This past weekend...

Was relaxing, hurray! 

I finally got my hair cut short, bought some more wool and consequently finished my first ever set of crochet granny squares (I'm hooked, ha), I even started connecting them together too, its awesome.

I also finally found clothing with birds on (it's a cute skirt and it was in a charity shop!) and I took my new double dip plastic camera by James Butler out for a spin and met a new cat friend in the process.

Hurray for relaxing weekends! 

p.s. If you're interested in learning crochet (I only started a couple of weeks ago) this post by Alycia is a great starting point, it gave me the kick up the butt I needed to actually make something rather than talk about it, thanks Alycia!!

p.p.s. Nanna, I might take you up on those knitting lessons now :)

It's nearly August already?!

Seriously... where has this year gone?
However, August is great because it means...

~ August Break!~
I loved taking part in Susannah's August Break last year and this year I'm using it as an excuse to share photos from the last two years that I haven't shared on here yet .. there were more than I expected, though I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, my Flickr does have over 1,000 photos on there now and I'd say most of them are film.

~ Paris! ~
Thats right, the last week of August, Thomas and I are going to Paris, for a week and I'm taking at least 7 cameras and lots of film. I can not wait already!!

I'll try and sneak in a what I'm packing post, like I did for Krakow... the outfits will be slightly different I feel and I have some amazing guest posters to keep my little blog company whilst we're away, woo!

See you in August, it's going to amazing, I can tell.
Have a great weekend!

Hurray It's Friday!

{More Harry Love Lomowall made on Lomography}

I'm so happy it's Friday because

~ tomorrow I get to wear a dress ~
(I actually have 3 to choose from,
I think blogging may have influenced me with dresses
it's only taken 2 years...)
~ I get to spend time with two of my bestest friends and their other halfs ~
~ I get to eat bbq and cake ~
~ and watch other people on a trampoline ~

Eep, I can't wait.

Happy weekend everyone!

p.s. Photos of Harry because I miss his little face and I love his little sticking out leg... is it weird to have a favourite leg on a pet? Probably...

TGI Friday...

{Doric Columns at Harlow Carr Gardens, Harrogate}

Can you believe I carried my fuji instax wide around with me for 4 hours last weekend and this was the only photo I took? I do love it though, the columns were hidden away and such a surprise when we found them that I couldn't resist taking a photo.

I'm so glad its Friday, this week has been exhausting for some reason and I'm looking forward to a lazy weekend.

Have a good weekend!

A little update...

This is a bit of a non post really - I've been feeling a mixture of sick/bored/frustrated/exhausted these past couple of days and I haven't really known what to post... hence no post yesterday.

(Honestly, you wouldnt have wanted to read anything I wrote yesterday it was bad mood central over here)

Anyway to distract myself (I'm all about the distractions) I got the whim that I wanted to update my little blog - it took me ages to get it right but its been the same for a while and really my blog has changed alot - and you lot are all now here too - so it has to look its best right.

In the end I didn't change much - just changed a font, added new banners and made some pretty social buttons on the right - but I like it - so its all good. I think...

Of course now I need to update everything that has my old font...

Anyway, I just wanted to say hi, chat a bit I guess and see what you all thought of the new changes. I'm off home this weekend to see my Mum, so hopefully I'll have exciting things to share next week and I'll definitely be feeling much happier as I'm planning on getting as many hugs from my parents and this little chap as I can, yeay!!

Have a great weekend!!!

Happy birthday C!

We went to a gig last night (Smoke Fairies and Sea of Bees, amazing!) where every song sung by the Sea of Bees singer was a gift to one of her friends... I loved that idea but as I can't really write a great song, I figured I'd have to write a post instead.

I met C in my first year of University (7 years ago I think? See first picture! How young were we?!) and we've been amazing friends ever since - in fact I have no idea how I would have got through Uni without her!

Our other partner in crime G is coming to Leeds tonight for a day of fun, food, fuji mini's and frolics tomorrow and I'm pretty sure I'll hug them both like the last photo!

Happy 25th Birthday C

(the pink is just for you as I doubt you'll see it often on here any other time...)

I hope you have a wonderful day, thank you so much for being a truly wonderful friend, I'd be completely lost without you even now.

Happy weekend everyone,

I think it's going to be an amazing one!

p.s. I'm pretty sure C will show her Mum this, so Hi C's Mum :) x

The Versatile Blogger award!

Last week, the lovely Maddy (who loves Rock Band as much as I do, Hurray!) tagged me with The Versatile Blogger award, so I decided to share the love!

