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Our Honeymoon - Nicaragua (San Juan Del Sur and Isla Ometepe)
When we left off we were living it up in the lovely Grenada in Nicaragua, we only stayed there for two days as it was expensive and we had places to go! On our last day in Grenada we took a boat trip...
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Sam Burns Yard, Prestonpans
A couple of weekends ago we headed out of town to Sam Burns junk yard, one of my favourite places for rummaging through junk in the search of treasures. It's the place we found the rocking chair for...
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My Top Three Honeymoon Experiences
While Ashley at Attempts at Domestication is on her amazing European Adventure she is getting guest posters to tell her readers about their favourite holiday. This afternoon it is my turn and I have...
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Our Wedding: Getting Ready
This post was meant to be about me doing my own wedding make up, which I will definitely tell you about but it has somehow morphed into a getting ready post, which I think is more interesting, so we...
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Our Honeymoon: Costa Rica
We left Nicaragua on the Tika bus, a bus that travels from the Mexican border to Panama City! It was about 6 hours from Rivas, Nicaragua to San Jose, Costa Rica. It was here that we had the first of...
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Colette Hazel dress
I finally finished my hazel dress that I started long before the wedding in the hope I could take it on honeymoon with me. Well that never worked out and two and a half months after...
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Our Wedding: The Photo Album
I've mentioned before that our photographers were wonderful and one of the things I loved about their package was they didn't include an album instead they gave us a pen drive with all our photos on...
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Our Honeymoon: Panama
Apologies for the phone pictures in this post, our camera died in Costa Rica so it's all we had.We entered our final country with the most fun border crossing of the trip, we crossed at the relatively...
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Rodney's Amazing Guacamole
A long long time ago when I shared my recipe swap recipe for Anzac cookies I promised I would also share the amazingness that is Rodney's guacamole. Well I finally remembered to take pictures as he was...
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Our Wedding: Thank You Cards
This is the last of the wedding posts I have for you and it's just a quick one about our thank you cards. We got them from vistaprint which is the same place we got our in invites from. We just used...
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Faulty Towers Dining Experience
One weekend in September I went to London to visit my good friend Morven who is heading off to travel the world, on the Saturday night we went to the Faulty Towers dining experience at the Charing...
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Spicy Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
I want to share a quick recipe with you today, in the run up to Halloween there will be lots of pumpkin seeds around, instead of chucking them away how about making a tasty, healthy snack.We bought a...
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Making Bath Bombs with Olive Dragonfly
A couple of weeks ago I put my big girl panties on and went to meet some girls from the interweb at Bex's Olive Dragonfly Craft Club. I had such a lovely night and don't know why I was nervous.Bex's is...
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The Scran & Scallie: A Review
This weekend we finally made it to Scran & Scallie, Tom Kitchin's new Gastro pub in Stockbridge. It has been the talk of town for a while and we had to wait a long time for a table as we hadn't...
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Rodney's Amazing Banoffee Pie
A couple if weeks ago Rodney's Mum had a wee dinner party for us and her brothers family, we helped out by bringing a Banoffee pie, and Rodney took it on the bus with him, there was a moment we thought...
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Where Next?
With us reaching the end of my honeymoon recap last week I thought I would let you know the next few big trips we want to take. Last year I wrote a travel bucket list but this is a more realistic...
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An Autumn Walk with my new Camera
Our old camera broke in Costa Rica so last month we treated ourselves to a new one with the last of our wedding gift vouchers. We wanted something that was still compact enough to go in my handbag on...
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Honeymoon Souvenirs
I realised recently that apart from our hammock I hadn't told you about all the things we bought back from Central America, the biggest was a new rug for the livingroom which we hoped was bigger than...
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My very first quilt
This autumn I set myself the project of making a quilt with all my scraps of fabric, I am going to give it to my Grandma for her Christmas and I have to say I am very proud of myself! If you follow me...
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My Sorbetto top
A little while ago when I had an afternoon off work I jumped on the bandwagon and made myself a Colette Sorbetto top from some lovely dotty cotton. I finished the edges with some blue bias tape that...
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A Bargainous Shift Dress!
Last weekend I made a shift dress, all by myself and in a weekend!! That's pretty good for me!!You might have seen the material on Instagram when I found it for £2 in a charity shop!! What a...
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Wedding pictures through the years
One of my favourite decorations at the wedding was our collection of family wedding pictures that we had on one of the tables in the entrance hall.I loved collecting them and marvelling at how my...
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Lisbon's flea Market
A couple of weekends ago we were in Lisbon visiting friends. We had a great time catching up with people we don't see very much and enjoying some warm (ish) sunshine. We had been there a few years ago...
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Another quilt!
I'm sure everyone is over Christmas recaps by now as I'm a bit late to the part so I won't bother telling you about mine, it was lovely though. As well as all the eating and drinking I also finished...
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Great British Sewing Bee Tunic Top
I picked up the GBSB book for a bargain at the works and have got almost every project in their of my to-sew list. The first one I tackled was their simple tunic top as that was the one that came with...
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