tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65111196034692465242023-11-16T10:26:29.863+00:00QueenieDotQueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-83539615556815557392014-06-09T11:41:00.001+01:002014-06-09T11:41:34.169+01:00Sunday snippets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's been a lovely week of bright, bright sunshine interspersed with great big plops of rain. That's what makes Britain Britain! </span></span>QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-70370442780273824352014-06-02T11:03:00.003+01:002014-06-02T11:03:51.853+01:00Sunday snippets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">~ I'm loving the longer, warmer evenings and enjoying a quick half pint in a pub beer garden after work every now and then</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">~ The first bike ride of the year - it felt good to blow away some cobwebs</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">~ The annual ritual of making elderflower cordial has begun! It was a bumper crop this year which should see us through the year</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">~ THIS cake! I made it for my Sister's birthday from a recipe on Pinterest. A hazelnut cake with a nutella filling to die for! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">~ An early morning dog walk by the river</span></span>QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-68651062822059955992014-05-28T12:32:00.002+01:002014-05-28T12:33:36.864+01:00Personalised papercuts<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Remember my <a href="http://queeniedot.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/a-small-break-and-some-new-liberty.html" target="_blank">Liberty fabric backed papercuts</a> I posted about a few weeks ago? Well I was contacted a little while ago by a lovely lady that is getting married this summer and wanted to commission me to make some personalised papercuts for her to gift to her three bridesmaids. What a lovely idea eh?! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's got my mind whirring with new ideas... bride and groom names, children's names to hang in a nursery... watch this space! I love working on commissions and knowing that my papercuts are a little part of someone's special day!</span></span><br />
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<br />QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-6843110548688461102014-05-27T11:23:00.001+01:002014-05-27T11:23:54.041+01:00Little signs<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sadly, we lost my lovely Nana two weeks ago and said our final goodbyes to her on Thursday last week. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">She lived a very full life of 95 years, was a remarkably strong and loving woman and I loved her dearly. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">One of the things I will always remember about her was her love of roses. Her garden was always full of them and during summer visits to her we would always leave with a bunch of beautifully scented homegrown blooms to take home with us. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">She would have loved her send off on Thursday. Plenty of sunshine, a room full of those she loved most, our memories of her being discussed with smiles on our faces and warmth in our hearts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When we arrived home late afternoon, I took a stroll round our little garden and noticed that the first bud on our climbing rose had bloomed that day! It's the little signs that remind us our loved ones are forever in our hearts. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">~ Planting up some free Wahaca chilli seeds. Grow little ones! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">~ Carnations still going strong after three weeks. They are so under rated and I love that for a few pounds you can fill several vases for many weeks! </span></span><br />
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<br />QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-80278643805159496602014-05-09T15:40:00.000+01:002014-05-09T15:40:16.185+01:00Books lately<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I don't think you could find three more different books than my most recent three reads! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Birds-Still-Sing-Hell/dp/1782192271/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top" target="_blank">Do the birds still sing in hell</a> is the remarkable true story of Horace Greasley who escaped a Polish prisoner of war camp during World War 2 over two hundred times to see his sweetheart. Very rude and crass in places, so not for the easily offended, but an amazing story of triumph over adversity in the most horrific of times. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-Tree-Yard-Louise-Doughty/dp/0571278647/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1399645703&sr=1-1&keywords=apple+tree+yard" target="_blank">Apple tree yard</a> had me gripped throughout. I loved the way little seeds of information were planted in every chapter, keeping you guessing throughout. It wasn't until after I finished the book that I realised I didn't particularly like any of the characters but it didn't really seem to matter! </span></span><br />
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<br />QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-39221558718076353452014-04-30T14:49:00.001+01:002014-04-30T14:50:08.065+01:00A small break and some new Liberty print papercuts<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well hello there.... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Deary me, it's been a while! If you follow me on <a href="http://instagram.com/queeniedot#" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, you will see me pop up regularly on there but this little corner of the internet has been sadly neglected of late. </span></span><br />
