New Job, Paris, Secret Santa, Christmas, Norwich, University Module Results and New Year!!

So much in such little time! I have been very neglectful to my blog over the last month and a bit, SORRY! I've been so busy. With starting my new job, early morning get ups, drive to work and drive back home in the evenings, I'm getting back for 6.30pm, 7pm-ish, so in my evenings I have been finishing off my uni module and planning Paris!

I don't feel like I've stopped since November and to be honest, I don't feel like I've had the chance to enjoy the festive season. I've felt very rushed and rather stressed.

The new job is going well, I had a little glitch today, but other than that it's busy, hectic, manic, CRAZY busy.

Paris was beautiful. I will upload photos and talk more about it when I get a spare minute.

I got my SECRET SANTA PREZZIES!! How delightful they are! I drink from my beautiful teacup every day and it makes my tea taste so much sweeter! I had some lovely chocs! Chocolate coins, little notebook and a beautiful necklace. I've been a lucky girl!

All christmas I knew I had my uni results back, but bear to look at the results. I had a feeling this time that I were going to do quite badly. This module was about designing my own logo and stationery brand for my "Interior Design" company. That bit was a doddle but then it went onto business plans and predictions etc and that threw me! Anything mathematical I thrive off, but business studies etc, doesn't only bore me, nor interest me at all but I felt I kept repeated myself throughout the module and had convinced myself I'd failed miserably. Then on the day I returned from Norwich after christmas I decided to have a peek and... I GOT AN A!!! I were so shocked my eyes filled up! So I'm pleased to start my final module now and am looking forward to graduating this year.

Lots of pics to come, will upload soon :)

Hoping and wishing everyone has enjoyed their christmases and a bit of time off hopefully, even if for just a couple of days, much love.

x

Happy 1st December!

So it's the first of the christmassy month, the advent calendars are out and hopefully just the first door open..... ?!! And I'm all christmassy and have got myself quite well organized! 

Went to a christmas market last night, which was lovely and REALLY ridiculously busy, but had my mulled wine and hot dog dose! I think I need another trip there though?! 

So I've made you some christmas cards :) I hope you like. You can print them off and send them to your friends. If you're having any problems printing off etc then let me know and I'll try and help. 

Seasons Tweetings!!

Below should be the larger files of the ones above that are suitable to print :)

Need a little Tuesday pick me up!

Def need a little brightening up my Tuesday!

So today I needed a little pick me up. It is a Tuesday and a little dull and I'm still not feeling 100%, so my rainbow skies montage has brightened up my day a little! Looking forward to pay day tomorrow and then onto the christmas season I roll, yayyyyyyyyyyyyy.

I've been eying up christmas present goodies for my loved ones and am a little torn between what I want and what they would want!!! Doh.

Tatty Devine is looking like a grand possibility this year! And with Paris round the corner and Tatty having a pop up in Paris in a departmental store, I think it will be worth the visit! I have two younger sisters and a mother who is a fan of acrylic and statement jewellery, excited much!

Illness, netball, part-ay mood boards and christmas greetings!

Not that you ever want to be ill. But seriously, Friday as soon as you finish work, THANKS FOR RUINING MY WEEKEND INNER ME. Have been suffering with the odd sharp pain in the stomach since Monday/Tuesday and have lost my usual demanding appetite. Then last night, like start of weekend clockwork, the illness begins. Sick as a dog. Two restless nights and a game of netball first thing this morning later and still feeling pretty ropey. Had a game this morning, which there was no way on earth I was going to miss. It was against the club I came from this year. So not only have I moved up 5 divisions, we beat them also. I'm content with that :D. I didn't feel to bad en route to the B team game at home so thought I'd go and watch in the cold and rain! My health deteriorated rather fast though and although I stood and supported the whole game (and they fought real hard and won by one, praise the lord!!) I started to feel a little uneasy and as soon as I got in the car I had to dart home or consider pulling over. I thought I might spew. Not good. So have just had a long hot shower, not feeling any better but I'm home and it's warm! The only thing I've decided that I would eat is little sausages and beans and maybe a little cheese on toast if there is any in?! Most likely not!

Bah.

So I'm sat typing with my towel wrapped round my hair and waiting for the washing machine to stop so I can pop in my netball attire and typing to New Girl! Wow the day in the life of hey!

I've made a few part-ay theme mood boards, so I'll upload a couple of those today. I've also started making some little christmas cards, just for fun, which I'll upload and if you like them you can print them off and send around for your office or work colleagues or friends! Saves a bit of money, you might want to go out and buy some card though to print them onto. I'll do a little envelope for them also! I'll do a couple maybe and get them all tarted up and raring for christmas!

Circus and magical fun times!

Photos Galore!! ...Look, look, look at meeeeee!!

