Category: Blogging

Originally I was going to create a blog for all facets of my personal life and spirituality. But the fates have decided that I can’t keep up with more than one blog (I’m really slack at updating even our business one – but work is quiet over Christmas so it is ok). Seriously I start a blog, post one or two times and then, well it gets left by the wayside. This is the longest blog I’ve had. I started out on blogger many moons ago and then I moved over to a free WordPress account and then I started playing with WordPress on our work hosting for our work blog. To cut a long story short – I ended up moving to this one.

I digress though. This blog has really become my one blog of everything – scrapbooking, art journals, photography, life, heck everything really. So tonight I while I am working on a new theme I’ll be redoing my Categories (& maybe a few tags too), sorting my widgets, adding a few new things (like my ad/affiliate link thing) and maybe adding a few new pages. I may even rename the blog (but the url will stay the same.

Oh yeah, I’ll b back shortly with iphone app saturday (I know, it’s a day late lol)

so off to work on my template & think of a new name for this, my little piece of the web.

pick a theme LOL

I’ve gone back to the plain theme cause I’m really not happy with that pink theme.

So back to the drawing board to create my own theme – might be the project for tonight while the little one is asleep 😉

In other news I’m gonna revamp some themed posts – iPhone app Saturday will be coming back this Saturday. Hoping to b back tomorrow with the starts of a new theme that is me for 2011 – all organised hehe

I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now.  I will be posting on this blog once a day for all of 2011. I thought “Well if I can do it for a whole month in November why not try a whole year!”

I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of The DailyPost, and the community of other bloggers with similar goals, to help me along the way, including asking for help when I need it and encouraging others when I can.

If you already read my blog, I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and likes, and good will along the way.

If you’re a fellow Daily Poster, say hi so I can come visit your blog

(The idea & questions for my round up come from Katie the Scrapbook Lady.)

What books and/or magazines did I read this month? Scrapbooking Memories, That’s What I’m talking about by Shane Crawford

What movies, television shows, plays, etc. did I watch this month?
TV – Cold Case, Law & Order, Bones, NCIS
Movies – Iron Man 2, Beneath Hill 60

What fun things did I do with my family and/or friends? Caught up with rellies.

What gifts did I give and/or receive? Hubby bought me a spot in Shimelle’s Journal Your Christmas.

What special or unusual purchases did I make? More Christmas shopping.

What illnesses or health concerns did I have? I’ve been fine but hubby has had a nasty cough.

What were my accomplishments this month? learning to cook scrambled eggs properly – every time I tried they either burnt or tasted yuck – I found a great recipe and it makes perfect eggs every time.

What were my disappointments this month? Not keeping up with the housework.

How did I do on my goals for the month? (Or any current short or long term goals) Still journaling. Still taking lots of pics.

Anything else noteworthy to include? nothing really.

Tasks to do

1. Back up all digital pictures. Format memory cards. Sort all November photos into 2010 folder. Make a backup copy of the photos onto my desktop computer and EHD. DONE
2. Backup any other documents or files as needed. DONE
3. Backup my blogs. DONE
4. Clean off my work area, empty my inbox, and clean up my computer files.  DONE

Goals for December
Journal every day.
Take more photos
Work on Journal Your Christmas album
Try to get at least one day with mum scrapping
Work more on my art journal

P.S. Happy December 1st! Not long to go now so we’re going a little festive 😉

(saw this on a friend’s blog & thought it could b fun)

The ones in bold are the ones I’ve read. If it’s got a star I’ve seen the movie LOL

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien *
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling – the first one
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible – bits of it
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy *
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – my favourite when I was little (like 12/13)
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell *
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams *
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis *
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe *
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden *
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery *
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding *
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert *
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth.
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens *
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker *
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett *
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt.
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl *
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (& I’ve seen the musical)

Hmm 29 out of 100, not too shabby. A few were read as part of High School English classes.

How many have you read? Feel free to copy & then link back here with a link to your post

Today on my wishlist is this (well it’s more for hubby than me lol – he’s a Star Wars tragic)

Star Wars pancake molds

Cute hey!

I’ve also applied for a couple of Creative Team spots – wish me luck 🙂

(I’m hoping to make this a weekly thing)

I used to design digital kits, then life got in the way. I would love to get back into it all but feel my style needs to evolve. Hence todays wishlist.

I really, really want to take The Art of Digital Design course at Jessica Sprague. but holy heck, $325!! really not on the list of affordable things right now (& I know hubby wouldn’t let me spend that much)

So I need to start saving

What one thing is one ur wishlist at the moment?

a new washing machine *yay*

and the thing I’m super excited about – a new series of Gourmet Famer

and Divine Digital had their relaunch party. was great fun.

and I’m thinking of getting back into digi designing. not really sure about it – need to update my style

not much else going on today.

Ok so it’s sunday. I need to have a mini rant lol
I am over spammers! There, said it, feel better!
What spam prevention measures do you take on ur blog?

On to happier things. Journal your Christmas 2010. I’m on the hunt for supplies so link me up to your favourites – either paper or digi. I need some inspiration.

Just a short post today, Feeling really tired as not much sleep in the house cause of a teething bub. Might go have a nanna nap

means Day one for NaBloMoPo.

What is NaBloMoPo, I hear you ask?
Essentially, it’s a group of people who have committed to updating their blogs once a day for an entire month. (from the NaBloPoMo site).

So everyday between now and Nov 30 I’ll be posting every day. Look for more posts from me. Might be digging my blog list out from Shimelle’s blogging class.

Anyways I’ll be back tomorrow with something new