Bloggers are (let’s just be honest here) the absolute best. There’s so much diversity and personality and creativity in this community—and what better way to celebrate those things than by spending the next twelve hours of our lives hunting down and collaging the images that best reflect our individual awesomeness?
Ever since I saw this tag when it was created and posted on Liam at Hey Ashers! blog I’ve wanted to take part, and now I’ve finally got around to it. I was tagged by Diana at Diana Prince Reviews, Fadwa at Word Wonders, and Marie at Drizzle and Hurricane Books. Thanks so much for the tag everyone, I had a lot of fun with this one.
Rules:
- Collect any number of images that you feel represent you as a person—your personality, aspirations, favourite things, anything at all that makes you you.
- Put your chosen images together into a collage of whatever size and shape you find pleasing.
- Share your masterpiece with everyone, in all the places.
- Maybe nominate other bloggers as a way to tell them, “Hey, you, I think you’re awesome, and we should celebrate that awesomeness.”
- Share these rules (and maybe the below tips, if you’re feeling helpful).
Tips:
- Find inspiration by spending (minimum) three hours scrolling through aesthetic Tumblr posts relevant to you.
- Two great places to hunt for pictures are Pinterest and WeHeartIt. Pinterest requires an account; WeHeartIt does not.
- PicMonkey’s collage editor is free to use and doesn’t require an account, heck yes. YouTube has plenty of tutorials on how to use it; I watched this one (which begins with tips on how to find decent photos).
My Aesthetic:
Tsundoku
(n) The act of buying a book and leaving it unread, often piled together with other unread books.
Books are a major part of my personal aesthetic, because reading is a major part of my life. Winnie the Pooh was the first story I fell in love with as a young child, but it was J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series that changed my enjoyment of reading to an all-consuming love. Through reading I discovered blogging and through blogging I’ve discovered the very best books, and the very best people.
Fernweh
(n) An urge to travel even stronger than wanderlust.
Travel is another great love in my life; I want to see the whole world, or as much of it as I can. My favourite cities so far are Amsterdam, Rome, New York, San Francisco and London. London is a city close to my heart; I work in the city and there’s still so much I want to see and discover.
My aesthetic also represents my love of music – I always have to have something playing on my iPod when I leave my house – nail polishes – I try and make the time to paint my nails with new colours at least once a week – and baking – granted it’s been a while since I last baked but I still love it.
My tags:
- Analee at Book Snacks
- Azia at The Uncharted Word
- Lauren at My Paper Infinity
- Nia at Shades of Paper
And if there’s anyone else out there who wants to take part, consider yourself tagged. Just send me a link to your post in the comments so I can see what your answers are.
I love how your pictures all match together to make a perfect mosaic. And tsundoku is such a fantastic word. ❤ Great post!
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Thanks so much Lashaan, I like things that fit together so I guess you could say that aspect is another part of my aesthetic. 🙂
Thanks!
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Wow! Your aesthetics are beyond beautiful! ❤ 🙂
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Thanks so much Anna! 😀 ❤
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OOh this looks so nice!! I love the pink colour.
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Thanks so much Emma! 😀
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Ah I love this award. Seeing everybody’s aesthetic board is such a treat! I especially love yours. The pastel color scheme is brilliant. We share so many of the same interests. Music, travel, books, and baking keep me alive and kicking haha. So lovely to see that they are a part of your life, too 😀 I would love to do so much more travelling once I have the money! London is next on my list ❤
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Also, thanks so much for tagging me! Liam tagged me so long ago, but I still haven’t gotten around to it 😀 Thanks for reminding me to do it soon ❤
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That’s all right, and oh that’s good to hear. I know the feeling though I have so many tags I still need to post! I can’t wait to see your aesthetic Azia. 🙂 ❤️
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I’ve loved seeing people’s aesthetics for this award too, and it was great fun taking part. Thanks so much Azia, book is obviously a big love of mine, and so is travel though I can’t travel as much as I read (if only). I want to try and get back into baking, it’s been a while since I last made anything. 🙂
Oh I hope you make it to London one day soon Azia, it’s a beautiful city and I’m sure you’ll love it as much as I do. 🙂 ❤️
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I wish we could travel as much as we read. But I guess, for now, books will be our main mode of transport! 😀 And I know the feeling. I haven’t baked anything in months. It’s killing me 😦
I’m definitely sure I will! ❤ 😀
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As far as transport goes I think books are a pretty good method. Especially because some of the places we read we’ll never get to visit for real. 🙂
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This is very true. So thankful we have books to take us to far away and imaginary places ❤
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Your aesthetic is so pretty I especially love the picture with the map.
