7 years on Hive

Today, Feb. 10, 2025, is my 7 year anniversary on Hive.

I was recently talking to a friend and telling her about my blog and how it is a combination of art and travel blogs. Seven years ago I didn't know quite what to expect when I joined Steem. @jarvie introduced me to the platform and some great people and I still have super fond memories of Photo Games. I didn't know at that time the direction my blog would take. I have let it grow organically and blogged about things I enjoy. I am happiest blogging about Travel and Art and sometimes other random things, especially when I am inspired by ideas from others or community challenges like @livinguktaiwan and @mipiano's #ThreeChallengesCommunity.

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Oregon Coast- I got to spend time on the coast two times this year.

Art

I am so grateful for this platform as a place for me to explore different aspects of art. I even started the Art Talk community in 2021.

For 5 years I had a special theme to my art talk blog posts. It gave me a lot of focus and direction.

Travel

A big thanks to @pinmapple and now @worldmappin for a great community to share our travel content with each other. It is so fun to see posts from people all over. Shout out to @tattoodjay for Wednesday Walk, it is fun to see where people are walking all around the world.

I started a series for myself called Share our World. I share a piece of the world and a look at it through my lens.

Here are some examples from 2024

The reasons that I am still here are the people, the opportunity to express myself both written and through photography and I really like that Hive is a place I can document my life and look back and see what my years have been like. As I scroll through all my posts I see how much my life has changed in these 7 years (we all went through COVID, and the change from Steem to Hive, my mom died, I traveled a lot and saw more of this beautiful world and met great people, including at HiveFest, I back backed for the first time, I have taken a lot of classes...stained glass, art history, and glass blowing. This look back also allows me to see what an interesting and beautiful life I have.

Here is to another year ahead.

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A few fun stats

February 10, 2018- February 10, 2025
It takes a lot of time and effort to publish consistently good content and some times that effort is rewarded and it helps me keep going.

Comments

The posts with the most comments:
(76) 4 Year Hive Birthday (2021)
(72) Share my world: Off roading in American Fork Canyon, Utah
(71) My 5th year on Hive... in review
(70) PhotoGames Matching Monday

Reblogs

The post with the most reblogs
(19) 4 Year Hive Birthday (2021)
(17) Art Talk: 2021 MET Highlight tour
(13) Formatting tips by Sara Jarvie
(13) Highlights of Amsterdam!
(9) Share My World: Sweet Sacred Experience
(9) Share My World: Sibling trip

My first curie vote was April 8, 2018 The Grand Tetons
369 votes, 11 comments, 131 Hive Rewards

Hive Rewards

The posts with the most pay out
308 Hive rewards Share Our World: Highlights of 3 Days in NYC
256 Hive rewards Art Talk: Mesa Temple and Colonial Revival Architecture
210 Hive Rewards Share Our World: Lincoln Memorial

921 posts to the blockchain!

The posts with the most votes
(1156) Share My World: Red Rock Scenic Byway
(1151) Highlights of Amsterdam!
(1117) Share My World: Water Walk
(1007) Cairns of remembrance

5 Best posts in the 7 years
....according to the stats

4 Year Hive Birthday (2021) 76 comments, 19 reblogs, 199 Hive reward, 319 votes, 2022
Highlights of Amsterdam! 54 comments, 13 reblogs, 93 Hive reward, 1151 votes, 2022
Art Talk: Mesa Temple and Colonial Revival Architecture
36 comments, 6 reblogs, 256 Hive Reward, 33 votes, 2021
Art Talk: 2021 MET Highlight tour
19 comments, 17 reblog, 153 Hive reward, 115 votes, 2021
Share Our World: Highlights of 3 Days in NYC
15 comments, 1 reblog, 308 hive reward, 221 votes, 2021

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Past reviews

6 year anniversary on Hive In this 2023 review I talked about communities, collections, and two of my new interests- Habitat for Humanity and Stained Glass.

My 5th year on Hive... in review It was a year (2022) of HiveFest, Travel, Art Talk, Wednesday Walks, Restaurant Reviews, Garden posts, and collections.

4 Year Hive Birthday (2021) Highlights for me this year were travel blogging, Art Talk, Collections, @WednesdayWalk @Photogames Season 3 and a 30 Day Challenge.

3 year anniversary on HIVE (A Look at 2020, posted Feb. 20, 2021) I talked about Hikes, Series (Share Our World and Art Talk), Community (Dinner, Packages and HiveFest) and COVID19 (Monthly Updates)

My Introduction to the Hive Community (Intro to Hive post, April 4, 2020)
With the change to Hive I took the opportunity to re-introduce myself.

My 2019 Steem Journey (Dec. 28, 2019)
Lots of travel in 2019 and posts for the #arttalk and #sharemyworld series. I also started to connect to the Steem community more.

My Year Journey on Steem
1st year anniversary post, Feb. 10. 2019
I talked about playing #photogames and #Steemmonsters (which is now #Splinterlands) making the #Arttalk and #Sharemyworld series.

Introducing my self (First post on Steem, Feb. 10, 2018)