Arcadia, Portrush

It’s Friday again! Time for another round up in iphone pics, and a recommended app Photos first: I realised there was a bit of a snowy-weather theme to this weeks iphone pics On Friday we had some light snow – and I recorded it’s arrival using the InstaWeather app As well as recording the weather,…

The summer is over, and the kids are back to school. My daughters started back to school on Wednesday – new timetables, new teachers, longer school skirts (which they detest!) and same old routine! The following day, Thursday, my son started back at his school. Here he is with my husband – I love this…

This month my  eldest daughter turned 18 (eeek!) and I thought I would share here with my bloggy readers a few of the creative ideas/tips I had for the decor etc. Signature Canvas Guest Book I purchased a plain wooden 18 from ebay, and thanks to several coats of silver paint and then and a layer…

The reason for this title will hopefully be obvious. Last Friday and Saturday I visited a local lake, almost exactly 24 hours apart. Here are two photos of almost the same view: I have not been doing much digital scrapping this week, although I am working on another 40th birthday present, but I don’t want…

The longest day of 2020 was the perfect opportunity to create a summer flat lay. I used just flowers from our garden, along with some scrabble letters. If you aren’t familiar with the tern “flat lay” it is defined as an image or a style of photograph in which a number of things are arranged on a surface and then photographed from above If you follow me on Instagram…

It is the day before the day before Christmas (also known as 23rd December) so this morning we (3 kids and I) tackled making two types of  mince pies. Don’t be TOO impressed however as we used ready made pastry and ready made mince pie filling! We made puff pastry mince swirls and mini mince…