It’s Mums’ List time with Hannah over at Mums’ Days. Mums’ List allows us to share the highlights (personal and blogging) of our week and also the things that still need to be ticked off our Mums’ Lists!
REAL LIFE
- We found some bargain storage at a car boot sale! £20, BOOM!
- Baby was AMAZING in her swimming lesson #WondersWillNeverCease
- Mr Hubby went to France for a meeting just as Baby decided to shout for days on end #GoodTimingHubs
BLOG & SOCIAL MEDIA
I have been at it with the plug ins again! This week I have added;
- Social Metrics – Useful to see where your posts are shared, all in one place.
- UpDraft Back up – I am terrible at backing up anything. So I thought I really should do my blog. This WP plug in can be set to back up whenever you like to various sources such as Dropbox. So I don’t have to actually do anything!
- Duplicate Copy – Brilliant for saving time, especially if you join in with the same weekly linkys or run a feature. It can be set to copy the categories and tags too! Awesome!
- My most popular blog post of all time continues to be this one about blogging. Really pleased with the response to it.
- I must remember to create pinnable images and then actually pin my posts #Dunce
INSPIRATION
- I have bought a couple of magazines to try and get my interior design juices flowing, but nothing has happened yet! #WantARefund
- On Wednesday we heard that Stephen Sutton had sadly lost his battle with cancer. A truly inspirational young man, with the most incredible spirit. RIP Stephen.
So do you like making lists or do you prefer to just wing it?!
Why not pop over and have a read of some other Mums’ lists.
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This is a great list – and puts me to shame! I write lots of things down (old school) but it takes me some time to go through them!
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Thanks, Things tend to reoccur on my lists though 😉 x
ooh you reminded me to look into backups, I always forget, I’m the girl who almost lost her whole dissertation, yet still not done it for my blog!
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Oh yikes! Yes do it now x
great list, i need to backing up my blog post as well
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Thanks. Yes I need to clear out my drop box as my back up failed, as no room x
I need lists and reminders otherwise I’d forget so much! Wow you’ve been busy with the plug ins. Backing up! Thank you for reminding me I need to do this! Have a lovely weekend huni xx
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I love a plug in! Yes you don’t want to lose your blog. Have a great week hun xx
Great bargain and I like the idea of lists.
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Thanks, lists rule! x
Oh I’ve been looking for something to show how popular my tweets are – Social Metrics looks great, I’ll look into that some more, thank you!
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My pleasure, hope it helps you x
I love making lists but find keeping to them hard to do. I really need to organise things more! Must look up social metrics too.
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I feel so much better when I get organised x
A huge woo-hoo for your blogging bargain and for finding your way around all the technical bits in the world of blog. I am so bad with that sort of thing, so will have to refer to your blogging posts for some inspiration. I was so sad to hear of the news of Stephen Suttons death to. Such an inspirational young man.
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I just love anything that makes my life a bit easier! Not really techie. x
What a fab list!! Love your bootsale bargain! I always write lists but need to learn to stick to them/ use them!! D’oh!! Well done you xx
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Thank you. I can’t believe we found that storage unit. xx
oooh i love bargains plus i am in need of those cube storage , my kids take up every inch of the spacein my house x
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I was so pleased to bag such a great unit x
It has never occurred to me that I should back up my blogposts…my husbands a web developer so Ijust assume he’d be able to sort it, plus can anything really get lost on the internet? Am I being incredibly naive?!? I will investigate, thanks for bring to my attention!
the storage looks ace and I hope reuben follow’s baby’s lead and actually stops crying in swimming lessons – he used to love it but since he started walking at the end of December he now HATES it. We’re only in lesson 2 of ‘trying again’ so I’m hoping this week will be easier! xx
thanks for linking lovely! #MumsList xxx
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Yes I think that your blog can go down or you can get hacked and you might need to restore it, I use Updraft and it does it automatically for me. I hope Reuben gets back into the swing of it xxx
Oooh I’m off to check out what duplicate copy is!
Thanks x x
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You go into an old post and near the publish it gives to an option to save to new draft, then it will appear in your drafts and you can just change the details x
Try Pinterest for interior design ideas.. works for me 😉
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Yes I have been dipping in, but I need a good Pinning session x
Love these lists- and more especially your storage bargain! We could really do with a great storage solution.
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I couldn’t believe finding exactly what we needed, such luck x
Love the idea of duplicate copy, off to check it out! Glad the swimming lesson went well
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It is really time saving for me and thanks! x
I love making lists. In fact, I have one to make tonight for all the jobs I want to get done tomorrow because I keep putting them off and if I do a list I’m more likely to do them so I can cross them off!
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Crossing things off is the bet bit! x