tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22396617631323890462024-03-05T12:30:13.608-08:00living room explosionLouisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-86397537583912107902011-09-09T13:32:00.000-07:002011-09-09T13:32:40.841-07:00Oof Oof's (Monkey's to you and me!!)The weekend before last me and Tim took our 2 year old niece to the <a href="http://www.trentham.co.uk/monkey-forest">Monkey Forest at Trentham Gardens. </a><br />
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It's near where I'm originally from, but it wasn't there before I moved - it's such a cool place!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our niece really likes monkeys, she takes a toy one to bed - he's been named Oof Oof by her (think of the noise that you make to try anf copy monkeys and thats how is pronounced).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Oof Oofs is also her word for all monkeys, just to confuse!</span><br />
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Here's the blurb from the website (because it explains it so much better than me)...<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Get up close and personal at Trentham Monkey Forest set in 60 acres of beautiful Staffordshire woodland and meadows where 140 monkeys live in total freedom. You are plunged into the fascinating world of the Barbary macaques as you hear rustling in the trees, chattering in a strange language and see the monkeys crashing through branches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The three-quarter mile winding forest path takes you through the monkeys home and gives you a great insight into this fascinating primate and how they live in their native Morocco or Algeria. Guides along the path will give you information on the monkeys and what they are getting up to and don’t miss our hourly feeding talks to see some more monkey antics!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">All of the monkeys have a really large area of the forest to range in, and their only restriction is a perimeter fence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Humans aren't allowed off the pathways, and you have to giveway to crossing monkeys!</span><br />
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Despite the blue sky in that last photo it was throwing it down with rain for most of the time we were there. We were prepared for rainy weather because its always rains in that area!!</div>
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Our niece had her croc shoes on and was loving splashing in the puddles until she stepped into a particularly muddy one and her feet got stuck. We had a change of clothes for her, but the socks were missing, so we had to make a trip to the gift store for fresh warm socks :) </div>
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It was a really fun day, and we ended up having dinner at Frankie & Benny's - yummy Calzone for dinner, brilliant!</div>
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Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-87913814185866300702011-09-09T12:11:00.000-07:002011-09-09T12:11:38.748-07:00Day 9 - Weekend Plans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Weekend Plans...<br />
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Friday<br />
- Make Sloe Gin (start it off) - which means mixing up Gin, Sloe's and Sugar, then waiting 3 months!<br />
- Relax with Tim<br />
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Saturday<br />
- Pick up dress for formal 'do' with work<br />
- Visit Nanna and take her shopping<br />
- Look for jewelry to go with my dress<br />
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Sunday<br />
- Visit Brother-in-Law and his family<br />
- Play with 2 yr old niece for the day<br />
- Probably draw lots of cats for my niece (she loves them!!)<br />
Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-30551447437498215492011-09-08T12:52:00.000-07:002011-09-08T12:55:24.003-07:00Day 8 - Things that remind me of my childhood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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- The smell of paint (my dad was a painter and decorator and the smell of paint always reminds me of him!)</div>
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- 'Tomorrows World' & 'The Krypton Factor' TV shows</div>
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- Stationary (I've always been obsessed with it) all of the desk drawers in my bedroom were full of stationary and I would quite happily spend hours in Partners!</div>
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- Singing - I so so bad at singing, but I still sing aload in the house and sing so load in the car that I end up with a very bad throat after a long journey!</div>
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- Finishing craft projects</div>
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- Mornings - I really hate the getting up part! Once I'm up I take ages to actually wake up and my husband is banned from talking to me in the mornings for atleast half an hour (weird I know but I've always been the same. Once I'm awake I love mornings, but the waking up bit is hard!</div>
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- Watching programs I've recorded on sky plus - Tim insisted I add this one</div>
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- Autumn Colours<br />
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- Deep Pink, Chocolate Brown & Green<br />
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- Purple & Brown<br />
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- Natural shades of Green<br />
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- The colours of the rainbow (but they have to be in the right order, they can't be mixed up!)<br />
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- Doing the housework<br />
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- Cooking healthy meals that are also delicious!<br />
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I really struggled with this one as even though I have an iPhone i don't relaly have much use for a lot of Apps.<br />
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Firstly - I'm on catch up here, I've been writing my lists through the week, but I've not had chance to get online at home. may I should have added an app for blogging to this list.<br />
