How to create a lovely Pinterest board widget to show off your pins to your followers! I’ve included two methods as well as how to create a profile widget!
blogging + writing
Cocoa Mocha Cashew Butter + Confessions of a Food Blogger
This healthy, yet indulgent nut butter is perfect for slathering on your morning toast, some whole grain crackers or even for adding into your morning smoothie! Whip up some cocoa mocha cashew butter and see for yourself!
[IMM #12] My Favorite Productivity Tools
When blogging is a real source of income however, you tend to put a little more pressure on yourself. (But of course, you still want to try to have fun with it!) Here are 4 awesome productivity tools that have helped me grow my readership by 50% by being more focused and efficient.
Inspire Me Monday #4: 6 Bloggers Who Inspire Me
It’s time for another Inspire Me Monday where you can find all kinds of inspiration and even leave your own inspirational link! Cuz we’re all good at something..right?? (<-it’s true.)
To Date or Not To Date (your blog posts)
An idea I picked up from The Blog Maven is to remove the dates from blog posts and comments. I was intrigued at first, but I actually like doing it every once in awhile.
2015 Reader Survey with Giveaway
I’ve created a short reader survey for you guys to fill out to see what you think about this blog. It’s only 10 questions and I will be over the moon if you would take 5 minutes to fill it out.
How I Make Money Blogging with Ads
Believe it or not, you can make money blogging. I know, it’s shocking to most people when they find out my blog is more like a part-time job than just a hobby (although I like to think it combines the best of both worlds).
Happy Things #3
I just tend to stress about eve-ry-thing.
To remind myself that life is good, I’m doing another Happy Things post.
New Blog Design 2014
I’ve been wanting to make a change for awhile. As I related to my e-mail subscribers, it was like when you know you need a haircut but you put it off and put it off and then one day you’re just like OMG I NEED A HAIRCUT NOW.
Except for it was like OMG I NEED A NEW BLOG DESIGN NOW. And I decided to cut fix it myself.
Why Would You Try to Make Money Blogging?
This is a post I’ve been putting off..oh..for months? Ever since I started trying to diversify my blogging income and started sponsored posts (gasp!) this year, I’ve wanted to talk to you guys about the mindset behind all of this.
Money + Blogging.
It’s a tricky thing to talk about. It’s kind of awkward and even taboo among some bloggers. (thus stalling on writing a post about it.) Some view it as “selling out” but others criticize bloggers for not taking their blogs seriously and for not taking money for product reviews.
With the conflicting ideas out there…let’s talk about why I decided to make money blogging.
