Nicola Keegan

It was high time I bought my sister a little prezzie, and so I decided to buy her this beautiful one of a kind set of necklace and earrings from ViviBijoux. Virginie takes great pride in making beautiful jewelry from quality materials. The finishing touches that she adds to a gift, and the presentation are an added extra that really makes it special.

This week, Athlone is hosting a Eurofestival, and today, there was an arts & crafts fair at the Civic Square.  I took a stroll down there on my lunch break to visit Virginie and Millie, and I fell in love with another of Virginie’s creations! I couldn’t resist this necklace! I love the pattern and the colours, and it will match a lot of the clothes that I wear.

Her online blog and boutique are well worth a visit for a nice treat for yourself, or for a special gift for someone!

So here are the rest of our photos from our visit to Malmo & Copenhagen..

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The weather really is upside-down at the moment. We had ice and snow in Athlone – colder than I have ever seen it here. And in Georgia, of all places, they had a day or two of snow  last week!

Of course, Max & Lily made the most of it as you can see from Michelle’s photos!

I have been working on a website for Millie Harbour to promote and advertise her paintings. Have a look here…

For some reason, on some computers, and some browsers, the thumbnails appear squashed.. if its the case when you have a look, would you comment below with info about which browser and version you are using? Thanks

This is Hannah. She has Lears disease, and was only given weeks to live when she was born.  She is now 4 years old!

The Jack and Jill Foundation have been an enormous support to her family, and need some help in raising funds for some equipment that Hannah needs.

Zac is running 10k to help raise funds to help Hannah. Please support if you can – CLICK HERE TO DONATE

Here are some links to some of the places we went..

Cumberland Island: This is where we went camping (yes, to anyone that really knows me well, I WENT CAMPING.. and survived!). Its a beautiful island where the number of visitors is limited so that it is never overcrowded. There are 18 miles of beaches, and when we were on the beach, we hardly saw any other people!

The highlight of Cumberland Island for us was the wildlife! We saw armadillos, dung beetles, wild horses, fireflies and wild turkeys! The only animals I really didn’t appreciate were the nasty vicious mosquitoes!

Okefenokee Swamp: On our way to Cumberland Island, we visited Okefenokee Swamp.

We went on a boat trip down the river, saw alligators up close and personal, and everyone but me went to the animal show! I couldn’t go because I have a very bad snake phobia!

Moon River: We made a return visit on our way back to Macon to a lovely little microbrewery in Savannah  that we had visited last time we were in USA. They have very tasty beer, and great food! I ordered a started of Nachos, and the plate was big enough for all of us to share and not even finish!

Georgia State Fair: One of the cool things about us usually visiting in October is that we get to visit the Fair.  This time, and the last time, the weather was absolutely scorching! I loved every minute of it!

The kids got to go on some rides and eat candy floss and toffee apples. We got to eat Barbecue!

We also saw lots of cattle – the cleanest cows I have ever seen – wee bunny rabbits, and animals of all shapes and sizes!

Survivor Party: We were very glad to be invited to a Survivor Party in Warner Robins by heath & Kelly.  This was one of the highlights of our holiday!  Anyone who has seen the TV show will know what the idea is. Teams, and then individuals compete to be the last surviving survivor! You have to partake in challenges, try to win immunity, forge alliances, and vote your other tribe members off one by one till there is only one left! Michelle managed to make a comeback (thanks to Tim!), and ended up coming in second place.  Donal and I managed a modest 7th & 8th place!

Its hard to describe it all, but it was just great fun! So thanks Heath & Kelly for doing such a wonderful job of organizing it!!

We were in Georgia in October for just over 2 weeks.  It had been 3 years since we were last there, so it was high time for a visit!!

We had an absolute blast – hanging out with Michelle & Tim, enjoying Tim’s homemade beer, playing with the kids, singing with Lily, playing on the Wii with Max, Camping, going in the ministry, shopping, going to a Survivor Party, to the Georgia State Fair, and much much more!! Including taking lots of photos

So here are some of the photos from our trip (I think the Slideshow option is working best at the moment).

Michelle has written a little account of our camping trip, so here is the link if you want to read about it!

Thats all for now about our holiday.. there may be more to come!

As you may have noticed, I haven’t posted anything here for an absolute age.

Since we got back from USA, I have been editing my photos, posting some of them on my Stockphoto sites, and making an album. Now, finally, most of that is done, so I can post some photos, news n other such stuff here on my poor neglected website!

So watch this space!

Ok – I have now edited & uploaded 65 photos from the football match last Saturday.

Click HERE to view them!

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Since my epic saga of my hair colour disasters, I have had two more..

This apparently is what the hairdresser thinks is dark blonde… And this is after a good few washes.