Saturday afternoons with Beaut.ie and Pixie

I'LL be at a loss this weekend following my last two Saturdays, the first nearly two weeks ago I met up with a number of women bloggers for a photoshoot and then a long lovely boozy lunch, then last Saturday I met up with a group from Pixie for a special tour of the Guinness Storehouse as part of their new monthly photographic competition.

I should have written about both of these things before now but I just haven't had time to never mind the fact that I have to still go through pics from Scotland, so far I have just managed to work up to the point where we fixed our puncture. More on that when I get to finishing the pics.

But back to two Saturdays ago when myself, Grannymar, Annie (and her pal), Gaelick, Zeta and the girls from Beautie met up for a photoshoot for a future Irish Times article. Between the Grannymar's clamberings all over a sofa, great girly craic over a long boozy lunch and then the biblical rain at the end of the day, I couldn't think of a more fun way to spend a Saturday. Keep an eye out for the article in the next couple of weeks and many thanks to Beautie for organising the afternoon :)


Pic by Grannymar, sort of, well it was taken by a 'toyboy' waiter on her camera but still its hers...

Then last weekend a group of us from Pixie were lucky to be part of a special tour of the Guinness Storehouse before it opened to the public. The tour was organised as part of the Storehouse's monthly photographic competition, more details available later in the post.

So on the first morning of my two-week holiday I was dragging myself out of bed at 7am to meet up with everyone else at 8am. Course I was a little late and found myself wandering around places in Guinness by myself. Lisa from the Guinness Storehouse was brilliant explaining the set up of the building, whats going on where before leaving us to our cameras and the empty building. The morning in the Storehouse was finished up with a wonderful breakfast before pints in the Gravity Bar. It was a really great day and seriously excellent to get such an exclusive tour of the place particularly given how busy it is once it opens.

I would have liked to have chatted more with some of the other people taking part whose names I only know through Pixie but I'm sure we'll get more things organised in the future. You can read more about our day at the Guinness Storehouse on the Pixie blog where you can also find out details on how to enter as well as links to blog posts by others who took part.

So onto to the pics, here are some shots from the Guinness Storehouse, with more to come as soon as I get to them :) You'll find more on Pixie.













So after those two excellent Saturday afternoons, I'll be at a loss this weekend with nothing planned :(