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Category Archives: Families

A very good trip…

9 Comments Posted by Diane on March 17, 2010

I decided at fairly short notice, that I needed to go to London. My #2 son and two friends have just moved into a new flat, I needed to have a meeting with a client about the jewellery website I am designing for him and last but not least, my ex was in town (not [...]

Art, Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Crafts, Design, Families, Food, Handmade books, Interesting facts, jewellery, paper arts, Photography, Places, Travel, web design, Weddings Banksy, Brick Lane, Nicholas Hawkesmoor, Shoreditch, Spitalfields market

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

Excuses, excuses

16 Comments Posted by Diane on January 27, 2010

Well, the huge mountain of ‘things that need doing’ which I have been trying to run away from (and which must be attached to me by a long length of elastic) has finally smacked me in the back of the head and I have been forced into doing something about it. Consequently, I have been [...]

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Festive guzzlings…

5 Comments Posted by Diane on December 30, 2009

Christmas has been a very ‘moveable feast’. It started with a whistlestop visit ‘oop North’-ish to visit my family which was fun. They were all terribly organised and handed over Christmas cards. I hadn’t even written mine as I had lost my address book, I might have missed some folk off my list :-( All [...]