I am pleased to introduce to you the talented, Raphaële, of La Creature and You. She is French though she has been living in Ireland for 6 years. She is a fellow member of one of the b...
I am super duper happy to annouce the Winner of the Saganatt Photography giveaway this evening! I am also equally extremely jealous of this person as their prize is fantastic - their choice of photog...
I wrote about this properly for my gardening blog but I had some cute photos left over and no where to fit them in to the piece so, I shall share them here. I hope you like - it was just a fun day ou...
Christina Klausen currently lives in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin with her husband and four year old daughter. She was born and raised in Minnesota and Nebraska, so shes a Midwest girl, and enjoy...
My Belfast on Saturday.... Lunch in the Brand New MAC (I didnt those chips, I was a good girl) My first real-life sighting of Yarn Bombing!!! A skinny scarf to keep the traffic lights warm ...
Hello my darlings and welcome.Today I am going to re-introduce my range of blank greetings cards, packs of 3 in either of 2 options, for £5.00 (plus £1 to help with international postage wh...
Last week I wrote about my new outlook on life and my new view on what SUCCESS actually is. I wrote this (just in case you didnt read it)..success is measured by the life experience you get out of so...
Yay! an update of Simon the amazing travelling Gecko; Ambassador of Crafty Love and Appreciation. He spent a fabulous time with Rosemary (better known in the crafty world as Selkie Crochet) way down ...
Skull Pixie, or Fiona :) is a self-taught jewellery maker from good old N. Ireland. Yes I am biased - Fiona and I live in the best country ever. She creates incredibly intricate tiaras and pieces of ...
I truly can not believe it. So few entrants into this giveaway when over 85 people read the post. There is a recession on people!! Why on Earth would you not put your name forward for the chance to w...
Okay, how do you measure success?? I think most of us see it terms of money and fancy goods (dont lie now) and praise and respect etc. Well I have a new scale of my own that I am living by - success ...
The Shanes Castle May Day Steam Rally of Sunday and Monday well and truly kicked my butt. There I said it - no lies here or on any of my blog posts, I am vanquished.I had a great wee stall in the mar...
Oh wow. Today Andrew and I went up to Shanes Castle to get orientated with the site and do some preliminary set up. I simply can not believe how huge the site is and already the people that were ther...
Geraldine from Dublin has taken some time out to do a little interview for us about her shop Timeless Avenue. She hails from Dublin and is in love with anything old which is why you will fi...
Exciting!! Today is the day we find out our winner from the Gracies Corner giveaway. Marlou was fabulous in her interview and I loved meeting her; we have been having some lovely chats this week...
Happy Glorious Magical Brilliant Blissful Productive Magnificent May!!I LOVE May - it is a Month of growth, of new life, or flowing creative juices and (hopefully) sunnier days. Its when my...
Urban Muser choose a great theme for April; though she was unsure how it would go down, I think she picked something that truly speaks to us all.... Music. As she says...Sometimes life is hard, and w...
Marlou McAlees is from Co Antrim, Northern Ireland so you know I already love her; we live in the same area, she is in Belfast, just 20 mins away - Yay!! Her shop is a t...
Again I went with the super simple way of picking my winner that I used last week ~ I asked my bemused Hubby to pick a number between 1-5 (inclusive) and gave his 2 chances to change his mind. He sor...
I havent been hiding in a dark corner of the house with a blanket over my head and chocolate wrappers all around the place, rocking and crying because I have left the market - lets get that out of th...
Give a load of love for our Friday Sweet Etsy Goodness victim, ummm I mean guest!! haha This is the fab Janice from Boston, Maine and she is in love with nature and lifes vibrant colours. I of c...
Oh yes, we have a winner. My super secret way of picking this week was to ask my hubby to pick a number 1-4 (inclusive), much to his annoyance I wouldnt tell him why, but he played along. I guess whe...
....when there are footprints on the moon.**********I just want to thank everyone who has cheered me on on the decision to move away from that which has been causing me unnecessary pain. But please, ...
When getting up every morning is a battle in itself; when you fight every second of every day against mental illnesses and severe visual problems, I think its okay to allow yourself the grace to say,...
Scent Comestics is the baby and the passion of Garreth and Carla Falls (and their little baby). All their love and creativity is seen in each and every piece and I asked them personally to do an inte...
It has been a very highly scientific exercise in cutting up paper strips, writing names on them, folding them up, putting them in a bowl, putting said bowl behind my back and picking out ju...
A mind bomb has gone off in my head and I feel like my brains are total mush. I can barely type and I cant read someone elses words to save my life. Every thing may as well be upside down and back to...
Amy of Bead Bash is orginally from Aberdeen in Scotland. However she has been living in Galway for 4 years now with her fiancé; theyre getting married in Scotland in June! They have planned...
I really enjoyed sharing the talented art of my friend Aoife with you over the past week. I love her style and am so glad that you did too. Aoifes interview got the highest number of readers that my ...
Sunday at St Georges was an odd one for me. First I was beside that mammoth bloody Easter egg again (God I want it all to myself right now) and the temptation was awful. There were loads of kids, I m...
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