Courtesy of a quite exciting new app I've made a collage of highlights from last month...I must get round to actually scrapbooking them!
Sunday, 20 March 2011
My February Highlights
Courtesy of a quite exciting new app I've made a collage of highlights from last month...I must get round to actually scrapbooking them!
Thursday, 24 February 2011
DrinkShopDo
I just went to the most amazing place!
www.drinkshopdo.com
It's tucked away behind kings cross station and is totally worth a visit! Everything in there is for sale, you can even buy the cup they serve your tea in. We played scrabble, ate cake and you can even knit!
Monday, 3 January 2011
2010
I have had so little time to blog, I haven't even read blogs! I haven't scrapbooked for months and I'm getting withdrawl symptoms! Sorry I've been away, I've been starting a new job...it's been daunting and scary and exciting and I miss my boss who I've taken over from a lot! But anyhow when it comes to the end of December I love to look back over the year and have enjoyed reading everyone elses too, so here's my 2010...
JANUARY
Started with snowy walks and wintery weather, went to IKEA, saw my family and enjoyed a cold day out at Kew Gardens
FEBRUARY
Was a fabulous month, including my birthday, treat to see Strictly Come Dancing on tour, over night stay in Brighton, a lovely valentines day, a half term trip to Dorset and Adam enjoying pancake day with my littlest sister. We spent a long weekend in Devon with Adam's family.
MARCH
A less fabulous month trying to take hormone regulating drugs that made me feel so so yuck. But we did have an amazing day at work, this is my amazing boss singing 'A whole new world' on Disney Singstar...I mean singing in the loosest sense of the word.
APRIL
Back to my old self and had a great Easter in Dorset, Adam's Grandparents came to stay and we took them to our favourite place in London, Golders Hill Park. We went to a wedding a beautiful location, visited an animal sanctuary and went on a date in Southend, met up with my mum and sisters in Winchester and took my kids club on a great weekend away.
MAY
Went to Madame Tausards with some very good friends for Bank Holiday, Adam was on TV on a programme called hospital heroes. We went to Centerparcs with my Mum, Dad and Sisters and had a truly wonderful weekend.
JUNE
I spent a week in hospital having an emergency cystectomy...not fun. Adam's sister got married...very fun. Went for a picnic, met up with childhood friends and had a lovely evening celebrating Grannie's 80th birthday.
JULY
We moved flat with the help of some wonderful friends, we went to many BBC recordings courtesy of some of those same great friends, my brother and his wife came over from America and had a wedding ceremony this side of the pond and our friend had a baby, called Isaac.
AUGUST
I went to hospital, again. It was long, painful and extremely tedious. Adam turned 25. And on the 31st August we flew to Dublin to spend 3 relaxing days in the countryside, recovering from the summer.
SEPTEMBER
We enjoyed the last day of sun in London town. Went to the butterfly house with my family and I gained 3 new colleagues at long last!
OCTOBER
I went on a fantastic team building retreat with my boss and colleagues. Adam's grandparents came to stay, we took them to Kew Gardens and on a Thames River cruise. We went to Devon and Cornwall with Adam's mum and her husband. I took Lydia to see Billy Eliot in Victoria.
NOVEMBER
I had another operation, spent a few weeks in bed. At the end of the month we went for a blissful, relaxing, snowy spa day. Lush.
DECEMBER
Lots more snow, lots of work, lots of Christmas based activities. I cooked my first Christmas dinner and we shared with wonderful friends.
2010 felt quick. Very quick.
Happy New Year blogland x
JANUARY
Started with snowy walks and wintery weather, went to IKEA, saw my family and enjoyed a cold day out at Kew Gardens
FEBRUARY
Was a fabulous month, including my birthday, treat to see Strictly Come Dancing on tour, over night stay in Brighton, a lovely valentines day, a half term trip to Dorset and Adam enjoying pancake day with my littlest sister. We spent a long weekend in Devon with Adam's family.
MARCH
A less fabulous month trying to take hormone regulating drugs that made me feel so so yuck. But we did have an amazing day at work, this is my amazing boss singing 'A whole new world' on Disney Singstar...I mean singing in the loosest sense of the word.
APRIL
Back to my old self and had a great Easter in Dorset, Adam's Grandparents came to stay and we took them to our favourite place in London, Golders Hill Park. We went to a wedding a beautiful location, visited an animal sanctuary and went on a date in Southend, met up with my mum and sisters in Winchester and took my kids club on a great weekend away.
MAY
Went to Madame Tausards with some very good friends for Bank Holiday, Adam was on TV on a programme called hospital heroes. We went to Centerparcs with my Mum, Dad and Sisters and had a truly wonderful weekend.
JUNE
I spent a week in hospital having an emergency cystectomy...not fun. Adam's sister got married...very fun. Went for a picnic, met up with childhood friends and had a lovely evening celebrating Grannie's 80th birthday.
