World Of Beauty

These are some of the National Geographic best pictures for the year.

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Click on any of the images to really enjoy them.

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Christmas In The Cloisters

Next Saturday and Sunday (6th / 7th December) sees me selling JB*JB wares in the beautiful location of Lacock Abbey.

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Owned by the National Trust, Lacock Abbey is featured in the Harry Potter films as some of the scenes set in Hogwarts.

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The Christmas In The Cloisters event is packed with traditional stalls, a gorgeous Christmas Tree, live music and a Santa's Grotto.

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If you're in the Wiltshire area next weekend and fancy seeing Hogwarts for yourself, pop along and say hello - I shall be in the marquee.

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This will be my second time selling at this fair and it had a really good atmosphere last year.

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Not only that but the village of Lacock is absolutely beautiful -

I have blogged about it here.

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You could combine your visit with a look at the nearby village of Castle Combe.

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Castle Combe was used in the film Stardust as the village of Wall.

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There is also the village of Biddestone with its traditional duck-pond:

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As well as the nearby Roman and Georgian city of Bath.

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If you do come to the christmas fair, make sure you wrap up warm because although it's all under-cover, it is exposed to the weather!

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(And bring lots of cash as there are no card facilities)

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Maybe see you there?

Bunting For A Wedding

I was asked recently to design some bunting for a wedding shoot.

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The couple wanted to use a photo of their church with personalised bunting for their invites.

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It was quite daunting choosing the fabrics to use as I didn't want it to be too "girly".

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I settled for a pink and yellow clolourway in floral, vintage styles

(all from my stash!)

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I have heard word from the bride that it made her smile when she saw it ....

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Hope you have a lovely day Hannah and Stu

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Well Shiver Me Timbers!

When I was a little girl I used to have an old-fashioned wooden writing desk with a proper lift up lid and ink-well.

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It had been my mum's desk when she was a little girl and I asked her if she still had it as I'd quite like boy*jelly to have it.

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She got it down from the attic at the weekend and it is now in it's new home of boy*jelly's bedroom.

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I explained to him that this had once belonged to me when I was his age and showed him where I'd written my name.

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The ceramic ink-well is no longer there, but there was this inside:

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I had completely forgotten about my Pirate pin-ball game.

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I must have spent a lot of time playing on it because all of the pictures came flooding back to me - even the sounds of the ceramic balls inside reminded me of my childhood.

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boy*jelly can make use of the desk ... but he's not alllowed near the pin-ball!

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PS - I know what you're all thinking ... but why would I iron a piece of fabric that I'm just going to shove back in the drawer as soon as I've taken the photo?

Tell All Tuesday

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The question for today's Tell All Tuesday is : .
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Did you have an imaginary friend?
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I did.

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He was a boy mouse but his name was April Mouse and he wore a stripy waistcoat.

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I don't really remember much about him as I think I must have been very young, but my mum often reminds me of "The Oxford Trip".

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We used to live half-an-hour away from Oxford and one Saturday we were on our way in the car to do some shopping.

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When we arrived at the car-park I declared that we had left April Mouse at home.

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I was completely incosolable and made my Dad turn the car round to go and collect him.

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We apparantely drove back home - half-an-hour away - to collect an imaginary friend!

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Spoilt? Moi?

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I do clearly remember April Mouse telling me one day that he had to leave to look after another family and I never saw him again.

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I wish I could draw a picture of what April Mouse looked like to show you, but I guess looking back, I might have been influenced by The Clangers....

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Rules

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What is Tell All Tuesday?
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Art On My Parts

As I get older and saggier, I am of a mind to have a tattoo.

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I have even started watching Miami Ink.

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I wouldn't have anything that other people could see.

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I don't want anything on display.

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So that leaves either my bum, boobs or belly.

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No point having it on my bum because I'd never be able to see it.

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Boobs is just too .... painful sounding.

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Which leaves my belly.

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I have quite a large area as a blank canvas.

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It's also quite numb from the over-stretching it endured

(boy*jelly was a big baby!)

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So what shall I have?

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I did consider having a mole popping it's head out from a hole it had dug.

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Then when people complain about having freckles and moles, I could tell them that I'm covered in moles, and tell them I have a huge one on my tummy ... then flash them my mole-tatt.

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But I think I would like something pretty and flowery that would make me smile when I saw it in the bath.

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Any ideas?

Clickety-Click

I can now announce which blog appeared the most on my URL referral report between 14th and 21st November.

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It was a close-fought battle between 2 blogs.

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At the beginning of the competition, I thought the prize would be going to :

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Who scored a total of 66 hits.

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But in the end she was no match for :

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Who put a sneaky link on her blog at the end of the week and took the lead with a total of 72 hits.

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I would still like to send lzilulu (who in my head is pronounced liz-zulu) a little something to say thank you for all your clicks, so can you both email me your postal addresses.

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Thank you to anyone who did their best to get their readers over to my blog

- I now have 38 followers!

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