2013...A new year.

Hello!
No, I haven't shaved off  all my hair, grown my arm-pit hair and gone to live in the jungle.
I am still around! I know it's been long since I updated my blog...
November and December 2012 were very busy months, being exam time at school, then school broke up for 6 weeks vacation from the 7 December and went back on the 16th Jan. I don't normally get much "me" time during this time, which is fine. The kids are only little once and I try and devote my energy and time to them and making their vacation memories special.

I had a very busy two weeks prior to our annual camping holiday. Baking rusks and biscuits, shopping and packing and pre-packaging meals for camping. As well as doing our caravan renovations and decorating!
{caravan revamp coming up in another post}
We went away to the Cederberg for 10 days. (this was our second year there) I will share pics from that holiday in another post too!

Some of the frozen meals I made to take with.

Of course no summer holiday is complete without ice-cream. I make my own with and experiment with different combinations. Below was cherry and rum.

November saw a lot of crochet projects on the go.
A stool cover

 

The start of a new blanket (lap blanket for the caravan)

The completion of a another lap blanket.

A few posts (to remind myself too) I still want to share with you are:
* Cederberg Holiday
* Caravan revamp
* Pixie the Baby mouse
* Making your own salt scrub
* Homemade Ice-Cream recipe
* Project life 2011 and 2012
* Babylonstoren Wine Farm
* Moyo
* Project life 2013 freebies

It is my hope for 2013 to continue my blog, at my own pace, in my own way. It is my goal to make it colorful, interesting, fun, beautiful and creative.

I must say that the thought to close my blog did pop into my head from time to time during my "break". I hadn't been getting many commentating visitors and it can be very discouraging to blog and not get any feedback. However, the main purpose of my blog is to record the little things I enjoy and to have a sort of record of everything I like in one place. But if you do pop by please leave a comment to say hi and that you were here! Never underestimate the value of your comment, no matter how small or short! It means a lot to me! :)

So lot's in store and lot's to share in the upcoming weeks.

I wanted to start Project Life this year but I felt bad that I had not scrap booked 2011 and 2012, a few 12x12 pages here and there and a few mini albums, but not the entire year. So...I completed both years in 4 days! I know! Crazy but so easy! It literally took me a few hours. I went and had 150 photos developed. I made my own 10x15cm photos on the computer -fitting 2 or 4 on a photo size and so cut down what would of been double, if not triple the amount of photo's!
I also didn't do the full size PL. I must admit I don't fancy the big sizes of those albums. So I used simples stories and OhSnap album page protectors for my PL albums.

LOVE the outcome and so compact and fun to make! (will share soon)

With that in mind I am continuing PL 2013 with that size.
I will be designing and sharing FREE PL Journal cards, so be sure to check back from time to time!

Well that is it for now!
Would love to hear from you and what you have been up to!