Things are Rosy

I'm a versatile blogger!

I have been nominated for the versatile blogging award by the lovely Laura Lo Bear! This is a huge compliment and has really made my day - thank you so much Laura :)

Laura's blog is one that I have started following recently and I love her blogging style and photography, I also love that I can see the world through her eyes and enjoy her outlook on life from across the pond!

I see that there are rules for accepting "The Versatile Blogger" award:

1) Thank and link back to the lovely friend who gave you the award.

2) Share 7 things about yourself.

3) Pass it along to 7 blogs you have recently discovered and enjoy.

4) Leave your recipients a note, telling them about the award.

So - in the spirit of this award, here are 7 things about me.....

This is a picture of my old house from the 1920s !

1- I grew up in a lovely little village in Bedfordshire (just an hour outside of London) and had a pretty idyllic childhood

2- I LOVE lipstick, my favourite colours are coral red and Pillar box red.

3- I have to do something creative every day or I get fidgety, I always need to be doing and learning something, it makes me ridiculously happy :-)

4- I work for a well known British fashion label, and have done for 8 1/2 years....yikes!

5- I love to laugh, it's an addiction.

A picture of the parrots in winter this year!

6- I currently live in a little picture postcard village in Surrey, with a duck pond and a pretty park right next to my house, I love being able to work in central London and go home to my village at night, the best of both worlds in 30 minutes, and we have parrots that live wild in the village too (seriously)!

7- I am head over heels in love with my monster Maine Coon cat Murphy (in case you hadn't already noticed)!

and here are 7 of the blogs I am passing the award onto :

1. Cupcake Couture
2. Lipstick&Lumber
3. Made by Jenni
4. Queenly Things
5. Three Buttons
6. Dixie DIY
7. Miss Molly

Have a great weekend!!

king of my heart....

my beautiful flowers....

From my wonderful, beautiful, amazing, brilliant, fantastic sister who made my day by sending me these to cheer me up :)

visual list of happiness....

When I'm having a bad day I like to look at pictures of the things that make me happy - here are a few of my favourites....

beer face....

I saw that someone had scraped this little face into a bottle of beer in the supermarket at the weekend, and it really made me smile :)

Library card geek....

Just found this online : Library Card Generator, via Meet Me At Mikes, massively geeky fun to make old fashioned index card style notes and send to your friends and loved ones!

Happy Wednesday!!

cure for the holiday blues....

I have just had the most wonderful weekend with friends celebrating the wedding of John and Asia in Poland and meeting lots of lovely new people too.

We stayed in an amazing hotel and had great food and company all weekend, it was all so good that I didn't want to come home and back to work, so I have been looking for things to cheer me up today and take my mind off the end of the holiday blues....

Found via : Creature Comforts

Found via : Ribbonesia.com

Found via : Diem Chau

Found via : i adore style

something to smile about....

images found via likecool.com

Happy birthday Jessica!

I WISH....

Photographs by Max Wanger, courtesy of Joanna Goddard and Alex Williams

To have this one day.....isnt it lovely?!

My best friend is engaged!

My best friend Jodie has just got engaged!

Her wonderful gentleman friend Dom proposed today and I have been asked to be the Maid of Honour, and I honestly couldn't be more honoured!

I am so happy and excited because I love them both (and not forgetting Peanut the cat!) and I cant wait for them to get back from their holiday so we can start planning :-)

Jim Goodyear - the great man himself!

It was indeed a very happy Father's Day for my family and I this year, because we very nearly lost my lovely Daddy in February and so to be able to still have him with us and for him to have recovered so quickly is nothing short of a miracle :-)

Here he is at his happiest, working on his allotment !

Cracking week so far!

I have woken up in the most glorious of moods this morning, a rare thing for a Monday morning I can tell you!

The train to work was empty, so I got a good bit of knitting in, I made my breakfast (apples poached in cinnamon and honey with porridge and Greek yoghurt - highly recommended!) and it is a beautiful crisp Autumn day outside, plenty to be happy about!

So, imagine my further delight when I read a post about my blog on the Lovely Cupcake Couture blog by the gorgeous Nadia in South Africa (see her banner above, she makes and sells super pretty things for lovely ladies, and is herself a very talented young lady indeed!) it has made my day!

Here's to a lovely week for everyone!

Reasons to be cheerful!

I am in a ridiculously great mood today, no particular reason - although I am very excited that Autumn seems to have finally arrived!

Here are a few reasons that I have to be cheerful today - Enjoy!


Beautiful colourful balloons

We like Jon

New and frankly amazingly comfortable shoes that make me feel like The Worst Witch.

Some random little Hama bead creations that someone left on the bus, and I adopted them.

Rainbow stack of felt