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Hello! Gosh its been quite a while since I splashed around here! I blog about art and craft and my last two posts have been about the recycling art of magazine collage. If you want to peek at some pretty pics go here https://scribbleartie.wordpress.com/ Thanks muchly *dives underwater*
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Just commented. So cool! Good content, good tagging, cool pictures. Rock on 😀
Would you check out one of my pieces? Click on my name and choose whichever one looks most interesting🙂
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I commented on the comfort zone post, but I liked the quotes ones as well 😀
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Those are striking. Some remind me of crazy dreams I’ve had. https://gracelead.co
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Thanks for checking them out! Also glad I’m not the only one who has crazy dreams! 😀
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Awesome and creative posts. Good way to recycle. Such a nifty idea!
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Thank you!
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I’ve just shared two Halloween-themed posts. An interview with Eric Olsen of America’s Most Haunted and a kid-friendly post of Halloween jokes http://www.writteningeek. wordpress.com
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I enjoyed the kid friendly post of Halloween jokes! Nice blog and very colorful!
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Thanks!
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you are welcome!
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Hey!! I write poetry and this is one of my latest posts. Check itout! http://wp.me/p6XcuW-UW
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Hi there, peeps! This Monday munch on this –
It’s my homage to a veggie I long avoided 🙂
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Very amusing post! Like you, I didn’t like eggplants when I was younger. Now, I can’t live without them!
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One room for improvement (though you seem to have a good following) is include the tag “food blog” with your posts.
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Thank you 😊
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I like how you gave us a backstory before the recipe. It made it more interesting than a typical recipe post. I’ve learned that my taste buds change over time. Every few years, I force myself to try some food that I used to detest. Things I’ve been able to add to my diet that way are beets and cilantro. https://gracelead.co
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Now beets are nice! And us Indians use plenty of cilantro, only we call it coriander. Thanks for coming by, reading and commenting 😊
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I have never tried eggplant. I have always wondered what it tastes like.
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Actually pretty good when grilled I’d say!
Thanks, Mary!
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I clicked on your link and was immediately amazed at your photography skills just from that one picture!
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Thank you very much, you made my day! 🙂
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I love the layout of your blog and story behind each photo. Perhaps one idea could be to organize the menu more so certain photos are under ‘travel’ or ‘photo challenge’ and people can easily search to find photos they enjoy or want to see more of.
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Thank you very much for your feedback!
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Hi blogger’s pool. I recently took part in the three day, three quote challenge! https://thechaoticmindandmore.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/three-day-three-quote-challenge-day-2
They’re short and won’t take too long. Please read all three and let me know your thoughts 🙂 Also please read the rest of my content and show me some love ❤
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Quote #1 was my favourite. Your blog has a very nice, clean layout and I also liked the post on procrastination especially.
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Thank you so much. Means a lot to me as a new blogger 🙂 Please do keep visiting 🙂 Lots of love !
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I enjoyed all three quotes. My favorite part was how you told what the quote means to you. Also, the photos were a nice complement to the posts. https://gracelead.c
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Thank you so much 🙂 This is great encouragement ❤
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Hello everyone! I’ve been food blogging for almost 6 months now and would love to get some feedback and ideas for improvement. Here is a link to my latest post, a simple apple pie recipe!
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I think your website can help me achieve my goal to learn to cook. 🙂
Do you take all the pictures yourself? They are amazing.
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I am so happy to hear that. Yes, I do take all my pictures. I am teaching myself photography and this food blog is pushing me to keep improving. I hope you will try out some of my recipes. I sincerely believe that eating homemade, wholesome food is the way to good health. An occasional indulgence, like this apple pie, though should be savored guilt-free if we eat well most of the time!
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Oh and thank you for taking the time to check out my blog!
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Wow the photos of your recipes are stunning! I really like the way you tell a story along with your recipes. The whole presentation is great!
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Thank you so much for your kind words and for taking the time to check out by post. It is nice to hear feedback like this. I was getting a little dejected cause of lack of readership. I guess I just need to keep striving forward. Thank you!
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Just commented directly on your blog but the net is it was a great post and your photos are amazing for beginner. I am also a beginner and hope to catch up with you !
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Thank you so much! We shall learn and improve together, each at our own pace!
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Hey everyone!
I would for you to check out my blog. Feedbacks are welcome. Feel free to follow if you like it.
Thanks!
Have a happy Monday!!
http://happy08wordpress.wordpress.com/
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Just commented. Nice content, nice image. My suggestion: you have an image on your homepage, but when I click on a post, the featured image isn’t actually in the post — consider including it! 🙂
Would you check out one of my pieces? Click on my name and choose whichever one looks most interesting🙂
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Ok thank you for the advice :). I’ll keep it in mind. Yeah! I’ll definitely check it out. 🙂
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Hi fellow bloggers!
I’m launching a new column and I would really appreciate your opinion and/or contribution. I’ll check out you blog if I can retrace it.
http://thehighheeledpapergirl.wordpress.com/new-column-inspiration
Giulia x
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Hi Giulia, first I love the style and design of your blog, especially the quote images I’ve seen on some of your articles. For this new column, as you say the subject is quite broad so maybe you could have different weeks that are more specific – i.e. this week looking at inspiration for my career, this week looking at inspiration from works of art etc. It may help garner more responses. Good luck with it!
