An Early Christmas Present for you

I don't usually post on weekends but as its exactly two weeks until Christmas (eeeep!), I wanted to share a gift with you all - my annual freebie calendar download!

Following on from last years format which I really loved - this years calendar features photos AND inspirational quotes about photography. I also realised that over the course of this year I've taken a lot of photos that I really, really love, so I'm excited and happy to get this chance to share them with you in a more personal way rather than just photos on a blog. 

To shake things up, this year is a mixture of photo essays (4 photos together to produce a story of the location/day) and my favourite single photos of the year. I really love how it looks and I think even if I'm the only person to print it out and hang it up - I'm totally fine with that haha. However if you do like what you see... use the download button below and enjoy!! 

As always, thank you so much for reading, for looking at my photos and for taking some of your time to spend here in my little space of the internet - I've always said I have the best readers/friends through this blog and you guys have never proved me wrong!! 

~ 2016 Freebie Calendar ~

Following on from my last post about 2016 Calendars from Snapfish - today seemed like the perfect time to share my yearly freebie For the easily distracted... calendar download- hurray! Although a quick look at my blog archives is saying I didn't actually make one last year - I apologise for that - this year I am on the ball haha.

Like previous years, I've chosen my favourite photos from the last 12 months - and I actually had a lot more photos than I thought to chose from - it felt like it had been a slow photography year (its definitely been a slow blogging photos year) but I've actually taken quite a lot more photos than I realised, hurray.

As well as photos, I've also added some of my favourite photography quotes and I will admit, its those that make this so exciting to me. Sometimes I don't have the words to say how I feel about taking photos (just sometimes...) and the ones I've included really do sum up a lot of my own opinions better than I ever could.

I really love the final result so I hope that you do too - click on the following button to download your own copy.

Things no one tells you about blogging (a free e-book)

Hurray!! I'm so excited to be sharing this on here with you - my first free e-book on For the easily distracted... woop woop.

This year is my little blogs 5th anniversary. Scary huh :) It was actually 5 in February and I was quite happy to leave it as a non event, but my friends weren't so impressed about that when it happened to come up in conversation (I'm now wondering why I mentioned it haha).

So after some (not so) gentle (pestering) nudging, we tried to figure out something I could do to celebrate... and this is the result. A free ebook for my readers and blog friends.

I actually wrote most of this book last year as a possible presentation to do at Elizabeth from Rosalilium's Blognix event, but the dates didn't work out for me to be able to attend (and actually I have no idea if she would have even wanted me there haha but I suggested myself anyway, like you do...) and it has been sat in my documents file for a while just waiting to be used in one way or another.

After deciding to put it all together as a book, I knew that it needed something else to compliment it, something that wasn't my photos... something exciting and fun. 

And immediately Che from Indieberries popped into my head. I had the delight to meet Che quickly when I was last in London and she was kind enough to say yes to my request and donate her time and talents to this book. All the illustrations in the book (which are awesome) are by her and I am so pleased to see our work next to each other, it definitely adds another dimension to the book and I love it.

Also, Che has upgraded from Blogger to her own website - you should definitely check that out. She is pure talent wrapped in a lovely, (crazy), blonde bundle and I adore her.

I could happily write more about this book - but everything you really need to know - the why's, the what's, the who's and, of course, the 'thing's' are all contained inside... so without further ado, here is the link to my first ever, free, downloadable e-book, here on my little blog. I hope you enjoy it!!!

If you love it - why not share about it with your friends! Tweet, Facebook, Instagram, whatever, I don't mind, but I would truly LOVE to see it reach as many people as possible as it's a topic I feel quite strongly about and I think others do too.  Also, please let me know what you think about the book in the comments - I'm nervous and excited to see what other people make of it!

I feel like I should take this moment to thank you all so, so much for your amazing support in the last 5 years - I never imagined I would still be here when I first created my blog but I'm so happy that I am and that I've had the opportunity to meet so many amazing people and have so many great experiences because of this blog. It hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows (as this book definitely shows) but the hard work, sweat and worry have most definitely been outweighed by the positives and I hope that continues.

p.s. The book is 22 pages long, I got a bit carried away... it's good though, I promise!

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Feel free to donate...

If you really, really love this book and you feel like it is worth paying a little something something for - I've (hopefully, sneakily, indulgently, over ambitiously - any of these will work) set up a little contribution button below. I'm not really expecting anyone to use it (because free is free right and I really want people to have this book without cost being a factor) but just in case you're feeling generous (or like you've stolen quality goods haha) there is a payment button below.

Enter the price you wish to contribute in the price box once Paypal opens and then hit the Update button before processing - the currency is GBP.

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2014 Calendar Freebie

Woohoo, it's that time of year again - nearly Christmas, yeay! Which means its nearly another year and I have a gift for you!

This is my third year of making a calendar and I must say I've really looked forward to putting this one together. I haven't taken as many photos this year but the ones I have taken have been some of my favourites and I think they look great as a set too.

I hope you enjoy this gift and although its early, merry christmas!

You can download the calendar here.

p.s. It's also time for Susannah's Unravelling Workbook which is also free - you can find out more here :) I highly recommend it!