#KCACOLS – 10th November 2019

Welcome back to #KCACOLS. We had 34 link ups last time! THANK YOU ALL so much for being part of the linky! I really appreciate your support. For new people joining us this week, I really hope you like #KCACOLS and that you come back again next time! You can also find out more about this linky on the #KCACOLS linky page! 🙂

I have just realised that KCACOLS has been going for 4 years now! I started this linky in October 2015! I felt very emotional when I noticed how long I have been doing this! And of course, this linky wouldn’t survive that long if it wouldn’t be for you my lovely linkers, who are so loyal and patient with me. A lot of you have been with me since the start and I really appreciate it! Thank you so much!

We had 2 lovely weeks. Halloween was in-between so we were all excited about it. We carved our pumpkins and went trick or treating nearby where we live. We were so impressed with the amazing decorations that some houses had. I felt that I was in the US for a minute! It was very fun.

I went to the Saatchi Gallery for the Tutankhamun exhibition. It was amazing! You must visit if you are in London. They have 150 objects that were discovered inside the tomb. The objects are gorgeous. They also have a Virtual Reality experience where you can enter the tomb. Last Saturday Bella and I went to the O2 Arena for a Little Mix concert. It was the first time that Bella has attended a proper concert and she loved it. It was a great experience for both of us.

We have done a few interesting things. We went to a candy workshop where we learnt how to make candy. We ended up with candy for a year, LOL! I went to a lovely event at the Langham Hotel for an intimate dessert-making class organised by Giovanna Fletcher as she was launching her new gifting collection. It was lovely. After this, I went to an AO event in where Great British Bake Off finalist Kim Joy did a baking session. It was very impressive.

Each linkup, I love sharing a couple of photos from my last 2 weeks on Instagram, so here are two of my favourites:

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𝘼𝙙-𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 | ✨𝙏𝙐𝙏𝘼𝙉𝙆𝙃𝘼𝙈𝙐𝙉 - 𝙏𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙐𝙍𝙀𝙎 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙂𝙊𝙇𝘿𝙀𝙉 𝙋𝙃𝘼𝙍𝘼𝙊𝙃 𝙀𝙓𝙃𝙄𝘽𝙄𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉✨⁣ Last Friday I was invited to the press event of the @tutankhamunlondon exhibition at @saatchi_gallery. My mum has a small replica of the Tutankhamun’s head at home and she was always very interested in the history of it. I guess because of her, I was very intrigued about it too.⁣ ⁣ Tutankhamun’s tomb was unearthed by British explorer Howards Carter and financier Lord Carnarvon in 1922. It really captivated people’s attention. It was a massive discovery for sure. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙭𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙞𝙡𝙨 150 𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙤𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙗, 60 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙜𝙮𝙥𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙜𝙮𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙪𝙢 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.⁣ ⁣ This exhibition is so impressive. Discovering the most famous of the Pharaohs, as well as their belongings as you go through a passage of his life, is just amazing. I went with a friend and we both were mesmerised but all these 150 objects. They are gorgeous. ⁣ ⁣ It is on until 3rd May 2020 so please come and see it if you are in London. It has 6 galleries and there is also a virtual reality experience where you can enter the tomb. The VR experience is suitable for ages 10 years old and over.⁣ ⁣ I recommend you to book tickets in advance as they are selling fast already. ⁣ ⁣ 𝘿𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙮𝙥𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙭𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨? 𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮? ⁣ ⁣ #tutankhamun #tutankhamunexhibition #tutankhamunlondon #london #saatchigallery #events #londonexhibitions⁣

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AD | ✨𝘾𝙀𝙇𝙀𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙀𝙇 𝘿𝙄𝘼 𝘿𝙀 𝙇𝙊𝙎 𝙈𝙐𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙊𝙎✨ 𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙤𝙛 "𝘿𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙙" (𝘿𝙞𝙖 𝙙𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙨 𝙈𝙪𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙤𝙨) 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚? It is a celebration of life and death. While the holiday originated in Mexico, it is celebrated all over Latin America with colorful calaveras (skulls) and calacas (skeletons). 💀 The meaning of this festivity is not sombre but celebratory. The Day of the Dead festivities unfolds over 3 days (October 31 to November 2) in an explosion of colour and life-affirming joy. It has been recognized by UNESCO. The aim is to demonstrate love and respect for deceased family members. ❤️ Having a Latin American background (Peruvian 🇵🇪) means that I am familiar with this festivity, so I was very excited to celebrate it this year with Nick and the girls. We couldn't wait to get involved. Dressing up as skeletons is part of the fun, so we got into characters. We had our faces painted by Bella who I was very impressed with. I wore a mask and a headband with a vale. I got a hat for Nick and colourful flower headbands for the girls. We all dressed up in black and decorated our table with a Day of the Dead party kit! 😃 And of course, 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙀𝙡 𝘿𝙞𝙖 𝘿𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙨 𝙈𝙪𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙤𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 @𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙠 𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙚𝙨𝙮 𝘽𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙀𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙙𝙖 𝙆𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙩! This kit comes with a Dia De Los Muertos fun packaging which is perfect for this festivity. It is very easy to prepare and doesn't take too long. It was very yummy! We really enjoyed it! 😋 I would love it if you also join the fun celebrating this Mexican holiday, Day of the Dead this year. This fiesta is full of colour, delicious food and parades. What more you can ask for right! 🎉 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮? 𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙈𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜? #MakeSomeNoise #DayOfTheDead

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Thank you so much for using the #KCACOLS hashtag on Instagram for all your photos. It is lovely to see your photos there! We have more than 13.2k photos that have used the hashtag which is lovely! I love when you use the hashtag. After a lot of consideration, I have decided that I will not do a feature on my post any more. But please keep using the hashtag. I always check it and like all the photos there.

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THANK YOU to all of you that have joined the #KCACOLS CROWD Facebook Group. You can join us here. Also if you do join, please send me a direct message with the name of your blog so then I know who you are without having to figure out your blog name 🙂

NOW BACK TO THE LINKY

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We had 34 linkups! Fewer linkups that we normally do but this linkup was in the middle of half term for a few so I suspect this could be a factor. On Thursday we had 8 posts that needed more comments. Today we reduced this number to 5. I am happy to see that we reduced this number. So 29 posts had more than 4 comments which is still good.Thank you!

Regarding the people that have not commented on the post before theirs, we got 3 people on Thursday. Today, we managed to reduce this number to 1 people. I am glad we manage to reduce both numbers. Thanks, guys for commenting.

Also, remember to comment on the co-hosts posts. Please also be aware that I’m BLOCKING URLs/Emails of people that have joined the linky and have not commented on any posts for consecutive weeks. If you find I have blocked you by mistake, please contact me.

FORTNIGHTLY LINKY The linky will be open for 2 weeks until the second Wednesday at 8 pm or until we reach 100 link ups, whichever comes first.  The co-hosts and I will be allowed to change our posts on the following Saturday after the linky is live. Please be aware of these changes during the second week. I would suggest that you link up one post each week so you will be able to share something different and current each week. I will also be more strict regarding commenting on the post before yours.

LINKY TWEETS 

I’m not tweeting individual people once the linky is live but I will tweet the people that have been featured and mentioned. I’ll also post a link to the new linky post on the KCACOLS Facebook Group, pin it on my Twitter account and on my Facebook page together with some generic tweets. I will of course, email all of you the link. If you could also share it by clicking the link below that would be FABULOUS!

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PLEASE REMEMBER I am not pushing for the 4 comments per post anymore. I will keep showing a list of posts that have fewer comments on my Thank You email to encourage people to comment more on those but after that, I will not keep asking. It will be lovely if we can get a minimum of 2 comments per post but of course, we should be aiming for more. To approve your comments and check your SPAM folders (this is such a HUGE problem for me as it keeps being part of why I can’t have a current list as I know for sure lots of posts have comments that have not been approved yet) I’m expecting a minimum of 4 comments per person (1 host, 2 co-hosts and the post before yours) and if you link up 2 posts I would expect 5 comments as a minimum per person (1 host, 2 co-hosts, the posts before yours and 1 more ) To comment on the post before yours. If you have any problems commenting on the post before yours please just send me a message and I will do my best to help. If you receive a lot of comments, try to reciprocate to the ones that have taken the time to comment on your post. It is all about being generous with each other and spreading lots of love. Do not link up and run. Do not forget to add the linky badge.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR NEW LINKERS: PLEASE START by commenting on the post linked up before yours FIRST and then comment on any other posts as much as you would like. Also, use the hashtag #KCACOLS when commenting (this is indeed very important so I can then see how many comments you are doing and then be able to feature you in my linky post which is always great for you as you get a backlink which helps improve your DA).

Thank you so much for all your comments on the host posts and the linky post. As always, I have read and liked all your comments! We will do our best for you to receive a comment from someone on behalf of the linky (either the co-hosts or me).

GUEST CO-HOSTS FROM THE PREVIOUS LINK UP 

I would like to say THANK YOU so much to ALI from Ali’s Upside Down World and JADE from The Autism Page for helping me with the commenting this week! 

GUEST CO-HOSTS FOR THIS LINK UP

My first co-host this week is JO from A Rose Tinted World. This is the second time Jo is co-hosting with us. She has joined the linky at the start of the year and she has been amazing with her lovely comments. She has been at the top of the commenters list for months which I really appreciate. I am very happy to have her co-hosting the linky with me again.  Jo has a parenting blog. She is 47 years old Mum and has 3-year-old little girls. She was a dentist for 22 years. She does a lot of sewing and she is a singer. She has sung all over the world, at the Albert Hall, on cruise ships, at Disney and at the Palladium as a backing singer for Jane McDonald. How cool is that! She shares her adventures in parenting, crafts and life in general. Please give some love to her social media accounts which are (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook & Pinterest). She will also be retweeting your tweets this week so please add her twitter handle (@ARoseTintdWorld) to your tweets as well as mine. Finally, she has a guest co-host post, Free Motion Embroidery Christmas Decorations linked up too. Please if you could go there and add a comment it would be AWESOME!

