My Russian Affair, How It All Started

Sorry if you thought this was going to be a steamy post, its just a nice story about me and a whole lot of Russian people.

4 years ago I starting posting and engaging on Instagram. I wasn't too sure about how it all worked, or if I would find like minded people. Did I want to follow creative people, sporting people or dogs? I have many interests. Too many interests!

I started posting photos of my sewing adventures, and very soon I connected with similar people.

Then one morning I woke to find that I had acquired 500 new followers overnight ( no special marketing tactics involved ). The following day this happened again. I then noticed that my new followers were from Russian territories. Another 500 or so followed.

I asked my adult daughters what was going on.( I was anxious that I may have been involved in some sort of scam.) I didn't seem to have anything in common with my new followers. There were no comments just followers.

I was soon to find out why I was acquiring new followers.

I was being tagged in the article below by quite a few people in Australia.

Below is the photo of my husband Peter and I which was picked up through social media, reposted and used in a blog by brightside.me. The article was called

13 Stylish Older Couples Who Look Way Cooler than Hollywood celebrities.

https://brightside.me/wonder-people/13-stylish-elderly-couples-who-look-like-hollywood-celebrities-343860/

If you would like to read that article click on the link. (By the way, I made my 3 piece suit.)

Now, I still haven't explained the Russian Link.... Many months later I had a message from a follower in Russia. She explained to me that this same article had been published in a popular Russian Magazine.

Just goes to show how a little bit of social publishing can go a long way!

Many followers later, I am very grateful for my lucky start.

If you are one of those followers I thankyou very much.

Thankyou for reading my starter post.

My next post will be all about Taking photos for Instagram.