Busy day for Janmary Designs – Castlewellan, Newcastle and Carryduff

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Janine Mayes (@janmary) This year thanks to @inspiringyarns I started to embroider and now slow stitching What is slow stitching? For me it is slowing down, just sewing with no set stitches Simple stitches, on any fabric – the point is not the end result but…

My latest iPhone photo shared on Instagram

Today is Tuesday, and I am sharing my favourite handprint projects I have recently discovered on Pinterest, as part of Oh Amanda‘s Top Ten Tuesday. There is something extra special about a kids craft made with your own kids handprints – they are unique and it captures that time when their wee hands were tiny. …

For the rest of our family the North Atlantic sea off the north coast of Northern Ireland is just TOO cold …. but not for our 7 year old. He certainly believes in “Enjoying Life”! This photo is part of a challenge over at I Heart Faces

I was given the opportunity to try out on of the local Groupon Belfast offers, and as soon as I saw the Shutter Sheep Night-time Photography Workshop I knew that was the one I wanted to do. Booking online was straightforward, and although the workshop had to be rescheduled due to heavy rain, there was…