My second guest co-host this week is ELLA from Typical Mummy. This is the first time that Ella is co-hosting with me and I am super excited to have her. She joined the linky a year ago and she has been linking up with us on and off since then. Ella is a married mum of two kids (7 & 3). She is based in Staffordshire. She has a parenting and travel blog where she shares her adventures with her family. Ella is a part-time Drama teacher and examiner. She is a poly-glandular autoimmune (type 2) fighter, suffers from severe asthma and mental warrior. She loves photography, Shakespeare, Audrey Hepburn, gin, being outdoors, the beach, sunshine and Christmas. Please give her social media accounts some love (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, & Pinterest). She will also be retweeting your tweets this week so please add her twitter handle (@typical_mummy) to your tweets as well as mine. Finally, she has a guest co-host post, France: Visiting Puy du Fou With Kids linked up too. If you could please go there and add a comment it would be AWESOME!

FEATURED POSTS – TOP 3

The first person who commented a lot was BETH from Life as Mum. HURRAH! I am so happy to see Beth at the top of the commenting list. She has not joined us for a while and I was so excited to see her not joining us butt commenting so much. She is so lovely!  She has done a great job commenting on many of your lovely posts. She has commented on 25 posts! One of her posts from the last link-up was Remembering Last Christmas. Please go to the post and give some more love if you can.

The second person who commented a lot was KAREN from Twicemicrowaved Tea. I am also super excited to have Karen in the top 3 commenters! Yay! I have mentioned her before but I haven’t featured her if I am not wrong. She has always been very kind with her commenting. She has commented on 16 posts! Thank you so much, KAREN! Her post from last week was Regrets, I’ve had a few…... Please go to her post and give her more love if you can.

The second person who commented a lot was TRACEY from The Desperate Housewife. I am so excited to see Tracey for the second time within the top 3 commenters too. She has been linking with us for a few months so it is lovely to be able to feature her again. She has done a great job commenting on many of your lovely posts. She has commented on 14 posts! One of her posts from the last linkup was The Gender Reveal Scan – Is It Ok To Feel Disappointed?.  Please go to the post and give some more love if you can

FEATURED POSTS – TOP 6

Behind Beth, Karen and Tracey were JEREMY from Thirsty Daddy with 13 comments, Sarah-Marie from Tired But Crafty Mummy with 12 comments and MADELINE from This Glorious Life with 11 comments. Thank you so much to all of you! 🙂

For this week’s linky I am linking up Bandai Bananas Collectibles: Introducing Series 3 and Win Tabby McTat tickets at Fairfield Hall in Croydon so I hope you like them! 😉

Please do not forget to follow and check out the #KCACOLS Pinterest Board. We have pinned all your posts from last week’s linky so please go and have a look. There are some great posts that deserve a read!

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Now let’s carry on with the linky:

RULES:

Every 2 weeks I will choose 6 people who have commented A LOT on the linky. Three will be featured and another three will be mentioned in my fortnightly Saturday linky post. This means that 6 people will get a backlink on my new linky post every other Saturday!

1. Be sure to grab the #KCACOLS badge which can be found below or on my sidebar. Simply copy the code from the box below the badge and add it to the text/html at the bottom of your post or place it on your blog sidebar.

2. You can link up to 2 posts. I recommend you to link up one post each week to get the most of the linky. 

3. You can share anything that you would like. It is open to absolutely any subject and also you can link up posts that are old or new. You are allowed to link up another linky ONLY if it is a promotional post about the linky and you can do this only once and I expect you to put my badge or a link to my linky and of course to follow the rules regarding commenting. 

4. Comment on:

• one of the hosts’ posts (choose one that you would like to comment). 
• the guest co-hosts posts.
• the post which is linked up immediately before yours.
• and finally, any other post that you would like to comment on.

That way everybody receives at least two comments (one from the host/guest co-hosts and one from others).

5. This linky will be open every other Saturday from 10 pm and will remain open until the following 2nd Wednesday at 08.00 pm or until we reach 100 link ups, whichever comes first.

6. If you would like us to tweet your post that is absolutely fine, just tweet your link to me @WithFranca, JO @ARoseTintdWorld and ELLA @typical_mummy and we will retweet it. Please remember to use the hashtag #KCACOLS.

7. Finally, if you could please follow A Moment With Franca (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube) that would be fantastic!! 😉

I look forward to reading and commenting on your posts!! 🙂

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