Video / The Making of Delightful Dublin

Way back in September when Julie and I released the Delightful Dublin guidebook, we asked my friend Nora to put together a behind the scenes video to go along with it. We thought it would be fun to show everyone what it looked like when we were shooting the features for each neighborhood! Unfortunately, I then ran into technical difficulties because my old blog template wouldn’t let me embed videos, and I didn’t want to just link to the video because just wouldn’t do the video justice. So today, finally the Delightful Dublin video!

Nora did such a nice job with the video and when I watched it again today I got a little teary. Julie and I poured our creative selves into this project and I have such fond memories of late nights sitting side by side as we worked out the layout and chose the fonts and colors. I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard to make something be so perfect. By nature, I am not a perfectionist (thank goodnes Julie is!). But I wanted this to be perfect for anyone who was willing to part with their $12. I wanted them to get the most perfect introduction to my adopted city. I think it was, and is, and I’m still so proud of what we made.

If you missed Delightful Dublin, it’s still totally relevant and will soon be released on Amazon! Turns out our beautiful layout didn’t really agree with Amazon’s formats, but we’ve nearly figured our way around that little snafu.

In other fun news, Nora and I are teaming up again! We’re putting together a series of Dublin neighborhood video guides! Each little video shows what you can do in that neighborhood in an afternoon, where you can have a coffee, learn something interesting, maybe shop a little, and grab a bite to eat. We can’t wait to share them with you in the coming weeks!

The awesome music in the video is by a Dublin girl band called Cave Ghosts, and they’ve graciously allowed us to use their song ‘Hideaway’ for our video. Thanks, girls!