{"id":2631,"date":"2011-12-31T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2011-12-31T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T10:48:00","slug":"goodbye-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/31\/goodbye-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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)<\/p>\n<p><strong>January<\/strong> saw me declare I would <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/01\/02\/im-posting-every-day-in-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">post everyday<\/a>! What was I thinking!! I also started <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/01\/03\/project-365\/\" target=\"_blank\">P365<\/a> <u>again<\/u>, what I managed is up on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shuttercal.com\/calendar\/Nightwolf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shuttercal<\/a> account. I played with <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/01\/06\/seriously-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\">my theme<\/a>&#160; and settled on one (&amp; I\u2019m still not happy with it really). I relaunched my scrapbooking site \u2013 Scrapping Shoebox, with a <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/01\/17\/looking-for-contributing-artists\/\" target=\"_blank\">design team call<\/a>. And I turned <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/01\/30\/birthday-goodness-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strike>33<\/strike> 18<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>February<\/strong>. Was pretty quiet. If you don\u2019t count the 2 birthday parties we had for <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/02\/17\/miss-k-turns-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miss K\u2019s 1st birthday<\/a> and the car accident.<\/p>\n<p>If February was quiet, <strong>March<\/strong> was pretty full on. My blog went mobile. I wrote a long rambling post and it\u2019s still in my drafts folder. I\u2019m still not ready to share that one yet. BUT it has turned out ok, so far. I joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/03\/23\/calling-all-tasmanian-bloggers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloggers of Tasmania<\/a> Facebook group &amp; finally started my own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NightwolfDen\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook fan page<\/a>. I also started doing product reviews, starting with <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/03\/22\/miss-de-jour-tampons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miss De Jour tampons<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/03\/31\/bega-stringers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bega Stringers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Who fans around the world mourned in <strong>April<\/strong> after the announcement of the sudden death of <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/04\/20\/rip-elisabeth-sladen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elisabeth Sladen<\/a> (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 <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/04\/29\/a-royal-wedding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Wedding<\/a> of Wills &amp; Kate Middleton with an awesome blogger party over at <a href=\"http:\/\/threelilprincesses.com\" target=\"_blank\">Three Lil Princesses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>May<\/strong> saw me <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/05\/03\/a-new-look\/\" target=\"_blank\">redesign my blog<\/a> (again). I did some scrapbooking for <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/05\/10\/happy-belated-international-scrapbook-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">{inter}national scrapbook day<\/a>. I attempted <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/05\/10\/habit-hacking\/\" target=\"_blank\">Habit Hacker<\/a> (&amp; failed). I had a small op. <\/p>\n<p>Half way thru the year! <strong>June<\/strong> was a pretty quiet month. Miss K had her first haircut.<\/p>\n<p><strong>July<\/strong> \u2013 more reviews and a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/07\/24\/addict\/\" target=\"_blank\">addiction<\/a> after the death of singer Amy Winehouse. Started <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/07\/29\/friday-food-cinnamon-scrolls\/\" target=\"_blank\">food blogging<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>August<\/strong> and I started my <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/08\/08\/101-things\/\" target=\"_blank\">101 Things<\/a> list. Miss K went to playgroup for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>September<\/strong> and Dad finally bought himself a new ute. Actor Andy Whitfield died.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>October<\/strong> I bought my ticket to Digital Parents Conference in 2012 &amp; started <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/10\/03\/seeking-sponsorship\/\" target=\"_blank\">looking for sponsors<\/a> (so far I have 2 awesome companies on board \u2013 Belkin Australia &amp; FollowMeSticker). The computer world lost a genius with the passing of <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/10\/06\/thank-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Jobs<\/a>. We started our love of all things <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/10\/11\/zhu-zhu-pets-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zhu Zhu<\/a> (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 it\u2019s own domain &amp; hosting. Oh and we got an iPad 2 each and the new iPhone 4s. <\/p>\n<p><strong>November<\/strong> saw that start of some sleep issues with Miss K. She had to have her mattress on the floor but she\u2019s now sleeping through the night MOST nights. Hubby &amp; I also celebrated our <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/11\/04\/happy-anniversary-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 year wedding anniversary<\/a>! We went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/11\/05\/tasmanian-craft-fair\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tassie Craft Fair<\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/logyourmemory.com\/2011\/11\/07\/introducing-the-2012-design-team-a-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">2012 Log Your Memory design team<\/a>. I <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/11\/18\/speaking-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spoke Out<\/a>. Christmas preparations began, as did the whole series of <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/tag\/christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, <strong>December<\/strong>, you sure arrived quickly! The Christmas posts continued. Miss K helped me put up our tree. I had 3 guest posts, one on <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/12\/11\/family-time-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\">family time<\/a>, one about <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/12\/16\/make-a-stand-say-no-to-violence-against-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">violence against women<\/a> and one about <a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/2011\/12\/28\/apps-for-busy-mums\/\" target=\"_blank\">apps for busy mums<\/a>. I also did my first ever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunchanddinner.com.au\/christmas-dessert-recipes\/\" target=\"_blank\">guest post<\/a>. Christmas was awesome and very relaxed this year. I finally joined the Goddess Circle at Goddess Guidebook.<\/p>\n<p>And here we are at New Years Eve. Another year gone &amp; another just beginning. Tonight, I\u2019m 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 <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile.png\" \/> Have a great rest of 2011 and bring on 2012!!!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/distilleryimage3.instagram.com\/cf1c40f233a211e19896123138142014_7.jpg\" width=\"310\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/31\/goodbye-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goodbye 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}