{ Bloggers Stripped Bare }

Today is Bloggers Without Make-up Day. I wasn't aware. But now I am, thanks to Chantelle, Lou and Jodie, the blogger that started it all.

Lots of different people blog for lots of different reasons. I started blogging to promote my new and growing business. Here though I share lots of little things about my life, my home, my photography. This blog is definitely not all minky blankets and peg boards. I like to share things that inspire me, things that I think should be heard or quite possibly things that nobody gives a hoot about!

As much as blogland is a real community that has somewhat taken on a life of its own that nobody can quite control or pinpoint, I think sometimes there is a lot of pressure to 'blog well'. Reading different blogs you can get the sense that you don't measure up, these lives, these homes, these families are so perfect. It's horrible but it's true. Blogging to me is about sharing and writing, if people want to read and view that's great, if not that's okay too. And I'm pretty sure people wouldn't want to hear about how hideous your life is, so a lot of very successful blogs are full of self promotion of their fabulousness. Fair enough.

This 'movement' of sorts, Bloggers Without Make-up Day, celebrates the everyday ordinariness of the faces behind the blogs we read religiously. Maybe you'll see peoples lives differently, they aren't always perfect, their lives aren't always idyllic and sometimes it just doesn't all smell of roses.

Reality. Smacking you in the face. Take it or leave it.

Have a lovely weekend, what are you up to? I have absolutely nothing planned!