Meet my amazing birthday month advertisers!

It’s finally March! We’ve made it through another month of 2021 and I’m so proud of us. Also this is the month where we finally get to start smelling those delicious spring smells in the air.

March brings all kinds of hope with it and I’m excited to embrace it this year. You can read more about what I’m looking forward to in March 2021 here. It also brings a brand new bunch of advertisers that I have the absolute honour of introducing you to. How exciting!

I open up my blog to other bloggers for advertising at the start of this month and share their content with you. It’s lovely to be able to support other bloggers with their backlinks and DA growth, but it also provides me with some income to keep my blog going and help me pay my bills!

Please check out their content and support their growth, I’m thrilled to have such wonderful folk here.

Kayleigh Zara

You’ll find all kinds of different content over on Kayleigh’s blog, but my personal favourites are her posts about blogging. She’s genuinely been a huge help and inspiration to me and is absolutely one of the reasons my blog has seen so much growth so far in 2021.

Her blog has so much helpful content on it, particularly for blog improvement and monetisation. Recent posts of hers that I recommend include this really honest and important post about how she actually paid off over £16k in debt and the 10 best affiliate marketing programs for beginners.

I am book mad

I am book mad, written by UK based Beth, is one of the loveliest blogs out there; I absolutely love book blogs and Beth is very open and authentic. One of my favourite things about I am book mad is the use of regular series that helps you know what to expect from the content.

Beth creates a Friday Fiction series and, my favourite, a Monday Motivation series to help give your week some GO! Read the latest from Monday Motivation here. I also really appreciated Will this be the end to staying inside? which reflected some of my own thoughts and fears around transitioning back to “normal” after so much time isolated from friends and family. Well worth a read.

Gemmaa Jayne

Gemmaa Jayne is a returning advertiser who shares content on travel, lifestyle, health and fitness and has a big interest in psychology. Her blog is such a positive and inspirational place to be and many of the posts are incredibly helpful for mental health and self care.

Her recent post about spring cleaning your bedroom in 9 steps really breaks down a daunting task into manageable chunks and makes it seem less scary. I also loved reading 8 small actions to improve your life today and I really needed to read it!

The Unpredicted Page

Run by Amber Page, a Nottingham based accounting and finance student, The Unpredicted Page started as a lockdown blog in April 2020 and Amber describes starting her blog as “the best decision [she] made”. Content on the blog comes under 3 main categories: life advice, health and beauty and blogging tips. Being a new blogger is exciting and I’m so excited to follow Amber’s journey.

You might be interested in her latest blog, Best cities for living alone, which compares 4 different US cities for solo living. Could be useful to read, if you’re planning to relocate soon! I also absolutely love FOMO and its effects on your happiness and think it’s going to be super relevant over the coming months as global restrictions ease.

Good Shit Daily

Run by one of my favourite people, I first found Good Shit Daily via Twitter a couple of years ago. One of the many things I love about this blog is how compassionate, caring and real this blog is. The author’s goal is to allow the blog to be a lens for how recovery is possible through emotional pain.

There’s no sugar coating in this blog, it provides incredible and relatable insight into what the author’s going through and the ups and downs of grief. She is currently working through 1001 albums you must hear before you die and you can read the latest post in the series here. She also shared Things that got me through 2020 at the start of the year, which is important for those of us who are struggling!

Naomi Rowan

Next up is Naomi Rowan; a blog about beauty, lifestyle, fashion, crafts, and plants. Naomi is from the Highlands but is currently studying in London and, as someone who also says “hi” to dogs that I pass, I really feel like she’s a kindred spirit.

In her latest post, Decorating with wall art, she shares how she has compensated for the lack of countryside views from her window with selected art prints and how it’s made her room feel more homely. I also love her easy to follow guide on how to start a bullet journal in 5 steps as I know it can be intimidating and overwhelming to get started!

Little lungs heavy heart

Now say hello to Steph of Little lungs heavy heart, a daily blog about living with anxiety and panic attacks. Posts share the realities of living with anxiety each day, including the difficulties and hopeful moments of recovery. I found the blog incredibly moving and relatable and can’t help but see my own anxiety reflected in Steph’s experiences.

The individual posts are quite short, which makes for easier reading, especially for those of us who struggle to focus on long form articles and find them overwhelming. <anxiety> then vs now is a wonderfully reflection on how a journey can change with time and looks back at a period when Steph was having nightly panic attacks. I also found Anxiety + colder winter really interesting and it made me think about how my mental health changes with the seasons.

Actually, You can!

You need to check out this informative and hopeful blog about mental health, autism and rheumatoid arthritis. I found this blog recently and was really impressed by how informative it was. The blogger is clearly passionate and positive and shares the experiences of others on the site too!

I think all of the posts on this blog are actually very important and that you should try to spend some time familiarising yourself with the website. Some of the articles are incredibly moving, and I feel like absolutely everybody should read both Pandemically Speaking and The Apologisers; both of them reflections of the very different ways society demonstrates its empathy (or lack of) towards disabled people.

Life with Ktkinnes

Gosh, what an absolutely lovely blog this is! Just the colourful header makes me feel so welcome. Katie, the blogger behind Ktkinnes, shares all kinds of content on her blog, including articles about wellness, self love and self acceptance (which are some of my all time favourite blog categories to browse).

You’ll probably know by now that I *LOVE* home decor posts, especially ones that also showcase an opportunity to get my DIY on or get a bit crafty and I really loved this post on reupholstering (which I know is a huge undertaking). Katie also addresses some pretty serious and important topics on her blog like this Borderline Personality Disorder FAQ, which I found really interesting!

House of Hyde

Last, but definitely not least, is the wonderful House of Hyde. I ordered the Twilight Bliss candle last month and it smelled absolutely delicious. 10/10 would recommend. This small business is close to my heart, because it’s owned by one of my best friends, lifestyle blogger Billie Geena, who is just an all round fabulous human.

The candles are all vegan, handmade and designed by Billie, who was kind enough to also send me one of the Crème Anglaise candles with my order (as well as a bottle of Henderson’s Relish, which we can’t get here in Wales! – what an absolute angel!) and it smells absolutely DIVINE. My lil cottage just smells so wonderful now!

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