Guest post: Clare

Hi everyone, I’m Clare and I blog at A Wee Bit of Cake where you guessed it, it’s all about my love of cake!

I’ve known Rhianne for almost 10 years now. We met on our first day at uni (we did the same course) and have been friends ever since. No matter what the past 10 years has thrown at us our friendship has continued to flourish and now she’s going to be one of my bridesmaids at my wedding next year.

I was going to do a post all about cakey stuff but now I’ve started writing about our friendship, maybe that’s the route this post needs to follow.

I was there at the start when Rhianne started to delve into film photography and bought her first Holga camera. I remember sitting across from her in Yo Sushi when she first told me she had set up the blog and never did I imagine it would take her on such a journey, both emotionally and physically. She loves cameras (you should see her house) and gets the same thrill from developing photos as I do from making a cake – you have the skills and ingredients, you just have to hope when it comes out of the oven /photo lab that the results are a success.

I’ve been there as she fought with her Diana Mini to get the photos to work, she’s been there to see my cake skills develop and if anything, it’s reading For The Easily Distracted that got me interested in blogging and made me decide to set up my own wee corner of the baking world.

Anyway, enough of my rambles! Rhianne will probably kill me for this but here are a few photos from over the years. She’s probably also going to have a little cry now, she’s the emotional one of the two of us and calms down my fiery Irishness!

{  Masquerade Ball (2006), Graduation – ready to take on the world! (2008), Random trip to Belfast (2008), One of the first cakes I ever made Rhianne, I cringe now when I look at it! (2010), Bridesmaids at GeeGee’s wedding  (2014)  }

Enjoy Portugal Rhianne, wish I could have a week in the sun!

Lovely little details

My first full roll of 2014 is possibly my favourite roll of photos ever - in fact there was only one photo in the entire roll that I was unhappy with. That has never happened before. I can only show a few photos here as the roll of photos was a gift to one of my best friends on her wedding day (technically her second wedding day, she got married in a different continent but had another wedding day here in the UK) but here as a few lovely details of that day that I wanted to capture forever.

It was a gloriously sunny day, with golden hues and I was so so happy about that, in fact, it couldn't have been any more perfect light wise. The rest of the day was also wonderful, full of love and happiness - like any wedding should be :)

Camera: Olympus OM-10
Film: Agfa Vista 200
Location: Uffington, England

 

Instax photos from the weekend...

I haven't used my instax mini much this year as I've been distracted by my polaroid land camera, but this weekend with my friends I decided was a perfect time to use a pack of film that I've had sitting around for a while, and I'm really glad I did.

These photos are a mixture of shots from the Cow and Calf Rocksin Ilkley and also some from feeding the ducks Otley in Yorkshire, I love how the beautiful country side is only 5/10 minutes drive away from Leeds and these shots show the stunning views so well. (You can also see that it was cold, brrr!)

Location: Ilkley and Otley, Yorkshire
Camera: Fuji Instax Mini