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FEISTY TAPAS
www.feistytapas.com
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One determined Spaniard married to an Englishman, mother to a bilingual and bicultural child, we may live in England but my daughter is most definitely half Spanish! Lover of bags, chocolate, my profession as a translator and now also passionate about blogging
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Needlework days: Towels

I have a thing for stitching on items that will look like a totally finalised product by the end I finish that last stitch and get that last thread in place. Thats why I love stitching on towels with...

4 days ago

Silent Sunday

5 days ago

Wedding time capsule

May 30th 2009, a scorcher of a sunny day reaching 28ºC in England. That was the day Mr Tapas and I chose (three months earlier) to get married. It was a fantastic day, full of fun, laughter, plenty o...

26 may 12

Silent Sunday

20 may 12

Cybher 2012: fabulous

Bloggers: they come in all shapes and sizes, all types of personalities (from the shy to the outgoing, from the loud to the timid), they dress with all different styles under the rainbow, they may ev...

15 may 12

Cybher 2012: the day I met satchels

I had heard about satchels before, in fact I know that a particular brand is quite big even in Spain at the moment. However, they always reminded me a bit of school bags or even university bags for q...

15 may 12

Silent Sunday

13 may 12

Cybher 2012: What on earth to wear?

With only 3 days to go I am increasingly excited about going to Cybher on Saturday. Cybher is an all-female conference for bloggers. Blogging royalty is going to be present, for me that royalty not o...

09 may 12

Silent Sunday

06 may 12

Cybher 2012, Ill be there bright and early

I probably should have done this ages ago, for goodness sake I booked my ticket last year! But better late than never, right? Here we go, my Cybher Meet & Greet. Name: Maria, also known as Feisty...

05 may 12

Spanish Mothers Day

This bank holiday weekend, instead of "enjoying" the current British weather from your living room window. How about spicing things up with an exotic celebration? On Sunday make sure you cele...

03 may 12 1 person likes this

Old style bookshops

Now that we are dwellers of The Fens, the time has come to investigate what our new surroundings have to offer. One thing is clear, LittleT and I have a lot more chances to get out and about. It was ...

02 may 12

Silent Sunday

29 apr 12

Town living vs village living

I had forgotten how nice it is to get local newspapers, leaflets, junk mail... when you live in a town. Of course living in a village it meant that there wasnt as much junk to put in the recycling bi...

26 apr 12

Needlework Days: April 2012

With the house move you probably thought I had forgotten about Needlework Days, well you were right. In between one thing and the other I did but I had taken a photo before my cross-stitch was all bo...

18 apr 12

Silent Sunday

15 apr 12

How not to move house in one week (Part 2) - John Lewis home delivery

My husband swears by John Lewis, in his eyes they could do no wrong, that has all changed this week.The moment we exchanged contracts on the new house we went to John Lewis to choose appliances, my h...

13 apr 12

How not to move house in a week

Simple, dont fall down the stairs and end up with a purple swollen toe that doesnt fit in the one pair of shoes that you had on the day before and that you were expecting to use for a couple of days ...

11 apr 12

Silent Sunday

07 apr 12

How to move house in a week. Part 2.

Isnt moving weird? Its a bit like delving into your past in order to move towards the future.Yesterday (Saturday) we spent half of the day in the centre of Cambridge carrying out all sorts of errands...

01 apr 12

Silent Sunday

01 apr 12

How to move house in a week. Part 1.

I am extremely pleased that Operation "Move the Tapas" has started. Yes, my little family is finally on the move. I say finally because the last few months have, at times, been heartbreaking....

01 apr 12

The Gallery: Extreme Close Up

This is me (well, clearly its my eye). This photo was taken on Christmas Day 2006. There are two reasons why I love this photo. The superficial reason is that it leaves clear that there really is som...

28 mar 12

A Bravissimo shopping spree

Last week I had one of those unusual moments when I was in town, LittleT was asleep in her buggy and my brain was working so, the moment I saw her totally asleep, I run. Well, I tried running but the...

24 mar 12

Dear daughter

I was going to do a post with a few guidelines, dos and donts for parents and grandparents of expats but instead I have decided to write a letter full of promises for a little girl full of promise:De...

23 mar 12

Silent Sunday

18 mar 12

iStylista Review, Competition and Discount

Recently I was given the chance to try my own at-home stylist and personal shopper service thanks to the wonders of the web, iStylista, which claims to have been "created to allow women everywher...

18 mar 12

Red and white wedding cake

Have you seen my friend Mummy Mandas latest work of art? Its her dads 60th birthday cake. Her brother is getting married soon and her mother is in charge of the wedding cake, Amanda may well be helpi...

11 mar 12

Silent Sunday 11/03/2012

11 mar 12

Needlework days

I used to be an avid cross-stitcher. I started cross-stitching back in the middle ages (also known as the early eighties), that doesnt make me early eighties by the way, it makes me late thirties (do...

07 mar 12

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