Creating Space

Moving again!

No, I'm not moving house again! Just blogs. I have been terrible at blogging this year for quite a number of reasons. One is that I now have a child in Primary school and, being a 'responsible parent' I've joined the PTA. We also have homework, dance classes and swimming lessons to get to so time has been somewhat limited. Secondly, I am now Mummy to a very very active 2 year old who seems to need constant entertaining.... oh and she has Toddler Groups and swimming lessons to get to too which has limited my time even more! Thirdly, despite the fact that I don't have the time I have actually taken the plunge and started my own business. It's small but growing and will hopefully oneday turn a profit! I have a seperate business blog and have been trying to do that fairly regularly! If you want to go have a look its at www.stampin-divas.blogspot.com Leave me a comment or something so I know you dropped by!

Fourthly, I have had a major blog project on the go. In keeping with the current economic climate I have decided that I can't afford to keep paying for this blog. So in my search for a free blog I came across Blogger again and realised that they had improved vastly since I last used them. So I took the leap and set up a blog and I have been working on it for a while now to get it right. In a complete fit of stupidity I decided it would be good to have all the posts from here moved over there and as there is no simple "export" button to click I have manually copied and pasted every. single. post. from this blog to the new blog. Madly, I also decided to copy and paste every. single. comment. too!! So, now that they're all over there and I've prettied up my blog I thought I'd post the link here so you can come over and say "hi" to me.

As I was copying and pasting every. single. post. I realised how little I've been blogging this year and it also got me thinking about what I had to share with you. So, next week I'll be doing (yet another) catch-up post to update you on the years events and also my weight loss! There's a lot to share though so it might have to be over two or three posts. I hope you don't mind?

Anyway, the new blog is called Fit, Fat & Flourishing I hope you will make the move with me and I'll see you on the other side!

December Catch Up : Advent Calendar

 From this...

To this....

Its only taken me two years to complete, but I finally managed to finish this advent calendar which I gave to my Sister-in-Law and her family just before the Advent season. I have another one waiting to be done for our family. Hopefully it won't be another two years before we get to use ours!

JYC Prompt 28

My favourite Christmas indulgence... baked goodies! Shop bought or home baked I don't mind which! Mind you, home baked is definitely better!

 

I'm still trying to catch up with all the JYC Prompts that I've missed. Its going to take some time though as I'm waaaay behind!
 

I'm back!

Wow, doesn't time fly? Over a year ago I had a new babe in my arms, sleepless nights were in progress and we were just getting used to having a new member in our family. Now I find that we are finally more settled and I realise I haven't updated the blog at all in 14 months! Ouch. In fact, I had actually let my subscription go rather than keep paying for something I wasn't using. However, I'm back on my feet again... life is getting to be as normal as its ever going to be, and I feel the need to share it with you!

So, In order to get myself back into blogging mode, I've signed up for a class with  Shimelle (love her classes!) all about Blogging. Feel free to take part too, as its not too late yet to sign up! As part of this class we're being provided with 3 weeks worth of blogging prompts and technical know-how to make our blogs more reader friendly. I hope that you will come back and share this experience with me? I'm hoping to blog at least two or three times a week as a minimum. Hopefully, I'll be able to do more tho'... it just depends on how inspiring I find the daily prompts! 

Also, as part of my return to blogging, I'm going to be looking at the possibilities of moving the blog to an alternate site. This all depends on how much I can manage to do with this one as I would love to have a blog that looks a little more 'me' rather than having the bog standard template as provided by TypePad!

So, hopefully I'll see you over the next three weeks!

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Getting Started

I realised today that the last 6 months have been pretty hectic and that half my friends don't have a clue as to what we've been up to. So, I've joined the ranks of the blogging army. I'm only a small recruit in this army of millions, but hopefully I'll be able to keep up! My postings will not be regular, but will happen rather as and when things happen in our lives that friends and family might be interested in.... I may also have the occasional rant or reflection. I may be proud and show stuff off or I might just bore you to tears! It will all depend on how the mood takes me... so don't expect regular contributions or even one's that make any sense!!

So here it is... my first post!! It's not much, but it's a start! I think I will have to take some photo's and update you all on what has happened in the last 6 months. See you back here soon!