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Why I started blogging…

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In order for you to understand why I started blogging, I need to introduce you to 2 amazing bloggers!  In all honesty, these 2 bloggers were the reason I started blogging.

When I look at these two bloggers, I realize that their blogs are true to who they are and they have been since I started reading.  These are the bloggers I want to be like.  I want to be able to gain readers and friends not by how many group giveaways I participate in or how much money I make or spend on sponsorship,  but from the material I post and the relationships I choose to nurture.

A few weeks ago I was thinking about changing up the way my blog functioned and I added a sponsorship tab.  A few weeks later, I realized that that wasn’t the true direction I wanted my blog to go.  I love these two bloggers even more than I did when I first started reading and blogging because over the past 2 years (since I got into blogging), they’ve stayed true to who they are and what they want for their blog.  I came to that realization just a few weeks ago and decided that I was creating sponsorship because I thought that’s what I was SUPPOSE to do, but these bloggers have over 300 and 500 followers and they don’t have sponsorship and I don’t see them participate in huge group giveaways.  They are who they are and I love that about them.  THIS is why I started blogging….

Holly @ 8six11
Holly was one of my very first followers.  I’m not sure what she saw in my blog or why in the world she wanted to follow along, but she did.  When she started following me, she also started commenting on most of my posts.  As a beginner blogger, that was amazing to me!  I had started getting to know this whole other person, somewhere else in the country, who was interested in what I had to say and carried a conversation with me regularly!  Holly started her blog immediately after she got married on 8six11 and talks about life with her husband and their 2 furbabies, who are ADORABLE!  She recently started training using the C25K program and she’s doing great!  If you don’t follow Holly, you should!  She loves cupcakes and photography and it’s obvious that she’s great at both.
a crazy walk on the safe side
Lori @ A Crazy Walk on the Safe Side
Lori was another blogger that I read from the very beginning.  I loved Lori because she was so down to earth and real about what she wrote.  She has always provided wonderful comments on my posts and has always replied back to my comments with love and attention.  She’s a UGA fan, which I loved from the moment I met her because when I don’t have to be a MSU fan, I’m a UGA fan.  She still does the old fashioned blog giveaways (not with rafflecopter), she talks real life about her husband and their new house and their precious baby on the way!  She travels a lot and I love seeing where all she goes.  She, too, doesn’t have sponsorship, but over 500 people are interested in what she has to say and she’s the type of blogger I want to be!
I started blogging because of the inspiration from these 2 bloggers and to this day, they’re two of my favorites!  I continue to blog because of the other relationships I’ve made through blogging.  At first, it was just something to pass the time while I worked a student worker job on campus during my senior year of college, now it’s part of my life.  
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Heather is a vegetarian living in the deep South. She enjoys running, eating, Disney, and spending time with family & friends!

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  1. Laura Darling says

    I can’t wait to check out these two girls! I started blogging because I graduated college with an English degree, and then got a job in insurance where I didn’t write AT ALL. And I missed it so much! So I started a blog and the rest is history!

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  2. Nicole says

    Just found you through the Mississippi Women bloggers!! I’m a Rebel, but I won’t judge you for being a State girl. 😉 Haha! Just kidding! My brother is a Dawg and we love him all the same!!

    I started blogging for the sole purpose of writing. When I started blogging I didn’t even know that people could leave comments! Haha! My blog has grown and improved but I am happy to say that my content continues to be genuine and from my heart. As it should be!

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  4. Holly says

    Awwww thank you soo very much for the shout out! Blogging is a beautiful thing and it still amazes me how many amazing women I’ve been able to meet from around the world. Keep at the blogging, you do a fantastic job 🙂

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