A rather beautiful weekend....

Hello everyone!

Hope that you are all having a wonderful weekend. I have had the most lovely weekend so thought I would share with you all some photographs of what I have been up to.

I am attempting to be super organised with my blogging and put up photographs and write the blog post as it is happening/ just after rather than what I normally do is take lots of photographs so I can share them with you all, upload them to my computer and save them ready to start my blog post, get distracted and end up not writing the blog post, keep looking at the photographs and pondering about which ones would look best on the blog, keep saying to myself that I should write a blog post and then realising a few months later that they are still sat there on my desktop! Eek!! I have a folder of trips, places I have been and cool photographs all for my blog which have never been uploaded. It is a little like a blog photograph graveyard! Ooops!

So... I am sat here on Sunday afternoon in my front room which looks out over the garden typing this blog post for all of you. I have spent lots of today outside as it has been beautifully sunny with blue skies. It has been so lovely out.

FRIDAY

This week has been quite a busy week so I couldn't wait until the weekend. Friday seemed to go by at snails pace (as it always seems to do when you are counting down to something!) so I put on some cheesy songs and cracked into my lollipops! YUMMY!

SATURDAY

On Saturday one of my best friends came to visit. We have not seen each other for a while so it was so nice to see her and catch up. I went to pick her up from the station and then we went for breakfast in the park with lots of yummy breakfast food. Croissants, yogurts, mango and watermelon and an innocent smoothie....mmmm!

After our picnic we went for a stroll and came across this beautiful field of wildflowers. They were so beautiful.

She also came with lots of gifts for me and I got totally spoilt! She even made me these beautiful handmade bath bombs with petals. They smell incredible!

SUNDAY

Today I spent most of the time out in the garden but when it got too hot I came inside for a while and decided to do something creative so got out my pens and started drawing.

My friend also bought me some of those adult colouring pages so I had a go at those. It was really relaxing to sit and colour for a while so going to have a look on Etsy to see if I can find any more colouring designs.

Thanks for reading

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend

The Dorothy Days X

Big achievement for The Dorothy Days

Hello everyone :),

How are you all ?! Hope that you all had a wonderful weekend. I had a really lazy Sunday but did actually achieve quite a bit on Saturday so had a nice excuse for a proper day off. Saturday night we had a crazy amount of rain and over night it washed away all the snow. Was very strange waking up to green grass and clear roads!

I have also hit a rather big milestone in my shop.....I have finally reached 100 listings!!! Horray horray!!!! My 100th listing was a beautiful set of vintage lace bobbins :). I opened my little Etsy shop one lovely sunny August afternoon and reaching 100 listings has always been one of my biggest goals since opening. Feels wonderful to have finally achieved it and I have a feeling that this year is going to be a good one for my shop :).Reaching my goal of 100 listings has made me reflect back on how far my little shop has come since opening and it is something that I am really proud of :).

My first ever listing in my shop was this little pack of gift tags that I made. I listed them on the 15th of August, the same day as I opened my shop.

and funny enough my first ever sale in my shop was the brown version of these heart gift tags! When I got my first ever sale I was so so happy, such a great feeling. I jumped out of my chair because I was so happy! I still even to this day get a rush every time I make a sale in my shop. Back when I opened and during the first few months of my shop being open I only really had tea cups and gift tags for sale and the shop was very small with just a handful of items for sale at any one time. I didn't have any of my handmade jewellery which is crazy to think now as my jewellery makes up the majority of my shop! I also didn't have things like my twitter account or blog until much later. Really pleased that my shop has changed, evolved and grown so much in the last year and a half and hopefully this year it will continue to do so. Thank you all for your support, I couldn't have done it without it so it really means the world to me and thank you to all my fellow Etsy sellers who I have learnt so much from and who have given such wonderful advice.

Best wishes to you all :)
The Dorothy Days