A New Design

Good news everyone!
I am really excited to launch a new design for my blog. I have been dropping hints for a while about tweaking my blog. You might have seen some changes the last of couple of days. The timing couldn't be more perfect. A new year deserves a new design. I was pretty fond of my last design. But I wanted something that could reflect my current passions and philosophy more truly. So it is finally here! Come have a looksey!

All the design elements and coding are done by me, as usual. I decided to join the lettering/calligraphy bandwagon. And it ties so well with the design, I’d say. The header image has been on my mind for a while now. Now, I am not saying this is an original concept, but I love the fact it clarifies what this blog is about. Photography and sci-fi obsession aside, I am a crochet girl at heart. I have also decided to fully embrace my love of purple.

There are still some loose ends in the design and my perfectionist little self won’t be happy until I am done with them. So if you see something fishy or spooky, lemme know, okay? Few glitches aside, I am really happy how this turned out! And I am seriously thinking about taking up designing/coding as a job. If you want to know more about my designing process, or how I coded something in particular, let me know in the comments below. I will share my thoughts on them in the future.

Have a wonderful weekend!

New Year

Happy New Year!

Hi everyone! How's the new year treating you all? I've been on an impromptu blogging break the last month. Hence the lack of posts. It is mostly because my usual hobbies were replaced by some new ones momentarily. If you follow me on twitter, you probably already know I've been baking up a storm, taking silly pictures and watching way too much TV on Netflix. Although I love baking as much as I love doing crochet, I will not be sharing my baking endeavors here. This blog is still about my creative efforts on crafts and photography. Although, baking can be called creative, no?

Every new year I get tempted to make resolutions. But the problem is, no matter how well intentions I have, I end up abandoning them in a month. So this year, I did not make any personal resolution at all. It was kind of liberating to welcome the new year with an open mind instead of focusing on any particular issue. That being said, some sort of guidelines are always a good idea in some aspects of life. So here are the three resolution I would like to try this year for crafts and creativity.

1. Create more original designs in crochet.
2. Take more pictures.
3. For any given time, reduce the number of WIPs (work in progress) to 5.

Also, I would love to network with more crafters, yarn enthusiasts and other bloggers (non bloggers are also welcome). Please feel free to follow me on twitter (@FarahA30), Pinterest (farabedin) and Flickr (farahn30). I am very frequent on twitter and usually share pictures of my ongoing projects and other interests. I have met wonderful people through it! May be even you!! ^_^ So don't be shy to message me there. Or you can also email me here: farah @ thefrillypages [dot] com . 

Do you have any crafting resolution for this year? Please do tell.

New Blog Address & Design

Today I am really happy to announce that the blog is going through some major changes. First up, unique domain has been acquired. Right now we are live on:

www.thefrillypages.com

Yay! *happy dance*

Then I thought, It's the perfect time to get a new blog design. I've been itching to redesign my blog for quite sometimes. But I promised myself, it will only happen if write consistently for 4 months or more. I have tendency to procrastinate on my writing while tweaking the design. Not good! So, that's what I've been up to the last couple of days. The blog has been completely revamped with new design elements, updated pages and other tidbits. And, the best part, the blog design was done by yours truly, yes, Moi! Here's a snapshot, if you are on a feed reader or something.

I designed most of the elements including the header, social media icons and buttons. My favorite parts were designing the logo and coding the share buttons of the post footer. I'm actually quite pleased how it turned out. I may have a shot in blog designing after all, no?

Just a word of caution, I'm tying some loose ends on the template. So there might be some broken links and what not. If you find something, please...please let me know by a comment on this post.