This Girl | Cuts a rug | Celebrates I'm experimenting with more sponsored posts this week, but want to make sure it's not totally off kilter for Lars. If it is, just say, "Brittany, you've gone whack" and I'll reign it in. Sponsored posts allow me to do better and more original posts and I'll only accept them if it's a good fit for the brand, if I believe in it, or if it's something that challenges me creatively.
First up, Bing, Microsoft's search engine, asked me if I would create a post using their new Smart Search feature. I had been given a Surface RT earlier this year when I worked with MSN on my "These are the people in my neighborhood" series so I already had access to the new Windows 8 operating system. I gave it a whirl for this week's This Girl and thought I'd share how I go about creating this series while trying out Bing at the same time.
Every This Girl is created differently. I might be struck by a white linen dress I see and then construct a story of what that girl might do in her linen dress. Would she go on a picnic? Or lounge on a chaise? Then I might search for those terms. This week, I knew I wanted to do a tartan theme because I LOVE me some tartan, especially at Christmas time. I think tartan has a misconception for being stuff. In fact, my dream is to do a hip tablescape with tartan or make some awesome pants out of it or something. I digress...
I knew I wanted a rug in there because I've seen some beautiful tartan rugs before so I typed it in and found the image above. Such a beautiful scale and color palette. With that, I knew I needed to keep it in the blue color palette so it would fit and I would need a table and a girl so I searched for those things until I found the perfect counterparts to this blue rug.
I bounced a few ideas around until I found a pleasing combination and this is what I came up with. The Smart Search allowed me to view the results without actually having to open a browser, but I got down to business and wanted to see all of my options at once. I found the suggested topics also helpful because I ended up finding images that were helpful and I bookmarked.
ANYWHOO, if you're looking to create a similar idea, perhaps this might be a helpful way to do it. Try it out for yourself here on Bing.
This post is totally sponsored by Microsoft Bing Search (could you tell?!), but all opinions and content are my own. #thisisbing
