ON THE FOURTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS – WE WISHED OUR TEACHERS A MERRY AND BRIGHT CHRISTMAS As the big day nears, we find ourselves inundated with end of year and Christmas activities. I sometimes wish we lived in the northern hemisphere so that all of our end of school assemblies and dance concerts were held […]
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ON THE THIRD DAY OF CHRISTMAS – THE MAC’S WENT TO CAROLS IN THE JAPANESE GARDENS. When I was younger my nan’s Christmas treat for us was to pick my sister and I up and take us to the local park where the Churches would hold a combined carol service. We would sit with Nan on
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ON THE SECOND DAY OF CHRISTMAS – THE MAC’S MADE THE MOST AMAZING CHRISTMAS TREAT! Ok, well maybe not the most amazing, but it is my absolute favourite Christmas treat. We only make it at Christmas because I single handedly eat 95% of these and if I had them all the
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The 12 days of Christmas is a collection of stories and traditions and fun things that we do in Casa da Mac in the lead up to Christmas. ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS – THE MAC’S MANAGED TO PUT UP THEIR TREE…. When we lived in Scotland putting up the tree
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So last week I was writing you about the Twelve days of Christmas – a twelve day series of emails about how we at Casa De Mac honour our traditions and have fun during the festy season. And this year when I was thinking of the traditions I wanted to keep, the ones I wanted
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INVITE SOME WHIMSY INTO YOUR CHRISTMAS Christmas to me since I have become an adult and since I became a parent seems to be more about commercialism and how many presents we can fit under the tree, than about fun or magic or even thoughtfulness. I have felt indifferent, hugely cynical and generally grinch like
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If you are a LilliBean facebook or insta follower you will have seen my struggles to capture the Harry Potter gang in paint. In theory they should be fairly simple to do – Bean adores Harry Potter so I have read all the books and seen the movies several times but I think I have
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THE 52 DAY PROJECT OCTOBER REVEAL I have had such a wonderful response to the first 52 DAY Project reveal last month! It has been amazing to hear people response to the paintings, and the meanings behind them. And I can’t wait to hear what you think of this months reveals! This month I want
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Today I have some new LilliBean Mini’s to share with you! If you are new to the LilliBean Studio, Mini’s are a limited collection of paintings that are small (and medium) in size and price. I believe that art should be accessible to everyone, from the kid saving their pocket money to the brand new
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