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During the Easter Holidays we had the great pleasure of entertaining the Deacons! We decided that we would have afternoon tea. Menu : Open cheese and cucumber finger buns Open cucumber and ham finger buns Brownie and cheescake topped cupcakes baked by Holly Deacon Scones with clotted cream and Jam Oat and honey biscuits As you can see a lot of fun was had! Thank you to Sue, Holly

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Remember I was invited to the Ambi Pur crafting day with Danielle Proud? Well we were given a lovely hamper of crafting goodies and Ambi Pur lovelies. During the Easter Holidays Izzy decided to have a go at a touch of Mosaic using the crafting project that was in the hamper basket. Izzy chose to do the trinket box. A typical tween, she has plenty of trinkets that need a home! Izzy started by

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The Bowkis family are huge, and I mean HUGE Roald Dahl fans. We have the books, we love the movies and we love all things Roald Dahl. So this Easter  at long last we found the time to go and visit the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire. After some time trying to find somewhere to park we eventually gor parked and made our way up the road to the museum. I was rather

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The girls are on holiday and Peter has been off for the week. We have had such a lovely family week. With Easter weekend just gone we spent quality time at home as a family enjoying our house and lots of home cooked food. Easter Sunday morning we started with an Easter Egg hunt but with clues this time. I am not sure who enjoyed it more, the girls or Peter and I! We hid eggs all over the house

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Today I waved goodbye to Izzy as she embarks on a weeks holiday with school at West Runton in Norfolk. Two years ago Izzy last went on a weeks school trip and was so tearful it was a horrid experience to let her go. Infact all the mums and children were teareyed and it was a really emotional affair! This year 40 odd year 6 kids , all smiles and enthusiasm got on the coach to spend a week away for

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Last Thursday I had the great pleasure of being invited to a workshop at Homemade London hosted by Ambi Pur and Danielle Proud. Sue came along with me and we met at Kings Cross Station at 9.30am. We made our way across London to Marble Arch and the shop Homemade London. We were greeted by lots of smiling faces; the lovely Emily and Helen from the PR agency for Ambi Pur and a warm welcome from

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I am coming to the end of my first year in business next month and I thought it would be fun to celebrate by offering a FREE Mini Session to one lucky fan! Mini session is for up to 5 people and last about 30 minutes. You will receive 5 images on disc. All I ask you to do is "like" my face book fan page post here on my blog that you have done that with a link for an extra chance to win,

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Mothering Sunday/Mothers Day was yesterday here in the UK. I was spoilt with a cooked breakfast in bed by the girls!!! Peter has officially announced that Mothers Day is the best, because he also got a cooked breakfast in bed!! Izzy and Lilly made me the most beautiful cards and the poem Izzy wrote in hers bought a tear to my eye. Dinner was cooked by me and burnt by Peter, although he will say

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Just popping by to let you know that tomorrow I am heading down to London for a craft workshop with Danielle Proud in association with Amber Pur! I am going down with Sue and cannot wait. My camera will be with me and I hope to snap a few piccies to share on here. Sue and I have opted just to do the half day due to childcare and we will be doing an embroidery class. We are hoping to have time to

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Its been a well overdue visited, but today I made it to the hairdressers! I did go yesterday but my appointment was today. Izzy helped my colour my hair last weekend and today I got a restyle! I had my fringe (or bangs to my friends across the pond) cut in again. So what do you think? Thanks to Izzy for taking this photo for me. My iPhone attempts were hideous! Anna x

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I know it was last week, just got round to sitting down and actually blogging about it. With only 24 hours notice (dont you just love schools!), to come up with 2 costumes for World Book Day, I think the girls did pretty well! Izzy went as Veruca Salt from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, thanks to my prop box and a skirt of Lilly's! Lilly went as the Highway Rat, thanks to some help from

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I am having a HUGE clear out of my craft room and have bagged up 50 + papers to sell. Manufacturers include, Basic Grey, MME, Nikki Sivils, Prima and Sasfrass to name just a few. I am asking for £12.95 incl postage. (thats about 20p per sheet!)   Email me if you are interested albowkis@hotmail.com Thanks Anna x

