I was meant to share this photo ages ago (a big whoops!). It seems like it’s going to be a traditional thing, as in, me making cat-related signs for Halloween. Why buy decorations when you can make it yourself?! In short, it was an absolute hit with the neighbours and it went down really well with the kids! Although the cats were pretty freaked out by the constant front door opening and closing 🙁
If you’re someone like me who can spend hours on Etsy, well, that’s pretty much my Sunday evenings gone! This’ll be something new for my blog (best I keep it up then…) and I’ll be doing a weekly round up on things I love on Etsy. Which brings me to this week’s post: lapel pins. I would love to build my own collection of pins and I hope this inspires you to either to start your own or to create your own pins!
Please click on image itself which will take you to the individual artists Etsy shop- thanks and enjoy!
Atomic Cocktail Enamel Pin: In the Lavender Haze
Poet By Night: Where is Jasper
Moon Cat Enamel Pin: I like CATS
Till Death Do Us Apart: Frolik Strudio
Personalised Pony Pin Badge: Bonbi Forest
Black Beetle Lapel Pin: Kristina Micotti
Swan Enamel Pin Set: Boy Girl Party
Recently, Sam and I went to Granada for a couple of days to visit some friends who are currently living there. It was my first time to Granada so I was really looking forward to it! We spent four days in Granada and it was enough time to do everything i.e. do the usual tourist things and trying out different places to eat.
When we arrived we went out for some tapas and drinks. Honestly, the food is amazing and whenever you order drinks you usually receive free tapas. We pretty much went on a tapas crawl during the evenings as the drinks are reasonably inexpensive and I love ordering small things for everyone to try and share.
Granada itself is a beautiful place. I love the architecture and the tiny little streets winding up here and everywhere- a maze of gorgeous buildings.
We visited Catedral de Granada and it was well worth visiting since we had some spare time one afternoon.
Before going to The Alhambra, our friends took us to Sacromonte for a walk, which is a very hilly/mountainous area where people have built their houses into the caves. Most of the buildings are all painted blue and white. You can probably tell by now I’m just taking loads of photos as design inspiration for our house!
When Sam and I visited The Alhambra it wasn’t much of a walk from the river (it was getting warm by this point) and we walked round the gardens for a bit before queueing up to get into the Palacios Nazaries.
Once inside the Palacios Nazarie, well, I just went completely tile crazy and took loads and loads of photos of the tiles! The details of the walls. ceilings and floors were just amazing and beautifully intricate.
If I was there any longer my soul mission would’ve been to try as many restaurants as possible and basically go all out with the food! When I went out for food when we got back home I remember thinking that there was NO tapas with my drink… and there I was staring at my drink and dreaming of bread and ham… How I miss thee.
Hello all! Just a friendly reminder that I’m off on holiday from Sunday 12th – Thursday 16th February so my Etsy shop will be closed during that period. All orders should be made no later than Friday 10th.
My Etsy shop will be open again on Friday 17th February. Please note I will not be answering any emails so anything urgent I will reply upon my return.
This is my first blog post of the year and I’d just like to say that I’ve hope you’ve all had a good start to the New Year! I know that I’ve been saying this every single year, but 2016 really did whizz by! I thought this post would be a reflection of last year as bits of it was crazy and mega stressful.
In January I started my new job as a teaching assistant (which is my current job at the moment) and I’ve been there for just over a year. I’m still happy with where I am and the people at school are amazing and super supportive as well. Shortly afterwards, we bought our house in Wood Green! Hurrah for adulting! There are no words to describe what was going on in my head as I honestly thought I was going to explode due to stress!
As that was going on, Emily and I were organising our very first group show of 2016 called ‘Tropical Safari’. The timing of it couldn’t have been better (hints of sarcasm there…) but I was extremely grateful for having friends to help us along the way as there were things which seemed to have snowballed and I felt like things were getting out of control. Everything worked out for itself and the show was really good- couldn’t have been happier about it.
My cousin asked me to do some custom prints for her for Christmas presents and she was really please to see the final thing. Also, a good friend of mine asked me to design her wedding invitations! I had a lot of fun with it as she was super flexible with how she wanted it, so as long as it followed the theme of blossoms with shades of blues and greys so that it tied in with the wedding.
I spent most of my time doing loads of DIY stuff to the house, and we’ve not even finished yet. So about the floors… we’ll come to that when we have the time/money.
I’m going to end it there as I wanted to keep the post to the point and not go on about the floors/DIY/the cats… Hope you all enjoy the rest of the week and take care!