Mentioned in dispatches

I didn’t set out with the intention of making this a public blog. I had some words of my mother ringing in my ears when I set it up – don’t air your dirty washing in public, she’d say. I don’t think that old adage holds true anymore in the modern world of Facebook and selfies. My original intention was just to try and figure out how a blog actually works, as I had a vague idea at the back of my mind that I might one day set up a blog as part of the social media marketing for my business (I haven’t done this yet, perhaps 2015?). I also wanted to get back into writing.

Setting up the blog part was fairly easy and I’ve taken it a step at time, each time I log in I try to learn something new or add a new bit. I was a bit freaked when the first post automatically copied to my G+ profile, I’ve got a few contacts from the early work days there; what would anyone think? It took me a while to get my head round the whole G+ profile and G+ page thing, but now I think I’ve got my work and personal lives separated and if not, well does it really matter? After a while I found a few other Project 333 bloggers and started to add a few links to those that I’m following. Then I thought, why not just hit the publish button and let the crazy clothes blog loose on the unsuspecting world.   

I‘m not sure how I came up with the idea of a crazy clothes blog. I love writing for it and never run out of ideas for a new post – about technical clothing? Am I mad? Who cares! So, I was really pleased to find a whole load of other clothes-related blogs out there on the Web. Perhaps no-one else is trying to build an entire wardrobe out of outdoor/ technical clothing and certainly most are a whole lot more stylish than I am, but I love reading about different approaches to clothing, style, shopping and most of all, Project 333. I’m pretty sure that the technical outdoor clothes style is now my true style and I’m sticking to it.

The Recovering Shopaholic is one of my favourites and Debbie recently posted a very thought proving article "The Un-bucket list". Essentially, rather than considering the ‘bucket list’ of things you wanted to do in 2014 and then poring over the failures, it focuses on considering the actual achievements made in the year. I think that’s a great idea and it’s certainly something that an old pessimist like me needs to do. I was tempted to make a comment on Debbie’s blog, something that I have never done before, and I was absolutely delighted when she came back with a lovely reply. I’ll be following her progress and posts into 2015 and also look out for more blogs of fellow Project 333 aficionados.

Meanwhile, I’m off to make my “Un-Bucket List” for 2014.