Home Inspiration

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 Since moving out of my Mothers house over a year ago I've become slightly obsessed with searching for home and interior ideas.When I stumbled across this article on the Vogue Facebook page I knew it was time to get printing and sticking in my little inspiration scrapbook! I just absolutely love the light fresh walls, the delicate furnishings and the bright burst of colour. Its exactly the look I'm going for but unfortunately due to a rather low budget its taking me quite a while to get there! 

Strawberry Picking

 The weather has been absolutely beautiful the last few days which has given me and Toby the chance to do lots of new and exciting summery things. On Friday we went to Cattows farm, best known for hosting the fast growing Strawberry Fields music festival, to do a spot of strawberry picking. It was an absolutely beautiful day and we really enjoyed ourselves, we managed to pick over 3 kg worth so we'll be living off strawberries for quite a while! Toby was rather adorably sneakily eating a few every time he thought no one was looking and kept denying it despite a rather obvious red mess all around his mouth!

The good weather is hopefully going to continue into next week which I'm really looking forward to as it means we can go on all sort of lovely little adventures! Watch this space!

Beyoncé For Flaunt Magazine.

Flaunt Magazine
Photographed by Tony Duran

Wow. Just wow.

New Accessories.

Clutch Bag . Sunglasses . Necklace

Over the last few months I've gone a bit accessorie mad and I simply couldn't resist all these little beauties!  I've had my eye on these sunglasses for quite a while now and I've been looking for a new clutch bag, as I've got a lot of birthdays and nights out coming up over the summer, so I decided to make the investment. I was also getting a little bored of my trusty plain black one and the gorgeous print on this one will be sure to brighten up any outfit! I'm sure anyone who knows me knows I can't resist a gold chain so when I stumbled across this necklace on eBay at the bargain price of £3.99 there was no excuse not to get it really. The little bracelet was found in a local news agents in the toy section for the grand total of £1.99 and I absolutely love it! I've been looking for one just like this for a while now so I'm definitely very happy about that one! 

A New Addition To The Family!

Meet Willow, my Mothers new little Westie puppy. She's had her for two weeks now and I have to admit, we've all completely fallen in love. Me and Toby have been given the duty of coming to check on her throughout the day til my Mum breaks up from work in two weeks time and oh my have we enjoyed it! Toby got a bit jealous at first bless him as it was the first time he's had to share our attention, but he's really enjoying looking after her and being the bigger one for once! I'm actually rather impressed with how well he's taken to caring for her. Its also absolutely adorable to watch! The only downfall its its made me want one for myself! Perhaps in a year or two...

Dream Coat!

Jaeger

So I saw this coat on a 'who wore it best?' post on heatworld.com (I'm a sucker for gossip!) and I instantly fell in love! Those who know me know I absolutely adore leopard print and I've been looking for the perfect leopard print coat for years now. Its by Jaeger and at £199.00 sale price its a little out of my price range but a girl can still dream right?!

source: heatworld.com

My Ten Point Plan.

So as truly amazing and beautiful as this year has been so far I can't help but feel I haven't exactly accomplished that much. I have loads of little ideas of things I want to achieve and things I want to do but I just haven't managed to get round to doing the majority of these things yet! I keep making the excuse that with Toby running around and with all the moving and settling in we've done so far this year I just haven't had the time yet, but in all honesty I just haven't made the time! Anyway I've written myself a little 10 point plan to hopefully kick me into action and considering one of those is to blog more then what a better way to start than sharing this with you! 

1. Start making little crafty bits and pieces. The amount of times I've gone to buy something for the house and then thought 'wait I could just make this myself' but I've never gotten round to doing it. Its definitely about time I started and I'll hopefully be able to sell a few bits as well.
2. Get serious about my furniture renovation plan. I've been saying this for ages now! I've already started on a few bits and pieces for my self (blog to come!) but I am still desperate to see how far I can get selling stuff on. I have loads of amazing ideas on this one so definitely watch this space!
3. Rekindle my love for photography. Its been a while since I properly got the camera out and I do really miss constantly capturing memories, editing photos and waiting to see the outcome of my film. I also have hundreds of photos of Toby that I need to get printed.
4. Get a job! I'm currently going application form and CV crazy but as of yet I haven't had any success. If I don't give up though I can't fail right?!
5. Volunteer work. I feel a bit useless sitting around while I wait to get a job and I've been wanting to do a bit of volunteer work for a while now. Its a great way to get some experience and a great way to fill up that CV!
6. Start writing more! I discovered my old journal today and since the start of 2009 its been written in the grand total of four times. Even though thats not a great amount of content it was so nice looking back over it and realising how much I've changed. All for the better may I add!
7. Start drawing again. I used to have scrapbooks full of little doodles and collages I'd made all purely for inspiration purposes. This is definitely something I want to start doing again!
8. Start collecting cute little trinkets and soft furnishings from charity shops and car boots etc. to fill up my house a little more and make it all that bit more homely. 
9. Continue with my diet plan and exercise regime. I've now lots 13 lbs since April! I feel better, I sleep better, I have bags more energy and I look better. I'm dying to see how I'll look in six months time!
10. Last but not least, as you may have guessed, BLOG MORE!!!

An Update in Instagram Pictures

1. A butterfly I saw on my walk 2.My adorable new cat plate! 3. Newtown Linford Cafe 4. My latest renovation project. 5. Toby grabbing a bite to eat in Costa 6. My new pink candle 7. All ready for my Mums birthday. 8. Mondays breakfast.

I apologise for all the mismatch photo sizing, I've been getting a little carried away with the app Squaready. 

Collard Manson

collardmanson.co.uk

So this weekend it was mine and the boyfriends one year anniversary (oh how time flies!) and also one of my oldest and dearest friend Megans surprise leaving party as shes is going to America for the summer. Megans twin sister Polly was throwing the party in her university house up in Sheffield, so we decided to kill two birds with one stone and have a nice little day of shopping and lunch around Meadow Hall and Sheffield town then head on to the party in the evening. It turned out to be a lovely little weekend and I really am going to miss all the crazy nights out we've had in Sheffield. I'd also been saving for the trip so managed to treat myself to quite a few little beauties so I'm very happy with that. I stumbled across this absolutely gorgeous little jewellery, accessories and home accessories shop called Collard Manson. All the pieces are absolutely stunning and so unique. I instantly fell in love with everything in there and treated myself to a gorgeous ring, a cute little bug notebook, a vintage Vogue postcard and beautiful bird print wrapping paper. I am definitely going to frame the wrapping paper! It turns out they also have a shop in Nottingham which is a little closer to home so I'll most definitely be making a visit in the very near future! 

Check them out if you haven't all ready.

Bug Making

So this post is a little late! 

Basically at the start of last week when the weather was miserable me and Toby were having a bit of trouble finding things to do. We managed to find a little bug making kit free in one of his magazines so we decided to give it a shot. Not going to lie, they remained complete for about five minutes before Toby decided to pull them all apart again! But we both enjoy getting creative so it was quite fun while it lasted. Luckily this week the weather is absolutely beautiful so we've been playing in the garden quite a lot and even managed to squeeze in a few little outings. Hopefully the weather will last and we'll have something a little more fun to update you all with!