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With Halloween just over three weeks away, I have already started making the decorations for the home. Last week I made the Boo Wall Hanging and today I made my Halloween lantern. This lantern normally sits outside with a slightly smaller one and with Summer now over I thought I would use it indoors for…
Hello After trailing around the shops on Monday looking for things to spend my birthday money on – I bought two jumpers and a Lush Pumkin Bath Bar (why is it when you have no money the shops are full of lovely things to buy and then when you have money to spend there seems…

Monday again…….. the weekend passes far too quickly. If I was Prime Minister (very unlikely) I would introduce a 3 day Weekend for everyone. This would mean only four days of work and with our three days off, we can do all we want/need to do without cramming it into two and then feeling exhausted…

I love Halloween almost as much as I love Christmas. Although in the UK we don’t celebrate Halloween in the same way as they do in America, I do like to decorate the house with my Yankee Candle Halloween candle holders and other Halloween things or ‘Tat’ as Mr M likes to call it. I…

I love bags……..oh and shoes, amongst other things! They come in all shapes and sizes. You get big tote ones, small clutch ones, ones that go across your body and ones you hang off your wrist. Your bag is something that you carry around with you all day so there are some essential items that…

I was organised this week as had meal planned and even typed up this post by Saturday morning. However, my smug feeling had disappeared by Saturday night when Mr M noticed that the freezer door was not shut properly and some things had started to defrost……aaaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhh!! I was the last person to open it when…
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