Photoswap update!!

First here are the latest photoswappers that have uploaded photos since I last updated - they have all turned out amazingly and I am still so excited when I see new photos that have turned out beautifully!

Beautiful English countryside photos taken by Anton and sent to Kattrina

Gorgeous (accidental) black and white photos of San Francisco taken by Evelyn and sent to Alyson

Amazing photos of America and Ecuador taken by Kattrina and sent to Anton

Stunning black and white photos in the snow taken by Marisa and sent to Saskia

Pretty photos taken by Beth and sent to Janis

Stunning black and white photos of New York taken by Paulina and sent to Carly
Also, I have finally started putting together all the photos - instead of making a post I decided to just do a whole blog! What do you think so far? I still have a number of peoples photos to put together on individual posts but I think its ready to share now :)

However, as happy as I am about all the photos that have been featured so far, I am still a little disappointed that out of the 64 that took part in the swap, only 25 sets of photos have been uploaded (that I am aware of, if I have missed you then please let me know)

I know that people have been incredibly busy moving house, doing exams, etc and I honestly don't want to harrass but I am going to be sending individual emails out so if you could just update me on your situation then that would be so helpful.

Thank you so much to everyone who has been involved, I can't wait to see how the photoswap blog looks when its all finished :)

Shop Update and January Sale!!

Finally!! I've been planning this since before christmas and it has taken me forever to get round to sorting everything out but I am ready!

Today I have added 5 of my favourite recent photos to my shop, I hope you all love them as much as I do! (You can click on a photo to get to the individual item page)

Throughout the next (and last) two weeks of January
is having a buy one get one free sale - just state the name of the print that you would like free in the message to buyer box when checking out.

Happy shopping :)

p.s. Due to people I work with now following my Twitter I can't really put anything about my shop on there which is kind of frustrating... I'm thinking of making a seperate twitter account for my shop and I guess my question is: is it worth it? and would you follow it for shop updates if I did make one??

Happy 101 award

Firstly a massive (and mildly sheepish) thank you to everyone who left comments and tips on my last post... as soon as I hit publish and completely admitted to myself (and you) that I was struggling - everything didn't seem so bad and your comments were so uplifting and supportive.

Hidden amongst the comments was the Happy 101 award from the lovely Courtney at

Just a Little Mishap

Thank you Courtney, this was just what I needed to cheer me up and to start this week on a positive note!

Rules: List ten things that makes you happy and do one of them today. Oh. And remember to link to the person who tagged you and pass this little bit of love on to others.

I love happy lists, so here goes!

1. Seeing Boyfriend happy makes me happy! He started a new job today and when he rang me at lunch it sounded like it was going well - he deserves some good luck so yeay!

2 This little puppy is melting my heart at the moment - I seriously can not wait until we can get one (and yes I will be dressing my puppies in cute little jumpers too)

3. Homemade quorn cottage pie which was rather healthy looking until we put an unhealthy amount of cheese on top - and theres leftovers for sometime this week, yummmm!

4. The whole lace and tape section at Papermash! I looove.

5. Terry's chocolate orange, yum!

6. Kung Fu Panda

"There is no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness..." (teehee)

7. Randomly remembering funny parts from films (including number 6) and laughing to myself, much to the bewilderment of people around me (apart from Boyfriend who knows me too well)

8. My sony E-reader... I haven't read this much in a long time and I love it.

9. Loco Roco 2 - possibly the happiest and cutest game ever!

10. Making exciting plans for this year, its going to be fun!

And some lovely ladies that I'm going to pass this onto:

Chloe from Sean and Chloe

Courtney from Green and Pretty

Soul Jane

Lise from Every Last Drop

Rogue from Little blog of Horrors

p.s. I sorted out my reader, woohoo, it is now much more managable and the thing I'm going to do is eat some Terry's chocolate orange (even if it is Boyfriend's!)

Dearest blogging world...

You are amazing!

But sometimes I bite off more than I can chew.

Before Christmas I was completely overwhelmed with blogging - the constant 800+ in my reader despite how much I read, the huge number of comments that I hadn't replied too, the followers blogs that I hadn't looked at or commented on...

...and although I was energised and ready to sort this head on once I got back - being sick has once again left me totally overwhelmed and I honestly feel so stressed.

I want to reply to everyones comments, I want to look at all my followers blogs but these things take time and time is something that I seem to have less and less of.

So... I'm clearing out my reader, the blogs I follow and my head - too many blogs that I don't really read properly are taking away my time from the ones I love and taking time away from enjoying my own blog (and the photoswap, I haven't forgotten about it...) which really is why I'm here.

Being a good blogger is incredibly hard work and I want to be a great blogger - not a good blog skimmer and I want to enjoy blogging again. So bear with me for a while whilst I clear out all the cobwebs and hopefully my blog, my shop (which I have woefully abandoned for a while) and I will be ready to face 2010 properly!

Thank you again for being so patient with me, I am still amazed by all the lovely comments I get and amazing followers that I have :)

love Rhianne