Hello!

Welcome to my little blog that I am proud to say is finally in full swing! I have wanted to create a blog for the longest time, but my fear of having no idea what to do, as well as being intimidated by other amazing bloggers stopped me in my path. But if I wouldn't start a blog then, then when? I finally gathered the courage, and started planning out this blog later in the year of last year. Some bumps happened along the way, bumps that I like to call 'I was once again to fearful to start this blog', but I am trying once more. So here's to this blog hopefully being a little success!
I wanted to have my very first blog post be a little bit about me, what I am currently do/what I like to do, as well as my true intentions to wanting to create a blog. So, for starters, my name is Gabrielle!

I just recently turned twenty on the 23rd of January, and it's so weird not being a teenager anymore. Maybe I'll talk about that in another post?
I am a second semester Sophomore attending Santa Fe University of Art and Design. I am majoring in Digital Arts with a focus in Illustration, as well as hoping to minor in photography. I have been drawing ever since I can remember, and I am glad it's something that I've stuck with all these years. I plan to show some of my school artwork as well as personal work on this blog sometime in the future.

Some random facts about me: my favorite color is yellow (Could you tell?), I live and breathe art and reading, I have lived in five different states and one country, I have two tattoos (both Disney related), but I plan on getting a lot more, my favorite seasons are Fall and Winter, and I may have a slight addiction to coffee. Okay, maybe not slight, more like full force addiction.

So, there are multiple reasons as to why I wanted to start a blog, but let me try and narrow it down. One of the first reasons is that I have always wanted to try another outlet for my creativity, but I was never entirely sure how. I think it was a couple of years ago when I discovered some really amazing bloggers that weren't on tumblr. I thought it was so neat, because it was almost like an online diary, except not so private and everyone could see it. I loved the way they shared just about anything they wanted, and people seemed to love hearing about what they did. Despite reading all of these blogs and enjoying them thoroughly, I had never actually thought about making one my self. Besides, my life wasn't exactly exciting. It was then early last year when I actually thought about making one myself, and came to the conclusion that my life doesn't need to be absolutely exciting to have one! Just had a nice relaxing day indoors watching nothing but movies and eating snacks? Why not blog about it!

It wasn't until my dad bought me a nice camera this past Christmas that I decided to truly start working on this blog. This was something I was worried about at first, because I knew photography was going to be a big thing here, but I had no way of getting good pictures that weren't using my phone. Thanks dad!!

The second reason as to why I wanted to make one was that it just seemed like a lot of fun! Although I would love to have a set schedule every week for blog posts, I realize this might be slightly unreasonable. At least for a beginner like me, so I have decided to settle on making posts when I feel like talking or something exciting has happened recently.

I really hope you guys enjoy this blog, and I do plan on having a lot of nice and interesting posts! There is no set schedule yet, but I do have a few posts in the making to tide everyone over.

Posts you can expect to see here on The Yellow Sweater is Mixtape Mondays, Book Reviews, Art Posts, Treasure Tuesdays, Fashion Fridays, and a lot more!

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you enjoy your stay!