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<br />QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-12303629936371988072013-08-30T12:09:00.001+01:002013-08-30T12:10:09.002+01:00Ripple ta-dah!<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Do you remember the miserable cold dark days of February, when it felt like winter was going to last forever and I started a mammoth ripple blanket to keep us warm on winter nights...? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well, it's been a while since those days and the weather couldn't have been more different lately! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I rippled away during the last days of winter and merrily into spring and then when the sunny days arrived, I put my blanket to one side for fear of overheating under the weight of the thing! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well, it's been a little bit cooler of an evening lately, enough for me to pick up my blanket once more, finish off the last few stripes and weave in all those ends and now it is finally finished! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's a bit colourful to say the least but my main intention was to use up lots of odds and ends. I usually stick to a much smaller, more neutral colour palette so actually it's been lovely to go with the flow and use colours I wouldn't usually choose together!</span></span><br />
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QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-30929922823801558022013-08-14T11:24:00.000+01:002013-08-14T11:25:15.885+01:00Love is in the air<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Lately, I've been working on some lovely wedding papercuts. It's definitely wedding season and who doesn't love a good wedding?! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Never one to need an excuse to celebrate all things romantic, I was inspired to design a new papercut that I hope you all like. Each letter is made up of little tendrils of foliage, each leaf measuring about 2mm so it's quite a delicate piece. </span><br />
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<br />QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-38785308691406099922013-07-02T15:10:00.000+01:002013-07-02T15:10:01.200+01:00Weddings, weddings, weddings! <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Just checking in to tell you about a lovely blog I have recently discovered - <a href="http://beckabonce.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">BeckaBonce</a></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Each week Rebecca features a themed collection of lovely handmade items around the webosphere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This week the theme is '<a href="http://beckabonce.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/beckabonce-loves-weddings.html" target="_blank">Weddings</a>' and you may just spot a little something from yours truly in the collection....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Previous weeks have included foxes, tea and stripey items and there's always bound to be something included that gives you a bad case of the havetohaves!</span><br />
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<br />QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-76683000085997261542013-06-28T16:37:00.000+01:002013-06-28T16:37:58.466+01:00Save the bees!<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All future orders will include a little something extra... for our little buzzy friends! </span></span><br />
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<br />QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-71211212157917259912013-06-24T20:58:00.003+01:002013-06-24T20:58:43.003+01:00Adventures in cordial making<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The elderflowers are on the trees for such a short time, about three weeks in total, and as a lovely friend of mine has an Elder tree at the bottom of her garden, we decided to take advantage and try our hands at making elderflower cordial. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The process is as easy as pie and so satisfying; we're already talking of it becoming an annual tradition! If you fancy having a go (and I thoroughly recommend you do!), here's how we did it.... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Firstly, using slightly wonky scaffolding, we picked around seventy heads of flowers. They had a good wash to remove any bugs or debris and placed into a very large pan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In a separate pan, we disolved two kilos of sugar (yes, poor teeth!) to three litres of boiling water and poured it over the elderflower / lemon mix along with 100g citric acid (available from lots of online shops), covered it with a lid and left it overnight. The smell when the hot water hits the elderflower and lemons is wonderful! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I forgot to take any photos the next day but it was very simply a case of removing all of the lemon pieces and large elderflower stalks from the water, then straining the remaining mix through muslin into a large jug to be poured into sterilised bottles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's been such a perfect week weather-wise up until today. Today is a day for snuggling up with hot chocolate and a good book! What Sundays were invented for! </span><br />
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QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-54861718211650303662013-06-05T13:18:00.001+01:002013-06-05T13:18:58.277+01:00Vintage cameras<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A new papercut just up in my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/queeniedot" target="_blank">Etsy shop</a>, inspired by my ever growing collection of them!</span></span><br />
