Up/Down
Going Up...The prospect of a visit from my best friend and her beau this weekend. We have been friends since high school and we always, always have a fabulous time together. We don't get to see each other all that often anymore. When we do it's fantastic, we just pick...
Summer Dreams
January is finally over. It's got to be the toughest month of the year. We're all skint, the Christmas comedown has kicked in and by the second week everyone is feeling guilty about the New Year resolution that has already become an epic fail. Now is definitely the...
Party Favourites
I was so exhausted yesterday evening that I couldn't even muster the energy to open my laptop, let alone blog about anything worthwhile!As you already know, I spent the weekend celebrating my daughter's 5th birthday. Saturday was taken up by her wonderful pirate...
Cake
My masterpiece! It took hours but it was worth it to see the look on my daughter's face when I brought it in. It's made up of 3 cakes and then covered in butter icing and ready made royal icing which I coloured myself. That took the longest actually, it was pink...
Domestic Goddess
Apologies for the lack of posts this week. Preparations for my daughter's 5th birthday party are in full swing. I've spent most of the afternoon tinkering in the kitchen. I've made rocky road (which I'm very tempted to eat now), mini chocolate orange muffins and...
Blair
I know I've come to this particular bandwagon very, very late but having watched all of the Season 1 box set that Mr. LA gifted to me for Christmas I'm seriously hooked. I absolutely adore Blair's wardrobe. So feminine, so cute and with just the right amount of...
The things I’m dreaming about right now… No. 6
I have had a wonderful day. Baby J slept peacefully until gone 6am and the school run passed without a hitch. I took the boy along to Bounce & Rhyme (or baby bump 'n' grind as I call it) at the public library and was thrilled when he actually joined in with the...
Vanity
The prospect of my baby boy moving out of our bedroom and into his own room (well... his sister's room, they'll be sharing for a little while) has got me thinking about how we'll use the extra space that's currently taken up by his cot, changing table, clothes, toys...
My weekend has mainly been spent…
... graduating! This involved:Waking up to a yummy cooked breakfast, a lovely homemade card from my daughter and some very delicious champagne truffles from my fella.Ironing every one's clothes. I hate ironing.Driving up to campus with my mum to collect my robes.Doing...
Because it is the law to photograph your child the 1st time they eat spaghetti.
And for pudding...Loveaudrey...
Some Recommended Viewing
While I'm not completely averse to contemporary cinema, my heart really belongs to classic films, particularly those from the 40s and 50s.I can't tell you exactly how my passion for these movies first came about. However, my father was a film editor and I grew up with...
I was going to blog tonight…
...but then I spent the whole evening on the telephone!Numerous beautiful vintage images like this one can be found at my current favourite tumblr.Loveaudrey...
Products I’m Using Right Now
I love reading these lists on other blogs so I thought I'd add my own in to the mix...Shampoo: I alternate between Kerastase Reflection Bain Chroma Riche (for coloured hair, it's the pink one) and Specifique Bain Prevention (which comes in a white bottle and is...
Mr. Bump and His Bad Mother
We've had a horrendous day.At around 10.15am baby Jesse managed to pull himself up and then fling himself off our bed. He flew past my left leg and on his way to the floor he smacked his head on the edge of our bedroom door. He cried instantly and then went very quiet...
Always a Willing Model
I've mentioned before just how much I enjoy doing my sister's make-up for her. I've come to the conclusion that she also enjoys the process of being made-up... a little too much perhaps! I'm sure that over the Christmas period I spent more time doing her face than my...
Up/Down
Going Up...Baby Jesse figured out how to clap this morning and it has to be one of the cutest things I've ever seen. I would clap twice and say 'clap, clap Jesse' and then he would clap and then he would giggle so much he'd almost topple over. He was so pleased with...
Kiss
Tomorrow marks 6 years since my boyfriend and I first kissed. I was 20 and he was 23. Only just... it happened at his birthday party.We'd been friends for a little while having met at the beginning of the previous summer. We'd been working together at a cocktail bar &...
It finally snowed!
It felt like we were the only place in Devon without any snow.That is, until I woke up this morning and looked out the window!School was closed so we spent the morning listening to the crunching sound our boots made in the snow, making snow angels and building a baby...
A must read perhaps…
I spotted this on Amazon this morning. I always find it hard to resist anything Audrey.I'm reminded, yet again, of the fact that I have never posted any pictures of my rather ample Audrey collection. I have so many books, photos, films, prints etc. I even have a...
Excitment
I've been feeling a bit *bleugh* towards MAC recently. I've not been tempted by Warm & Cozy or Love Lace and I'm not really hankering after anything from the permanent line either. Then I read this on Specktra this morning: 'The very latest in a series of famous...
