Welcome, July!

Today is my first day of holidays and I am loving it! Not officially of course, holidays don't start till the end of the week so my first real day that I should be at work and won't be is Monday. But this is definitely another huge bonus to working part time - two and a half week holiday breaks at a time.

It also feels great that my first work-free day is the start of July, and my new SP challenge, so I have a bit of time to update all of this and start working on my new list. But first, off to see how I did for June.

For reference, my June SP list as follows. I have added my notes below. By my reckoning I completed 6.5 out of 9, not too bad I think!

Completed:

1) Blog daily
I must say, I am quite proud that I completed this one. I knew I would be fine on my non-work days, but really doubted whether I would have the time or energy after working and doing the Mum thing in the evenings on Mondays and Tuesdays. I was organised though and had some blog ideas ready to go so I could post quickly once the Monkey was in bed. Either way though, a success!

2) Read a book
I read Twilight which was pretty easy to read I must admit, even though quite long. I did enjoy it though and am about a third of the way through the second one now. I did want to go back to some old classics etc in my reading this month but I think it will have to wait till I finish the series now, I want to see how it all turns out!

4) Complete two Jessica Sprague digiscrap tutorials
Done and done! I did do a couple of simple ones in the end, I want to try something more advanced next time.

(7) Bake two sweet items
Success! I made both the Nutella Cookies and Apple Pie Cupcakes, both which I was really pleased with

(8) Make Monkey's birthday invites
All finished (if at the last minute!) and I really like how they turned out. Now to print them.

(9) Create and upload Small Pleasures banner
I finished this but realistically would like another go at it, it's not exactly what I wanted. And I need to find a way for it to fit on my blog header properly!

Half Completed:
6) Bake two savoury items
Half points for this one I think. I did my sausage rolls but never got to the second one.


Not Completed:
(3) Complete three digiscrap pages
Okay, a huge failure on this one! Although I did plan on having two Monkey-free days to do it in which didn't happen due to my crap scheduling. But even so, I could have attempted it but wasn't that motivated. I think after concentrating so hard on getting digiscrapping done for the Monkey's album over the last few months I am a bit digiscrapped out.

(5) Try out one new dinner recipe
I got the ingredients but never got around to trying it!


But I guess the main point of all this is to remember why I even started SP, which was to give me a chance to focus on doing the little things that make me happy. And I must say, this blog has really helped me to do that and I am loving it.