Snapshot Sunday #13

I attended a photography workshop at London's South Bank yesterday afternoon. The workshop was run by Frui, and I purchased it via Groupon for a very reasonable £35. I'm really shy when meeting people for the first time, so I did find it a little nerve-racking but I guess, when you're wanting to do something you enjoy, you just have to go for it! I found the workshop very helpful - now I know the basics of ISO, shutter speeds, aperture and depth of field. Although it was a little mind boggling at first! My nail art also got a bit of attention, with some guy at the workshop getting snap-happy over my nails.

And now it's Sunday evening and Monday looms once again...hope you all had a good weekend to look back on, though!

#27...

I turned the ripe old age of 27 on Saturday. I always get depressed over turning another year older [3 years from 30 - how the hell did that happen?!] but I had the best day so that made up for it.

My boyfriend gave me my cake in the morning, as he does every year. This year I got a pretty pink cake, decorated with butterflies and roses.

I opened a few presents in the morning [I got some wonderful gifts, and plan to do a post on them soon], then we got ready and went for a pub breakfast. We then got the train to Waterloo and headed to The Strand, where we went to The Adelphi Theatre to see Sweeney Todd.

It was absolutely fantastic - couldn't fault anything at all. The cast were amazing, especially Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton. I also thought Jason Manford made a very good Pirelli! I think Ben quite liked it too, despite not being a fan of musicals at all.

After the show, we had to dash back home to get ready for the night. As I can't stand organising things, my friend Shaun planned drinks at a couple of the local pubs for me. I had a very good night, got very drunk and drove my boyfriend very mad. But he forgave me!



I get very affectionate when intoxicated. And emotional. I cried on my best friend's shoulder as it was the night before she went off travelling. Gonna miss you mush. ♥

Lomography Love #4

Here are some more of the photos I took on my diana mini in London the other week. You can see the rest here. Thank you so much for all your lovely comments on my last lomo love post!

Lomography Love #3

Taken with my diana mini using colour slide film ISO 200. I have a few more from this day but will save those for another post.

Weekend highlights.

The past few days have been really lovely. I had such a great long weekend, it was quite relaxed but I also managed to get quite a lot done. Here are some snippets...




♥ Went teacup shopping in my local charity shop, where I got 5 teacups and 5 saucers for £3.50! I got a couple of candle orders from work last week, so I made a start on those and also made some for the stall I'm doing on Sunday. I've been quite busy sorting out all my stock for that.

♥ Had a nice day to myself in London on Monday. I walked through Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park, took some photos on my diana mini, then walked across to Oxford Street. I avoided Topshop, and just headed to primark instead where I got this lovely Christmassy cardigan from the mens section! I also got a thermal onesie, some lovely thick tights and a velvet headband. It was a really nice day, apart from the fact I really hurt one of my toes and at one point thought it was broken! Just badly strained though, I think.

♥ Made white chocolate & raspberry cookies, which I found the recipe for on both Lucy's and Lil's blogs. VERY YUMMY.

♥ Got into the Christmassy mood [who am I kidding, I've been feeling it for weeks] and put up my little tree! It's barbie pink, it's a bit tacky...I love it.

♥ My faux fur coat which I won off ebay finally arrived. It took three weeks! I love it though, so cosy! Not bad for £6 eh?

♥ Ben and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary. He took me out to our favourite Indian on Saturday, it was delicious! Our actual anniversary was yesterday, we stayed in and ate dominos. So classy!

So now I'm back at work, and giving myself a slapped wrist for not going to the gym for a week...I have enjoyed my time off far too much!

What have you all been up to?

Lomography Gallery Store

Yesterday the boyfriend and I paid the Lomography Gallery Store a visit. Not Ben's cup of tea if I'm honest, but I really wanted to go, and he's nice so he came with me!

Images taken from the lomography gallery store website

The shop is really cool - it's got a huuuge lomowall - the biggest in the UK, apparently - and you can buy the full range of lomographic products.

One thing I did find annoying is that there wasn't any price tags on anything. When I asked a sales assistant, she told me it was a way to entice people to talk to them. I think it's just a ploy to make people spend more money than they should! I was quite restrained though. I came away with the Lady Grey film and fotoclips. I also got a freebie pack of buttons as I checked in on foursqaure!

After all that excitement, we headed to Nando's for lunch, then a spot of shopping in Covent Garden. I bought one of h&m's £3.99 bodycon skirts in a lovely rusty orange colour and this tee in green from Zara, which I'm in love with! Stopped off at Candy Cakes where Ben treated us to a double chocolate cupcake each, before heading home.

Delish!

The rest of my weekend has been spent watching X Factor [anyone else think Frankie Cocozza is really crap and just looks a mess?], laying in bed and drinking lots of tea, taking photos on my Diana F+ using the instant back and generally slobbing about. That's what Sundays are all about :)