BIG decision alert…

I’ve made a BIG decision…

I am going to write My Make Do and Mend Year, the book!
(Undoubetedly Hollywood will then be knocking on the door, for My Make Do and Mend Year, the movie, but one step at a time…)

There, I’ve said it, it’s out there, I have to do it now.

I want to collate all the blog posts and create “The Modern Girls Guide to The Good Life”, following a year of Make Do and Mend from January to December, with lots of how-to’s and makes and upcycles, and waste not want nots, present ideas, the odd recipe, and of course the odd rant, it wouldn’t be mine without the odd rant…
I have been mulling it over for a while now. I think it would make a most excellent book (obviously) and I’ve decided I’m going to do it. And what better way to make myself do it than to announce to everyone that I am. I always find that if I have an idea, once it is verbalised it becomes more ‘real’ (and you look like a bit of an idiot if you don’t then do it, and there is no greater incentive for doing something than NOT wanting to look like an idiot..)
So there we are. It is ‘real’ I WILL be a published author.

I have no idea about publishing or how to approach publishers, so I am going to self-publish it (although if anyone knows of any nice tame publishers who might like an instant best-seller on their hands, please feel free to make the appropriate introductions…) and I haven’t really thought much further than that really. The book in my head is A-MAY-ZING. If the book that comes out of my head is even half as good, it will be on the Christmas best-seller lists…

Just thought you (all) should be the first to know 🙂

PS. I suspect Kirstie Allsop is now a little bit worried about her Queen of Craft and All Things Cool and Thrifty title…