This year has flown past, and now it is almost over. Can you believe it? This year has seen it’s fair share of ups and downs, but as I look back I am struck by how lucky I am. For all the difficult moments there have been plenty more wonderful ones, and looking back it […]
I Bought you a Llama!
You guys are so hard to shop for! I was going to get you yet another free printable, but you already have so many of those. Then I thought a crazy video of my kids might be nice (oh my kids were so cute back then), or a slide show of photos from the year? […]
Fake it till you Make it
Help! My blog doesn’t have a niche! I don’t even know how you say that word out loud… ‘neeeeeche’? or ‘nitch’? I don’t have an ‘elevator pitch’. How do I sum up my blog in one neat little sentence, that sound professional, down to earth and quaintly amusing? I haven’t built and email list and […]
Commnuity Blogging Event – Stand up and Do Something!
Have you ever come across something in your life and thought ‘that’s crazy/sad/wrong I should do something about that’, but then you never actually end up doing anything? That’s been me, a lot. I could say I was busy, or that I was tired, or that my kids take priority right now, and all those […]
Bloggers, Brunches and Brands.
I went to a blogging event last week, a ‘Bloggers Brunch’ to be more precise. I have been to a couple of similar events this year, where both bloggers and PR or brand reps attend and they always make me go home and think about the whole blogging, ads, brands and money deal. Lots of […]
Things I Know…. About Blogging.
I know that people who didn’t go to Blogopolis probably don’t want to read any more posts about it (feel free to click away now, really, I won’t be offended), and I know that plenty of other people have written way more fabulous posts about the event that I ever could. But I also know […]
My Perfectly Imperfect Life – Day 4
I’m sure you all think I blog from my ‘fabulously designed home office, with awesome art on the walls, using a super, sleek, awesomely fast, lap top ‘… well I’m about to burst your bubble dear readers… I blog from a PC that is as old as my middle child. And yes, my screen (which […]
A Fairy Story
The Fairy Concert – by Zoe. Once apon a time, a long long time ago, in a valley, far, far away there lived some fairies. Some of the fairies were Sun Fairies and they liked to dance in the sunshine. Some of the fairies were Shadow fairies and they liked to dance under the moon […]