Worth getting up early in Venice – don't want to leave tomorrow

And so begins our 4th house swap adventure, and our first to France. You can read about previous home exchanges to Dublin, Boston and Galway previously on my blog. This time we are staying on the edge of a beautiful medieval hilltop town about 90 minutes north east of Paris. For the first time we…

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

Evening everyone. Today Sam (age 3) and I went for a short walk to post a letter. It is amazing the things you find that interest a 3 year old on a simple walk – these included berries (red and yellow), a digger, a lorry, a for sale sign, a post box, a cat, a…

A while back I was asked by a friend to speak about my jewellery business and how I got started, having previously working in banking, to a group of ladies.  The title of my blog post was the “working title” she suggested for my talk! I was incredibly nervous setting up to speak to the…

Today we designated as “shopping day” of our 2 week holiday in France, and we headed north to Lille. Thanks to some excellent driving by my husband, and excellent navigating by moi, we managed to go directly to an outlet shopping centre, followed by a large shopping centre. I did buy a few items of…

Over the years I have collected a number of Christmas nativity sets. On my blog as we approach Christmas I will be sharing a few more, but I thought I would start this year with the set that started it all…… I can’t remember the year, but WAY back (probably about 15 years ago) I…