I asked one of my favourite retro and vintage designers, Audrey’s Cat (@AudreysCat – twitter) to make me a pod for my (Nikon bridge) camera. It needed it to be suitable for the satchel bag I will be taking to Cybher.
Well it just arrived, so I wanted to share it with you: Continue reading “Retro Camera Snug” »
I’ve decided to give Meal planing a go for lots of reasons. One of which is I am an habitual stockpiler. I seem to have a fear that I will run out of things, so currently in my ‘over spill’ cupboard, I have 4 bottles of salad cream, and 3 jars of vegetable Bisto Best, and wait for it….7 packs of pasta! Honestly, why do I always do this? Continue reading “Meal Planning Monday (7 May 2012)” »
I’ve been having a little play of picmonkey this week. I’m really impressed with all the options. Miss N and I had great fun, adding mascara, spray tans and teeth whitening to photographs. It really is a fun app. Here are this week photographs. It’s been all about feelings and senses for me this week. I think thats because we’ve been without Tall Dad all week, he’s been in Orlando wrestling Alligators at a conference.
Here are this weeks photographs:
As we are nearing day zero (Cybher day) the nerves and excitement are at fever pitch! My sponsor for the event is the very clever Andy Bailey from Commentluv. I just can’t begin to tell you how proud I am to have secured such a cool and dare I say geeky sponsor to the event. Where the tag line to this uber event is ‘geek is the new chic’, I think I scored big time!
So, after ruminating over why it is that I love Commentluv so much. I decided to write a post, so I could explain and introduce a few of the key features that I love. Continue reading “Commentluv: The Best Damn Plugin EVER?” »
I know, it’s a very big claim, but honestly this is the most delicious popcorn, and really easy to make. Fantastic as a treat whilst watching a movie. I’ve mentioned before about our movie nights on a Friday and this is a firm favourite with everyone.
We have an air popping popcorn maker, but not everyone does, so I have adapted the recipe and tested it. It’s just as easy in a pan really. Just make sure you use your biggest! Continue reading “Easy Popcorn Recipe : The tastiest popcorn EVER!” »
I wrote in a previous post about my Little Granddad, who was in fact my Great Granddad. He was very, very special to me, I remember that he bought me a Harmonica (much to my Mum and Dads delight 
) which I adored. I played it all the time, in my head I was a fantastic player. In reality it must have been a terrible din!
I once (I think I was around 4) ran away from home…well I ran all the way around the corner to his house anyway. That seems so young, doesn’t it? I can’t imagine how worried everyone must have been. I’m not even sure why I did it.
My Mum always describes all of his kitchen cupboards as being full of sugar and condensed milk. I think a reminder of days of rationing and so condensed milk always reminds me of him.
I was still very young, just 5 when he died. Though I remember that I was upset, I have a vague memory of having a special photograph of him in my bed at night. What I don’t remember, is that I lost some of my hair. A small patch of it, I suppose through the stress of it all.
I Continue reading “Little Granddad: Vintage Glass” »
I have really struggled this week, I completely blame the rain!
I’ve been playing around and made a collage of the best photographs of the week. It’s not great, but I need to put this week behind me and try to start afresh.
The Ana Mum Diary week has included craft, marvelling at Disney, reading new books, Glossy box, bus trips and a fabulous ‘Come Dine With Me’ experience with fellow bloggers.
If you would like to either see other entries or join in, follow this link to the Boy and Me’s page.
So, its arrived. I can’t tell you how much I’ve been tapping my fingers for this one. Yes I know there has been a slight delay but it still within the month and I personally think the wait has made the Glossybox delivery even more sweeter.
I wanted to highlight that I am not a beauty blogger who receives their box for free, I pay for it each month, and I am very happy to do so. I feel it is great value for money. I just love beauty products and I think receiving the glossy box has only reignited my love them.
So onto the box: Continue reading “Glossybox : April 2012” »
I have amended, as I was too exhausted yesterday, once I’d gotten back from Blog Camp UK. It was a great day, met up with lots of people who I have been chatting with for such a long time. It’s made me again think about the different relationships that we build in the blogging world. Whether it be from twitter interactions, or from commenting on one another’s blogs. Quite incredible the strong connections I have made. There were so many, I have never met before, and yet I felt I’ve known them for years.
We went to Jamie’s kitchen, lovely food, apart from mine which tasted really sweet and not to my taste. Continue reading “Week 16 of my 366 photography project” »
The whole of The Ana Mum Diary team were lucky enough to be invited to a Polly Pocket Party, at Chessington World of Adventures. We had such a fantastic day, I wanted to share with you some of the photographs and a little bit of why we all invited!
We were one of the first people to arrive at the Holiday Inn, at Chessington World of Adventure. We were escorted into a room full of Polly Pocket. My girls were in heaven!
I’ve got to say it was a lot neater when we first got in, then when we left though!
Continue reading “Polly Pocket: Best Day Ever” »