A New Direction for W&W

You might have noticed things are looking a bit different around here, and that's because I've decided to give Whisk & Whimsy a bit of a facelift. At the same time, I am pointing this blog in a new direction - well, sort of.

If you know me or have been following this site from its inception, you may recall that I started it last year out of my love for the domestic side of life. I love to cook, to sew, to craft, to crochet. I'm inspired by design, I frequently feel the urge to create. I have a love for fashion, and I'm also on a quest to make my new apartment into a 'home'. In short, I started Whisk & Whimsy with no one path in mind, but I wanted a place where I could ramble about all of these things that define me. I also wanted to find some new friends in blogland who are similarly minded.

Increasingly, however, it has become clear to me that my main focus with Whisk & Whimsy is life in the kitchen - documenting favourite recipes, reviewing cookbooks and discussing kitchen tools and the like. It seems that this is what many readers of this blog are after as well - my Feedjit Live Feed tells me that most of my random visitors have come along on the search for various recipes.

For a while now, I've wanted to set a clear direction with this site and I've been in a bit of a dilemma about the whole thing. You see, food is my big love - it's what I talk about, think about, read about (and, you'd probably not be surprised to hear, I also frequently dream about it..). However, I have other things to say, and other people to whom I wish to say them. I still want to use my blog to keep in touch with blog-friends through a means which represents the other facets of me, plus I like to have a little site where I can document the things I make and do to show my Mum, who lives in the country. For me, the world is a much smaller place through blogging.

So, to cut a long story short, I have elected to redesign Whisk & Whimsy. This weekend has been a perfect one to do so, as both Mr W&W and I are ravaged by the flu, and I have been able to spend some time learning new html tricks and losing my temper with finding my way around Photoshop. I think I am finally happy with the end result, which is of course that I now have two blogs. This one, my main blog, will remain titled Whisk & Whimsy, and this will be totally food-centric - I have grand plans for it! All non-foodie posts have been removed and these have been transferred to my other place on the worldwide web, Whisk & Whimsy: Beyond the Kitchen. The latter is a new blog which I have set up to document the other facets of my life, matters which - as the name suggests - extend beyond the kitchen.

What it means for you guys is that if you are a follower of this site, you will need to pop on over to Beyond the Kitchen and add yourself as a follower there as well - otherwise you won't see any of those updates in your reader. That's if you're interested in my other ramblings, of course! If there is anything truly significant to report, I will make mention of it between blogs, but otherwise I plan to keep the two quite separate.

You can always find your way to Whisk & Whimsy: Beyond the Kitchen by clicking on the button below, which has a permanent place in the sidebar on the right (along with a teaser of the latest post):

If you pop on over there now, you can check out my Luxury Liberty Scarves!

Meanwhile, I'd love it if you left me a comment and let me know what you think of the new design - it's only taken me the whole weekend (and there is still lots to do, like finishing the content for some of the sidebar links)!