Saturday, September 10, 2011

National Sewing Month

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Ooooh how exciting!

September is National Sewing Month!!!

Some lovely sewing facts!
Every year there is a theme and this month's theme is "Sew for the Love of it!", which I think is great for the first time I will be taking part in my very own National Sewing Month! Not that I really need an excuse to sew, but it is all about home sewing and the things you love to make.

 
If you head on over to http://www.nationalsewingmonth.org/ you can find out all about it, and they even have a **Competition** for all you lovely lucky people in the US! And even though I can't enter because I am in the UK, I will still make something featuring the "love heart" just because I sew for the love of it!

What are you doing to take part in National Sewing Month? What are the kinds of things you love to sew?


Friday, September 09, 2011

Friday Feeling #1

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Don't you just love the above image? What a perfect little picnic that must be! In a way it makes me think of Fridays, the day of the week that everyone looks forward to, the beginning of the weekend. "Thank God It's Friday!!" I hear you all exclaim, "Living for the Weekend" sang Hard-Fi and " Get that Friday feeling" with Crunchie... clearly, Friday is the best day of the week.

So, I thought I would make sharing my Friday feeling (on a Friday) a regular thing! I might have to start writing it in a morning, maybe about what my weekend is going to involve (as you can tell I've not thought it all through properly yet) but seeing as I had this idea tonight, I wanted to start it now.

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I've had a good Friday, I worked for four hours at Gap Outlet in York (it was only my second shift but I love working there already!). I then spent my afternoon catching up with my lovely friends Heather and Josh, baking muffins (pics to follow soon however they don't look very muffin like...) and planning what we can do to help us relax around doing uni work that is likely to drive us insane over the next year. It was great and we had a good giggle, just what I needed! Normally I'd spend Friday nights sat at home watching telly, so I will be catching up on what I missed tomorrow morning on BBC iPlayer, probably after a little lie in.

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I plan to spend my weekend reading books, drinking a lot of tea and doing some work towards university, which I am really getting into lately. (I do have to go to work on Sunday but I can still do these things around this!).

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I am planning to start filling scrapbooks too, one for my blog and little ideas to make it more "me", and one for me to stick things in and keep little things that I like and find inspiring. I have always been meaning to do this, but I never got round to it. I would just love to keep scrapbooks and journals that I can always rely on to inspire me, and now is the time I am going to get this into my habit. I guess it could be a New Uni Year Resolution!

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One last thing for my weekend, and probably next week and the following weekend and a few more weeks and weekends after that... I want some inspiration for my flat as I am now living alone. It isn't a bad thing, I quite like it, but I want it to be homey and cosy and a lot more girlie! I think the below photo is a good start to the kind of flat I want.

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Any ideas or inspiration would be great!! I plan to make my own cushion covers and have throws and blankets at hand, but I dunno what more I can do with it! Obviously my flat doesn't have that amazing window but it is pretty impressive, and once I have finished tidying and getting things in new rightful places I will take some photos for you all to see!


Thursday, September 08, 2011

Hello September

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Hello, it has been a little while since I posted on here. I have been meaning to but I just haven't got round to it. There has been a little shake-up in my personal life (that I won't bore you with) however I am really really going to get back into blogging, so you can look forward to seeing many more posts soon!

Well, here is September, the month where the leaves go orange and start falling from the trees. I quite like Autumn, it isn't too chilly and everything is so colourful! It is also the season that my Birthday falls in (I tend to get excited about my birthday even though I still have 2 months to go!).
My summer ended well, I had a weekend trip to Lincoln (photos to follow), I have finally got myself a part-time job (Yay!), I have moved back to Leeds and I went to Alton Towers (where I went on ALL the big rides and completed one of my 30 things before 30!). Life has been busy for me, but I have been enjoying myself too, which is always a bonus!

So this post is all about my trip to Lincoln, where I spent the weekend with Jamie, one of my older brother's, and his girlfriend Cherryl. We went for a little walk down (which meant we had to go back up) Steep Hill, which unless you have been there you do not know just how steep it is, where we visited vintage, craft and little homey stores that just filled me with inspiration all day long! We walked around the cathedral, and ate out for Sunday lunch and we even had some very tasty ice-cream. Here are some photos that I took while on my little vacation:



 



 
 
Here I am sitting on the roof terrace at The Cloud Bar in Lincoln



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