Day 15 - Find a blog buddy

Day 15 - Find a blog buddy.  I discovered this tenent early on with my blog.  Actually, I had a starter blog, a very obscure starter blog (in other words, I had no readers).  I knew I had to find at least one thing that appealed to a niche group, thus Thrift Shop Commando was born.  I began by highlighting my thrift shop finds.  As I stumbled onto other blogs, I found a group that shop secondhand and then model their ensembles in fashion posts.  I knew I had found my kindred spirits.  It is so much fun being part of the modeling/blogging/thrifting community.  I routinely link back to that group and am still discovering others that make me smile.

Have you found your blogging buddies yet?

Day 14 - Update a key page on your blog

Day 14 - updating the old blogeroo.  I change my blog background about twice a year.  Recently, I tightened up the blurbs on what my blog is about, or at least attempted to.  I think it is kind of difficult to describe exactly what I do in all of my glory.

I've got my Moi page (aka About Me) down to a T.

Are you all updated and happy with your blog?

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Mad Tea Party and a Barbie Fashion Show!

Mad Hatter Mike (my brother IRL) welcomes you to this year's Mad Tea Party ~

Peace frog and garden toad are the greeters.

Invitees this year are the Madames:  Madame Alexander Goldfish and Madame Alexander fairy doll.  

And the Muffies:  Fortune Teller Muffy Vanderbear and Mardi Gras Muffy Vanderbear.

The Muffies and Maddies came wandering by, what did they spy?

A Mad Tea Party, of course, hosted by Vanessa of a Fanciful Twist.

There was glam and glitz, joy and spritz (cookies, that is).

It is, you know, the party of the year!  

Granny Madame Alexander was the featured poetry reader.

There were Tyrano rides and carriage rides.

And a Barbie fashion show!  Bikini Barbie led off with the latest in swimwear.

New Barbie styled vintage wear (Barbie clothes made by my mom, circa 1960s). 

 Camo Barbie styled the boot with dress trend.

Scuba diving Barbie showed off her tan and athletic wear.

Fashionista Barbie glammed in evening wear. 

At every tea party there are pastries - this year the guests enjoyed an old-fashioned strawberry-rhubarb crisp, recipe here.

Please leave a comment and "thank you" for stopping by!  Here is the link to the other participants A Fanciful Twist.

Link to my 2012 irreverent post on the Mad-Tea-Party.



Yeah Write's 31dbbb has been pre-empted for this day's post. The challenge instructs the blogger to "Take a trip to the mall," I just took a detour to visit my Mad Tea Party friends!

Day 12 - Develop an editorial calendar for your blog

Day 12 - developing an editorial calendar for my blog just chafes on me.  I prefer to think of my blog as a place to exercise my creativity and free-flowing ideas.  I'm not selling or promoting anything.  I really do not want to commit myself to structure.  I also never apologize for NOT posting.  If I post, I post - if I don't, I don't.  I can bet 9 times out of 10, the bloggers audience has not even noticed if a blogger hasn't been posting.

My readers can pretty much bet I will be posting something every day.  Since I don't write lengthy dissertations, it is pretty easy on the eyes.

Blog buddies - ya gonna post that calendar or not?

Day 11 - Come up with 10 post ideas - I've listed hops and challenges.

Day 11 - Come up with 10 post ideas.  While I have never been at a loss as to what to post, something always comes to mind.  Most hops have a theme.  Only once have I been kicked off of a blog hop for "not following the rules."  I especially like the writing and photography challenges.  I have also found unique link ins such as:

No. 1:  The upcoming Mad Tea Party post with Vanessa at A Fanciful Twist on July 13th.

No. 2:  Le Mysterieux Carnival.  This group is quiescent all year long with the exception of October or All Hallows Eve.

Those two sites require some creative photography and highlight some truly inspired bloggers.

I also keep an eye out for blog hops, in particular hops that I have not participated in before.  If you just hop around with the same group of people, you will never encounter new blogs and potential new readers.

No. 3:  I'll be joining a no-rules blog hop monday-mingle with Tough Cookie Mommy.

No. 4:  I glommed onto sarahsblogoffun.com - this gal has THREE blog hops coming up.  One this month for the new and timid blog hopper.



No. 5:  No-rules blog hops are the best.  There is one every weekend at Sincerely, Paula



No. 6:  Low pressure participation hops such as Unknown Mami

The idea is that you enjoy your city (or suburb or town), take pictures, and then share them with your bloggy friends and family.

If your “Sunday” happens on a Friday, that’s fine, just post the pictures on Sunday. If you live in a suburb instead of a city, I don’t care; I still want to see it. If it’s raining and you’re stuck inside, take a picture of the view outside your home. You can even cheat and take pictures one Sunday and post them the next Sunday.

No. 7:  At the beginning of the year Vicki-2bagsfull will host the Grow Your Blog hop - tons of participants!

No. 8:  How could I forget the annual http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/?  That is the best challenge of all and is scheduled every April.  Those posts practically write themselves *chorkles to self.*

No. 9:  I am thinking Nicky and Mike, the duo behind We Work For Cheese, will be hosting some type of month-long writing or photography challenge (fingers crossed). 

No. 10:  When all else fails, there is Pinterest.  What I mean is that bloggers cross-post on Pinterest any challenges or events.  It never hurts to look there for inspiration.  As long as you don't get sucked into looking at all the pretty pictures (guilty as charged).

Day 9 - Join a Forum and participate!

Day 9's challenge is to Join a forum and start participating.  Well, you don't have to tell me twice.  In fact, I am already a member of two blogging forums, one is the The Sits Girls, a website where "women get social."  They host bloggy boot camps in different cities, the next one is:



The other forum is Blogher, with their tagline being, "Life Well Said."  It is a whole lot of blogging going on.

While I am not extremely active in either forum, I do pop in from time to time or link up onto a forum discussion that piques my interest.

Are you a joiner?