Digital & Social Media Life - Quick Update!

Last month, I started my new journey to becoming the big shot, social media and digital marketing goddess which I long to be, I started my Digital Marketing & Social Media apprenticeship! I actually can't believe a month has gone by already to be totally honest, we're half way through 2014 already?! Can we just slow down please?  So, what have I been getting up to I hear you ask? Well the process is slightly slower than originally expected, however that is not to say that i'm bored and not doing anything. I am just getting into the swing of things!  The company I work for have no social media presence at all at the moment so I am literally the person my whole office is relying on to get things off the ground so all eyes are on me!  I have started putting a little SEO (search engine optimisation) & SMO (social media optimisation) techniques into all of our platforms so this means that more people who are wanting something from our industry are more likely to find us. Things which can help do this are keywords, update your social media platforms regularly because the more Google can see that you're keeping updated and your relevant to the search, the higher you're company will get when somebody searches your industry. Anyway, less of the boring stuff! I'm loving basically being a twitter busy body in the office and I can spend dayss on Pinterest if i'm not careful! I'm not doing too much tweeting at the moment as I'm just settling in but it's great keeping up to date with whats going on and having a nosy at our competitors! One of the most exciting moments was obviously sending out my first tweet! It's a really weird feeling knowing it's going to a totally different audience and whether they're going to accept you or not - although it's not like people even know that its me writing behind that screen so it's like a whole new way of re-inventing myself! Basically that's me in a nut shell, it's been a really great journey so far and i'm really looking forward to taking my company further, I think we're going to try and put an architecture blog together for our website which would be really exciting, if you have any thoughts on that, please let me know as I'm not sure how accepted it would be out there!  Look out for more updates coming soon, hopefully when we get our blog up and running! I wouldn't be having half the fun i'm having at the moment if it wasn't for my blog. I am loving being on this journey and following a dream I didn't even realise I had until recently so thank you everyone who has supported me this far and will continue doing so in the future!

Love,

Thoughts of a weekend with D!

Happy Sunday bloggers and readers and general internettes!  So it's the beginning of June, the sun is shining and the birds are singing away in the trees, is it fair to say that summer may have arrived here in England? I guess we'll be able to say in a couple of days time when the rain has made its way back, or if it has made its way back anyway!      

I have come to write to you today because I have had a lovely weekend with my dearly beloved D - my boyfriend. I think I have referred to him as D before just because I don't want to use real names as I don't think it's fair to him.
So I have been with my D this weekend and with the weather being lovely and us being together, we have just had a perfect weekend enjoying each others company. Have you thrown up yet? I'm sorry to be soppy but I realised that I actually hadn't blogged at all yet about the most important person in my life, so I thought I'd do a short little post showcasing our lovely relationship and what a lovely weekend we have had together. 
In total honesty we haven't been up to all that much, I think that's the beauty of being with somebody for so long, it's close to 2 years now since we started dating and one of my favourite things to do is stay in with a cup of tea, watch really cheesy movies and just talk about literally anything which is basically what our weekend has consisted of. 
Yesterday we caught up with a friend which was nice but our Saturday night was the best part of the day, spent cooking in the kitchen together followed by a good old dose of Britain's Got Talent, which I think it's getting a little past its sell by date now if I'm totally honest but still, good Saturday night tele all the same. We had a couple of ciders going and lots of cuddles filled with lots of love, it's ok, I'll pause for a second whilst you go and get a fresh sick bag... done? Ok carrying on... So now to my favourite part of our weekend, today! I'm just gonna put it out there that I love Sunday's, I don't get all these posts on the internet about Sunday's being the worst day of the week. I mean I get it that yeah it's Monday tomorrow and I really don't want to go back to work after having a lovely weekend however if there is one day in the week when you can do absolutely nothing and get away with it, Sunday is your day!  
As I mentioned at the start of the post, today the weather is stunning, which has obviously been an added reason to make this Sunday one of the best, apart from the fact I'm with D. Anyway we have obviously been in the sun, we went into our little home village to do a little bit of shopping and had a lovely walk together with D's dog in the sun leading to a perfect Sunday morning. Followed by a lovely lunch sat in the garden soaking up some rays of sunshine and passing the time talking about little random things. Next to another of my favourite things to pass the time on a Sunday afternoon, baking! That's right, any of you lovely couples out there want a cute little bonding session to pass some time, I definitely recommend getting your hands dirty with some lovely baking. It's great team work and just a lovely way to spend time with the one you love doing something fun and rewarding at the end, after all, who doesn't love licking the cake mix off the spoon?! And obviously the best part is when it's all finished and you can sit down with a cup of tea, put your feet up and have a slice of your home made bake! That's perfection right there and that is how me and my D will be spending the rest of our afternoon. Probably go and get some more sun with our home made bake as well at the end of it! 

Our final oh so sickly product!

I hope all of you have had a lovely weekend and your enjoying some sun where ever you may be! Grab that someone special, put on your apron and get baking, or just grab some beer and go and sit in the garden, which ever takes your fancy! 
Catch up again soon my lovelies,

My Favourite Celeb Couples of 2014 So Far!

