Lately I've been searching the web for quick and easy posts that turn out to be totally awesome if you add a little twist to it. Then Bryleigh from A Little Yarn Blossom showed us her workspace. It was the quick and awesome idea I was looking for. Only one problem: with finals coming up, the place was buried with textbooks. But a quick throw-everything-under-your-bed cleaning session later, I can now present you the one and only Behind the Scenes @Picking up the Pieces post!

As you've probably figured out, I run PutP all by myself. I get help on the whole design thing, since I can do literally nothing with HTML. Everything else happens from the great professional space that's called... my bedroom.

This is where the magic happens. My bed is a wonderful crossbreed that came to be after the TARDIS and a queen sized bed had a wonderful time and produced a not-so-queen-sized and slightly disabled baby bedTARDIS. I lie down for about five minutes and the ideas start pouring into my head. As you can imagine, this causes more daydreaming than actual sleeping to happen in my bed.

The quote above my bed is stolen from some home-deco shop in Southern Australia. They don't own the rights to the quote, but I saw it in their shop window while windowshopping in a place called Glenelg (that's a really cool palyndrome by the way). Back home I decided to paint it on the wall as a reminder to myself. Now it's more like inspiration: I may not be where I want to be yet, but if I make the most of this thing I have right now, who knows where I'll go? Everything is possible!

Back to blogging: after working out rough drafts while lying half-asleep in my bed, I write down the post title in a notebook. With a pencil. NO technology whatsoever. I'm really kinda old-school when it comes to blogging.
When I find a free minute, I pick up the notebook and start writing the entire post by hand. All my jokes and puns from the previous night get a carefully considered place, just like the very clever words I've thought of in Dutch and which I translate with help from a big-ass dictionary while doing all the handwriting.

During my hand labor, I listen to music. So yeah, a little bit of technology before the actual post appears on your screen. Wait, you're thinking I'm listening to Spotify? Oh no no no no no, I'm old-school, remember? This is my amazing stereo, with the latest album from my favorite band Train. If this thing breaks down, I break down with it.


There will come a moment in every post's life when I think it's readt for the big bad world of the internet. Now the actual technology comes in. I have a very faithful Acer Aspire E... something. I'm not very into brands and stuff. Let's just say I have a good quality laptop :)
I type and rewrite things directly into a post and then go searching for good pics to go with the post.
The pictures you see here are either plucked off the Internet, just like everyone else does, or made by me with an ancient Canon Digital Ixus Add-random-number-to-sound-impressive. It has literally hit rock-bottom on three different continents and it still works! I'm not going to show a picture of it, since it looks ready for the trash. But it's blue. Very blue.
After getting all my material together, I sit down on my baby bedTARDIS, arrange and rearrange stuff and finally hit that Publish button.

Think the journey of the brave little blog post and its blogger is over? Think again!
I'm a stats addict. I can spend hours sitting at this desk analyzing stats. There's also a special place on this desk reserved for fans and kind comments. See the box-like thing with 'Mail from all of the World' on it? That's where I keep all drawing I make for this blog and a printed version of some of the kindest and sweetest comments I've received in my two years of blogging.


Then it's almost done. Almost. Before I leave the whole thing to be, I check one last stat, but not on my laptop. The thing is, I don't understand the Google Adsense page on my laptop. So this one thing is to be checked on a tiny Samsung smartphone.


Every penny I make this way goes to this little fella. If you're feeling kind today and want to help to get me through college, click on the add in the sidebar. At this moment I'm making ten cents a day, but I like to dream big. One day those ten cents a day might turn into ten cents a second :)


So that's what Picking up the Pieces looks like away from the screen. What does your blogging routine and workspace look like?

Stay Awesome!