Purchase Of The Week

This weeks purchase is probably a really obvious one (to those of you who are fans as well that is)
The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn DVD was released on Friday (here in Ireland) and I picked up my copy in Tesocs.

I normally get the HMV edition because they do special character covers (but they're not doing them this time) so I didn't bother driving into HMV when the only difference on their one was that it had a 3d sleeve.
Tescos were also WAY cheaper than Xtravision with this version beating Xtravisions price by €5!

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Purchase Of The Week

This weeks Purchase of the Week couldn't be more different from last weeks but like I said last week it could be anything and very random.
So for this week I have this to share with you



YES it is Chocolate Philadelphia and I can also tell you that it's Soooooooooooo yummy.
I had it on fruit Ryvitas and they were so nice.

The Chocolate Philadelphia is on offer in a lot of shops at the moment for €1 so it's a perfect time to try it.
In my opinion if you like chocolate spread or chocolate cheesecake then you'll like this too. I also tried it on cream crackers but wasn't so crazy about it on them and on the pack they say you could put it on digestive biscuits too. Personally I think that would be too sweet for me.
The Ryvitas were perfect.

So are you going to purchase this? Or have you already tried it?

Purchase Of The Week

I'm going to start doing a series of regular posts every week, one of which is going to be "Purchase Of The Week"
I'm going to post it either on a Saturday/Sunday of each week (at least that's the plan anyway).

It could be something that's on special offer that I think is a really good bargain and want to tell you about OR just something I want to share with you that is a special purchase for me (like this weeks)

Also if you see something in "Purchase of the Week" that you'd like me to review (after I've used it for a bit) please leave a comment and let me know and I'd be more than happy to tell you what I think.

SO onto this weeks purchase...........

After a long time of will I won't I, I finally got myself A KINDLE

I'm so excited about getting this. I've been eyeing this up since before Christmas and thought that if I waited till after Christmas that "maybe" they'd be reduced in the sales but that never really happened and since I got some money for Christmas and hadn't spent it I thought "what the heck" so I gave in and got one.

I also purchased a cover for it. It wasn't my first choice but they didn't have a great selection left at the shop but I actually really like the pick now.

Another thing that had made me hold off till now (besides the price) was that I was worried that I might not make use of it but sure we'll see what happens.
At the moment I'm making use of it and love it. I'm hoping it will make me read more.

And again like I said this is a "special" purchase. Don't expect to be seeing stuff like this every week ;-)

Do you have a kindle? if you do I'd like to hear what you think of it.
Also if you have one check out Pixel of Ink they offer free and bargain kindle books everyday.

Please Bear With Me........

........I'm making some changes to my blog so things might look a bit funny for a while :-}

My 2011 Christmas Cards

These were the basic Christmas Cards that I "mass" produced for family and friends this year.

I limited the design to 2 different types and the only "new" materials were the actual card blanks.

Everything else I already had in my stash.

I was trying to stick to my promise to use up the stash I have before I buy more, although you may remember a post about some Christmas stash that I bought here, BUT I didn't use any of the stash in this years Christmas Cards (it will hopefully get used in next years). The toppers that I used for this years I actually made a few years ago so I was determined to use them up.

I snapped some shots quickly on my phone before I sent them out and didn't realise until I loaded them up to the computer the that they actually came out quite blurry (SO blurry that I actually considered not posting them at all)
So please forgive me for the quality of the pics. I think it was because the light was SO bad the day I took them. That's the only explanation I can think of because my phone pics normally come out really good.

Here's a closer look at them.
Design 1

And Design 2.......

And this was the only "Special" card that I made. It was for my Aunt and even though you can't tell in the pic it's actually an A4 card. The lighting is shocking, it was taken when it was on my Aunts mantelpiece and another thing you can't tell is that it's a decoupage card.
It was a kit that was in the prize pack I won last year from DoCrafts.

Happy New Year & A Belated Merry Christmas

Oh My God I'm so late putting this up.

I was meant to post a "Merry Christmas" post while I was at my Aunts in Cork for Christmas and I had it all prepared ready to just tap a button on my phone on Christmas morning to publish the post but I just had one small little problem....... From the minute I arrived at my Aunts in Cork (on Christmas Eve) my mobile internet reception was a pure JOKE.

I think the whole time I was in Cork (from Christmas Eve to the Wednesday) I got online for about 30 mins IN TOTAL. Hindsight is a great thing and if i had know the way it was going to be there are a lot of things I would have done (like scheduled my post to automatically post on Christmas Day) BUT as I didn't know the way things were going to go, I ended up with no post on Christmas Day. So I am only now getting to wish you all a Merry Christmas.

As I said i spent Christmas with my Auntie in Cork, it was great to get away for a bit (although cooking Christmas Dinner using someone else's cooker was a bit stressful) but all turned out well and we enjoyed relaxing and pigging out eating too much good food (as you do).

Now here we are in 2012 (already) and Christmas is just a blur. The decorations will be coming down soon. You're not supposed to take them down till after the 6th (today and believe me it took all my willpower not to pull them down over the last few days) but it's bad luck so I suffered on.

SO here we are at the start of another New Year. One thing I am not gonna do is make resolutions. I have learned over the years that I NEVER keep them so I'm not going to be stupid enough to try and fool myself into pretending that this year will be any different. So THIS year I'm going to try and do goals each week/month (haven't decided which yet ;-}), kind of similar to Elsie's 4 Simple Goals from 2 years ago. With a bit of luck these will be more achievable. We'll see.

Anyway I hope you all had a GREAT Christmas and that you have a Very Happy & Peaceful 2012!

In the next post I'm going to put up the Christmas Cards I made for family and friends (even though it's SUPER late) I still thought you might like to see.