I’ll admit, I let things slip over the summer. I started off with excellent intentions, I started a ‘month in review’ series to track the development of my blog, see where I was heading, create some goals. I did May and June, and then…Summer Holiday-itus struck. And there was the wedding as well. The blog fell by the way side, which is natural I suppose.
But I missed it! And so I’m back with new determination. I signed up for one of You Baby Me Mummy‘s motivational courses, and I have even tidied the office. My lovely husband has said I can use the gift vouchers we got for our wedding to buy myself a proper camera – I really think this will make an enormous difference to the blog, as I love photography and the difference in image quality between my phone and an actual camera could be immense. EXCITED.
I thought I would start off my new determined approach by reviewing the summer – it wasn’t like nothing at all happened after all!
High Points Of The Summer
1: Getting married
2: Honeymoon
3: Reaching 5,000 followers on Twitter
The first two go without saying – I’ll be doing lots of posts about those I’m sure! I’ve already done one recipe inspired post from the honeymoon 🙂
I hit 5,000 followers the day before the wedding, which was great! I had been planning a 5k giveaway (kudos for the idea from my pal Katie from Mummy In A Tutu who did one!) but honestly thought it wouldn’t happen until mid-September! I was also really pleased with all the lovely brands who agreed to be a part of it – winners announced next Friday!
There were some other blog highs too – we are Piccalilly Clothes ambassadors for A/W16, I am going to several food blogging events and we’ve had some lovely review stuff to do. Now to think of the next steps!
Goals for September:
1: Get 2,000 page views on the giveaway
2: Make a success of #BloggersBeatingCancer
3: Learn how to use my new camera
Also, start doing monthly review posts again, for myself if nothing else!
Oh wow, that picture is just stunning Zilla! You’ve had an epic summer xx #tribalchat
wonderful goals my lovely and what a gorgeous summer round-up! Excited to see some wedding posts and honeymoon posts and some wonderful photos with your new camera. Love the idea of Aby’s course – super impressed with your study creation! x
I love the picture, and have really enjoyed seeing all your wedding pics on IG…such a happy summer, I think it’s lovely that you enjoyed the summer, especially as it was such an epic one! I’ve been feeling loads more motivated since Aby’s course too xx #triballove