Sunday 31 March 2013

Happy Easter!

 Just a quick post today to say Happy Easter to everybody, whatever you may be doing! I'm just having a lazy day, I helped my Mum bake a lemon cake this morning and by help I mean I mixed the butter and sugar together then walked away and got distracted taking photos!

I'm going to spend my day at home lazing around and eating as much Chocolate as I can before my healthy eating starts again, because If you can't eat a chocolate egg for breakfast at Easter then when can you?  I would love to know what you are all doing for Easter so let me know!

Saturday 30 March 2013

Photos from last Spring

fields spring cottages violets rainbow garden flowers dandelion daisy daisies flower garden
cottage
Today I have been editing some photos that I took last Spring when clearly the weather was a lot nicer. I have used the same photoshop action on them all, I downloaded it for free and it gives them all the soft light effect with a faint rainbow to the right hand side, I really love it!

I also spent my afternoon at work, I volunteer in a Charity shop and I spotted two pairs of amazing shoes we have had donated, a pair of shiny red brand new Doc Martens and a pair of red cat shoes (with the little ears and faces on the front) so I'm thinking of buying them on Tuesday, although I'm not decided on the Docs as I like them but they are quite bright!

Friday 29 March 2013

My room so far...

 I thought I would make a blog post of some photos of my new room. It's nowhere near finished yet, I still have a lot of Sam's stuff in here and a lot of my furniture is still in the spare room, but I thought perhaps you would like to see a half-way there set of photos and then the finished ones at a later date!
It's still quite messy so these are just close ups of some of my favourite parts (that don't show the messy bits) In the first photo you can see a letter A, well I also have a B and a K, but no E. I got them from the charity shop I work out but the person who donated them didn't give us the E (I assume they are meant to spell 'Bake' but I really loved them so I had to buy them, especially as they were only 99p each.

I also wanted to say thankyou so much for 400 followers! I never thought I would have this many when I first started blogging, it's nice to know that people want to read my rambly blog posts and look at the photos :)

Saturday 23 March 2013

What I've been up to recently...

Cream eggs were on offer for 8 for £1... so I bought 16! ( I considered buying more to stash but I was embarrassed enough taking this many to the checkout)
I went shopping with my Mum to the Trafford Centre and we got a Starbucks, strawberry cream frappucino for me.
My Mum and Dad built a new chicken coop from scratch, designed by my Mum, for our chickens (including the new ex-battery hens we rescued. A trip to the Garden center wearing my Welly-bobs from Joules!
I went to Styal with my Friend Amy to take some photos for my photography project
The well earned hot chocolate, with obligatory whipped cream and a slice of chocolate cake after we got soaked in the rain at Styal. Getting the job of untangling this mass of Jewellery at work! You jell?
Seeing these funny magnetic finger puppets stuck to the fridge at work, Ghandi and Charles Dickens! don't lie you wish you had a finger puppet of Charles Dickens ;P Goodbye old room! Swapping bedrooms with my brother before he goes off to college after summer. (It's messy because I had already started putting stuff in boxes etc)
My new room, that still has some of Sam's stuff in, like the curtains, and the mess that I have to now tidy up. Would you like a room tour type of post when it's done? Let me know!
Went for a sleepover at my friends house and took a selfie in her mirror. My hair seems to have grown all of a sudden.
A lovely well deserved bubble bath after I thoroughly cleaned the bathroom for my Mum.

Monday 18 March 2013

Here in the forset dark and deep...

Long time no blogging, but I've been really busy this week with various things including this photo shoot I did with my friend Amy for my photography coursework. The theme is 'covert and obscured' so I have been editing ghosts into them for my photos but here are the non-ghost ones for you to all see! I've put duplicates in but they vary in colour and tone but I hope you like them!Amy was a great model and despite it being torrential rain and us getting extremely cold she still went barefoot into the water to model. So afterwards we went to the cafe for a well earned slice of cake and hot chocolate (with whipped cream of course!)

Sunday 10 March 2013

What we have here is a dreamer

(You can click the photos to see them bigger) This is just a quick post today because I have lots of photography coursework to do because I have left it until a day before it's due! But I wanted to show you all my new duvet cover, it's no secret that I love floral duvet covers, or anything floral at all if I'm honest!

My family and I took my brother to look around his college the other day and it's quite far away from home so we had to kill a few hours until we could pick him up, so we looked around the shops in the local village. Where I live we don't have any 'Asda Home' shops, and I didn't even know they existed until I saw this one in the village we went to.  I saw this duvet cover and knew I had to buy it, it's double sided and comes with 2 pillow cases which are also double sided. It's quite similar in design to my blue Cath Kidston one designed for Ikea but I love it, and at £9 for a double cover It would have been rude not to buy it!
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