{ I try not to tag someone more than once with awards - so if you're new here, check out my awards tag to see the other 45 amazing bloggers that I have tagged in the past - they all deserve this award too! }

The rules dictate I have to share 7 things about myself, so here goes nothin':

(I totally stole Maddy's idea of putting the list on a photo...)

& now I get to share the award with 7 lovely lovely bloggers!

Alyssa

Kat

Chrystal

Anna

Marianne

Ashley

and... Bria

The rules are as follows:
1. thank and link back to who gave you the award
2. share 7 things about you!
3. pass it along to 7 blogs you've recently discovered and enjoy.
4. leave your recipients a note, telling them about the reward.

That was fun for a Friday :)

I'm honestly so glad this week is nearly over and we're seeing Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem tomorrow. I am excited. And I have Monday off work, woohooo!!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Krakow - Around the Planty

Everytime I go to start a post about Krakow, it nearly starts with 'my favourite thing about...' but really, the whole city is my favourite at the moment - and the Planty - the 'green circle' park gardens that surrounded the old town is another feature of the city that I particularly adored. Especially as our apartment was literally across the road from it and we walked around at least one part of it everyday, hurray!

{photos taken with my new fave - the yashica samurai and my fuji instax mini, hurray}

In fact, I think every city needs a park to encompass it so I can walk around in Autumn and admire the beautiful leaves! (Yes, I mean you Leeds!)

In other news my parents are coming to visit this weekend - finally - so I am very excited!

I hope you all have a great weekend!

p.s. my lovely blog friend Eadaoin from City of Blackbirds featured me in her new Inspiration Secrets blog series this week - so if you're wondering what mine are - have a look

(and say hi to Ead, I love her!)

It's Friday!!

{Thomas and I with litre(!!) tankards of Polish beer!!}

(How cool would that have been to bring home??)

Woohoooo!!

This week at work has been as hectic/bad as the one before I left for Poland, so it almost feels like we were never there - it's a good thing I have photos as proof to remind me!!

We're having a halloween party tomorrow and I am so excited, so many of our amazing friends are coming, I can't wait to see everyone all dressed up.

So, I'm going to go home from work today and forget about this lousy week and spend some quality time with some of my favourite people!!

I hope you all have amazing weekends!!

p.s. I can't wait to share more Poland and halloween photos next week :)

Busy busy Friday

I am so busy at work today its crazy but I wanted to share a little bit of Etsy love before I head home for the weekend (yeay)!

I just treated myself (either as a very late birthday present or perhaps a very early christmas one - I haven't decided yet...) to a wonderful mini 2011 calender from Lola's Room - I bet you aren't surprised that it's cameras...

{Camera love mini calender by Lola's Room}

I already have a couple of these as postcards but they are so cute and I loved the mini calender I won last year from Tina Crespo, so I brought it as soon as I saw it!

Happy weekend!!!

p.s. The lovely Cassia is having buy one get one free sales in two of her shops - find out more here!

Excited!!

I'm on the brink of a 4 day weekend (only 3 hours to go) - I can almost taste it, its so close!

Hurray!!

We're going home to Norfolk for a few days with some of our amazing friends so I'll be back on Tuesday!

Happy weekend!

p.s. I'll be back with lost of photos! We're taking the yashica slr - its actually amazing!!

I need to use this camera more...

{all taken with my yashica autofocus in Bridlington}

Happy Weekend!

p.s. Is everyone enjoying the August Break so far? I kind of miss writing... and I haven't caught up with anything blog wise (oops) but it has been fun.

Hurray, it's Friday!

{a couple of double exposures from Bolton Abbey I never got round to posting}

This week has been so exciting, I have absolutely loved celebrating my holga and I'm still incredibly excited about the giveaway, the response has been amazing! There's still a week to enter as well, hurray!

We have so many busy weekends coming up but this weekend I plan to take some photos for the swap (with helga of course), go for lunch on saturday, breakfast on sunday and hopefully start some premature packing for our impending move. It should be a busy weekend I think, I can't wait.

To finish off celebrating my holga week, here are some amazing holga related links for the weekend!

1. An amazing featured photographer on HolgaJen

(an amazing holga blog, check out her links page for more holga resources)

2. Holgas from Brighton

3. Holga Summer Love

4. A digital Holga?

(I'm not sure - I would want a small viewfinder)

5. Holga wedding photography

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Friday's little letters,

{random sign post at Caernarfon Castle}

I love a spontaneous post!

