It was another extremely hot week in London. We arrived home from our Northern Road TripI came down with a nasty throat infection and spent a day lolling aboutTemperatures in London rose again to the mid-thirtiesThe Boy and I went to Apsley House - more on that soonI lost a contact lens in my eye, … Continue reading Me on Monday | 15 August
The 100 Day Project is over for this year and I was creative for every one of those 100 days. Some days, it was a whole load of journaling for The A-Z of Me: Abridged Version; on others, it was merely moving a few photos around on a sheet of cardstock while I thought about … Continue reading The 100 Day Project | 100 Days Later
Three quarters of the way through and progress has slowed. I have still worked on an unfinished project every day, but content has been minimal. Life is busy and is meant to be lived, so I don't feel as though I've failed in any way over the past 75 days. 🙂 I’m coming to the … Continue reading The 100 Day Project | Seventy Five Days In
Half way through this year's 100 Day Project and I don't mind admitting the last 10 days or so have been a struggle. The Boy's albums are up to date, bar a title page or twoThe wedding album has stalled. I reckon that there just 3 layouts left to complete and the Circle of Life … Continue reading The 100 Day Project | Fifty Days In | The Half Way Point
A quarter of this year's 100 Day Project has now passed and I'm on track with ticking off several items from my list of unfinished objects. 🙂 The Boy's albums have very few gaps left and his current album is almost up to dateI'm now on the letter D of the updated and revised edition … Continue reading The 100 Day Project | Twenty Five Days In
The 9th annual 100 Day Project began on Sunday just gone, 13th February, and as in previous years, I'm planning on using the 100 days to clear up a bunch of unfinished projects. This is the 5th year I will have taken part. What’s on my UFO list? The Royal Ballet School journal Moving the … Continue reading The 100 Day Project | 2022
Beach Read by Emily Henry: January is a 29-year-old romance writer who no longer believes in happily-ever-after. Demoralised and broke, she moves into the beach house she inherited when her father died, hoping to lick her wounds and finish her current manuscript. But then, in a cruel twist of fate, she discovers her neighbour is … Continue reading For the Love of Books | Currently Reading September 2020
I learned this week that the author Amy Krouse Rosenthal had passed way from Ovarian cancer. She was just 51 years old. Thanks to Cathy Zielske's online classes, I produced two albums based on Amy's book, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life - Me: The Abridged Version (in 2010) and Him: The Abridged Version (in 2014/15).  Yesterday, I … Continue reading Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life | Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Someone said to me recently, "Tell me who you are."Hard to answer, that one.The title of this blog suggests that I'm at home all day.You know, with my feet up, drinking tea and watching Poldark on catch-up.If only that were true.I could say that I'm a mum who works in the home.I could say that I … Continue reading I Am What, Exactly?
Back in 2010 I completed Cathy Zielske's online class, Me: The Abridged Version and loved it.It's still one of my favourite albums.I looked at it again this week and realised that I had made a huge error.Lots of entries were cross-referenced to the Royal Air Force, but when I looked at the entries for 'R' … Continue reading Him | The Abridged Version
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