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• 3.14 - American Pi Day

  

  Boy1 informed me last week that today would be 'American Pi day', and please could we have one for dinner. Being less geekily minded than my eleven year old son... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2016 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Oscars Frocks 2016 - Arachnophobia, Amputees and the Emperor's New Clothes

  

  If you've been following this blog for a while you'll be aware that I am the living embodiment of style - somewhere between Kate Moss and Iris Apfel - and am... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2016 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Magic and Madness of Ebay Part 7 - Love, Love me...Don't

  

  Aah, mes chéris, 'ow beautiful you look today, eet makes me wish to buy you all something special, per'haps from ze eBay, zat home of taste and style... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2016 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Welcome to the Jungle

  

  The devil makes work for idle hands, apparently. So, y'know, cross stitch. Saving souls since the Middle Ages. There are a lot of cool designs out there via... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2016 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• New Years Resolutions of the Stars - 2016

  

  Hey bitches, I'm back! And so are these guys, more's the pity...Kylie JennerSo, like, I was an Aunt again this year. Saint is cute but I can't show you a pictur... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• National Poetry Day 2013

  

  Thought I might as well mark National Poetry Day, as I do write it occasionally. You know when you're a kid and you get the wrong end of the stick about... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2013 ARTS & CRAFTS, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Guess Who's Back, Back Again?

  

  Hiya. Yeah it's me. I got into drugs, went to rehab, got clean, put out another album, bitched about the critics and found that Kanye West had stolen my... Read more

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

• Ten Years Married

  

  Happy Anniversary to my gorgeous husband, who walks every mile with me - whether home or away. Thanks for the best time in New York. Read more

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

• 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