Rome wasn’t built in a day…
…but what a difference a day makes. This is a bit of a rambling post covering just about everything that has been on my mind recently, it’s mostly related! If you’ve been reading my blog for a while,...
View ArticleJuly 2015
Wow we’re already in August! July was a good month. I still can’t get over the speed of this year. The first half of July, I was in a bit of a blur. I questioned everything about myself. Then towards...
View ArticleFresh New Look
As you can probably tell, I haven’t been too enthusiastic about blogging as of late. I love that I have this space to do what I want with but it just wasn’t happening. So, I wrote down my thoughts...
View ArticleAugust 2015
The word I’d use to describe August is exciting. Things are all coming together and I seem to be out of the woods of July. It has been a month filled with making plans. We did a lot of organising for...
View ArticleOrlando and Caribbean travel journal
As I mentioned in my Bruges Travel Journal post, last year we went on a huge family holiday. There were 8 of us, some from my family and some from Rob’s family. We planned to stay a week in Orlando,...
View ArticleSpend more time being…
I’m always always writing To-Do lists and goals. I write lists for just about everything, plus there’s always a To-Do list in my head that I should really write down but if I did, I’d be going forever!...
View ArticleSeptember 2015
How is it October already? Seriously? I feel like I went to sleep in May and have just woken up and we’re less than 100 days until Christmas! September started with lots of exciting celebrations for...
View ArticleVery Good Lives
I’ve always been told not to judge a book by it’s cover. Very often I break that rule, then read the blurb and if I think I’ll enjoy the book then I’ll go for it. I wandered into Waterstones on a...
View ArticleOctober 2015
Goodness, October has been so busy! I have had so much on my mind that I probably have gone a little crazy! One day I forgot how old I was, am I 26, 27 or 28? I’m still not entirely sure. I lost track...
View ArticleThe Future
2015 has been an interesting year for me so far, I’m not trying to saying it’s over just yet! There has been a lot of soul searching, a lot of thinking, quite a lot of action and small steps...
View ArticleTwenty-Eight
On Wednesday last week, I celebrated my Twenty-eighth birthday. 28! When I said that out loud to a friend, I realised what an adult sounding number it was. I started work after University, when I was...
View ArticleI want to remember – Wedding planning edition
I want to remember… …the amount of fun that my favourite ladies and I had on my Hen weekend. We went to Glam Hatters for the afternoon, where we all made a fascinator and had afternoon tea. We then...
View ArticleI want to remember – Wedding Edition
Photo by Bruno Collins I can’t believe this was taken three weeks ago! I have been Mrs. Shrimpton for three weeks, time has just flown by. We had the most amazing and magical day. “People will forget...
View ArticleSix Years – A pep talk to myself
Can you believe that six years have passed since I graduated? I can’t believe it has been that long certainly. Recently I have had some doubts about my abilities, my skills, my direction and what I...
View ArticleNew Camera
A couple of weeks ago, I bought a new toy! I have been really lucky recently and received some money as a gift. It was partly to buy my wedding dress and as I had a little money left over, I wanted to...
View ArticleMy Dollhouse
Introducing my new project: a dollhouse! As one of our wedding gifts, a friend of my Mum’s made us a dollhouse, from scratch. I am so impressed with his handiwork and excited about getting started on...
View ArticleHello again
Hello again! This is a very unexpected post because you may have noticed that all of my previous blog posts have been deleted. I started this blog back in 2008, whilst still at Uni, so that is 8 years...
View ArticleOur Wedding Invitations
When we were planning our wedding, it was without a doubt that I was going to design our Wedding Stationery. It made sense because I’m a designer and it’s something that I always assumed I’d do myself....
View ArticleMy Sketchbook
I managed to almost fill a whole sketchbook last year for the whole year, I used a Moleskine sketchbook (rather than a plain notebook as I had done in previous years) and used all but 15 pages towards...
View ArticleEtsy Shop now open!
If you follow me elsewhere on the internet, you’ll know that back at the beginning of October, I made the leap to open my Etsy Shop again. I’ve started small, and have designed two really cute desk...
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