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Category Archives: Birthdays

Heidi goes to Glastonbury…

14 Comments Posted by Diane on June 28, 2010

You’ll have to excuse my absence. I have been suffering from ‘not enough news’ syndrome and then it has been followed by ‘too much news’ syndrome. I shall gloss over the writers’ block period and rush straight to the ‘Oh my God, I love my life’ bit. I had a week in Zurich staying with [...]

Birthdays, Dance, Music, Photography, Places, Sport, Tennis, weather England football team, Faithless, Glastonbury, Pet Shop Boys, Primary 1, Princess, Scissor Sisters, Seasick Steve, Shakira, Slash, Stevie Wonder, Wimbledon

It’s all go….

12 Comments Posted by Diane on April 25, 2010

Yet again I have to apologise for a long absence, I’ve had a very busy couple of weeks. I finished the website I was making for a friend who makes polymer clay jewellery. It’s my first e-commerce website called Al-Andalus Creations, it went live last week and he has started selling the jewellery and it [...]

Birthdays, Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Crafts, Design, Digital art, Handmade books, Illustration, jewellery, paper arts, Photography, Shopping, web design, Weddings Al-Andalus Creations, birthday, Dorset Cereals, Spin a Yarn, tomatoes, websites, wedding album

Doesn’t time fly when you are having fun?

7 Comments Posted by Diane on March 1, 2010

Well, I have just returned from another trip – this time to Switzerland. Zurich to be precise. Schindellegi to be even more precise. It’s a small town sitting above Lake Zurich. Very pretty but unfortunately shrouded in fog most of the time I was there. I knew the lake was there but didn’t see it [...]

Birthdays, Blogs, Dance, Families, Movies, Music, Pets, Photography, Places, Travel, Videos, weather, Weddings Crans Montana, Einsiedeln, George Clooney, Javier bardem, Russell Maliphant, Schindeleggi, snow, Switzerland, Sylvie Guillem, toboggan, Zurich

Where there’s a Will….

14 Comments Posted by Diane on February 7, 2010

I’ve just returned from Stratford on Avon. It was my sister’s birthday. A BIG birthday made all the more disconcerting because she is my younger sister and the less reminders I have the of how old I am, the better! I made her an album for her birthday, which involved the inevitable trawl through old [...]

Birthdays, Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Calligraphy, Design, Families, hairstyles, Handmade books, Humour, Illustration, paper arts, Photography, Places, Travel As You Like It, River Avon, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford on Avon, swans, William Shakespeare

Old things, new things – snow joke, you know…

20 Comments Posted by Diane on January 8, 2010

I had a quiet intro to the New Year which was nice as the week between Christmas and New Year was quite hectic. Since then, I have been busy doing things I don’t normally do. First I baked a cake for a friend’s birthday. It was his 60th so we decided to have a 60s [...]