I cannot believe that this time last year I started Selective Potential. So, happy one year to this blog! To give you a little backstory, I started this blog last fall after I had lost 35 pounds. It was like.. all of a sudden, I felt great with the way clothes looked on me, I wanted to see what else I could with it and I wanted to really focus on getting a personal style for myself. So, of course, me - the Google queen - I googled personal style websites and came across an article on Who What Wear featuring four fashion bloggers - and I was hooked. So I started - throwing myself into this blog and what a ride it has been so far - definitely one of the most rewarding experiences of my life! And thanks to all of you. Thanks so much for reading - and supporting me in everything. It has meant so much!
I had no idea what I was doing when I started this blog, but it just seemed to fit me - so well. I love style, I love blogging, I love graphic design and digital media - and social media. I mean, could there be anything else meant for me? Plus, I've learned so much this past year because of this blog. So much about html coding, blog design, graphic design, networking, etc. - but mostly this blog has really helped me define who I am. I can't imagine not being Selective Potential now. I feel like it's me - wrapped up into two words! I've made some amazing friends (you guys all know who you are) and you've all honestly changed my life and have made me feel so good about myself.
If I look back on this last year, when I first started to where I am now - I honestly get the biggest smile on my face. I'm not the type of person to take the little things for granted. When I saw I was featured on Who What Wear's website last November, I screamed in the car all the way to class. Last December, when I was in the running for Chictopia's style icon, I stayed up so late to wait to see if I had gotten it and bounced around the house when I received the message saying I won thinking I couldn't believe it. In February, when I went to NYC for the first time for fashion week and met so many of my favorite bloggers - I couldn't believe I was living my life at that very moment - it was so amazing! Going to Chicago for Jess LC's jewelry shoot, it was one of the best days I can remember. And right as I was about to graduate, I was named ModCloth's blogger of the moment which was one of the highlights - and receiving a dress named after me. And now just recently having won the Juicy Couture contest - and having my fall NYC trip paid for - the best birthday gift for this blog I could have ever asked for. I can't wait to see what this next year holds for SP. I wouldn't be here without you guys - honestly. Thank you. So much.
(fall - sweet november | winter - living in winterland
spring - windmill island | summer - summer marsh)
Thank you guys - so much!
117 comments:
Congratulations on your one year blog birthday!! :)
So cool to hear it has done so many positive things for you! makes me smile.
Congrats on a year in blogging, Tieka! I've only been following for a couple months but I love reading your blog. And you have lovely style. :)
:o)Sarah
Happy birthday, Selective Potential!
happy birthday, selective potential!!! and congrats, tieka! you really are such an inspiration to so many ladies out there. can't wait to see what all you do before the blog's 2nd birthday!
You are too sweet, Tieka, that day was one of my best of the year too!! :)
Love you!
aww this is so lovely. It made me dream even more. Congratulation!~Love it! xXx bisous!
Congratulations Tieka, you are such an inspiration! :-)
Congratulations!
I haven't been following your blog from the start but from the very moment I found it, it has become one of my favorites. I love the way you dress (Our style is in some ways really much alike), how you are such a lovely person in what you write and I also like the pictures - they are just great to look at.
I look forward to reading many more blog entries :)
- Liss
Congrats Tieka! You really have come a long way. I owe you a bunch too, when you posted about your school's art/fashion show I went and got to meet you and Katie, Katie is a great girl and I consider he a really good friend and I probably woud not have met her if it weren't for that post, so thanks a lot!
congrats!
Its been an amazing ride for you and an honor to follow you through it! I love love your style, and seeing you grow up and grow into the woman you are today!!
You definitely are an inspiration to me, and when I discovered your blog last fall, I started my own weight loss plan so I could someday start a blog of my own!!
Now I've lost 10 lbs and I'm trying for the last 5, and starting a blog has proven to be hard (keeping up, coming up with locations, ect.) but your success and outlook makes it seem worthwhile!
