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Ellie Kelly

A New Website

29th Jan 2015

  Towards the end of last year I was working on a new site under my name much like this blog. It’s been live for a few months now and I haven’t really given it the welcome it deserves. December was just so busy and there were one or two things I still wanted to […]

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Fleet Launches New Food Festival

14th Apr 2014

I am on the Fleet & District Festival committee and we have  a fantastic new food festival for North Hampshire launching in Fleet on Sunday 25 May. The first Fleet Food Festival is offering a huge range of activities including a tantalizing array of fresh and regional produce in the food market, tasty street food from […]

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Easter Food

Easter Egg Strawberries

4th Apr 2014

  My guilty pleasure at the moment are strawberries dipped in melted chocolate – sooo delicious! We had a girls dinner last week so I poshed them up a little with dipping pots of nuts and sprinkles and they are such an easy dessert. So when I was looking around for Easter inspiration I fell in […]

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#LastingChange – International Woman Day

7th Mar 2014

    You may remember that last year there was a secret thing all over twitter and the blogging world in February. It was the trip that Mummy Barrow aka T, Mammasaurus aka Annie and Penny from the Alexander Residence (aka, Team Honk) all took to Ghana. I was lucky enough to get a digital […]

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home made toffee

Homemade toffee

24th Feb 2014

    This is quite a random thing for me to end up making as I am not the biggest toffee fan. I needed some however for a different receipt that I will share next week and I could (that’s a lie I sent hubby out and he couldn’t, even after 4 shops) find any […]

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West End Centre – Hampshire

5th Feb 2014

  It amazes me the things that are around the corner that you don’t find out about for years. I had not heard of this place until I was invited in for a coffee to look around. The West End Centre hosts music, comedy, children’s activities, theatre, classes and exhibitions. It’s on Queens road in […]

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And that’s a wrap – January

27th Jan 2014

  Phew, that was the last weekend of January 2014. It flew by as most of my months seem to be doing at the moment. Usually I expect (and in some ways look forward) to Janaury being pretty quite on the party front. I had grand plans of a major spring clean in the office, […]

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From the AmericanGirl site

A spa for dolls – I’m not kidding

22nd Jan 2014

  I client who’s brother lives in America was telling me about this yesterday and I just had to share it with you all. There is a doll company in America called AmericanGirl and they sell dolls. Not very blog worthy I hear you say. Well just wait for it. These dolls are customised so […]

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Mouse tree house

Amazing mouse tree house

4th Dec 2013

  So many of you have commented or sent me messages about that amazing tree house/ dolls house that I posted a picture of on the Buttons facebook page I just had to find out some more about it for you. I first saw the picture on Piece of my heart uk’s facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/pieceofmyheartuk […]

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Biscuiteers workshop

School if Icing at the Biscuiteers shop

16th Oct 2013

  What a lovely morning I had at the Bisciteers shop in London. Very relaxing and I cant wait to make some biscuits at home now and have another go! I see a new party in the works!            

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Hats & Bells Cookbook

Chocolate Pumpkins – Hats & Bells Cookbook

9th Oct 2013

    You might remember the Hats & Bells from our Pirate party for Calpol well the girls have just launched a children party cookbook.   I had to get it of course and they have some fantastic party food ideas and lovely themed ideas inside. There was no choice though when I was looking for […]

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Pretty Paper Wreath

Pretty Paper Wreath, Finshed

7th Oct 2013

  It was very nice to sit down and get this finished today. I did mean to do it over the weekend but parties prep and actual parties took over some what. If you missed it you can see my first blog here     I’m already planning the next one I enjoyed this so […]

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