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Things to do on a Sunday...<br />
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- Snuggle<br />
- Read a book<br />
- Eat a yummy lazy breakfast<br />
- Watch Sunday morning TV<br />
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I hope everyone has a wonderful sunday x<br />
<br />Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-51752199305818023012011-09-03T06:12:00.001-07:002011-09-03T06:23:28.146-07:00Day 3 - People I Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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- My Husband, Tim<br />
- My Mum<br />
- My Nanna<br />
- My Closest Friends<br />
- My Family<br />
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- Neil Gaiman - for his amazing imagination and skills as a storyteller<br />
- People who create - anything no matter how big or how small (that creation is)<br />
- People who choose to share their knowledge with others<br />
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Although we are only three days in I'm really enjoying writing these lists.<br />
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Even though we got the prompts quite early I've been waiting until the daily list is announced to write my particular list, as I want these lists to really show how I'm thinking on a particular day.<br />
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If you are joining in with 30 Days of lists, how are you going about the writing of them?Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-18662498153733400952011-09-02T13:41:00.000-07:002011-09-02T13:41:40.157-07:0030 Days of Lists - I'm happiest when...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-28643198743405752492011-09-01T13:00:00.000-07:002011-09-01T13:01:49.866-07:0030 Days of Lists - Day OneSeptember is here and with it the start of 30 Days of Lists which I've really been looking forward to!<br />
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I'm looking forward to seeing everyones lists, I've just been having a look at everyones lists and I'm already inspired by them! <br />
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Here is my first list...<br />
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1. Start making some christmas presents - I have the supplies for several things that I'm making this year (I've been on a mission to start early for this christmas, I usually leave it too late to give as many handmade gifts as I'd like!)<br />
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2. Read atleast 2 of the books I've borrowed off friends and family - I have a mini stash of such books, and at the minute this stash is building as I'm doing most of my reading on my kindle.<br />
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3. Return the books to friends and family once they are read! - I usually end up keeping them for ages, in fact I have one outstanding return at the moment that I need to get to my friend<br />
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4. Settle into my new work routine properly - I'm in my 3rd week of my new job now, and the change has really thrown me! All of the learning I'm doing is really fun, but very tiring and I'm doing next to nothing with my evenings. I want to get into a new routine that means I can enjoy my evenings without being too tired for work the next day!<br />
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5. Do some things to customise my blog - it's all template-y at the moment, and I have a plan for a banner and a few other things which I want to update on here!<br />
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6. Make at least one of the free kits that I get with my <a href="http://www.molliemakes.com/about-us-2/">'Mollie Makes'</a> subscription - this is a relatively new UK based crafting magazine which I fell in love with straight away and subscribed to. There is a free mini kit with each issue and I haven't made one yet!! They are too cute to be left in their packaging un-used.<br />
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7. Carry on my healthier eating start to my new job - healthy eating is something that I'm not great at, and I get into bad habits really easily! Starting my new job has helped me change a lot of bad habits and I really want to keep them up with the hopeful side effect of loosing some weight!<br />
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My list book was originally going to be handmade, but my Mum randomly brought me this cute book and its perfect for lists so my 30 days will be within this...<br />
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I hope you enjoy reading my lists!<br />
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g'night xLouisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-85430170540636633372011-08-30T11:17:00.000-07:002011-08-30T11:17:56.706-07:00Blog Neglect<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The week before last I started my new job - woohoo!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but it really really threw all my routine out of whack, so I been neglecting all my blogigng activities of the writing and reading kind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yep - that's 989 blog posts to be reading! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm on a catching up mission now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the main reasons my new job has really knocked my routine is becasue I've been so so tired when I've got home for the evening - it a good way, because its all from learning new things which is really a good thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My spare time has mostly been spent in a half asleep state for the past couple of weeks, but I'm back in a normal routine now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have spent some time reading - its my go to hobby when looking for something that's not brain and I read some books to relax, so I have a read a couple of the past couple of weeks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've finished A Feast for Crows by George R R Martin </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Also I've finished Heart Sick by Chelsea Cain, and Summer of Love by Katie Fforde. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Three very different books, but I really enjoyed all of them. I've started Cottage by the Sea by Ciji Ware which I'm enjoying too! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm hoping that everyone has had as enjoyable couple of weeks as I have!</span>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-84108617504038935052011-08-15T12:18:00.000-07:002011-08-15T12:18:36.327-07:00Too tired for photos......my brain is too full up to concentrate on them!<br />