Happy Birthday to Selective Potential and cheers to a wonderful year in your life!!
Love to you and Brett and Michigan! :)
happy birthday. you've accomplished a lot in this past year and i wish you all the best for the next one, and the one after that and so on. congrats!
Congrats! Such amazing achievements for only a year :)
Happy Birthday Selective Potential! Yours was actually one of the very first fashion blogs I got into and you definitely inspired me to start my own! Plus, you've been so completely helpful and nice while I'm getting my start! Keep up the awesome work Tieka! :)
xo Katrina
I so truly love these photos, lovely outfits and pretty you!
Congratulations on one year of blogging! Having just started my own blog, and I really look up to you and all of the great work you have done with SP! CHEERS!
Congratulations on one year of blogging! Having just started my own blog, and I really look up to you and all of the great work you have done with SP! CHEERS!
And to think your blog wasn't started much earlier than mine! (Mine's bday is November 1st, 2009)
Congratulations on an AMAZING year, truly an amazing accomplishment, and I totally feel ya on the "feeling like your blog name" thing. I don't think I could go back to NOT being Pretty Shiny Sparkly! It's a persona now, as much a part of me as my middle name! Aren't we bloggers *weird*?! ;-P
xoxo K
Only a year? For real?!
Congrats, Tieka! I got into blogging for exactly the same reason - and because I had awesome people such as yourself to look up to. Don't stop believin!
congrats dear!
i really love ur blog!
^_^
xoxo
Congrats and happy one year birthday!!!
http://www.afashionfixation.blogspot.com
Congrats, that's so amazing! You are one of my daily inspirations! :)
yay for your one year blogiversary!! :)
Congratulations on one year of blogging!
Congrats on your blogversary! Which coincidentally is the same date as my anniversary. :o)
So glad you share your blog with all of us. Keep it up! You are a total inspiration.
Congratulations and Happy Birthday Selective Potential. I absolutely LOVE your blog and can't wait to see where it goes over the next year.
XOXO
Megan
Congrats to you! (: You deserve it! You are always so sweet and inspirational!
Have a good one (:
Sanny's Head to Heart
great outfits! i love that first one.. awesome tights, awesome belted scarf
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Happy 1 year! I very much enjoy following your blog. It is inspirational to me since I just started a few months ago. It has been such a fun process. Look forward to following in your year 2
Carla
http://wwwsimplybubblelicious.blogspot.com/
Lovely post :) Happy one year blogging and I am sure the year ahead will be fab !
Congrats on your 1yr blog anniversary and losing 35lbs & keeping it off!!! that is a wonderful accomplishment!
i looooove the spring picture!
very beautiful.
xoox
as i mentioned before, your blog was the first i started reading (in fact, when i discovered it, read it from beginning to end!). it opened up the fashion blogging world to me, and i can't thank you enough!
i'm glad you still find it rewarding a year later :)
So happy and proud of you, Tieka. You are such an inspiration. Continue to stay joyful, I will always respect that about you. <3 Love you.
Congrats Tieka! All of those photos are so beautiful. Your blog is definitely one of my favorites and I'm so glad you decided to start it a year ago! (:
xx
michal
http://a-north-country-girl.blogspot.com
Happy happy blog birthday! I started outfit blogging after losing 25 pounds, so I can relate. You look fantastic and I love reading your blog (and meeting you in real life!).
Happy happy blog birthday! I started outfit blogging after losing 25 pounds, so I can relate. You look fantastic and I love reading your blog (and meeting you in real life!).
congrats on the year! you inspired my own blog!
shy
http://a-chesterfield.blogspot.com/
Congrats on the blog birthday! I think mine comes up in December and I can't believe it'll already have been a year! I mean, I am so unable to do anything over a constant period of time, so having a blog go this long is quite the accomplishment.
It sounds like this blog has brought you some pretty amazing things. But you deserve it all, really. Thanks for being an inspiration, both in fashion and as a person :]
congrats! sounds like you had a totally awesome year. can't wait to read more : )
Wow.. I never would have guessed that your blog is only 1 year old!
