Author: Janine

  • My Dream Job

    This post IS about my dream job, but I will start at the beginning, and tell you how I arrived at where I am today. As a child I wanted to be a teacher, maybe a maths teacher (like my Mum) but I enjoyed Economics at school and wanted to either work for a bank…

  • Best thing this year

    Another upbeat post for the Daily Blogging Challenge for the whole month of May. Several things come to mind – Business-wise it is having Janmary Designs jewellery stocked in more Northern Ireland boutiques including Momento, Wickerman, Jennifer Kelly Image and Gloonan Gallery. I was thrilled to have my jewellery shortlisted and selected by a panel…

  • 10 favourite foods

    10 favourite foods …… only 10?!!! Here you go …hope you aren’t hungry! Pasta Carbonara – first  ate this in Tuscany in about 1994, and still remember it as the best ever, however we are heading to ROME next week, and hope to sample a few more portions. In fact we have booked a cookery…

  • What I collect

    I am rather fond of collecting (as my long-suffering husband will testify to) – books – I seem to like collecting books, although I rarely read them again, as I remember too clearly what happens in them, so don’t enjoy reading them again! I am the same with watching films again – I don’t see…

  • What I collect

    I am rather fond of collecting (as my long-suffering husband will testify to) – books – I seem to like collecting books, although I rarely read them again, as I remember too clearly what happens in them, so don’t enjoy reading them again! I am the same with watching films again – I don’t see…