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Hi, thank you so much! I’ll definitely follow your advice. And you’ve got a great blog, keep it up!
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Thank you so much!
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Hi Giulia! I’m already a follower, but I love the idea of an inspiration series- it really brings the reader into the blog! Do you think you would prefer images/videos, or written text for prompts?
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Hi! Thanks! Nope, I have no preference 🙂
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Hi everybody, I’ve been writing a lot of poetry recently, and have loads of new ideas for this month. I really love writing and blogging, and it would mean the world to me if you could check out my blog and I will do the same. https://missteryblog.wordpress.com/
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Just stopped by 🙂 Nice poem! Question: have you ever thought about not using punctuation at the end of a line? It might be a good way to switch things up. Lines that don’t end in punctuation are called enjambed lines; ones that end with a period or comma or dash or whatnot are called end-stopped lines. Enjambed lines might be a good next step for your poetry! 🙂
Would you check out one of my pieces? Click on my name and choose whichever one looks most interesting🙂
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I often use it actually, its a very nice one to use to give the writing more of a journey like feel. Thank you for reading! I will go check your blog out now 🙂
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Loved your work! I’ll definitely be reading more! Care to return the favour? Click on my name to see some of my poetry if you’d like 🙂
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Thank you so much, that means the work. I will do 🙂
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Hello,
I am sure you will like my blog, but all you need is to take some time to visit it.
do check out my blog, I’d be grateful!
leave a comment too so that I can visit your blog too!
If you love what I write, make sure you join my raeding community and I will join yours, If I like what you write…
have a great day!:)
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I enjoyed reading your post about writing and left you a comment on your blog!
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I just now read it and I need to go to school right now, will SURELY check it later… 😊😊😊 hope you don’t mind…
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Hi all! I decided to expand my content into live streaming! I wrote a post about why if you want to take a look https://michelleanneliese.com/2016/10/17/why-i-went-live/
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So I did a thing. Anyone have the same experience making yourselves more vulnerable online? Tips to keep myself safe while still creating a web presence? Here’s my most recent post about my recent escapades:
https://realliferomcomblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/social-mediocre/
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I love this post, it’s very similar to a post of mine below. It’s so scary opening up your innermost thoughts and feelings to your real friends and family, but it can also be quite freeing. My most helpful tip so far is just take a deep breath and do it! What’s the worst that can happen! Another tip for your blog is to make your tags visible – I received this tip recently and it’s really helped improve the reach of my site. Keep it up! https://craftingmylifeblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/14/on-being-a-scaredy-cat-fear-confidence-blogging-friendship/
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Thanks so much for your help. Though with my anxiety, the worst thing that could happen is a lot of things. I’ll definitely try the tags thing though, that seems like it would be awesome. Thanks for taking the time to read!
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I can relate. It’s really hard for me to be vulnerable and share my personal life. I haven’t connected my blog with my social media just yet. At least you made a twitter, that’s a good step!
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It’s nerve-wracking either way 😛 thanks for reading 🙂
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I can see why you would be a little freaked out about all of this. Just make sure you have certain security features set on each of your social media platforms that you are using to help protect yourself and only put out there what you want people to know! With technology changing how people do business, having a social media presence helps to promote your business ventures!
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https://angelacampbellblog.wordpress.com/blog/
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Great work. Your site is an inspirational read. Looking forward to following and reading more 🙂
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Thank you!
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Hi everyone,
I have been blogging for just under 2 months and have been so grateful to have gained a small following and people who are interested in my photography and writing.
I was wondering if someone could take the time to give my latest writing challenge a quick read. I take part in some of the one-word prompts. I was wondering if most people prefer that I include personal stories or if I should just talk about the word in general.
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I think personal stories are more effective — they let your readers get to know you. Generalizations are never as good as showing the depth of your connection to the prompt word as a specific story is. I liked your escalator story! 🙂
Would you check out one of my pieces? Click on my name and choose whichever one looks most interesting🙂
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Thank you for your feedback!
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Also I forgot to mention I did see your blog about Sit Still Look Pretty a few weeks ago and loved it!
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Thank you!! 🙂
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I loved the imagery on your blog! I think you should include personal stories on the one word prompts, although you could always switch between including them and not including. I also do a lot of writing and photography, if you want to check out my work click my name 🙂
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Thanks for your feedback 🙂
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Hi!
This Monday, I hope to make you chuckle with my newest post, a compilation of memes about the American election! Enjoy!
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I liked your post about the election memes and then I read about “This is Us”. I haven’t gotten a chance to watch it yet. I was going to start watching it but haven’t gotten around to it yet. I was more interested in seeing how Justin Hartley transitioned to it from doing soap operas!
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You should definitely watch it as soon as you can!
And Justin’s actually holding up pretty well. He had a great dramatic scene in the first episode that I was impressed with. As much as soaps are cheesy, I think it does help actors prepare for really dramatic scenes in other, better stuff.
