Happy Christmas everyone! Thank you for sticking with my new second blog in it's first few months. I'm going to be taking a break now until the New Year (although you can still find me on Made By Mrs M where I'll be blogging on all of my usual days - Monday, Wednesday and Friday - except for Christmas Day itself!).
I thought I'd share some nice festive pictures of my Christmas decorations with you...
Sunday, 20 December 2015
Sunday, 13 December 2015
The Christmas Jumper
I'm not a fan of Christmas jumpers (unless children are wearing them, in which case that's cute) and I've never owned one myself. I have however just bought myself a Christmas dress! (All images (c) Lindy Bop).
This is the 'Gilda' Green Alpine Print Swing Dress from one of my absolute faves Lindy Bop. Just look at it!!! I conveniently have a belt which matches perfectly and this is what I'll...
Sunday, 6 December 2015
A Weekend in Sheffield
Readers of my other blog and those who are familiar with my work will know that I'm a bit of a fan of Sheffield. My now husband went to University there (20 years ago - eek!) and when we started going out I used to visit every few weeks. Its a place we've popped back to pretty regularly ever since and last weekend we went for our 11th wedding anniversary (which is apparently steel so very apt!).
I...
Sunday, 29 November 2015
Colouring is for kids too!
We've all got caught up in this colouring books for adults craze (I spoke about it on my other blog here and even shared a sheet of my own - that's the stage we've got to!), but lets not forget books for children as well...
Last Sunday when I was off wearing my Made By Mrs M hat at BUST Craftacular in Bethnal Green, Mr M took the little man next door to the V&A Museum of Childhood. They came...
Sunday, 22 November 2015
Anniversary
We've just had our 11th wedding anniversary (I know I don't look old enough, cough) and as I've had my annual flick through the photos, I thought I'd share a few here. It was a really really cold day (we'd had snow the day before), but I'd wanted a winter wedding and that was what I got!
The day went really well, with hardly a hitch (aside from the last minute emergency best man replacement!)....
Sunday, 15 November 2015
Embracing Autumn
Autumn is actually one of my favourite times of year. OK, summer is over (and it really is now we've been back from our nice sunny holiday for a couple of weeks!), it's only going to keep getting darker - for the next few weeks at least - but a combination of beautiful colours, evenings by the fire, and the expectation of Christmas around the corner, all add up to a really good season.
It's...
Sunday, 8 November 2015
The Sun Shone!
For those of you waiting eagerly (following last Sunday's post) to see if the sun shone on our holiday in Gran Canaria... it did. We arrived to rain but by the next morning the skies were blue and the sun was out!
Lots of beach action took place - we went back to the lovely Puerto de Mogan (check it out - it's super pretty) three times for walks around the harbour and trips to the beach - the bay...
Sunday, 1 November 2015
Autumn Sunshine
As you're reading this I will have just got back from a week in Gran Canaria. It will have been warm and sunny (I'm keeping my fingers crossed here - at the time of writing, shortly before we're due to go, the forecast isn't great!).
We've had some nice, sunny, autumn breaks in the Canaries for the past few years, so to get me in the mood I thought I'd share some of the best bits from previous years....
Sunday, 25 October 2015
Rhubarb and Orange Jam
I have a confession to make. Well, two actually. Here's the big one....
I used to have a fear of rhubarb (so far as I'm aware there is no scientific term for this). I was born in the late 1970s and anyone of a similar age or older may recall the early 1980s BBC adaptation of Day of the Triffids. They looked a bit (at least to my toddler eyes) like giant, terrifying, pieces of rhubarb. Enough said....
Sunday, 18 October 2015
Spa Days
I've been a little run down in the last couple of weeks (I've been really busy, but it's also the time of year when all the bugs seem to come out - I have a cold as I type this), so when my friend suggested we have a day at a spa I jumped at the chance. This used to be something we did quite often (mostly in the pre-small boy days but also in the post-small boy, pre self employed days when I had more...
Sunday, 11 October 2015
Sharing the Sloth love...
Happy Sunday folks! The problem with planning to be spontaneous with a blog is that you inevitably end up not blogging... So I've decided to be slightly less spontaneous and aim for a weekly post on a Sunday (as the name of my blog may suggest). Let's see how that goes!
This week I've decided to share my love for an animal which seems to divide people - sloths.
Here's a particularly beautiful...
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