RECOMMENDED READING!!

Apologies for my lack of blogging this week but I have been fighting off a chest infection and cold, which I know seems terribly ironic when we are in the full swing of summer but its true I swear! Anyway...although I have had somewhat of a 'writers block' in my lempsip induced coma I have had plenty of time to read...and read I have!

I thought I would do this post on my recommended reading...in other words the blogs that I am absolutely loving at the moment. I love reading other peoples reading material and I end up finding blogs I had never seen before. I think its a great way to showcase each other in the blogging world, so here it goes...

HANNAH MAGGS Now in all honestly I would be completely and utterly shocked if any beauty or lifestyle blogger wasn't a huge fan of Hannah Maggs, I would genuinely be dumbfounded and have to ask why? She is my blogger inspiration and it was her blog that gave me the courage to start blogging myself. She touches on a whole range of subjects, including beauty, lifestyle and mummy posts. Now even though I am not a mummy myself I find her posts really reach out to the 'every day' person. She is so relatable and her writing style is incredible! She has an incredible youtube channel as well but she hasn't lost her blogging touch as she still posts regularly which is something I love. Often when people start youtubing they forget about there blog and I am so grateful she hasn't! Honestly, every women should grab yourself a drink and go on over and check her out...you are sure to become addicted.

SAZBOMB I found Sarah's blog and twitter and instantly became entranced. Her blog posts are all things I love and things that I myself like to write about. She recently did a post on things she was grateful for and I thought this was a really sweet idea. Its something that I would like to do in my blogging future as I love to read what makes other people happy. She is also kindly featuring me on her blog next month and I feel so grateful, I hope my blog will grow just like hers has in the future.

CIDER WITH ROSIE I have recently stumbled upon Rosie's blog as I think I found her in someone else's reading material and have instantly saved it into my bookmarks. First off, I need to point out that her layout is incredible and I had serious blogger envy...everything you would want from a blog is there and its so easy to navigate. I sound like such a loser but these things are important to me! She has two series that have been so inspiring to me as I love to read them; her 'From my home to yours' which shares the most incredible recipes and her '10 things that have made me happy this week' which is just a total feel good read.

THE ROSE AND POSE Christina is a relatively new blogger and I am amazed at how far her blog has come...I can only hope that in 6 months time my blog will look as sophisticated and successful as hers. Her beauty posts are incredible and offer genuine advice and can we please just mention how amazing her photography skills are. She really pushes me to be more creative with my photos.

COCOCHIC Stephanie has been a really great help for a new blogger like me as she often does posts on how to make your blog better, how to get more followers and just generally tricks and tips. I have found it really useful in finding my feet in the blogging world! Her post on how to promote your blog using social media was really great as it outlined all the twitter chats that I never knew existed! I would really recommend her blog if you are just starting out as a blogger...well I would just recommend her blog in general.

A LITTLE SOAPBOX  Again, Jill's blog has been a recent stumble of mine and I am sure she is to become one of my favourites. She recently did a book review post and I absolutely love it. I rarely see book review posts and its something I would like to start doing and she has given me the confidence to do so! I love reading and I think this is a great way to share reviews with each other!

Who have all of you been reading? I am always looking for a new read and I have a very quite and relaxed weekend planned so it would be great to get some new reading material!

Much love