Day 181: Secret Santas in Summer

“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Recently, it was Arbitrary Day on Reddit and whilst I missed it, I signed up for a re-match! So a few days ago I got the person that I’m supposed to send a gift too and had great fun this evening wandering around the craft section of The Range and for once not buying any crafty bits for myself!

Arbitrary Day is the 25th June each year (but they have lots of other gift swapping things going on too!) and it basically gives you the freedom to give any gift rather than their themed days such as Keyrings or Gnomes (how awesome!) You get to see the other persons likes and dislikes and go from there. Since I doubt she’ll ever find the blog, I can post it here and not ruin the surprise….

 

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Day 151: Brief Blogs!

“The whole point of the week is the weekend.”
― Angela Montenegro

Quick blog today as most of it has been spent buying up all the things needed for a new home – and I mean all the things! Courtesy of my parents, we were loaded with lots of goodies from Dunelm and chose some gorgeous bits and pieces – but more photographs of all that when we actually unpack it all!

Today’s photographs are fresh, quick and simple – salad ready for tonight’s dinner of Lasagne. Nom Nom. We’re off to the Costa Coffee Acoustic night in town this evening, so definitely taking more photographs later today which will be shared tomorrow

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