May's collab & photo challenge

After I completed the 100daysproject last year I organised a giveaway to thank the IG community of followers for their encouraging support. Each month since then, the giveaways have continued and somehow I have managed to collaborate through Instagram with the loveliest and most wonderfully creative people to come up with a theme and a lovely prize.

For this month's collab, I am teaming up with Aimee Fleur, who runs the lifestyle blog My Beloved Style. Aimee is based in Auckland, New Zealand which I am excited about because this is also my neck of the woods. Her blog offers reflections about life with a young family. I have no idea how Aimee manages corporate fulltime work, two small children and still manages to blog regularly and post to Instagram!

I asked Aimee what set her off on the blogging path and whether she gets any work from it.

AF:  Peer pressure! So many friends kept telling me to. I have always been one to share any great finds or ideas with my friends and I love taking photos of just about anything.So starting a blog seemed like the natural progression, and I am so glad I have, as it means I can tell everyone (who wants to know) about my latest finds, ideas and is a place where I can share my musings on a variety of topics.

And yes, I do get some work from my blog, I only work with brands and products I believe in and actually use in my everyday life and love that I can get the chance to share these with my followers and work with brands and products that I love.

I love Aimee's approach to style depicted in her lovely Instagram posts and on her website.  Style should come from the heart and not from trying to be trendy or follow fashion. (A good thing to remember and save you from spending unnecessarily when you next set your sights on that trendy, expensive (and probably unnecessary) item your heart desires!)

Aimee and I both love flowers and gardening, so it's no surprise that the theme we have chosen for this month's challenge is a botanical one #thebotanicalseries. We are so looking forward to seeing all the beautiful floral posts in the tag's feed.

We do hope you will join in! And you could be in to win this lovely prize offered by Aimee, which is a gorgeous print donated by the talented Lee Sinclair of Cloud Nine Creative. Lee is an artist who Aimee has supported for many years and whose botanical artwork is just beautiful. 

(Photo courtesy of Aimee Fleur)

Aimee will also judge the winning entry.

So get clicking (and remember that you need to have an open IG account to take part). On Instagram to enter:

1. Follow @missaimeefleur & @adiandbert
2. Tag a friend & invite to join
3. Post a NEW pic featuring a botanical theme to #thebotanicalseries

Comp is open worldwide and closes on  Sunday 17 May. Judging will be by the creative Aimee