My mum recently started up her own garden design business. She is very talented and has a fantastic portfolio and recommendations. However, even though she had a website made, she had no idea how to get it noticed by anyone outside of her friendship group. It was then that I could finally repay her for the years of bringing me up, feeding and clothing me... yes, I made her a Twitter. Not only did I set up an account, but I got her followers, targeted specific companies and people telling them about her website and replied to her followers messages and questions (when it comes to technology you simply cannot teach her to fish, you need to catch them for her). We then we decided to take it a step further. She wanted a blog and 'How To' videos.. clearly on the way to world domination now, so.... One YouTube channel later and here we have her first video on how to prune wisteria. Enjoyed doing this a lot, and considering it was a no budget video filmed on a photo camera on the ...

Like many, when I turn on my laptop I immediately hit Facebook, Twitter, e-mails and YouTube, and for the rest of the day I don't really veer from those sites. Bored of seeing the same things and tagged pictures of my drunk friends, I was inexplicably happy to have recently discovered Stumble Upon -  www.stumbleupon.com This website is great for inspiration. For those who haven't seen it, sign up, choose your interests (amongst mine are quizzes, astrology, photography) and click Stumble.. over and over, as it directs you to weird and wonderful sites, blogs and whatever else that's out there on this internet thing. I have spent the past hour clicking away, (spent 10 minutes doing a visual DNA test and another 15 making myself into a dancing cat), so I thought I'd share several things I stumbled upon. Portraits of dogs shaking off water Making nature a little more fun A step up from vodka jelly - Blackberry Gin Sours in hard jello form ...

GUYS! (the 5 people that read my blog) So sorry I have been M.I.A for over a month..(I know, you noticed.) To cut a long story short, I have been gan'dan job centah and fighting against this economic downturn, trying to fund my basic needs so that I can continue working towards a lovely ad-related career. Anyway, I saw this ad and was reminded why I love advertising. What a clever idea, executed perfectly. Bordering on risque, but not compared to most ads these days. A famous port, but with an old name that has probably struggled to move into the 21st Century with being accused of being explicit, is making light of it's situation and still keeping it's class.

KINGS of music videos!

If you have read my blog, you should know by now that I'd love this kind of stuff

For the past month or so I have been filling out graduate scheme applications which means I have been fidgeting, tossing and turning, asking friends and family weird things, scribbling stuff, staring at the flashing cursor on a blank Word document for hours, drinking lots of tea on my many breaks, and generally hate myself at times but then sometimes I realise how great I can be. From the adgrads blog, I found a role for a marketing company in the midst of all the schemes and fellowships. They too had some tricky think-outside-of-the-box-but-keep-it-relevant questions. Here are several of my answers to the more creative questions:  1.      You are the owner of a broken computer. Persuade us that we want it. (Max 100 words) I don’t know what to do with my broken computer but I cannot let it go. I bought it from a friend 2 years ago who worked at the News of the World. Unknown to him, it has the most unbelievable undisclosed information on th...

A kid eats Petit Filous and successfully sees off bullies with threatening behaviour of his own. Girl sees this, admires him and grasps at his 'muscley' arm with devotion. I'm not a feminist, nor am I so up-tight that I can't see the light humour taken from a serious subject like bullying, but I saw this and it gave me a bad feeling. Kids are so impressionable and if one saw this would he/she think it was acceptable to respond to bad behaviour with more bad behaviour? Would a little kid think something like this would work in real life? I understand the yoghurt provides calcium to make your child grow stronger but surely having the child pick up a lorry would have been more to the point, less of a bad influence, and just as realistic?

And then, for the first time in 15 years, I bought Heinz tomato soup.

I received this brief several weeks ago and thought I'd give it a little shot. I watched all Axe commercials and saw all the scenarios were based around the fact that, if you wear this smell, women will show signs of mental instability and behaviour that would warrant immediate institution. Apparently this is what guys love though, which bodes well for me. The brief was based around obsession, so I thought of things that women are generally go crazy over, ie. fashion, diets, bad boys, babies (none of which I can relate to). I thought of replacing those obsessions with the 'Axe effect'. Example 1: Shoe sale - no women to be seen  Example 2: Pop star concert - no women to be seen The captions next to the Axe bottle are blank. I was thinking of something like ' Where are the women? ', implying that they have all flocked to the men wearing Axe. Alternatively, there could be no Axe bottle, just these situations with no clue to the product, with only...

In the spirit of being pro-active and productive during these harsh times of unemployment, I have joined Single Creatives. Here: http://singlecreatives.com/