Polaroids from the weekend...

First, I have to say that it was an absolute delight having Zoe from Ladybird Likes visit us for the weekend and even more fun helping her out with her stall on Saturday. I love it when you meet a blogger in real life and they are even nicer and lovelier in person. Also she took me for a Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate in Starbucks straight away which totally won me over :)

Knowing that I had 13 films to develop from Whitby, I originally didn't plan to take any cameras on Saturday with me (gasp) but I realised I still had half a film in my Yashica Samurai, so I had to take that (obviously) and then I remembered that I still had film for my 340 Polaroid camera too (hurray), so in the end I had a lot of fun taking photos.

Unfortunately, and really it pains me to say it, I still haven't had much luck with this Fuji FP-100C film. I did a bit of research today and I think that despite leaving it for 5 minutes that I needed to leave it for much longer, so next time, I'll just have to be really patient. If I can. I ended up editing these to make them brighter.

But how amazing does Zoe's stand look. You should check out her shop. Seriously, her items are perfect and so well made, I saw at least 10 I wanted and I know that when Zoe announces her new range very soon (I got a sneak peak, its amazing) you will all love it!

p.s. I'm getting the 14 films developed today and although my purse is crying (just a little) my heart is very happy, I can't wait to see the results, woohoo!!!!

Two exciting new shops!!

It's not very often that I blog about online shops, after permenantly putting my Etsy shop on hold, I haven't had the enthusiasm for Etsy that I used too. However, yesterday I got very excited about online shopping indeed as two of my lovely UK blog friends Elizabeth and Zoe opened their shops and now I am very excited to share them with you!
First up is Elizabeth's new shop Three Jelly Moulds and a Wardrobe...
 
If you follow Elizabeth's blog or Twitter then you know that she has been putting her shop together for a while hunting out the perfect pieces for it and I must say, her finds really are lovely. 
With a combination of vintage and retro pieces and categories such as Kitchen, Fashion, Photography and also a great £10 and under section, this vintage shop has a huge selection of delightful pieces at great prices.

Next is Zoe's new shop, Ladybird Likes...

You may recognise this shop from my last Christmas giveaway. I was very excited about Zoe's shop then and now that it's open, I am just as excited about it now.

Like Elizabeth's shop, Zoe's shop combines a lot of my favourite things - cameras, brooches, birds, dogs(!!) and photography. With beautiful necklaces, stationary, photos and postcards and a huge variety of brooches, Ladybird Likes is a fun little shop, perfect for gifts, either for your friends or just for yourself.

Having had a shop once myself, I completely understand the time and effort it takes to put one together and to show your work well. Both Elizabeth and Zoe's shops look wonderful, have amazing pieces and they are both a true testiment to their hard work and skills and
 both are definitely worth a look around, enjoy!

Some amazing projects and links!

Thomas has dubbed today as Thursday/Friday... you have to say it really fast.
It really makes me laugh when he says it.
Anyway, we are going away to Berwick-Upon-Tweed* tomorrow, just the two of us (finally!) so today is indeed Thursday/Friday. I can't wait. I have cameras at the ready!

As I have a couple of guest posts lined up by one of my besties GeeGee (who you may have seen around leaving comments or taking part in the photoswap) I wanted to share some amazing things I've seen in the blog world lately today as I won't be here tomorrow.

Here's the idea in Lindsay's words: for each installation of the project, I'll give the contributors a single word or phrase. Each contributor will submit a single picture that best represents that word or phrase for them, and then we'll see what we come up with. My idea is just to see how differently different people see and interpret the same thing. I think that this will be a really fun project, and I hope that it will grow and evolve with time. I'm thinking of one per month for starters, just to see how it goes.

How exciting does this sound and apparently it was inspired in part by me and the photo swap, how cool is that? If you love my photo swap then you will love this, I do!

Next up is the Alphabet Walk Blog Hop, from Piper at One Sydney Road.

I saw this on Katrina's blog as she also has the bunting clip art featured on the image above available on Piper's blog - I am all over that one!

What the Alphabet Walk Blog Hop is in Piper's words: you’ll choose a letter of the alphabet, grab your walking shoes and camera, and find a spot where you want to take pictures of things that represent the letter you chose. (ex: “a” could be an apple or abstract or even the letter “a”).
then on your designated day, you’ll post the picture (or pictures if you want!) of your letter on your blog. then we’ll spend the week “hopping” around to see everyone’s interpretation of the alphabet! (click here to see what i did on my walk)

Another fun idea, I love it!

And here are some amazing links for this week:
  1. Totoro cupcakes - I want one, I love Totoro.
  2. Eadaoin's gorgeous wedding on Dandelion and Grey, hurray!
  4. A lego camera and amazing polaroids from Diana
    (or just check out her whole blog :D)

Look out for GeeGee's posts tomorrow and Monday and I will be back on Tuesday hopefully with more photos to share!

p.s. don't forget about Megan's amazing giveaway, I just realised I won't be here Monday (duh Rhianne) so the closing date is extended until Tuesday!

The best weekends...

{This one is for Summer!}
Consist of:
...a plastic mustache...
...some of your very best friends*...
...a fuji instax mini...
...amazing homemade curry, chapattis and pakoras...
...a mushroom that looks like a snowman...
...a mushroom that looks like a snowman wearing a plastic mustache...
...a box bottle of wine...
...trivial pursuit (I won!)...
...a yellow cardi...
...lots of fun...

Hurray!

*they both read my blog but I would have written that anyway...
especially as I didn't take any of these photos, they did :D