An upcycled Thank you

Thank you for your readership.
Thank you for your comments, feedback and suggestions.
Thank you for filling my comment box with love (not an euphemism).
Thank you for inspiring me.
Thank you for sharing.

And most of all, thank you for your ideas, your wit and your wisdom.


I am looking forward to a busy, industrious and inspiration fueled 2013.
Although I may wait until I've had a caffeine hit before I get started.

Should you wish to say Thank You to anyone, you could do a whole lot worse than chop up some of those Christmas cards you've been given and fashion them into something homemade and personal.

Taa-dah!

This is NOT a New Years Resolution!

I DO NOT MAKE NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.

If you have to wait till New Years Eve to decide to change something about yourself, then the amount of time it will take to break that resolution will be directly proportional to the amount of time it took for you to decide on that resolution in the first place. i.e not very long at all.

With that in mind, and given I have spent the largest part of 2012 frustrated with my lack of umption to get on and DO something, and preferably something that will pay the nursery fees, I am determined that within the first month of this New Year I will DO SOMETHING.

And it will involve craft, making, mending, fashioning, slap dashing, creating.

And I will sell my wares, my services or my knowledge.

And I will be happy.

There.

Happy New Year to you all and may it bring new and fulfilling opportunities x

Silent Sunday - 1st January 2012

One picture and only these few words :)

How Was It For You? 2011 - A Retrospective

2011 was alright, I suppose.

It was the year:

• of the birth of my Blog so that's to be celebrated.
• of the demise of half my wardrobe. Falling to bits, wearing thin or too small. So I'm looking forward to a bit of a wardrobe splurge in the very near future.
• the Wee One learnt to walk and talk (god help me).
• that I learnt I could survive on my own with three kids while the Mr worked away.
• that I learnt I can no longer get away without dying my hair, wearing makeup, and the generous use of anti-wrinkle cream.
• when 11.11.11 happened.
• when there was no February 29th so no one proposed to me. Just as well or the Mr wouldn't have been too chuffed.
• I went to London to meet a group of Twitter/Blogger 'friends' and didn't pass out with nerves.
• I took more photos than ever before.
• I discovered Picnik mwhahaha.
• I didn't go to cybermummy or blogcamp or anything *stamps foot* which will definitely be remedied in 2012.
• I dragged the kids out a lot this summer in an attempt to keep them occupied and not to drive me up the walls. It was a great success and we all stayed sane. A major achievement.
• I turned thrifty which was mostly out of necessity but many of the things I now do I would continue even if by some small miracle we were to become loaded.
• I made things: Dresses for Princess, lavender bags, candles, garlands, cakes.
• I decided that I wanted to write and I am not that bad at it.
• I wrote a blog post every day for a month with NaBloPoMo. Blogher are at it again in January (er tomorrow) and I am thinking about it...

So what's in store for 2012?

Starts tomorrow so I reckon I'll find out very soon.

Happy New Year to you all xxx