Knilly Frickers

If you've read my blog before you might remember that a few years ago I decided about 7 weeks before my 28th birthday I wanted to do a list of 28 things.  It was fun and I got through everything on the list to varying degrees but it was a silly timescale!  This year, I'm turning 30. I don't like this fact, but I accept it. I'm 30 in 11 weeks time, so I'm not going to try and cram 30 things into a list to do before then. I'm going to aim to do 30 things this year. Not necessarily before my birthday, just throughout this year. A mix of things I've never done, places I've never been and developing new I've never had. Today I started small, but kept it quirky. I went shopping with my sister in law for things that sparkle. I came home with a very comfy and pretty throw blanket...because I'm eternally freezing.  A day dedicated to shopping for sparkley things (at a bargain) was a great way to kick off my adventures. I've never really had a structur...

At the beginning of each year I look at my blog, think about what I want to change and then decide I'm gonna have the best year ever creatively and then I get sidetracked and that goes out the window.  Last year was a prime example of that mindset, I changed my blog about, bought a domain and had a nice header image designed and I posted a grand total of 12 times.  I went back and looked at my blog posts from the first half of last year and I can see the difference in my headspace between then and now.  I've mentioned before in previous posts that I don't do New Years resolutions but I do make postive tweaks.  I posted on 31st December 2017 about my thoughts for the year ahead and mentioned that I had some thoughts about what I wanted to achieve in that year and that if they didn't happen then that would be okay.  A few of those things I wanted to tick off the list actually happened, although I can't take credit for all of them, sometimes things happen because y...