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    • Dr Seuss Day craft
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    • Easter
    • Elf on the Shelf
    • Elmer Day
    • Fairy garden crafts
    • Fathers Day
    • Food crafts
    • Fourth of July crafts
    • Free printables
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    • Gingerbread houses
    • Grinchmas crafts
    • Halloween
    • Handmade gifts
    • International Women’s Day
    • Kids crafts
    • London crafts
    • Lego crafts
    • May Day crafts
    • Minecraft crafts
    • Mother’s Day crafts
    • Nature crafts
    • New Year crafts
    • Painted rocks
    • Pancake Day crafts
    • Pokemon Day crafts
    • Recycled crafts
    • Roald Dahl crafts
    • Royal crafts
    • Sports crafts
    • Star Wars crafts
    • STEM activity
    • St George’s Day crafts
    • St Patrick’s Day crafts
    • Thanksgiving crafts
    • Toilet roll crafts
    • Tutorials
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    • Valentines Day crafts
    • Wizarding World crafts
    • World Bee Day
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  • Cooking - moving

    5 fairy cakes and 5 days to go…

    January 24, 2007 - By jenny

    The panic is setting in. Today the boxes arrived, I cleaned the oven and the bathroom, and I sorted out yet more things for the nearest charity shop. I managed to find five minutes to make some little fairy cakes 🙂

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  • Uncategorized

    snow outside our house

    January 24, 2007 - By jenny

    It’s snowing at Dartmouth Park Hill!

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  • moving

    7 days to go

    January 22, 2007 - By jenny

    Only 7 days left in our little bijoux flat. Tonight Robin defrosted the fridge while I watched and gave moral support. I can’t believe it took 3 hours. Another exciting evening in this joint household! This will of course change when we move into our mansion next week.

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  • Blythe - Cath Kidston - moving - Orla Kiely

    8 days until we move!

    January 21, 2007 - By jenny

    Oh the weekend has gone too quickly! Today we went shopping around Covent Garden and I couldn’t help myself and bought some lovely fabric in the Cath Kidston shop and my very first Blythe! It took me ages to find Blythe but eventually I found a very small one in Forbidden Planet. Then we had a long lunch with some friends at The Crown and Two Chairmen in Soho. I was allowed to choose a new Orla Kiely handbag today but sadly after two trips I just couldn’t decide between them all! I wish my boyfriend wasn’t quite so generous…

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  • Cath Kidston - moving

    9 days until we move!

    January 20, 2007 - By jenny

    Hooray, 9 days until we move. Spent the afternoon walking around Camden market, went to see London: A Life in Maps at the British Library, on to The Angelic for a few drinks before dinner at Angel Mangal, our favourite Turkish restaurant in Angel. I also decided to go back to my lovely old Motorola phone. Despite the beautiful Cath Kidston pattern on my new phone, at the end of the day it was a cheap old Nokia phone that squeaked when opened!

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  • moving

    11 days til we move house!

    January 18, 2007 - By jenny

    It may be stormy outside but it’s springtime in our flat!

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  • Cath Kidston - moving

    12 DAYS TO GO!

    January 17, 2007 - By jenny

    gadgets

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  • moving

    13 days until we move

    January 16, 2007 - By jenny

    The picture today is made from numerous soaps and creams taken from all the hotels we’ve stayed in over the last few months.

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  • Cath Kidston - moving

    14 days until we move !

    January 15, 2007 - By jenny

    Just need to find a suitable removal firm…

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