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🧘🏻‍♀️ 2008: Humble beginnings

Little me wanted to create an online game after hours on Runescape, something better, something like a Sims and Skyrim hybrid. Who knew that my favourite hobby of coding and blogging would come from getting my wood-cutting level to whatever-the-max-was-back-then? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I found myself starting with the basics: making a website (to – at the time – host my super-kick-ass game)

…on Piczo, of course.

🙌🏼 2009-2013: Creating OTT websites and the online diary

My focus steered away from the game after I discovered that I have the power to change the colour of text and the background of a web page to whatever I wanted (did anyone else have a High School Musical phase? No? Ok, I’ll be quiet now.)

After a while, I gained XP in coding and levelled up from Piczo, Freewebs, a subdomain then my very own domain (after I finally won that Namecheap Christmas contest.) I’ve been blogging throughout my unstable teenage years, sharing embarrassing stories and experiences that everyone must have gone through at least once in their life, like, everyone’s watched their crush throw away their Valentines Day gift in the bin, right?

I took my blog and website seriously. To the point where I used to write my URL on a piece of scrap paper and hand it to everyone at school. That’s what I call old school marketing communications!

🐾💜 2015-present: Converting thoughts to pixels

Sometime during my GCSEs/A-Levels, I took a 2-year long break to focus on my studies and getting into University.The Pawlean brand over time. My current brand identity was created by Teecaake.

Missing the blogosphere a lot, on the 19th of August 2015, I decided to open up my website again with a little push from a space bear and some fruit flies thrown at me during a lecture. I know, talk about a wake-up call.

My online space has become a huge part of who I am. It’s my place to share, inspire, motivate, bring people together and continue my favourite hobby of converting my thoughts into pixels. ✨

In 2018, I started experimenting on different platforms to bring my writing to life. Since then, I have been creating regular YouTube videos on aspects of my life to compliment my posts and started a podcast that features the live show of “Inspiring Figures”.

In 2019, my blog moved to its new home in Matt’s Google Cloud Platform.