Nikki Pilkington | SEBA DIZAJN

1. Never start to write your blog post without your second morning coffee –

chocolate can help too!

I started the 30 Day Blogging Challenge with no idea about blogging & learnt so much from the daily challenges. An email arrived daily with informative and easy to follow advice on ways to enhance blog posts and ideas for what to write about.

What I really learnt;

1. Use photos – people like pictures

: Filigree bracelet by Seba Dizajn

2. Look in newspapers, magazines etc for inspiration on what to write about – why didn’t I think of that by myself?

3. Keep Writing – it gets easier

4. How to use tags in my blog posts.

5. To think about the search engine terms people might be using to try and find our Silver Filigree Jewellery from Croatia and use them in my blog.

5. That there is a vast amount of help and support available on-line.

I would recommend the 30 Day Blogging Challenge to anyone who is looking for motivation to get started on blogging, some fun ways to liven up your blog posts and advice on attracting a wider audience to your blog.

Other Challenges include the 30 Day Facebook Challenge & 30 Day SEO Challenge – more information about Nikki’s challenges can be found here; http://www.30daychallenges.nikkipilkington.com/

Today has been a great day to write about, and it ain’t over yet – having visitors from abroad is the perfect excuse to play and I’m loving it.

The day started with coffee and cakes from Marco Polo bakery and a big blether in the sun. Bikini on, ready to swim, what a great way to start the day. Hilary and I swam at the bottom of the ‘street’ that we work on. After this we purchased a small coffee machine, then back to the shop (www.facebook.com/SebaDizajn) to try out the new machine – it’s great. Coffee on site is a good thing and hopefully a way to save us some cash as both Adolf and I enjoy our coffee a lot and regular stops at our favourite coffee shop (Caffe Stari Grad) throughout the day were adding up…

Next mission was ‘save a cat’, Hilary being a keen animal lover had earier spied a wee poorly cat that looked like it wold barely make it through the week and decided that she would like to take it to our local vet and save his wee furry life. We spoke to the vet and he was expecting us at 12 so we had to go capture the cat, esier said than done it turns out. Despite the cats apparent ill health there was no way it wnated to be transported in a box by us to the vet. Oh dear, we made several attempts before speaking to the vet,

“Do you have a cat box we can borrow?”

“NO, sorry the box is not available today, it will be here again on Monday”.

Decision made to leave the cat till Monday, bring him some food in the mean time and monitor his condition – will keep you posted on his progress and try and remember to add a photo.

“What now?”

The decsion was to eat, and we sat at U Maje i Tonke & sampled their chickpea salad, hummus & fresh bread (all very good). It is so nice to have visitors to blether with, Hilary and I sat for about an hour and chatted before me feeling like I really ought to give Adolf a break from the shop. So we walked over to Seba Dizajn and watched some jewellery being created for a while before taking another stroll.

I am now on the afternoon/late shift, and have just sold one of our beautiful silver filigree beads and a matching pair of earrings to a lady from Chicago, lovely to talk with her and share some of the filigree story with her.

Now I have a second pot of coffee brewing and I am catchin up on my ‘homework’ – I am two days behind on both of Nikki Pilkington’s 30 Day Challenges that I am currently signed up for – the Facebook Business Page Challenge and the Blog Challenge… Challenge 7, ‘A Day in the Life’ now completed. Wonder what’s next?

Cheers

Ruth