It’s that time of week again when I write my favourite post – my Monday Happy Things! On Friday I spent the day at London Zoo as a Keeper for a Day. I had an amazing experience and helped clean out cages, prepared food, fed the giraffes and got a great look behind the scenes…
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Monday happy things
Time for my weekly Monday happy things post. I’m excited to announce that we’ve been chosen as Playmobil Playologists for the 3rd year running. We love Playmobil and are looking forward to sharing our reviews and Playmobil news with you. My husband treated me to a new Orla Kiely handbag which was my annual wife…
Monday happy things
I’m pleased to say the past week has been slightly less manic as I’ve taken a small step back from blogging and spent more time crafting! Following on from the success of the fairy garden we built in our garden I wrote 10 top tips for creating a fairy garden which was published on Female…
Monday happy things
The weather has been a little wet and wild lately which means I’m thankful I write this weekly post to remind myself of the good things that have happened. I bought the latest copy of Pretty Patches. Although I resolved to buy less magazines in 2015 and stop my expensive subscriptions I saw a few…
Lemon meringue cupcakes
Every week I try to bake at least one new recipe, something to fill the cake tin. This weeks’ effort was lemon meringue cupcakes. I love this combination but had never made meringue before – it wasn’t as hard as I thought. I made cupcakes using Kerrygold butter, you may remember I mentioned they’d been…
Monday happy things
So it’s only the second time I have written my Monday happy post but already it’s making me happy just thinking about what to write about. I’ve decided to pick 5 things which have made me happy over the last week but I could easily have written more: On Saturday we booked ourselves on a…
Orla Kiely for Kerrygold
Today I have to share news of a fun Orla Kiely collaboration that you can all get yours hands on for a fraction of the cost of one of her beautiful handbags. Kerrygold Butter packaging is having a super stylish make over thanks to the renowned Irish fashion designer, Orla Kiely. The iconic Irish butter…
Orla Kiely at the touch of a button
I was pretty excited to discover an Orla Kiely iPhone app has just been launched, it looks great on my iPad too. I’m a huge fan of her designs but haven’t bought anything new for ages due to a severe lack of money. Anyway, the app is free which means I can keep up to…
My handbag essentials
Last weekend my husband very kindly made me a cupboard for my handbags. I have a lovely collection of Orla Kiely bags and although I pretty much use the same one every day I wanted somewhere to keep them all. My handbag is voluminous to say the least. It has to hold lots of things…