Little Stories

My blog turns seven next month. (Seven!) Which means my first born will celebrate his seventh birthday before the year is out, for I posted those initial, self-conscious and naive blog posts while awaiting his arrival. What started out as a way to write and encourage myself to be creative each day, also became a way to document the early days of mother hood, my creative aspirations, and eventually the beginning of my business. 

How my blog and boy have grown and changed over that time, and just as certainly, myself also. When I was pregnant and first started blogging I couldn't cast my mind forward this far and try to picture it. I couldn't even picture what my baby would look like, the scans showed grainy ghosts of images that I could never truly reconcile with an actual baby. I spent my time imaging the birth and those first few years, where we were both new and awkward in our roles, and I learnt to mother him as he learnt everything he knows up until this point. What a gift that has been. To watch him, guide him, love him and learn all there is to know about him. Then slowly let him drift off in to the world of school where he will experience things I'm not there to share, and that he will have forgotten about by the time I walk him home and ask about his day. But oh, all the little stories he does share. His favourite Pokemon character. A game they played at lunch. The boy that took his hat. The girl he is in love with. A new wish list of party attendees for his seventh birthday. The largest animal in the world. So many little stories and room for so many more. Each one perhaps inconsequential, but making up a tiny part of a greater whole.

I feel my blog is so much the same. Full of little stories that I've captured with words and images over these past seven years, with room for more. More moments captured. More musings detailed. More inspiration shared. And so I continue to write.

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I found this lovely article called 15 Reasons I Think You Should Blog. It is just the thing to those who may be thinking about starting a blog, those who are feeling that they are in a bit of a blogging rut and even those that ask themselves - why do I blog?

Fourth blogging anniversary

This morning I was pulling up the last of the carrots when I remembered that today marked my fourth blogging anniversary. I reflected on this as I continued my work; turning the soil, preparing the bed for new seeds and future carrots. Four years ago today I clicked 'Publish' for the first time and sent my first awkward post out into the world. Those seeds have grown and borne such rewarding fruit for me. So, happy anniversary dear blog, and thanks for sharing the journey with me friends.

Giveaway...

This is my 224th post.

This is the day, one year ago, that I started my blog and made my first post.

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I want to thank all those who have commented and encouraged me, thanks to all the other bloggers I have visited who have inspired me, encouraged me and made me laugh. Thanks for those who have sent me things, whose give aways I have won, who have mentioned me on their blogs. It means alot to me.

In celebration of my one year blogversary I have put together a little crafty giveaway, containing a patchwork house pincushion made especially for the occasion, buttons, vintage sewing notions, cotton, fabric and a little bit of this and a little bit of that...

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To enter, just leave a comment on this post and tell me roughly how old your blog is.

Are you new to blogging? Have you been blogging for many years?

Or if you don't have a blog, tell me if you prefer emails, or letters in the post?

Convenience, verses the tactile nature of opening and reading mail?

For extra entries you know the drill! Follow me or blog about this and come back and comment again, so I am sure to count all your entries.

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This giveaway is open until the 30th of September, as that is a special persons birthday, so even more reason to celebrate.

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Open to national and international commenter's.