FDD's 1st Anniversary...YEAH!! ... and my Bday!!

A year ago I started this blog on my Bday, and wow did I not know how my life would change!! First I was fiddling a bit with images and the design of the blog and here you see some other examples I was testing...

I just added the text now to this donkey that I had made a bit funkier...


But let me tell you a bit about the last year. It is just amazing how many friends and other bloggers I met while doing this daily blog! Just amazing, it still blows my mind! So many nice, interesting, funny, inspirational and great friends I have met via the world wide web and this blogging world.

I am really happy to have started this blog, which I just did as a sort of learning process, I started reading some blogs and thought how nice it would to keep my family and friends up to date with our ever changing scenery. But I didn't realize that so many other friends I would meet!! It made my life so much richer and fuller by knowing all these new friends, it is really great!!

At first I started reading design and fashion blogs, then I added photo blogs, food blogs, daily life blogs, adoption blogs, SA blogs and once you start reading these blogs and look at which blogs they read, then there is no ever ending lists of blogs... just amazing!! From one blog to the other blog, the designs are fun to see, the text and photo's are addicting to follow and the stories behind each person is just mind blowing. So much better to read a blog than to watch TV!!

Thank you all for being my friend in blogging land!! I became attached to your stories, your comments and your blogs!! Thank you Kate, Annet, Rosemary, Jen and Emm for becoming part of my world! These wonderful women and many more who are reading my blog and I am following theirs! Me being part of yours in so many ways, not only via the blog world, but some of you via Facebook as well and private emails which I look out for all the time :-)

Let's make 2009 another even better blogging year!!
Love you all!
Mireille

R U on Facebook?

I am on Facebook for a while now and I was wondering if there are readers of my blog who are also active on Facebook. So let's meet each other at Facebook, my name is Mireille Dijkstra and I am on the South African network. My profile picture is one of my twin girls. And when you decide to become my friend, please mention this blog ;-)

I also started this Thailand Adoption group on Facebook. Check that out as well, if you are an adoptive parent of a Thai child or in the process of adopting a Thai child you can sign up to this group and exchange specific information or just chat with other friends who have gone through the same process. Exchange info about great finds in Thailand, food, restaurants, hotels, anything that you want to know before you make your trip to Thailand to pick up your child. Let's get together and talk, chat about one of the greatest countries in the world!

Hope to meet you soon!
Mireille

Have you stumled upon Polyvore yet?

I found this amazing website yesterday while I was browsing the web for something... That happens to me all the time, I don't find what I was looking for, but I find something else that catches my attention.
Well, www.Polyvore.com is a site that allows you to mix and match images from anywhere on the web, to create outfits, interior designs, or any kind of collage. You can create outfits using real items clipped from any online store. Share your style with friends or browse thousands of looks by color, brand or item. Like these pictures below, how cute is that?!

There are Facebook, forums and other groups for Polyvore addicts, people get really into it! And there is even an official Polyvore blog run by an 18-year-old aspiring stylist living in Australia. Check it out, but beware; you might get addicted ;-)