11.14.2017

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I am very happy to announce that Design Life Hacks has been nominated for the Blogger Recognition Award! After many topics and posts that I’ve covered, I’m glad that I still can create interesting content. 😊

What is the Blogger Recognition Award?

Blogger Recognition Award is given to bloggers by bloggers to encourage and acknowledge the hard work and effort that goes into creating posts. It’s an opportunity for bloggers to recognize one another for each of our contributions. A big thanks to Emilia Cantero Dieguez from The Green Choice for the nomination!

How my blog started?

Living in the Bay Area in California, located in the United States of America, life can be pretty stressful. Nationally, a middle class yearly income for a household of three people is considered to be between $42,000 and $125,000, according to the Pew Research Center. Low-income would be anything under $42,000 and upper-income is above $125,000. Here in the Bay Area, an income of $100,000 is now considered low income.

I believe that if I can share a design hack to make life more simplistic and easier to manage, I should. Transitioning into a zero waste lifestyle started this momentum for my blog. Living a zero waste lifestyle made life simple, cleaning became quick and easy, I even saved money and minimized the errands I had to run during my free time. My daily routine improved and I enjoyed going to work each day as well as coming home and relaxing. You can read more about my story here.

Two pieces of advice if you just start with your blog:

• Schedule out what topic you want to talk about and how to correlate them with your social media. Also, stay on top of your social media.

• Network, network, network… find bloggers who blog about similar topics as you and collaborate with them. Whatever the purpose of your blog , finding a community to share your ideas and posts with will greatly help expand your viewing statistics and increase visitors to your website.

My nominees!

• Christina Kamp > Little Sprouts Learning
• Susannah Shmurak > Healthy Green Savvy
• Kayla Kamp > Ever Change Productions
• Rosie Hill > A Green and Rosie Life
• Katy Lauderdale > Skip The Bag
• Lyndsey Clayton > Monsoon of Random
• Emilie Bradford > and the bee
• Amruta Kshemkalyani Tavkar > Sustainability Tribe
• Nadine E. Boo > The Zero Journey
• Doris Neubauer > Nomad Ocean
• Justine Rose >  LittleGreen Duckie
• Laura Dee > The Mindful Mom Blographer
• Lori Starling > The Elephant Mum
• Polly Barks > Green Indy Blog
• Abbie Burgess > The Pink Paperdoll

When you are nominated, there are a few simple steps that you need to take to accept the award nomination. These are the guidelines:

1. Write a post about your award

2. Thank the blogger who nominated you and provide a link to her blog

3. Give a brief story of how your blog started

4. Give two pieces of advice for new bloggers

5. Select up to 15 other bloggers to nominate

6. Comment on each blog and let them know you have nominated them and provide the link to the post you created.

Congratulations to all nominees! You are an inspiration to me! Once again, many thanks to Emilia, from The Green Choice, for nominating Design Life Hacks.

With Love Always,

Yen-Van Tran