125 – A walk in the sunshine at lunchtime
126 – I have new glasses and this is a terrible photo of me. Selfies on new phones are hard…
127 – A new cat friend
128 – My fave colour blossom
129 – new stripey summer clothes, yeay
130 – My Mum keeps sending me puppy photos of Harry to cheer me up. It works.
131 – More blue skies, hurray
132 – A gig (I’ve forgetten his name but it was amazing!)
133 – The Oh Sees
134 – It’s that time of year! Time of peonies, hurray!
135 – We got a new bed, finally!
136 – A great night out with friends and huge naan breads
137 – cracked paint
138 – a camera advert from 1928!
139 – Lilacs
140 – Blue skies and yellow, perfect!
141 – my new favourite vinyl!
142 – cool stickers
143 – a picnic at the abbey
144 – new sandals
145 – I see petals :)
146 – I found thsi bag for £3 in a charity shop, bargain!
147 – another night, another gig :)
148 – dandelions in the rain – they’re so pretty
And we’re all caught up – its been a busy few weeks hasn’t it! I’m so excited about the peonies, I’ll definitely be taking more photos of them when they’ve bloomed properly.
Have a great weekend!
Arghhh, it’s the end of May! That means it’s June tomorrow and a week from now, I’ll be on holiday. Excited is an understatement (it usually is for me anyway haha).
So first #BEDM. I kind of did a rubbish job with this. I started well… but my issue with this wasn’t anything to do with the topics or the blogging every day – it was the level of sharing. Every once and a while I forget that actually, I’m really happy with my blog and where it is – I’m really happy sharing photos, having conversations in the comments (I always try and comment back, so definitely leave comments), sharing snippets of my life and actually, I didn’t and still don’t want to talk about a lot of the topics. I am glad that I pushed myself to talk about everything that I wanted to though and I’m also glad that I realised that I do love my blog and being here still, so I am incredibly grateful to Elizabeth for giving me that through this challenge. It’s so easy to look at other types of blogs (lifestyle, fashion, mummy etc) and think that the grass is greener – but actually, I’ve spent 4 years carving out my own blog niche and I know now, that my niche is exactly where I should be… hurray!
Now, my 365 project… the good news is that I have still been doing this and I’m really enjoying it now that the weather is starting to slowly improve… the bad news is that I’m about 50 photos behind on here. Oops. So I’ll share a batch today and a batch tomorrow I think. So here is 101 – 124 with some highlighted moments :)
105 – A letter card from my Grandad :) yeay!
108 – a new camera (ohhhhh) I haven’t actually used it yet but I’m planning on taking it away with me.
110 – My first ever breakfast waffle and oh my… it was so good!
114 – Magnolias! Because you just have to
115 – Cake and tea on a special day with one of my very best friends. (You should check out her blog if you love cake, just saying…)
117 – I did take a photo but its of a secret project, so I can’t share it here yet…
119 – I got a new phone. The camera is sooo good!
123 – Our first BBQ of the year woo!
124 – A gloriously sunny day in Knaresborough.
I always feel like I’m playing catch up with this project, but I’m delighted to say that I reached 100! Hurray!
86. Walking to work in the snow.
87. My Dad’s 50th! Harry wanted some cake too :)
88. Continuing the celebrations.
89. A pretty house spotted in Norwich.
90. Demon dog!!
91. Hensby beach in the sunshine.
92. Wells beach, in the sunshine
93. Another day, another beach. Hunstanton, in the sunshine :)
94. Thomas’s Granny made this, she’s my hero. Also she’s 90. Amazing!
95. Fountains Abbey.
96. Elephant Armour at the Royal Armouries.
97. I love putting the washing out, and this was the first lot to go out of the year, hurray!
98. Finally seeing more signs of Spring around.
99. These little daffs made a lot of days more bearable, so cute!
100!!! Haha, I made it and its a good un too – Jose James at the Wardrobe in Leeds, he was amazing.
