It’s weird the moods we can get into. I’m up in Dublin; I love big cities, I’m quite fond of the Irish capital and yet right now, I would give anything to be home in Cork. I’m lonely and homesick and every little thing that goes wrong makes me want to curl up in a […]
It’s official, I’m a total doofus. Having not booked my accommodation for Dublin until around fifteen hours before I was supposed to be arriving into Dublin, I ended up booking somewhere through AirB&B that was pending confirmation yesterday evening. A little concerned that I still didn’t have a definite place sorted for tonight, I went […]
Day 67 and I’m tired and just want to curl up on the couch and do NOTHING! Instead of doing nothing all evening I’ve been doing several somethings, such as running around in the rapidly fading light trying to catch a pretty shot for today’s Instagram post after work, booking accommodation for Dublin for the […]
A few days ago, in TK Maxx (where I barely even glanced a the pretty notebooks, I was so good) I found a lovely hardback book documenting the life of the world-renowned fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. For some reason lately her name has cropped up a good few times so when I saw this […]
I write this feeling a tad overwhelmed by all the things I need to be doing. It’s not like I don’t have time for them, I only work around thirty hours a week in the restaurant and I’ve no kids. I do however have a serious problem with procrastination, whereby I put off til next […]
It’s so late as I write this, nearly 11 pm, because I got distracted by going to the cinema and watching TV and then diving into Instagram (I’m doing a challenge for the month of March called “Meet the Maker!” which is good since it motivates me to post everyday and be consistent but bad […]
It seems at last that the snow saga has come to an end, in Cork at least, if not for all of Ireland. I’m relieved to get back to normal routine. All this madness meant despite having extra time on my hands I didn’t get a lot of work done, instead spending a lot of […]
Today I bit the bullet and dove into finally doing something slightly terrifying: I did a live video on Instagram. Go me! It was of course for our business (www.caralizadesigns.com) and I spent about twenty minutes setting everything up and freaking out beforehand, so that by the time I actually did the live story my […]
We went outside this morning into a real winter wonderland, everything buried in inches of thick, white powdery snow. Even the main road outside our house was pristine white, not a mark on it until we waded through it leaving our boots’ imprints in the pure white surface. Emma may or may not have visited […]
Snow is a funny thing, it transforms the landscape from normal (read dull!) to pristine beauty; fields and buildings covered in bright, clean white. The heavy blanket of snowy brings a surreal quiet to the daily rustlings and bustlings of nature, all sounds are muffled and muted. Each step over snow-covered grass provides the most […]
Coffee and Scribbles 