My favourite phot swap trend...

I loved holding the photoswap in the summer this time around because one trend I noticed was...


1. 33290015, 2. Untitled, 3. Photoswap, 4. Photo07_5A, 5. Untitled, 6. 33290016

Sunflowers!! Aren't they pretty!

For more photos in the swap, check out the flickr group - theres nearly 800 photos in there now!

p.s. I've hit a bit of a bloggers block - it's odd!

My name is Rhianne and I am easily distracted...

From Notebookdoodles to Me

Can you believe its nearly October?! I'm hugely surprised by this and honestly a little caught unaware! I meant to write this post ages ago... oh well.

Last year when we went on holiday to Wales I asked for some bloggers to help with guest posts under the title 'My name is ..... and I am easily distracted...' and this year I would love to have more people guest post for me whilst we are away following the same theme...

So are you interested?!

I had a great response to this and have guest posters all lined up - thank you to everyone who wanted to help me out :)

I really hope people are excited as I absolutely adored reading the guest posts last year and I love a good blog series!

Much Love Monday!

It's been such a long time since I took part in Much Love Monday on Much Love, I'd forgotten how much I love it!

Did you see Katrina from Pugly Pixel's camera collection last week? And all the resulting links to camera collections...? Wow!! I am in camera heaven!

I actually meant to start taking pictures of my cameras over the weekend to put together a camera collection post of my own (Katrina's right, I seem to have gathered together alot of cameras...) but I got distracted charity shop shopping and wanted to share my latest camera find with you first....

ohhhh, it folds... and its metal...

... and it sharpens pencils!!

Did I fool you? Probably not... but it was fun trying... It's already made friends with my cute Diana keyring and now its sat happily at my work desk with its new sheep friend!
(although I haven't actually sharpened a pencil with it yet...)

Hurray for cameras, I love them! Best 79p I spent all weekend!

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!

Leeds Town Hall

*Warning - this post contains some rubbish phone pictures but it was so fun I'm posting them anyway!*

On the Sunday morning of our BBQ we ventured into Leeds for Heritage day - as part of the day certain buildings were opened up in the city to look around for free and the Town Hall was one of them.

Although my phone didn't work particularly well inside, I did get some lovely fuji's of the outside.

As well as the main hall we also looked around the old court rooms where Thomas got to be the Judge... unfortunately I was to be sent to the cells below!

I want to go back to Edinburgh!

Remember way back in March when we went to Edinburgh?

It seems like such a long time ago now... but these beautiful holgas sent from the lovely Wendy to the equally lovely Marisa (honestly, I adore them both) has made me want to go straight back there... its really not that far from Leeds...

I love Edinburgh, holgas, the photoswap and all my photoswappers, hurray!!

For more photos see Wendy and Marisa's blogs!

p.s. How have I only just seen these ladies?! I've been under a rock I'm sure...

Our first ever BBQ

So this was a little while ago now but the Sunday after my birthday, Thomas and I hosted our first BBQ! We went all out! We made our own BBQ sauce and garlic mayonaise, we had beer butt chicken, chilli, burgers, sausages, olives, salad, the works... and it was amazing!! I want to have another one already...

{In the garden with Mum and Lil Sis!}

{The BBQ's!}

{BBQ'ing in our new shoes! oh my, mine are so pretty!}

{Yum!}

And to top it all off, C made me a DIANA CAMERA birthday cake!!! Isn't it amazing??? And it was delicious!!

Thomas takes amazing photos!

As part of the photo swap, Thomas sent his photos to the lovely Allyn from All Things Ami and these were the result. I'm so delighted they turned out as last year his film disappeared which he was disappointed with...

I'm definitely making him take the Yashica Autofocus to Poland with us, I love his photos and that camera is a dream...

You can see the rest of his photos here and nearly 700 more in the flickr group, its my new favourite distraction!

p.s. eep, I love him, just thought I should say :)

Ohhh, you're my best friend...

{Post title sung in Queen fashion is required...}

**Warning there will be a number of these posts because... well my friends are amazing!! Both my life friends and my blog friends - and I couldn't be more grateful. **

First up - a much waited for post dedicated to my lovely K...

Over the August bank holiday, K gave me a box for my birthday present and inside was lots of cameras!! 6 cameras to be precise - 2 polaroids, a box brownie(!!!), 2 35mm cameras... and the final camera was K and her sisters old Action Tracker (now named action sampler on Lomography) from when they were little... how amazing is that?!