JULY
We moved flat with the help of some wonderful friends, we went to many BBC recordings courtesy of some of those same great friends, my brother and his wife came over from America and had a wedding ceremony this side of the pond and our friend had a baby, called Isaac.
AUGUST
I went to hospital, again. It was long, painful and extremely tedious. Adam turned 25. And on the 31st August we flew to Dublin to spend 3 relaxing days in the countryside, recovering from the summer.
SEPTEMBER
We enjoyed the last day of sun in London town. Went to the butterfly house with my family and I gained 3 new colleagues at long last!
OCTOBER
I went on a fantastic team building retreat with my boss and colleagues. Adam's grandparents came to stay, we took them to Kew Gardens and on a Thames River cruise. We went to Devon and Cornwall with Adam's mum and her husband. I took Lydia to see Billy Eliot in Victoria.
NOVEMBER
I had another operation, spent a few weeks in bed. At the end of the month we went for a blissful, relaxing, snowy spa day. Lush.
DECEMBER
Lots more snow, lots of work, lots of Christmas based activities. I cooked my first Christmas dinner and we shared with wonderful friends.
2010 felt quick. Very quick.
Happy New Year blogland x
Monday, 18 October 2010
a scrappy kind of day...
I haven't done a LO in months! I can't believe it's the 18th October...where has this term gone, last week before half term...how?! Anyway, today I have the day off it's nearly 5pm and I'm still in my pjs, all I've eaten is chocolate mints and piece of marmite toast and all I've done is watch iplayer and scrapbook. I'm content. So here is the productivity of my day...
Back to scrapping
So how have you been? I've missed the scrapping world for the last few months. A friend of mine asked me to scrap her sisters wedding with all the bits she'd kept over the day. I bought an ikea box frame and sprinkled confetti in the bottom, then made a simple page with a photo and bits of the order of service and pieces from the flower girls wands. My friend was happy and so was I considering how long it's been since I scrapped! Hope you're well, thanks for stopping by, hx
Saturday, 28 August 2010
My Wedding Story (the shortish version) !!
What with Shimelle's week of wedding blog posts I felt inspired to share a few of the details from my wedding day! Sorry the photos aren't so professional looking because I don't have the photographers copies on this laptop but the story it was matters...here goes...
This is me and him on the BEST day of our lives. It was completely fabulous! I couldn't wait to be married to Mr Adam Feery so we set the time for the service as 11am! Never have I been to an earlier wedding...but I was ready at 10.20am and desperate to get there! Trouble was my parents house is less than 2 minutes from Church so I had a looong wait!
It was a very countryish kind of day, everything was made out of brown paper and copious amounts of rafia string, with lavender and saltdough hearts adorning everything in sight! This was the flower of choice, a 'blue moon' coloured rose, my bouquet was full of them as well as some white ones, some darker purple ones and of course some lavender!
About now I should tell you the story of my dress. This was my original gown of dreams, I wanted lots of flowery detail around one hip so this one fitted the plan nicely...
My lovely lovely dad ordered it and 5 weeks before my wedding it arrived and I went for my first fitting. Now I'd ordered this dress in white. The shop owner tried to talk me out of it, she said no one ever wears white these days and that it hardly suits anyone. But I wanted white. Proper white. Because a) white does suit me and creamy colours really don't and b) I had managed, with all the world's pressures and temptations, to arrive at my wedding day a virgin bride and being the traditional kind of girl I am I felt it was my right to wear white! With this in mind you can imagine my deep disappointment when what greeted me in the fitting room was in fact a grey/silver dress. I put it on. With tears in my eyes I walked to the front of the shop to look in the mirror. And I cried. They'd ordered the wrong dress and there was no way I was going to get it in white in time for the big day.
So Benjamin Roberts was called (not personally but you know) and we found out which dresses I could have in white in 5 weeks and discovered I could choose from about 3. So I put them all on and I chose this one...
My mum had always imagined me in lacy sleeves and it still swooped to the hip. The lace detail under the bust and the big train were beautiful and fitted perfectly. And it was white. The owner of the store set about making a selection of pretty white roses in matching fabric and filled my swooshy hip bit until I was a happy girl. And a very happy girl I was. It was gorgeous and I loved the finished product far more than the first choice anyway! Here you can see me walking down the aisle giggling away with my oh so proud Dad and the pretty pretty roses round my hip.
The service was wonderful, the Church looked pretty and we were an extremely happy newly married couple!
The next big story of the day was the horse and carriage! As you can see from my face I was not expecting it...
It was a surprise arranged by my Grandma and it was amazing! It was so much fun to be waved off feeling like a real princess!
Getting married so early (and having so many children at our reception) meant we had a big BBQ lunch instead of meal/evening dancing style thing. This was the table plan in keeping with the countryside theme...
