Some of you may have noticed that it has been a little quiet in my blogger lately and also if you follow my Twitter Feed or Facebook Page. There is a very good reason for this...I've been super busy working on some changes!

I don't want to give away too much right now, but this "butterfly" is getting ready for a transformation, and that transformation is taking up a lot of my time and my lovely web developer's time (a.k.a. my boyfriend - he gets paid in home baked goods) which unfortunately means I have not been very social at social networking!

If my grand scheme falls into place (insert Dr Evil style mwah ha ha ha laugh) a slightly new butterfly will emerge towards the end of March 2012 to coincide with our third birthday celebrations - every girl needs a new party dress right? Changes are being made not only to the way Butterfly-Crafts will look moving into the future but also the way in which you can shop and purchase lovely handmade cards and gifts. Selling online is no mean feat and I have put a lot of thought and research into what I want to do with Butterfly-Crafts and the direction I see it moving in and therefore the changes that are to be made are hopefully made for the better!

Well, that's as cryptic as I care to be right now, but please do keep following along and very soon, I hope you will see an even more beautiful butterfly-crafts emerge!

You may have noticed it's been a little quiet in the land of Butterfly-Crafts blog lately. There is a reason for it, I have been busy planning a rather big change at Butterfly-Crafts and this has been taking up a lot of my time, I'm not talking "Saving the planet" magnitude of changes but a big change for me nonetheless.

This bag change is set to occur on March 26th if all goes according to plan! I will endeavor to blog more between now and then and update you all on how my Thirty before Thirty challenge is going and various other things.

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This is the year!!! In just 203 days I will turn the big 3-0. Yep, August 1st is going to be fast approaching, and do we think i have progressed much with my challenge? Not so much. I will do my best, but if things roll over until the end of the year then so be it!

But here is an update...

1.Own a sewing machine, - I have dropped plenty of hints about this and will have to leave it to fate.

2.Learn to knit socks – I have the yarn, and the pattern. Just need to sit down and figure out dpn needles!

3.Visit Buckingham Palace – Done!!!! I need to blog about it though, but Mum and I had a great time in September.

4.Swim in a lake or stand under a waterfall - This is likely to be the Serpentine one hot day in the summer...if the UK has a summer this year!

5.Own a home (the BIG challenge) – I can categorically say this will not happen in 2012 but I am working towards it. Perhaps in my 30th year.

6.Be debt free except from a mortgage if Num 5 happens – I am working well on this.

7.Visit Dickens House – DONE!!! But it was a real disappointment, I will blog about this too.

8.Go to a soap making workshop - DONE!!!! And I'm now selling natural soap through my shop.

9.Learn to hang wall paper –We will be redecorating quite a bit at my parents house and yes, I will be roped into it!

10.Spend a night on the Norfolk Broads – Sort of DONE!! Just need to blog and am going again in June.

11.Learn to make pastry – Did not do this over Christmas as I had hoped but will soon.

12.Learn the succession of kings and queens from William the Conqueror in 1066 – I have been given a few hints and tips on this, just need to learn it!

13.Make and wear my own dress – I have an idea to make a dress to wear to dinner on my 30th birthday.

14.Read five books from my bookshelf - One down, four to go!

15.Have a make up lesson – DONE!!! Although I wasn’t all that impressed. I had a free session at Bobbi Brown which was educational and expensive.

16.Do something every day to make me smile – Now I have a new "friend" in my life I am smiling a whole lot more each day.

17.Learn to change a car tyre – I'm still laughing about why I included this!

18.Be able to jog a mile without stopping - with my leg issues this is a BIG thing – This will be hard but I have a space which I know is a mile so am building up walking it and then will jog/walk and then who knows...

19.Go to Rome or Sorrento – DONE!!! and it was AMAZING!!! I need to blog with photos though.

20.Sleep for 6.5+ hours sleep a night consistently – Some nights are good, others are bad, and some are unmentionable.

21.Visit Giant's Causeway – This may not happen now as I potentially will go to NYC in August, but I still want to visit Antrim and that area in the future.

22.Have a dinner party - This was the plan for my birthday, but I think there will be a party instead so I will have to replan the dinner party! I have had a practice with doing lunch for my parents at my boyfriends over the holiday.

23.Have Butterfly-Crafts mentioned in a newspaper or magazine – DONE!!!! – coverage of the craft fairs I've organised in the local paper.

24.Sleep under the stars - I am an option in mind for this, watch this space, just need a mozzie net!

25.Live as much of a handmade/homemade/economical life as possible - I am aware of this every day and am going to try and make as many of the gifts I will need this year as possible.

26.Begin to have the stamina, strength & body shape from pre-leg issues – the gym is definitely helping. I will never be a ‘gym bunny’ but I do feel much better to go after work and at the weekend for a little brain space. I really miss rowing but that’s off limits at the moment, one day though, one day.

27.Watch: Casablanca (done), Dr Zhivago (done - yawn), Gone With the Wind (done), The Philadephia Story (done), A Street Car Named Desire (done - yawn), The Godfather (done), Citizen Cane (done) and Ferris Beulers Day Off (done - crap film) so just Goodfellas and Schindler's List to go.

28.Go to a comedy club – Need to plan this very soon I think.

29.Finish my knitted patchwork blanket – I finally started to knit again over the holidays having had a break of about 8 months. I have 83 squares to go plus sewing in, joining them together and then edging. It will be a "30th year" project

30.Visit 15 exhibitions at museums and galleries – Well there was Handmade Tales at The Women’s Library, Afghanistan at The British Museum, Out of this world at the British Library, Eadweard Muybridge at Tate Britain, Electroboutique at the Science Museum and a few others I've currently forgotten!