Dear Leeds,
Please let me find a nice 2 bed house with a garden, close to where we live now, with 2 storeys and good storage. I know its alot to ask, but hopefully by putting it out there something will come along...

Dear weekend,
You got here sooner than I expected and honestly this week wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but I'm still super excited to see you - you should be so much fun!

Dear Nicole,
If I could get over there and hug you I would - perhaps we need to invent some kind of teleporter??

Dear blogroll,
You take up more time than anything else on my blog does but boy are you going to look pretty! I could look at you all day!

Dear future wedding,
I can't seem to help planning you out in my head at the moment with all my friends and family getting married... When we're ready for you, you are going to be amazing!!
(We're just not ready for you yet... or even for a while... sorry!)

Dear lil sis,
I am however totally ready for your wedding! Bring it on!

Dear Toy Story 3,
Why are you not out here yet?!?!?! I'm dying over here...

Dear Inception,
I am expecting amazing things

Not just because of Leo and Joseph, though that does help

though be warned The Matrix is my favourite film :)

Dear Fridays links,
You are my favourite and I don't want to forget about you so I'm putting you right here!

1. Holga love

2. Diana love

3. Book love

4. Chocolate love

5. Coaster love

Dear next week on my blog,

I am e.x.c.i.t.e.d. You may be my most fun/best blog week ever.

(it has to happen now I've said that right?)

Dear For the easily distracted... readers,

I hope your weekends are as amazing as you are!

It's nearly the weekend!

Me and my Dad's feet from our mini holiday in April - I wish I was seeing on him Sunday for Father's Day, I miss him, but we did get him an amazing present and I'll see him soon, so its ok.

Tomorrow I'm getting my hair cut (finally) and going for lunch and shopping with one of my favourite girls... I can not wait.

I've just got to get through today first.

Happy weekend!

p.s. the photoswap will be closing later today, so if you want to take part now is your chance - I have an odd number of people!

p.p.s. Can you see his Mr Men socks? Ha, love it!

Thank goodness its Friday!

Honestly, I've never been so glad... the week did not start well and it went down hill from there. We don't have much planned this weekend other than the football, I'm oddly excited about it this year...

I completely missed Lauren's fill in the blanks last week so I decided to do them this week, here goes!

1. My dream vacation would be travelling around Europe and visiting everywhere. I want to see everything.
2. The best trip I've ever taken was Edinburgh. It was our first trip together away somewhere amazing and I want to go back!
3. The most important items to take on a road trip are I mostly agree with Lauren – good music, snacks and plenty of water.
4. The next trip I'm looking forward to is KRAKOW!!!
5. If I had to pick one CD to listen to for a long road trip it would be probably one of the ones that Thomas made me.
6. The biggest disaster I've ever encountered while traveling was we were in a bus crash at school, it wasn’t really that bad though, I haven’t had many travelling disasters luckily.
7. My favorite traveling memory is always going to be travelling to my Grandparents at Christmas when we were younger, we used to have a competition of who would see the most houses with Christmas lights. I always loved Christmas at my Grandparents.

And here are some amazing links from this week.

1. Kat's thursday treats - honestly every link is a gem - especially the yellow and the balloons. Happy sigh.
2. An illustrated stroll through Paris.
3. Some rather amazing black and white photos
4. Gorgeous sketchbook pages
5. and some fun cat pictures

Is anyone doing anything excited this weekend? I can live vicariously through you :)

Happy weekend!

Hurray its Friday!

{photo taken in Scarborough}

...and I'm not at work, the sun is shining and we're off to see my family!

(including the little man. excited!)

I hope the sun is shining wherever you are...

if not then here are some links to brighten your day :)

1. Cats with mustaches... enough said.
   (actually check out her whole blog, it is amazing!)
2. I've seen these all over tumblr but only just discovered who did them.
3. A post about cameras - because I will never get bored of them.
4. I really really want to go to Brighton!
5. Some rather pretty illustrations.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Hurray, its friday!

{Thomas always takes the best photos of me... from last weekend in Malham!}

It's another long weekend
(I love May purely for bank holidays!)
and we've got some fun things planned, I'm so excited!!

And... this time next week I'm see my family and Harry.

double excited!!

1. Yellow is for sun
2. and farmhouses...
   (I put a couple of these on my tumblr, I love!)
3. I need these plates.
4. and this book.
5. Butterflies are so pretty!

Happy weekend everyone!

and don't miss out on my camera giveaway

I'll be deciding the winner on Monday so only a few days!

Hurray for Friday's...

