I’m feeling in a Springy mood so this post is all photos of flowers. That’s it! No tips, recipes or usefulness. Just beautiful flowers all photographed by me! What is your favorite bloom? Tweet
Category Archives: Reflect
Holding Jen in My Heart
A few weeks ago, a day that started like any other ended with a feeling of emptiness. Days of tears, weeks of anger and now I am ready to write this post. When I was LB’s tender age of 17 months, I bit Jeni. She was a chubby cute baby and for whatever reason, I…
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Guest Post by Jeni Pim: Perseverance
I’m a big fan of Jeni Pim for her cooking but mostly because she is a very kind, intelligent person who I feel lucky to call my friend. When I asked if she’d like to write a guest post for my blog, she responded with such warmth and enthusiasm it made me actually visit my blog…
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My Memories of Paris, France
Growing up, I was fortunate to visit France several times with my parents. Each time, a day or a week in Paris fulfilled our hunger for history, architecture and people watching. I think my Paris visit tally is over one dozen now. As you can imagine, with all that time there, I’ve collected some favorite places…
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Say What?! Absurd Things People Have Said to Me
Over the years, there have been things said to me that are so absurd or off-the-wall that they are filed away in the back dusty corner of my brain in the hope that one day the statements will make sense. That rarely happens so I thought I should share them here, anonymously. Perhaps it will…
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Krist Kindl – Experiment in Loving
Being filled with inner love and joy is a gift. Where is comes from is subject to much debate, but where it goes is a simple enough discussion. Sharing your love with the world is a great gift and as the holiday season envelopes us for many of the world’s religions we can consider how…
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A Valentine’s Gift for You!
As a special gift, Zulily.co.uk is offering my readers a special treat… 10% off orders over £30. Tweet
I’ve Joined Instagram
I finally joined Instagram, a web-based photo filtering and sharing vehicle. You can see my shared photos on Instagram, Twitter or Flickr. What kinds of photos do I share? You’ll see images of food I’m eating, what I’m cooking, views of Ireland and moments enjoyed with my son, LB. If you love food, babies and…
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Personal Stylist Shopping Experience
If you know me, you know I am far from a hopeless style case. My fashionable friends (I’m looking at you, Michael, Cian and Maire) approve of my outfits most of the time so I know I’m on the right track with my personal style, which is a little bit preppy casual Audrey Hepburn. Very…
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My Zulily.co.uk Post: Airport Baby Lounge in Amsterdam
If you are interested in learning how I made it through a 14-hour three-airport trip with my four-month-old son, read this blog post on Zulily.co.uk. Tweet
My Zulily.co.uk Post: Knitting a Squishy Easy Baby Blanket
I wrote down my Squishy Baby Blanket pattern and shared it in an exclusive blog post on Zulily.co.uk. Tweet
Fibre Feis 2012
Community. It’s one of those things you don’t miss until you have a really amazing, supportive one then you reflect on how you didn’t always have that richness. It’s part social life, part therapy – especially for knitters. We spin, crochet, knit, and talk. Talk about everything from fibre choices to breast feeding to the…
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Nominate EvinOK for Blog Awards Ireland
We all remember that last year Damien Mulley stepped down from the helm of Irish Blog Awards leaving a nation wondering what was in store for the blogging community in 2012. To be fair, it was his hard work and the success of the Irish Blog Awards that made this shift so disappointing. But then…
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Buttons Buttons Everywhere at The Cork Button Company
Don’t be fooled by its modest exterior, the Cork Button Company has as many buttons as you may ever need. We’ve mentioned this shop before in our Where To Buy Yarn in Cork City post, but this time it is featured all on its own because yarn is just a tiny portion of what makes this place…
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Art is in the Heart of the Creator
Art is what you make of it, but I’ll admit that I do not think of my knitting or sewing or cooking or crafts as works of art. My drawings and paintings are art, perhaps even my graphics, but somewhere between my BA in fine arts and a few years ago I forgot that art…
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A Snapshot at Retro Businesses and Products
I love my parents’ old cameras. The click, the texture, the everything! Having the pebble leather grips on the side and the movement from click to winding the shutter. Poetry. But when you’re on the go in a modern world and don’t have a mint to spend on developing, processing, and printing film, digital is…
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Manners 2.0: Where Social Media and Social Respect Meet
This post is trying to focus on the upcoming new year with a focus on self-improvement through kinder and more polite communications online. With more and more friendships having the bulk of their communications through Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace, there is a reason to wonder if common courtesy, politeness, and self-respect have carried over to…
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Boredom, Success and Apple Pie á la Mode
Last year before the whole motherhood thing happened, I felt completely worn out with a low fever so I surmised I was battling something and rested. Two days spent cuddled up under a blanket in my PJs. I knew I was feeling better when I got frustrated and bored of it. I don’t get bored….
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Luck of the Irish? And an Irish Scone Recipe
Until last month, I had never purchased a lottery ticket, played a slot machine, or placed a bet outside a race course. Then I felt lucky. It all started with my winning a giveaway from Irish Food Bloggers Association. I won a hardcover copy of SABA: The Cookbook and a voucher for a Thai cooking day in Dublin….
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The Times, Daisy Greenwell, TripAdvisor and me
The Times ran an article today written by Daisy Greenwell (if you haven’t read her articles, you’ll like them since she writes about food fairly often and in a cultural and lifestyle sense) hat discusses online reviewers and their approaches, roles, and perspectives on the process and websites themselves. Throughout this post are screenshots of portions…
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