Flickr Fun

If you're bored or have loads of time on your hands, or if you're just plain procrastinating and want to avoid your mile-long-list of things-to-do, have some fun with Flickr, and make a mosaic to describe you!


1. Jo Anne's School of Dance, 2. Sushi, 3. The Steeple, 4. My Fugitive Fish!, 5. Salve, sono Hugh Laurie!, 6. Cookie Splash II, 7. Chimères de Notre Dame, 8. Lemon Sorbet Diptych, 9. Love is in the air, 10. Valentine05, 11. Calm photographer's agitated mind, 12. Magpie in the moonlight

Created with Big Huge Labs Mosaic Maker

The method:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into the Mosaic Maker.

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your Flickr name (if you don't have a Flickr account, use your blog name)

My answers, in case you can't work them out, were Jo-Anne, Sushi, Fairmont, Duck Egg Blue, Hugh Laurie, Coffee, Paris, Lemon Sorbet, Content, My Kids, Creative, Magpie Jo.

Happy Valentine's Day!

The ideas for holiday card photos on Two Peas are amazing. I love how we all share our thoughts and ideas, and all put our own stamp on it. I can't take credit for this idea, but I love how the pictures turned out and the suckers fitted in perfectly once we'd made the cards!

Liam had two versions - one for the boys and one for the girls - and Holly just made the one for (mostly) girl friends and teachers. I cleaned the Old Sweet Shop in Godalming out on whirly pops, so we used the old fashioned raspberry lollipops for a few. All the teachers got them, and they were chuffed because they all said they hadn't had one of those for years!

I hope you have a lovely Valentine's Day, and mom and dad, Happy Anniversary - you know I hold your marriage and relationship in the highest regard, I hope you continue to have many wonderful years together.

Cupcake, Anyone?

We're hosting a coffee afternoon for the Reception Year mums at school this afternoon. It's good to get together every now and then to meet your kid's friends' parents properly. Liam has been begging to have one particular friend after school, but I can't even tell you what his mum looks like, so hopefully I get to meet her today and arrange something for Liam! I baked these Devil's Food cupcakes, piped pale blue icing and used some pastel blue glitter! Don't they look pretty?

And this tea towel is one Mercedes sent me at Christmas time, I just never blogged about her wonderful surprise parcel back then and I'm playing catch up now! I'll be using it to serve the cakes on ;-) She also sent me the most exquisite little quilt for the dollhouse, so now that Carol has shown how cute her little bed is, I'm going to try making one too, and then I'll show you the quilt in place on the bed.
The kids went off with their Valentine's cards this morning, I can't wait to show you how cute they turned out. Pop back on Sunday to see ;-)

Bedroom Paper

This is the bedroom so far. I've used my Antique Pine varnish on the floor, and a pretty pink floral paper on the wall. The skirting is not stuck down yet so excuse the big gaps between it and the floor. Now, I've reached another dilemma. What do I do with the ceilings? Paper? Paint? Paper and paint? I need to hide the wire of the lights, and the wood isn't smooth so I'm guessing a lining paper and then paint it white. Can you paint lining paper or will it warp? I guess there's only one way to find out!

I Got Wire!

I had to laugh, in my previous post I neglected to say that the wire I needed was for my dollhouse. So when my sister read my post, she thought I was going mad, after all, her husband is an electrical contractor, why don't I just ask him for the wire? LOL!

I had a few offers of wire, but none that would have done the trick. I love Ebay's function of "Sorry, you didn't win this item, find something similar". It came up with a roll of wire for £3.90 including postage, but it was called cable, not wire, which was why I didn't find it on my first search. So, the Arthur is all wired up, and ready for wallpaper upstairs.

When I was buying my lights, I looked at a porch light and hummed and hawed about buying one. In the end, I decided not to get one, as I didn't know if the porch was big enough for one. But now, having had an email from Mercedes where she said how the houses with porch lights really stand out, I'm beginning to think I should get one. I can still run the wire through the kitchen, if I leave papering it til last.

But, what colour do I do the floors upstairs? I thought of painting the bathroom floor either whitewashed, or the same stone colour as the exterior. It's getting blue and white stripe wallpaper. The bedroom is getting white wallpaper with a delicate pink floral pattern. What colour do I do it's floors?