Monday, January 04, 2010

Happy 2010

~Happy New Year to you all, I've had quite a busy (and sick) start to the New Year. I still have bronchitis but I am recovering, although I had to go see an Emergency Doctor on New Year's Eve because I was in so much pain - I was given antibiotics and I feel so much better today!!! The New Year has brought lots of good things for me too, so I'll explain all of those as I go through this post. But first.....

~THANK YOU to all of my readers, if you notice my visitor counter, you'll see I have gone over 5000 visitors - something I am extremely happy about. 5000 visitors in 6 months is great.

~This week I have been having a slow look through my christmas presents, these are 2 of my faves.........
~This book is fantastic, you go through and tick off the ones you have done, and then make plans to do the rest!
~I also now own 2 pairs of these fab boots......
~I have them in Beige and BRIGHT blue, I love them so much - I wish the snow would go away so I could wear them!!!
~I don't want an awful lot in the January sales, just these ear muffs from Accessorize........
~And although I have 2 HUGE hairbands, I really love this one from Accessorize too........
~I am loving huge hairbands at the moment, I have a flower one and one with a huge bow, I also have several smaller bow hairbands.
~I never thought I would like Cath Kidston, until I saw this pin cushion.........
~I really really WANT this, it's so cute!!! We might have to go to the Cath Kidston shop in Edinburgh at some point - I know Jay wants a few bits too.

~A few of the girls on The Everyday Scrapper, are playing along with One Little Word on Ali Edwards blog, so I decided I would play too. After a good while deciding on my word for 2010, I chose SUCCEED........
~I start college in February, and then in September I get to start my 2 year course in either Hairdressing or Beauty Therapy - and I so want to SUCCEED in that, it's important to me. I also did a layout using my One Little Word.........
~I used Basic Grey Lemonade for this layout, and it's my first one using a card background!!! I spritzed the whole thing with Pink Bubblegum glimmer mist.

~Lastly, but certainly not least.... Scrap Tiffany have a brand new Design Team (of which I am a member), are planning a Blog Hop and have a brand new forum. The forum is now open to the public, so come join us. Our Blog Hop will be in February, so I hope you will join in - all the DT will have some fabby projects on their blogs, and there will be giveaways too............
~This was my first week as a DT on Scrap Tiffany, and the first challenge was to do a project on I Could Not Live Without... so I did Winter Walks - at this time of the year, I love walking and getting some nice photos for the start of a year. This photo was taken in January last year.........
~I hope you will play along with the challenge for this week on Scrap Tiffany, go check out what the rest of the Design Team came up with for Week 1 2010.
~That's everything from me today, I'm back at college tomorrow - just 3 weeks of Step In left, then in 4 weeks time I start my course.... I'm excited (and a wee bit nervous)
~I hope everyone has had a great start to 2010.
~love, Vicki xxx

5 comments:

Rebecca Keppel said...

Awesome photo and layout Vicki. Love the branch coming from the photo and that little bird is too cute :)

Hope you're feeling better :)

Claire said...

Loving your Succeed LO & your earmuffs. Hope you're feeling better soon

iris said...

sorry to hear you are not feeling well. Hope you get better soon. Happy new year!! Love your artsy style!:)

janis said...

hope you're feeling much better now. happy new year vicki!!! off to check the other thread about your fabulous 2009 top faves.

deb famularo said...

succeed.....i love it! Love your layouts too, beautiful job! Congrats on your 5000 hits!!!!!! xOxO