One of my goals when I started blogging was to someday reach 1000 readers. I honestly have to say I was just as thrilled when I hit 10. It's amazing how a little thing like starting a blog allows you to connect with so many kindred spirits. I now have friends all over the world... amazing. I started blogging by accident, and looking back, I think it had a lot to do with the fact that I just never felt "heard." Thanks to all of you who supported me along this journey and for validating that it's important to have a voice and for helping me to find mine. For that I will always be grateful. So today what I really want to celebrate is YOU! Love you guys. xoxo
Now I want to know... What made you start blogging and why do you continue to do so?
Good morning dear heart....I started when my sister in law mentioned she started one. I would visit her every morning, just enchanted. THEN...I saw that BLOGGER BUTTON that said, START YOUR OWN BLOG. I pushed the button and it literally changed my life. Learning to write for an audience, finding crafts, lifestyle ideas and fashion was a whirlwind of excitement but the best part? YOU ALL.
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1000, wowee!
ReplyDeleteWell I was going through a very tough time and felt very isolated and alone in the world and starting a blog and interacting with people really kept me going through the darkness and I surprised myself by being disciplined enough to write every day even when I was in tears and sitting in my Jim jams.
oh, so lovely and you very much speak my mind! I agree, it is a fabulous way to get your inspirations and your interested out there and find similar people who enjoy the same things you do all over the planet! have a lovely weekend, and more wonderful blogging years to come! xoxo
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Congrats to you! I started blogging just as a creative outlet. Growing up I always thought it would be nice to work for a magazine so this is ever so slightly my own little publication. I just have to make more time for it!
ReplyDeleteSO excited for you, congratulations friend! You are certainly heard now :)
ReplyDeleteI started blogging for many reasons. I missed writing, had so many photographs left over from college (photography major), and was starting a new business I wanted to advertise. Now it is something more. I feel too busy to blog as much as before but I find miss all my new friends. I'm very happy you blog and I found you. Here's to your next 1000!
Blogging changes things for those of us that do it. The world really opens up when you start a blog. It has changed things for me too and I am loving it. Now I just want to get to where you are...1000 followers! :)
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Karen
Congratulaions! That calls for an amazing celebration...Have Fun! xoxoxo
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Congrats, what a great milestone!!!
ReplyDeleteLovely dress! I started because I needed to share my fashion view and I wanted to participate and comment as blogger in other blogs... Kisses and congratulations!
ReplyDeleteCongrats!!! What a wonderful feeling it must be... I'm looking forward to the day I reach 1000, too.
ReplyDeleteI started blogging as part of my speech therapy, just over a year ago. To help re-delevope my writing and communication skills. I have continued because it helps to keep my mind working and also helps re-develop other skills like organizing and planning. Blogging for me has become a good instrument in my therapy rehab - after accident.
What has made this journey work and possible is truly the wonderful people (including yourself) I have been able to connect with. The encouragement, support, laughs and sometimes tears has all inspired me in many ways.
Wishing you a wonderful day !!! xo HHL
Congratulations!
ReplyDeletelove celebrate !!! pretty dress
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There is a reason you have 1000 readers, Debby! You blog is fabulous, and you continue to bring the readers what they are look for! Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteI love these images, and anything with silver in it is perfect in my eyes.
Have a nice Sunday.
Teresa
xoxo
Debby that is a wonderful reason to celebrate, Congratulations on your 1000 readers. Our readers are what keep us going and writing. I never knew how much I would enjoy the writing process until I started blogging. It was an unexpected gift. I had no idea I loved to write!!!Have fun celebrating this moment in your blog life, Kathysue
ReplyDeleteThis calls for a weekend in Paris, right? ;-)
ReplyDeleteWell, I had started my food blogs but there were of course things I could not post on them so I needed another outlet and I definitely don't regret it. It's fun and getting to know all these wonderful bloggers out there is the best part.
Love your celebration. Pretty dress and lovely cake. I started blogging to create a decorating blog and now for some reason my blog has taken a way different twist. I don't hardly have any decor on it, so go figure! Happy day to you!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Debby! Thank you for writing your beautiful blog. I am glad to have discovered your blog and to have "met" you. You inspire me daily with your gorgeous photos and beautiful attitude. You are a lovely woman.
ReplyDeleteYAY!!! Congrats!!!
ReplyDeletewell done Debby, you really deserve all these 1000 followers and many many more to come, Im proud to be one too! xoxo
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! I honestly started because everyone told me to as a way to help my clothing company. I had no idea that I would love it so much, meet so many fabulous people and learn so much.
ReplyDeletecongrats on an incredible milestone! I started blogging as a way to catalogue all the things that I love, and having left the magazine industry to move overseas, I felt that it was my way to continue on with what I love. :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! What a wonderful mile stone :)
ReplyDeleteMy sister and I were just humbled and amazed when we reached 1000 too!
xoxo
Olivia
congrats!!! blogging is definitely very rewarding!!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on reaching 1000! How wonderful. I started blogging as a way of releasing all the wonderful inspiration I kept coming across out of my head & onto a space where I could see it all whenever I wanted to. Now I adore it as well as pinning constantly on pinterest!!
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PS: You'll notice I've commented like crazy on all your posts today haha! I'm playing catch ups after a few busy days where I've been deprived of blogging.
Congrats dear, it's such an amazing feeling! I started blogging more than three years ago ( fashion blog) because I wanted to share my polyvore sets with my friends and rest is history...
ReplyDeleteOhh and I started DailyDreamDecor because of all the pictures I saved for the interior design feature on fashion blog:)
that cake looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteshe's so beautiful, those pics make me think of tuscany. Congrats on 1000 followers!
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Congrats on 1000+ followers!!
ReplyDeleteI love the creamy white simplicity of this set. just lovely.
Chic on the Cheap
Your blog is one of the lovliest in blogland Debbie! Here's to the next 1000 followers!
ReplyDeleteHave a good week!
Mimi
Debby,
ReplyDeleteCongratuations!!!! 1000 is a huge milestone and confirmation that you're on the right path. I think we all appreciate it when we feel "heard"...but you make it easy to want to pull up in a comfy chair and see what you are "thinking"!!!
I think I started blogging because I felt like being a part of a conversation that I was witnessing but wasn't happening in my offline life. I continue because of connections, such as mine with you, that make me feel a part of a world outside of the one I walk in.
xoxo Elizabeth
congratulations!! how flippin' exciting!!
ReplyDeletenow i'll take a slice of cake... it looks delish! :)
Congrats Debby! I'm not surprised in the slightest :) xoxo
ReplyDeleteWhere is that dress from?! :)
ReplyDeleteIs there any way to be able to find that dress? It is SO cute!! And it's amazing how far you can go once you take that first step. :)
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