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Cybher 2012

This time last week we were in the mists of Cybher and for me it was a day I had been looking forward to since the day it was announced.

I was very kindly offered a free ticket to attend and give a helping hand to Sian on the day.

You might have seen me handing out badges at registration, which was very handy for working out who everyone was. 

I was the one rocking my huge Tatty Devine necklace. In case you didn't get a flash of my name  badge.

The speakers were fantastic on the day and although it was physically imposssible to see everyone I wanted to, what I did see was truely inspiring. 

My highlights and lessons learnt from the day are a mixed bunch of events and they go something like this:

300 odd leather satchels smell amazing

Listening to Jennifer Begg (@livefreerange) talking about her fundraising in memory of her mother and the result - Janies School. Just awesome stuff and once I have read Half the Sky I am set on changing the world peice by peice.

Having my photo taken for SOTM by Mario Cacciottioi

Too many bloggers in a hotel lift setting off the alarm and the bar mangers face as he said 

'Did they all try and get in there together?'

Discovering online personalities are sometimes exactly what you expect in real life and sometimes really just....not. (in a good way and a bad way)

That if you leave a  gaggle of drunk female bloggers in a bar with too much free fizz there will be noise complaints and plants will get eaten.

So in a nutshell thats my low down on Cybher 2012. 

See you at Cybher 2013.

She can sing a rainbow!

I wrote this post nearly two years ago about our 'settling song' and tonight after two long years of me singing to Tabitha-Lo she gave me a wonderful surprise.

Tonight as I sung to her like always, she joined in and sung every single word with me.

I might have shed a tear.

Feather and Black Kids Range: Nightwear.

I have been so lucky being involved in the Feather and Black bloggers reviews and their latest items did not let me down.

Tabitha was sent an item from their nightwear range. 

We chose the Betty Bow Nightdress, it being the only one available in her size. I was initially a bit gutted that the Cherry Print Pj's were for older girls as I have a real soft spot for anything with cherries on.

Generally I don't dress Tabitha in anything too girly but I have to admit I adore the Betty Bow Nightdress on her. It is a true classic and reminds me of nighties I used to wear as a child. She now calls it her 'Princess Dress' and I think I will have to eventually address her need for pastel pink in her life....

Along with the nightdress Feather and Black also sent us the first childrens book written by Adam Black 'David the Dinosaur'

The story of a dinosaur with a taste for plump little boys!

I love the book, the story is proper old school. It reminded me of a classic fairy tale full of bits of gore, drama and lots of laughs. Tabitha flicks through the pages now reading it aloud to herself we have read it so many times, although her version goes 

'David the dinosaur...Raaah boys......David the dinosaur... Hello.....Raaaah...Oh no.... David the dinosaur .....The end.'

Adam Black has also launched a range of items for David the Dinosaur including Pj's and cushions.

I continue to love Feather and Black all of the items we have reviewed and the items I have purchased are fantastic, I cannot recommend them enough.

Is this the end?

I kind of made a pact with myself to never blog about blogging.

This feels right though and there is no better place to air my feeling than on here.

I am feeling really tempted to chuck it all in. In fact I am feeling almost as excited about the decision as I was when I first started this blog.

There are a few things that are keeping me hanging on. I do still really enjoy the engagement with companies that blogging has brought me. I enjoy reviewing items and love giving opinions and sometimes feeling they are listened to. Of course all the blogging perks are lovely too, and frankly I worked damn hard at the start to build this blog up and be in a position to be offered anything at all. However, my days have become culled into a few hours per evening that also require fitting in mothering, girlfriending and occasionally some breathing...

I have no time for the blog. I struggle to write reviews and sponsored posts and my networking and klout were given up on a long long time ago.

I used to love a link up, I ran a link up that I was really proud of. I never do them anymore even when I love the themes and know what photo or song I would use. I just don't have the time, or if I do it would mean giving up one of my other roles for half and hour and they are tightly stretched as it is.

The main thing that keeps me hanging onto this site by a thread is essentially this; I made it, I grew it from a bedtime conversation and it has at times gone beyond my highest expectations. I would feel a great loss to give up but part of me is sensing a huge amount of relief might be involved too.