Download or read book Stress Free Dinner Parties written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think inviting friends for dinner is scarier than organising an international peace treaty? Then you need someone to guide you step-by-step through your Dinner Party preparations. And lazy stay at home socialite Alexandria Blaelock is just that someone. Drawing on her event management experience, she’ll tell you: • Who to invite, how to get them there, keep them entertained and make them leave. • What makes a balanced menu, dietary requirements, serving sizes, matching drinks. • When to accept the comfort of modern convenience, and how to look like a better cook than you are. • Why your outfit needs to be practical as well as attractive, and what to consider when you choose it. • How to set your budget, prepare your home, and make sure you have the stuff you need. You’ll learn what you need to know, to have the confidence you need so you can relax and enjoy your night too.

Download or read book Stress Free Dinner Parties written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by Bluemere Books. This book was released on 2016-01-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can throw a dinner party and enjoy it too! Does the idea of inviting your friends around to eat with you feel as stressful as the idea of planning an international peace treaty meeting?As a lazy stay at home socialite and one time professional event and project manager, I can confirm that it is possible to have friends for dinner and enjoy yourself too. Drawing against my personal and professional event planning experiences, and lessons from my Etiquette Heroines I show you how to make the most of your limited time using:* modern management techniques* streamlining your schedule* accepting the comfort of contemporary conveniencesI'll take you through:* Guests: Who to invite, how to encourage them to arrive, keep them entertained and then make them leave.* Menu: How to put together a menu, how to manage dietary requirements, match drinks, determine serving sizes and work out what to buy.* Home: How to prepare your home, yard and yourself for the party and how to get back to normal afterwards.* Schedule: Step by step, what to do in the weeks leading up to the party and on the day as well.And as a bonus, how much to spend and what to wear.All so that you can relax on the night and enjoy the party too.

Download or read book Calling it a Day written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Security Directorate takes care of its own. Hard-arsed detective Captain Maeryn Prothero is on the case. In a junkyard. With a red phone box. It makes her feel light and bouncy. Disturbing and uncomfortable. Setting her nerves on fire. Battling the fragmented memories of her past, can she save herself? Before the Security Directorate does.

Download or read book Five Faces of Felicia Clarke written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felicia Clarke; influencer. Old Fashioned. Fiercely independent. Encourages others, but treads her own path. Dead, but fondly remembered. By some. Get to know Felicia through these five stories: For Love of Felicia - Tom goes to secretarial college, falls in love, and… well… doesn’t get married. The Secretarial Shelter - Charles hires a new secretary and sees his business grow. My Lucky Customer - Erol opens a shop, and believes his first customer brings him luck. Stranger Danger - a girl meets a stranger who encourages her to follow her dreams. Best Friends Forever - Etta takes a trip down memory lane when she runs into the woman who was once her best friend.

Download or read book Common or Garden Variety Heroes written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have what it takes to be a hero? Whether that’s running into a burning building, standing up for what you know is right, or saving the Princess it’s going to take everything you’ve got and more besides. In this genre-spanning collection of original stories, five women draw on resources they didn’t know they had: Cracking the Code - can Gemma Jones track down a missing woman? Never Going to be a Hero - Veronica, just wants a quiet life on Mephisto station, but Jade Dragon justice comes calling. All in - Rosa Velázquez, famous for rescuing a family, tries to rebuild her life, and Jude Webb is a complication she doesn’t need. Cancelled by the Cartel - Daisy Day has a chance to revenge her dead boyfriend, will she take it? The Second Son Squad - Abby Fisher, finds herself in the body of a teenage girl impersonating a boy in military school. How did she get there, and why? Join them, if you dare.

Download or read book Lovelorn Lovestruck and Love at First Sight written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His good looks draw you in… You want to know what makes him tick. Your heart pounds when he’s nearby. You try to keep your secret passion close, but his touch is electric. All you can think about is him. It must be love. In this collection of romance short stories, Secret Singer - Cosima meets Fabian, the wannabe Opera Singer on her working holiday. The Bygone Boyfriend - Jennifer has business back in her home town, but the only business she’s interested in is Jason, the one who got away. The Day the Schedule Broke - Sandra works as a scheduler in a movie studio, and Dan, the CEO hopes she’ll schedule time for him. Morning Star, Evening Star, Superstar - Christy’s a photographer who has a crush on her subject, while Hunter will do just about anything to meet his idol. Shining Star - Jessica’s a writer, and Jason, the actor hired to play her main character, looks exactly as she imagined him. These loves ignore good sense and conquer all.

