Yep, even though the NaBloPoMo group is active all year around, November is officially National Blog Posting Month, with the challenge of posting every day for 30 days. I did it successfully last year (yay me!) and I do believe I’m going to give it another shot.  This time might be a bit of a challenge since I’ll be in Augusta visiting with Dee from Thursday to Sunday next week, but since I won’t be totally without computer access I think I should try. Doing it was good for me last year; I think it will be good for me again.

I do NOT promise to stick to any one subject, though. If I feel like writing about lampworking, lampworking it shall be. If my cats do something wonderful/stupid/funny/cute, they’ll be the subject. Shoot, they may write the Thanksgiving Day entry again for all I know. I will TRY not to get too political, but how can anyone help commenting on politics a little bit THIS year?

Stick with me — I’ll try to amuse or entertain you, or at least make you feel like life doesn’t suck as much as you think it does.

Chuck Westbrook just came up with a great idea to help out some of the bloggers out there with great content, but not enough of an audience for it. Check out How You Can Help End the Problem of Blogs With Great Content but No Readers. I’m going to participate in hopes of at least finding some new and interesting blogs that may not be on topics I normally follow — sort of broadening my horizons, as it were.

Thanks to Andrea H of Fools and Sages for finding this!

NaBloPoMo is over, and I succeeded in meeting the challenge!  I wrote a post every single day of November…and two on Sundays, with my Best of the Week posts.  Sure, not all of them were great literature; some of them were just hastily thrown together to keep the string going.  Then again, the challenge didn’t say that all of the postings had to be great, just that they had to be posted.

Better yet, my friend and co-moderator at the Glass Haven, Gwacie, made it through the challenge successfully also. We kept cheering each other on, and commenting on each other’s posts, which I think helped both of us.  Way to go, Gwacie!!!

Plus there was help from my husband, who would check with me most nights before bedtime to make sure I’d blogged.  A couple of times I really did need that reminder — thanks, sweetheart !

I probably won’t continue blogging every single day, but I think this has built up the habit of blogging fairly often rather than once every few months.

This week’s highlights from the world of the lampworkers’ blogs:

• Winter
• Flaming Hot — Finding Inspiration
• Watch Me Create — The Process of Making Glass Face Beads
• Setting Goals: Part 2 - Make a List
• The Strange Woman Next Door
• Flaming Hot — The Witching Hour?
• Watch me Create — Lesson learned. . . Next time I’ll take notes!
• Flaming Hot — Location, Location, List Time?
• A lesson in fusing…or how not to
• One Reason to Have a Studio Tour…