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I started my new job today, adn my brain is overloaded!!! I didn't really do any of my proper work, but the company I've joined have a really good induction program which last for a couple of weeks. So today I've been doing HR, Health and Safety stuff and meeting lots of people - I was pleased to see that everyone has name plates on their desks which will be a huge help while I learn everyones names.<br />
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Today has reminded me how tiring learning new things is, but also how much I love learning.<br />
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What have you been learning recently?Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-6123381160002462202011-08-12T09:23:00.000-07:002011-08-12T09:23:25.485-07:00Tiramasu SundaesOn Wednesday night me and Tim spent the whole evening watching a lot of episodes of How I Met Your Mother - again! I think its taken us three weeks to watch 4 seasons of it. Its legendary.<br />
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After tea Tim decided that he wanted something sweet to eat, and we don't keep sweet stuff in the house (otherwise I eat it far to quickly). So he decided to nip to the shop and came back with all of this!!!!<br />
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</div><div align="left">which was (minus the raspberry sauce) then turned into this! </div><div align="left"><br />
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It was delicious but I had a major sugar rush afterwards.<br />
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<strong>Last day at the office</strong><br />
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</div><div align="left">It's become tradition that people leaving take in some home baked goodies so I went with Chocolate Brownies - the went down well - this is all thats left of a full tin!</div><div align="left"><br />
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I've got a full craft day ahead of me tomorrow, I'm hoping to finished a quilt that I started months ago and get started on a lap quilt for my nan. Sunday is going to be a relaxing day preparing for my new job!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So after a trip to Costco to buy chocolate brownie making supplies to take to work for my last day, I've been spending my evening reading blogs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a give away on Wild Olive</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some brilliant links on mylifeasateacup</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> particularly love the whole book on a page link to </span><a href="http://www.spinelessclassics.com/"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spineless Classics</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - I really really 'need' one of these!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know its early, but I will be dropping some major hints to my husband for one of these for Christmas!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The most exciting are the ComicCon posts on <a href="http://www.ataleof2monkeys.com/">A Tale of 2 Monkeys</a> - I love Comic Con!!! Every </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">year I love catching up on the goings on and its great to read stuff from the point of view of a non-press person :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't over emphasise how much I reallly really really really really want to go to ComicCon!!!!!! I would love to come visit America and my ideal would be to go to ComicCon as well!! Would love it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've been trying my hardest to comment on several blogs, and unless there is an option to put name and URL its just doesn't work!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've managed to post a couple of comments using Open ID, and attempted using my google account but it just keeps circling to the login page! I'm hunting for a solution on line but not coming up with much - its driving me crazy!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>A Little Thank you...</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">to you lovely people who are following me :) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm really having fun starting my blog, and over the next few weeks I'm hoping to gradually make some changes to make it a bit less 'template' and a bit more 'me'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I hope you're enjoying reading me, and you'll like what changes I hope to make (the hope is due to my lack of technical computer-y skills which I'm trying to remedy)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm off to bed now, I wish everyone one a good night x</span>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-22727943354971657582011-08-09T13:43:00.000-07:002011-08-09T13:43:34.094-07:00A Wild Olive giveaway!<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my favourite blogs has a giveaway at the moment!</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wonderful Mollie of Wild Olive blog has created some very sweet cupcake magnets and a mini painting too and is giving these away amongst other things...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why not head over to check out her blog and enter too?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( and check out her yummy </span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/wildolive"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shop</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">! I could easily buy one of everything off here!! I'm making a start on doing that in fact and slowly building my collection of Wild Olive embroidery patterns!) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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One of Tim's mates has been round for the day so they've been playing geeky games. I sometimes play a board game with them, but instead I've spent my day reading blogs and stitching.<br />
