I admit it, Iโ€™ve been slack in keeping up with my long-time blog, Simply Splendiferous. I started it in 2009 as a means to record my recipes and to encourage me to illustrate more. And for many years I worked away, posting fairly regularly but at a leisurely pace. I won commissions from clients who followed it and met many lovely, lovely foodies but then my design work got busier, I got involved (happily I add) with more community activities and my blog got neglected. And then the host provider lost its content. Now, in March 2022, Iโ€™ve decided to incorporate Simply Splendiferous blog with my personal creative website so I can have more control in one place. After all, I like to think that cooking is part of my creativity. Iโ€™ll reissue some favourite old posts (I did have duplicates of the illustrations - always have a back-up folks) but not every post I did will make it and thereโ€™s no loss to that. Itโ€™ll be fun (Iโ€™m hoping) but it will be slow to scroll back in time, see what I find and decide whether or not to repost it. I still cook the recipes that Iโ€™ve shared over the past 13 years. Perhaps you do too!

I hope youโ€™ll be patient while I revisit and restore some older posts and get my head around a new design. Iโ€™m looking forward to mixing up my food based posts with some of my creative and gardening activities. Itโ€™ll be more interesting for me and hopefully for you too. Hereโ€™s to going forward!