Martha my muse

Hello!
A couple of weeks ago my two buddies kathryn and Martha came round to our house for a little photo shoot. Kathryn asked me to style the photos so I picked out a few things and let Kathryn and Martha do their thing, she's a natural in front of the camera so she made my job easy. Kathryn's photographs are always beautiful and with Martha such a cutie I'm always excited to see her new pictures. Here are a few from our photo shoot in the garden but pop over to Martha My Muse to see them all.

Have a lovely Sunday everyone! Especially Deborah have a lovely birthday xx

Elf

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I got a bit confused with my Halloween costume this year, usually I go for something scary but I seemed to get my holidays mixed up and went for something Christmassy rather than Halloweeny. The Elf ears I bought from Accessorize, with the intention of dressing up as a fairy but then I realised it would be difficult trying to squish wings into hand luggage, the other option would have been to wear wings on the flight...maybe not.
I fashioned a little hat out of a piece of felt and made myself a little collar. The gorgeous green vintage dress I chopped up and made into my Elf costume for I bought for £7 from a charity shop and I was able to use the off cuts to sew up some arm and leg covers. I love to dress up, any excuse to put on a costume and with Christmas only around the corner I'm thinking I'll get the wear out of this wee costume again very soon, maybe with some red tights and a sprig of holly in the hat! I could wear it to our work Christmas night out or the Christmas family party, can't wait!

This picture was taken the afternoon I flew to England at this stage I hadn't packed but thought I'd try out the hat, ears etc, only to find the lip tint I used on my checks stained the pink circles on! Note to self, pack first, worry about costume after! Realised I've no pics of me in full elf regalia but I'll be Christmas Elf soon and I'll take more pictures then.
I'm away for the week with work dressing the windows for Christmas a little tour round Ireland.

Have a lovely week everyone! xx

Life is full of surprises

Hello!
I got a nice surprise last week when I bought the new Homemaker magazine! A lovely little write up on my blog, All delighted! Thanks for reading!

And another lovely surprise, on arriving home from England last Sunday the big lad told me to close my eyes and put my hands out....a lovely bunch of yellow roses

Thankyou! xx
Have a lovely Saturday everyone

Belfast Day of The Dead

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It's been a busy week, there hasn't been a spare minute since I got back from visiting my family in England, it was great fun! I hope you all had a fun Halloween. I love dressing up and last Saturday night we went on a creepy ghost train through the woods, niece Susie was a vampiress, nephew Paddy a vampire, me an elf, sister and brother in law didn't dress up (they didn't need to, scary enough) The teddy bears normally having their picnics were wearing masks, bushes were shaking, full moon was beaming, gouls and witches cackling, pouring rain, Terrifying! Then the train stopped midway, we got out danced to a crazy song about a dancing witch and The Locomotion  then it was back on the train....very random! Photos coming soon...
Another excuse to dress up this weekend! Yeah!! Belfast Day of The Dead

.Tonight I'll be mostly chillin' with my homies Mary and the big lad, watching episodes of Breaking Bad (AMAZING, highly recommend watching this) I was planning to cook but so far since getting home from work, I haven't even taken my coat off...I think we'll be phoning for a pizza.
Have a lovely night everyone xxx

A change of art and hairdoo

Hello,
How goes it? I'm so far enjoying my week off. In the morning my friend and I had a little photo shoot in the garden, I can't wait to show you her beautiful pictures, then I went for a much needed hair cut. I think the hair cut inspired the changes and I rushed home, with the big lad safely at work I could  happily move stuff around for hours, arranging and rearranging little displays, deciding on the right place for pictures and bits and bobs. We've got so many holes in our walls now! Ahhh!

Love my haircut Thanks Andrew!

Our Living room wall before, it's like a gallery of my own paintings, time for a change....

All my favourite vintage finds and the lovely new nudey gals

One of my favourite paintings. The story behind this painting is funny, but the friend in the painting tragically was knocked down and died. I painted this when I was about 19, inspired after the very strange events of one Sunday afternoon.....those in the know ( you know who you are will never forget this day I'm sure!)

A lovely present from Bob, who is coming home in less than 2 weeks!! Wey Hey!!!

I'm off to England tomorrow for fun times with my family! Yippeee

Enjoy the rest of your week everyone xx

If you've got it flaunt it

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Picked up these two beautiful vintage ladies baring all, from the Fab Nik Naks, which since our last visit has EVEN more junk/treasures. We hit Nik Naks on the way to the seaside on the hunt for vintage pictures to transform, I came up trumps with these two and the big lad fancied a floral deck chair for summer lounging, I tries my best to do a deal, giving it the old "I'll promote Nik Naks on my blog" blah blah blah but the guy was having none of it!

Nik Naks near Carryduff, tell them I sent you!

 I made her a bra, it was getting a  little nippy. Just need to decide where to hang these gals now

Alan Partridge Style Flashback

Hello!
Halloween's just around the corner! EXCITED!! I have elements of my costume organised but they need a bit of work, more on that later in the week....
I thought I'd share one of my all time favorite costumes, here I am or should I say Alan, from his flashback scene. Just a young pup in this photo, 21 years old, phoning our taxi to head out for the Art College Halloween party. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I chose this costume! I'm choosing a much more respectable costume this year, don't want to frighten anyone!

Terrifying!