..master of none but having fun trying!
This is a quick update on how I'm progressing with my plans for the Festival of Thrift's Oxglam Fashion Show. I am planning a Spring and Winter outfit based on the items I was able to grab during my first visit. First, I do apologise for my sketches - not my forte! But hopefully giving …
Continue reading Oxglam – progress update – refining my plans
It's been a while since I've posted - juggling the different balls of raising feral boys, getting involved in village life, doing my bean counting day job and trying to fit in some extra curricular play on my various "trades" - writing about it all took a back seat. One of the things I'll be …
Continue reading Smashing my comfort zone again with the Festival of Thrift – Part 1
It's Gumtrees' National Up-Cycle Week this week and they are running a competition to win a holiday for two to Vienna (love a competition!) So I have used this as an opportunity to push myself to get a couple of my project list items out of the way. I had seen up-cycled jewellery frames while …
Continue reading #National Upcycle Week! – Jewellery Display Frame Up-cycle
Have you got a top or jumper that's just a bit blah? Something you bought thinking "it'll do" but it doesn't really? This sweatshirt is one of those purchases. A sale purchase that I reasoned would be useful to wear on days with the boys because, lets face it, we don't wear our best stuff …
So after making elderflower cordial a few days ago, someone asked what I did with all* of it. I reeled off - drink it, make elderflower jelly & add to prosecco. "What about adding to gin?" was the question. But to me that would overly sweeten something which does need to have a "bite". It …
Making Elderflower cordial brings out my inner Barbara Good and gives me nostalgic warm and fuzzies (just me?) During May & into early June I keep a look out for the first signs of the flowers opening. There will be nothing one day and then seemingly overnight the hedgerows are full of their big frothy heads. Typically, …
This is the last of my current posts for the Alan Paine Blog: As with anything you’ve been looking forward to, when the big day arrives it all goes too quickly. Saturday started with the familiar butterfly nerves, getting ready with one eye on all the #NLSD2017 messages flowing through on social media (jealous to …
Continue reading National Ladies Shooting Day 2017 – it’s all about the cake really!
June – you need to have a word with yourself, where has summer gone? This time last week I was worrying over whether it would be too hot to wear my new Aylsham gilet for National Ladies Shooting day on Saturday 10 June. Now it’s more a case of what will keep me dry while …
This blog post is my fourth for the Alan Paine Blog: “Sun’s out, gun’s out” so they say all over Instagram (usually when I can’t get out myself ☹). This week it has been shining on me: by actually shining (extraordinary for a school holiday), having a willing (and free) babysitter in my wonderful mum …
This is the third of my Alan Paine Blog posts: After a frustrating practise where I couldn't hit a barn door, on Wednesday afternoon I met up with one of the Thimbleby instructors for a much-needed lesson. Adrian's theory was I had either picked up some bad habits or had gun fit issues (or both). …
We are very lucky to live on the edge of the North Yorkshire moors. Throughout the year the view is pretty good but come August, the moors really come alive in a riot of purple as the heather flowers. This has a strong influence on my husbands idea of home decorating - with a running joke he'll have something in …
My first “Away” league match was this Wednesday at the Duke of Wellington Shooting Club. Feeling a little apprehensive at shooting somewhere completely new, I decided to go for a quick practise before school pick up. This was both a good and bad idea. Good in that I felt much better on some of the …
Continue reading I hit the Bumblebee! (but still have a long way to go…)
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I'm a City girl by profession, country girl by passion. Lover of the outdoors, labradors and ferrets. Partial to the odd gin, fizz and game shoot. Here to share my city/country life and inspire with shooting knowledge and titbits for my fellow ladyguns. BASC member.
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