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Top: Free People | Jeans: Madewell | Boots: Similar | Bag: Rebecca Minkoff | Necklace: Taudrey | Bracelets: Kendra Scott, ℅ Gorjana | Lip: Mac ‘Rebel’
Guys, do you want to know something crazy? This, right here, is the 500th post I’ve published to the blog. Time certainly flies when you’re having fun!
It hasn’t been easy to get to this 500th post and this actually isn’t the first blog I’ve ever started. Fun fact, I launched my first blog when I was 10. On a platform called expage.com (RIP). My webpage had a lot of cartoon dolls on it. LOLOLOL. As a 10-year-old child prodigy baby nerd, I taught myself basic HTML coding and CSS and whipped up my own layouts (they got better over time, I promise). I’m really glad that platform is defunct, because I would rather the world not know what I had to say 15 years ago, haha!
I took a lot of random unplanned blogging breaks back when I first started this blog, almost quit a few times and sometimes I got discouraged. However, I stuck through it all because blogging has just become a huge part of my life that I’ve fallen in love with. I know now to leave a few hours open on Sundays to plan content for the upcoming week, my planner is filled with random blog events, and the blogging friends I’ve made have become some of my best friends! Seriously, what else would I be doing with my spare time if I didn’t have this baby?
Here are a few of my favorite posts from over the years:
- My very first outfit post (eek!)
- My three part series with Ann Taylor (Posts One, Two and Three)
- My very first collab with other D.C. bloggers
- One of the many collabs between me and my favorite store, South Moon Under
- This recent shoot with It’s Julien
Most importantly, thank you to everyone who reads this little blog! It means the world to me, and I couldn’t do what I love without you all. You da real MVPS! Here’s to the next 500 posts.
Congrats love! I’m so excited to see all that you accomplish and am SO happy we’re blogger bffs!
XO Corbin Tate
Classy South Blog
Congratulations on your 500th post, that’s amazing! I LOVE this look. I had to go back and pin it because I was like, “this bag” and the photography is perfectly on point too. Love that bag, the way you put those colors into symmetry. Just yes!
So, so happy for you! Thanks for being such an inspiration!
Love this casual, everyday look!
Liv
http://www.livforstyle.net
Congrats on 500! Can’t wait to see where this blog takes you next!
Pink Champagne Problems
I have almost an identical top by DKNY- love the relaxed feel! And oh my goodness congrats on the big 5-0-0! So much more wonderfulness to come from this little blog of yours, I know it!
Xx Taylor
http://lightscameracatwalk.com
Congrats, Alicia!! That is so, so awesome! Thank you for continuing to post genuine and inspiring blog posts! I hope to create a community of bloggers in the Sacramento area, but it the community is pretty small here!
Lisa
everydayelevated.blogspot.com
Congratulations on 500 posts! That’s such an amazing feat and I can’t wait to keep reading your blog. You’re truly an inspiration for me and I hope to be as big a blogger as you one day!
love your style. Congrats on your 500th post 🙂
Congrats on your blog milestone! I remember those pages and their kind! I had a Geocities one complete with an autodiverter with my username. And there was Livejournal, which I still use to read friends’s entries.
omg I have a very similar blogging origin story! My first page was a blogspot blog, but I had a ton of cut-and-paste html “avatars” just plastered all over the place. So embarrassing! It’s still live online to this day because I’ve long forgotten the password. Oops!
Congrats on making it to 500 posts! This outfit is so killer!!
Jess // @jssbckly