Day: 9 January 2011

miscellaneous

We’re back!

We’re back!  It’s been marvellous to have time off away from home as a family.  Although I had to work one day between Christmas and New Year, Mr T and the girls stayed in the country with my parents.  Last week we headed up into the mountains.

in the Ovens river

There’s nothing quite like an icy cold mountain river! I remember spending many hours as a child playing in the same river, making dams, floating down it, playing in the currents and rapids.

pick your own blueberries

The children had a ball – our accomodation had mini-golf, a ropes course, a pool, tennis courts, playgrounds, a huge lounge area, a tarzan rope, and the river just behind it. And there is a lot to be said for picking your own blackberries – and for eating lavender ice cream.

Lavender ice cream

Mostly we lazed around. I read an entire novel, finished crocheting one cardi, and started crocheting another. And the kids just played, played, played.

in the lavender fields

A holiday away in the country really is good for the slightly jaded soul.

But now I’m back, with a sewing/crafting/crocheting/blogging vengeance! Ha ha!  I still have another three weeks off work (hooray!  although I do enjoy my paid job, annual leave is a wonderful thing) and my mental to-do list has been growing.  I’m behind on blog posts and have a few things to show off, so stay tuned!

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2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

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A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 210,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 9 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 242 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 947 posts. There were 9 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 8mb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was August 19th with 1,245 views. The most popular post that day was Granny shrug how-to.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were kootoyoo.com, nicolemdesign.blogspot.com, grannymania.canalblog.com, vintagericrac.blogspot.com, and ravelry.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for thornberry, crochet blog, lara thornberry, free crochet scarf patterns, and crochet bags.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Granny shrug how-to May 2010
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2

Cup Day Skirt tutorial November 2008
36 comments

3

My crochet library January 2010
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4

Baby tag blanket June 2007
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5

2010 projects in progress January 2010
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