~ You can see more of my 365 photos here and I’m sharing them on Instagram too ~
77. Thomas bought this home for dinner. He’s a keeper.
78. A lovely gift from an amazing friend.
79. I cheated with this but it made me smile.
80. I was so excited about this sunshine, but it turns out the weather was taunting me as…
81. Snow! Damnit.
82. Finally finished my big crochet project, now I need another one…
83. Spring is inside our house at least…
84. A pretty view from the bus.
85. Our local corner shop now sells these… uh oh.
~ You can see more of my 365 photos here and I’m sharing them on Instagram too ~
I’m running a little behind on this project in terms of uploading the photos here, but I have to admit it is growing on me, though the fact that its getting closer and closer to 100 is quite staggering!
65. I kind of want to buy my own case on Society6… is that wrong?
66. I’ve seen this man walking his dogs around Kirkstall for the past 5 years but I’ve never taken a photo before… (you can just make them out in the trees right?)
67. Blackpool beach!
68. Cocktails with lunch, I say.
69. At the zoo, there were elephants, I was excited!
70. Finally some sunshine on the train. Shame it was heading back to Leeds…
71. A sunny start to my day back at work.
72. Playing around with Blurb
73. I developed my Blackpool photos, hurray!
74. Pizza night with some of our best friends :)
75. We saw Back to the Future here, it was awesome!
76. I am absolutely in love with the crochet weave stitch.
~ You can see more of my 365 photos here and I’m sharing them on Instagram too ~
53. It feels like ages ago but I was ill for a few days and this was the view from our bed.
54. Luckily my parents came to visit to cheer me up.
55. Random stuff in our house…
56. I received the most amazing handmade gift from one of my best friends, it came with a tissue as she knew it would make me cry :)
57. My first ever text from my Grandad made my day
58. The sun was shining
59. We went for dinner and shared this amazing dessert, yum
60. A snowdrop in our front garden.
61. My little sister and I found the photobooth in Manchester :)
62. A lazy Sunday
63. I made Harry a tunisian crochet jacket and he wore it out for the first time, hurray
64. Out for lunch in the sunshine
~ You can see more of my 365 photos here and I’m sharing them on Instagram too ~
41. My first bunch of daffodils this year
42. My current crochet project, I love it
43. Dan Deacon gig at the brudenell! It was amazing
44. Pretty slabs that match my Wellibobs
45. My friends know me well on Valentines :)
46. It’s been light and pretty walking home from work lately.
47. A new camera find – a Zenit B – I’m totally adoring it, I just hope the film I took develops ok now.
48. It was sunny! So I took my new camera find around the Abbey.
49. I loved how the clouds looked, almost like a painting.
50. Kirkstall Abbey from the bus.
51. A finished blanket for little Harry (the dog)
52. I missed a day off sick :( pretty gutted but I didn’t even think about it on the day, I was pretty ill.
Happy weekend! My little sis is coming to visit and I’m pretty excited about it.
~ You can see more of my 365 photos here and I’m sharing them on Instagram too ~
I can’t decide if I’m enjoying this project or not. On one hand its become much easier to take photos every day as it’s getting lighter in the evenings, and I’m a lot less picky about what to share… in fact, I’m surprised by how quickly its become a part of my day to take a photo for it. But honestly, I’m not a huge fan of my digital photos, they just don’t feel like they’re me, if that makes sense… perhaps I’m just missing my film cameras today.
29. Evening snacks
30. Our first gig of the year, woo!
31. My current favourite chocolate, its so good.
32. It was light waiting for the bus, hurray!
33. I found an old photo of my parents, its awesome!
34. Dinner with my love. We had steak. it was tasty.
35. At the dentist… honestly. poshest waiting room ever.
36. Snow photos finally developed!
37. A (highly edited) selfie for some facts about me on Instagram, always fun lol.
38. One of the horses near my bus stop.
39. Local Natives!! Already a contender for my favourite gig of the year, they’re amazing.
40. Think big :)
Happy weekend!
I think I’m going to take some film photos for a couple of days.
~ You can see more of my 365 photos here and I’m sharing them on Instagram too ~
20. (not 21… ug sorry) I made a new friend Owen, he’s also a photographer,
we talked for ages, it was great.
