Thoughts on blogging

I have spent quite a lot of time today reading the Shimelle’s forum on her blogging for scrapbookers class.  It has made me think about why I blog, and how I see my blogging in the future.

 

 

I blog because:

• I love writing diaries
• I love taking pictures and uploading the ‘best’ ones to my blog to help tell the story and make my blog post more interesting
• I love to document my everyday life so that I can enjoy looking back in years to come
• I like keeping in touch through blogging (always my craft friends so far, maybe I will be brave enough one day to give the blog address to other friends
• I like the fact it is hosted on the internet so that if my computer crashes i won’t lose it all
• It helps me to remember stories that I want to scrapbook

But it doesn’t always work like that!  I am pretty good at keeping up with my photo a day, and that includes a lot of everyday things.  I do keep in touch with friends through blogging (see my sidebar on my photo blog)

I don’t keep this one up very much now that I am blogging a photo a day on my other blog.  I would like to keep it for explaining what is uppermost in my mind at any one time, and for remembering stories that I want to scrapbook.

I would like to make it funnier (LOL) and alter the tone and attitude.  I want to explore different styles of writing and recording and therefore make it more interesting, and to for my readers! 

I would also like to learn some more technical stuff, like how to get a better background – I quite like the background on the other blog, but not this one!  And I guess there are lots of technical things that I don’t even know exist!  So I will try and keep up with the forum.

October 22nd

 

 

OK tour of the bedroom time!  Top picture is of the wardrobe.  It is 1930s solid wood with ‘flame’ mahogany doors.  It is a triple wardrobe, each section is like a coffin (!) and comes off the base once the top is taken off.  It is a *** to move!  But we’ve had it out on the landing for about 3 months!  Moved it back in yesterday, at last!  Now I need to sort out my clothes!

 

Second picture shows the new sink, and my chest of drawers.  We will hang some pictures above that chest of drawers.  The top needs 1 or 2 nice bold pieces, not the mish mash that’s on there LOL!  This is DH’s side of the bed.

 

Third picture is my side of the bed.  What a mess!  The pine bedside cabinets really need to go, but not sure where to go to buy more.  Our other ‘pieces’ of furniture came from a second hand furniture shop that isn’t there anymore.  So we need new bedside cabinets and a cabinet for the little stereo.  (I like to listen to a CD while reading in bed, and we wake to Radio 2 at 6.30am with the alarm setting).  The big chest of drawers in front of the window is Maurice’s.  I need a nice big mirror to go on top of it.  The old dressing table has had to be dumped because it had woodworm!

My paper clutter

I must tell you about my paper clutter course I have been doing on www.simplify101.com

It has been very enlightening! Here's my office clutter before, and then again after. I realised that my 'prime real estate' ie the first shelf was taken up with stuff that wasn't so important. So although most of the paper is the same it is better organised and labelled, and certainly looks a lot neater!

The course has been really good, and I recommend it to anyone. You get 6 weekly 'lessons' and there is a small forum where we have been encouraged to swap ideas. We have a daily thread where we tell what we have been doing in our 15mins alloted time per day! It has been a great motivator! So much so that I have signed up for another course, 'Organise101', to help me to organise my scrapbooking stash.

Craft room mess!

I thought I would embarrass myself and show you how messy my dining room is at the moment! I have literally just dumped things in there, all over the table, the chairs and the floor! I have been sorting out my paper clutter and books upstairs in the little bedroom we use as a computer room/office, and thus this room has been severely neglected!

Maurice has gone on his holiday motorcycling in the Himalays today, and I have 2 weeks without him, Nicholas is away this week and then again the next weekend, and Lucy is away both weekends too! So I am going to empty this room bit by bit, and then put it all back NEATLY!!!! One of the problems is that while Nicholas was away I put most of my sewing stuff upstairs, which is all piled up by the window now. I cannot do any scrapping or card making atm, so I really must do it!

All my own photos CJ

I have just received the most gorgeous circle journal home! It was an 'all my own photos' circle journal over on UKScrappers. It really is the most fabulous CJ I have ever received. Thanks girls!!!

I really do intend to properly finish this one, and will probably find out some historical facts to write in the journaling spots.

Special thanks then to Karen (enola05) for organising!

Pages and creators:

Pier - Me!
Palm Trees, view from pier and beach huts (all in fab flaps!) - Kate (secretscrapper)
Warners etc (more fabulous flaps!) - Gemma (craftygem)
Worthing Pier (even more flaps!!!) - Karen (enola05)
Seafront relections- Liz (jerseyscraps)
beach scenes- Dee (craftdee)
funfair - Arlene (dizzyscrapper)
Seafront hotel - Ally (AJ)
Seafront elegance -Jo (jo.Bee)
Pavilion theatre - Me (I put in too many pagesLOL!)
Beach - Caz (Caz890)

Busy weekend!

Nicholas and I went up to London for the day on Saturday for the Anglo-Italian Family History Society AGM. I am the membership secretary, Nicholas is the webmaster. Here's a view out of the train window at East Croydon. It feels like you are approaching London once you get here. Up until then we travel through mostly green fields!





Our meeting was at the Mormon church near the museums, so we went into the science museum to get a friend's son a birthday present.





















Then the V&A for lunch! We sat in the courtyard - it was gloriuos and we could have been anywhere in the world! Look at these lemons!!!


































Here's the venue for the AGM. Unfortunately it was very poorly attended, only 7 of us!!!














And then we had to just nip into the Natural History museum and see the earth thingy! It's looking a bit tatty now. And it looks small! We remember this escalator as being really big!!! Must be about 10 years since we went there before!!! Then we stood on the mock up of the Kobe earthquake. Pathetic!!!






















And finally at Victoria for our train home.
















Sunday morning we went to church - to Nicholas's church because it was reopening after being refurbished inside. A lovely new limestone floor, removal of pews, a general freshen up and gorgeous new chairs. After the service they moved the chairs aside and prepared tables for a ploughman's lunch.
















This banner has been made for the church recently, and it is much more gorgeous than you can see in this picture!




















Mum came with us to church, then back home for a roast dinner, then for a little drive to practice my advanced driving. We then went to DB and SILs house for a cuppa and to see their new extension in the middle of being built.

Took Mum home and decided to take a pic of her kitchen before all her stuff goes back. Doesn't it look fab!

Our evening walk along the beach. Nicholas comandeered the camera, so here's some of me! On the beach, walking back from the beach, and checking the car over with Maurice in preparation for my next driving lesson on Monday.

Yet another busy weekend!

Walk with Nicholas, Lucy and Merlin

Lucy was at a bit of aloose end this afternoon - no college, and her boyfriend Tom was working. So she suggested we went out for a drink! It was great! We walked with Merlin down to Marine Gardens cafe, and had an ice cream, cake and drink. Just like the old days! It is ages since we 4 went out like this. We used to do this all the time in the school holidays.