Ok… I have another “official announcement” to make! (Now that all the important peole now, bar Danny’s Mum it’s time for me to say it here and make it real!!) Me and Danny, that getting a place of our own and living together plan… It’s been put on hold. It’s ok – It was my idea!

Instead we’re going to travel.

Not a travel the world in a year kind of trip – More of a “let’s see the rest of Europe” as much as possible trip. Danny’s parents place will be our base where we return to top up the £££ – That’s about all I know! We may go off for a weekend, a week or a month at a time… I’m leaning towards “let’s do this properly” and spend a month in France, a month in Italy and so on – Danny is leaning towards the traditional British vacation — A week here, a fortnight there… I guess that is better than nothing but… seems a bit too normal for my liking!! Plus I want to know a place… you can’t do that in a week.

If I could just find something for Danny to do online to earn a living we would be well and truly free to go wherever we wanted, whenever. I like the sound of Freedom… Being commited to a house, with bills to pay and life getting “samey”… I can do that when I’m old. I think I just had a moment of “wanting to follow the sheep” but I’m ok now – I’m over it!

So I guess this blog may turn into a travel blog… A slight difference from the handmade crafts blog it started out as! All will be revealed in time… as and when I know what’s gonna happen!!

Oh and why Europe?  Sorry to lump everyone together (No, not you Deb) but the general feeling from Americans is “why on earth are you going to Europe when you live there?” My answer… Each country is very different – It’s not like going across different states in the US… Just because I know about Greece and England doesn’t mean Spain, Italy, the Netherlands or anywhere else will be the same. Most countries may share the Euro… but that’s about it!!

It’s official…. I did it… I’m now selling my photo prints at Etsy Slowly adding prints every day, trying to do it gradually in the hope of getting more exposure… Really want to make a go of this!

I do believe I’m finally catching up with editing all of my photos! The sunsets I took back in September… I remember this because it was the day before my birthday. Then the light trails were taken back in “Dannyland” as well… Perhaps early October… I still have a few unedited folders lurking from 2009 and a couple from Jan/Feb this year but I’m getting there… that is until I go on more photo day-trips and get all behind again!

So anyway, here’s a “new items at Zazzle” catchup!

I finally figured out what to do with the site!  We now have an updated, functioning, kinda new, Emelegifts Site!

Now there’s no shopping cart, you can’t purchase anything direct from the site, rather it showcases all that I do in my arty creative world. I’ve got the photography, digital art and watercolor art linking back to Zazzle and Etsy. All of the “old” handmade cards and gifts are gone… Most probably for ever.

Now I just need to get all of my link-swaps updated to reflect the new info, and do some new SEO on the site…

Hello! I feel like I went missing there for a bit even though I don’t think it has been more than a week since I last blogged. Maybe it’s just because I’ve been busy with all my work stuff and also had a big, out of nowhere, change of plan for the summer that has been occupying a big space in my brain… More on that soon!

I went to the carnival in Rethymnon the Sunday before last and I have a few piccies to share with you… It’s supposed to be the second best carnival in the whole of Greece, Patra being first. Not sure how many floats there were in total but there were certainly some good ones – I especially loved one of a cricket (the bug not the sport) I have a video of that I’ll have to put up on youtube sometime.

Last week I decided to get into the “youtube game” and made a video of Crete using my photos. It’s only a couple minutes long (if you’re at work it does have Greek music so speakers off please!) So without further ado…. Hit that play button and see where I live part of the year!

I’m thinking about doing another one with my flower photos although haven’t a clue what music I would use for those!

A new “squares collection” poster – Ok so unlike the seascape version I only have 6 squares not 9 (didn’t have enough pink / white flowers that went well together to do the 9 square version… give me time though!) but I still think it looks rather beautiful!

There’s a cat squares print on the way as well…. It’s finished I just need to upload it to the sites. Not sure what to do next… perhaps another flower squares print using yellow flowers or blue / purple flowers… We’ll see!