Four Years Ago Today.........

Four years ago today, I started blogging.

As you can see here I got off to a shaky start with pictures like this one!

You will notice that my first blog has a different name : Work That Wardrobe.
I started blogging to help me save money.

My work as a freelance writer was dryng up and our income was rapidly dwindling.

I looked at my biggest non-essential expense and it was no surprise to find clothes topped the list.

I pledged not to spend an extra penny on new clothes for a year and the blog followed my journey.

However, being the creative sort I did apply some creative accounting to my pledge.

I could sell clothes on ebay and use the money from that to "swap" for new clothes.

Friends and family could give me gift vouchers for birthdays and Christmas and I did spend the odd Tesco Clubcard voucher on a new skirt.

I didn't say I was perfect.

But it was fun.

I played around with ideas.

I experimented.

Sometimes I looked a disaster.

I still shudder at my Star Trek outfit.

But I learnt a lot about myself.

I wrote an article for my former newspaper about it here.

I got the blogging bug.

And I am still  here.

Four years on.

When I look back so much has changed in the past four years. 

I am no longer a freelance journalist or writer in residence at a men's prison.

Those days are gone and a new career in Education has opened up for me.

I have lost my father and my mother in law.

I have survived four years as a parent of teenagers. 
Just.

And still have another eight years of that to go.

Our  marriage has survived several difficult patches and we have come out of it much stronger and happier.

Who knows what the next four years will hold but I thank you all, fellow bloggers old and new for sharing my journey.

Whether you have left a comment, emailed me, followed me or just read in silence I thank you.

During my lowest times it was so heartening to know that I had connections out there.

Thank You for connecting.

Today I am wearing an outfit in homage to that first post when I wore:  jeans, sleeveless top and Converse.

I wore:
Trainers - Converse
Trousers - Top Shop
Vest - Tesco
Necklace - Fossil