What is Blogtober & why am I taking part?

Back in my early days of blogging, I took part in lots of ‘linkys’, blog challenges and more. I never really saw Blogtober mentioned in blogs, maybe I was missing them? Who knows. I did watch the videos on Youtube from Zoe Sugg when she did Blogtober and I loved watching those. Throughout Blogtober, I aim to bring you all fresh, fun and engaging content. I also aim to reach new people to follow and network with as well as delve into something, in my 8yrs of blogging, I have never done before!

What is Blogtober?

This is a global challenge {which I had no idea about!} where bloggers publish a blog post every single day throughout October. It gives me a good excuse to clear out some of my blog post drafts {they’ve built up, let me tell you!}. There will be link-ups available all over the blogging community to network and share the Blogtober love and have your posts enjoyed by others joining in on the October challenge. There will even be a hashtag, which will be #Blogtober21 when sharing your content on social media.

Being an October challenge, your posts just don’t have to be about Halloween. I was actually torn between participating in Blogtober or Blogoween. I’m a huge Halloween fan and Blogoween would have been so much fun to take part in. I do have the content to fill the month of October, too with Halloween related posts! Maybe next year, eh? However, due to my indecisiveness, I put it to the vote of my Instagram followers. It was a close call, I have to say, but Blogtober won.

What to expect? 

I am aiming to share a range of fun posts which is new content, that I am excited to share with everyone. I’m also planning to share a few recipes and some crafts. There will be a sprinkling of Halloween content in there, free printables and I might even revisit some old content. Either way, I will have 31 engaging posts to entice you all with throughout October and I am so excited to be taking part. I will be sharing everything over on my Instagram too!

Planning out my Blogtober content

I have been a busy little working Mum & Blogger because I have 31 posts all planned out. Now? I just need to get them all written up and social content created too. However, I do have a plan. A cunning plan to which I hope pans out because our lifestyle is a crazy one.

There is never a quiet day or a dull moment. So, if I pull off Blogtober? I am going to be pretty stoked at myself! Who knows, I might even consider Blogmas! But no more mention of ‘C’ before Halloween, right? It’s like a law or something…

National Days to join in with!

There are lots of lovely and fun National Days to create content for throughout October. Such as National Homemade Cookies day, Cinnamon bun day, Yorkshire pudding day and so many more. I might drop a few in there, you will just have to wait and see! But there are lots of fun National Days to take part in if you fancied joining in with Blogtober yourself!

Will you join me on my Blogtober journey?

So, there you have it. I am taking part in Blogtober. I do hope you will stop by, check out my daily content and enjoy it too! This is the first-ever monthly blog challenge that I will be taking part in. So your support is very much appreciated. Consider this Blogtober post #1 – a little introduction of sorts if you will. Stop by for Day#2 tomorrow! 

I’m excited to bring Blogtober to you!