Round ‘Em Up : Blogger Resources

I decided that it’s been far too long since I did a Roundup, but I wanted to do one today with a little twist. I spent most of last night redesigning my blog (what do you think?!) and I know that a lot of bloggers had ‘blog resolutions’ this year, so I thought I would do a roundup of the best blog resources, tools and tips I’ve found.

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♥ My social media icons are from Carrie Loves. There are THIRTY different colours (including GLITTER!), and the set includes buttons for BlogLovin’, Chictopia, Etsy, Facebook, Email, Instragram, LinkedIn, Hello Cotton, Google+, Flickr, Pinterest, RSS, Society+, Stumble Upon, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo & YouTube. You can get them here.

♥ I don’t have Photoshop, so I use PicMonkey if I need to tweak a picture, or Mosaic Maker for collages and Instagram posts.

♥ August Empress is where my triangle-y background was from (I’m still using it on my blog button), and there are lots of other resources on this blog. There’s also a shop full of goodies.

♥ Pugly Pixel is fantastic for inspiration, and if you have photoshop, there are freebies and tutorials to show you how to do cool stuff.

♥ Elsie’s Tips for Bloggers and How to Start your Blog with a Bang articles are awesome, as is IFB’s Blog Tips & Tricks Pinterest.

♥ Kyla Roma’s Finding Your Voice as a Blogger & Writing Your Best Blog was super helpful, and she’s also written Get your Blog Love Back for if you’re feeling a bit out of love with your blog.

♥ Sign up to Bloglovin’ and Hello Cotton. If people can easily see new posts from you, they’ll check back more often, and it gives you a way of following other blogs too.

♥ Finally, I’d also massively recommend taking part in one of the bloggers chats on Twitter if you don’t already. I’ve found so many great blogs through #lbloggers, and there are lots of different ones depending on what you blog and who for!

I hope that some of this has been helpful! If you use any of it, please ping me a comment, I’d love to hear what you think, and if you have any blogging resources that you think are amazing, let me know!