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I've added a whole lot of blogs to my feeds mostly from bloggers that are also completing 30 days of lists. <br />
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Blogs are so inspiring, I'll share some of my favourites new finds over the next few days!<br />
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I've been stitiching today and I've completed a set of sewing accessories, here they are...<br />
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A pin cushion, a needle book and a scissor keeper!<br />
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I came up with the patterns as I stitched and I've really pleased with how they turned out, let me know what you think?<br />
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I hope everyone had good weekends xLouisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-3268167590295607102011-08-06T15:36:00.000-07:002011-08-06T15:36:17.537-07:00Day Trip<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tim planned a day trip for us which took us to Stratford-upon Avon which is the birthplace of William Shakespeare.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning, we went to the pub just down the road from us and had a Full English Breakfast - it was a bit more like brunch because we didn't eat 4pm after that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the Tim drove us to S-u-A which is only just over an hour away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last time that I went was about 15 years ago with school! This time we didn't go into any of the visitors centres, which I'd like to go back and do at some point, so we spent the day wandering around the town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tim spotted some blackbirds while I was shopping for ribbon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walking throught town there is a jester statue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The walking out of town we ended up visiting this church which is the place where Shakespeare is buried.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the main monument to Shakespeare which is in very close the Royal Shakespeare Company Theatre which is right on the river.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Close by we saw these lovely flowers, and a bumble bee collecting pollen</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last night while we were watching a lot of episodes of How I Met Your Mother the biggest spider wandered across the lounge floor.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It was so huge we saw it in the dark and then Tim proceeded to trap me in the bathroom by placing the spider right outside the door - I was very freaked out!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tim set the spider free on the green in front of the house!!! eek!</span></div>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-48383797544995129262011-08-06T13:45:00.000-07:002011-08-06T13:45:29.519-07:0030 Days of List - September Edition!<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few days ago I joined the 30 Days of Lists September edition :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow I plan to have a hunt in my craft stash to make a book to write my lists up in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've got plenty of scrapbook papers so I'll find something pretty amongst them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the link and I've added a funky button to my side bar (I'm quite impressed I worked out how to do this!!)</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It was nice just to have a quick catch up on the blogs I read then to switch my brain off! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I’m very excited about watching this film, but not as much as my husband who is going a bit mental about it. I always know how excited about a film he is by how many reviews and trailers etc he watches: - the more excited he is the less he watches / reads occasionally to the point where he doesn’t even like looking at stills of the film!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I’ve got to say this has kind of got me a little bit because I’ve started to do the same now – I do find that it’s that little bit more exciting because then the whole film is completely brand new, rather than there being a lot of stuff that you’ve already seen or had glimpses of!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">And even better for my double date tonight we are going for Pizza before the cinema – yey! </span></span></div>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-14381828272235678982011-08-01T15:16:00.000-07:002011-08-01T15:16:41.232-07:00Shopping Spree!<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the weekend and tonight, I've had a crafty shoppng spree. I love buying supplies as much as I love crafting, there is nothng better than a massive crafty stash!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As part of my crafty purchases I had a couple of very late Christmas in July purchases. Every year I have tonnes of ideas for handmade items, but end up leaving it too late to actually make them. This year I'm on a handmade christmas mission.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For my Nanna I'm going to be making a lap quilt which will help to keep her toasty warm through the winter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought a Moda Luna Notte Charm Pack for this, which I'm planning on making up into fairly simple blocks becasue of the busy patterns.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the store I got this from they had some lovely soft fleecy material which has a kind of polka dot texture, I'm going to head back once I've made the topper as I want some of that to back it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My next purchase was a bit sneaky! Its christmas in July but for me! This fabric is so adorable I 'needed' to get some. This is from Red Roosters Fabrics 'Winterberry Lane' Range, I really want the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm going to make a throw cushion with this, at the moment I'm planning to fussy cut some panels from the snowman fabric and embellish them with some embroidery then border this with the snowflake fabric.