Tulips on a grey day

My latest iPhone photo shared on Instagram

My love of Annie Sloan chalk paint continues …… another piece of pine furniture gets a quick makeover. In just a couple of hours this bookcase was repainted with French Linen Annie Sloan chalk paint – here is the before and after… There is NO sanding, NO priming – just wipe down with a cloth…

As a parent blogger I am sometimes given the opportunity to review some products for my family. When was asked to pick a character lunch bag from the online shop Internet Gift Store, there was really only one to be selected. My son is a HUGE Skylanders fan, so the opportunity to have a new…

For a long time I have been wanting to paint some of the many pieces of shiny pine we have in our holiday cottage. As we have refurnished rooms at home, the obsolete pine furniture (we were married in the early 90’s – LOTS of pine!) has gradually moved north up to the cottage. Of…

This week the challenge is to share a photo which doesn’t contain a face! With a daughter who is becoming more and more camera shy, this is not a problem for me, as I have lots of photos like this: This one was taken on the beach in Portballintrae, and those are new gloves! I’m…

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog