ON THE SIXTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS – WE GO HUNTING FOR THE BEST LIGHT DISPLAY I remember when I was little we were having Christmas with my Grandparents in Newcastle and one evening we all pilled into the car and headed to a suburb about half and hour away from their house. You see there […]
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ON THE FIFTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS – WE MADE HAND MADE GIFTS (PART I) Every year I try (emphasis on try!) to make a hand made gift. Some years it they have been more extravagant than others. In fact one year we decided to do a fully hand made Christmas. And while this was a
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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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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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The other month, I had a client ask me what original paintings I had available for sale and where she could find them. And I couldn’t give her an easy answer. And as I explained to her where she could find the, it felt too cumbersome to ask her to trawl through my shopify site,
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half-done adjective 1. unfinished or only partly completed. “the job is now half-done” THE DREAMCATCHER For as long as I can remember I have been a vivid dreamer. For me this means I am immersed into intense dreams that are full colour and steeped in story almost every night. Some nights I feel I have
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