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[Apr. 18th, 2007|04:51 pm] |
About the end of March something strange caught my eye when I was eating my breakfast - something was moving about in our kitchen window box, two stories off the ground. What was it? A blackbird, making a nest!
The female bird sat tight on her eggs for about 10 days, just inches from where I work. I diddn't dare take any pictures of her then in case it disturbed her into abandoning her nest. She laid 4 beautiful blue eggs.
( More cute fuzzy-butts this way )
Currently they are living in the dense bushes at the bottom of our garden. I was amazed to learn that when blackbird chicks leave the nest the cannot fly, and are still completely dependant on their parents for another week! I doubt I'll get any more pictures now as they are not so easy to get close to now, but that was one incredible nature lesson while it lasted :) |
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| It's spring!!! |
[Mar. 26th, 2007|08:05 pm] |
Leaning against a farmyard gate during a weekend stroll, we were admiring a happy pig in his mud wallow when the farmer appeared from an outbuilding and asked if we would like to see the lambs. Thinking he would just lead us to another field where his sheep would be grazing, we diddn't know what a treat we had in store!
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[Mar. 16th, 2007|12:16 pm] |
Its been a while since I've made a proper entry, so what have I been up to? I've been travveling! Check out my pics from Amsterdam!
Bikes are everywhere, I wish I'd done a whole photo essay on the cheerfullness of a city that travels by bike. People cycle about with big buckets full of kids, furniture, the weekly shopping and each other while chatting on their mobile phones and missing one another by millimetres. I never saw anything even approaching an accident though. If the first thing you can remember is being scooted along on the front of your parents bike, your sense of speed and balance must be phenomenal.
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| Winter Wonderland! |
[Feb. 8th, 2007|08:31 pm] |
Today it SNOWED!!!!! Ok, for those of you who live in naturally snowy lands this may not seem like a big deal, but here in London it certainly is. It wasn't just me who bunked off work to go sledging either, seems like the whole of north London turned out to this hill for some fun
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[Dec. 16th, 2006|03:54 pm] |
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Aaaaahrgh! Well its been an interesting month chez Liquorice-Allosaurs, the shops been pretty busy which means of course that I have been too; then a bug appeared onsite that meant some people were having problems with logging in, but that's been sorted now and after several days frantic debugging the site seems smoother than ever. I'm behind on just about everything though, and the last couple of days have been frantic. But today I relax, cook a yummy dinner and watch craptastic films on tv with my honey while eating Tofutti icecream straight from the carton. Bliss! |
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| I LOVE getting mail! |
[Nov. 23rd, 2006|04:23 pm] |
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Today I got a FABULOUS surprise, a big fat ass parcel waiting for me! What was in there? A whole bunch of goodness from my lovely friend Lindsay, aka ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kid_pirate! I know its cruel of me to just drop that one on you without sharing pics of what she sent me, but I just couldn't contain my excitement and had to tell before I got any pictures ready. I just wanted to say THANK YOU Lindsay, and expect to see pics up here pretty soon of the fabulous booty! |
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[Nov. 21st, 2006|07:53 pm] |
Liquorice Allosaurs 24 hour Flash Sale!!!
Wed 22nd November
On Wed 22nd November, everything instore will be 10% off, so hurry on over and snap up some pre Christmas bargains!!! Remember, it only lasts for 24 hours, so don't miss out!
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| Princess furball |
[Nov. 17th, 2006|07:10 pm] |
The following bundle of goodness is the lovely lady Dementia, the best cat in the world (sorry to boast, but I really love this girl
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| Busy busy busy! |
[Oct. 23rd, 2006|07:34 pm] |
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Well apologies for neglecting this journal but its been a busy couple of weeks! The shop had quite a slow start but things are starting to get moving now, and best of all I have a lot of ideas for new stuff! I love the cute but I also do the creepy cute - in fact thats my first love, so there will be some spooky stuff appearing soon - some already has for Halloween! But I kinda missed halloween because I've been working on something special - a collaboration with a very talented friend who is so creative. I'm going to be all superstitious and not tell you what it is until we've gone into production, but its something a little different that I've been wanting to do for a LONG TIME! For me to miss out on making Halloween jewellery, you have to know that this is something special!
I've also been approached by a very cool shop in Manchester that wants to stock my stuff - but I've never done consignments before so this is all new to me - I have no idea at all how to negotiate prices - ideas anyone?
Ack, I wanted to include a pic of my new flower stud earrings in this post but resizing the pics is going to have to wait till tomorrow. I'm going to cook dinner for my sweetie and read a nice book. Hope everyones well, I'm going to check out my friends page now :) |
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| Shop is Live!!! |
[Oct. 6th, 2006|02:31 pm] |
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Ahhhh! After 6 months of solid hard work, the Liquorice-allosaurs online shop has gone live! I still haven't quite got all my wares uploaded to it, but what I do have is a start. Go on, click the apple to check it out :)
So why have I been so quiet on here? Well, apart from working so hard on getting the site ready and making stuff to put in it, I also got sick with bronchitis - but I'm all better now, HURRAH! Still, I'm off to my boyfriends folks place in the country for the weekend for a long awaited break and then its back to work - and hopefully more cute things to show you sneek peeks of here. I have some Halloween goodies planned! |
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[Aug. 25th, 2006|11:04 am] |
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Hello darlings!
Its about time I had me a proper craft journal, so here it is at last! This is where you will get sneak peeks of what I'm making, what inspires me and any stuff to do with my online shop, liquorice-allosaurs
I've been busy baking this week, making cuties to go in my shop, which I hope to get online mid September.
I'm thinking of calling these necklaces "lovebite disaster'" - what do you think?
It's super busy here right now, but soon I'll be able to chill...
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