Where to start...

Yesterday I got 148 photos developed, some from the past week and a couple from York with Adele and I have no idea where to start sharing them, I haven't even put all of the last black and white diana mini film on Flickr yet... I'm not complaining though, I am delighted! I can't believe I've taken so many photos already this year... YEAY!

Anyway, the lovely Elizabeth suggesting closing my eyes and picking one at random, so today's post is going to be about doors and doorways... they seem to be my new fascination.

{The perfect yellow door, Henley in Arden. Diana mini with Lomography Colour Negative ISO 400 film This is totally going in my shop btw, eventually...}

{Church Door, Stratford Upon Avon. Yashica Samurai with Lomography Colour Negative ISO 400 film}

{Doorway in Stratford. Yashica Samurai with Lomography Colour Negative ISO 400 film}

{The prettiest door in Bourton-on-the-Water surrounded by my favourite - Costwolds Brick. Happy sigh. Yashica Samurai with Lomography Colour Negative ISO 400 film}

I think I'm going to have to start using my yashica samurai more, its the perfect companion to a lomography camera as it has a great zoom feature (which I do miss sometimes) and you can take double the amount of photos per roll which is fun, especially as I love the square diana mini's too much to use it as a half frame camera anymore...

p.s. Colour photos I still adore you, that yellow is unbelievably perfect!

Oh my...

Sugar & Hatter is the combined talents of two young(ish!) ladies from Norfolk - one of which I have the pleasure of knowing. Both have been making vintage inspired accessories since they were able to pick up a needle and thread and together they have opened a new shop of lovely hair accessories.

I was incredibly fortunate to get to wear a lovely felt creation by one of the ladies for one of my best friends wedding (over a year ago now?!) and I'm definitely buying something else for an up and coming wedding this month too.

As well as having a lovely shop, Sugar and Hatter also have a great new blog so check them out!

Bourton on the Water Part 1

For 3 years of my childhood we lived in Oxfordshire and one of my favourite places that I remembered visiting from that time was Bourton-on-the-Water (the website says the Venice of the Cotswolds, I like that description!).

As it was absolutely glorious weather at the weekend, it was understandably busy with tourists and families visiting to paddle in the water so of course we joined in...

Luckily, Bourton was just as cute and lovely as I remembered and we had the best day out!

I'm back!

Over the past week we have

~been to two castles ~
~paddled in streams ~
~ seen lots of lambs, calves and ducklings ~
~eaten in 8 different restaurants ~
(Wimpy is included Dad, haha!)
~ and had some amazing desserts ~
~ and two delicious ice creams ~
~ sat in a hot tub at 7am ~
~ visited some childhood haunts ~
~ seen some stones dated back to 3000 bc ~
~ got lots of hugs from family and friends ~
~ traveled for about 10 hours through various means ~
~taken a lot of photos with at least 4 cameras ~
~ visted Shakespeares Grave ~
~enjoyed the Cotswolds ~
~listened to the royal wedding on the radio ~
(we're bad Brits, oh well)
~ had so much fun ~

I can't wait to blog all about it!!