Quirky and 30: Sparkle Sunday

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 structured shopping trip, I tend to just soak things in and see what calls out to me.  It was interesting to go in with a goal and seeing where it took me. 

I saw this and I thought it summed up my approach to life quite nicely - sparkle in your own way and leave a little of that sparkle everywhere you go. 

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My Annual ‘Let’s Do This’ Post

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 you go out and make it happen and sometimes the universe throws a curve ball in your direction and you adapt. 

Having mentioned at the beginning of the post that every year I fall into the trap of deciding I'm going to have the best year ever blog wise and be super creative....I've decided that I'm gonna have the best year ever blog wise and be super creative! 

That's not strictly true. I've decided that I want to actively pursue my creative interests more this year both professionally and personally. 

My blog comes under that. I spent money on a domain and a header image last year to channel my love of quirkiness into my blog and it's essentially sat all year and gathered dust.  Not this year. 

If you dig lists, I've got lists of things I wanna do this year. 

1. Blog at least once a week.  Whether its a long ass post about nothing but my thoughts like this one or something thats half interesting to read, I'd like to commit to posting something each week. 
2. Plan things properly - Do new things so I actually have content for the things I start like friday firsts, recipes etc. 
3. Outfit posts - I know lots of bloggers do outfit posts and I'm hardly reinventing the wheel but one of my biggest quirky loves is fashion so I might try it. I've never been a big fan of photos of myself so I may not be wearing them.  We'll see. 
4. More book reviews - my brain was consumed by other things last year so reading took a bit of a back seat.  That's not like me so more books will be read this year and more reviews will be posted. 

I'm also open to suggestions of new things to try if you've read something on my blog and think I'll dig something you've heard of - let me know!

I know my mother reads my blog, so mother you have my permission to tell me off if I don't do any of the above.

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