Hello dear internetters! Long time no cyber speak! 
I'm sorry i've been away for a little bit, family issues got the better of me! Anyway I am back with a cute little post showcasing my obsession with celebrity couples! 
We all love a good gossip about the celeb world, who's dating who, who's breaking up, who's getting married etc. And at the moment the celeb couples are out in force with it being award season and all that. So I thought I would share my favourite celeb couples from the award season this year, the best looking and just the down right cuties! 

Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds 

Look how beautiful they are?! They have got to be one of the most attractive couples to ever grace the Met Gala red carpet! Ok so i'm slightly biased as one of my major girl crushes is Blake Lively after being obsessed with Gossip Girl but still, she looks beautiful in her baby pink ball gown and the best accessory on her arm in the form of Ryan Reynolds! 

Emma Stone & Andrew Garfield

Eeek I just love, love, love this couple! Again another fabulously good looking couple to grace the Met Gala red carpet. They seem, to me anyway, to just look perfect on each others arms. If any of you have seen The Amazing Spiderman 2, you will know what I mean when I say that they have the perfect chemistry on and off the screen, if you've not seen it, it is definitely worth a watch, even if it's just to swoon over this adorable couple! 

Aaron & Lauren Paul 

 The best part of Breaking Bad, in my opinion is Jesse, played by the lovely Aaron Paul. a brilliant actor and just the most adorable husband to the beautiful Lauren Parsekian. Here they are together at the Golden Globes this year showing each other off both looking adorable as ever. If you follow Aaron Paul and Lauren on instagram (my favourite app in the world) you will know just how loved up these two really are. They both literally worship each other and I think you can really see it when they are together. I just lav em! 

Gerard Pique & Shakira  

Now I have to admit I haven't really been following this couple much as they have been together so it's only recently that I have started to love them. I just think that they look great together and they act it as well! I've been reading that she loves to attend as many football matches of his when she can and he does the same for her when she if off touring etc. This was taken recently at the Billboard awards this year, for one I love Shakira's style anyway, her dress here is stunning and what better way to grace the Billboard carpet than all loved up with this hunk of of man on your arm?! Lush!

Beyonce & Jay Z 

So my final favey celeb couple is Beyonce & Jay Z. Could I have done a list of favourite celeb couples without them? Oh god no! They are THE power couple of our whole generation if i'm totally honest and I just don't know what a red carpet would look like without them holding on to each others hands - which I think is adorable that they actually do that... Sometimes I feel so silly when I hold my boyfriends hand but its comforting and just oh so cute in my opinion! This couple is a match made in heaven, you can tell that they adore each other and they are each others best feature, and the best to conclude my favourite celeb couples of the year so far!

Are you obsessed with celebrity gossip? Which celebrity couple are you so obsessed with at the moment? Leave a comment and let me know, we can gossip together!

Love,

Tips From A Beginner, To A Beginner!

Happy Wednesday lovelies. Today is a landmark day in the world of Trixybelle, a very tiny landmark, but a landmark all the same!    So this is my 10th post *little cheer* my first very small scale blogging achievement. And even though in the blogging world it is a small achievement, it's an achievement to me! 

So to celebrate my little achievement, I thought I would share some tips of what I have learnt so far being a beginner in the blogging world, to anyone out there who is just starting out as well!    1. Go For it!  When I first started out I wasn't really sure if blogging was the thing for me, I didn't really have a niche or a set topic so I thought I would just be trying to write about things but people wouldn't care and no one would read. However I was totally wrong. Although sometimes I do get worried that I am going slightly under the radar, it's all about getting yourself out there, social media will become your best friend! If I do get slightly down about not getting noticed, I remember how much I love blogging. I love being able to be me and people read about things I love and getting good feedback on a post you've written is a really encouraging feeling! If you're reading this thinking about blogging but are not sure it is something for you, just do it, go for it! It's the best thing I have ever done and when I look back to the beginning of my journey I really wouldn't change anything. Be who you are, blog about what you want and readers will enjoy anything. You will be surprised at what people actually want to read about on the internet! 

Or Guy...

2. Get Glipho

One of the best tips I have received so far is to join Glipho. It is a social site where you can promote your blog and get it noticed more. You can choose a category which best suits your blog post so it gets trending more on the site. All you have to do is import your posts on to the site. It's a really easy site to use and a great way to connect with other bloggers like you and also do some great self promoting! Also if you share your post on twitter through Glipho, the team are great at promoting your blog for you so they will retweet your tweet or do a tweet for you, promoting your new post. Really easy to use and it has kept me blogging, otherwise I really would feel like I was slipping under the radar. There are other sites like Glipho, for example Bloglovin' which I have signed up for but don't actually use as I feel it's slightly over complicated and Glipho is a lot easier to use in my opinion, but for more views I would recommend having both as the more sights you share your blog on, the more you'll get noticed. 

3. Don't be scared of being you.

Something which really shocked me being a blogger was how much people actually like to read something which seems more personal. Don't be afraid to put yourself out there, if you have an idea of a post which you think you would like to read - majority of the time, this means that someone else will want to read it too!  Obviously I'm not saying throw your whole life out there but I know that I love reading blog posts which are a little bit personal to someone, it's great feeling like you're getting to know the writer without even talking to them. So if you are thinking of doing a personal blog but you're worried that people wont want to read it, don't be, referring back to my first point - Go for it! 

