Sunday Summary

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aloha Sprinklerinos,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I like Sundays. The air feels fresher and the atmosphere somehow stiller.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Saturday brunch with my Husband. Bliss x http://instagr.am/p/U8mEaoDtgY/" height="640" src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0898049775db9be5a485b5b3ecee61f8/tumblr_mh8fph1mP91ri30i6o1_1280.jpg" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I don't do chores, I don't dash about, I don't stress. I just be. It really is marvellous.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This week has been lovely.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I finally, finally organised the huge shelving unit in my office, which brings me one step closer to making a tour video of the room. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Darcy made some big steps, including putting her wellington boots on by herself, singing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, putting things back when asked to and learning all about snow. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I went to London and had a great meeting re YouTube and attended a really super beauty event (more of this soon).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I spent quality time with friends I haven't seen in a few weeks.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I saw all three of my gorgeously caring Aunties.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And to top it all, yesterday Darcy was with relatives whilst Matt and I lived out the romantic dream wandering round a gorgeous little village, lunching in a quaint tea shop, choosing ye olde sweets and popping into a local craft fair. How lovely it is to spend Husband and Wife time together when we're not 'Mummy and Daddy' every now and again. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tell me how your week has been. I hope it's been as beautiful as mine.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Sprinkleofglitr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/sprinkleofglitter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sprinkleofglitter?ref=hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://pinterest.com/babyglitter/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> | <a href="http://www.hellocotton.com/mypage/sprinkle-of-glitter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hello Cotton</a> | <a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/1918059/sprinkle-of-glitter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bloglovin' </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Toodlepip!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">xx</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">This month my Ultimate Advertiser is <a href="http://www.dotcomgiftshop.com/?siteID=TnL5HPStwNw-THieb.QscCZfgGtfo6UXhA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DotComGiftShop</a> . If you would like to find out more about advertising on this blog, click <a href="http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk/p/sponsor.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.   </div>

Sunday Summary

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Summer Summary

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aloha Sprinklerinos,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">To me, September symbolises the rise of Autumn and the fall of Summer and a happy transition from sandals to pumps to boots. Hurrah!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It seems that this weekend is firmly in the Summer camp with warm weather, the smell of neighbours BBQ's and the sound of lawn mowers lingering in the atmosphere.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I thought I would take this seasonal opportunity to sum up Summer 2012, tuck it into it's low tog bed and look forward to a time of orange leaves and cosy blankets. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc0L_NH6CxXI8fMXHya9Kau4fg-POfBbU0zWXK79nS6-JWgOdT979Kx5gipjX7Mqje6zDxrgeC0fNs5oN1G700tcvaKMU4GbDzOngkyZKdmE-lz6JVHkBJgjnJ-5wJ9QbsRb84cXU4R4al/s1600/Summer+Summary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc0L_NH6CxXI8fMXHya9Kau4fg-POfBbU0zWXK79nS6-JWgOdT979Kx5gipjX7Mqje6zDxrgeC0fNs5oN1G700tcvaKMU4GbDzOngkyZKdmE-lz6JVHkBJgjnJ-5wJ9QbsRb84cXU4R4al/s640/Summer+Summary.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> May was a good month. I forced myself to take time out and be creative. I absolutely love crafting but all too often a million other things on my 'to do' list push it to the bottom on the pile and I never have a moment to whip out my needle and thread and enjoy it. As part of my '<a href="http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/interactive-7-things-for-7-days-june.html" style="color: magenta;" target="_blank">7 Things</a>' series I challenged myself to create and made this very <a href="http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/how-to-make-no-sew-tutu.html" style="color: magenta;" target="_blank">easy no-sew tutu</a>. Yay. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">June was a sunny month but not too hot, thank goodness. I made my <a href="http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/fantastic-fathers-day.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: magenta;" target="_blank">Dad</a> and <a href="http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/gift-ideas-for-dashing-dads.html" style="color: magenta;" target="_blank">Matt</a> some arty-photo Father's Day gifts which they both loved. Aside from the usual things like seeing chums, spending time with family, playing with Baby Glitter and trying out lots of lovely beauty products, the thing I enjoyed most about June was mine and Matt's rather windy (the in-the-sky kind of wind, not the bottom kind haha!) <a href="http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/patio-dates.html" style="color: magenta;" target="_blank">patio date</a>. It was just blissful to sit, eat and not think about the day to day gripes of life. We have been doing that more often and very much benefiting from it. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">July was the month I went barmy and decided to write 2 blog posts a day. I kept it up for about 4 weeks but then I came to my senses and realised that although it was a fun short term challenge, it wasn't a realistically sustainable long term goal! This month I pouted away in <a href="http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/lous-reviews-revlon-just-bitten.html" style="color: magenta;" target="_blank">Revlon's Just Bitten Kissable Balmstains</a> and after having my Instragram pictures printed, made this huge <a href="http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/diy-instagram-collage.html" style="color: magenta;" target="_blank">framed collage </a>for the landing. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">August was my crazy-busy-don't-sit-down-for-a-second month! We spent a happy week in the North, greeting our brand new baby niece, shopping, mooching round museums, letting Baby Glitter spend quality time with her Grandparents and I took a little break from the internet. Then, after some relaxed family time it was all systems go and Zoe and I trotted off to London for 2 amazing days at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suPGAeIG7EY" style="color: magenta;" target="_blank">Summer In The City</a> (a rather fabulous YouTube gathering) where we were able to meet so many of our brilliant YouTube viewers and see our other YouTube chums and catch up on all their news. Lots of other things happened this month which you can see on my blog and channels but those were the two biggies and I won't bore you by going on and on. And on. And on. Etc. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And here we are, September. A time of back to school enthusiasm, my wedding anniversary, blogger events, the dilemma of 'do I finally treat myself to some good quality boots?' and a whole heap of blogger motivation!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I feel like I am brimming with ideas and posts for the next few months and am itching to put finger to keyboard and get going!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">How has your Summer been? What are you looking forward to this season?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Toodlepip!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">xx</div><br />

Summer Summary

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