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Big things are coming!

in Be a Fabulous Badass

Whoa, it’s been a big year! It’s that time again when all bloggers take a look back over the year that was and post the hell out of it but firstly I wanted to start by saying an enormous THANK YOU to you for taking the time to be part of the Foxy and Fabulous community! It wouldn’t be appropriate to write this without a celebratory drink in my hand as I type, so cheers to all of you! Highlights In March of this year I took the plunge and nervously moved my blog to a self-hosted environment and all the anxiety about not being able to manage the technology and back-end of it was just bullshit in my own mind. I can’t recommend it enough! To have full control over the look, feel and functionality has been amazing! I only deleted the whole fucking look and feel of it just once. But I blogged that, in case I ever do it again! I have to give a big shout OUT to BlueHost as their 24/7 live chat help and ridiculously well priced hosting plans have gone a huge way to alleviate any teething anxiety I may have had. Check
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Dear Santa, come at me

in Get Your Shit Together

I’m not a massive fan of Christmas stress which is why I don’t go overboard on the decorations and avoid crowded malls like the plague! Which probably explains why I did all my Christmas shopping and wrapping on the first weekend in November. Yep, done AND dusted. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve stuck a list on the fridge, weeks in advance of Christmas with details of stuff I’d love to receive. For years my family gave me stick about it! And then, a funny thing happened. About ten years ago they’ve actually started asking for it – ha! So now that I have family all over the country and I’m not only a mad online shopper myself, but a Pinterest mental case I’ve created my very own board to replace the list on the fridge as a more convenient one stop shop for them! If you need some help on how to get started on one for yourself you can read my earlier posts and if you’re already on to it then check out how to verify your Pinterest profile to stand out from the crowd. OR if you need gift ideas for the fabulous thirty something women in
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My journey back to good health – an IQS update

in Get Even More Foxy

My first update on my ‘I Quit Sugar‘ progress  was written on my iPad, in an underground carpark, en route to buy groceries while I waited for some heavy traffic to die down after a long day.  In other words, I didn’t dilly dally about the words and I just got them down on ‘paper’ and hit publish.  That post was one of my busiest thanks to some fab sharing and really hit home to some people it seems.  I do hope that if nothing else it inspired some people to go ahead and quit sugar for themselves and begin to take charge of their own well being. Cut to today and we are into the 13 week mark of what was initially an 8 week experiment.  Like many travellers along this path I have felt so much better that I want to maintain the bulk of my new habits and keep going for as long as it feels right.  Sure I still find it hard to pass up a well made cupcake and have indulged in the odd beer and hot chips at the pub, big deal.  The truth is that these moments have become an infrequent exception rather
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