Your blog is just really really good and its always so much fun to see your outfits and read about your adventures with your boyfriend :)
Hopefully a lot of other birthdays will come!
Congratulations! You are one of my favorite bloggers on my daily read list! You seem so sweet and so personable. Great job!
Do you think you can offer a tutorial or a helpful post about the secret to your success?
Thanks! :)
Yay!!! What an excellent motivation you are. Only a year, and look at what all you have accomplished. I can only wish to do the same.
www.noguiltfashion.blogspot.com
Happy blog birthday, it sounds like this blog has really been a positive addition in your life~! I enjoy reading your posts everyday too!
waouuu, beautiful pics, this post is perfect :)
xx
www.mademoiselle-marie.fr
Wow that is so amazing! I never knew that you went through that change. It's really a great accomplishment (one that I've been working on as well)!
Congrats on your anniversary - I can't wait to see what else is in store for you & your blog!
Congrats!! You have done so well in only a year, it is amazing to see how far you have come.
I LOVE that first photo - that was the one that started me following you blog and inspired me to play with my own style a little more.
I look forward to seeing what this blog will grow into!
Thank YOU for writing such a great and inspiring blog!
What an adorable post, happy one year! Here's to many more x
Wow! I totally thought that your blog was more than a year old! Congratulations! Your blog is by far one of my favorites, and I always look forward to your new posts! :)
Happy anniversary, lady!! It is amazing, when you write it all down in one paragraph, all the accomplishments you've made over the past year! Congrats on everything! And I loooove the fall & winter pictures above! So gorgeous!
gorgeous girl, congrats on so much success! so glad that you're so happy with it because i looove your blog. you're the cutest sweetest person and i can't believe you've only been blogging for a year! i feel like i've been reading your blog for such a long time. you're wonderful! happy happy yay!
x anna
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SELECTIVE POTENTIAL :D
You are one of my very favourite blogs, so please stay how you are and tell me many more wonderful stories of Tieka and her lovely style! ;)
This is such a sweet post, love looking back on your year old outfits. Happy blogiversary!
Happy Birthday, Selective Potential! This was SO lovely to read :)
X
Happy one year!!! I love your blog it is a daily read I look forward to! XOXO, Natalya
CONGRATS!! Keep being yourself and we'll just keep on reading! :)
Congrats! I am so happy for you!
If it wasn't for you and your sweet stories, I would've been super bored at home. Thank you for always creating fun posts!
Hope you the best in the future!
Happy blogiversary!! I'm so glad you started your blog, it's such a source of inspiration and positive energy!
Happy blog birthday! I am so glad you decided to start a year ago -- you really are an inspiration to me and my own writing. It has been so great to see your blog evolve and see you get to do some wonderful things in your life. Thanks for letting us all experience it with you! :)
Yay! One year!! I've loved every second of reading your blog, you're such a sweet and wonderful person (with kick ass style to boot!) Can't wait to see where else this blog takes you! xxx
What a great post. Congratulations on all of your successes. You have a great blog and truly deserve it all. Your blog was the first I ever read and it inspired me to start one of my own.
Yay! Congrats!
That tulip photo is one of my favorites. so beautiful :)
oh, happy anniversary to selective potential! tieka, your blog is one of the few that i (im)patiently wait for updates on, visiting every day - just in case my blogger reader got it wrong and you really did update. haha!
i think having a blog can either be a mistake or it can make you into the person you really are - it's the latter for you and i'm so proud of all you've accomplished. xo.
Congratulations! This is such an inspiring post!
Happy blog birthday Tieka and congratulations! I can't believe you've only been blogging for a year - I've only been following you for a few months but you just seem so... good. I couldn't think of a better word! Hahah.
I have to say, I follow a lot of blogs but yours always catches my attention, i think it's because you're honest and real - and I always capture such a mood in your photos! You just seem like someone I would want to be friends with :)
Wow congrats girl! Your successes have been truly amazing. You deserve everything. Can't wait to read more!
