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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 [...]

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

All quiet on the Western front….

20 Comments Posted by Diane on December 3, 2009

For a change it’s all been quite quiet chez moi. Lots of web design and coding going on – I hadn’t realised that eCommerce was such a complicated thing, so that has been keeping me glued to my Mac day after day. Just as well as the weather has been dreadful – torrential rain and [...]

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Help!

32 Comments Posted by Diane on July 24, 2009

I have spent an inordinate amount of time this week trying to sort out my email settings. As you might know, I own the domain name dianealdred.com and it struck me that I don’t use the associated email so I decided to set it up as an alternate email address. My #2 son has been [...]

Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Cool links, Crafts, Design, Families, Handmade books, Humour, Illustration, paper arts, Technology, Videos, Weddings email, Gmail, leather, Pittards, tech support

I may have found my new career…

44 Comments Posted by Diane on July 9, 2009

I’ve been occupied this week with making a gift for my sister to say ‘Thanks’ for my wonderful sailing holiday in Greece. Here’s a sneak preview of what I made for her. I was going to send her a CD with copies of all the photographs I took but I decided it might be nice [...]

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Planes, trains and automobiles

13 Comments Posted by Diane on June 3, 2009

Well, I’m back. I have so much to tell you that it’s all a bit daunting, so I’ll start at the beginning and take a few short cuts. I went to see Julia Fordham perform at the Pigalle Club in London. She was quite amazing as usual, her extraordinary voice never fails to send shivers [...]