Hello all the lovelies from My Crazy Beautiful life blog, I am so excited to be a featured pinner on Denyse’s blog. I am DeDe Bailey, I live in Canton, Ohio. I have lived in Ohio all of my life and my dream is to move south (North or South Carolina) once my youngest has graduated from High School. So that is 2 years 4 months and a few days, but who is counting? I have been blessed with the opportunity to leave the corporate world and be a stay at home mom. My situation is a little backwards, in that my children are older and not young and impressionable. I have 4 handsome young men. The older 2 are my step sons, Alex 24 and Spencer 22. My sons are Mack 19 and Mitch 16. I was given the opportunity to leave my job and pursue my home based business and to enjoy my boys’ high school years before they are off starting their own lives. I love to craft, create, re-purpose bake and organize. You can see all the inspirations I have on my Pinterest boards
When did you first start blogging?* I started blogging in April of 2012, so I am approaching my 1 year blog anniversary.
What inspired you to blog?* I first decided to blog to bring traffic to my Etsy shop. I did a little research on SEO and every site stated a blog can increase your traffic for your online business. I am NOT a writer and English was my least favorite subject in school, so blogging to me seemed to out of my comfort zone. I starting to find all these really great blogs and a lot of the blogs stated that is you blog about your passions, you don’t’ have to be a great writer. I decided I can do this. So it began.
What do you blog about?* I blog about handmade, decorating and just plain living. My blog posts are usually on the current house projects that I am working on, re-purposing furniture, making crafts and baking. Since these are the passions I have, these are the things that I blog about.
What is the best thing about blogging?* Wow, where do I begin on this one? As I stated before, I started to blog to increase traffic to my shop and have fallen in love with the blogging aspect. I love the friends that I am meeting in the blog world and the support that they all give. I love the opportunities that can be mine with a little hard work. I love the freedom to create and then to be able to share it with the world. I love how much that I have learned about seo, blogging and how to build my own site. The resources online are endless. I love the fact that I can build my blog as big as I would like or just keep it small, the choice is mine. Blogging has given me an inner joy that shows in all that I do. Oh course I have to thank my wonderful husband for the opportunity, to stay at home and do what I would have never thought would bring me so much joy!
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Hi DeDe! Small world! I'm in Canton, too! :-) I look forward to following you on Pinterest and checking out your blog.
ReplyDelete-Jen @ deJongDreamHouse.com