Re-stocking both Doris & Jeannie shops in Belfast with greeting cards today – hopefully time for a coffee in Ann St shop. Need to buy some more Annie Sloan chalk paint too – I’ve greatly improved the concrete flagstones around our house with watered down chalk paint – they look like slate now!  And, yesterday I bought a 1950’s china cabinet from a charity shop which I will upcycle and slightly distress to house my mum’s Poole pottery coffee set and very pretty pink flowery china tea set. I think I’ve decided to paint it ‘Chateau Grey’ which has a lovely green tinge and the interior back wall ‘Graphite’.  Will sit up tonight fraying pieces of silk and watch the results of the EU Referendum…..

Well, I finally got around to it!  For some time, existing and potential customers and retailers have asked for my website address and I finally realised that the time had come.  Although I had bagged my domain name aliodesigns.co.uk over 10 years ago and regularly renewed it, to be honest I had been more than a little frightened by the jargon and mystified by the process.  Being a child of the fifties who limited new technologies to email – ‘webhosts’, ‘widgets’ and ‘plugins’ sounded like comic book characters I read about in the dentist’s waiting room (never any  Bunty for Girls comics around).

My techno-savvy sons both live overseas, him indoors is even less e-literate than me, and my daughter prefers to create with pens and pencils rather than keyboards, so I dug into the world of tutorials and live chats and here we are.  Got me a webhost, built a basic site, already uploaded too many pics -quantity over quality right? Maybe not.  It’s not perfect and I will make changes as I learn more about this magical land that I think is called the ‘interweb’.

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