The fact that What Nicole Wore is {almost} a year old seriously blows my mind. Most days I still feel like I’m stumbling around blindly trying to figure out if I’m going in the right direction, but when I step back and think about the last year, I get SO excited to see what the next year holds for me and What Nicole Wore.

Another strange thing to me, is the number of emails I get from people interested in starting a blog but not knowing where to start {I’m hardly what I’d call an expert}, but I wanted to share some background on what spiked my interest in blogging, how the beginning went and some of the best things I’ve learned over the last twelve months. Warning you in advanced, this is going to be a longggggg {but hopefully helpful and informational} read.

I started a style Instagram back in October 2012; I had just moved back to Louisville from Northern Virginia and had posted a few outfits on my personal Instagram and enjoyed interacting with other style lovers and seeing what other people were wearing. My best friend at the time would always put me down and make fun of my constant ‘Gramming {#sorrynotsorry} which spurred me to launch a separate account and not tell any of my friends about it.

I named the account @sequinedpatterns {I have no idea why other than it sounded ~trendy} and went with things. I’d post sporadically, I’d not be in the mood and not post for months. This went on for about two years. At one point, I even started a blog before it fizzled out after a couple months. I had a lot going on in my personal life and my close girlfriends at the time constantly made fun of me for my love of clothes which eventually drove me back to my style Instagram.

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