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How to Grow Your Instagram Following + List of Useful Hashtags

Posted on 02/09/2017

It’s no secret that Instagram is a key part in blogging success. People are visual and Instagram is a great way to share your blog content, as well as bits and pieces of your everyday life. Instagram has always been our favorite social media platform, for obvious reasons. When we first started our Instagram account we used it to promote Twinspiration, and only Twinspiration. While it was a great way to share new content with our audience it was also…

How We Edit Our Instagram Photos + Flat Lay Tips

Posted on 01/30/2017

Instagram has become such a guessing game in recent months. You may think you’re putting out your best work only to be left with minimal engagement. While the algorithm change is frustrating (to say the least) Carli and I are still trying to maintain the look and feel of our feed, even if our engagement rates aren’t where we want them to be. To us Instagram is still a place to share snippets from our blog and our life and…

Blogging Tips DIY

Tools Every Crafter Needs

Posted on 08/11/2016

Britta and I have been crafting for some time now, so we’ve gathered certain craft supplies that we MUST have on hand at all times. We’ve also found certain tools that are so useful, we don’t know how we ever lived without them (I’m looking at you spray paint gun). If you’re a DIYer, crafter or anything in between, we hope you find this list helpful! Spray Paint Gun Could be the best $6 we’ve ever spent. The gun ensures…

Advice Blogging Tips

How To Customize Your Snapcode

Posted on 07/18/2016

Anyone else not the biggest fan of the Snapchat yellow? Britta and I wanted to put our Snapcode on this blog’s sidebar & our social accounts so people could easily follow us, but the yellow just didn’t fit with our brand. I searched high & low for tutorials on how to customize your Snapcode and couldn’t really find simple instructions that got the job done fast. I’m no Photoshop pro and even I was able to change our Snapcode color…

Advice Blogging Tips

Our Photography Essentials

Posted on 06/13/2016

Updated April 2023: We saw this post was getting more views from Pinterest and wanted to tell you some updates to our photography essentials from 2016 (7 years ago!). We’ve been using the Canon 6D camera with the Sigma 24-105mm zoom lens for a few years now and it’s been amazing. A zoom lens is such a game changer since we mainly do product photography and sometimes you want to get macro shots but you don’t want to swap out…

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