I love Friday's - every week I see some amazing things and I can't wait to share but first...

{Fill in the Blanks Friday inspired by the lovely Lauren!}

Todays theme - fashion

1. One fashion trend I really regret is honestly, none, even though I do cringe a bit at my bright orange jeans I used to wear, I seriously loved those jeans when I had them and part of me wishes I had as much bravery to wear them now as I did back then.

2. The one thing that always completes any outfit is a cardigan, I have so many and they are so versatile.

3. I would describe my personal style as autumnal… I tend to wear rich colours, no pinks or pastels for me… and I love cardi’s, scarves and layers – I think autumnal is the perfect word for it :)

4. My fashion muse is um… perhaps Emma Watson, she always looks lovely – most fashion icons seem to be tiny though with no curves which I find quite hard to be inspired by… I need a curvy muse!

5. If I could own one designer piece of clothing it would be... do bags count?? I would love a bright yellow mulberry bag please.

6. I would love to raid the wardrobe of anyone... it would someone who has a lot of cardigans and mulberry bags :)

7. Today I am wearing my fave jeans, a black shirt type thing which has cute buttons (with short sleeves, its sunny!) and my little black pointy flats.

and here are some amazing links for a sunny day :)

1. Diana shared an amazing website on her blog today - you have to check it out - the quotes on the right hand side are perfect - I'm up to page 15
2. A post dedicated to cardigans, hurray!
3. I am totally in love with this woman...
4. this is one of those blogs I wish I had thought of.
5. The worlds longest exposure (via wanderlust)

6. I really want a label maker! Especially these ones...
   
   
   

   Happy weekend!!
   

It's Friday and I'm blogging...

...this makes me incredibly happy!

(Inspired by the lovely Lauren at The Little Things We Do!)

It feels like ages since I blogged on a Friday, so here is a bumber edition of Lauren's fill in the blanks Friday from both this week and last week, hurray!

1. The first thing I do in the morning is hug Thomas and then go back to sleep whilst he gets up and potters around – I’m rubbish at getting up in the morning, I stay in bed as long as I can get away with.

2. Every night before bed I have to check the front door is locked at least 3 times…

3. My favorite thing to do when I'm having a bad day is cook. I’ve really started to enjoy cooking all of our food from scratch and its so therapeutic as well.

4. Something that makes me cringe is embarrassing humour. I can’t watch the office or meet the parents or anything like that… its just too embarrassing for me. I’ve only just started to appreciate Curb your Enthusiasm…

5. Social situations are my favourite, I’ve never been shy and I love to meet new people and chat.

6. I like to collect cameras… hurray!

7. Weekends are for relaxing – at least this weekend will be, I’m determined!

and...

1. The strangest thing I've ever eaten was um, I don’t know to be honest... 2011 edit: Snail! Snail is strange.

2. My best friend is friends are my favourite people in the world – I’d be totally lost without them.

3. If I could live in a different era it would be the future because I’m excited about the possibilities, I obviously watched far too much star trek when I was little!

4. I like cats but I love puppies… I’m working on it…

5. If you only know one thing about me it should be I’m overly emotional when it comes to people and things I love.

6. My favorite book of all time is The Pawn of Propehercy by David Eddings – it opened my eyes to a science fiction and fantasy world and I haven’t looked back since.

7. The one beauty product I couldn't live without is concealer.

8. Blogging is my favourite pastime, its my little haven where I have the greatest blog friends, so much creative inspiration and I love it. Especially now my reader is organised and I can keep up with all your amazing blogs – I’m comment happy, hurray!

9. If I could star in a movie with any actor/actress I would want to work with Elizabeth Taylor when she was younger… she was absolutely stunning and had such presense.

10. One of the best feelings in the world is being happy with yourself… its such a tough place to reach and I don’t feel it everyday but when I do, it’s the best.

and just to complete my Friday here are some fabulous links that I've been saving up!

I love blogging :)

1. After yesterday's tape excitement I am loving all tape inspiration!

2. After yesterday's polaroid excitement, I am loving all polaroid's too!

3. Especially this polaroid engagement story, happy sigh

(via the drifter and the gypsy)

4. The only 'Keep Calm and...' poster I have ever really really wanted... I love it.

5. Some amazing 'things I love about spring' lists from Miss James and Janel.

and

6. Some amazing yellow love sent to me by Cassie.

Thanks Cassie, you made my day!!

Happy Friday! Have a wonderful weekend!

p.s. if anyone else sees any yellow links that I may have missed send them my way, I love them!