The first step is always the hardest...

Ok, so maybe the title is a little melodramatic, but really, I've been meaning to start this blog for months and I'm still not sure how to go about it! So I thought I'd just wing it and see what happens.

Firstly, hello and welcome to Everything is Chikipuki, your one-stop destination for all the random things that interest me (and hopefully you!), including but not limited to; crochet, crafting, cats, art, books, fashion, food, film, music, dinosaurs (yes), superheroes (really) and being a bit of a geek. I did consider making this a sort of 'specialist blog' about only one of those subjects, but I would probably run out of things to say after about five posts so I've gone with the blog-of-all-trades approach.

As I write this I still have no idea what to say, but maybe an introduction would be the logical next step?



My name is Manda, I'm currently twenty-five years of age, but twenty-six is fast approaching, and then I will no longer be able to class myself as being in my mid-twenties. I have to admit that's kind of a scary prospect considering all the things I have yet to do. I was raised in South-West England but I've lived in South Wales for the past couple of years, which is ok for now, but I don't think I'll stay here long-term. I work in retail, in what I suppose could be termed the beauty industry. This was not my career plan when I left university five years ago, but it's working out alright thus far. I live with my mum and my cat, have a sister who lives relatively nearby, and have a slight tendency to over-share that you might be noticing.

The reason I started this blog was to have somewhere to talk about the things that I'm passionate about but which other people might not know about me, since most of my interests are quite solitary and not things you typically phone your friends to discuss. I expect to be blogging with progress photos of my crochet projects, maybe a few photos of something cute my cat did today, perhaps I'll buy a new bag and be overcome with a need to tell the world about it and how it goes so well with my boots. I don't know yet. But I'll assume that if you're reading it, it's because you want to be, so it's win-win.

This is starting to get a bit rambling, so I'm going to stop now and go to bed as it's 11:37pm and I have work in the morning. Night!