CosySocks: Northern Ireland

This weekend my family and I decided to visit St.George’s Market in Belfast, this is an indoor market with all the authenticity of an outdoor country market. This is one of Belfast’s oldest attractions dating back to 1890’s and on Saturday it's host to the City Food and Craft market. What better way to spend a rainy Saturday than live music, great coffee and indulging in delicious food.

City Food and Craft Market

The City Food and Craft Market is on a Saturday offers a large range of local, continental and speciality foods from around the world. It also represents local handmade crafts, flowers, pottery, photography, glass and metal work with local musicians providing entertainment throughout the day.

The beautiful building and great atmosphere was a welcome change to my usual jaunt around the nearby retail stores. You can easily get lost in your thoughts wondering around the market sampling food and coffee and listening to music, and that’s exactly how I spent my Saturday afternoon.

Belly Busters

Dolci Italiani

Suki Tea

Bailies handroasted coffee

Jam and Olly's Country Stall

I would definitely recommend spending a Saturday afternoon browsing around St.George’s Market if you are Belfast, to sample the food and coffee, soak up the atmosphere and check out the local craftsmanship.

How do you like to spend an alternative Saturday afternoon?

Bernadette

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After years of an unhealthy obsession with anything and everything make-up related, and with what can only be described as an unnecessarily large make-up collection over half of which was probably past the expiry date, I decided that as part of my goals for 2015 I would complete a professional make-up course to learn professional techniques and tips and tricks of the trade. With being more organised also a priority, I jumped right in, armed with my notepad and make-up brushes and attended Ciara Daly's Foundation Make-Up Course at the beginning of the year.

The class was an intimate group of 12 people from differing career paths and varying level of make-up experience, from beauticians looking to up-skill to beginners starting afresh. This course combined both theory and practical sessions and I found them both equally as fascinating.

A little about the course content; the course covered Kit Requirements, Tools of Application, Client & Skin Preparation, Make-Up Application Techniques from Concealing and Corrective Camouflage, Evening Glamour, Bridal Make-Up to make-up through the decades.

I absolutely loved this course, my passion for make-up has grown and I have a much clearer understanding of make-up, tools, products and techniques. This understanding of make-up has essentially enabled me to reduce my make-up collection to include only the products I require for my kit and not the free eye-shadow palette I got stuck to my Shout magazine in 2003. My passion and excitement has taken over my free time, from researching the best make-up products for the desired look to experimenting with new looks and techniques. I have been so inspired by the people I have met throughout the course, having a better understanding of the industry locally and nationally and I am so excited to be part of it.

I have shared the photos from my first professional photoshoot as a trained Make-Up Artist, which was so exciting! I chose to do a vintage bridal look, a fresh look with a 1920's vibe.

Model - Caroline Taylor, Photographer - Norwood Photography,
Make - Up and Styling by myself.