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• Freebie and Competition Roundup

  

  Hello, isn't the weather crap again? Luckily for me I'm off to New York for a few days next week - see how I threw that in, all nonchalant? - so it's time to... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ta-dah! Tuesday - Insert 'horny' Joke Here...

  

  Look what I got when I went to Brighton a couple of weekends ago. It's currently doing necklace hanging duty in the hall, as I haven't yet put up the vintage... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Frock on a Friday - Cheongsam

  

  Hilariously, while I was away I found out I'd been shortlisted for a BiB award. I don't quite know how this happened, as it wasn't in the 'Mildly humorous... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Ta-dah! Tuesday - Banana and Chocolate Muffins

  

  This is another great recipe for using up over-ripe bananas*, and can go from thought to plate in less than half an hour. The big chunks of dark chocolate all... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• G'day Africa!

  [I just found this knocking around in my draft posts, written shortly after Children in Need day at the boys' old school.]Following a day where he'd gone into... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Springwatch!

  

  Happy May!It's been way too long. Thanks to those who have emailed or called me in my absence, I'm now officially a Home Counties mama instead of a Sarf London... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ta-dah! Tuesday - Angry Birds Cake

  

  Hello! Everything needs to be packed up by tomorrow, so this is another scheduled post. Please do link up as usual though, and I'll read all your posts and... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• More Stuff to Painstakingly Pack in a Box and Then Not Open for Months When We...

  

  Despite all my protestations about not buying anything else, as I'll only have to pack it and then find a place for it, I did succumb to the charms of this... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ta-dah! Tuesday - 8th Birthday Cake

  

  Boy1 has been into cars forever. He spent hours looking out of the window of our flat as a 18month old announcing 'car, car, car, bus, car, four-four (4x4), van... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Freebie Round-up (UK)

  

  Hiya, I said yesterday that I'd do a quick post on various freebies and offers I've come across recently - there are all sorts of websites out there which will... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ta-dah! Tuesday - And Then I Played the Harpsichord and Ordered New Ribbons for...

  

  Ok, I didn't really, but I have been cross-stitching, which is basically a really good way to feel like you live in a Jane Austen novel. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Catherine Zeta Jones, Another Baby, Disney Jewellery and Other Shit I Don't...

  

  Hey. It's Mothering Sunday here in the UK. I wrote this yesterday, cos right now I'm probably busy drinking a cup of coffee in bed and admiring my cards - no... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ta-dah! Tuesday - Minute Make Puddings - Banana Pancakes

  

  Hiya, here's the third in my mini-series of ultra quick puddings you can make at the last second when you've been on the internet all day. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Well You Did Ask for More Pictures of Me...

  

  Happy St David's Day!Here I am, aged around 4 (so 1980 or thereabouts), wearing my traditional Welsh costume and avoiding looking at the camera. Some things... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ta-dah! Tuesday - Minute Make - Homemade Hot Fudge Sundae

  

  Here's the second in my occasional series of quick desserts to make your children love you and your dentist despair, and take only minutes to prepare. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Catching up - Travels, Friends, Collections, Art...

  

  Hiya, hope those of you to whom half term means anything - whether kids at home or time off work - have had a good one. We had a couple of days in Brighton, or... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ta-dah! Tuesday - Minute Make in the Kitchen! The No-scale, No Sieve Pudding...

  

  If you want a REALLY quick and easy pudding - but are fed up with crumble - this is it. Individual steamed suet puddings [basically your very own Mini Spotted... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ta-dah! Tuesday - A Love Story

  

  Hi - I know it's not Tuesday, but you also know I'm not entirely brilliant when it comes to a posting schedule. I was writing a book review, and then went out t... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ta-dah! Tuesday - Polar Bear Biscuits

  

  My parents just came back from their holidays - a ferry round Norway and up to the Arctic circle, where they were lucky enough to see the Northern Lights. Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ta-dah! Tuesday

  

  Hmm, what to ta-dah? A big wardrobe sort out is under way - loads of stuff on eBay, bags for the charity shop, and bags for recycling. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION