Post Comment Love & Newbie Showcase 19-21 February 2016

Hello there, welcome to another week of #PoCoLo - it was great to have you link up last week, there were lots of great reads and fantastic photos, as well as some lovely Valentines-ness too. It was a busy linky too, and that's great!

After a few days off last week, it was back to work for me on Monday and a mountain of emails too - the joys of modern day living, hey? For me it's been a relatively quiet week, but that's good as I've been able to enjoy the ever-so-slightly lighter evenings, haven't they been great. This evening I'm off out to meet up with friends and tomorrow the in-laws are coming over for dinner, so I'll have a busy Saturday getting everything I need to done before spending time with family and some great food too.

Newbie Showcase: Franca from A Moment With Franca

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Franca

Hola, my name is Franca. I’m a lawyer and originally from Peru. I have lived in London for 11 years and I'm married to my best friend. I met him at work in London. We have 2 gorgeous little girls aged 5 and 18 months old. I was made redundant in 2012 and since then, with the support of my husband, I became a SAHM. I was actually very happy to be able to be around my eldest daughter all the time and I felt lucky to be able to see her grow.

In the meantime I got pregnant again with my second daughter and I was enjoying the time with both my girls. When my little one was about 7 months old and her schedules were more manageable I thought about doing something alongside being a SAHM. I always love making videos so I started my YouTube channel A Moment With Franca.

The name came after thinking that it will be me sharing with my followers some moments of my life. Alongside my channel, my blog which is also called A Moment With Franca was born in May 2015. It will soon be a year since I started blogging and it has been the most rewarding experience so far! I have had the most amazing opportunities and I have met so many people within the blogging world some of who I can even call my friends now. It is just a beautiful community.

My blog is an extension of me and my life. I write about anything that I enjoy or that I fancy talking about. I love going to events, something that has become quite prominent in my blog as well as doing reviews. I also love running giveaways. My blog has grown quickly in just 9 months that I’m completely amazed about it all. I see it now as my job and I’m incredibly lucky to have a job that I love so much and I feel so passionate about it. 

During this time I have written 187 posts and the ones that I love the most are:

At the end of last year, I started a new linky called #KCACOLS (Keep Calm and Carry On Linking Sunday) and it has become a lovely community. It is open every Saturday at 10 pm until Wednesday at midnight and of course you are welcome to join me.

Connect with me here:

Blog  -  Twitter  -  Facebook  -  YouTube  -  Instagram  -  Pinterest  -  Google+

Post Comment Love 12-14 February 2016

Hello again and welcome to this week's #PoCoLo! 

If you linked up last week, thank you and if it's your first time linking up, hello. PoCoLo is a nice easy link up and Morgan and I are pleased to have you here. This week you can read the full Newbie Showcase over on Morgan's blog so do pop over to find out more about Sacha who is featuring this week.

This week we've had a few days off and after a day in Birmingham at the Spring Fair looking at what we'll be buying in the shops soon, we've moved onto Norfolk for a few days. The plan has been to get out on our bikes and yesterday was a gorgeous day in this large skied county. And so my first bike ride of the year was a nearly twenty seven miler, perhaps something shorter might have been better to ease myself back in...

 

Post Comment Love & Newbie Showcase 5-7 February 2016

Welcome to this week's #PoCoLo and to a new month - how did February get here so quickly? 

Thanks for linking up last week, it was a busy link up last week and we welcomed several new linkers. I hope you're enjoying discovering and reading new blogs as much as I am. I'm afraid this week time has run away with me and I didn't get a chance to tweet your links, I'll try harder this week.  

My time this week has been spent putting together our 2015 photo yearbook, and as usual I'd put it off until the last minute. And as usual, it takes much longer than I expect. It seems we did a lot in 2015, more than normal and so it's more tricky than usual to choose photos to go on the sixty or so pages. MOH who "couldn't see the point of them" spent a fair amount of time looking back over the ones we do have. And so, I rest my case...

Last weekend was a busy one so I'm hoping for something more relaxed this weekend; I hope your weekend turns out just as you planned too. 

This week I'm hosting the Newbie showcase here, so let's get on...

Newbie Showcase: Miranda from Drops of Learning

My name is Miranda. I am a Christian homeschooling mom with 5 kids, ages 15 down to 1 and am married to an amazing guy. I love learning alongside my children, and whenever we have free time we like to travel and enjoy the outdoors. I have always enjoyed writing, and starting a blog was something I had been thinking about for quite a few years, but never jumped in until recently. In September of 2015 I started Drops of Learning. I share homeschooling posts, with some parenting, fitness, and essential oils thrown in. When I'm not blogging or homeschooling, I am probably reading, crocheting, or binge-watching shows on NetFlix. I love to cook and bake, but still haven't quite learned to enjoy cleaning, although I am working on it!

This year I am hoping to accomplish some big writing goals--I have a couple eBooks I want to write, and actually started writing a Novel this past November for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I have met so many amazing people through blogging, and hope to continue to build relationships with fellow bloggers and readers. 

Some of my most favorite blog posts are: 

And I also do a Fitness Friday link-up each week that runs from Friday to Monday. 

Connect with Miranda here:

Blog  -  Twitter  -  Instagram  -  Pinterest

 

Thanks Miranda! 

Please take time to visit Miranda and connect with her on Social Media.