The best laid plans of mice and men…

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We might have underestimated the impact that half term would have on our trip! We headed to south ken on the thursday after we arrived, we were aiming for the v and a, but all the museums are on the same road… They were queuing round the block for the science museum!

So we rethought our visit, and we’re going to go back during school time to do the museums.

We went to Covent garden on Friday. Covent garden is one of my favourite places in the world. It’s like a gorgeous little town, with at least 3 bead shops! And we went in each one!

I was quite restrained. I didn’t spend too much in any of them, but 3 shops is still quite a lot! Dave was very tolerant too. Bless him! We then made our way to Denmark street so dave could look at his beady equivalent! Music shops .

We also visited hamley’s. It was crazy busy! Possibly even worse than the museums. I did get to ogle at bears though. We gave the comedy club a miss as well. We were both so so tired and our hotel was a fair way out of the city, so we just chilled out there.

I rounded the trip off with a massage on Saturday morning which was lovely!! I felt so chilled out afterwards.

And here we are, it’s Tuesday and I’m heading back on the train to London. This time for work, and I might even fit in a little trip to covent Garden again 

Big city blogging!

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I love the iPhone wordpress app. I can write this blog from the car on our way to London. In case I didn’t mention it enough, it’d my birthday in January, and my lovely Dave really spoiled me, part of that spoiling included this trip. We’re heading to London, staying in wembley and doing the tourist thing. We’re going to do the v and a, there is a jewellery exhibition I want to visit. The science museum, the beatles coffee shop and a comedy night.

I love London. It really excites me! I’m not sure I could live their fulltime, but I do think the city is a wonderful place 

I spent some time recently at our group headquarters recently. Its near the gherkin, which I’ve never seen up close until that last visit. It’s a pretty spectacular building, but I think more impressive when you can see the whole thing. Or at least the shape.

So, we’re off and I’m really looking forward to it! Look for more blogs with a nodnol theme!

A little bit of link lovin’!

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I wanted to share a little bit of link love this evening.

Firstly, a beautiful blog I’ve discovered through twitter (I think one of my friends tweeted a competion and I followed in order to enter the competition.) all about retro/vintage fashion, it satisfies my inner girlie!  I give you http://www.retrochick.co.uk/

Secondly, please welcome my baby sis to the world of blogging  http://www.sammisibley.com/

So there you go, a little bit of monday linkage!

Love is in the air

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We are nearing that hallmark day, the day of st valentine. And I feel I need to confess!

I am fully of the opinion that romance and love and declarations of either should NOT be confined to a single day. I think the day is hugely overrated and i agree that it is highly commercialised etc etc.

Now the confession part. If dave were to forget valentines day, I’d be angry, hurt and upset! He is very aware of this irrational facet of my otherwise sane and serene personality! (please insert winking emoticon here!)

We have the added pressure of our birthdays being close together and also to valentines day. So we don’t go mad or anything. It is at times like this I wish I could make something beautiful for dave, as it is, I’m not sure heart shaped earrings are really his thing!!

So, how do you celebrate this pink and red day? Do you have that same irrationality as me?

Also, if anyone has any ideas of unique ways of showing someone you love them plead comment away!!

Stuff amd nonsense

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Thanks for the feedback on my jewellery 🙂 I get so much out of making it.

It was my birthday on Monday and I got some really beautiful beads from my work mates, as well as a voucher for my favourite bead shop in Norwich. That quickly got spent 🙂

I’ve got another blogging stint lined up thanks to a friend of mine. I’m going to be reviewing books for a site called bookcrawler. There are various sites in the “family” as far as I understand they are comparison sites, the most used one is gamecrawler. So I’ll be urging you all to go along there at some point!

Erm.. I’m going to make a pair of earrings as a blog giveaway this weekend, so if anyone has ever run one please let me know so I can pick your brains!!

Quotes

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This blogging thing gets a bit addictive after a while doesn’t it? Well, at least until you run out of stuff to say!

I’m trying to think of some kind of theme for my blogging. I’m sure you guys don’t want to constantly read about my day to day life! I’d like to put some regular posts up about my jewellery making, and hopefully some pictures too. I might even run a giveaway at some point. Maybe after I’ve made sarah’s red sparkly necklace I’ll do a blog giveaway on the next piece I fuse.

Any suggestions of things to blog about? Being “in social media” I feel I should have a list of things to talk about, but sadly, im lacking that.

Recently at work we had to change our email signatures, to bring them on brand. But one of the things I miss is my little quotes. I used to find inspirational sayings and quotes and have them as part of my email signature. I even had a few comments about them. I think the one that got the most comment was one of the Obama ones. I think it was the one about hope. I’ll have to dig it out. I’ve also kind of become a bit of a quote collector, at one point I even started a book, just somewhere to put the ones that really inspired me. That fell by the wayside. And people share quotes with me. My boss came into work one day and said the girl behind the desk at his hotel (he spends part of the week here, but lives in another part of the country) printed out a quote for him most stays

Crafty girl

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So this last Christmas my lovely dave got me a glass fusing kit. Since I’ve been making jewellery one of the things I’ve really wanted to do is make my own beads. This doesn’t quite do that, but it is a great starting point and this weekend we had a go…

I’ve made my very own pendant, and it is beautiful! I’m really pleased with it, and once I get the hang if it properly it’s going to take my jewellery making to a whole new level! I’m so excited and very grateful to my lovely dave.

It’s all done in the microwave and is really quite clever. The fusing itself doesn’t take long, thr most time consuming bit is waiting for it to anneal, it’s like cooking yorkshire puddings, you mustn’t open the door during that process!

And now, the reveal! Somewhere in this blog entry should be a picture of my first pendant!