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He was awesome as a soap star so it is cool to see him expand like this. Don’t know if you were aware, he also played on Smallville if you are into superhero shows like that!
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Yeah, he was Olive Queen, right? I am really into superhero shows but I haven’t yet gotten around to watching Smallville yet!
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Yes!
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Hey guys, I recently started making small posts with the title ‘Random Thoughts’ and this is the latest one. I would really appreciate some feedback, and I wanna know if you guys found it interesting or should I still to longer posts?
https://ramblingsofaboredteen.wordpress.com/2016/10/14/random-thoughts-5/
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hey!
I read a couple and really liked them. I like that they are short but witty, very enjoyable!
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Thank you for the feedback😊. Should I continue these, because the inspiration for these is very rare to come by, although I can write longer ones anytime I want to.
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If you can write longer ones, go for it! Don’t feel like you have to struggle to come up with something that is shorter, only when you have the inspiration for it 🙂
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Thanks a lot😊
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I thought they were good and funny.
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Thank you for the kind words 😊
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I like the short ones. Perhaps you could put your Random Thoughts posts in to a Category by that name. You could put your longer posts into one or more categories. Then you could add a Menu that shows your categories. It would make it convenient for visitors to find their favorites. https://gracelead.co
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Hmm I never thought about that😯. Thank you for the feedback and the advice😊
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I write short stories about love on my blog! please do give me some feedback/ advice 😊😊
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hey I really liked it that it was short and simple yet still had a lot of meaning behind it!
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Greetings.
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So do I! Will check yours out 😉
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Hi all, I recently wrote the piece on sharing your blog with friends and family. Turns out, it’s a lot easier to share it with the faceless masses, so here it is. All feedback (good or bad) welcome.
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Your post was a good read. I appreciate your point of view. The fear factor in sharing would be different depending on type of blog. My blog is not directly about me. It contains my thoughts on one topic, leadership. This makes for a low fear-factor in telling all my friends and family about it. Sure, they may still not like it; however, their disapproval won’t affect me as much as if I were sharing more personal topics. https://gracelead.co
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Interesting post. None of my friends/family know that I have a blog. I haven’t told any of them I guess out of fear of them judging me for my thoughts and opinions. It seems so much easier to have complete strangers who don’t know you to read your writings…they seem less judgmental!
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Hello! I have just started a book review site but I do not know how to make it so that the comments that anyone writes shows up on the page, not just my emails. Any other feedback would be useful. My site is RachelsReadsReviewsblog.wordpress.com
Thanks!
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Go into WPAdmin > Settings > Discussion. You may want to remove the check next to email required for comments. That way a person could comment directly from their blog as they are reading your post. I do advise that you keep the check beside comments must be manually approved. That way you decide if a comment is appropriate before it shows on your blog. Sadly, there are sometimes spam comments that come to you. https://gracelead.co
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Hi Rachel! I think the problem is that your ‘comment’ page is really a ‘contact’ page, so any submissions aren’t published as they aren’t meant to be. At the bottom of your ‘Books’ page there is a space for comment replies, and if someone was to comment there, then that would be public (assuming you approve the comment).
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Thanks! That makes sense!
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Today on sci.casual: water acting like ice, except it isn’t ice. All this and Tom Cruise dancing in his underwear for some reason. https://scicasual.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/getting-slick-on-friction/
(stop by, like, leave a comment, give me some feedback, or just have some fun!)
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Your post was a great read. I did, indeed, get slick on friction. https://gracelead.co
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Neat post. Thanks for making science less boring for me and probably many others!
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My latest post:
https://mattersofliving.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/cmhas-10-tips-for-mental-health/
My blog is about motivated, healthy and successful living. Looking for recommendations on topics I can cover in future and on the content so far.
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Hey check out my latest posts
http://www.shuvigautam.wordpress.com
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A short story on love and break up:
https://thoughtspublisher.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/a-breakup-triangle/
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Hey everyone! Here’s my blog:https://teenmemoir.com/
I would love to here some feedback
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A philosophical essay:
https://thoughtspublisher.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/what-a-man-should-be/
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Just commented. Nice content. Do you use tags? If not, consider it! They help new readers find your blog. You can have 15 tags and categories per post total.
Would you check out one of my pieces? Click on my name and choose whichever one looks most interesting🙂
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A very short story containing a great philosophical truth:
https://thoughtspublisher.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/smile-and-tear/
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Brazilians have to improve., I hope.
https://mariadario.org/2016/10/17/daily-prompt-10-urgent-rational-capabilities/
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Hello all!
Any Jane the Virgin fans here?? I sure am, and in honor of season 3 premiering today I whipped up a list about why I love this show.
Coming up this week I also have a new book review!
Looking forward to browsing your new posts as always!
https://missionincomplete95.wordpress.com
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Big fan here! I just left you a comment over on your blog, everything you say is so true!
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This is just so awesome…
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It really is! It allows bloggers to mingle and make friends and expand their blog!
Would love if you would check out mine 🙂
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