Blog Award! - The Versatile Blogger

This is only my second blog award! Thank you to Zakiya LadyWings for giving it to me.

When accepting this award, you are asked to:

1) Thank and link back to the person who gave you this award. (done)
2) Share 7 things about yourself.
3) Pass the award along to 15 bloggers who you have recently discovered and who you think are fantastic for whatever reason! (In no particular order...)
4) Contact the bloggers you've picked and let them know about the award.

Seven facts about myself:

1. I believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that He died to save me, and that He is preparing a place for me.
2. I long for the day when the man God intends for me comes into my life.
3. I "read" books to my dolls and teddies as a toddler.
4. My favourite flowers are Forget-Me-Nots.
5. I collect postcards - mostly I buy them when I'm on holiday from the place where I am, but not always.
6. I love Ken Duncan Panographs. There is one on the wall above my desk.
7. I was very excited today to find a bag of marshmallows that only had white ones in it. I don't like pink or any other coloured ones.

Bloggers I am awarding:

• Casey at Writing for Christ ~~ The Audience of One
• Bugs and Fishes by Lupin
• AusJenny

Ok, I know you're supposed to award 15, but in reality the blogs I've been following I've been following for a while now. The only recent one is Bugs and Fishes.

So that will have to be it for me. And I have contacted them to let them know.

Changes

It is a difficult thing choosing a new background for your blog. Not on this one, but my cross stitch and craft projects one (you will find it here).

I have had a background from Cutest Blog on the Block for a while, but when I looked at my blog today after posting, I noticed that it had disappeared, instead having a box saying that the picture had been moved.

So I had the task of trying to find just the right new background. I didn't want to change all the colours, so finding one that matched was a bit tricky.

But I have now made a decision, and hopefully I still like it tomorrow.

200 posts!!!

Yippeeeeee!!!

After nearly 2 years of blogging (if you don't count my original blog that I deleted) I have made it to 200 posts.
This makes 201!

I never thought I'd get this far.

The designer in me ...

... has been begging to be let out over the past few months, however I have some major road blocks in the way.

1. I live in a rented house and we are not even allowed to put any extra picture hooks up without permission
2. I live with my parents and share a bedroom with my sister (no living space just for me)
3. I am trying to finish my CPA and have to study for my final exam.

I have been interested in interior decoration and design since I was a teen and planned the layout for a couple of rooms in the house my parents used to own, using scale drawings of the room and furniture.

I planned to follow that career path until I discovered that most designers were rather 'strange' in an arty way and I quit studying art at school. Even then I kept looking at books and magazines until I was just too busy with work and study.

While at uni I worked as a bookkeeper/office manager/receptionist/personal assistant (Girl Friday) for an interior designer and loved it when she asked for my input (small as it was) on some of the jobs that she was doing.

But now that I'm nearly through my CPA studies the designer in me is pushing forward and begging to be noticed.

The extent of my designer out-pouring has been working on some solutions for my constantly increasing library of books, DVDs and CDs; and trying to find storage solutions for the stuff that I have been accumulating in relation to craft and general life.

It's probably also why I have been inspired by sites such as Ikea Hacker (I'm so glad I found them through Blogs of Note or I may never have found them). Not that I've done any Ikea Hacks myself, but the inspiration is there.

And then I recently spent a Saturday actually at Ikea in Melbourne and I also went to the Melbourne At Home expo. My poor sisterchick was dragged to both of these (Ikea was no problem, but I did practically drag her around the expo when I could get her away from the Nintendo stand).

And so the creative juices have started flowing once again, and the local library (not my personal one) has been getting a lot of business as I start to read about things once more and get some ideas.

Oh, and just for the record, I think there is too much in the brown range of colours being used in current trends. Come on, it's the colour of dirt, tree trunks and ... . Whatever happened to green, yellow, red, blue, etc.

In case you are wondering, as far as my books go, I now have a small DIY bookshelf ($25 at the Reject Shop) sitting on one corner of my desk at home because that's the only place it would fit. My other bookshelf is not overflowing as much as it was, and the new one is filling up fast.

I wonder ...

I sometimes wonder whether people are even reading what I'm posting here.

Ok, so I know I got a couple of comments on one post, but that was because I had told a friend about my blog and she looked at it.

I guess I don't really care all that much if people aren't looking, because when I started this blog it was just for me anyway. A way to experiment with the technology available; to get things in print instead of internalising them (you can't exactly sit down and write in a journal whenever you think of something, and you can't always add pictures); something to fiddle around with when I got a little bored with what I was doing at the time.

I thought about using one of those visits counter things, but then I realised that mostly it would just be me looking at my own page (as I do after every time I post something or have made alterations, or just to look at it), so I decided not to go to the trouble of getting that feature.

So if you do look here, drop me a comment.