Wednesday 9 January 2013

Hello 2013!


Hello lovely readers and hello 2013!
Here we are at the beginning of a new year, and I can smell the fresh start.

And with the fresh start of the new calendar year comes a whole new look and feel to "I heart post." What do you think? I hope you like it! I have spent quite a while working on it to get to this stage, so I am very happy to launch the look with my first post of 2013.

I did a little course in CSS conducted by the clever Katrina at Pugly Pixel to work out how to refresh my look. Roll-over my widgets! Roll-over my widgets! Look how they change colour! I am pretty excited by that! So thank-you Katrina for teaching me such fancy tricks.

With the goal of revamping "I heat post" achieved (for the time being - it is undoubtedly a work-in-progress), and with the start of the new year, it is also time to think about new goals. So I have set a goal for myself. A serious goal.


And the goal is this (and people who know me well may snigger, as I never ever ever ever thought this phrase would come out of my mouth/keyboard):

♥ I want to do a 10km fun run this year!!*



Fun run - an oxymoron, I know!! But I have already signed up to do two 4km races and an 8km race in February/March - so I better get serious about achieving this goal, or it might be embarrassing. And now that I have put this goal out there on the world wide web, there is no escaping.

I also have a standard goal which I have re-hashed at the start of the past few years, and that is:
            read more books.
I read embarrassingly little last year, so this one shouldn't be hard to achieve.

And rounding out my list of goals, I would also like to:
            fix up my garden,
            ♥ make a meal from an actual recipe.

Okay, so I just made those last two up. Fixing up the garden has been on my to-do list for two months now, so maybe making it an official new years goal will actually see it happen. And just because I like to round things out, to get to goal number five, I used the 'New Year's Resolution Generator' and the result was:


I quite like that! This year I will aim to be more curious! I have no idea how I will measure that.

So thanks for spending time with "I heart post" once again. Please let me know what you think of the blog re-design** or if you have any tips on how I could be more curious. And please share your own goals for 2013 with me too - it will make me feel like less of a crazy-woman for wanting to do a 10km run!

Until next time, peeps,


Helen.

*And PS, I learnt how to do in-text hearts during my little CSS course, so watch out, they are going to be everywhere on this site, because I am a more than a little excited about them. I ♥ hearts.

**And PPS, I also made a new "About" page - check it out!

7 comments:

  1. Helen! Great blog redesign, it's very clean and chic! Love it. Great job with the widgets as well (doesn't that sound like it should be a dirty word? "I like your widgets" *insert creepy eyebrow raise here*), look at all the awesome colour changing!

    Fun run. Nope, nope, those are two words that don't belong together. However, I wish you every luck with your "fun" run; I'll be providing complete moral support from the sidelines. :)

    More curious... it strikes me that a person who is trying to be more curious should try to train a dingo as their sidekick. Just a suggestion. ;)

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    1. Hmm.... a dingo, hey? My housemate has a fat black and white house cat named Gypsy... can I pass her off as my sidekick instead? She has attitude that is a bit more in keeping with my style - less hardcore than a dingo, more about the napping. But maybe napping is counter-productive on the curiosity scale. Damn! I love napping. Okay. I'll work on it.

      And PS - I am really glad that you like my widgets (*wink*)! Thanks! :)

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  2. Good afternoon Helen,

    Really like the new layout and blog format. Keep it up.

    Cheers.

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  3. Hello Helen.
    Love your introductory "hello" photo at the start and the bright, breezy tone of your blog, but I think I prefer the dark background of your previous format as i think this might show off the actual stamps better.
    Otherwise, I look forward to your interesting and informative blogs in the year ahead.
    Love,( wish i knew how to insert a heart here),
    Mum. xx

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    1. HI Mum,
      I am glad you like the blog on the whole - if you like the images on the black, just click on them and it will enlarge them and show them against a black background :) xx ♥

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  4. Hello Helen,
    The new look was great! Very clean.
    Marathon is something exciting. I wish success and that you continue firmly in goal. Greetings,
    João

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