The year in review ... 2014!

2014

New year is a time for reflection so I have been having a think about my 2014 experience. It has been an amazing year and will be a pretty hard one to top to be fair. 

January

We kickstarted the new year as we meant go on by attending our good friends wedding at Durham Castle, it was a wonderful day and the bride was simply stunning. January was also quite special for me as I reconnected with a good friend … life is too short to loose good friends.

February & March

February was quite quiet, we were continuing with the wedding planning and hitting the gym hard! March was pretty much the same as February, there was a lot of time at the gym as we hit 6 weeks to the wedding. I went for my wedding hair trial with my cousin … only took 102 hair grips hehe mum was also well underway with the alterations to my dress.

Beast mode at the gym

102!!

Making a house a home ...

 .... or in our case making a flat more cosy. Having discovered Pinterest with a vengeance I came across a post that fit very well and had me in giggles. 

You see I just love interior decorating, its what really makes your place feel like a home. So with that being said and after having a good look around on Pinterest I have recently been adding some items to our little nest. 

The first is a really cute little handing owl tea light holder I found in the coffee shop attached to fiancés pt training gym. They have some awesome owl pillows as well but they are a bit out of my price range at the minute. Here is is my new window owl. 

Isn't he just the most adorable thing in the world! I have moved our little silver heart that usually sits in the middle window across so this guy has prie of place. I love how adorable he is, there are some really cute owl motifs around at the minute and I would love a lot of the different items they are on, but at the same time lots of the stuff is fairly useless. So I will stick with my cute little window owl. 

Next up is my new picture wall!! Having seen this done loads of times on Pinterest I decided that I just couldn't wait till we moved to somewhere bigger I wanted one now. 

So we picked up a new frame from Poundstretcher to match our existing ones then I set about arranging pictures and frame placement. I think its looking really good at the minute. The big one and the single frame are new the other two we just moved them around. A couple of the pictures in the giant frame are just place holders until we get some new ones taken and printed out as we haven't been taking as many pictures recently. Hopefully with a wedding coming up we can get a nice pic with either the bride and groom and our other engaged friends or just the friends. You see the fiancé keeps telling me we have too many pictures of just us hehe but I like them because they are all different memories. Guess I will just have to invest in another photo album 

As you can see from the two chairs, this is behind our dinning table which runs parallel to the wall. We used to have the bottom right pic in the centre of this wall and top right on the right hand wall in the middle of the table. That wall is now looking a bit bare so we are going to get another one of those trilogy frames to hang in the same place this one was. This will mean three new landscape pictures to fill which I am sure we can do, but I have found a different idea on Pinterest. 

For valentines last year I made up a google map picture montage of key places in our history as a couple. Its a really cute idea, you take a shot of the google map image on different places that mean something to you, ie first met, first date etc So when I saw this on Pinterest I was intrigued.

I am totally going to do this to see how it looks. If I dont like the map images guess we will just have to find some cute pictures hehe 

xXx

Pictorial Round Up.

This is a bit of a sweep up of things that I have missed and dont really fit in specific posts.

First up a new compilation shot of me and the fiancé using some pics from the photobooths at some of the wedding fairs. This is now currently sitting in our front room along with a trilogy shot of us. Fiancé says if I want to put up any more pics of us I need to start taking some down :( he says it will start to get a bit creepy hehe

Next up is our relatively new clock. This is currently hanging above our tv in the front room its awesome, about a foot and a half in diameter looks really retro next to our black and white New York canvas.  

Speaking of pictures, canvases and walls I have been looking about on pinterest and decided I might like to turn the wall above our dinning table into a picture wall. But I'm not too sure about whether it will be too busy on the wall and make the room look small :s might have a mess about with fotoflexer to see what it might look like. 

Next up some shots from my trip to work the other morning. Driving along at 10 to 7 being blinded by the light of a glorious sunrise. Really positive way to start the day getting bathed in sunlight. 

Sun rising over the northeast

Glorious sight at 6:50!!

 Told you it was bright and blinding, bit different to my winter drive to work where it was pitch black, then I felt like i was driving to work in the middle of the night. This particular morning I felt like sticking my sunnies on but seemed a bit silly considering the time of day hehe

Rocking the double skull scarves. Hair and neck!

When I got to the work car park I managed to get some great snaps. Love the juxtaposition between the frosted car roof and the blinding light cresting over the horizon.

The next was a pure fluke. When I looked down I spotted the fact that the sun had turned my car window into a perfect mirror. Had to grab the shot, its one of those pic's were you wish you had a better camera.

Love this shot! and loving my hair in this shot with the scarf.

Anyway that was my quick pictorial round up of the past few weeks.

xXx

Pictures, Photos and Pinterest.

So as I have mentioned here before I love pictures!! I love taking them, editing them and finding new ones online. There are some amazing pictures out there. 

I am so bad with pictures that I keep confusing the wedding photographers at the fairs hehe see we have already booked our photographer but some of these people have really amazing books for you to look at, and its nice to have a nosey at other peoples weddings see what they did. Plus its nice to get ideas for pics for our wedding. 

Anyhoo tangent aside, as a result of my love of pictures and to try and promote my blog a bit more I decided to take a look at Pinterest. I wasn't overly keen when it first came out, I didn't quite see the point  but after taking a closer look at it and having a bit play yesterday I have embraced yet another social media application.

So if you fancy following my pins here I am: 

Follow Me

Feel free to comment with your username if you are on Pinterest and I will look you up :) 

xXx