21. Because of the snow I got to leave work early, so I took advantage of the hour of sunlight and took
my LC-A around the Abbey in the snow.
22. I also took photos in the snow with my Superheadz.
23. Pub dinner!
24. A little pick me up after a rubbish day.
25. I found some 98p film in Morrisons, so I bought a few.
26. We went for a walk around Sinsty Reservoir and it was beautiful.
27. Sunshine! I could barely believe it. It’s gone now of course…
28. Our first run of the year… in the rain. It was pretty awful but great to be out running again.
~ You can see more of my 365 photos here and I’m sharing them on Instagram too ~
I’ve actually found this project to be quite hard… although I’ve been trying not to put too much pressure on myself to get a certain type of photo, picking just one photo for the day is actually quite difficult. I’m hoping that I’ll get the hang of exactly what it is I’m looking for as the year goes along.
I am a little bit amazed that its the 22nd of January already though – this month has flown by!
11. The 11th was a bit of a slow day but dinner was delicious – chilli stuffed aubergine with cheese and jalapeños.
12. Looking around Leeds Art Gallery with Thomas’s brother who came to visit.
13. As part of my word of the year ‘alleviate’ I’ve been slowly sorting through my things. Here I finally organised some of my books and cameras in our bedroom.
14. Snow! The start of lots of snow photos :)
15. Learning to crochet doilies. (I could quite easily make every day a crochet photo it seems)
16. I got two films developed from my parents house last week, they were both about 14 years old! So heres a photo of me with one of my high school projects. I was pretty pleased with that dog toy.
17. Waiting for the bus in light snow.
18. Curled up at home with a blanket playing Mahjong… bliss.
19. Afternoon tea with Clare… it wasn’t as tasty as it looks unfortunately, but I always enjoy spending time with Clare :)
~ You can see more of my 365 photos here and I’m sharing them on Instagram too ~
p.s. I’ve updated the Films I Use page to include all the film that I’ve ever used, its a bit crazy now with nearly 25, but it looks much better and more organised. Have a look if you’re interested.
This year I decided to start a 365 project. I’ve been thinking about it for a while and it took me ages to decide on how to do it. In the end I decided just to use my phone. I wanted to do a film one, but during the week my days are pretty dull and most of my photos are taken in the evening where I wouldn’t really be able to use my film cameras without a flash and I’m not a huge flash fan with film.
Also, I’m trying not to take this project too seriously, most of my favourite blogs and instagram accounts, are by people who are really good at capturing those everyday moments and I want to get better at that, rather than focusing on the quality of the photos, its the content I want, even if the highlight of my work day is a chocolate bar lol. So here are the first 10 days, I’m pretty impressed that I’ve managed it so far and I’m even in half of them in some way too.
1. A winter walk on New Years Day before a pub lunch.
2. A GIANT Reese’s Peanut Butter cup from my Uncle’s visit to NYC, I didn’t even know they made him so big!
We cut it into 8 in the end.
3. Messing around with reflections whilst we took down the christmas decorations.
4. A glass of my favourite wine, in my PJ’s. Yup.
5. New boots to go with my new skinny red cords. Now I just need to be brave enough to wear them outside haha.
6. My parents got me Tunisian crochet hooks for Christmas, which I love, so I’ve been practising my simple and knit stitches.
7. I’ve been feeling ill for a while now (turns out I have an ear AND throat infection, nice) so new favourite TV shows in bed are the way forward. (Anyone else like Once Upon a Time? I watched the whole 1st series in a week!)
8. New Kit Kat chunky’s!! We tried all of the last ones that they released, so we’re trying all of these too. So far the mint is my favourite, yum! The coconut wasn’t as nice as I wanted though.
9. A pretty view out of my work window for once.
10. Thomas got a snuggy for Christmas as part of a secret santa and this is the first time I wore it, with a hoody too. It’s cold.
Is anyone else doing a 365 project? I’d love to see how you’re finding it. I’m hoping I manage to do the entire year.
Have a great weekend!