Happy 8th Blogiverssaaraay!

On Wednesday, April 06, 2005, I began my blog! It's been 8 years of waffle a plenty, Enid-Blyton-esque thoughts, a flurry of outfits over the last 2 years, hats in abundance, moans about teaching, poems, book reviews, cards I've made and objects I've attempted, clouds and reflections on my life and being a Christian!  It's changed over the years depending on my readership and what I've been reading but the core values are still there!   I've not celebrated my blogiversary before, but I felt like it this year!

I love reading other blogs and I love the sense of community, the shared experience of blogging, be it the love of cake (Katie), being inspired by an outfit (Twobirds, Bethie, Shybiker, Sophie, Char, Hazel, Denise and more!), sharing our love of Christ (Ang, Rach, Floss, Jan, Fiona  and co), sharing our glee over Vintage (Vix, Mel-Folly Bird, Miss Simmonds, Penny Dreadful, Sharon, ),  analysing and enjoying books (Stephen, Alex), licking muffins (Chris at the Chrlog), the delight of second hand bargains (Sharon, Lakota, Sophie, Meagan etc), cat love (Laura, Hazel, Lisa-Jane), gratuitious food shots especially of tofu (Nicole), Wardrobe zoo delight (Alex and Char), the joy of the outdoors (Louise, Lyn), crafted fun (Katie, Lakota, Vix, Gem, Jille, Tracy, Clare), the difficulties of teaching or training (Louise, Ang, Jille, Floss, Helen), the joy of music (Bethie, Jac, Denise), Doctor Who appreciation (Mel, Stephen) and the just sense of enjoying what each other writes and learning something new! 

I finally finally managed to make it 100 followers (101 actually- edited! Thanks Jane!x)!  I wasn't really bothered by followers at first, but there is that gorgeous sense of 'What did they like about my blog to decide to find the button?'-glee when someone decides to follow you so I am delighted everytime I see that number creep up!!  I'm quite sad that GFC is apparently going so I am hoping to set up some sort of Bloglovin shenanigans and I hope that some of you will decide that some of my witterings are worth coming back for, because I would miss you if you disappeared!


I also hit the 40,000 page view this week which is cool as I am not in googlesearch engines even if titchy compared to you big-guns!

The most popular search terms of all time for me (apart from my name and blog name) are:
10 things to be thankful for - yes appropriate
primark car print - ok, only done two posts on this.
jessica alba no clothes - whaaaaaaat?
modern teen clothes styles for pear shaped girls - I agree with the pear-shaped bit but teen?
jj fever -  I do believe I have a slight crush on Mr JJ Feild
1950's polka dot dresses - yep, agree with this
kids bible mistakes  -  one post 5 years ago?!
julia stiles in the bath - no, no no!!!!
Anyway, as a wee celebration, I have a little giveaway planned.  Do you remember my mint/pale blue beret and gloves from a previous snowy Inspiration Monday?



Well, I have a duplicate set to give away (aha, forward planning, ya???!)
 I also have a little Cath Kidston cosmetic set (handcream etc) to give away as a second prize!
If you would like to be the stylish recipient of these then:

a) leave me a comment saying thus.
b) please already be a GFC follower, none of this rude random turning up and winning the prize then disappearing (like two previous ones!)

Oh and guess what?  I jumped on the bloglovin bandwagon- hope that doesn't mean I am in googlesearches now!!! Follow me if you dare?!?!!?
Follow my blog with Bloglovin
c) You can have a subsequent entry if you decided to add me to Bloglovin!  Up to you!  Thanks to the 24 people who apparently already follow me there- WHO knew?!?! I didn't!!!

Oh and the giveaway ends when April reaches its 17th rotation of the Earth!!!!