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Thanks so much. Yeah I love those kinds of pictures. I used that one to represent my love of travel and adventure. 🙂
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Your welcome, one of my dreams is to travel to as many places as possible which is why it stood out to me 😀
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That’s one of my dreams as well. I wanna see as much of the world as I possibly can! 🙂
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Thank you so much for tagging me! I loved your aesthetic and I’ll definitely try to do it and create mine😊.
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That’s all right, and oh I can’t wait to see your aesthetic Nia. I’m sure it will be amazing! 😀
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Absolutely in love with your aesthetic 😀 !!
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Thanks so much Trang! 😀
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Oh wow, your aesthetic is gorgeous! I’ve always loved the combination of soft pink and earthy colours ❤
Fleur Henley | Books and Lifestyle
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Thanks so much Fleur. 🙂 Yeah I very much love soft colours at the moment, they’re very calming and peaceful I feel. ❤
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Oh Beth, I’m SO happy you did this, I love your aethetics so, so much, they’re gorgeous and I feel like they represent you so well – well, from what I know about you 🙂 I love nail polishes so much just as well, even if…I’m been a bit lazy for now and I haven’t painted them in so long, I love playing around with colors and everything! ❤
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Thanks so so much Marie! 😀 ❤ I had so much fun with this tag so thanks for tagging me. 🙂
I think it represents me pretty well too, I spend so long on Pinterest finding the perfect images, and changed me mind so many times on what I wanted to include. Basically this was one of the longest posts I think I've ever published.
I'm being lazy at the moment, my nails are clear currently, but it always makes me happy to paint them. I love coming up with different colour combos.
Thanks again! 😀 ❤
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Oh I get it – it’s SO hard to find the perfect images. Sometimes I want to re-do my aesthetics, I think I’ll come up with something different every single time ahah. 🙂
You’re welcome! ❤ ❤
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I always end up saving more images than I need. For my book aesthetics in my other post I had between thirty and forty images for each book/character, and in the end I only used eight!
Why not re-do and come up with something different? There’s always a lot more to use as individuals than we can put in a handful of images. 🙂
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I might do it again sometime… it was a lot of fun, even if it took me HOURS ahah, the final result is worth it 🙂
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The final result is definitely worth it, and I’d love to see another of your aesthetics Marie! 😀
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Really love these things and your mood board is gorgeous — I looove those dusty pinks!!
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Thanks so much Melissa. 🙂 Yeah I’m really into pastel colours and pinks at the moment, funny because I hated them when I was younger.
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I love this so much, you did a lovely post. ❤ Beautiful pictures and I love Winnie the Pooh. My parents actually nicnamed me Pooh when I was a child because I loved it so much and I still do. They still call me that too and I still respond to it.
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Thanks so much! 🙂 ❤ I tried to pick the very best pictures for this aesthetic, and I spent so many hours scrolling through Pinterest trying to find them. 🙂
Oh that's so cute. I think Winnie the Pooh is something so many people loved as a child, and actually it's still something I love today like you do. 😀
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You’re welcome! 😁 Oh I would do that too, I love Pinterest!!!! It’s amazing what they have on there. Such lovely pictures. Yes I really like that nickname, I think it’s cute too. 🤗 I still have my baby blanket of it somewhere that has Pooh on it with fringes at the edges. It’s the cutest but I have it packed up somewhere from my last move I did.
