St Patrick's Day in Killyleagh

Happy St Patricks Day from Belfast – the parade happened a day early!

Today I am travelling with my husband to Rome for 4 nights to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary (which is actually next month, on 12 June). Thanks to my willing parents, who are moving into our house with our 3 kids for the week, we are able to head away. A few things I am…

We managed to catch a glimpse of blue skies today on Portstewart Strand, but if you notice in the car wing mirror, the heavy rain clouds were never far away!

Today we take a break from our advertised scheduled viewing of my blog, and welcome our special guests of BoMama and friends. Today is BooMama’s Christmas Tour of Homes and I am delighted to share a bit of my Northern Ireland home with you all. Before the (not so) Grand Tour begins however, first, for…

Here in N Ireland it will be Mothers Day on Sunday. At our Toddler Group today, our very talented leader did a great fun craft with the kids, so I thought it was worthy of a 2nd post in one day. Required a small glass (we bought packs of 4 for 80p in Ikea) stickers,…

Made some hot chocolate spoons & stirrers for some upcoming parties while making peppermint bark. Here they are in more detail candy canes dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with ….. sprinkles! next we have marshmallow lollipops – basically they are upside-down “top hats” using cake-pop sticks, and sprinkled with sprinkles or crushed candy canes finally,…