This is such a common thing to say among bloggers, but how are we in a new month already! I am so shocked that it is October, but excited, as that means it’s nearly Christmas! Whoop! Blogwise September was made up of sixty four posts (which is a little slow for me!), two review trips and lots of great collaborations with bloggers and brands. In our family life, September saw Baby head back to pre school after the summer break and adore it even more than she did before; which is lovely to see and such a relief.
My #BlogClub series is still proving popular and I started the month with my thoughts on collaborating with other bloggers, which could give you some ideas if you fancy working with others.
The devastating images of the Syrian children caught our attention, together with most of the country. Myself and Amy rounded up some wonderful bloggers and in less than 24 hours we launched a campaign in conjunction with the Save The Children initiative. This campaign has come under fire by some of the blogging community, but do you know what, together with the bloggers that helped us (for which we are so grateful) our part of the campaign raised £8k in 3 days. I wonder how much the critics did to help in those same three days? We didn’t want glory, we didn’t want acknowledgement, we simply wanted to help, Save Syria’s Children campaign.
I wrote a little post about how baby and I feel about pre school, as I wanted to mark how things were going here on the blog. My email inbox can be a bit of a nightmare, so I thought I would share my strategies to get it back under control in how to sprinkle magic on your inbox. Baby and I attended the Sway PR Summer party, which was great fun; we love our days in London.
Vlog Stars went live for another round, I love our little vlogging community and it is such good fun doing our tags. Following our trip to euro camp in France, I shared a light hearted look at 5 things I learned about France; did you know they have washing machines in supermarket carparks?!
How to get your blog noticed was my next blogging tips post.
We took Baby abroad for the first time when we went to review eurocamp, which was a great experience. Something which doesn’t get spoken about very much in the blogging community is money. So I attempted to put that straight by writing, sponsored posts – how to negotiate and what to charge, which proved very popular.
We had a lovely day reviewing the Royal County of Berkshire Show and also shared our pick of the best Brittany family days out.
One of my favourite posts of the whole month was 8 photos of happiness, it was so lovely to share the stories behind the photos that make me the happiest.
We started to share a pony for Baby this month, which unfortunately has fallen through, but we hopefully have a alternative one lined up. I finished the month with a style post, which was great fun.
Did you miss any of these? How was your September? Anyone else looking forward to Christmas?
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Wow! You’ve certainly had a busy month! And accomplished so much, time for a pat on the back 🙂 I look forward to seeing what you get up to this month x
Wow! 64 posts….That is double what I do! You are an amazing blogger and always share the most helpful of posts x
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AH thanks so much huni, glad you like them x
Ooh you did have a busy month and managed to do so much x
i love reading your blog and I can’t wait to see what you have planned for this month x
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Thanks so much, that is really lovely x
I love round-ups, looks like a good month. Great pics 🙂
Such a lovely post, it looks like you had a busy September 🙂 I have no clue where the month went x
Glad baby has settled back into pre school. Sounds like a busy September.
Sounds like you had a busy month! September definitely did fly by!
Busy September here, what with starting school, and sorting out the changing in routine.
64 posts? How on earth do you find the time? That’s two posts a day and then some! Woah!
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Feb was 81 I think! Ha ha I have no life 🙂 x
What packed and varied month you’ve had – a pony share would be wonderful! I’m now off to read your post on negotiating with brands!
You have such an amazing posts! I need to read about the blog post charges hahha
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Thanks so much! x
Wow, you’ve had a very busy month Aby! We’ve just come back from a month in Spain and Portugal and I saw a supermarket with washing machines in, in Portugal too! I still need to read your sponsored posts post! x
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So odd isn’t it?! 🙂 x
Sounds like you have had an amazing month on the blog! I love your blog club posts they are always so helpful and interesting!
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Thanks so much hun. If you have any topics that you would like me to cover do let me know and I will try x
Wow what a busy month, such a shame about the pony though 🙁 x
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We have got a new one now and it is so much better for Baby, so every cloud x
What a lovely round up of posts & what a very busy yet exciting month you’ve had! x
I love this – especially the idea of 8 photos of happiness!
What a lovely round up of posts – I was so proud to be part of the #savesyriaschildren campaign. Lovely photos hun. Kaz x