Happy Birthday to my lickle Sis...


Happy birthday Mikela!!!

You complained that there wasn't enough photos of you, so here you are :)
I love you, even if you are taller than me now...

Have a wonderful day!

This photo cracks me up - I was obviously a confused witch or ghost...
and you can just see Mikela's face, hahaha.
We were cool.

Edit: Mikela insist's we are both still cool.
I think not quite as cool as this though :)

A little celebration with a dash of honesty...

So far this week has sucked.
After such an amazing weekend, it seems even worse than it actually is in comparison.

Mostly I've been disappointed... and there's nothing you can do about being disappointed in something. It's beyond your control and all you can really do is react to a situation... and this week I've been so surprised, I haven't really reacted well (especially with unexpected ankle pain too). Sometimes I wonder if I set my expectations too high... but right now, I think that my expectations are just right and that if I'm disappointed then perhaps there is a good reason for it.

Anyway, I'm trying to write this post about how the week may be turning around... and how
somehow my little blog manages to turn my frown upside down
(admittedly I have failed slightly at this and just ranted... oops. it feels good though haha)

This month is my little blogs 2nd birthday.
Can you believe that? I'm pretty sure it's first birthday was only yesterday... but there you go. Time flies when you're having fun.
and....
this morning I woke up to 600 followers through blogger!!

600 you guys!!! I still can't believe it - my faith in myself has just burst through the roof. It astounds me that so many people have stuck around and you still want to read along...

For some reason I really struggled with 500 - I hit a solid wall of terror. Alot of my favourite blogs when I started (years ago now haha) had around 500 followers, I thought perhaps it was a fluke... and people would start to drop away, bored of photos and my small obsession with cameras. There was no way my blog was as good as my favourite blogs...

But now, perhaps I'm starting to believe it is - that my photos are good enough, that my life is worth sharing... it's funny how it can take 2 years, some cameras, 600 amazing strangers and alot of worrying to realise something like that.

I don't have any massive giveaways planned to celebrate or anything really to offer you - I'm a little too unorganised for that... (that and I outdid myself with Diana mini week!) so really I'm just writing this post to say thank you.

Thank you for reading, thank you for sticking through the good and the bad, thank you for your comments, emails, messages, tweets etc... thank you for supporting me and in turn, my blog and shop... and thank you for being you.

Happy Wednesday lovelies! The week can only get better now right??

It's in the bag... blog crawl.

A Hasty Life
You've probably seen some other bloggers taking part in Ashley from 'A Hasty Life' It's in the bag blog crawl.... it's been really fun reading the previous posts so far!
(see here for everyone taking part, its quite epic...)

I've always meant to do one of these posts but as I started I remembered that my bag isn't really that glam and thats prob why I haven't actually done one before, haha, but here goes anyway...

First up - the bag. I got this Nica bag for christmas a couple of years ago from Thomas and I use it everyday, I love it. Especially the flower. I have a complete weakness for Nica bags, I'll have one in each colour one day!!!

Next... my stuff. I have so much stuff... I have become my Mum, haha.

1. Vaseline (1 of 2, not sure how that happened)

2. House keys - I love my practical torch keyring!
3. Hair ties and pins... they are everywhere!
4. YELLOW ipod (love!) and my new amazing headphones.
5. Another torch - I like to be practical.
6. My fave colourful umbrella I've had for ages now, it always cheers me up in the rain
(and it rains alot here, haha)
7. Benefit erase paste, I wear it everyday. It is amazing.
8. Cute mirror from my parents :)
9. Rimmel Mascara, I wear it everyday. It is amazing.
10. Work keys and bottle opener key with my cute diana keyring.
11. Hand gel.
12. Another vaseline, another (Kath Kidson, cute) mirror and some headache tablets.
13. USB sticks - where all my photos live.
14. My Matthew Williamson purse, I love it, how my sister found it when it was sold out everywhere else is beyond me :)
15. Air mail stickers (for sending etsy things, hehe)
16. Fuji Instax Minis - these are also everywhere lol.
17. Important things like railcards and post its!
18. Hair brush - should really be with number 3, oops.
19. Phone cable - as good as the camera is - it dies fairly quickly now...
20. My fave scarf.
21. Healthy snacks!
How was that? Not too boring I hope...

Don't forget to visit A Hasty Life to see the list of other bloggers involved and perhaps visit a blog you haven't seen before (I'm heading over to A Bloggable Life tomorrow!)
p.s. I'm going home tomorrow to surprise my Nanna on her bday (shes 70!) but I do hope to post something... it will prob end up being pictures of Harry haha.