I have to say I was more than a little stunned to be told on Twitter that my blog had made it to the final of the Mad Blog awards. I checked the site twice to make sure it was my name on the list and I wasn't just willing it to be there !

This wonderful accolade comes at the end of a whirlwind year that saw me opening (and closing) my own shop. I also moved my blog across to wordpress to try and combine it with an online shop but this proved more difficult to manage than I anticipated, so moved back to the much more easier to use blogger. All of these factors (I thought) would have really impacted on my readership, but obviously I underestimated the loyalty of the wonderful people who follow my escapades and blog.

THANK YOU

I am busy this week closing up the shop. A sad/happy experience, sad because it has been a long term dream of mine to own my own shop but the reality is much harder when you have young children, travel, stock etc etc. But on the happy side I get back the precious quality time with my young twins, No 1 son and long suffering hubby. We will have time for all the fun stuff we used to do and I get to blog more again !

I have made it to the finals but am up against some pretty amazing Homes and Interiors bloggers, So if you would just take a minute to follow the link Vote for the white approach

scroll down to best homes and Interiors and enter the white approach. I would love you to the moon and back.

THANK YOU AGAIN LOVELY PEEPS

Also Many thanks to :

The very huggable Sally Whittle for putting on what I am sure will be another fantastic event.

The very stylish Brabantia who are the sponsors for our category.

Brabantia

Finally lots of luck to the other finalists in my group :

Love Chic Living

Oh so Amelia

Side Street Style

Tigerlilly Quinn

I'm thrilled to say this blog made it into the finals of the 2012 Mad Blog Awards ! I am over the moon as there are just 77 finalists across 20 award categories.

There were 52,000 nominations for over 3,000 different blogs. So its a BIG deal.

THANK YOU SO MUCH to everybody who nominated me.

If you would like to vote for me to win you can do it really quickly and easily Vote Here Just scroll down to the Best Home Category, click on the please choose button, select The White Approach, scroll to the bottom of the page and enter !

Please do keep following and reading my blog, lots of great ideas are coming soon. I have made some big business decisions over the last few weeks and I would love you along for the ride.

Thank you so much once again for all your support, encouragement and great comments. This blog would not be what it is if it was not for you.

Karen

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