Film Friday - Casse- Croute - A short nature animation

This week's film is a fun but also beautiful animation by directing duo Burcu Sankur and Geoffrey Godet called Casse-croûte which they describe as A little journey through a forest full of creatures looking for a snack.


Casse-croûte from Burcu & Geoffrey on Vimeo.

Hope you enjoy this film and thanks for reading my blog!

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For all of you wedding planning in 2017....!

Something that really made me smile over Christmas was that the amount of searches in my shop for wedding items dramatically went up which means that lots of you got engaged over the Christmas break! How exciting. Congratulations!

We had an engagement over the Christmas break in our family too and the bride-to-be has already been using Pinterest as a way to start planning her big day. 

Over the last few years my Wedding Pinterest board has grown and become quite popular. It is my absolute favourite board on my Pinterest account so today I thought I would share it with you all and hope that if you got engaged over Christmas or that you are planning a wedding this year, that it might prove useful! I try to keep it regularly updated so new pins are being added all the time.

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Film Friday - Miniature T-Shirt Printing Rig

Hello everyone!

I love seeing and hearing about other people's creativity so thought I would look for something on this theme when I was thinking of what to share with you all today for Film Friday.

Then I came across this....! So very clever and actually works really well!

Miniature T-Shirt Printing Rig from Colossal on Vimeo.

Enjoy and happy Friday :)

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Item of the week - Wanderlust globe necklace

Hey everyone!

I had a hard time choosing what the first item of the week for 2016 would be! In the end I decided to settle on this globe necklace to be the first item of the week as, as cheesy as it sounds, I feel like the world is my oyster this year!

The necklace is brand new to my Etsy shop having listed it just before Christmas. It is on a long chain which reaches just under boob length and looks super cute when worn with a cute dress (but also equally nice with jeans and a top!).

Perfect for anyone with serious wanderlust!

My favourite thing about this necklace....the globe turns!! How cute is that?!

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Inspirational Quote of the Week - Georgia O' Keeffe

Hello everyone,

Hope that you all had a fantastic weekend. Each Monday I am posting an inspirational quote of the week and today I have chosen a quote by the artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887- 1986) who is most famous for her paintings of flowers. I hope this quote will inspire you this week.

Georgia O'Keeffe - Blue and Green Music 1919

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Wordless Wednesday - Beautiful Sunflower

Hello everyone,

Today is meant to be Wordless Wednesday where I post a photograph with no words to describe it but really I am not very good at being wordless so most of the posts end up as nearly wordless wednesdays.....doesn't quite have the same ring to it does it?!

Anyway, today I wanted to share with you all this sunflower photograph I took. I was walking in town and I this planted in someone's garden facing the street. I stopped to admire it and it made me smile so I thought it would be perfect to share on the blog with you all. I have always loved sunflowers as they remind me of my Granny. She was always full of fun and joy so a sunflower perfectly summed her up and they were her favourite flower. Every time I see one I think of her and my memories of her as a child. When I think of her I think of porridge, sunflowers, her songs and rhymes, humbugs, these dolphin ornaments she used to have and let us hold for a special treat (!!) , and playing with the ducks she bought us for the bath and how counting all the coins in her penny jar was the most fun game ever! She used to write little letters to us and draw sunflowers and little snails all around the edge of the paper which I loved getting as a little girl.

Hope this sunflower makes you smile as it has made me smile too!

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Inspirational quote of the week - Albert Einstein

Hello everyone,

Hope that you all have had an amazing weekend. Did anyone do anything nice!?

Today I wanted to share with you one of my favourite quotes by Albert Einstein. I hope that it will inspire you this week!

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Happy July!

Happy July everyone!

Hope this month is a great one for you all.

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Quote of the week - Maya Angelou

Hello everyone,

Every Monday I like to post an inspirational quote and today I have picked the wise words of Maya Angelou. I hope you all have a wonderful week! 

Thanks for reading my blog

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Quote of the Week - Oscar Wilde - Art quote

Things I love this week: Cute tea infusers

(Please click the arrow keys to view more tea infusers!)

Well you probably know by now that I love tea! I do use tea bags but I also drink loose leaf tea. I have a little infuser but nothing as cute as these tea infusers so this is what I am loving this week. I am going to have to invest in a fun new tea infuser.....just got to decide which now...! At the time of writing this my favourite is the whale infusers but I think that will change by the time I finish writing this!!

What is your favourite?

Do you drink loose leaf tea and have a fun infuser?  I would love to hear from you, please leave me a comment in the comments section below.

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Style Saturday: I am very busy....drinking coffee!

Beautiful spring themed items perfect for a spring clean and freshen up of your house!

Hello everyone, 

Hope you all are having a wonderful week so far. I couldn't resist sharing with you all some beautiful Spring themed items. I am having a bit of a Spring clean at the moment and changing around the house and I bought some new home decor items to change how the house feels. Amazing what a few new items and some moving around of furniture can do for a room and how it can change the look and feel. I like the fresh, bright feel of all these items. Perfect if you feel like you need a bit of a freshen up of your home this Spring.

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Boulevard - Fantastic Fantastic video animation

Hello everyone,

I really enjoy anything creative so I stumbled across this video today and thought I would share it with you all as I thought it was rather cool!

Enjoy!!

Would love to hear your thoughts, please let me know what you think about it in the comments section below

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What I have been up to the last few weeks....

Hey everyone,

Wow, it has been a busy few weeks and nice to take some time out to reflect and tell you all what I have been up to. Highlights were the Women of the World festival on the Southbank which was AMAZING and my trip to Cornwall both of which I will tell you about in a separate blog post (as I am likely to get some excited and carried away with photos!) but in between that this is what I have been up to...

Rufus has gone on holiday/ dog training camp as he is still being a little terror! The house is so quiet without him but I have been getting little updates and it sounds like he is having a great time and hopefully will come back having made a lot of progress with his retraining. His hair is so long at the moment he looks like a little fluff ball.

I have been having some photography lessons in hope that I will be able to improve my shop photography, I have learnt lots and got to play around with this beast!  Great fun and really useful too. 

Can't wait to get going photographing new items for my shop.

A day trip to beautiful Kent. I have only been once to Kent so it was lovely to have some time to explore and have a look around. We took a day out to Scotney Castle. It is a stunning National Trust property surrounded by beautiful countryside. 

Here is the house itself, what a beautiful building. We had a little tour around the grounds, castle and house. 

and of course tea had to feature....! Check out my Moomin mug!

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Style Saturday - Cute patterned socks for cold winters days

Hello everyone,

Welcome to my third Style Saturday of 2015 (still can't get my head around it being 2015!). The theme of this Style Saturday is….well….SOCKS!

It is still cold and wet out and about so if you are anything like me you will be spending most of the time in big thick jumpers and snuggly socks! In the summer time I am a bit of a hippy child and walk around barefoot as much as possible so in the winter, if I am going to have to wear socks I might as well make sure they are nice ones! So for my Style Saturday today here is a collection of some super cute socks to brighten up the cold winter days!

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