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2 Years Young

Today Graphique Fantastique celebrates posting on wordpress for 2 years! Eeek! I say ’2 years young’ because old sounds so negative, and I’ve got so much more to give on this blog yet – 2nd year, 3rd year, graduation, trying to get a job and all the bumps along the way! When I’m rich and famous, writing my success story will be so easy because everything will be here…. well, a girl can dream! :)

Thanks to everyone who has ever clicked – all 26,741 views! I can’t believe it – I still write posts like I’m just talking to myself haha It mean so much to me and it’s really scary how time flies but I have achieved some really great things with this blog. Thankyou to Lestaret  for getting me into blogging :)

I wanted to have a special image to mark the ‘occasion’ but it’s got to that time of the year where I seem to lose my creative spark again. :( (Well at least I can’t mess any of my grades up this year!)  So instead here’s a sketch I did the other week when I went to visit Jack in Ely (He says it looks like Downing Street – what do you think?) and my Mum’s flowers in the background – aren’t they massive!?

Later this evening I am going to the private view of COWA’s Art & Design 2011 exhibition – my old college! I’m looking forward to seeing what’s on offer this year, especially the Graphics lot! I’m hoping it will give me the kick I need :)

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Freshly Pressed!

Yesterday just before 9PM I was trying to avoid doing work and came online to check my site stats (blog views). I was so shocked! My views were at 500 for that day! I have recently been averaging about 74 a day, so 500 was a major shock! My immediate thought was ‘I’ve been featured somewhere!!?’ so I checked the referrers – WordPress.com was at the top!

I was so excited to be featured on the front page with my J’adore… Patricio Murphy post! Out of the 627,749 posts that day, my post was chosen(even though it was from the 19th…. I don’t understand but I’m not complaining!) Amazing! :) Keri was freshly pressed not that long ago for her Delicia Chocolate Packaging project so it’s mad that out of all the bloggers in the world, we are both featured!

I wish it had been some of my work, but a feature is a feature! I hope I will gain some new followers and people to give opinions on my work for future projects!

 

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2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

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A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 10,000 times in 2010. That’s about 24 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 92 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 199 posts.

The busiest day of the year was October 11th with 366 views. The most popular post that day was The Brand of Me: The Badge.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were networkedblogs.com, facebook.com, lestaret.wordpress.com, en.wordpress.com, and cowells.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for yulia brodskaya, craig ward, sarah hankinson, map key symbols, and gothic cemetery.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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The Brand of Me: The Badge October 2010

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Winter Gothic Fashion Shoot December 2009
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J’adore… Yulia Brodskaya August 2009
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Typographic CD Design Cont… December 2009

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J’adore… New York Times Style Magazine October 2009
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