Grow your own diamonds

Much more exciting than other "grow your own" - sparkly flowers in the garden. Secret ingredients: Irish rain and sunshine.

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A few more sparkles

I used to have a blog, the Sparkly Date Palm, the name was inspired by a great sequined date palm that I bought in Dubai - it appeared on my Christmas trees for years. Sadly, the blog came to an end in September and I had a hard time finding a Sparkly Sunflower for this blog. Helpfully my sister stepped in and sent me this a few months ago - only now getting to posting it up on the blog.

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Sparkly shoes

It's been a while but I think these new shoes might be just what I needed to get this blog up and going again. You can take the girl out of Dubai but you can't take the desire for bling out of the girl!

I went with the silver ones in the end but haven't had a chance to wear them yet - they are a bit delicate for rainy weather, which we've had a lot of recently.

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