Showing posts with label catch up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catch up. Show all posts

Wednesday, 17 January 2018

A New Year Catch Up

Hi, happy new year!  It's freezing today and currently snowing again.


Since I haven't uploaded a post since just after Christmas, I thought it was a good time to have a catch up with you all and tell you what's been going on in my life lately.  Everyone seems to have ill on or around Christmas this year, I'm a little late to the party but my Fibro has well and truly kicked in and I've honestly just been feeling horrible the past couple of weeks, this past week especially.  If you don't know what I'm talking about or if you're new here (hi), I have a health condition called Fibromyalgia and also EDS, if you would like to know more in detail, you can read my health post here.  Basically if I over-do things I get flare ups and by the feel of it, that's exactly what's going on right now.  I also still have anaemia at the moment, so I feel like I'm fighting my health all ways round lately.  I'm due to speak to my specialist this week, after 3 months of waiting for an appointment, about finally sorting out some iron treatment for my anaemia, so fingers crossed I can finally start that and I'm praying it kicks in soon!


I've even felt too rough this week to film a video which is disappointing as I've really been enjoying making videos over the last few months.  Kind of disappointing that not many people see them as I put sooo much work in to them and like with my last video 'What I Got for Christmas' I only had 7 views! But I guess perseverance and time will help.  I have another video planned to film later this week, I thought I would have a go at doing monthly favourites.  If you're a long-time reader of my blog you'll know I usually only ever do seasonal favourites, but I thought it might be nice to give it a go and there's been quite a lot of little bits and bobs I've been loving so why not do a favourites!


As for resolutions or goals this year, well one was to regularly upload videos and posts (going well so far I don't think) but we're still only in January so I'm not feeling too guilty yet.  I also would love to really try and get out and about more this year.  I have a couple of big events coming up in March and April, which I am SO excited about but then nothing else, so I want to try and get out of the house and actually go places, maybe just on a train a go to a new town or go and visit one of my friends and vlog the trip later in the year.


And finally, I have really gotten in to bullet journaling, wow have I got into it, pinterest has been my best friend this week.  While I've been feeling too crappy to do anything, I've been really enjoying scrolling through all the ideas and saving image after image, as well as watching countless 'bu-jo' videos on youtube.  I was given a really lovely plain notebook for Christmas and after investing in many new stationary bits (very naughty I know), I now am the proud owner of a lovely set of colour pencils, brush pens and fine liners to help get me started!  I have also been learning how to do some nice little fancy fonts and cute little doodles, I've already started on my index page, calendar page and main January layout, as well as figuring out the various themes I'm going to do for each month.  So far I'm not finding it a quick process which doesn't really work with the whole 'bullet' idea but I'm new, I'm still learning and I'm enjoying it, so that's good enough for me for now.

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Well, that was a lot more than I planned to write, well done if you made it this far, if you did write in the comments what your favourite colour is :-)  Also, let me know any particular posts or videos you would like to see from me this year and until next time, lots of hugs to you all and 'Stay Happy' xx

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Thursday, 4 February 2016

A Little Catch Up . . .



Hi everyone, I feel it's time for a little chat and a catch up this week.  lately I've been struggling, no matter what ideas I try and have or how much time I spend on my blog, I feel I have been unintentionally neglecting my blog and it's not the fun, informative and interesting space I feel it used to be!  I used to love sitting down and spending hours writing, sourcing images and editing photos, I used to think about my blog constantly and never seemed to run out of future post ideas.  But sadly I don't feel this is the case anymore.  I don't have any posts ready written and often find myself worrying and panicking 'what on earth can I post about this week'!  And then I frantically try and find a spare hour or two to get a post written up and, I guess you've already noticed this, but I haven't even been keeping a regular posting schedule lately either!  It's really not good and it's making me really unhappy :-(

My blog was always a priority in my life and I devoted a lot of my time and thoughts to it, but these days I feel I have so much else going on and I just haven't been able to dedicate as much effort as I would have liked.  Work, health, new projects and a lot of stress have all played a part and each week I find myself really stressed out and struggling to keep up with posting, and posting anything worth reading!

But the truth is, I miss it, I miss giving my all and really enjoying sitting down and just writing, I miss having a nice long list of ideas that keep me going for months worth of posts and I really miss all the photography side of things too.  I've met so many lovely people through my blog and I have a lovely bunch of readers and I feel I've really been letting you guys down lately with half-hearted posts!  And again, that makes me sad.

I really do want to get back to better blogging, I still have to make time for other things in my life and I do have an exciting new project that I'm working really hard on at the moment and I can't wait to share all that with you, as it's something that's really important to me and I'm really hoping it will be a success!  But I will promise you that I will make every effort to get posts up more regularly and hopefully with better content too.

Lastly I would like to ask from you, what would you like to see on Crystal Sparkly Dreams?  Please let me know any post ideas, requests and suggestions in the comments.  Of course I want to write about the type of things I'm interested in but let's be honest my life is less than boring at times and I do run out of interesting ideas to write about!  So any help or suggestions are very, very welcome because I want my blog to be a space for my readers to enjoy and communicate with me and each other, as much as for myself :-)

And finally, thank you to everyone who's stuck with me and thank you so much for all your support, big hugs to you all :-)  Until Next Time Stay Happy

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