Orlando native Kelly Varner crafts amazing visual stories, painting us a picture of her passion for art. She includes creativity and collaboration in all aspects of her life. Kelly’s wide range of work varies from freelance designer to artist and blogger at the All Things Creative blog. Art has always played a big part in Kelly’s life. She’s practiced art since she was 8 years old, finding something creative in everything…Continue reading Kelly Varner Colors Our World as Artist, Designer and Blogger
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SEO: From foreign phrase to Google’s first page
Google receives more than 100 billion searches a month (Source: Mashable, 2015). Among these searches, writers, business owners, and companies try to land on that coveted first page using something called SEO. SEO stands for search engine optimization, which puts in a good word with search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo to rank us so people can discover our business, our blog, and our words. To me, “SEO” always sounded like a foreign,…Continue reading SEO: From foreign phrase to Google’s first page
Balancing Full Time Work, Freelancing, and Life
As I finally kicked off my socks after a nearly 14-hour work day, I thought to myself, WOW. Where did all the time go? I can’t believe it’s already 8:30 at night. I worked for HOW LONG today? And I feel GOOD about it? People think I’m crazy. I have so many thoughts on this, and I get a lot of questions, such as how do I do it, why…Continue reading Balancing Full Time Work, Freelancing, and Life
Social Media: Numbers Don’t Define Me
The scale. The ruler. The measuring tape. The followers. These may be relevant in certain situations. But these numbers don’t define me. I came to the realization at FLBlogCon that I admire the media’s digital advances, but I want to limit my exposure. I don’t need to be on every social media platform (then again, no one needs to, but they choose to), and I mean no disrespect to people…Continue reading Social Media: Numbers Don’t Define Me
Shawn Mendes Concert Illuminates Orlando
Pure. Raw. Innocent. That was my impression of the Shawn Mendes concert! Orlando’s Amway Center was packed seat to seat, wall to wall, floor to floor with gals and guys of all ages last Friday. I went to the concert with my good college friend Audrey, and we had a blast. Shawn Mendes is unbelievable live. Mendes played a whopping 12 tracks from his sophomore album “Illuminate”,…Continue reading Shawn Mendes Concert Illuminates Orlando