They Tried To Make Me Go To Rehab…

I think you can guess where I’m going with this one, but just in case, yes, my Halloween costume for 2008 is Amy Winehouse! Since I still can’t find the battery charger for my camera, here are a few washed-out phone photos that really don’t show the extent to which I painstakingly coloured-in my [...]

Sparkle Roundup

Photo by Austinevan

It’s Friday again! Here’s my pick of the posts to give you something to read during the longest afternoon of the week!

Home Sparkle

Agent Lover makes a post on horror film Suspiria entitled “Mother Of Sighs” with screncaps from the movie detailing the beautiful interiors. [...]

Things I Love Thursday

My fourth TiLT, my baby blog is growing up! What started off as a small distraction from my work has definitely become a labour of love! Stay tuned for longer, better articles, and new regular features soon!

The delights of this week are as follows:

* Your wonderful comments! To everyone [...]

Random Facts Meme

My first Tagging! I’m so excited!

I’ve been tagged by the fabulous Bridey for this random facts meme

Rules

Link to the person who tagged you
Post the rules on your blog
Write six random things about yourself
Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them
Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave [...]

How to be You, With Added Sparkle!

Photo by millicent_bystander

Everyone, at some point in their lives, feels inadequete. We’ve all been at the bottom of the work “food chain”, or felt like the ugly duckling in a room full of stunners, but I can say with certainty that I have never met anyone who doesn’t have something amazing to contribute to the [...]

Pure Positivity

Image by *Payslmaginaire*

Gem, from Half Accidental, who I’m sure it wasn’t hard to guess is becoming one of my favourite bloggers, today posted a really inspiring piece asking her readers to Focus on the Positives. I would encourage everyone to read this post, particularly if you need reminding from time to time just how [...]

Recipe: Vegan Chilli Bean Stew

I hadn’t planned to feature recipes on here, but this was far too good not to share!

I wish I’d taken a photo of this, but it was so good I couldn’t resist posting about it anyway! This is my recipe, completely improvised on the spot last night, for a cheap, filling and utterly delicious [...]

Sparkle Roundup

Photo by Ian Alexander (2005)*

Home Sparkle

* Rockett St George is a UK website specialising in beautiful and unusual homewares, and I’m completely in love with everything on it, particularly the Clear Illusion Table, and the amazing but expensive hand-printed wallpapers!

Work Sparkle

* Neon Sugar’s [...]

Things I Love Thursday

This weekend I intend to find a more colourful template for this blog and work on some custom bullet points. At the moment however, asterixes will have to do!

* Fascinating Conversations over Delicious Meals On Saturday night, I went out for a meal with people off my course (see: Distance Learning) at [...]

“Coupley-ness”

Source: http://www.free-stockphotos.com (2008)

Little Flutters, a blog I only recently discovered, featured a post entitled Is Coupledom Cute or Over-Share?, regarding the habit many couples have of sharing each-others flaws, annoying traits, etc. with their friends. This led me to think about some of the couples I know, and how differently I seem to feel [...]

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