Film Photoset.
I keep a shoebox under my bed holding postcards I've collected and photos that I have taken and today I decided to take it out and have a look. When I was living in Bath I took a lot of photographs on my film camera, constantly documenting the time in which I evolved in to an independent young adult. At least I like to think that's what happened. I'm back living at home now but looking back over the two years that helped shape me and in which brought about so many wonderful memories, has got me feeling nostalgic and creative again and i'll most likely be taking the camera out again soon. It's strange, because when I was doing my photography A level at college I was firmly convinced that digital images were my favourite medium and that's probably due to the fact I could manipulate them so heavily in photoshop. As I got older I looked to other methods and I've since found my love lies in film and it's purely for the reason that once you've clicked the shutter button you won't know the outcome until it's developed. I like waiting in order to see what sort of colours have been produced and what expressions and moments I have captured. Sometimes you get some beautiful images and sometimes you get a roll of black or blurry images but it doesn't matter, you can always take another film. I've included some of my photography below as you'll see my friend and ex-housemate Rachel features heavily in them which is due to the fact we were joined at the hip and for the most part still are!
What a Weekend.
Hello everyone, I've had a fairly exciting weekend and just thought I would update you all considering I like to class this as a lifestyle blog as well as a fashion one. First of all my aunt and uncle visited from Holland and my sister and I went to meet them for drinks at a local hotel in our town. We sat and talked for hours about life and what's happening, slipping in a cheeky glass or two of Sauvignon Blanc. My aunt showed us a photo album of her apparent children she has picked up whilst staying in their apartment in Spain - by that I mean she has adopted five feral cats! They were all beautiful though and we more modernly shared photos of our recent activities via our phones. My uncle, who is native to Holland, joked around with us and told us of his excitement at the world cup starting in a few weeks - apparently they are both going to spray their hair orange! Time flew too fast however and eventually we had to leave to go to dinner with our mother.
Today was the most exciting day of all as I picked up my new car - a jade green KA - I unfortunately don't have any pictures to show as of yet, but I will get one soon. Before we picked that up we went to Millets Farm Center near Oxford and trawled around looking at flowers and buying tasty farm food. I took a couple of pictures of some flowers which you can see below, I adore flowers and find them so inspirational that I couldn't help myself.
When we had finished here we went to get my car and after having a quick coffee stop I drove myself all the way home which was about a 40 minute drive! Considering I don't have a full license yet I was mega proud of myself and so I thought I had best let my readers know! I am now currently watching Star Wars Return of the Jedi with my boyfriend and eating left over Chinese food, a rather fitting end to a wonderful weekend. That is all for now, I hope you all had a fantastic weekend, back to good ole' 9-5 tomorrow!
Happy Mother's Day.
To my wonderful mamma for 21 years of love and support! Check out the cute card i got at Paperchase.
Bowling.
Ahhhhh the humble bowling alley, a centre of fun and entertainment for children and adults alike. A game that is believed to date back to the Ancient Egyptians and the Roman Empire, that has been moulded over the years into what it is today. Yesterday i shared the bowling experience with my sister and father, i've been before but only really when i was younger and once when i was about 18 (I'm 21 now!). I like bowling, it's a proper family affair isn't it? You get in a group with everyones names on the board and try to knock down ten pins by throwing a weighted ball down an alleyway at them. Not to mention it keeps everybody active and counts towards some of your daily exercise, i mean you're carrying a large weighted ball and throwing it down an alleyway! It's nice, as lame as a word that is, to just do something together and be competitive but away from the xbox and tv screens.
When my dad usually visits us (he lives an hour away) we tend to just pop into town to look around the shops and he spends an inordinate amount of time in poundland which has lead to my sister and i calling him 'The Poundland King'. I've never known someone to always find something they want or even like in Poundland and to actively want to continually visit...but let's move on. It's either town or the pub and we decided that this time we wanted to do something fun and so we visited the local bowlplex. Now this place is really something else and took me right back to my childhood - arcades, bowling and slushies! Naturally my sister and i had to have a large slushie each, generously donated to us by our darling father. The lights are colourful and crazy space/bowling ball artwork decorate one end of the room where the pins are.
My sister has only ever been bowling once and for three turns it kept coming up with a big scary 'F' on the screen, which none of us could fathom why until i went and asked and she stepped over the line. Obviously. That was an embarrassing moment, she still missed after that though but by the end of two games she'd found her feet. My dad on the other hand claimed to have only ever been once and yet he played with the stance and arm movements of a professional bowler, getting three strikes in the process which made us question his honesty. I've never been fantastic at bowling, but i played pretty well the first game with my luck slipping in the second. All in all it really was a brilliant way of spending two hours and we had a laugh. I'm thinking we may (definitely) have to go again.
Oh, i forgot, the shoes...THE SHOES!!!
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