Spotlight Saturday {Linkup #1} >> NEW!

I am super duper excited today, guys!!

This may seem out of the blue, but I've been thinking about creating a weekly linkup for a while now. In the past, I've always used Saturdays to highlight my favorite things, share awesome blogs/shops/products, and interview bloggers/sellers. Here's an example of past Spotlight Saturdays, as well as here and here. It seems bloggers take weekends off and don't post too much. Yet I know I like to use Saturday to catch up on reading my favs and connecting.

Plus, what a great way to build community! To connect, chat, learn, grow, share...it's awesome sauce. I'll be sharing some of my favorite things from the week as well as sharing amazing things from sponsors and from people who linked up the previous week. I just want this to be one BIG sharing party. You good with that?

Good! Here are the simple guidelines if you'd like to participate:
- Linkup recipes, posts, your products or your blog and shop urls
- Please DO NOT linkup any social media account (Twitter, Facebook etc.)
- Play nice. There is a zero tolerance for bullies and mean people, k?
- Please link back to the linkup if you can (a button will be created soon)
- Feel free to share the linkup via your social media accounts
- Following my blog is appreciated but not required :)

Eventually I'd love to have co-hosts and such. Email me if interested! jacy@artbyjacy.com

Bottom line, beauties: have fun, stay in school, look both ways when you cross the street and use your manners, especially at the dinner table. Not sure what these have to do with linking up but they are very important. I'll start by posting one of my illustration prints from the shop. Did you know? They're back!! I can't wait to see what you put in the spotlight. Have a blessed weekend xoxo

The 24 Best Blogging Resources {Link Roundup}

Okay, can I let you guys in on a little secret? All right, maybe not that little. This winter will be my 3 year blogiversary! When I started this digital journal back in December of 2010, I had no clue what I was doing. Absolutely none. All I wanted to do was inspire people with my story and who wanted their dream job {read my first ever post here. Man, I had a lot of excitement over being laid off}. I also had no idea how big blogging really was. Then I stumbled into a close knit group of amazing bloggers who I networked with, studied what they knew and who I still look up to and connect with.

Today I am sharing with you my personal resources for blogging. Many of these fine people are good friends, some I stalk weekly and others I want to get to know better. Truth: I haven't read ALL of these {yet}. Most of them, yes, and they have helped shape my blogging brain. Others I'm including as a bookmark for the future because when you run a blog, you should be evolving, growing, being more awesome daily. And I want to be more awesome. I know, it's hard to believe right?

Blogging Secrets / Wifessionals
Blogging Photography Tips & Tricks / Sunny with a Chance of Sprinkles
SEO Basics for Bloggers / Wonder Forest
Can You Actually Make Money Blogging? / Living in Yellow
Lessons I've Learnt | Blogging / Here Comes the Sun
Build Your Blog's Framework With These 4 Pages / Independent Fashion Bloggers
58 Ways to Get Noticed as a New Blogger / Blog World
How to Add a Pinterest Mouseover Button onto Your Blog / Kevin & Amanda
How to Make a Media Kit that Rocks / The Blog Maven
DIY Blog Design: The Drawing Board Printable / The Flourishing Abode
How I Make Money Blogging / Addicted 2 Decorating
Cleaning Out Your Blogging Closet / CEO of Me

How to Use Twitter for Your Blog / Build Your Blog Conference
How to Make Money Blogging / I Heart Nap Time
Blogging Goals {And Why We Need Them} / Essentially Ecclectic
How to Grow Your Blog / A Royal Daughter
Tips for Your About Page / Simply Clark
Grow Your Blog Series ~Recap~ / Live Laugh Rowe
5 Knows of Advertising on Blogs / Rags to Stitches
3 Tips for Sponsoring Blogs / Julie Ann Art
5 Tips To Use Google Analytics More Effectively / Framed Frosting
Blogging At The Next Level eBook / Crowley Party
10 Mommy Blogging Tips / Remodelaholic
10 Ways to Support My Blog {or any blog} / Bella
 

So enjoy my beauties. Read, absorb, learn, grow...you can make your blog a success!

Speaking of success, have you heard of Taylor from Pink Heels Pink Truck? She is a sweet friend of mine and shares great blogging advice. She has a fantastic post about product review disclosures {here} that I've included in my new eBook "10 Blogging Etiquette Tips for Newbies" {available here}. Taylor is hosting a giveaway on her blog today for one lucky reader to win a free copy of the eBook! Please show her some love {here}.

Also, don't forget to enter to win a FREE CUSTOM LOGO on my FB page {right here yo}. Only two entries so far, so there's an amazing chance to win. I think that's enough link vomit for now. Feel free to share your favorite blogging resources in the comments, I'd love to grow my list! Peace out sprouts!