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That may well change once I start sewing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This next one was brought a couple weeks ago when I was visiting my Mum. This a Makower fabric, but I'm not sure what range as the panel was pre cut. This is destined to be festive drinks coasters!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next we have mini jam jars (they are around an inch and a half tall)! When I spotted these in Cost-co I put them in the shopping trolley then came up with a crafty planm to justify buying them. Tim didn't take much convincing that he needs to eat all the jam so that I can have the jars (he started this weekend by having some on Rich Tea biscuits, which didn't look very tasty really). I think that there are 24 jars in total and for only £2.99 I thought that was a bargain addition to my craft stash with free jam included ;-) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of these are destined to hold cupcake decorations as part of a baking kit for my friend and her children. I'm not sure about the others yet, but I think they'll make pretty packaging for anything small enought to fit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Saturday, my main partner-in-craft, Kathryn, suggested a trip to a craft store that she found out about which is about a 30 minute drive from her house. Not one to refuse a trip to a new crafty place, we headed over and found a treasure of a place, which is where I brought the Moda Charm pack and Winterberry Lane fabric from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The store is called <a href="http://www.heathscountrystore.com/">Heaths Country Store</a> and has a big range of fabric and yarns - there was so </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">much that I could of bought but I was restrained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>My Dad</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Today would have been my Dads 62nd birthday, so I wanted to say a Happy Birthday to him x x</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He passed away very suddenly 15 years ago, and I miss him loads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My memories and other peoples memories of him always inspire me and I wish I was old enought to get to know him as a person as well as my Dad x x </span>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-68858953112797174562011-07-29T12:36:00.000-07:002011-07-29T12:36:21.963-07:0030 Days of Lists...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm looking forward to registering for </span><a href="http://30daysoflists.com/"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">30 Days of Lists</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is the state of my usual lists - I tend to write them on post its at work and then they get stuck in a book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I will definitely have to make a nice book or collection of notelets to write my 30 lists on :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found out about this on from <a href="http://yellowbirdyellowbeard.blogspot.com/">Yellow Bird, Yellow Beard</a> - when I started reading this blog, I read </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">whole load of the archive posts and Janee who writes the blog had completed the original 30 Days of Lists, so I was intrigued!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I got looking at the original and saw there was one coming up in September - pre-registrations starts next week! I will definitely be there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p.s. While I was out the room getting my camera Tim wrote this for me; -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Louise's Husband loves her very much</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He's all tired and cute at the minute x </span>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-80766254923775959252011-07-25T15:04:00.000-07:002011-07-25T15:04:00.125-07:00Really useful 'Really Useful Boxes'Really useful boxes are the most genius things ever - and they come in purple!<br />
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Me and Tim both have an obsession with these boxes and they're our go to choice for storage - it didn't start out like this buy design but all mine are purple and Tims are clear. It's probably a good job, otherwise we'd argue over who brought what! (I hate to admit it would probably be me starting it despite the over abundance of various boxes - I have a box of boxes!)<br />
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I bought these ones over the weekend from Hobbycraft, to make myself some embroidery floss card storage.<br />
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I like the sectionalised boxes that the various thread companies make but I wanted something slightly different.<br />
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To make my boxes I measured the interior (these 1 1/2" deep, 4 1/2" wide and 6" long) and decided to split them into 8 sections.<br />
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<div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the weekend me and Tim went to visit my Mum and Step-dad, and stopped over on Saturday night. Their place is about 2hrs drive from us so we always try to go when we can stay over!.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because we were visiting I didn’t take anything crafty with me for the weekend, although I did end up reading an awful lot, because we have to wait around a lot for my Mum as she takes an age to get ready to go anywhere.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m reading the A Clash of Kings the 2<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><sup>nd</sup></span> book from the Song of Fire and Ice Series, of which A Games of Thrones is the first. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We watched the HBO series of Games of Thrones when it was on TV not so long ago and really enjoyed it. I love fantasy books and it was really good to see an adaptation done so well on screen, I really think that fantasy benefits from having a whole tv series rather than a film adaptation because you can explore the characters almost as much as a book can.