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Breaking Valentines

Husband and I have recently subscribed to the magic that is Netflix. “What will we watch? I’ve heard that Breaking Bad show is quite good … ” And we’re addicted. In every meaning of the word.

We will be spending Valentine’s Day at home since poor hubby has had the worst ‘flu of his life all this week. A good excuse for couch snuggles if you ask me. Since we will more than likely be spending our Valentine’s evening watching Breaking Bad {no complaints}, the old brain cogs got turning. I had seen a rather clever and awesome-o Movie Bingo Night free download over on Design*Sponge a while back, and thought it could do with some breaking, and this is what I concocted …

Mad props to Design*Sponge for paving the way. I’ve included massive images after the break for printing purposes, should you like to take a stab at some Breaking Bad Bingo …

Obviously, you can edit it out to include better details. Design*Sponge also have a great blank bingo template here, which is what I used and subsequently, broke. I hope you enjoy, my lovelies. And Happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours! 🙂

xx A

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What’s your paint personality?

While trolling through some of my old posts yesterday, I was reminded of a little something I partially concocted last year, but never shared. An oldie, but a goodie …
When I was with House and Home, myself and my lovely colleague Jessica were asked to create a quiz people could take to see if their personalities had a connection to the colours they tend to gravitate to. We each came up with 10 random questions*. Some a bit cheeky, and for the most part, not relating to design. 

If you’re up for it, grab a pen and paper, some tea {or G&T – no judgement will be found here}, and get clicking over to our Paint Personality Quiz. Should you like to leave some feedback, it would be warmly welcomed, as I’m genuinely curious to see if our quiz works out to your favour. Or, if it doesn’t, don’t spare us the gory details. 


And on a completely different note, I’m giving up swearing for lent. I’m not particularly religious, I just thought I’d give it a go. So far, it’s not going so well. I ran out of coins to put in my ‘swear jar’ before 10am. Wish me luck.

xx A

*Mine being the latter 10 questions, in case you’re curious 😉
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I want it now – antlers, antlers, antlers

Dear antlers, 
Firstly, let me congratulate you on being in vogue. It is for good reason, as you are pretty neat and quite the sight for sore eyes. In an effort to be on trend, I was hoping you could make yourselves available to me? You can do this by falling off. Within walking distance from my apartment would be all kinds of wonderful, thank you 🙂
Lots of love, 
Alex 
I’m thrifty, and I did my research. I found out that our local deer {found in the Phoenix Park} shed their antlers between January and March. I also found out the most antlers are found in the Oldtown Woods. Perfection. We had incredible weather on Saturday, so hubby and I wrapped up in search for some antlers. Low and behold, we came back empty handed. I have not given up. It was however, a lovely and romantical walk. 
It is only a matter of time. The question is – once I get my hands on some of these delights, do I go aux natural, or do I paint them? …

There is some serious winning going on with paint. The white with gold tips – particularly amazing. Fingers crossed we scavenge some of these lovelies. And soon. 
Image cred 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.