gingerandgeorge

Happy Sunday

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Shattered

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Yes, that's a shark in the background

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Sunday Rocks

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Things I Love About Him, No.371

Have homegrown radish, will take silly photos. 

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New week

Hola Monday. How are you?

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Three

So, I had a feeling it was around this time of year I first started blogging, and have been meaning to check the exact date for a few days now. I finally got round to it this afternoon, and what do you know, it's my blog-birthday. On this day exactly three years ago, I popped my posting cherry. It wasn't ground-breaking stuff (things you might have learned: my dad is clever, I'm afraid of moths, I'd like to have a butler one day), but I like to think it's improved and we've had some fun along the way. 

I'm working on a few plans for the future right now - some changes, a little revamping, maybe some new features - so it seems like a good time to be taking stock of everything that's gone before. 

Like fancy feathers.

And DIY sticky-tape.

Then there was that time I went digital.

And mixed up some stamping and stitching.

We made this . . . 

this . . . 

and these.

I celebrated with royalty. 

 And with rabbits. 

I've shared a bunch of fun tutorials. 

And some printable downloads.

(Not all of them festive.)

We've shared a few adventures.

And I've even introduced you to some of my friends. 

It's been quite a ride, and a good chunk of that is down to you. Whether you've been around since my wanting-a-butler era, or are here for the first time today, I'm both grateful and very glad to see you. Have a piece of birthday cake won't you, and let's see what happens between now and the end of year four.

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Remember Movember

My mister isn't taking part in Movember this year (he's from Liverpool - Harry Enfield ruined moustaches for his people), but I have a couple of friends who are. This is just a small tribute to their bristly self-sacrifice, and the matching rashes of their womenfolk.

May you all be blessed with bushy mo's, much sponsorship and plenty of soothing aloe vera gel.

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Purple power

So, yesterday I briefly mentioned Julie and her month-in-numbers project, and while I cheated my way out of joining in this time around, I am leaping on board another of her blog-feature buses. If you haven't caught any of the Purple Phase colour posts over the last few weeks, you can catch up with them here at Notes on Paper.

Julie and I have history when it comes to colours I don't like. Her mission to make me like yellow was a success of fairly epic proportions. Whether she and purple will win me over quite so successfully remains to be seen, but in the spirit of keeping an open mind, I'm currently working on a couple of purple projects ready to share in the next couple of weeks.

I did think it might be a first for me, but a quick check of some old Flickr images would suggest that's not quite true. 

The shades are varied, the colour combos even more so, but when it comes to purple, there's little doubting I am not a total greenhorn.

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On my desk today

A little pretty amid the chaos.

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