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Sometimes you can almost enter a Pinterest black hole. The things you discover when you click on various images can lead you somewhere new and before you know it you’ve spent hours on the site and are looking at an image completely different to the first one you clicked on. 😀
That’s what happens to me anyways.
Oh that is really cute. The only things I have that are that old are some of the fluffy toys. I have a Tigger that I got from Disneyland Paris when I was seven. 🙂
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I do go down many black holes on Pinterest as well. 😂 It’s such fun though! Yours sound cute too and cuddly.
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Definitely fun, and there’s so much to discover on Pinterest as well. Ha, yes very cute and cuddly! 😀
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I absolutely love this Beth! So beautiful! And that is awesome that you also love doing your nails and travelling 🙂 Glad to learn about you and your non-book interests 🙂
Oh and I relate to you so much about the tsundoku part!
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Thanks so much Sophie. I spent so much time finding pictures for this aesthetic, but it was all worth it in the end! 😀
Painting my nails never fails to make me happy, and it’s the same with travelling. Yeah this is a great way to learn more about bloggers.
Ha, if I had to pick one word that defines me it would definitely be tsundoku! 😀 ❤
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Yes aesthetics take a long time for me too! But it is so fun that I don’t realize how quickly time passes! When I am done, it’s like…. where did all the time go? :O
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Same here, I always end up finding too many images as well so it’s a struggle narrowing it down. It’s never wasted time either is it? 🙂
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Haha yes! It’s not a waste of time when we are having fun 🙂
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I love your aesthetic! So pretty! And I heard that word for buying a book and leaving it unread!
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Thanks so much Lauren. 🙂 I love words like that, that don’t have an English equivalent. Also buying books and leaving them unread is pretty much 100% me, I own so so many books that I still need to get around to. 😀
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90% of the books on my shelves are TBR! I totally get you!
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Book blogger problems right? 😀
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Aw I love your aesthetic! It’s so pleasing and muted and pretty and just ahhh it’s so perfect!
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Thanks so much Sydney. 😀 These are all colours I very much love at the moment, and I wanted everything to match and look peaceful as well. 🙂
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Gorgeous picks! I love that you featured Winnie the Pooh ❤
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Thanks so much Cal. 🙂 And of course, I just had to include Winnie the Pooh. Those stories were such a defining part of my life, and something I still love today. 🙂 ❤
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Uhhh these photos are so beautiful! I love the pretty pastel colours in it! 🙂
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I tried to pick the very best images for my aesthetic. Like I spent hours searching on Pinterest for them all. 🙂 I’m very into pastel colours at the moment, so even the colour theme is part of my overall aesthetic! 😀
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I can tell you spent a lot of time on it because it looks great! 😀
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Ahh thanks so much Meghan! 🙂 ❤
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You’re welcome! 😀
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Wow your aesthetic is so amazing!! I love all of the colours and the pictures you have chosen really let me know more about you!!
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Thanks so much, it was a lot of fun finding all the images for this aesthetic. Yeah everything I posted makes up a large part of my life, it’s actually a really unique way to get to know people isn’t it? 🙂
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Ahh this is so awesome! I really want to do this one now!
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Thanks Beth, and if you want to take part in this tag then feel free. I’d love to see your aesthetic! 😀
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Thank you Beth! 😀
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That’s all right! 😀
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I LOVE your aesthetic Beth!!!! Le sigh…to work in London *heart eyes emoji* on another note, I just looked down at my nails and shook my head lol! I neeeeeeeeed to go back to painting my nails at least once a week, it really cheers me up when I do. Also, If you bake PLEASE post! lol, live vicariously through your posts 🙂
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Thanks so much Lilly! 😀 ❤ I really do love working in London. It's a long commute, I'm on the train every day for around three hours, but it's more than worth it to be in the city every day.
Painting my nails always cheers me up, and I definitely will. I want to start baking again very soon so hopefully there'll be some pictures I can post for you all. 🙂
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