Today my Blog was written about by The Clare Champion Newspaper and I could not be prouder, as a Blogger I work hard on creating a Blog I am proud of and most importantly, I work hard to create a Blog people will want to read and reading is what they are doing, at heading close to 9,000 readers per week this Blog is gaining a great following and for this I am so thankful and I feel blessed.
The Clare Champion Jan 2nd 2015
The Clare Champion wanted to talk to me after I became a Finalist in the National UK Blog Awards 2015, the awards ceremony will take place in April 2015. I honestly do not think I will win but I am very much looking forward to attending the ceremony and meeting many other finalist.
The Clare Champion 02/01/2015
Here is the pictures I took from today’s paper, It is not a great picture as I only had my phone but I will update with better ones I have it.
The Clare Champion 02/02/2015The Clare Champion 02/01/2015
A post to tell you to keep an eye out for The Calender of 2015!! This is the Boudoir Darlings of 2015 Charity Calender. The story begins with a group of 10 incredible ladies and Shauna of Boudoir darlings,we are all different shapes, heights, hair colour etc but all 100% fabulous and beyond beautiful inside and out who came together to create what I think will be the calender of 2015!
x x x This is our FABULOUS Miss July / Nicola Furlong x x x
A couple of weeks ago Boudoir Darlings began a competition to find ‘The Face’ of Boudoir Darlings and they invited ladies to submit entries for themselves or a friend could nominated someone, telling them why you or she should be ‘The Face’ of this fantastic company and what they stand for. Boudoir Darlings ran this competition for 5-6 weeks and on the 1st of November they named ‘The Face’, and it was only me!! 🙂 Crazy! totally not expected and a fantastic surprise. I could not compose myself, I was ecstatic to say the least. 2014 has been one hell of a year for all the right reason’s and I could not believe this , another amazing thing was happening for me. I was so happy I even had a little cry, odd I know but they were tears of joy. This then became the best of the best , when Shauna announced that she was going one step further with this, and she was going to name nine other ladies on top of me to create the calender 🙂 and what a fabulous decision this was.
x This was the write up in The Chronicle only yesterday with two of the fabulous ladies x
Rewind to the 9th of November and Shauna of Boudoir Darlings, invited all 10 of us, 10 ladies who never meet, knew nothing of each other, to come to her stunning studio to meet and talk through the plan and vision for the calender 🙂 Great day, all of us clicked, no drama’s, nothing only smiles, laughter and beaming ladies, we were all thrilled with Shauna and her team’s vision and we were all blown away that they had chosen us for such a fantastic project.
On top of this the Calender was all going to help a fantastic cause, A charity that helps so many and do incredible things for Adults with not long left in this world, Clare’s Wish Foundation: http://www.clareswishfoundation.com/
Then move onto Sunday, the 16th of November where once again we all headed to Shauna’s studio to live what was the most wonderful day, we had a team of hair stylists, a team of incredible make up artists, we had the most perfect styling team and Shauna who made each and every one of us feel like a super model in front of her camera, she worked her socks off on 10 individual shoots and a group shoot, it was a long day for all involved but from my point of view, it was well worth it.
This is the stunning Jacky and the image chosen to feature in last Wednesday’s Irish Sun
Today this Calender is ready and Boudoir Darlings has partnered with Clare’s Wish Foundation (the only charity in Ireland granting a last “Wish” for Adults with a terminal or life Threatening Condition) so all monies raised will go to this great cause.
The ladies of Boudoir Darlings 2015 Charity Calender and I are so thrilled to be part of a project that celebrates ladies in all their forms and the icing on the cake is, that this all goes to help Clare’s Wish raise much needed funds so they can do what they do best and this is grant incredible wishes.
x x x This is the cover of Boudoir Darlings 2015 Calender x x x
We are out on the town tomorrow evening to Launch this Fabulous Calender and right now you can place your order for one, priced at just €10, available through any of the calender ladies, Boudoir Darlings http://www.boudoirdarlings.ie/ , Clare’s Wish http://www.clareswishfoundation.com/ , Change stores in Galway, Dublin and Limerick, In No15, Bellissimo in Limerick and Galway and myself 🙂
Image was taken on the day of the shoot with Catherine, Steph and I x x x
Check out many media write up’s on this , The Irish Sun, The Limerick Leader, The Chronicle, The Clare Champion, Stellar Magazine, The Farmers Journal to name but a few.