Ok, I broke my promise... and that's baaaad. Have been a little bit scatty and am panicking over uni! So about the job.... I start in just shy of two weeks and my love for creating mood boards has finally found a massive purpose in my life! I am working for a kitchenware company, creating mood boards for bespoke clients :) So I will be implementing artwork onto teapots, cups and saucers, how pretty! PLUS they are looking to bring in a soft furnishing range in the soon future, so wallpapers, cushion covers, curtains.... FABRIC HEAVEN! They seem a fab company to work for with lots of great opportunities and some fabulous clients, so I can't wait to get my teeth stuck in! (I think it's time to dish out the old vintage tea set and show my new work colleagues my cup and saucer for tea times!)

Thanks to my fabulous boyfriend, who on the eve of my job offering showered me in chocolate cake and a lovely messaged card!

For the time being, I'm trying my best to work hard on my uni project and as much as I love Interior Design, this module is grinding my gears!! Other than the designing my own personal stationery for my imaginary business, there is nothing creative about this module, which is hard for me! So I'm having to research business plans and yearly forecasts etc etc... Totes not my thang!! But has to be done. So I'm hoping to get this all done very soon as it is due in within the next few weeks... eeeekkk!!

Have been playing netball a lot lately, which I love and supporting the other girls. Everyone has been doing awesome. We've lost our last two games, which.... I think we could have won. They were both tough games and both these teams are top of the league, but I think we are the underdogs! We have a pretty strong and brilliantly talented team and I'm thinking this isn't our year to get promoted (although these girls only just got promoted into this division this year) but next year, will be our year, we get stronger each game. Fab team, fab girls.

So less of the gabble I thought I'd give you a little insight into what I had been working on as of late for Store 21. This range is so beautiful. A whole array of stationery gift ware which has gone into production now and I'm hoping is available as of next year at some point. It is on a fab little memo block (which I love), a document holder (I also love with a beautiful spine and insides!), a memo pad, a two design note card set, a pack of pens with two pretty wrap designs, a set of notebooks and a magnetic memo pad! If I find out, I'll let you know, because it really is a desktop must have!!

Looks stunning on the products!!

These are photos of my pre-production sample! (And probably a few of my other diary designs dotted around in the back!)

So.... what do you think?!

Also.... a MUST HAVE, which I found in Poundland on Sunday and rather excited about! Because with the new job I have to travel a bit (or a bit longer than what I would usually have too!) I have been on the prose for a ceramic cup to keep me warm and going on the journey. This was actually the best and most festive one I found.... and a pound!!

It's sat there on my shelf, waiting for a pre-wash out and a nice hot drink in the mornings!! Cannot wait!!

Bad Blogger!

I am officially the worlds worst blogger! It's official... I am. I will bore you soon with things, lots and lots of THINGS.

I have so much going on at the minute, I have just been offered a new job, yayyyy, which is incredibly exciting and I'm sort of on cloud 9 and in a little new job bubble at the moment. And have lots of uni work to do, lots of random things to do and remember and no money! So the whole no money thing is being completely overlooked by the joy of a new job and the uni work fiasco! Which is due in very soon. I'm on to it, its fine. There's just a bundle of papers to read and as you might already gather, I'm not a reader!! I'm very visual. Words are like question marks to me, I look at them and automatically think... huh?! So.... yeah.

I need to win the lottery. I have decided.

I will blog tomorrow, promise, I'm way to tired to think, I've been glued to a computer screen since 9am this morning and I just looked in the mirror and my eyes have turned square, so it's time to depart.

Much LOVE.

Not so Netball Saturdays!!

Ok so this week we've had a breather from Netball Saturdays, it's half term, so we've not got a game now until I think the 10th. Empty Saturday!! So yesterday I decided to treat myself and get my hair coloured, yayyy!! I am now a golden blonde and all raring for the Autumn/Winter wardrobe!  I like it a lot. I have a fabulous friend called Nicole who is fantastic at colouring so she came round to mine and we coloured hair and drank coffee in the kitchen :). She's put a few colours through it, a base colour of a golden dark blonde and a slightly darker golden blonde and a copper blonde, so I'm all multi tonal! I'd tell you exactly what she did and what colours she used, but thats me being an ex hairdresser and you'd probably read this like.... 7.3.... huh?! So I won't bore you! Unless you want to know and I'll tell all!

