  The growth has happened all on it's own.  And the fact that so many of you have found it....and seem to keep coming back makes me very happy.....and a wee bit proud.  Thank you!  

• 93 people subscribe by email.  It's a real commitment to get an email every single day in your inbox....and mailchimp is able to tell me that most of them get opened.  But I will take this opportunity to say it's OK if you unsubscribe.  That will always be OK.  I've unsubscribed from many newsletters and blogs I've followed over the years.
• I average anywhere from 120 to 180 views on the actual blog a day....sometimes less...sometimes more. 
• I get a fair amount of "clicks" or "links" from Pinterest.  I've never posted any of my work on Pinterest....but anyone can pin something from the blog...and then it circulates out there for a while....sometimes a long long time.  My 96 Collages post from 2019, for example....when I helped Muffy with a workshop....is still out there and has been looked at over 6,000 times.  And my Rainbows and Swirls post has been viewed 3,500 times.....all because of Pinterest.

These are the posts with the highest numbers of views.

And Blogger can even tell me where people live.....

....and they break it down by country.

                                                  

So there it is.  If you made it to the end of this post...congratulations!  I appreciate that your here...and willing to follow along with my joyful putterings.  

This was the evening light in the backyard yesterday.  I am truly blessed.