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dragons are by far my favourite mythical creature, I really like the many different ways they are portrayed in literature and on screen. I don’t have a favourite incarnation, I like everything from cutesy imagery to them being mage’s to being fierce warriors!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some pics of the various incarnations of dragon that I have around my home!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A blackwork dragon that I stitched a couple of years ago…</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is one a bluey-grey linen fabric stitched with black DMC cotton blended with a deep red Kreinik blending filament. Blending filaments are one of my favourite ways of adding a bit of sparkle to embroidery as they don’t cause me as many problems to stitch with as other metallic threads.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span> </div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZ0g9Czcx6embBU_tPyhzz6Vm20fTSzthPbUSXKpoS5uz80Y3_nLPm2cXunw8GW_dyateyCZsIFyLYKqmHFvCUKNAB6eeq3BI6v5hTwBIM_iQ88sdKgZFZpJEX5igFBqKCpH7DYwPoiBa/s1600/CIMG1526.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZ0g9Czcx6embBU_tPyhzz6Vm20fTSzthPbUSXKpoS5uz80Y3_nLPm2cXunw8GW_dyateyCZsIFyLYKqmHFvCUKNAB6eeq3BI6v5hTwBIM_iQ88sdKgZFZpJEX5igFBqKCpH7DYwPoiBa/s400/CIMG1526.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpHu_NtndwjlEOSEr0afbU4kMFx8gNETZ4hcZT1n5G8bRT8vOoyl1LjwXZISD2C6wI_8r9N2-lHISpDKZEAce5jzbAFn2uR3e8ItysFyn58pUmLc6SGUw1R4P36xwBsD_8TqSWcuUbNM68/s1600/CIMG1527.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpHu_NtndwjlEOSEr0afbU4kMFx8gNETZ4hcZT1n5G8bRT8vOoyl1LjwXZISD2C6wI_8r9N2-lHISpDKZEAce5jzbAFn2uR3e8ItysFyn58pUmLc6SGUw1R4P36xwBsD_8TqSWcuUbNM68/s400/CIMG1527.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pocket Dragons</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve got a small collection of these little guys that I’ve had for about 10 years. I don’t like to have massive collections of the same range of things so I keep most of these packed away and rotate the ones I have on display – at the moment it’s the ones in the photo's.</span></div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeOfe9HN5YWLaFnzxKDKJZjk5s8WvYPxxeAPfL3Sxw5DNl08CxuHAkVQH1gkvxcbQTcMmDNZ0kydy_1iXWmLiBV5SZ8pPMDpeZtb9Li59qzCt_2KFMJ69z7iEFs7ghFUQUDEFahCgRgJOn/s1600/CIMG1523.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeOfe9HN5YWLaFnzxKDKJZjk5s8WvYPxxeAPfL3Sxw5DNl08CxuHAkVQH1gkvxcbQTcMmDNZ0kydy_1iXWmLiBV5SZ8pPMDpeZtb9Li59qzCt_2KFMJ69z7iEFs7ghFUQUDEFahCgRgJOn/s320/CIMG1523.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Warhammer dragon</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m really proud of this one because I painted him myself.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tim used to work for the company that makes Warhammer, and I was kind of getting into the game so have an army myself. <a href="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/landing.jsp?catId=cat440002a&rootCatGameStyle=wh">Here</a> is the main website for the company if you want to see more.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The army that I have is the High Elves, but this dragon is about the only model out of the army that I have painted!!</span> </div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyX4Bdm7PS_i5KQ9jjnwwaBbHWFKwh9VFQpRFnqIDvIXuDnpLPcXxrB3UxcL8HN4yjXO3xVqDd5cnERD1Ji9sv-Tbg5dqZq-fU7kWWViSkX7IrdJJX0uXI8X-AO5PLO6nKQusO5FEKbHrU/s1600/CIMG1514.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyX4Bdm7PS_i5KQ9jjnwwaBbHWFKwh9VFQpRFnqIDvIXuDnpLPcXxrB3UxcL8HN4yjXO3xVqDd5cnERD1Ji9sv-Tbg5dqZq-fU7kWWViSkX7IrdJJX0uXI8X-AO5PLO6nKQusO5FEKbHrU/s400/CIMG1514.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVTCpRJlx4Mj_sVCqSWBn3CXfmLeP-97xvNj1dQg-DEw8btveln30wAd53levrFHfh-E21nxcryU5CpmJe4Wz-K3jOhR951MVjTuIaN2pXUB4OcPmmWrFpe0dO-JTDmWjE6134aST8cBMr/s1600/CIMG1518.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVTCpRJlx4Mj_sVCqSWBn3CXfmLeP-97xvNj1dQg-DEw8btveln30wAd53levrFHfh-E21nxcryU5CpmJe4Wz-K3jOhR951MVjTuIaN2pXUB4OcPmmWrFpe0dO-JTDmWjE6134aST8cBMr/s400/CIMG1518.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My friend is heading round for a pasta dinner so I'm off to get cooking!</span></div>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-61950720543081948872011-07-14T11:13:00.000-07:002011-07-14T11:13:31.143-07:00Pincushions & Photography<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was really worried that my camera was broken, and more than happy to discover that it was just a dud battery :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">£10 lighter rather than the expected £50+ I have my camera back!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So now I can start getting some decent photos, here is the first...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These little pincushions are hopefully the start of something that I have big plans for :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The are very much the beginnings, but I'm pleased with how they are looking so far!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm definitely a beginner in the photography stakes, so was intrigued by a magazine that I spotted in Tesco the other day - </span><a href="http://www.photoforbeginners.com/"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography for beginners </span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without having my camera working its a bit tricky to practice some of the tips, but just from reading through the magazine I've spotted a few interesting things that I'd like to try out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've also decided to invest in a mini tripod, because a lot of things that I photograph really need a steady hand!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I hope peoples are having a good evening, I'm off to my friends for some good old spag bol now, goodnight x</span>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239661763132389046.post-70896178593500557012011-07-13T11:35:00.000-07:002011-07-13T11:35:21.949-07:00New job!!!! Woohoo!!Yey - I got offered a new job today :) I had the interview on Tuesday and they phoned me to offer it to me today!!!!!!!!!<br />
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If you hadn't guessed I'm soooo excited!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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Thats all :)Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373660212570079225noreply@blogger.com0