4. Twitter

Twitter is really really useful for bloggers. The use of the # is really key for getting your blog noticed for example #fbloggers #bbloggers #lbloggers are the main tags to use for fashion, beauty and lifestyle bloggers, I know that I follow what goes on so other people definitely will be. It's great to get your blog out there. Also twitter communities are great, there are a couple of chats which you can follow through the week for example - #fblchat, #bloggerspace  are a couple of chats which go on during the week, you can follow these on twitter and get chatting. I've met loads of new people through the chats and again - a great way to get your blog out there and noticed. Also people on twitter are lovely so any questions which you have about the blogging world, I have always found the answer through asking these chats, everyone is always glad to help and you can learn loads of cool tips and tricks of the trade! Take a look, #fblchat every Tuesday night 8pm - 9pm. #bloggerspace every Thursday night 7pm - 8pm. 

Images Images Images! 

The best blogs to read in my opinion are the ones which have lots of images. They are a great way of breaking up text so that people don't get put of my large amounts of essay like text when they log onto your blog! And they can make your blog look great and also add a sense of humour, everybody loves a good meme right?! Google is your oyster, have a look at anything you like, I could spend hours looking at Google images collecting funny little images for my blog, it's great. Not just Google either, images can be used to make your blog seem more personal by adding a quick selfie or a picture of something you've recently done/somewhere you've been! 

I hope my tips have been helpful to you and if you are thinking of blogging but not sure, go for it, it's the best thing you'll ever do! 

I hope the next 10 posts of mine will keep me going strong as a blogger and I'm sure there will be many stories to come, you can follow my journey to becoming a successful blogger right here! See you soon!

 

Thoughts From A Sunday Afternoon - Tips From a Happy Trixybelle!

Well good afternoon you lovely lot! It is a very sunny Sunday afternoon where I am sat writing to you. This is making me feel slightly better about the fact that it's Sunday and I have to go back to wotk tomorrow after a week off doing nothing but watching Gossip Girl - I appreciate your sypathy.
 

 

A non related to the post comment - Ok so I was just having a look through google to see if I could find a cool Gossip Girl meme to add to this post only to find out the secret identity of Gossip Girl not reveiled until the very end and i've not even seen all of the episodes yet... what was I thinking?! I'm devastated, I'm just going to go and make some tea and try to erase my memory...

 

A cup of tea later and I'm back to being excited and happy, memory as much erased as possible...

 

I do actually have a reason to me writing to you today, it's the fact that I have just had my blog redesigned - thank's for noticing - and also the fact that even though tomorrow is Monday, it's the start of my new job role as Digital Marketing & Social Media apprentice! So my life is totally happy and exciting right now!

 

With all my new found excitement at the moment, I thought I would share with you my top 3 tips to stay happy (these are the top 3 of trixybelle so not totally serious!)

 

1. Drinking Tea

I love a good cup of tea - milk 2 sugars please - and I find that what ever the problem or the celebration, a cup of tea always has a worthy part to play. It's just an all round crowd pleaser. I couldn't imagine my life without tea, it's absolutely sunken into my daily routine and if I miss a cup throughout the day, I sure do know about it! If you don't already, I advise introducing tea into your life. This is not me saying become addicted I just mean next time you feel you need to relax, celbrate or just have a good cry - put the kettle on and make a brew, I assure you, you'll just feel good!
 

 

 

2. Get A Cat

So I have posted previously about my love for cats (which you can read here) and as well as them just making a home an all round better place, they manage to make you happy too. As I'm sure any pet will do, I'm just obsessed with cats... Anyway cats seem to have a special way about them which just puts a smile on your face as soon as you see them. Whether they are sat on your bed when you come home from work or they are fussing for attention around you just for some food, what ever it is, it is sure to put a smile on your face and in my opinion, a key to keeping happy! - You could alternatively look at cat videos on the internet... now theres a guarenteed smile if ever you wanted one!

 

 

 

 3. Do Some Shopping!
Every girl knows that one of the best ways to cheer herself up is to get some retail theropy. Even when it's just a day when you're feeling quite happy with yourself it's usualy "Hmm, today is a good day, I think i'll do some shopping!"

I usually tend to attempt to buy a whole new wardrobe when I'm feeling good about life and myself, until I realise that I have a limited budget so a whole new wardrobe is slightly out of the question but still, here's to wishful thinking! Whether it's clothes, make-up, jewelry, food literally anything I always like to treat myself to something when I'm in a good mood, I think its esential if i'm honest, us girls all deserve a treat from time to time right?

 

 

I hope you feel slightly happier after reading my blog and if not, then try my top 3 tips and i'm sure in no time those Sunday blues will be right out of the window!

 

If you have some other tips of keeping happy then let me know, I would love to try some new things and share some ideas.

 

 

P.s: If you are loving my new blog design like my happy self, take a look at Sarah Clarke at http://sarahsmilesdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/ she is lovely and a brilliant designer as you can see!