Found a viking book worm too at the How To Train Your Dragon exhibit at the Ulster Museum

Having stayed in such a perfect cape cottage on Cape Cod for 10 days, it was hard to imagine how our second destination would be any more pefect – but it is! Welcome to Concord, and our home for another 10 days. It is a beautiful historic home (1876!) which has been extended sympathetically and…

My latest iPhone photo shared on Instagram

Having had great success with Annie Sloan chalk paint on a shiny pine bookcase, so now it was time to target our hall table. Since last year and our hall makeover – changing our internal doors, adding some built-in storage and putting in a new bookcase, we really liked our hall, but had yet to…

My latest iPhone photo shared on Instagram

I am blogging on my husband’s laptop in preparation for our US trip, including NOT using Photoshop Elements to edit and resize all of the photos. We will see how it goes….. So what has been happening? Last Friday night we had our annual trip to Barry’s in Portrush….. On Saturday we visited the Dunluce…

I was recently given the opportunity to review some of the Ikea toys which are part of their annual charity campaign. IKEA are back again with their annual Soft Toy Campaign! For every soft toy and children’s book sold between October 21st and December 23rd 2012 the IKEA Foundation will donate €1 to UNICEF and…