Yeah, yeah, yeah - I know, I know. "Weekly" is a somewhat aspirational term for this. Hmmm.

Anyway, the new newsletter has gone out! You can read it HERE, and you can have updates sent direct to your inbox HERE.

This week's update includes;

- BOTM November
- Confessions of a Shopaholic
- The Guardian's Fashion Statement & Saving Luella
- New badges/logos etc
- Christmas plea!

LoveLoveLove

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Hey! :)

Sorry that there wasn't an update last week - I have pretty much been flat-out dead for a week!

This week's weekly update, to include...

- Columnists intrduction!
- Timeless Fifty Fashions
- Facebook
- Survey
- And FAQs

Make sure you click & read!

LoveLoveLove

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To see the entire e-mail, please click this link:
http://aardvarkmailinglist.net/s/ep/?e=12670&s=278541SYW

Wow, I'm so sorry that I didn't manage to get this done yesterday - I was at the theatre, dontcha know?

Anyway, it's going out to the mailing list, right now - so sign up to that if you want the info!

LoveLoveLove

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The short answer: A lot.

The long answer:

Well...

I realised a while back that I wasn't happy with British Style Bloggers the way that it was, and I didn't want it to get forgotten about, or to go to waste, because of that. I still think that it's a really good idea, and that British Style Bloggers need to have a place to congregate - and that this may well be the place...

So I decided to do something about it.

I set up the BSB Survey to help me work out what to do, to change things, and I think that it's helped me a lot.

So, this is what's going to happen...

• We're completely re-designing. I like what we have here, but it's a bit childish and gawdy... I chose the colours because (duh) of the Union Jack, but I think they look a bit... tacky as they are. The new home page is going to look like this:
  
  



and it's going to come into effect pretty soon. I want to launch the whole new look together, though, so I'm a-waitin' for that!

• We're also getting a new logo, designed especially for us by the wonderful Claire Napier. She's sketched a draft for me, and I adore it, so I can't wait to see the finished product! The Blog of the Month badge, which Florrie is still waiting for, is going to be an adapted version of the logo, too, for cohesion.
• I'm going to try to set a monthly/weekly schedule for the site, so that I can run it as a side-line to all of my school work... it's getting tough, but I want it to work, so I am going to do my best to make it happen! I'll let you know about that as soon as possible! (Florrie's winning post still isn't up, for example...)
• I'm looking for people to help me run the site, though... If you fancy being a regular contributor, or think you can write a monthly fashion low-down, or even if you just have a guest post which you think could be fabulous, I'd love to hear from you! Click "Get Involved" at the top!
• I'm looking for Sponsers and Affiliates - I'll let you know about that as soon as I have worked out how this will work!
• The Mailing List is going to become important. Please please please please please please please remember to re-sign-up!

And... phew! I think that's about it!

Let me know what you think - and Get Involved! This site is yours as much as it's mine!

Thank you!

LoveLoveLove

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So, the results of our first ever Blog of the Month poll are in! I'm very pleased to announcea voter turn-out (ha ha, sounds official!) of 164 votes - and considering that this month I was kind of "winging it" (making the rules & dates up as I went along...) I think that that is faaaantastic!

So... the moment of truth...

The results are as follows...

In The Bedroom Mirror - 0%(0)

The Life and Times of... - 40%(66)

Sideshow Scrapbook - 18%(30)

Intrinsically Florrie - 41%(68)

So, the winner is...

Massive congratulations to the very deserving Florrie Clarke of Intrinsically Florrie! We'll be posting one of Florrie's blog-posts here as soon as it's sensible (we're all a bit busy now with Blog of the Month submissions and what-not beginning tomorrow...), and Florrie will be in the Hall of Fame! Florrie - can you either send us a photo of yourself or your logo and a short bio to the usual address, so that we can put you up there?

She'll also recieve our exclusive Blog of the Month badge - so exclusive, in fact, that it's not yet been made... we're very sorry about that, and will be ammending it as soon as we can!

Don't forget to sign the mailing list in order to get our news letter - pretty soon, we're going to stop posting it here! It seems such a waste of time, right? So, for now, we'll just cover the extra, interesting points, right here...

• Fancy writing for us as a gust blogger or columnist? It doesn't matter it you've already done nything for us, or if you're completely new to this, just click HERE for the info!
• Help us improve our service by taking part in our survey HERE.
• And if anyone knows of any fashion photographers, or anyone who's a dab hand at photo-shop, who'd be willing to help out with logos and designstc, please sed them our way! Email address: ukstylebloggers@gmail.com!

That's all, and once again, congrats, Florrie!

LoveLoveLove

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This is the first news letter that I've sent out to the BSB mailing list - join it by entering your email address in the box just to the side.... ;) -->

Hi, everyone!

Well, I think that I should probably explain, first of all, that I've got some new mailing list software on the site (as I guess you've seen, if you've signed up for this)(or... if you registered and *I* signed you up, you might not... woops!)... so I'm going to try to send round sort of semi-regular update messages...

If you don't want them any longer, let me know... and I'll play around with the software to try to work out how the hell to remove you from the mailing list! ;)

So, on to the point...

First off, I'm closing registration for Blog Of The Month (http://ukstylebloggers.onsugar.com/page/96256) THIS SUNDAY - you have until then to register. It'll then go to a vote, and the winner gets a guest blog spot, and a link in the soon-to-be-built Hall of Fame on the site!

Secondly... guest blogs! Thank you so much to the lovely Florrie, whose piece about Luella is giving me a run for my money as a fashion editor! You can read it here (http://ukstylebloggers.onsugar.com/4704635), and register soon if you want the chance to have a guest blog slot (http://ukstylebloggers.onsugar.com/4586603), because once the first Blog Of The Month goes up, I'm probably going to limit guest bloggers to them.

Probably.

Thirdly, press. Miss Fashion Whore (www.missfashionwhore.com) wrote a post about us - and I've put it up in the new Press section (http://ukstylebloggers.onsugar.com/page/101885). If you've posted about BSB, email me a link and a screen shot, and I'll put it up there, too! :)

And... on to the actual point of this message... There was an article today in the Guardian about Teenage Bloggers (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/09/teenage-bloggers)... hands up if you're one...? It was talking about the vast influence that teenage bloggers have in the world at the moment... and so I was wondering who you think that the most influential teenage fashion bloggers/writers are?

Drop me a message, telling me who and why - as well as your name and URL, and I'll try my best to make a post about it!

That's all folks!

LoveLoveLove

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