1 Year Blogging + Q&A

Today is my 1 year blogging anniversary! I still can’t believe it’s been an entire year already! And what a great year it’s been. I’m so happy that I started this blog a year ago.

I wanted to share my most popular posts with you guys. I will let you know my top 6 starting with the most popular ones. You may have already read some of these or you may find something new that you like.

1. My Trip to Mazatlan Mexico Riu Emerald Bay

2. 12 Places I Want To Travel To

3. NYX Review: Liquid Suede Cream Lipstick and Soft Matte Lip Cream

4. 100 Followers + Get to Know Me Tag

5. 5 Day Blog Challenge!

6. My Trip to Los Angeles California

Q&A (from Twitter)

Why did you start your blog? submitted Catherine

My blog was started on a bit a of a whim actually. I had recently found a lot of bloggers that I liked and after enjoying their blogs I decided that I wanted to make one too! I only looked into it for about 2 days and then used somebody’s link to sign up with WordPress through Bluehost. If you’re looking to sign up you can click here to get a discount!

How many clocks do you have in your house? submitted by Daniel

Bit of an odd question haha. I actually only have digital clocks. I have 3 of them; on the oven, microwave, and TV receiver.

Biggest accomplishment? submitted by Tay

I feel like I’ve had a lot of great accomplishments this year. I feel like the most noticeable accomplishments would be my follower growth, which isn’t the most important thing. However, it’s been the most noticeable.

Before I started my blog I had about 10 followers on Pinterest and now I have over 350 followers and about 470k monthly views! I think this was a very significant jump. Pinterest is great when it comes to blogging so I’m really proud of this one.

I also reached 1000 followers on Instagram. I’m sure a lot of us have trouble with all the follow/unfollow stuff that goes on with Instagram so this one was exciting. As well, I made it to over 2000 followers on Twitter. 2000 is a lot but because Twitter is so much more of a great blogging community this one wasn’t as surprising.

I’ve also created a Facebook group for bloggers where you can grow your blog and help others as well. You can join that group here. This group is already at over 175 members and growing every week!

And finally my blog accomplishments. I have made it to over 500 followers! That’s absolutely crazy to me that 500 people thought they might want to read my blog again so they followed. I’m so thankful for all the followers I’ve received on all platforms and I can’t wait to keep interacting with you guys.

What did you learn about yourself? submitted by Weird & Liberated

When I first started my blog I would write a post and then publish it right away. I didn’t realize then that this didn’t work for me. I only found out recently what works best for me is to plan out all future blog posts and what days to have them publish. Then I try to write them at least a week in advance.

I am definitely the person that needs lists to remember everything I want to do and to stick to it.

If you could talk to you from 1 year ago, what is one tip you would give yourself about starting your blog? submitted by Polly 

This is an easy one for me. I would definitely want to start Pinterest right away. I started Pinterest very slow and only really started using it correctly recently. If your not using Pinterest or don’t feel like your getting everything out of it I have made a post to help you. You can find it here.

How do you ensure that your life on social media does not interfere with your personal life? submitted by trailsoftales

This is definitely difficult. I find it’s not to hard to stay off of my blog when I need to but I’m constantly checking, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and my Facebook Blogger group. I find the best is to just limit my use.

How do you come up with post ideas? submitted by SpleenDeCouture

I actually keep a notebook with me and write down ideas in it so I don’t forget them. Recently I did get a little blocked for blog post ideas so I just searched “Lifestyle blog post ideas” and found quite a few ideas that I will be doing in the future.

How do you get inspiration when your head has run out of ideas? How do you stop from diverging from your niche? submitted by yorkshiremum

Like I said before I sometimes just need to search up ideas. I also sometimes find inspiration from other bloggers as well. As far as diverging from my niche, well, I am awful! I don’t really have just one niche. I like many different things so I post about many different things. Such as fashion, beauty, food, travel, and lifestyle. I like to read more than just one niche so I don’t mind writing for more than just one niche.

What was your favorite blog post to write so far? submitted by Grand Fash Life

My favorite post to write would be “It’s My Birthday! + 10 Things About Me!” I really just wanted to you guys to be able to get to know me more personally. I want to be able to connect with you guys and for you to know more about me.

What keeps you inspired? submitted by Sarah

What keeps me inspired is other bloggers. There are so many sweet bloggers out there! They are especially easy to find on twitter. I love to read their bloggers post and they just seem them continue to work hard and grow their blogs which I really admire.

Did you take a break from blogging during your firs year? And what’s your motivation to keep blogging? submitted by erenblogs

I think the biggest break I took was only 3 weeks! This wasn’t intentional though. I think I was just blocked for ideas and then couldn’t find the time or motivation to write a post once a finally got an idea. What keeps me motivated it the people who read my posts. I love to get  a comment and know that I helped someone or they liked my post.

I just want to finish off by saying thank you guys so much for supporting me in my 1 year blogging and I can’t wait to keep blogging for many more years to come!

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