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Beautiful Blogger

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15 years ago
by dawniebrown in

I feel ever so happy because I’ve been tagged by the lovely Kate at The Five F’s with the Beautiful Blogger award :) Kate writes a great blog so pop on over and have a read, it will keep you entertained for ages :)

Apparently now I have to tell you 7 interesting things about myself. Now this could be tricky as I’m struggling to think of 1 or 2 but I’ll have a go….

1. I’m one of 5 children

Growing up in a big family is something I’ve always loved, well I can’t say there weren’t  moments when I longed to be an only child but on the whole I love the fact I have so many brothers and sisters. My little sister is closest in age to me, being just 11 months younger than me. This is probably one of the main reasons that we tried for another baby so soon after Zara was born and we are delighted that they will be close in age :)

2. I met my husband on a dating website

This is a little known fact and one which for some reason I feel embarrassed admitting but I found myself in a situation where I just wasn’t going out and meeting single men anymore so decided to do something about it. Within about 2 weeks of joining the site I began talking to my husband and we met shortly afterwards (outside the Zara store in York – and yes that is part of the reason why Zara is called Zara lol) , 6 months later he proposed and a year after that we got married. We’ve now been married over 3 years! It scares me to think “what if” I’d never joined that site all those years ago.

3. I love the colour Green

OK so it’s not necessarily an “interesting” fact but I seem to have acquired an obsession with the colour, my engagement ring is emerald and our living room is decorated in green. Clothes wise I find teal suits me better than pure green but I have a huge amount of teal clothes :)

4. I’m vegetarian

Interestingly I wasn’t vegetarian before I met my husband but he had been vegetarian for 20 years when I met him. I was never a big meat eater and tended to only eat chicken, fish or bacon but it just seemed  easier to go veggie when I started dating my husband. He never asked me to but it’s something I don’t regret and it certainly makes life easier in the house with us both being veggie now. Zara will be raised as a veggie until she is old enough to decide for herself and if she decides to eat meat then it will have to be at school or friends houses, as I won’t be cooking meat dishes in this house.

5. I’m a MAJOR chocoholic!

And when I say major I mean it. My husband can’t believe how much of a sweet tooth I have, I could sit and eat chocolate from the minute I wake up until the minute I go to sleep. If I opened a packet of chocolate biscuits then I would sit and eat every one of them without a break. Luckily I’m also somebody who doesn’t put weight on so it hasn’t affected my figure at all. I really hope Zara doesn’t inherit my sweet tooth though as I don’t think I’ll be able to cope with a sugar fueled toddler!

6. I do silk paintings

This is a hobby that I first picked up in secondary school and I potter around with every so often, usually as gifts for friends or family. The one below I made for somebody who was into chinese horoscopes, he was a “Fire Dog” and so for his 60th birthday I made him this, I know they aren’t particularly amazing but the recipients liked them :)


7. My favourite number is 4

This has probably got to do with the fact that my birthday is on the 4th October and it’s one of those numbers that I always choose if asked to pick a number. I also tend to arrange things in fours such as photo frames.

And now all I am required to do is tag somebody to share the Beautiful Blogger Award so over to you:

All About Us and Such Like

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Whimsical Wife

Things that bother and annoy me…

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15 years ago
by dawniebrown in

I’ve been tagged by Whimsical Wife to share some of the things that bother and annoy me. Oh dear I could go on all day here so I’ll try and limit myself to a top 5 :)

1) People who seem to find it strange that Zara is being brought up vegetarian. Both myself and her daddy are vegetarian and so for us it is only natural that we raise Zara as vegetarian aswell, afterall we are hardly likely to start buying and cooking meat for her when neither of us eats it. Yet for some reason I find myself constantly having to defend this decision even though if it were for religious grounds people wouldn’t even dare mention our choice of diet but just because we like animals and don’t eat them, people just don’t seem to understand.

