Clinique Review

I have been using my Clinique goodies for 2 weeks now so I thought I would write a piece about how I feel about each of the products I have used.

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Comfort Cleansing Cream; This is great removes makeup easily and leaves my skin feeling really soft, almost as if it has been moisturised.

Youth Surge Night Cream; This is really thick and luxuriant, it feels so lovely as you apply it, I am feeling the benefits on my skin too, it feels much smoother.

100 Happy Days, Day 11, My Garden is Growing

Today I am putting a picture of part of my garden. When choosing plants and flowers we seem to have used hardly any evergreens. As a result in the winter the garden just dies back.

 We really need to think hard and choose some plants and bushes that have colour all year round, so our garden does not look so drab and sad in the winter. It is now starting to come back to life and we can see signs of growth. Hopefully by the end of my 100 Days I should get a picture of it in its full glory.

Signs of life in the Garden

Jacks Magical Birthday Cakes

On Jacks Birthday this year I decided to make him cup cakes that were related to magic, he loves card tricks and spends hours practicing them. He is actually very good at it now.
















I decided to make the cakes look like little playing cards it was quite tricky, I bought the cutters to make the shapes of the clubs, hearts, diamonds, and spades. I sprinkled edible glitter on the sugar paste the before rolling out to get the sparkle effect. I am pleased with how they turned out, and Jack was thrilled with them.

Map of the Day, Coping with lunch time injections.

I had to think of a way  to make dealing with diabetes at lunch time fun! Not easy to make being different, and administering an injection fun but there had to be a way.

Then I came up with map of the day, every day I put a little note in with Jacks packed lunch to tell him how many grams of carbohydrates are in his lunch. He can then put this data into his Aviva Expert Glucose Monitor to analyze his blood sugars and ratios to give him the correct prescription of insulin to administer.

Mini Map of the UK

100 Happy Days, Day 10

I know this is a glass of wine but my 100 days happy is my Wonderful Husband Chris, I woke up in a foul mood and it has stayed with me all day like a cloud.  I am generally a very happy, enthusiastic glass half full type of a person but today I feel like the glass is smashed!

I have always suffered with bad PMT generally for 2 days a month, but during these days I feel a bit like I am on a knife's edge. If you told me my hair looked great, I would take it as a sarcastic remark. Don't get me wrong I am not mean or anything more like a bear with a sore head. Why does it affect some of us ladies like this, it is so annoying grrrr.

Chris is wonderful he backs off and leaves me to it,  rather than irritate me, I suppose experience has taught him not to over the years.  Tonight he made me a nice glass of wine, made dinner and lit the fire ready for me to chill. Thanks Chris xx

The Sheep Skull Saga

Last week on my Sunday afternoon walk through the fields with Toby, I came across a sheep skeleton. The poor animal must have perished in the recent bad weather. As I walked towards it a fox ran away, on closer inspection the bones had been completely stripped of all muscle, meat etc.  I had not been able to take this route for some months due to the terrible rain we had suffered with, the fields had been far to boggy to walk through.

When I arrived home I made the huge mistake of telling Joe what I had seen, his little face lit up. He had been learning about skeletons at school and it seemed it would fulfil a dream; obtaining his very own animal skull. So being a total mug I agreed to take him back to the location of the skull so he could retrieve it to keep. I know I must be mad but I agreed, isn’t this what little boys adventures were made of and who am I to stand in the way of that.

Joe,s Sheep Skull

Off we set wearing gloves and armed with plastic bags to retrieve the skull, Joe was soooo excited almost beside him-self with excitement. When we found the skull I felt a responsibility to say a prayer for the sheep, Joe was looking at me as if I had completely lost it, but I was about to boil this poor animals skull the least I could do was say a few words of respect. A bit of a mini funeral! What must I have looked like in my hat, gloves and waving a Tesco carrier bag saying a little prayer for a sheep skeleton?

Unlce Stephen 666

Ha Ha tonight we were sat with the boys reading the mail online , there was an article about a member of staff at Starbucks putting 666 on a customers coffee, I casually said oh uncle Stephen has that behind his ear. Chris said oh yes he does, Joe said is it a tattoo, I said no a birthmark, Jack accepted that, Joe said can I get a pen and draw it behind my ear(Joe hero worships uncle Stephen)

Me and 666 Stephen

Day 9, 100 Happy Days, Mr Blue Sky

For day 9 it has to be the warm sun and blue sky. It has been the first day I have I haven't needed to wear a coat this year. Here's to many more.

Sheila's Summer House

My Mother and Father in law have recently created themselves a garden room/summer house. It is so beautiful that I just had to put some images on.

They had a summerhouse built and were left with a blank wooden canvas, which they decided to plaster board and white wash. They wanted to go for a beach hut style so stuck to neutral colours with pastel blue and green for accents. 

The whole family got involved buying them gifts to furnish it, my brother in law took some beach scene photos and had them put onto canvas and Sheila and Peter bought furniture that was comfortable to enable them to spend lots of time in there. They are keen gardeners so will get many hours of pleasure sat surveying all their hard work in the summer house and over their beautiful garden with the wonderful views as a backdrop.