Congrats Tieka!
Blogging is definitely natural for you. You have been great inspiration for me to find my own style.
ps.I never saw that winter picture of you before, but it is a great one!
congrats tieka!! you deserve all of this and more!!! :D
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Aww happy blog birthday!
I honestly can tell that every post you write is completely YOU. You are inspiring and so relatable.
I. Love. Your. Blog.
congrats on everything you have accomplished. can't wait to read about where life takes you next!
Aw Tieka, I am so glad you started Selective Potential! I was reading it for so long before I had the courage to start my own blog, and what an inspiration you've been! So many congratulations on making it so far in only one year, you are amazing!
congrats on the one year anniversary!! although i've only been following for a few short months, i immediately fell in love :) can't wait to follow you on this marvelous journey!!!!!
all my love, Kat
congratulations to you!
Wow!!
You have come SO FAR in just one year! What an amazing story!
I love the pictures you chose to represent the seasons - they are perfect depictions!
A.Co @ A.Co est. 1984
happy blog birthday, sweet girl. can i just say that i am SO glad we "met" through blogging?! :) i'm blessed to know you. <3
Hi, Tieka! Happy one year blog anniversary! You are an inspiration for new bloggers like me. :) Thank you and we do love you dearly! :)
Congrats on one year of blogging! You've come so, so far in one year, it's insane!
We are the ones that have to thank you for giving us one year of such an friendly and honest blog, you are the one that inspired me make my own :)
Congrats!
(http://www.500daysof-jo.blogspot.com/)
I can not believe it has only been a year! I feel like I have been following you much longer. Weird. But I love your blog. I wish I could keep up with mine as you do with yours!
Time flies! The snow photo of you with the fur hat is one of my favorites of all time and I reeeally love that last photo of you. So beautiful. I misssss you. Let's plan a time to hang out soon..perhaps in a couple weeks?
i really can't believe it's been a whole year! you are gorgeous tieka and i am also excited to see what's in store for you and selective potential over this next year! you're amazing tieka--don't ever forget that!
i was going to say, wow tieka, you're so lucky. but that was be demeaning.
this is not luck. you work damn hard in this blog. and there is a reason that there are so many of us who read this blog every single day religiously.
i am so proud of you for everything you have achieved, and i hope one day my blog receives as much success as yours.
i can't wait to see what the future has in store for selective potential!!
Charlotte xxx
Happy blogiversary, Tieka! :)
Just had to say that I adore your blog! Congrats on the one year!
<3 Chelseabird
I can't believe you have only been blogging for a year! Wow! Congrats! You always have such beautiful photos and such amazing outfits. And you seem like such a genuine and amazing person.
You are very inspiring!
heart: miss furnellie
Congrats to your amazing blog and you. You truly are inspirational and I am so happy for you. :)
Tieka, Congrats on your blog bday!! I can't believe your blog is only a year old! I remember when I first found your blog earlier this year. I loved it from the beginning:) You are such an inspiration! Reading your posts always makes me want to go on an adventure no matter how big or small. You truly enjoy life and never take things for granted! I really love that about you:) Congrats to you and your amazing year in blogging is well deserved! Here's to many more!!
TheOwlsCloset.blogspot.com
Congrats of me too. I cannot belive how a blog can change a whole person and life in a year. I had to admit that your blog is one of my favourites because the amazing pastell coloured lay out and your personal messages.
I started blogging in March this year but I have a hard way to walk..but I think the main thing is that I have fun with blogging and be myself right? Maybe bloggers in Germany have not the similar popularity as American one.
congrtss!! :))
i lovee the last n second last picts!! pretty.
xoxo
this is really make me inspired and make me love selective potential !
i really like your style :)
good luck ->Tieka ! :D
happy birthday to your blog :)
I'm so happy to hear how incredible this experience has been for you! Your blog is hands down my favorite!! It's inspired me to start a blog, but honestly that's a work in progress.