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Its half term here, and I have one poorly girl in the house, so most of our plans have been cancelled this week. Instead we are choosing the warmth of home and the sofa and lots of cuddles! photography challenge I did yesterday to capture love and heartache This blog is getting seriously neglected as of late. I am going to try my best and sort some kind of routine out for it. Start sharing

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As some of you may now be aware I have closed the doors on Pencil Lines.  What started as a few friends challenging each other with a sketch to produce a layout each week, turned into 15,000 visitors a week, an amazing and talented group of scrapbookers that formed my design team over the last 6 years. Pencil Lines has had 267 amazing guest designers, 267 unique sketches and a published

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Yikes where has 2012 gone already! Sorry for the lack of posting. Like most working mums the past few months are hectic with school activities, the kids, getting orders out for Christmas and Christmas itself! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We had a full house and between sickness bouts, a lovely Christmas was had by all. We all got spoilt rotten and I must have been extra

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As you can see my blog is being neglected, but its that time of year when I am busy in the kitchen and wrapping pressies, which I am sure you all are too! We have a full house this Christmas which will be lovely. I love hosting and love being busy in the kitchen. It was my birthday last week and Sue bought me the new Lorraine Pascale book and I have already bookmarked a few recipes, including a

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I am at last beginning to feel some Christmas cheer. I am no scrooge but I am so busy at the moment I havnt had time to even think about Christmas. This week though Peter and I did some Christmas shopping on Monday and today I had a good sort out of what I had got the girls, and as usual I have spent more than planned and had gifts hiding I had forgotten I had bought! Anyone else like that? The

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My poor baby girl really hasn't been herself these last few weeks. It always breaks my heart, as I am sure it does all mums, when our children are sick. I don't believe there is anything serious wrong with her, but she is so not herself! Lilly has been in and out of school these past 3 weeks and today woke up to a bloody face and sheets from one hell of a nose bleed! So another day she was kept

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Scrapbooking has been my life for the best part of 7 years. I started scrapbooking when Lilly was a baby using handmade papers I sold on Ebay, fibres, and paper flowers. cool stuff eh?! I plodded along doing my thing and I got picked up by a new magazine called Creative Scrapbooking. I became a features writer and even had a cover with a winter layout of Izzy. I bought so many copies , LOL, and

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Today in the UK is Children in Need. Kids all over the UK will have dressed up, done something silly, had a mad hair day, or gone spotty to help raise money for children less fortunate than ours. This year the girls decided to turn fashion designers and decorate a white Tshirt and for Lilly a pair of white leggings! Thank goodness for my promarkers! Model : Isabella Bowkis Designer :

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I really am not doing a very good job of updating my blog at the moment. Life is hectic, photos need editing and orders need to be placed. last week I had visitors form up North and a poorly Lilly on and off and the week just went by in a puff of smoke. And already we are heading to the middle of another week! Well last Thursday I joined the girls school on their KS2 visit to Buckden Towers for

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Its FRIDAY!! The weekend is upon us, and I feel like doing a Five Fav Friday today! I am a huge lover of Pinterest and can spend hours lost on that site. i use it for photography shoot inspiration, baking inspiration, crafts and just to make me smile! Here is some felt love: these make me smile love  flower headbands at the best of times love this so much, must make some how cute

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A couple of weekends ago I had a day of shooting for a client, both her girls birthday parties. The first was Georgia's Mad Hatter Tea Party which the girls were invited too. Of course Lilly went as The Mad Hatter again and thanks to an online friend, Izzy had the loan of a fab Red Queen outfit (made by said friend!!). I was shooting general party photos and a party booth was set up, complete

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The Quick Step Last Thursday Peter was dancing at a charity Strictly Come Dancing event for Ricard House Childrens Hospice. After having his chest waxed and having a spray tan he had already raised a mighty sum of about £600.00, amazing how badly people enjoy seeing others in pain, LOL! I was already in London for another event, so met the girls and Peters family at the hotel in Russell

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Not sure how much I can say just yet, only because it has not been publicly announced yet, but tomorrow I am headed down to London as a consumer reporter to a party food launch for a major retail chain. i will be followed by a film crew, (darn why didnt I keep up the dieting!) and will be interviewing celebs and guests at the event. My main job is to interview a very gorgeous and sexy celebrity

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