Design Improvised Turns 1 Year Old!

It struck me the other day that I started this blog almost exactly one year ago with this post.  My first thought, was “Wow, a year sure goes by fast” and my second thought was “Wow, I can’t believe I stuck with blogging for a year!”  What started out as a fun hobby and a way to capture and share some of my DIY projects with friends and family is still largely that, and I’m still enjoying it as much as I did when I first started.  I only wish I had time to blog twice as much.

So in honor of the blog’s 1 year birthday, I thought I would share some interesting stats on the blog over the past year.  I think it is so cool to have all this information at your fingertips:

• I averaged about 1 blog post a week, with this being my 52nd post by chance.  Of those posts, the riveting (ha!) topics I covered included:
• DIY projects / crafts – 48% of posts
• Holidays and parties – 28%
• Room redoes – 16%
• Flowers and gardening – 12%
• Treasure hunting (flea markets, Craigslist, etc.) – 7%
• For those of you checking whether these add up to 100%, there was some overlap in topics 😉
• It turns out someone else other than myself and my family must be reading this blog because it has had a total of 4,217 page views in the past year!!
• My most popular post by far was a somewhat random one about “Faking Beadboard“.  Well, I must have hit the Google search word jackpot on that one because it has had a whopping 578 page views
• My second and third most popular posts were “Stella’s Nursery:Improvised” (122 page views) and “Stella’s Big Girl Room: Inspiration” (100 page views)
• DesignImprovised has gone global…  turns out I even have a small following in Greece 😉