Not one blog, but two!

Intro to my new blog. Hope you’ll visit me there soon 🙂

Sometimes (surprisingly), I do have things to share that are not book related, and so I have decided to create a new blog, separate from my jansbookbuzz.wordpress.com blog!

So here it is, Glitter and Toast! Yes, I know it’s a strange name, but it gives a pretty apt description of the variety that makes up the spice of my life. There are my everyday, mundane ramblings – the normal stuff that makes up the hectic day of a mother of four kids of very varying ages … the toast.

And then there are my random forays into more exciting exploits: my love of theatre, and my regular visits and interactions with all things related to it; my social media mania; and many other little gems of life that arrive to uplift me from my regular routine … the glitter!

Both the glitter and the toast are vital to my existence…

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