So was very excited yesterday after having it done, I wore a pretty little outfit to see my boyfriend, a black velvet, low back, long sleeved dress (from Primark), a loosely knitted beige jumper (from TK Maxx), my brand spanking new white snood! (From Everything 5 Pounds), nude tights, with a pair of zebra print tight socks and my new Dr. Martens meets Creeper shoes!! In white, I J'ADORE them! (Also from Everything 5 Pounds, such a bargain!) Ooooh Oooh and my new suede, charcoal grey gym bag! So all happy and in a daze I got ready to leave my house and to drive to my boyfriends. He's very kindly just given me his iPod to listen to, as my fake iPod shuffle completely KO'D on me the other day whilst running, which I was treasuring, because I'd ran the New York marathon with it, but it had died! Long gone. So no point in holding on to it anymore! And so yes, yesterday I listened to the iPod for the first time, so was rather excited, about this as well as my outfit, my new hair and spending the evening with my boyfriend. And then, driving down the road, I hear a sort of snapping sound and look to my left, to see my wing mirror hanging off. Great I thought. So getting off the A road I pulled over to examine and there we go, someone had broken my mirror. I was so upset. I am so careful with my car and it means the world to me and the reason why I'd started parking it where I did was because I used to park it behind my house in a car park for a gym. We knew the man who owned the gym and he is very sweet and lets the residents park in his car park and we in return, every christmas get him a gift to thank him for letting us park there. So for a while I'd parked there, until I returned home after a course in London for a week to find someone had reversed into my car. So was pretty devastated by that, luckily no visible dents but my car is white and its chipped off the paint work round the left side near the bumper so it looks like black scratches. Rather upsetting, I decided to move my car to the side road of my house. It had always been okay there. I had a few problems, with a troubled person last year, who would leave notes on my windows and basically stalked me for a couple of months last Summer and luckily the last I'd heard of it was when this person had obviously noticed that my car had been moved somewhere else, whilst I'd been on holiday last year and when I returned and collected my car I parked it in my usual spot for the evening and in the morning I came to my car to drive to work and this troubled person left a vile and insulting comment written in the condensation of my window for all to see. I were so upset, shocked and felt humiliated that people could have walked past and seen this that I just got in my car on this cold late September morning and drove off without wiping my window and with the window down. I just wanted to get away from there as soon as I could. I cried all the way to work. After then, I didn't hear anymore. I think it was because I didn't retaliate to anything, especially that, although I made sure that I noted everything that happened, because I were 100% ready to go to the police. So since then, I hadn't experienced any problems, but someone has clearly just gone up to my wing mirror and kicked it until it snapped, you can see mud from there shoes around the mirror. So upset, I got back into my car after a phone call to Tom and he said he'd have a look when I got round. He said a part of it had snapped that connected it on, (which I found the piece that had snapped earlier this afternoon, where my car had been parked) so Tom and his dad have temporarily attached it back on using some plastic cable ties. I'm lucky to have people around me that are kind and want to help. I took one step into Tom's family home and saw his mum and burst into tears! How ridiculous, it's only a wing mirror! But it's the principle of it. I just don't understand the mentality of some people. Why would you go out your way to vandalize someone else's property?! It baffles me. Anyway, it could have been a whole lot worse couldn't it, but it was just how unnecessary it is. So Tom and I left his and visited his grandparents for the evening. They are so lovely. Two G&T's later I've forgotten about the car! We looked through photographs of recent events and chatted and had a lovely evening, then on our way home we stopped off for fish and chips and then had a long, meaningful discussion about the programme that was aired the other evening on channel 4 about the town that caught tourettes! Gosh we love a debate! I argued that the girls who had "caught" tourettes, had started out of habit. My philosophy of it is that these girls had subconsciously started these ticks, movements, whatever their outbursts were out of habit and then it had grew into something that was psychological and would become harder to control. I tried to compare it to having a word that you use all the time. Lots of people do it, for example I know I used to say "like" a lot. To the point that I didn't even know I were saying it, but once I'd said it, at times I'd try and stop myself from saying it, so I'd go to say it and then consciously be aware that I'm using that word and would try and refrain from saying it, this was my point with the tourettes. That sometimes they'd be aware but try and control it and refrain from doing it. I think as well, if you are a weaker individual you are more prone to picking up maybe trends in whatever terms and I think that peers can rub off on you and that their habits can soon become yours and I think it got to a point where it would just blow out of proportion and become obsessive and controlling and less easy to manage. But if you'd have watched the programme, you'd have seen that the girls were being treated for two different things and once this diagnosis had been put into place and they had been seen to and were being treated, these girls started to make a recovery and it had been said later on in the programme that these girls had been given this "medication" under a placebo effect. So it proved that the conditions and complaints that they had been suffering with were to a big extent psychological. The only girl who didn't improve was the one who's mother refused the diagnosis that it was psychological and I couldn't help but think that in a way, this girl and her mother in particular out of all the girls and their mothers and families, they were the ones who were being the most public about the condition and were almost, flaunting it?! That might sound a little harsh, but the girl kept making YouTube videos about it and the mother kept going on day time programmes and I couldn't help but think, do you actually want your daughter to get any better? If it was that bad and quote, she said "it annoys me when she says na all the time", if it annoyed you that much, then yeah I agree there is a cause to everything and you should resolve things to the best that you can possibly do, but jeez lady take it on the chin and try it, see if it works, everyone else has made a recovery and yet your daughter is still suffering because you're too stubborn. PS How selfish by the way! So we had a grand old discussion and Tom never agrees with anything I say! I don't want him to agree with me if he doesn't believe that or understand what I'm trying to say, but it's just my opinion!

So after our long discussion and him leaving me in the kitchen in the dark... HA. Which he did. We watched some telly and fell asleep. I had netball today. They have a team in the Sunday league which is a development team so I go along and play and it was just nice to get a game this weekend, a bit of a run around. So now I'm in need of starting some uni work! So must crack on.

Enjoy your Sunday :)

New Shoes! Taken on my rubbish Blackberry