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Sunday, 23 March 2014

Blogging from A to Z April Challenge 2014


The observant amongst you may have noticed a new badge appear at the top of the sidebar a few weeks ago and you may have even been curious enough to click on it... but if you haven't or if you didn't, I'm here now to tell you all about it.

I've lost my mind, er, I mean I'm going to attempt to blog my way from A to Z throughout April as part of the official 2014 Blogging from A to Z April Challenge.

Essentially this means one post per day throughout April, with each post designated by the corresponding letter of the alphabet with Sundays off for good behaviour, sleep.  Lots of bloggers are taking part and everyone, participants and supporters alike, are encouraged to go browse the official list and comment on the posts.

In order to keep things sane, the advice I've received is to keep posts relatively short!  So in April there will be no War and Peace rambling posts but fear not, all the posts will be my usual fare of Trollbeads and Jewellery and associated things you'd normally expect to find on Curling Stones for Lego People.

I'd love for you to join me in my journey, so whether as one of my blogging friends you join in the challenge yourself, or as a regular or new visitor you pop in during April to give me some support, you can sign up to receive posts direct by email, follow via Bloglovin', bookmark the page to check in directly or come back once it's safe and browse the A to Z in one go!  However you do it - I'd love to see you here!

Mars xx


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  1. Victoria23 March 2014 at 14:58

    Oooh tough challenge!

    Best of luck with it, I'll be here with pompoms to cheer you along ;)

    /hugs

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    1. Mars23 March 2014 at 15:19

      Thanks hun! Much appreciated xx

      It'll certainly be a change to go from 7 posts a month to 26! I'm hoping the alphabet and short posts will be a motivator; although I keep having to cross ideas out as I realise I'd be covering the exact same topic but under 2 different letters... it's not as easy as I thought ;)

      Still I have a week to come up with A right??

      Mars xx

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  2. Tracy24 March 2014 at 00:20

    I'll join Victoria as part of your cheer squad! :D

    When I saw this first mentioned in your twitter feed a few weeks back I briefly considered challenging myself as well, but I know I'd end up writing something at 11pm at least once during the month!

    I look forward to seeing what you come up with though :)

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    1. Mars24 March 2014 at 13:07

      How fab, I have my very own cheer squad! Thank you :)

      I'm sure I'll end up writing something at 11pm, and I'm pretty sure it will be more than once too! I did have a "what have I done" moment a few days ago but tally ho and all that!

      I'm going to try and have the posts up by 8.30am GMT so that my feedburner catches them and puts them out early that day... that's the plan but whether they will all make the deadline I don't know!

      I figure at least that way if it's out in the morning then technically I have the evening to blog hop my way around the lists...

      Mars xx

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  3. Unknown26 March 2014 at 18:15

    Hello! I'm new to your blog (popped in via endangered Trolls) and want to offer my support! I think you're in the UK too so will be def cheering you on thru this challenge. Will be interesting to see what you come up with.
    Mel

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    1. Mars26 March 2014 at 19:44

      Hi Mel!

      First of all Welcome to Curling Stones and secondly all support warmly received, and I do hope it will be interesting...

      If not and you like beads there's at least plenty of old content here in case I'm rubbish at A to Z, it's my first year doing it :D

      Thanks for taking the time to add your comment and your support, I really appreciate it.

      Mars xx

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I love saying hi to people who've read my blog, or are just passing through via the A to Z, or anyone not a spam bot!

P.s. If you use an iPad/iPhone and are having trouble leaving a comment on Blogger, you might have better luck using a browser that's not the default iPad one... Then from the "Comment as" drop down menu choose Name/Url (you can leave URL field blank or add your web address) or Anonymous and (hopefully) away you go! Mars xx

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