Happy one year, here's hoping to many more successful ones!! :)
-Heather
Tieka, you deserve the biggest congratulations for everything your blog has become in the last year. You are truly amazing!
You are an inspiration! I love reading your blogs so much.. You have a great personal style, your writings are really entertaining, and most of all, you're still a humble person. So thank YOU for being an inspiration, too :)
Happy blogversary anyway..
The November Girl
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Oh, congratulations!
You are such a huge inspiration for thousands of girls ( including myself), Tieka! Your style is beyond beautiful, but more importantly you are always kind, humble, and thankful for everything. You are one of the bloggers I admire most! Keep up the amazing job :)
you deserve it.
xo
congratulations, tieka :)
like everyone else is saying.. you truly deserve it! i don't think many bloggers can accomplish what you have in merely one year.
35 pounds and you kept it off. Congrats!
I'm glad I found your blog this summer. All you photos reminded me of my hometown, Muskegon MI.
It's so good to see a small-town neighbor do great things!!!
happy belated blog bday, chica! you've had such a spectacular year! here's to wishing you many many more, gurlie! cheers!
Congratulations on your blog birthday! Here's to the next year.
Congrats! I had no idea you've only been blogging for a year! I came across your blog last spring (I think via ModCloth?) and I just loved your style and photographs. I've kept reading because you seems so down-to-earth and because your posts remind me of why I love Michigan so much!
Congratulations! Great blog!
Oh, Congratulations Tieka!!!
Happy Blog-o-versary! I've enjoyed following the ride so far. =]
This post is just so adorable! It's so awesome that you've only been blogging for a year. As a reader, it feels like you've been doing this for forever!
I've honestly feel as though I've never found a blogger with a style super close to yours. Everything (and not just your outfits!) is so simple, unique, and fresh. I love how everything you wear is perfectly spot-on chic and, more impressively, perfectly wearable. There are other blogs I love to read, but I don't feel like I could emulate the blogger's styles without gaining serious amounts of money and/or self confidence. Reading Selective Potential has most certainly taught me to take little risks in fashion, without feeling like I have to go all-out-crazy. I adore the way you integrate little bits and pieces of your life into all of your posts, and how so many of your photo shoots have darling little stories to go along with them. Your posts never fail to be a pleasure to read.
I guess my long winded post (sorry!!) is basically me trying to say: thank you for being the amazing inspiration, fashion and otherwise, that you are! I can't wait to see what this upcoming year holds for you.
Congratulations hun!
As I'm only a new follower of SP it was great to read that little back story and I can't believe you have only been blogging for a year!
Here's to many more happy years :)
Happy Anniversary! The internet would not be the same without you! I always look forward to what you have been up to, and feel like you are one of my friends even though we've never met. I hope this coming year is as wonderful!
This is so sweet! Many congratulations :) I appreciate all the time you put into Selective Potential, it's a pleasure to read and always fun of inspiration and smiles. Here's to more to come! xo
I can't believe you've only been blogging a year!
I love your blog so much. It's my fave =) You and Brett are so cute too.
If you ever come to England drop me an email!
xx
Wow. Congratulations! I can't believe you build all of this in only a year! How inspirational! LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog and your style :)
You have come amazingly far in just 1 year you should be very proud of your achievements and best of all your happy and content :) Good on you!
Your blog is gorgeous as are you, I am sure you deserve every bit of your success :)
R x
Congrats on your one year Tieka! Can't wait to see what the future holds for SP!
I can't believe it's already been a year! You were one of the first style blogs I accidentally stumbled on and haven't stop visiting since. Hell I started my own blog after admiring yours for so long :) You are an absolute sweetheart and your blog gets better with each passing day. I can't wait to see what you've got in store for it this year!
You are an honest inspiration, and I am glad I was able to see how sweet you are in person! <3
it has definitely been an amazing year for your tieka and I'm so so happy for you :) I can't wait to see all the places you'll go!
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