Diplomat Mini Top-hat, $25, from Pieces of Eight. Isn't that the most amazing hat?

I have had a fantastic, but busy, couple of weeks, and the pace won’t slow till my novel is out the door to the editors. This will hopefully happen within the next three weeks. It’s crazy – the last hundred pages of edits take me as long to complete as writing an entire new novel.

Here is what I’m shouting “Up the Irons!” to this week:

All of you, amazing blog readers, for your comments and email and support \m/ Artibrary celebrations at work – any excuse for a shared lunch \m/ friends getting married and heading off on amazing adventures \m/ studying German on the train and forgetting I’m in New Zealand \m/ making plans for Wacken 2011 \m/ snuggles on freezing NZ mornings \m/ talking on Skype with old friends \m/ making new friends \m/ finally getting the hang of Twitter \m/ learning about interesting people (thank YOU Countess Bathory) \m/ mysterious packages in the mail \m/ preparations for my stall at an upcoming craft fair \m/ cooking dinner from a friend from the middle east tour tonight (I am excited) \m/ finally making it past a certain scene in my books – on the home stretch now \m/ Whitikas dark chocolate blocks. \m/ black books, good company and french toast on a cold day \m/ when you can be in a relationship with someone for five years and they STILL surprise you \m/ amazingly talented friend J winning a Metallica art competition \m/ Skyclad and Orphaned Land – musical loves of the week \m/

It’s been one of those weeks where lots of cool stuff has happened to other people, and that’s so cool. What about you? What are you loving this week?

Up the Irons! \m/
Steff