Frocktober concluded...

When I last blogged about Frocktober, I had managed 11 days straight and I was pretty proud of myself...

Unfortunately, my run didn't last the whole month - however I did manage 20/31 days for Frocktober!! I'm so pleased with that! It was more than I expected to once it started getting cold and wet and I got sick (a few days were spent in PJ's...) and to begin with I never imagined I would even make the 11 days, let alone 20!! HURRAY

I'm so pleased to also announce that the AMAZING Anna, who inspired me to do this managed to wear a dress for the whole month(!) and she also raised her target of $500 AUD for her cause, isn't that wonderful.

Here are some outtakes of my dresses/outfits as well for your amusement, I believe you can still donate towards Anna's page, so if you are feeling generous, head on over.

p.s. A few things I learnt from Frocktober.... I love polka dots, especially brown ones, I am not willing to get wet feet for anything, I am not a fashion blogger or even anything near to one haha, I really like earthy colours and patterns and I am more than happy wearing jeans everyday!!

Much Love Monday: Paris

This week is going to be dedicated to Thomas's photos in Paris here on For the easily distracted... I've said it before but he does take amazing photos and he managed to take over 1000 in Paris (which is about 300 more than me I might add...)

I love our little photography dates - Thomas with his digital camera and me with (one of my) film cameras and Paris was like a giant week long photography date. It was so much fun!

I actually got a bit carried away watching Thomas take photos this time - he sees the world differently to how I do (for one he's a lot taller than me) and a lot of the time he captured things that I didn't even see or things that I didn't want to photograph but kind of wish I had after seeing his photos... a lot of the things he noticed that I didn't was the amazing and varied grafitti around the city.





We could both see how so many amazing artists have been inspired by Paris in the past, there was creativity and art everywhere (and hearts!) and it was so easy to take photos all day long...

So today I love Thomas, I love his photos, I love Paris, I love how different cameras suit different people, I love seeing things from different points of view and I love art and inspiration being everywhere around us.

Photographer: Thomas
Camera: Sony H7
Location: Paris, France

p.s. this post is for Anna's Much Love Monday series, read more about it here to take part.

Double exposures guest post!

You can find me gurest posting today over on Anna's blog Much Love.

We love double exposures :)

p.s. today is the last day to enter the Cut Copy Create giveaway! Don't miss out!

p.s.s. I used this pic here as it's meant to snow here again, boo!

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!

Much love Monday: We heart day trips!

We've been wanting to go to Knaresborough ever since we got the train from Headingley to York and we went over the amazing bridge with the views below and as we've got some really hectic weekends coming up, we decided this past weekend was the perfect time to do it!

I love going out for day trips around Yorkshire!

Did you see the heart? It's quite small... There's no zoom on the camera on my phone... Oh, and the cat? I only just realised the cat was there today...

And yes, I had another cupcake... it was amazing!

Much love Monday...

After an amazing weekend with my family, a lovely evening in yesterday with Thomas and lots of sunshine, I've been absolutely miserable sat at my ugly desk back at work...

However I remembered today was monday and that I had a fun picture to share with Anna and then I decided to write a list of things I love to cheer myself up...

So, today I love...

~memories of sunshine at the beach~

~winning giveaways~

(Thanks Diana and Joanna!)

~my new hat~

~amazing photo blogs~

~my new stamps above~

~ready salted crisps~

~ waiting to develop my diana mini film ~

~pacman 2p machines~

(I spent quite a bit on them at the weekend, oops)

~bingo~

oh and I love that my little sister got engaged at the weekend...

knowing that she's happy makes me feel happier.

Much Love Monday!

I was going to blog about our weekend but then this arrived!!!

I sat one of my desk so I wouldn't think about the whole box of cameras sitting behind me waiting to be explored...

I am completely in love with this kodak brownie, I've wanted one for ages and its cuteness is just wonderful...

Happy sigh...

p.s. I haven't taken part in Anna's Much Love project for ages, I've missed it :)

The one where I pretend its Monday (again...)

So I realised half way through yesterday that it was actually Monday and not Sunday and that I had promised Anna some photos for her Much Love Monday project - obviously today is not Monday... Sorry I'm late again Anna - I do have the perfect pictures though.

Last week the yellow heart sunglasses that I won on Biscuit arrived and I am totally in love with them!

...and they really love hanging out with my latest camera finds...

which I am also totally in love with!

p.s. Did you see Anna's yellow tights this week?
I really need to wear mine soon with these glasses!

p.p.s. My hair was meant to be medium brown - but its almost black.... oops!

Mail and Much Love Monday...

I love receiving and sending post and since starting my blog I have had so many amazing things come through our letterbox- I thought that today I would share some of these with you :)

Some of my favourite postcards that I have recieved - I loooove stamps and the heart is just perfect! (Anna, does it matter the heart is scanned? Oops...)

My amazing package from Rebecca as part of Megan's Stationary Swap - this swap was far too much fun - I can't wait to see what my partner things of her package!

I won Tina's giveaway!! I love her work and the calender was such a fantastic surprise you know you want to check out her shop!

I am still overwhelmed that Diana made this and sent it to me - she really is the most talented and generous person I know - I am completely in love with it - Thank you Diana - I'm still thinking of something equally as wonderful to send you. I'm not entirely sure I can top Naomi's gorgoeus drawing though... :)

My penpal letter from Nicole's Pen Pal project - I am already in love with this project and I can't wait to write back this week :) I adore the stamps!!

Hurray for post!

Much love monday...

I love...
...parcels from amazing bloggers/friends...

(I will post about these eventually, promise.)

...phone calls with my Mum...

...lying in on Sunday mornings...

...summer shoes...

...floral print tops with cardis...

...jeans that used to be too small now being too big...

...lighter evenings...

...talking about future cats and puppies...

...Anna's much love monday project
I now see pretty heart pictures everywhere...

Much love Monday...

I'm so glad that Anna is continuing her Much Love Monday project as I knew as soon as I saw this I was going to use it this week!

If I was a train conductor I would use a heart stamp too and I genuinely love getting the train - the views on the way to Edinburgh along the coast line were beautiful.

p.s. please ignore the fact that it is Tuesday today...

Much love Monday: Red

I love Anna's projects and I am becoming quite fond of hearts because of them :)

I also love wandering around taking photos and cooking homemade pizza with boyfriend on Valentines day, yum!

Much Love monday project!

I love love love Anna's blog ♥ Much Love ♥ and I knew as soon as I saw her ♥much love♥ monday project this week that I had to take a photo for it...

...so I put my heart in the snow and took a photo with my fuji instax mini - I'm so happy with how it turned out, especially as it is nothing like I expected - I have no idea why its got that purple tint to it but I think it looks perfect!

I can't wait to see everyone elses photos from this project!