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Circumnavigating the UK - Part 1: Days 1+2 - On board the Magellan
I'm very sorry for not posting about this sooner but I really am the worst person for blogging my holidays. The thought of writing a large recount always fills me with dread as succinctness is not one...
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5 brooches and friends #38
Evening, evening!Hope that you are all well! I'm so sorry, this is a rather harried post as I have been away and out all weekend. We went to a wedding in Brighton and I've been helping my friend Lara...
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Style Imitating Art- The Great Wave off Kanagawa
This week's Style Imitating Art inspiration was the wonderful 'The Great Wave of Kanagawa' by Hokusai. Â Apparently a film is being made about Hokusai's also artistic daughter, according to SIA host-...
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Circumnavigating the UK - Day 3- Invergordon in the Scottish Highlands
Day 3 of the cruise, we woke up bright and early at 7am ready to go and take battle with the epic amounts of food available in the Raffles Bistro. We docked fairly early in the morning in Invergordon...
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5 brooches #39 Roald Dahl-inspired special
Greetings to you, fair traveller!I hope all is well with you!I am sorry I have been quite absent this week. It's been really exhausting being back at school and I have had a lot of tasks to do. I will...
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Autumn's here? Don't care.
 September the 1st saunters onto the scene and suddenly, all I hear on certain blogs, instagram and the suchlike, is Autumn clothing, Autumn is here, Autumn wardrobe, Autumn jumpers, Autumn layers,...
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Paper flowers- my crafting tool favourite
 Here's a card I made for a friend's 40th birthday this weekend.If there is a piece that I maintain has been most versatile in my craft stash, it would be a flower punch. I have a Woodware daisy punch...
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Brighton Belles
Brighton is a place that I never seem to explore fully. My visits there have always been frustratingly fleeting and I am compelled to leave prematurely, before I have really had the chance to feel I...
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Circumnavigating the UK - Day 4: Kirkwall of the Orkneys
Day 4 of the cruise was possibly the place I was most eagerly and excitedly anticipating. I have longed to visit the Orkneys for over 15 years now and yet it has taken me that long to visit.We arrived...
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Gingham, my deer and a word on singing.
I expect, for many a UK-based girl, the sight of Gingham takes us back to Primary school summers and wearing our Gingham sun dresses. It certainly does for me and when I see our girls in their...
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August reads
Considering that I have been on holiday for the whole of this month and have thus had more spare time, the 10 book I read this month are rather a paltry amount.Onto them then...59. Harry Potter and the...
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5 brooches and friends #40
Greetings to ye!I hope your day was enjoyable. As you read this, I shall be purchasing about 70 recorders for my Year 3's who have all sent me money to buy them their own recorders.The moment where I...
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Walton-on-the-Naze
Despite my many travels and delights of the Summer holiday, I had a real yearning to go to the seaside in September, to grasp as the residual Summer days and to extend that feeling that the Summer...
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Photo an Hour- 24th September
It seems an eternity since I last remembered to join in with this challenge so I was rather glad to discover Donna had posted and I had already taken roughly a photo an hour yesterday and was able to...
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The elusive perfect vintage maxi dress.
I read the blog of the fabulous Vix and the lovely Curtise and I have seen them find so many beautiful 1970's maxi dresses with a gorgeous gypsy-esque bottom in charity shops.  I've always longed to...
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One man's trash, another man's treasure
I've shared two posts about the sea glass I found on my cruise. I really loved looking for it when I was on those beaches, so when I found myself at Walton-on-the-Naze two weeks ago, it was a...
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Circumnavigating the UK- Day 5- a journey from Belfast to the land where...
Our fifth day on the cruise was a visit to the Northern Irish city of Belfast.Now, I am not that much one for cities so I wasn't so excited by this so I was rather pleased that we chose to book the...
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5 brooches #41
Hello my dears!I hope you are well!All is fine here, just rather tired. Â I have a busy weekend coming up. That choir concert I mentioned last week tomorrow, plus viewing some houses in the morning. On...
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Musical Flowers
In a bid to keep things varied here, I thought I'd share a recent card I made. Â I mentioned the Choir concert I took part in on Saturday. Â It went extremely well and was greatly enjoyable. Â A...
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The sights of an East-London walk to the Olympic Park
Last Sunday, we headed up to London after seeing CBC's new nephew.Since it was a delightfully sunny day, we decided to walk along the canal from Bow towards the Olympic Park. There was lots of...
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