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<br />QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-87873483695918576082013-06-04T17:20:00.002+01:002013-06-09T18:03:36.031+01:00Summer garden party<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All this beautiful summer weather had me all inspired to create an <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/queeniedot" target="_blank">Etsy</a> treasury today. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There were sixteen of us in the class and we arrived at 10am for tea and coffee before being introduced to Nick the baker. He told us all about the history of bakers within his family. He comes from a long line of master bakers so it most certainly runs in his blood. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As total novices we were a little worried about how they would turn out and were amazed when they appeared from the oven twenty minutes later looking like pretty professional loaves! </span><br />
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<br />QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-44990495590761427842013-05-12T16:58:00.003+01:002013-05-12T16:58:57.935+01:00Home sweet home<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I hope you're all having a good weekend, whatever you're up to. This weekend I've been working on a new Home Sweet Home papercut for the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/queeniedot" target="_blank">shop</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If those poor dinosaurs only had access to a local library, things may be very different around here these days<span style="font-size: small;">....</span></span></span>QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-15174302259412175072013-04-28T13:29:00.000+01:002013-04-28T13:33:45.847+01:00The cure for anything is salt water...<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We have just returned from a holiday on the Kent coast. It was a week of blissful weather, our patient wait for the cold and snow to disappear was rewarded with blue skies and warmed skin for the first time in a long long time! There's nowhere quite like the <span style="font-size: small;">Great British <span style="font-size: small;">seaside when it's <span style="font-size: small;">sunny! </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jo x</span>QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-57969015831637237252013-04-16T14:45:00.000+01:002013-04-16T14:48:00.201+01:00A storage tin makeover<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I realised that I was in much need of some storage tins for crafty bits and bobs so decided on a little DIY effort to prettify some regular food tins. This idea is by no means original, I cannot take an ounce of credit for it; I have seen it on a few blogs and all over Pinterest, but it's a simple and effective way of brightening up some otherwise rather boring objects. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's a speedy little project (right up my street!) but so effective, don't you think! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Take some empty, clean food tins. See how sad and in need of a makeover they are, poor things... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Choose</span> some pretty paper. I picked this up in Paperchase a few weeks ago. Fabric would work pretty well too. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Measure the height of your tin. If it has a lip on it, measure just under it. Measure around the tin, adding approximately 1cm extra as an overlap</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Add a few lengths of double sided sticky tape to the can at regular intervals</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Carefully wrap the paper round the can, making sure you keep it straight all the way round. Secure the overlap with a strip of double sided tape and ta-dah, one prettified tin! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then ta-dah, ta-dah and ta-dah - four finished tins! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's thoroughly addictive, be warned! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jo </span>xx</span></span>QueenieDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879538056183431313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511119603469246524.post-37282769351025762082013-04-07T21:49:00.002+01:002013-04-07T21:56:08.752+01:00It's here... ssshhh, don't scare it away... <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can you feel it in the gentle warmth? Can you hear it in the happy birdsong? Can you smell it in freshly mown grass? Spring is here, lovely people! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We braved the long winter and were rewarded today by a beautiful Spring day where anything felt possible. Even if this day was the <span style="font-size: small;">only </span>one of its kind we have for a little while, it has given me the welcome boost and warm bones I needed!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This week, I decided to sew up a couple of little bunnies for my Niece and Nephew to go with their Easter eggs. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">cut out all the parts and made some little pompoms.... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I used <a href="http://www.molliemakes.com/projects/how-to-make-tiny-pom-poms/" target="_blank">this </a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.molliemakes.com/projects/how-to-make-tiny-pom-poms/" target="_blank">technique</a> for the fi<span style="font-size: small;">rst time (I'm us<span style="font-size: small;">ually a<span style="font-size: small;"> cardboard c<span style="font-size: small;">i</span>rcle <span style="font-size: small;">kind of girl<span style="font-size: small;">) but this worked really well)...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I know the chocolate eggs won't last very long but hopefully they will enjoy the rabbits for a little longer! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Happy Easter, Jo x</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">...and finishing off the weekend with <span style="font-size: small;">M</span>r Magorium's wonder emporium on ITV2! Love that film! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hope you've all had a good week </span></span><br />
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