I hadn’t been posting on Instagram for long when I stumbled upon the #MarchMeetTheMaker challenge. I wished I was taking part. So here I am, a year on and here comes the #MarchMeetTheMaker challenge again. This time I’m ready. I downloaded the prompts sheets and planned my 31 posts, one for each day of the month. I’ve tried to make them as visually pleasing and interesting as possible and I hope you enjoy following them. If you don’t know what I’m talking about though here’s a bit of an explanation.

#MarchMeetTheMaker is a 31 day Instagram Challenge, set by Joanne Hawker (and solely Joanne!) that runs throughout March every year. But it’s more than just a challenge, it’s a creative community that comes together to show people what they can do. It’s about building each other up, making new connections, telling your small business story, growing your confidence (and Instagram following) and most importantly, it’s about putting yourself out there.

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The challenge was created in 2016 by Joanne herself. At the time, she was in bit of a creative rut with Instagram and couldn’t find a way to pull herself out of it. Feeling determined, she went in search of challenge aimed at small creative businesses but couldn’t find one. Feeling inspired, she went ahead and created a 31 day challenge which aims to show the different aspects of her business and asked her creative, small business friends to take part. And that’s how #MarchMeetTheMaker was born. Little did she know that it would take off and gain 25,000 posts in 2016, a further 80,000 posts in 2017 and 165,000 posts in 2018!

The text above was taken directly from the MarchMeetTheMaker website.

Click the icon below to follow along on Instagram and find out my responses to the prompts each day. Follow the hashtag #MarchMeetTheMaker to discover loads more amazing makers too.

If you’d like to know more about the challenge or Joanne visit the MarchMeetTheMaker website.

Enjoy!