Norfolk Broads #2

you can see the first photo diary of my trip here   Potter Heigham          An actual real life Heron!           Irstead

In which I don’t get blown up

    Dress – Peacocks, Shoes – New Look My new favourite dress (partly because it is a size 8 and I am not a size 8 actually) but it ties at the back, with fairly flattering gathering at the front, and I love dresses with long sleeves because you don’t need a cardigan to keep your arms warm in…

A literary Q&A

  The lovely Sally tagged me to do this post… so here goes!   The Rules: 1. Post these rules 2. Post a photo of your favourite book cover 3. Answer the questions below 4. Tag a few people to answer them too 5. Go to their blog/twitter and tell them you’ve tagged them 6. Make sure you tell the…

Wedding Wonders #2

Bouquets, from the extremely extravagant to the petite posies… There are just so many to choose from! I cant decide what I want. To be honest I am kind of tackling this tiny little decision first so avoid bigger ones (how are we going to make the seating plan so that each of our divorced sets of parents don’t have…

In which I climb a gate

[scheduled to post Saturday, didn’t! rescheduled to post Sunday, didn’t. manually posted. BLOODY BLOGGER!] mid gate-climb Jumper: Primark, Dress: Newlook, Leggings: Primark, Scarf: borrowed (but handmade!)   (excuse the spotty fuzzy socks, they were the only ones I brought so I had to go buy some the  next day!) birds & cherry blossoms! this dress is one of my favs! more of a…

Norfolk Broads #1

   Horning      Trees in Salhouse    Ranworth & view from the top of the Church Norwich City Centre  

In which I DIY–T shirt

the easiest DIY in the worrrrrld Take 1 T shirt & a pair of scissors. (I used a male L t shirt) Lay it flat   Fold the sleeve over on its self, then once more to same width as the sleeve (Does that make sense?!) this helps you know where to cut Cut in a curved line from where…

Fashion Questions #4

[part 1 & part 2 & part 3]  16. You and someone wearing matching clothes These are the only two occasions I can remember! 17. An article of clothing that you made or altered This black shirt/dress thing from H&M was lined at the top as well as under the skirt. I removed the body lining so I can wear…

In which I find a patch of sun

  Shorts: Gap, Top: Primark Cardigan: Peacocks, Scarf: Borrowed from Sister in law to be (she knitted it!)       I wore this at some point on my holiday, lots of layers to add/subtract depending on the sun/wind/rain (I also was sporting a rather fetching waterproof jacket (which was a bargain 14.99 from tk maxx boys section, it even has…

Fashion Questions #3

[part 1 & part 2 …I am back from holiday but as of today am on a 9 day straight at work so not sure how much I will be posting between work & reading the hunger games, and the backlog of blog posts from my week away… so tempted to click ‘mark all as read’ but scared I might miss…

In which I ride Dragons

In January I went to Germany, and did a few little daytrips with Emily who was living there at the time, below is a video we made in Worms, where we rode dragons (I’m not lying, I promise) Oh and you get a mini Germany lesson from Emily!        

Fashion Questions #2

[Continued from my last post, as I am still on my holibobs!]   6. A pair of pants that aren’t jeans. Leggings is a close as I get to ‘pants’ (obviously if I took this literally I could show you my knicker drawer…?) apart from a couple of pairs of suit trousers that I’ve not worn for over 2 year.…