Download or read book Minimally Viable Housekeeping written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you struggle every day to get it all done? If you're fulfilling work and family obligations with little or no help, you know it's a constant battle to keep your home in order. Often, it's all or nothing - you're catching up on one front but losing on another. Comparing historic house and modern hotel operations, ex-Project Manager Alexandria Blaelock reveals how: What goes on in your head impacts what goes on in your home.Focussing on what's right for your family streamlines your to-do list.Standardising saves you time and effort.Planning and scheduling makes it all happen.Not to feel guilty about seeking help. Minimally Viable Housekeeping is Blaelock's fourth book applying business techniques to personal concerns. Using these productivity techniques to manage your home will free up the time and energy you need to live a life worth living. Buy the book and discover how to get the right stuff done with the minimum of effort.

Download or read book All In written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do Cinderella slippers come in Chelsea boots? Rosa Velázquez. Heroine. Ran into a burning building. Twice. Jude Webb. Bespoke shoemaker. Believes his life is complicated enough. Is Rosa brave enough to take a chance on Jude?

Download or read book Balancing the Book written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you help a stranger? It's a normal day. A hot Summer's day. In a cold, airconditioned train. In an almost empty carriage. Ms Jones is irritable and exhausted. After a long day of hospital scans, she just wants a bit of peace and quiet. But the journal she finds, leaves her uneasy. Because what she does with it might make a big difference in the writer's life.

Download or read book The Bygone Boyfriend written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single day can change a lifetime. After fifteen years, Jennifer Hughes is back in her home town on business. It seemed big and busy then. Now it seems very small. Only the golden Summer sun remains the same. The ghosts of past friends surround her, but the only one she wonders about is Jason Spencer. The boy who dumped her. And then he turns up. In the flesh. She can't go back, but does she have to move on without him?

Download or read book The First Rung written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new broom sweeps clean... Dot Sayers sat at her desk, huffed on the plastic card that was her new class A Private Security licence, and buffed it with her sleeve. She was now a fully licensed private investigator! Problem is, she knows there’s something wrong with a background check. Can’t explain it. Needs to convince her boss to trust her intuition. Must find the truth behind the fiction.

Download or read book The Day the Schedule Broke written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an ordinary moment. Add golden light and dramatic music. Now you've got a movie. Sandra (not Sandy, Sands or Sando) Lockwood works in a basement storage cupboard come office. That just self-destructed. Now she has Daniel Carruthers, movie star and Gorgon Studios CEO to deal with. Is it possible she's in the right place at the right time for love?

Download or read book Friends Like That written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One good turn deserves another Ellie Porterfield is not one of THE Porterfields though she works in high-end fashion at their department store. When a severely beaten man collides with her at a bus stop she calls an ambulance and renders first aid. Is drawn further into a web of danger and deceipt that could cost her life. But could it shed light on her troubled past as well?

Download or read book Fate in Your Hands written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fate leads those who follow In a dilapidated bookshop. In the red desert. 1,000 km from anywhere. Erik meets three mysterious women. Who might just change his life. If he's willing to pay their price. A mythical tale of fate, fortune, and changing your destiny.

Download or read book The Last Case written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem with a family business... It gets personal real quick. After a break in at the White Family Investigations office, her grandfather dies mysteriously on a case, and Lily knows without a doubt there's more than meets the eye. Can she keep the business going? And more importantly, can she find out who the killer is and bring them to justice?

Download or read book Needy Bitch written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better to have loved and lost… Just before dawn, the sun limped through the guest room curtains casting shadows of light across the room. Outside, a chorus of kookaburras and magpies greeted the day. Sam struggles to come to terms with losing her husband. His dog does too. Somehow, they have to find a way to start living again.

Download or read book Shining Star written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An author. An actor. An absolute mess. It's a beautiful day at the movie studio. But author Jessica Mason thinks she might send her hero to Egypt. Then she meets him in the flesh of actor Jason Winter. He's larger than life. And twice as attractive. She's out of her depth. Can't keep her story straight. Can they find a future together through the layers of fiction?