Can you believe it’s our one year bloggiversary?! We celebrated on March 1st in Sarasota, Florida with the biggest smiles because we’re so thankful that ya’ll have put up with us for this long! 🙂 In all seriousness though, we’ve learned a LOT over the past 365 days, and we’ve also made some really great memories together. Believe it or not, we can’t remember what life was like before we started this crazy journey…time goes really fast! Today, we’re sharing a few of our blogging tips/secrets along with our most impactful Instagram photos from this past year.
Blogging Tips and Secrets:
- Having a blog is HARD WORK. Seriously…we spend a lot of time planning the weeks in advance. We want you to keep coming back!
- The more open you are, the more people will relate to you.
- For us in particular, we made a pact that it was friends first. We often forget that we had a life before the blog, so we try to make extra efforts to step back and do US every so often – no blogging required!
- Instagram isn’t EVERYTHING. What’s more important is your actual blog, and getting your viewers to read what you’re putting out there.
- Be real. When we started, we used a filter on every photo. Now, we use the raw photos…no editing (besides brightness and contrast) is needed. Your viewers already love you for being you 🙂
- We use an app called Mosaic to upload our photos in advance. This allows us to see if the photo will fit with the overall look and feel of our feed! Sometimes it’s less about what we’re posting that day and more about if it matches our brand.
- We take most of our photos on a normal iPhone!
Our Most Impactful Instagram Photos (by category):
Click the images to read more!
CELEBRATE
CREATE
DRESS UP
DWELL
EAT
SMILE
TRAVEL
WED
Looking forward to the memories to come this year!
xoxo, Lauren & Laura