JANUARY: Photo a day...



I've decided to take part in Fat Mum Slim's Photo a day challenge over on instagram. Amazingly there are hundreds of partcipants over 30,000 photos already (and thats just on instagram). My aim is to do a photo update every Saturday here for those not playing on Istagram.

So here are my first 7 photos....





Day 1 ~ YOU : Me (and Evie)




Day 2 ~ BREAKFAST : Hubby making Pancakes




Day 3 ~ SOMETHING YOU ADORE : My new Christmas Bling




Day 4 ~ LETTERBOX : Exactly that




Day 5 ~ SOMETHING YOU WORE : My new lippy is such a great find




Day 6 ~ MAKES YOU SMILE : Family time at great cafes




Day 7 ~ FAVOURITE : My new Candle from a friend for my birthday




If you want to join in with the fun, head over to Chantelle's blog for the details






Living pretty accessories

Living pretty accessories

From left to right: Shanghai tall shelves, Dear Prudence picture frame, Domino, The Book of Decorating, Anorak Kissing Horses Cushion, Hawthorn etched coasters, Christian Lacroix cut velvet cushions, small glass drop jar, Bergius Heather blanket, Four Drawer Papillon Cabinet

With the January sales now on I have been looking around the Internet for some bargain home accessories, checking my must-haves and happily window shopping away! I love how I can do it all from the comfort of my home! Inspired by Tuesday's post, Living pretty Modern, I found all these gorgeous living room accessories in a colour palette of white, lavender and turquoise. The best bit? They are all currently on sale with up to 50% off!

Bought any bargains in the January sales?

Have a sweet day!

52 weeks of Grateful


Bang, crackle, pop, fizz, whirl! Happy shiny, sparkly, bubbling, bursting, brilliant, blooming year!

Too late? Are you over the new year thing yet? I'm just getting started, baby!

Oh, so happy to be back for our Grateful linkymajig. Late last year when I had my extended blogdrop* the thing I missed the most was this Grateful community. Our little gang of earnest, striving souls who just want to be better, do better and, most importantly, notice better. For the rest of the year I wondered how I could make something more of our Grateful community.

Then Kidspot gave me a call and... we're in! We're moving over there, lovelies. I hope you don't mind. Our Grateful linky will be part of the Kidspot 52 Weeks of Grateful project that I am proudly kicking off for them. This week the linky is still on my page, but from next week (if we can sort out all the technical glitches!) it will be over at Kidspot. It will work exactly the same as it works on my blog and I'll still be on the other end, looking forward to your posts and encouraging you to stay with it. I'm really proud to be given the opportunity to, I don't know, 'blog for non-bloggers'... do you know what I mean? Being in the blog gang is so special, but encouraging others who may never otherwise get the opportunity to write and open up is something even more special.

So, each week, keep being grateful for the little things, the big things and the mundane medium things (medium is always mundane, really). I'll be doing my own regular 'This week I'm grateful for...' post from next week and linking up along with you. Join the 52 Weeks of Grateful project too - I have a great year planned with little ideas to open the gates on the flood of gratefulness that regularly threatens to drown us all in, well, schmultz. I wouldn't have it any other way!

What do you think? 
Are you pleased we're off to Kidspot next week? 
Are you comfy, or do you feel like things will be different?


Oh, don't forget to join me tomorrow for our ' One Word ' link up. One word that sums up the year you plan to have in 2012. Bang, crackle, pop, fizz, whirl, indeed!



* Blogdrop: (n.) Blogger over self. Blog languishing. Return uncertain.


[Image by FatMumSlim for Kidspot]