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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

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 [...]

Birthdays, Design, Digital art, Food, Movies, Places, Uncategorized, weather 3D, Avatar, baking, black forest gateau, knitting, lack of, snow

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 [...]

Christmas, Families, Food, Humour, Illustration, jewellery, Places Christmas, diets, Mylo Design, New Year, Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes

Wedding bells…

19 Comments Posted by Diane on September 2, 2009

I had a lovely weekend. I was invited to accompany a friend to his niece’s wedding and as I do like a good wedding, I dusted off my posh frock and my dancing shoes and accepted. I had promised to make the bride and groom a guest book for the the wedding guests to sign [...]

Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Families, Food, Handmade books, Interesting facts, paper arts, Pets, Photography, Places, weather, web design, Weddings Claire Fordham, Dorset, jousting, knights, Lulworth Castle, wedding

Some things never change

23 Comments Posted by Diane on June 8, 2009

When I was first married, we lived in Cardiff and our best friends were a couple, Richard and Glynis, who have remained our friends for over thirty years. I am godmother to their daughter (hence the wedding reading – she is getting married in October) and Richard is the godfather to my #1 son. In [...]