Happy Monday! And thank you for stopping by our new blog home for Mortal Muses. I hope you’ll take a moment to poke around at some of our new features, and enjoy your visit while you are here. We’re also doing a giveaway today so make sure to read on to the end of this post.

In addition to our new site, I have some other news to share with you today…Mortal Muses is now on Instagram! So now, in addition to showing off your mobile photography images in our Mobile Monday Flickr pool, you can also share them with our community on Instagram by tagging your photos #instamuse.

Just check out these gorgeous Instagram shots from @runsi3, @nessienoodle, @meinto, and @lucyloomis (clockwise from top left)…

1. Street Art Akureyri, 2. Raindrops keep falling on my head. #summerrain #thunderandlightening, 3. oneleaf, 4. Untitled

If you’d like to connect, share your Instagram handle with everyone in the comments here today. You can find us on IG @mortalmuses. Have you updated to the 3.0 version of Instagram yet?  There are a few new layouts and browsing features like the photo map–check out this Instagram blog post if you’d like to learn more.

And finally, to thank you for sticking with us while we took a long break to redesign the blog, we’ve got a giveaway for you today. Comment, follow, and tweet for a chance to win a $40 gift certificate to Paper Coterie. The giveaway is open until Friday 8/24–enter below to be eligible to win! {winner will be announced on Monday 8/27}

Have a great week!!

~Christy | Urban Muser

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