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Author: Ria

  • The Sunday Share Out

     

    The Sunday Share Out

    Hello and welcome to the latest edition of The Sunday Share Out! Grab your hot beverage of choice and check out which posts, videos and bloggers I’ve been loving from around the Interwebs lately.

    A R O U N D  T H E  I N T E R N E T

    • Here’s something I’ve never considered about cruelty free beauty. Suzi breaks down the complicated licensing structure of Marc Jacobs beauty and why the brand may actually be cruelty free.
    • I adore Katy’s blatant honesty in her post about failure and quitting. I totally share her sentiment that sometimes taking the ‘safer route’ can actually lead to bigger and better things in the long term – gosh that’s a lesson I’ve learnt the totally hard way.
    • As if all the beautiful social media posts from Carrie from WishWishWish’s wedding weren’t enough to persuade me, Jane’s little photo diary of her day trip to Sintra is just one of reasons why I probably need to stick Portugal and Lisbon on my travel bucket list.
    • As always Susie pulls it out the bag with a fabulous post on the Manus x Machina exhibition at The Met. Also aren’t her images of the pieces on display just divine?!
    • I’m always marvelling at how eloquent Noor is, but this post on forgiveness is just wonderful, so well put and something everyone should think about once in a while.
    • My lovely friend Lauren posted a simply adorable interview with her daughter, Athena, and it’s honestly my favourite thing that I’ve read all week. Not to mention it’s making me feel totally old because I remember first meeting her when she was a teeny tiny, very well behaved baby. And now she’s THREE and walking and talking like a proper human (where has the time gone).

    A R O U N D  T H E  B L O G S P H E R E

    & M I S C.

    • My Beautiful Broken Brain (2014)
    • E-mo-tion: Carly Rae Jepsen
    • Dope (2015)
    • Nocturnal: Yuna
    • Ctrl Alt Delete Podcast
    • Walking With The San: Charlie Simpson
    • #WhiteWashedOut

    Ria

  • May | In Retrospect

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    Song of the month: Coming Home by Busted

    May feels like a limbo month. It lands just after the excitement of April and my birthday and Bank Holidays, and just before the promise of June, July and August, Summer activities and warmer weather. I struggled with blogging this month. A spout of blogger’s block is never helpful when you actually want to blog. This coupled with a bout of cold and awful cough has meant I’ve taken some time for some much needed rest and relaxation. May has been quiet to say the least, bar the socialising I’ve been doing during the all too small spurt of Summer weather we had a few weeks back. The sunshine always brings out the best in people and I’ve definitely tried making the most of it whilst I can.

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  • Easy Ways to Spring Clean Your Blog

    a.k.a. things Ria should be doing instead of watching countless Buzzfeed videos or scrolling through Instagram.

    It’s Bank Holiday Monday (if you are lucky enough to live in the UK right now) and honestly days like this when you get an extra bit of time are the ‘perfect’ time for clearing out the cobwebs both IRL and online. In the wonderful haze of writing blog posts we sometimes forget those ‘under the hood’ things that we set up when we first start blogging and often don’t really think about a couple of months down the line. So if you find yourself with a spare 10 minutes and no motivation to actually write, how about ticking a couple of these things off your blogging ‘to do’ list.

    • Delete old broken links.
    • Make your formatting more consistent (I’m terrible at this!)
    • Run a spell/grammar check on recent blog posts
    • Add alt-text tags on all photos
    • Fill out good SEO on all your most recent posts
    • Re-write and update your bio on your About page and social media
    • Update the stats on Media Kits/PR pages
    • Update your social media icons/headers
    • Schedule social media for old blog posts and general promo
    • Clear out inactive blogs you follow on BlogLovin
    • Unfollow inactive accounts on social media
    • Unsubscribe from unnecessary mailing lists
    • Back up your blog files on your computer
    • Reorganise your tags/categories
    • Brainstorm ideas for 10 minutes
    • Reorganise and revisit old blogging notes (and file them for future ref!)

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    Have I missed anything off this list? Leave some of your spring cleaning tips for your blogs for today’s Bank Holiday and beyond in the comments below.

    Ria Xx