Post Comment Love & Newbie Showcase 18-20 March 2016

Welcome back to PoCoLo - Friday's are coming around quickly these days, which is never a bad thing is it. It was another busy link up last week and I am still working my way through some of your posts - somewhere along the way I seem to have lost a day this week.  If you find it I'll be pleased to have it back.

This week I've been getting some fairly major preparations sorted for our Easter trip and finally got the hotels booked - yes I know, nothing like leaving it until the last minute. In the end I phoned them to double check they had secure storage for our bikes overnight. I've not been able to do much about the weather but I'm hoping that it'll at least be dry if it can't be sunny. I'm not sure cycling in the we will be any fun at all. I'll let you know how we get on.

My post this week is all about a challenge I've set myself, quite a big challenge in fact and one it'll be interesting to see how close I get to - and now that I've built it up I'll let you know it's a decluttering one.

Newbie Showcase: Sarah from Craft Invaders

Hi, My name is Sarah, and I blog with my kids, over at Craft Invaders. It was the kids' idea to start a blog, we love reading other peoples, and I very naively thought 'how hard can it be?' 

Eleven months on, I now know exactly how much hard work it is, but we have definitely caught the blogging bug, and love it!

Our passions are connecting with nature, crafts, spending time together as a family and history, and our blog reflects this.

We love featuring our:

This year we have set ourselves the challenge to learn much more about wild foods and foraging, and are sharing our adventure through our blog and Instagram - we'd love for others to come and join in!

You can find us here

Blog  -  Twitter  -  Instagram  -  Facebook  -  Pinterest  -  Bloglovin'  -  Google+  -  Stumbleupon

Thanks to Stephanie and Morgan for featuring us on Newbie Showcase, and for all the hard work they put into #PoCoLo xx

 

Thank you Sarah, it's our pleasure to feature you here today.

Remember, if your blog is less than a year old and you'd like to be featured on Newbie Showcase then please get in touch.

Post Comment Love 11-13 March 2016

Welcome back to PoCoLo! Last week's link-up was a busy one with lots of people joining in - and it was so great to see you all. Combine that with a day or two away from the internet and that meant that most of my commenting didn't take place until later in the week - but I got there! 

I hope you're enjoying reading each other's blogs as much as I am.

I already mentioned that I had a day away from the internet and it was great! We spent the morning digging over at the allotment and making quite a lot of progress, even though to the untrained eye it might not look like it!  And then spent the afternoon with my parents who'd popped down from Norfolk, like you do.

It was a year ago that I completed the six-hour danceathon at Wembley as part of Team Honk raising money for Sport Relief. That's timely as the post I'm linking up this week is the challenge that I'm supporting this year, it's been dreamt up by Nell from Pigeon Pair & Me and she's leading a London Museum Dash on 20 March. Do pop over and take a look and if you can spare a pound or two, you'd be supporting really good causes.

But before that, it's Newbie Showcase time.

Newbie Showcase: Katie from Mummy in a Tutu

Mummy in a Tutu

Katie blogs over at Mummy in a Tutu and she writes about lifestyle, parenting, food, vegetarianism and a whole lot more. She's fairly new to the blogging world at four months young but is already completely addicted. 

Pop over to Morgan's blog to read more about Katie and her favourite posts.

Before you head off to connect with Katie on social media she's recently started a Live Chat group  - called #TribalChat -for people looking to make friends online, which takes place every Tuesday between 8-9pm.

Connect with Katie here:

Blog  -  Twitter  -  Facebook  -  Instagram  -  Pinterest

 

If your blog is less than a year old and you'd like to be featured on Newbie Showcase then please get in touch.

Post Comment Love & Newbie Showcase 4-6 March 2016

Hello there - we're in to March already - let's hope the weather catches on soon!  It's Friday again as well, so that means it's time for another #PoCoLo where you can link up any post from the last week that you feel could do with some extra love. Morgan and I are pleased to see both regular and new linkers each week and it's great to get to know you all through your blogs and the variety of posts you link each week. 

The post I'm linking this week is our small mountain of home-grown purple sprouting broccoli, which were the first plants we planted in our allotment last June so it's nice to finally see them come to fruition, although as you'll read we weren't the only ones interested in our crop.

But before that, let me introduce our newbie showcase this week.

Newbie Showcase: Jenna from Jenna Michelle Pink

Hello I am Jenna blogger at Jenna Michelle Pink, artist and full time mama of 2 small children – Bear and Fig.

I started my blog last year as a way to document my artistic journey, get writing frequently, encourage myself to practice my photography and to share my passions – art, image making and creativity.

I often find the challenges of balancing life with two under 3s whilst working in childcare and aiming to develop an art career challenging and exhausting. My blog has proven to be a healthy outlet for me and I feel has given me some extra creative focus. 

I post about a variety of topics mostly creative in nature. I frequently share the work of other artists and crafters who inspire me alongside the paintings I create, my personal photography and musings about motherhood and my life.  Each month I reflect on the month just passed with a gratitude and goal setting list. An important moment to sit and reflect.

I have suffered with anxiety most of my life and art has always been an important therapy for me. I truly believe that anybody can benefit from a regular creative practice. Part of the reason I created my blog was to encourage others to take that step into having a creative life. I share a variety of painting tutorials and I am looking forward to expanding this section this year. 

Anybody can make art if they allow themselves to try, it’s just a case of silencing that inner critic and getting stuck in there. If you would like to give one of my tutorials a go this sunflower painting and this abstract circle painting tutorial have both been quite popular and are great for beginners. 

As well as tutorials for adults I have a children’s art section on my blog. Here I document many of the artistic activities we do together as a family such as walking in paint and this bubble wrap printing craft.  I love finding new ways to share art with my babies. 

Thank you for reading and I hope you stop by. Also thank you to Stephanie and Morgan for showcasing my blog today. It is so greatly appreciated.

Connect with me here:

Blog  -  Twitter  -  Instagram  -  Facebook  -  Pinterest 

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

 

Thank you Jenna, it's great to find out more about you and your blog.