Well, I successfully made it to the end of my 6 months without buying new clothes. It wasn't as hard as I'd expected, and quite liberating to be honest. I realised that I was only buying things because I felt like I needed them. Turns out I didn't. I made some great charity shop purchases too(I have to admit that my "taking one item back to the charity shop for each one I purchased" was less successful though).
In celebration, I went shopping on Saturday. Gah. Overwhelming. So much choice. I desperately needed some new jeans (mine were getting embarassingly full of holes...), but it was a bit of a "keep my head down and just get on with it" situation. I think I'm going to unofficially keep the no buying clothes thing going on for a while - the exceptions are things like black trousers and jeans, which I'll replace when they fall apart/no longer fit.
And onto new things.
I've started doing a bit of writing for a website called The Love of It, which is a directory of good wholesome fun. I've got a few things up there at the moment (a "how to" guide for guerilla gardening and homemade hobnobs, and an article on why I love nightwalking). I'm also now officially Events Editor, so I'm in charge of hunting out fun events and writing little spiels for them all. Brilliant! I'm especially loving the Project 2010, a series of 52 challenges over the course of 2010.
On that note, I came up with a challenge for myself (which in turn has now become part of Project 2010) - take a photo every day throughout 2010. I set up a facebook group for it which is growing by the day, with loads of different people participating. The idea is that each photo represents a place/memory/moment, and over the course of the year they build up a bigger picture. Stay tuned to see if I keep up the motivation!
Also on the agenda is some writing for Ecojam (working on my first article at the moment), and of course, International Homemade HobNob Day - photos of the day and activities to follow...
So 2010 looks to be off to a pretty damn awesome start!
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