new smartphone - whoo hoo!

Call me a late developer but I've finally got a phone that can do more than make calls and text messages. Considering we got our first phone when I was 13, and even then you had to submit a business case every time you wanted to make a call (why do you need to call your mates? sure you sat beside them in school all day - what's left to talk about?) now I can blog, tweet, surf and generally find my way about with a cute bit of kit that fits in my pocket.
And the best bit? Magic Marker app - hours of fun!
Don't forget to enter the August blog competition; question is in the post below - get your entries in by 8pm on Sunday.

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Competition time again! & Happy Birthday to me!

http://www.claireshandmadecakes.com

Well - without giving the game away, suffice to say that my birthday is this time of year - somewhere between 23 July and 22 August. So, I thought that was as good an excuse as any to have another competition!

3 lucky winners will win the Rock Face Minerals eyeshadow of their choice - you just need to email me via the Contact Us page on the website, with the answer to the following question "what star sign runs from 23 July to 22 August?".

The competition is open until 8pm on 22 August & the winners will be drawn shortly after & no, there's no extra prizes for correctly guessing how old I am.

Photo credit goes to Claire Melvin of Claire's Handmade Cakes, a fellow case study in Emma Jones' book "Working 5 to 9" (available in all good bookshops!)

Back to Work Blues

here at RFM HQ the RFM elves have been on holiday for the last 2 weeks, so it's "back to work tomorrow" Sunday. Yuk!

aftermath of the "snow ball" fight

tractor racing at Castle Ward

For the last week we've had lots of relatives home from near & far, so we've had some great family get togethers, & a few days of chill out time. We spent most of the first week of our holidays camping at Castle Ward, a National Trust property in a fabulous setting, on the shores of Strangford Lough.
The weather was mostly kind to us, with just one night of continuous rain, which saw some fellow campers leave in a pretty soggy state the next morning! Thankfully, our trusty Vango stood up to the downpour no problems. Course, there's nothing like finding that the kids have decided to have a paper "snow ball" fight, the morning that you are trying to pack up everything to go home!
The kids had a great time - with the Monday being a public holiday in NI, a huge "pirates picnic" event had been laid on, so there were lots of pirates - young & old - wandering about. There's lots of lovely walks around the estate, and plenty for kids to do - as you can see, tractor racing was a particular favourite.

On the Rock Face Minerals front, work continues on the new website - fingers crossed I get it ready for launch in the next few weeks. In the meantime, the Rock Face Minerals eyeshadows and lipbalm have got a rave review by beauty blogger, MayLovesMakeup.Also check out the Charity Blog Sale - there's some lovely things (including some Rock Face Minerals products) which will be auctioned, for 2 great causes.

Summer Holidays!

Well the summer holidays are here & hopefully the glorious weather we had in June will stay around for July - we've got more camping lined up in a few weeks, so fingers crossed.
Don't forget, in this sunny weather, Rock Face Minerals foundation gives natural sun protection, thanks to the 2 ingredients zinc oxide & titanium oxide, which are both broad spectrum sunscreens. The beauty of mineral powder foundation is that it doesn't slide off your face in this weather.
Behind the scenes, I've been busy working on the new improved Rock Face Minerals website, which I'm hoping will be ready by the end of July. It'll have lots of great improvements, including better layout, customer product reviews, & Rock Face Minerals newsletter - most importantly the facility for offers & discounts - so watch this space for exclusive launch discount codes.
The pic is of the annual Waringstown rally held last week - if you have a vintage tractor, bicycle, car or motorbike it is the place to be!

Baltic in the Sperrins

Well, we went camping in the Sperrins over the Bank Holiday Weekend, which turned out to have night-time temperatures more like the middle of January! We now know what sleeping outside when it's 2 degrees above freezing - as we say in Norn Iron "Baltic!" Despite the weather we had a great time, & when the sun shined, which it did now & again, it was beautiful. We were just down the road from Gortin Glen Forest Park, and these are some of the Sika Deer that live there. Lovely part of the world, I'm sure we'll be back many times...

May Competition Results

We had great fun on Sunday picking out the 3 winners as you can see! & the winners are.... Jan Henry, Julie Haveron & Nichole Monteiro - each will receive a Rock Face Minerals lipbalm of their choice.
In addition, we reached 50 Rock Face Minerals fans on FaceBook, and 100 fans soon after! To celebrate each milestone, I had a random draw, and Trixie Sidebottom and Vicki Mse were the lucky winners of a Rock Face Minerals eyeshadow of their choice!
Thanks to everyone who entered!

Read all about it!

Got confirmation today that Rock Face Minerals is one of the 60 case studies features in an up-coming book by Emma Jones, about how to start a business in your spare time. Click on the whizzy link below for more details and 35% off the publisher's price: