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Let’s be Instafriends!*

I caved. This week I finally created an Instagram account! If I’m honest with you though, I was very hesitant up until now to join. I thought great, just one more social media site to keep up with. But after a bit of brain thinking, I weighed up the pro’s – that being I take a lot of pictures, but I never share them because I don’t want to be that person who clogs up everyone’s Facebook and / or Twitter. You know the person; we all have one in our feed. Whereas with Instagram, alls it is is pictures. So that’s kind of the point.
Pour l’exemple, here’s my most recent Instapic {is that what you young people call them?} from yesterday on my way home after work. Simply titled ‘me and Mozart’ … 

… Have I lured you in yet? I’ll be blogging more on Mozzy soon, so keep your eyes peeled. To get the sneak on more of my adventures, you can follow me on Instagram here! And more importantly, are you on it? And can you recommend the best people to follow? I’m super new and don’t really know the rules, so please help a sister out. Let’s get weird together. 
xx A

* Please excuse the thick layer of cheese on that one. I couldn’t help myself. 

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Update – boudoir blanket

Here in Dublin, the first chills of autumn are setting in. I dug out my all time favourite autumn scarf and engulfed myself in it over the weekend. I heart autumn and winter {to some peoples horror, that includes my mother}, and love nothing more than curling up on the couch with a yarn project. I thought no better time to give you an uppy-wupdate on my our boudoir blanket.

I’ve crocheted a substantial enough of a chunk of her so far {yeah, this blanket is a damn lady} to graduate onto the first stripe. I was so up in the air about what colour to choose – hot pink or purple? I only decided on a colour this week.

The main grey I’m working with is an Aran wool which means I was limited to Aran colours for the stripe. It was either hot pink {left stripe} or purple {right stripe}. I was cut throat and immediately ruled out the purple; as you can see, it was blugh. I really wanted to step outside of my comfort zone and go with hot pink, but I was still too hesitant. I managed to find a third Aran wool {middle stripe} that was the Goldilocks to my dilemma – just right. A little bit of column A, and a little of column B, and home it came.

After a long day I look forward to being an utter slob on the couch with a good yarn project. I just hope I finish said boudoir blanket in time for winter. I already know for my next blanket project, I’m going with little granny squares. Those you can bring on the bus. Not this lady. You can’t tell by the pictures, but she’s a Kardashian – at 6.5 feet wide, she’s feminine and substantial. Baby got back.

A note on my attempted Tunisian crochet – hella no. I caved and went back to old fashioned double crochet within a couple of days. I found the Tunisian crochet slow, tricky and ended up making me very anxious. Seeing as our boudoir blanket is more than 6.5 feet wide, I gave the Tunisian crochet a pass on this project. I’ll try my hand at it later, but for now, it shall not pass.
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Mini makeover – coffee table tray, round 3. No … 4

Me and coffee table tray have been through a lot these past years. Coffee table tray was originally au naturel. Wood-on-wood was too much meh for one table, so I first painted it light greyish blue. That changed quickly to all Winegum, but since we also had blackboard walls at the time it was all a bit dark, so I spray painted the tray all white. 
Coffee table tray served us well in white. It was cheery, but if I’m honest, boring as hell. I wanted Winegum back in my life, so this week I thought why not have the best of both? I added Winegum back into the mix, but just to the inside of the tray. And I must say, I think it looks well swank and sophisticated. I simply used masking tape along the top and handles then sprayed the inside. 

I’m quite happy with this combo so I don’t foresee me attacking poor coffee table tray again for a good while. So what about you guys – do you have a particular thing in your home you’re constantly changing? 
Before I forget, happy Saturday friends! It’s sunny here in Dublin which = BBQ and beverages. I hope your weekend is full of char-grilled delights and a tall glass of beer / wine / G&T / all of the above. xx A