Note: there are photos of me opening the box but they are still being edited...

its on here now G - you have to send them to me, haha!

How did K know that I've been looking at multi lens cameras for a while now?!

Of course I immediately put a film in it and here are some of my favourite photos from the bbq that my Mum has pretty much every year... I may have used most of the film within the space of a couple of hours, oops!

Action Harry!

Peek a boo!

Catch!

Twirl!

Turn and... smile!

(sneaky Thomas...)

Lens flare!

Thanks K!!

(and hi to P!)

I love my friends :)

(and cameras...)

Happy weekend!!

It's Friday...

and boy am I glad about that...

it also means giveaway winners!!

I hope you all loved the shops involved, if you have a chance, please have another look around, they are all lovely shops and I'm still so thrilled they agreed to take part :)

The winner of a print of their choice from Violet May is...

Katrina From Pugly Pixel

The winner of a print of their choice from Courtney Oquist is...

Paige Tayna from Bliss

The winner of the 'Afternoon Tea' print from City of Blackbirds is...

Elizabeth from Adam & E

The winner of the custom yellow neckalace from It's Olive is...

Rebecca from Two Become Four

Congratulations - I'll be emailing you asap!

New film crush...

Honestly, I've never been too bothered about the film that I used in my cameras before, as long as it worked and the colours looked bright, I was happy. However, lately after looking on Lomography and seeing their range of films, I've been excited about the possibilities that different films can have.

And then... two photoswappers used redscale film in the swap and now... I'm completely in love!

{Photos by Elle from Diana Mini Love taken with a LC-A+ and sent to Jenni from Absented Minded}

{Photos by Gali from Where is Gali? and sent to Valiant V}

I can not wait to try this film out myself. I think it might just be perfect to take to Poland!

p.s. my birthday giveaway ends tomorrow! Go enter, its amazing!

Photoswap Update!

Last time that I announced an update on here about the Photoswap, the Flickr group had 210 photos... well now it has over 600! How amazing is that?

This post is just let you know that I have updated the Photoswap blog sidebars and link bar - adding a about the swap section and, more importantly, a how to take part section which includes a form to join the new Photoswap Mailing List that I have created!

(Aren't mailing lists fun!)

If you are interested in joining the next photoswap - or just on getting the latest updates of the swap in a newsletter then please join the mailing list !!

Now just to add all the latest photos...

I feel like I should be wearing this today...

{The Perfect Autumn Ensemble by Pop Pop Portraits}

It's definitely feeling Autumnal outside!

p.s. Sorry for being MIA - I caught a rather nasty cold and am slowly catching up with everything...

p.p.s. Thank you for the amazing birthday comments, you guys are unbelievably fantastic!

Birthday giveaway - Closed

Thats right, tomorrow I turn the dreaded 25 - honestly I'm not 100% happy about that - it feels like there are alot if things I should have done before 25 but still, as Jenni reminded me - its a great celebration and it's not that big a deal.

So to celebrate, I decided to spread the love with some things from my birthday list - alot of the lovely people featured have generously contributed towards this celebration and I think thats the best gift I could get... I love blogging and celebrating that is one of my favourite things!

With 4 prizes, there will be 4 winners! So here goes!

You could win... a print of your choice from Violet May

You could win... a print of your choice from Courtney Oquist

You could win... Afternoon Tea Print from City of Blackbirds

and finally, you could win... A custom yellow bow necklace made especially for this giveaway from It's Olive!!

How amazing are these prizes?! These are some of my favourite shops and people at the moment so please show their shops some love!

This giveaway is now closed

Thank you to everyone involved!

On the Broads...

Best day ever!

All photos taken with my new favourite Yashica Samurai, I love!

(though I dont know how to turn the date off which is frustrating...I'm not even sure the date is right on those...)

Oh my...

How stinking cute is this card from Dude and Chick, I love it!

Thanks Alyssa for sending me the link :)

p.s. Project You is having another massive giveaway this week, as part of Spectacular September and you can win two of my prints! Check it out!!

Let's go fly a kite...

Have you ever seen a dog try to catch a kite?

Funniest thing I've ever seen.

It could have stayed doing that for hours if it hadn't been called away...

Around Wells with a yashica camera...

I know I blog about Wells-Next-The-Sea and my yashica cameras alot, but I really do love them

(and I'm sure you do now too, haha!)

and together they create something quite lovely.

I seriously just want to take this camera out to play all the time now - I think it's just become a contender to go to Poland with us...