Pop into the Red Hen tomorrow evening to meet the ladies who will be signing copies and posing for selfies x
So back in November the public voting begun in the UK Blog Awards 2015 and I received a nomination in the food & lifestyle categories 😃😃😃
Being nominated in these awards was incredible to me and I have been beaming ever since , you my readers , facebook friends , Twitter followers , work colleagues, friends and family begun voting and it was just one vote per person allowed, multiple votes from the same person were not counted.
And today I received the notification that my blog has made it through to the finals , so now all voting it’s up to the industry experts but I will be attending the UK Blog Awards 2015, will meet many massive bloggers and possibility best of all, the bloggers goodie bag 🙂 😂
I love to cook, I love to feed people and I love that I am in the top ten for food blogs 2015, this is crazy!!
Last week I began writing for RSVP magazine with my Tasty Thursday, this will be on RSVP every week so keep an eye out for this and video’s I will be submitting for their online publication.
It is the most wonderful feeling ever xxx Thank you xxx all so so much.
Thank you for reading you FABULOUS people
❤ Clare with the Hair ❤
Today #TastyThursday was launched with RSVP Magazine featuring my food blogs 🙂 Look out for this today and every Thursday x
I initially began speaking with RSVP and a few other publications at the beginning of October and many telephone calls, emails and meetings later the decision was made to work with RSVP and today this went live for the world to see 🙂
I am beaming, I could not be happier with how this blog is going, Being nominated in the food category for a UK Blog Award 2015 (no news yet as to weather I have made the next round) was incredible and if I get to the next round I think I may actually burst with excitement and now this, My food in a real life national publication for the world to enjoy 🙂
x x x Claire’s Smooth and Silky No bake Christmas Chocolate Tart x x x
It is a scrummy treat any time of the year but with the addition of Baileys and the lushness of this I think it should be saved for a super time treat 🙂
2014 has been an incredible year, I am actually emotional looking back at it and all the amazing moments and I can’t wait to see what 2015 brings 🙂 This year I began working with TV3, began my own weekly Radio show, Started this my new baby Clare with the Hair, became ‘The Face’ of Boudoir Darlings and we created a Charity Calender with monies raised going to Clare’s Wish Foundation (a charity who grant wishes to adults with life limiting illnesses), Nominated in the UK Blog Awards and now working with RSVP. So many changes, so many new ventures yet all enjoyed and loved so much.
Hi, As many of you know, I have been nominated in the National UK Blog Awards 2015, In not one but two categories, these are Food / Drink and Lifestyle categories.
One of my fav Saturday night ‘fake away’s’
I am beyond thrilled to receive these nominations and would very much appreciate your votes, the 1st round is the public voting which opened today 🙂
Home-cooked and 100% delicious
It is 100% free to cast your vote and each and every vote counts!!!
I feel honored and blessed to be nominated in both of these categories and will continue to run this blog as I always have while trying to drive public votes 🙂
It is Free to cast your vote but please be aware that only one vote per email address counts, you can vote for me in both categories but only once per category.
I can’t imagine winning either of these but I would love to get into the top 10 on one of these 🙂 With all of you helping this is possible.
I have included a few foodie pictures just to give a taste as to what I create 🙂
As you all know I am new to the world of Blog, we are now only 5 and a bit weeks old!! babies at this 🙂 yet we have been entered into the UK Blog 2015 awards. 🙂
Now being so new we do not expect to do great but a nomination alone is good enough for me.
Message from Blog awards UK today reads ‘Congratulations! Your blog ‘Claire with the hair McCarthy‘ has been successfully entered into the Lifestyleand Food & Drinkcategories’
WOW like Really! Haha who would have have thought.
Reader numbers are up again this week, we are now over 4,000 readers per week and we hope to hit 5,000 in the coming weeks. This I am told is AMAZING for a new blog, so I really have to say a massive thank you, to all of you who read this blog. I am very thankful to each of you x
Right now I need my readers to keep reading and once voting begins, this is from the 10th of November until the 1st of December 2014, this is when I will need each and every reader to show their support for the Blog 🙂
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