So these are not my intellectual property, hence the link to the original sites if you click on pictures…BUT SERIOUSLY!!! how cute is this!
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| I love these looks!!! |
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| Can you figure out who these ladies are? |
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| How cool is this?! |
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| Who is who in the zoo |
When I started this blog in 2011, I did it because I was venturing out of the writing side of media and didn’t want to lose my voice...FIRST EVER POST But as with everything, voices change… and I seem to have gone from writing about fashion, events and weight loss (not much changed there) to writing about raising a child after losing one and about DIY and food and naturally about me (I’m self indulgent like that)…More recently I have had the chance to run cool competitions and interview cool people and my blog, which is always going to be something I can look back on to see how my life has evolved, has grown into a bit of a mommy blog…
So much show that I have joined a great network of mommy bloggers, SA.MomBlogs Although I like to think of myself more as a mom who happens to blog…hehehe
The network has exposed me to a bunch of great women and their super interesting blogs; some funny, some serious and some sinfully indulgent….
Since I’m pretty much still a rookie in the whole blogging business, I have asked some of my favourite bloggers about being a mommy blogger, or a blogger who happens to be a mom, in South Africa 🙂
The questions to the different ladies are fairly similar, probably because they are the questions I often ask myself…
She is Fathima Khan of Decadently Addicted, a fun foodie blog that will make you say “diet? what diet?” she has low cal things on there too, mind you, but as I said, “diet? what diet?”…
–What made you decide to blog? I craved a creative and intellectual outlet. I was a career crazy women for many years. I was retrenched and decided to take the opportunity to take back being part of my kids lives. As much as I love them, I also need something that is me and mine.
-What was your concept behind the whole thing? It started as a way to document my experiments, but when I started blogging this whole other persona emerged and took over. So now it’s a recipe with a little story which links together.-Did you find yourself nervous at prospect of letting people into your life in this way? I am a fiercely private person and blogging gives you a false sense of security because you’re just typing away alone at your laptop. Your audience is not sitting in front of you! So it’s a great medium for us introverts because we too have something to say. So no I’m not nervous.
-Do you ever worry that your kids will be like “mom why are you exposing my life?” I deliberately keep my kids exposure on the blog to a minimum. They are not in a position to choose wisely and I don’t want them to regret it later on. My son has twisted my arm to make a few mentions of him though.-Does your family read your blog? Not really and that’s fine. It makes talking about them easier ;).
-What do you hope to achieve through the blog? Spread my love of food and the ease of creating scrumptious dishes. To let the first time cook know, step by step, what they should be doing and with pics of course. It’s not that hard, just takes practice.
-What do you think about the blogging culture in South Africa? We are at a critical stage. The international stage sees blogging as the next wave of the marketing. So it’s going to be interesting to see the extent to which SA will follow suite. The blogging space has a bad name and I would like to be part of the changing this perception.
-What do you think makes for a “good blog”? A passionate blogger who produces honest, informed content on their area of interest. Blogging for me is written by the heart and guided by the head. Someone so aptly described it as a familiar friend’s opinion.
-How do you personally measure success in the blogging world? Success to me is a very personal barometer. For some it’s ad space or number of followers or just getting the content out into the blogosphere. For me it’s reaching a person with my words and making a difference in that person’s life.-Please give us a link to your favourite recipe – I haven’t posted that yet! But
I have found out about an awesome book, chronicling a mother and daughter crafting team. The book itself is handmade, covered in purple fabric with foil stamping with sewn sides…
The book is in it’s final stages and if they get all the support they need HERE in the next 9 days all backers receive a copy of the book, stickers, social media badges and even a letter from the books heroin Kiley.
The author, Jaxon Barnes, is an avid reader and her love for pictures books inspired her to write Kiley’s Purple Hat.
Author Jaxon Barnes – A fashionista at hear and experienced jewelry designer.
Illustrator Nathalie Beauvois – specializes in illustrating children, women and fashion.
Publisher OSAAT Entertainment – family-owned publishing house with a mission to create entertaining print and digital books, one story at a time.
The mother and the daughter are really into fashion and we wanted a really fashionable book.
Right now, we are in the final stage of production for the book.
I did some crafting with Aidy this weekend…old-school potato prints (half a potato use a knife to cut out a shape and use it as a stamp) Aidy loved the stamping and we ended up with two sheets of pretty nice looking “wrapping paper”.
Naturally he went into full on crazy-boy mode after a while though and started banging the potato on the table and trying to lick the paint off . . . it was fun while it lasted though.
He likes making things with me, he just has the attention span of a “Something with a short attention span – I cant think now”
It is so much fun watching him learn and create (and sitting still for second).. Here are some great activities I found online, dying to try them all…
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| this is a MUST!!! |
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| This seems like a super idea but if the play snow incident taught us anything, he will climb inside box and throw salt all over |
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| Aidan will love these, he loves anything with eyes |
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| This isn’t an activity per say…but seems like a brilliant idea |
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| And I do have some extra bottles at home-must double seal so he doesn’t drink it |
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| ooooh this looks like fun!!! spaghetti and oaties 🙂 but should I really blur the lines on one of the only things he eats (oaties not raw spaghetti) |
It’s no secret that I love looking at boards on pinterest, in fact you can see my boards HERE , but even I can admit that sometimes I look at pins and think, now who is going to make that in real life, hehehe
Like these things I found on PINTEREST,YOU ARE DRUNK
There is also a PINTEREST YOU ARE DRUNK PINTEREST BOARD that you should probably check out if you want to go whaaaaaaaaaaat….
Oh and don’t forget to check out PINTEREST FAIL it helps you feel less bad about all those projects that didn’t come out quite like you had hoped:
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| THE INTENTION |
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| THE RESULT |
Happy Pinning everyone 🙂
