Showing posts with label blog stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog stuff. Show all posts

30 March 2013

Knitting and Crochet Blog Week is almost upon us!

It is! It's almost upon us! Well, we still have until the 22nd of April, but still. That's barely 3 weeks! Are you excited yet?!

For those wondering what the hell I'm on about: click on the image for all the information you could possibly want. The wonderful Eskimimi is hosting the Annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week for the fourth time already and it's such a wonderful international blogging event, I have loved it immensely so far! Every year, the posts get bigger and better and the pictures get more stunning, it's so great to read up on everyone's experiences with yarn and yarn crafting. It has certainly given me the opportunity to look at my own blog through a scrutinising lens and make improvements. Plus, if you follow either the tags on Twitter, the posts on Ravelry, or just do a google search on the tags for the posts, you're sure to find new blogs you'll love!

The topics have not been announced yet, but will be soon, so we can start preparing our posts! I'm going to have to do a lot of pre-work for this edition of the Blog Week because Tim and I are getting married on the 26th, so I'm going to make sure I finish my posts before that week so I don't have to worry about forgetting one. Look at me, talking about scheduling posts a whole week in a row, like a pro.

I can't wait! Are you joining up as well?

6 October 2012

Merged, relaxed, and ready for October

Just a quick note to say that:

1) I'm aliiiive! I've survived the Vintage barbecue, have sort of survived September, and am now enjoying the last few days of my two weeks off in which I have done absolutely nothing. Nothing. Haven't even gone to the gym. Only went out to get groceries or because I had to. Other than that? Sat on my bum, played the new WoW expansion, played with the birds, slept in, took naps during the day... I haven't even crocheted a single stitch so far! Only two days to go though, so I'm slowly preparing myself mentally for the whole going-back-to-work thing, combined with the whole going-back-to-the-gym thing, and let's not forget the going-outside-of-the-house thing, either.

That's not my house, by the way. Before you ask. That, my friends, was the house we rented for the weekend in the south of Holland (Limburg), where we spent 3 glorious days in the garden, soaking up some late-summer/early-autumn sunshine and made fun of our neighbours the cows, chickens and Tony the Pony (who was probably not called Tony), drank too much alcohol, and grilled lots and lots of tasty food. We lounged, watched some dvds, went for a walk or two into town or drove to the nearest town for a saunter and some shopping... I had a great time. Thanks guildies, for being so unbelievably awesome! (also, if you're Dutch and looking for a great and cheap place to accommodate a group: It's part of De Vinkenhof. I can really recommend it!)

2) I have merged Tecrin gets Fit with Tecrin Tries. I no longer saw the point of using two separate blogs since they got mixed up quite a bit already. I'm still fiddling with stuff though, and am on the fence about some earlier decisions I made about my blogs, so don't be surprised if posts go missing or appear twice. You're not nuts, and you're not seeing double, it may be that I posted it on both blogs and haven't removed it yet.

3) I may change my whole blogging thing entirely, but more on that later, since I haven't made up my mind yet as to what I want to do with it. It might become something more.. *gasp* organised than it is now *gasp*. But before that can happen, I need to do some serious thinking. And jotting down of ideas. Which means I have a reason to buy more notepads! Yay!

4) It appears my camera is well and truly buggered. Did someone drop it while I wasn't looking, or something? Because really now, the sudden switch in quality is just absurd! The picture of the house was the only one looking decent out of the whole set I took while we were away for the weekend. In the end I just started taking pictures on my phone because the quality was so shoddy! It also randomly resets all my settings when I put in new batteries, which means I keep having to remember how I turn off the sound effects... Maybe I can bribe my sister into letting me borrow hers for a while.