Not long before I started this blog, a friend of mine shared a link on Facebook - it was a lovely, romantic proposal story that made me smile and cry (I'm a sucker for mushy, romantic stuff) and I in turn shared the link with my Facebook friends - thinking that in doing so I was effectively 'bookmarking' the link for myself and I'd be able to go back and read about it any time I wanted...
Then, I decided it would be good to start a blog - it would enable me to keep whoever was interested up to date with what was going on in life (this life I still pinch myself often to believe is my own). It felt like it would be a bit more personal than Facebook updates or bulk emails - partly because I can just write it like it's for me, and partly because while everyone linked to me gets the Facebook updates, only the people who want to, who actually choose to will take the time to read an account of what's actually going on...
I have thought for the last few weeks that I should have the link to the story on the blog itself - after all it's part of the blog's story, but just hadn't gone looking for it to paste it in here... This morning I noticed a competition on shimelle.com a scrapbooking site that I read often and the source of some fabulous online training that I've been loving... Anyway, the competition http://www.shimelle.com/paper/1038/scrapbooking-giveaway-day/ for anyone interested - is to win an autographed book by an artist called Rob Ryan and the story about the proposal started with a print by this very artist...
So, as part of entering the comp myself - and in the interests of telling the story of how blog got to be what it is I went in search of the link. Much to my dismay Facebook - as it is want to do, all too often for my liking - has made 'improvements' which mean I could no longer find the link... Not on my wall, profile or the profile of the friend who shared it in the first place. :( Thankfully she was online in Facebook chat and after a bit of dribbling from me about wanting to find the link - her and her partner went in search of it for me!! Thanks so much Sam and Damian!!
And so, the link with the story and the print and all the romantic mushyness here for all your enjoyment, and part of the documentation of the story of the blog - Adventure.... Enjoy!
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Saturday, June 4, 2011
How blog got it's name...
Not long before I started this blog, a friend of mine shared a link on Facebook - it was a lovely, romantic proposal story that made me smile and cry (I'm a sucker for mushy, romantic stuff) and I in turn shared the link with my Facebook friends - thinking that in doing so I was effectively 'bookmarking' the link for myself and I'd be able to go back and read about it any time I wanted...
Then, I decided it would be good to start a blog - it would enable me to keep whoever was interested up to date with what was going on in life (this life I still pinch myself often to believe is my own). It felt like it would be a bit more personal than Facebook updates or bulk emails - partly because I can just write it like it's for me, and partly because while everyone linked to me gets the Facebook updates, only the people who want to, who actually choose to will take the time to read an account of what's actually going on...
I have thought for the last few weeks that I should have the link to the story on the blog itself - after all it's part of the blog's story, but just hadn't gone looking for it to paste it in here... This morning I noticed a competition on shimelle.com a scrapbooking site that I read often and the source of some fabulous online training that I've been loving... Anyway, the competition http://www.shimelle.com/paper/1038/scrapbooking-giveaway-day/ for anyone interested - is to win an autographed book by an artist called Rob Ryan and the story about the proposal started with a print by this very artist...
So, as part of entering the comp myself - and in the interests of telling the story of how blog got to be what it is I went in search of the link. Much to my dismay Facebook - as it is want to do, all too often for my liking - has made 'improvements' which mean I could no longer find the link... Not on my wall, profile or the profile of the friend who shared it in the first place. :( Thankfully she was online in Facebook chat and after a bit of dribbling from me about wanting to find the link - her and her partner went in search of it for me!! Thanks so much Sam and Damian!!
And so, the link with the story and the print and all the romantic mushyness here for all your enjoyment, and part of the documentation of the story of the blog - Adventure.... Enjoy!
Then, I decided it would be good to start a blog - it would enable me to keep whoever was interested up to date with what was going on in life (this life I still pinch myself often to believe is my own). It felt like it would be a bit more personal than Facebook updates or bulk emails - partly because I can just write it like it's for me, and partly because while everyone linked to me gets the Facebook updates, only the people who want to, who actually choose to will take the time to read an account of what's actually going on...
I have thought for the last few weeks that I should have the link to the story on the blog itself - after all it's part of the blog's story, but just hadn't gone looking for it to paste it in here... This morning I noticed a competition on shimelle.com a scrapbooking site that I read often and the source of some fabulous online training that I've been loving... Anyway, the competition http://www.shimelle.com/paper/1038/scrapbooking-giveaway-day/ for anyone interested - is to win an autographed book by an artist called Rob Ryan and the story about the proposal started with a print by this very artist...
So, as part of entering the comp myself - and in the interests of telling the story of how blog got to be what it is I went in search of the link. Much to my dismay Facebook - as it is want to do, all too often for my liking - has made 'improvements' which mean I could no longer find the link... Not on my wall, profile or the profile of the friend who shared it in the first place. :( Thankfully she was online in Facebook chat and after a bit of dribbling from me about wanting to find the link - her and her partner went in search of it for me!! Thanks so much Sam and Damian!!
And so, the link with the story and the print and all the romantic mushyness here for all your enjoyment, and part of the documentation of the story of the blog - Adventure.... Enjoy!
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