Swiftly Painted Photo Challenge: October

As I mentioned before, I'm participating in the Swiftly Painted Photo Challenge! And oops, I'm a bit late in posting my October selfie and writing prompt but better late than never, right?! The prompt for October was: Reflect and respond to this statement: your followers follow you willingly. Create an image of what describes you as a blogger. Bonus points for little clues about what’s going on in your life.

This is my self portrait. It's messy, I'm not exactly smiling, my hair is in my face and you can't really understand anything about it and it's far from perfect. But that's me. Nowhere close to perfect. As a blogger, I'm not perfect either. I forget to post for days, or am constantly dreaming up new post and feature ideas and then fizzling out. I'm doing that in life too, btw. There are only a few real constants (mostly just cooking and food). I'm self concious and insecure, but some days I have confidence to spare. I'm all over the place.

My followers follow me willingly... but if I'm going to be perfectly honest, I'm not exactly sure why! I mean, I suppose it'd be for the same reason that I follow other people. Pure plain honest curiosity. 

My life is different than yours, and yours is different than mine, so why not check it out!

I'd love to hear from you though - why do you follow me? Why do you follow any of the blogs in your blogroll? Now I'm curious!

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The #SwiftlyPainted Self Portrait Challege

I have such a hard time taking photos of myself. Actually, I have a hard time when other people try and take my photo too. I'm so not photogenic. Even my lovely boyfriend likes to tell me that it takes more than a couple shots to get a good one. I don't know what it is, I have to smile in the mirror to freeze that face and then turn to the camera to get a good shot. Weird. Whatever. 

When Jessica from The Iris Blog and Annmarie from Simply Swift contacted me about their #SwiftlyPainted Self Portrait challenge I was so excited! A reason to post a selfie once a month? Deal! 

Basically the idea of the challenge is each month there is a writing/photo prompt. I love them all, but my favourites are:

November: Writing prompt: Describe a person place or thing that you depend on emotionally. Create an image of you with a mask / disguise.
March: Writing prompt: March (haha!) to the beat of your own drum. Create an image showing us your bold and true self. Don’t hold back.

June: Writing prompt: Air it all out to dry. What’s something your struggling with? Create an image striking a pose and give us your best pin-up look. (See what we did there… pin up your laundry to dry)

You can see all of the prompts here or here! These girls have obviously put a whole heap of effort into this, and it seems like so much fun so why not follow along! Go comment on one of their posts to get involved! I can't wait to get started, and I can't wait to see your entries too! 

Let me know if you're going to participate, I'm sure everyone is going to have an extremely unique take on every one of these prompts!!

                                     

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