Lilly Pilly

Dawn from As Sweet as Cinnamon has asked the question, What's your Blog Name and Why Did We Choose It?

I started my blog back in January 2008 and my early followers will remember me as Jo in TAS. I didn't give my name alot of thought back then, it said nothing about me other than where I lived. I was so eager to start blogging that the name was probably the last thing I thought of, I just wanted to join in and be a part of the blogoverse.

So jump forward to 2010 and it was time for a change. I wanted to pick a title that was easy to remember and that was Australian. My garden contains many Lilly Pilly shrubs and even when I lived in Queensland Lilly Pillys where our plants of choice, we even had one that was shaped like a xmas tree and we adorned it with lights at xmas time. They're my favourite shrub and I love the name so Lilly Pilly was born.

Blogger Meet Up

Are you going to be here on Friday 29th July?

If so, how about a blogger meet up at 12ish in the Foodie area? I'll tie some red balloons to the table so you can find us

Here's who will be there so far

Me

Fee - Designs by Fee

Kerri - Willowgrove Quilts

Lizzie - A House in The Country

Christine - Once Upon a Quilt

Tammy - Tammy Woods Designs

Christine M - MacDonald's Patch

Elyte - Tea, Fabric and Other Things

Kathy - Quilted Notions

Vicki - The Pickledish Patch

Let me know and I'll add you to the list!

I've had a Make Over!

Don't you just love my new look! The lovely Michelle from Leni and Rose designed it and I'm lucky enough to test drive it. Michelle even kindly changed it to suit my 3 columns. She's so clever, oneday I hope to learn how to create my own backgrounds too! Thanks Michelle, it's so cute!
I still have a bit of tweaking to do like changing colours of my word clouds and bits and pieces to match the new colour scheme!!

It's set in stone - The Blogictionary ***Updated***

"Blurking" it is, so to all those blurkers out there stop blurking and leave a comment, it only has to be Hi, just so we know you've dropped by!

In reading everone's comments and having a few conversations there's a few new words too:

Blogaholic

Blogdicted

Blogtastic

Blogolicious

Blogquirky

Blogbabe

and when your followers go missing they've been Blogducted!

....so what else can you come up with?

Blogocialite, Blogcheers, Blogese,Bloglift, Blogfinish, Blogfriend, Bloghug, Blociable, Blogland, Blogoshere, Blogomments, Blogquestions, Blogomic, Blogademic

Here's a little sneak peek of something I've been helping Helen with...

Check out her blog for a few more!

They're Back!

Was I relieved this morning to find all my blogs back on my follow list! I was so upset yesterday, I was having withdrawls, I definitely have a problem..... I'm a blog addict!! Wonder if there's a group out there that supports this kind of addiction?

Talking about blogs, I was having an email conversation with Annie the other day and the word "Lurking" came up, you know how people lurk around blogs and never leave comments. Well we think it sounds kind of sinister so we've come up with a new word "Blogurking". Us bloggers have created a whole new language that non-bloggers just don't get, like Blogoverse, and Blogoversary and every other term that relates to blogging. Tell us what you think about our new word or if there's a better name for it we can adopt as our own?

PS I'll stop the posts without pictures soon, I promise!