Pick a card, any card

It's only taken me five or six years to do what everyone else does within five or minutes, but I've finally gotten myself some mini MOO cards. 

Fifteen different ones to be exact.

Because I make no logical sense, I've been holding off getting new cards until my age-old mega-bulk business card purchase ran out.  You know, the cards that featured a product I no longer sell at an address I no longer sell at. 

Have you ever tried to photograph a bunch of photographs?  I tried both the compact and the DSLR and they both could not cope with so many faces and depths of field.  I have dozens of terrible pictures of my pictures (that can quite often be terrible to begin with), it was very meta.

If like me you are well behind the times and have just finished your stack of 1000 redundant business cards, you can save 10% off your first MOO order by clicking here.

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Wordless Wednesday: Pure joy

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The Robot Spacesuit dress

When Maia came home from her grandparents on Thursday with some shiny silver shoes I had to rethink my dress strategy. Maybe I wouldn't make her look like an extra from a period film... Maybe I'd dress her like a space age robot.


I picked this silver fabric up on Friday afternoon, and the darker silver lining that you can see on the underside of the skirt. That everyone saw on the underside of the skirt, because all day long she bunched her skirt up around her waist.


This is her cheeky face. She has it on 98% of the time. If I'd had more time, I would have tracked down a silver fabric that doesn't unravel if you so much as look as it. If was a glass half full type of girl, I'd say that we'll have plenty to do this week picking silver filaments out of the carpet.


Jamie looked the business. We traipsed all over Edinburgh looking for a childsized cravat before I admitted defeat, bought an adult one, and cut it up to make a pint-sized one.


If you'd told me fifteen years ago I'd have a son who wore a kilt I'd have called Social Services and tried to have you sectioned.


He is probably running from all the girls who wanted to kiss him.



I wore the pink dress.

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Wordless Wednesday: Ensconsed

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Bonnie Scotland

Despite the dire impression I give, Scotland has beautiful weather. Two days a year.

We left bright and early this morning for Portobello beach to enjoy the glorious weather.

To feel the wet sand between our fingers.

To draw gigantic smiley faces.

And then give them nipples.

To collect hundreds of shells for a fish.

To painstakingly place them.

To be a little bit disappointed when the children got bored.

To enjoy the sun and the shadows it casts.

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Holiday Roundup

I don't want to bore you silly with holiday snaps, so instead I'm going to issue some awards, American Yearbook style....

• Biggest Lovefest: Me and Calvin

• Serena Williams Bubble Butt award: Maia And look, it's makes her incredibly buoyant!

• Least Reciprocated friendship: Maia and Mister Bo
• Big Kid Award: Four way tie (Steven, Grandma, Grandpa, me)
• Least observant person: Steven. For a laugh (and, yes, I am hilarious) I moved the car twice while Steven was inside a shop and he never noticed. Or at least he never said anything, probably so as not to encourage me.
• Future Supermodel Award: Calvin
• Silly Sunburn award: Me
• Farmer's Tan award: Steven
• Most Impressed by Creatures Award: Maia, upon meeting a salamander
• Most Eccentric Child: Maia
• Campest Moment: To get up here, Jamie has to tell a tween goth who was brooding on the top tire, 'Excuse me, big boy'
• Biggest control freak about sand castles: me
• The 'Really Loves Swings' Award: Maia
• The 'Really loves Tunnels' Award: Jamie
• Future Architect Award: Maia
• World's Strongest Toddler Award: Maia
• Harry Potter Appreciation Award: Jamie
• Most Redundant Paddling But We Won't Tell Him Because He's Having Fun' Award: Jamie
• The Y Chromosome Bonding Experience Award: Liam, Conor and Jamie playing the Wii
• The Eat your Body Weight in Ice Cream Award: Jamie and Maia

• Buy Your Bodyweight in Fabric Award: Me
• Audry Hepburn Sunglasses Award: Isla

• We All Love Each Other Award: Too close to call

• We Specifically Love Calvin Award: (Just between me and you, I'm the winner)
• Sainthood Award: Despite getting more than 200 bugbites, I didn't scratch a single one. Truly.
  

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