Blogging and Friendship

It’s something that I get asked quite a bit – what is my favourite thing about blogging. I’d say without a doubt, the best thing that blogging has given me is some amazing friendships. I’ve met some lovely ladies that I’m honored to call friends. Not all I’ve gotten round to meeting ‘in real life’ yet we chat about this and that and everything in between online all of the time.

Fritha messaged me awhile ago, about a project Argento were running – a ‘friend it forward’ campaign. Fritha picked me to send her friendship bracelet too :)

I can’t remember quite how/when Fritha and I first ‘met’/ I know it was on Twitter, and around two and a half years ago {that I know because she was expecting the lovely Wilf at the time!} We started chatting, about life, and motherhood, and goondess knows what else. The rest, as they say, is history… I guestposted on Fritha’s blog, she guestposted on mine {I think this is some kind of blogger friendship rite of passage!!} and ever since we’ve been friends.

I love Fritha… our attitudes to motherhood match up, as does our outlook on life, she’s a great person to chat to, and has cheered me up on many occasion. I feel lucky to call her a friend {and cannot wait for Blogtacular so we can finally meet in person!!}. Plus she has amazing taste – I could quite happily buy every. single. thing in her shop! {I love this top that I did buy}

Friendship keeps me going. I still chat to my best friend from when I was 7. She was the person who looked after me when I started a new school, showed me around, played with me and 25 years later we are still great friends. My other best friend is the first person that I met when we moved here to Wrexham. Miss Lola, who was only 1, walked up to this stranger sitting in a park, and started riffling through her handbag – thankfully we’ve been friends ever since!!

As a part of this ‘friend it forward’ campaign I’m nominating three more lovely bloggers to share their stories of blogger friendships with us:

Beth from Deer Little Fawn – she’s one of the loveliest bloggers out there, hers was one of the very first blogs I started reading, and one of my first blogger friends.

Emma from Emma Deer – a beautiful, super kind lady with a fabulous blog that I’m thrilled to call a friend and

Talie from Thistledown Dreamer – someone I’ve  known online since before my blogging days, though we’ve never met, who’s always been there when I’ve needed  a friend.

That was so hard to nominate three! So many lovely ladies I have as friends {Lauren, Kelly, Emily, Rose… I could go on all day!}

If you want to play along, tweet/facebook/instagram your post with the #frienditforward hastag -and be sure to leave me a link – I’d love to read your posts!

Argento sent Fritha and I a friendship bracelet for writing this post – but all words and thoughts are mine.