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The beach, 300 year old beech trees and a giveaway!

We are half-way through our half-term Halloween holiday, and it seems an appropriate time for an update with photos and some digital scrapbook layouts too, The weather has changed to wintry, with the first snow in Northern Ireland in October for 25 years! The winds have been very strong and my 4 year old complained…

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Show & Tell Irish Pottery and Digital Scrapbooking

Welcome to this week’s Show and Tell. As the majority of my bloggy visitors are from overseas I have chosen to share some of my favourite irish pottery. I would call them mugs but they are bit to small, yet a bit to chunky and informal to be cups….so I will let you see for…

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WFMW – Easy kids party food

For those unfamilar with this choice kids delicacy, served at most parties throughout UK and Ireland, I wish to introduce my bloggy friends to Marshmallow Top Hats, or as my son calls them Mushroom Hat Toppers. I mentioned these in my Show and Tell on Friday, and have recieved several requests for the “recipe”. The…

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Show & Tell – A cottage garden (and a winner)

Today for my Show and Tell I want to share the new garden “feature” (if you can call it that!) at our holiday cottage.Now, you may be imagining beautiful country roses, heavily scented and full of gorgeous blooms…. …..you’d be wrong! I have gone for the complete opposite – modern and minimal……. hope you are…

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Portraits and last chance to enter giveaway

I may have mentioned before that I took an online photography course during the summer with CJ, and I learnt lots. So I have signed up for the next one, which was People Imagery, and this is the first week. The task was to take 9 photos against a non-destracting background. The first set were…

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Shopping Bag Giveaway

This post was originally part of my previous post HERE, part of this week’s Show & Tell. Do you bring your own reuseable bags to the supermarket? I TRY to remember, and now have a great collection of various shapes and sizes. My favourite however, have to be these new ones in Tesco’s designed exclusively…