Another funny story from the day included the battle of the wedding cakes! Adam's Grandparents were very keen to provide our wedding cake so they got us to choose what we wanted and had it specially made...we served it as dessert and it was DELICIOUS!
A month or so later it became very clear that my Grandparents also wanted to provide us with a cake! And a more traditional one at that! So I asked her to make it small and we could have it with relatives at the end of the day. Alas Grandma had other ideas and it ended up being a towering a white wedding cake with a stand for each tier!
I'm actually really pleased the cake situation worked out as it did, it was fun cutting cakes! All was going well until the groom got knocked off...
And lost an ear!! Oh well!
It was the BESTEST ever day of my whole entire life. For sure. And next weekend we will have been married for 2 years! Happy Anniversary Adam, you mean the world to me, I love you with all my heart and enjoy sharing my life with you so incredibly much. You are literally my other half.
So I hope you liked my little wedding run through! I'm sorry it ended up being a little longer than planned, well done if you've made it all the way to the end!!
Hope you have a good day! x
This is me and him on the BEST day of our lives. It was completely fabulous! I couldn't wait to be married to Mr Adam Feery so we set the time for the service as 11am! Never have I been to an earlier wedding...but I was ready at 10.20am and desperate to get there! Trouble was my parents house is less than 2 minutes from Church so I had a looong wait!
It was a very countryish kind of day, everything was made out of brown paper and copious amounts of rafia string, with lavender and saltdough hearts adorning everything in sight! This was the flower of choice, a 'blue moon' coloured rose, my bouquet was full of them as well as some white ones, some darker purple ones and of course some lavender!
About now I should tell you the story of my dress. This was my original gown of dreams, I wanted lots of flowery detail around one hip so this one fitted the plan nicely...
My lovely lovely dad ordered it and 5 weeks before my wedding it arrived and I went for my first fitting. Now I'd ordered this dress in white. The shop owner tried to talk me out of it, she said no one ever wears white these days and that it hardly suits anyone. But I wanted white. Proper white. Because a) white does suit me and creamy colours really don't and b) I had managed, with all the world's pressures and temptations, to arrive at my wedding day a virgin bride and being the traditional kind of girl I am I felt it was my right to wear white! With this in mind you can imagine my deep disappointment when what greeted me in the fitting room was in fact a grey/silver dress. I put it on. With tears in my eyes I walked to the front of the shop to look in the mirror. And I cried. They'd ordered the wrong dress and there was no way I was going to get it in white in time for the big day.
So Benjamin Roberts was called (not personally but you know) and we found out which dresses I could have in white in 5 weeks and discovered I could choose from about 3. So I put them all on and I chose this one...
My mum had always imagined me in lacy sleeves and it still swooped to the hip. The lace detail under the bust and the big train were beautiful and fitted perfectly. And it was white. The owner of the store set about making a selection of pretty white roses in matching fabric and filled my swooshy hip bit until I was a happy girl. And a very happy girl I was. It was gorgeous and I loved the finished product far more than the first choice anyway! Here you can see me walking down the aisle giggling away with my oh so proud Dad and the pretty pretty roses round my hip.
The service was wonderful, the Church looked pretty and we were an extremely happy newly married couple!
The next big story of the day was the horse and carriage! As you can see from my face I was not expecting it...
It was a surprise arranged by my Grandma and it was amazing! It was so much fun to be waved off feeling like a real princess!
Getting married so early (and having so many children at our reception) meant we had a big BBQ lunch instead of meal/evening dancing style thing. This was the table plan in keeping with the countryside theme...
Another funny story from the day included the battle of the wedding cakes! Adam's Grandparents were very keen to provide our wedding cake so they got us to choose what we wanted and had it specially made...we served it as dessert and it was DELICIOUS!
A month or so later it became very clear that my Grandparents also wanted to provide us with a cake! And a more traditional one at that! So I asked her to make it small and we could have it with relatives at the end of the day. Alas Grandma had other ideas and it ended up being a towering a white wedding cake with a stand for each tier!
I'm actually really pleased the cake situation worked out as it did, it was fun cutting cakes! All was going well until the groom got knocked off...
And lost an ear!! Oh well!
It was the BESTEST ever day of my whole entire life. For sure. And next weekend we will have been married for 2 years! Happy Anniversary Adam, you mean the world to me, I love you with all my heart and enjoy sharing my life with you so incredibly much. You are literally my other half.
So I hope you liked my little wedding run through! I'm sorry it ended up being a little longer than planned, well done if you've made it all the way to the end!!
Hope you have a good day! x
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Mini album
A little left overs mini album. I had 2 sheets of American Crafts patterned paper left, to be honest I can't even remember the name of the range but it was sweet with little flowers and butterflies doodled on. So I cut up some squares of cardboard, printed out some mini photos and voilà a mini album! It only took about 30 mins! Much quicker than a LO!
Hope you had a good day!
Tfl x
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