Goodbye 2011

Wow New Years Eve. This year seems to have flown by. Let me recap a little of what happened for us in 2011 (lots of linkies for you to peruse lol)

January saw me declare I would post everyday! What was I thinking!! I also started P365 again, what I managed is up on my Shuttercal account. I played with my theme  and settled on one (& Iโ€™m still not happy with it really). I relaunched my scrapbooking site โ€“ Scrapping Shoebox, with a design team call. And I turned 33 18.

February. Was pretty quiet. If you donโ€™t count the 2 birthday parties we had for Miss Kโ€™s 1st birthday and the car accident.

If February was quiet, March was pretty full on. My blog went mobile. I wrote a long rambling post and itโ€™s still in my drafts folder. Iโ€™m still not ready to share that one yet. BUT it has turned out ok, so far. I joined the Bloggers of Tasmania Facebook group & finally started my own Facebook fan page. I also started doing product reviews, starting with Miss De Jour tampons & Bega Stringers.

Doctor Who fans around the world mourned in April after the announcement of the sudden death of Elisabeth Sladen (companion Sarah Jane Smith). The amazing actress passed after a very private battle with cancer. She was 63. Later in the month we celebrated the Royal Wedding of Wills & Kate Middleton with an awesome blogger party over at Three Lil Princesses.

May saw me redesign my blog (again). I did some scrapbooking for {inter}national scrapbook day. I attempted Habit Hacker (& failed). I had a small op.

Half way thru the year! June was a pretty quiet month. Miss K had her first haircut.

July โ€“ more reviews and a post about addiction after the death of singer Amy Winehouse. Started food blogging.

August and I started my 101 Things list. Miss K went to playgroup for the first time.

September and Dad finally bought himself a new ute. Actor Andy Whitfield died.

In October I bought my ticket to Digital Parents Conference in 2012 & started looking for sponsors (so far I have 2 awesome companies on board โ€“ Belkin Australia & FollowMeSticker). The computer world lost a genius with the passing of Steve Jobs. We started our love of all things Zhu Zhu (last count we have 7). Miss K seriously loves these things. I also finally moved my blog from being hosted on my work site to having itโ€™s own domain & hosting. Oh and we got an iPad 2 each and the new iPhone 4s.

November saw that start of some sleep issues with Miss K. She had to have her mattress on the floor but sheโ€™s now sleeping through the night MOST nights. Hubby & I also celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary! We went to the Tassie Craft Fair but the highlight of the day for Miss K was the second hand swing set Dad bought her. I could also finally announce I was a member of the 2012 Log Your Memory design team. I Spoke Out. Christmas preparations began, as did the whole series of Christmas posts.

Wow, December, you sure arrived quickly! The Christmas posts continued. Miss K helped me put up our tree. I had 3 guest posts, one on family time, one about violence against women and one about apps for busy mums. I also did my first ever guest post. Christmas was awesome and very relaxed this year. I finally joined the Goddess Circle at Goddess Guidebook.

And here we are at New Years Eve. Another year gone & another just beginning. Tonight, Iโ€™m a having a few quiet ones while Miss K is asleep and hubby and his mates are playing the Star War RPG around our kitchen table. A nice glass of red, friends, Twitter and some crap on TV, what more could I want Winking smile Have a great rest of 2011 and bring on 2012!!!

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