A blog about house refurbishing, my jewellery business, everyday life and my 2 cats.
Monday 9 April 2012
Sunday 8 April 2012
www.lilyesque.com
Here are some new handmade earrings that will be available on the website next week.
Pale pink pearl and rose crystal dangle earrings.
Purple and clear crystal dangle earrings.
Pink and clear crystal with breast cancer ribbon charm.
Red and silver foil lampwork glass beads with silver heart charm.
Purple and silver foil lampwork glass beads on silver chain.
Black bead and clear crystal with silver heart charm.
Blue and silver foil lampwork glass bead with silver heart charm.
Turquoise cracked beads with silver hand made charm.
Red glass and white pearl beads with silver heart charm.
Here are some new handmade earrings that will be available on the website next week.
Tuesday 3 April 2012
OOh la la
Hello to you all and I hope you are all well. I can't believe we are at the beginning of April all ready this year is going so fast. This weather we are having is amazing for March/April.
We have recently bought and erected a greenhouse and are hoping to be able to provide most of our vegetables this summer. We have dug over the veg plots in the garden and planted potatoes, peas, beans onions, swede, broccoli, radish and spinach, and that's just outside. In the greenhouse we have tomato's, aubergines, various herbs, cucumbers, chilli's, peppers, cauliflower plus many more. I think we are going to have a different relationship with the squirrels as they do like to dig in the soil burying and uncovering their nuts. I do enjoy walking down the garden in the morning with my cup of coffee to have a look at what has made an appearance since the day before. I get more like my mum everyday :)
Our house up north is For Sale http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/QHGB9939323/ we had lots of happy years there and it is a lovely house on a very quiet cul-de-sac. At the back it overlooks a farmers field and has very pleasant views.
The bread machine is still going great and I will be making hot crossed buns this week in time for Easter, so I will let you know which recipe I use and how they turn out.
I now have added some tiepins and cuff links to www.lilyesque.com and they are going very well.
The sheep that used to live in the field next to us were taken away by the farmer a couple of weeks ago and I haven't seen them since :(
It was our 26th wedding anniversary on March 1st and we went for a meal at a restaurant called 1thirtysix on Ashford Rd http://www.1thirtysix.co.uk/ The setting is lovely, it looks like a country pub set back a little way from the road. Once inside though its a very classy restaurant that is bigger on the inside than it looks. I must say it was the best Asian meal I have had in a very long time, it was absolutely delicious. I would definitely recommend them and they do take-away too, superb!!
Whilst we were driving to the restaurant we spotted an antiques shop next to a garden centre and made a point of going the day after. the shop is great, really big with loads of stuff to browse around, we've already bought quite a few things and I can't wait to go back. The garden centre is Greenways, Ashford Rd, Ashford TN26 3LF and the shop is just off to the side.
We went on a booze run last week to Belgium, we haven't done it before but decided that we would be silly not to take advantage of living so close to the channel to nip across and stock up on some lovely wines and beers. So we booked the P&O ferry and left Dover at about 10.30am, 1.5hrs later we were in Calais. Getting on and off the ferry was very efficient and took no time, the whole thing was great, £84.00 return for the car and 2 people.
Belgium, well Bruges was very nice we had 2 days and 2 nights and I think that's enough to see everything. We stayed at Bonobo Apart Hotel, http://www.bonobo.be/. We had a lovely meal on Thursday at De Vlaamsche Pot www.devlaamschepot.be with some very nice Cabernet Sauvignon called Grandiose, delicious! Found a lovely beer pub on Wednesday afternoon called Beer Wall, there are many glass cabinets along the wall leading up to the pub with hundreds of Belgian beers in them, http://www.touristeye.com/Beer-Wall-Bruges-p-17205. I had a delicious red beer called Kriek and its a cherry flavoured at 3% so lovely for in the garden on a summers day ( a word of warning to the guys its looks a bit girly because its pinky red). We drove back on Friday morning and stopped at a place called Addinkerke for beers and then drove to Calais to a warehouse called The Calais Wine Superstore website www.calaiswine.co.uk where we got some fantastic bargains in both red and white. So looking forward to some lovely sunny weekends when my sun downers that became a regular Sunday afternoon habit, can continue again :)
That's all for now people, look forward to speaking next time x
TTFN
Mandy, www.lilyesque.com
We have recently bought and erected a greenhouse and are hoping to be able to provide most of our vegetables this summer. We have dug over the veg plots in the garden and planted potatoes, peas, beans onions, swede, broccoli, radish and spinach, and that's just outside. In the greenhouse we have tomato's, aubergines, various herbs, cucumbers, chilli's, peppers, cauliflower plus many more. I think we are going to have a different relationship with the squirrels as they do like to dig in the soil burying and uncovering their nuts. I do enjoy walking down the garden in the morning with my cup of coffee to have a look at what has made an appearance since the day before. I get more like my mum everyday :)
Our house up north is For Sale http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/QHGB9939323/ we had lots of happy years there and it is a lovely house on a very quiet cul-de-sac. At the back it overlooks a farmers field and has very pleasant views.
The bread machine is still going great and I will be making hot crossed buns this week in time for Easter, so I will let you know which recipe I use and how they turn out.
I now have added some tiepins and cuff links to www.lilyesque.com and they are going very well.
The sheep that used to live in the field next to us were taken away by the farmer a couple of weeks ago and I haven't seen them since :(
It was our 26th wedding anniversary on March 1st and we went for a meal at a restaurant called 1thirtysix on Ashford Rd http://www.1thirtysix.co.uk/ The setting is lovely, it looks like a country pub set back a little way from the road. Once inside though its a very classy restaurant that is bigger on the inside than it looks. I must say it was the best Asian meal I have had in a very long time, it was absolutely delicious. I would definitely recommend them and they do take-away too, superb!!
Whilst we were driving to the restaurant we spotted an antiques shop next to a garden centre and made a point of going the day after. the shop is great, really big with loads of stuff to browse around, we've already bought quite a few things and I can't wait to go back. The garden centre is Greenways, Ashford Rd, Ashford TN26 3LF and the shop is just off to the side.
We went on a booze run last week to Belgium, we haven't done it before but decided that we would be silly not to take advantage of living so close to the channel to nip across and stock up on some lovely wines and beers. So we booked the P&O ferry and left Dover at about 10.30am, 1.5hrs later we were in Calais. Getting on and off the ferry was very efficient and took no time, the whole thing was great, £84.00 return for the car and 2 people.
Belgium, well Bruges was very nice we had 2 days and 2 nights and I think that's enough to see everything. We stayed at Bonobo Apart Hotel, http://www.bonobo.be/. We had a lovely meal on Thursday at De Vlaamsche Pot www.devlaamschepot.be with some very nice Cabernet Sauvignon called Grandiose, delicious! Found a lovely beer pub on Wednesday afternoon called Beer Wall, there are many glass cabinets along the wall leading up to the pub with hundreds of Belgian beers in them, http://www.touristeye.com/Beer-Wall-Bruges-p-17205. I had a delicious red beer called Kriek and its a cherry flavoured at 3% so lovely for in the garden on a summers day ( a word of warning to the guys its looks a bit girly because its pinky red). We drove back on Friday morning and stopped at a place called Addinkerke for beers and then drove to Calais to a warehouse called The Calais Wine Superstore website www.calaiswine.co.uk where we got some fantastic bargains in both red and white. So looking forward to some lovely sunny weekends when my sun downers that became a regular Sunday afternoon habit, can continue again :)
That's all for now people, look forward to speaking next time x
TTFN
Mandy, www.lilyesque.com
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