2) Fashion annoys me, particulary at the moment. Whenever I look in the shops all I can seem to find are dreary greys, blacks and browns. What happened to the world, when did it all go dull, dull, dull? I know we are heading for winter now but is it really necessary to dress as if we are all going to funerals everyday? Can we please have some lovely bright winter clothing please that doesn’t depress me everytime I open the wardrobe?

3) Other mums drive me insane! OK so not all other mums, just most of them :) I just can’t seem to get my head round other mums who just go on and on and on and on and on and on about their little darlings all the time. OK so I know I like to talk about Zara quite a bit but I also have other things I like to talk about and if I meet another mum for a coffee I’d occasionally like to talk about tv, shopping and life in general. An hours conversation about why “babyX” is the most gifted and amazing child born since Einstein is not what I signed up for. Oooh I can see my followers dropping off by the dozen now :)

4) Cars annoy me, ok so I know they are pretty essential but they constantly need something doing to them, whether taxing, insuring, MOTing or fixing. It seems like you just about get on track with your monthly budget and then something goes wrong with the bloody car and bang their goes your overdraft limit again. If I could live without a car I would be oh so happy!

5) Trying to think of people to tag with meme’s annoys me because I’m far too shy to tag people and so I tend not to tag anybody and just plead for people to take up the challenge and pick up the meme if they would like to do it :) I like doing meme’s and I like being tagged myself, I’m just annoyed with myself for being too shy to tag other people for fear of rejection. So is that me I’m annoyed with? I guess so :)

So if you would like to tag yourself with this meme and share what bothers and annoys you on your blog then please feel free to pick this up and comment below to let me know so I can come and read it :)

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When You Were Young

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15 years ago
by dawniebrown in

I was tagged a while back by @Kateab over at The Five F’s in this meme which originated from @himupnorth and The Blog Up North. It’s taken me a while to get round to posting it as I’ve been having a busy teething time with Z recently but I’ve eventually managed it :)

When I look in the mirror now, do I see what I thought I’d see all those years ago when all those childhood dreams were fresh in my mind and the world was mine to conquer? Gosh that is such a tough question!

I guess I have to go back many years now and try and remember what it is I wanted when I was young. I don’t think I was ever one of those people who knew from an early age what they wanted to do career wise. My career just kind of happened because I was good at Maths and Business Studies and going on to become an accountant just seemed the logical thing to do. I’m very logical like that, if you’re good at something then use it to your advantage. I don’t really see this meme as being about my career though, I’m going to go a bit deeper with it and talk about my childhood aspirations.

In these days of divorce and broken families I guess I’m unusual in that my parents have been married almost 45 years now and are very happy together (don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t always a bowl of cherries but compared to a lot of my friends it seemed like heaven!). Growing up I think I wanted that stability and love for myself although it took until only 4 years ago for me to find it. It took a lot of searching but I think I’ve finally found my soulmate and with just starting our own little family I hope my children grow up in a happy and secure environment aswell.

We grew up in deepest, darkest Derbyshire in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere so had a relatively sheltered childhood. Lots of climbing trees, playing in the countryside and generally spending 90% of our time outdoors whether it be on bikes, rollerskates, skateboards or just walking for miles. I always wanted a similar lifestyle when I was older, living in the countryside, owning a horse, small village life etc and when I first graduated and started work I resigned myself to city life. I still got my horse though but I lived in a 2 bedroom flat on the waterfront in Hull, surrounded by other business people. I missed being able to look out of my windows and see miles of green but I just accepted that it was part of my new life. Of course now I live in a little village, just outside of Durham. I have miles of countryside on my doorstep and when I look outside I see green. I haven’t got a horse up here yet but give me time, I’m already itching to buy Zara her first pony lol.

I think I’ve done pretty well for myself really, I’m financially stable, in a very happy relationship, have a beautiful daughter and a gorgeous house. I think the one thing I would have liked to have seen which I currently don’t have is job satisfaction but that’s going to take a bit more work on building up my little accountancy business :)

Now I know it’s the usual to tag people now but I’m not going to tag people as I’m a bit shy so if you’d like to pick up this meme from me then just comment below :)

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