ARGOS GIVEAWAY WINNER!

The winner of my Argos voucher giveaway is the very lovely Rachel of Oh No Rachio!  If you haven't had a look at her blog & etsy shop already, you should! She is so talented :) Congratulations Rachel!

Thank you to everyone else who entered. I want to plan to do another giveaway soon, perhaps when I reach 300 followers, which isn't too far away! What sort of giveaway would you all like to see?

Have a lovely Sunday!

x ♥

ARGOS VOUCHER GIVEAWAY!

Birdcage tea light holder* // Clock*

Crochet cushion*

Habitat Deli Large beaker* // Habitat Deli Small beaker*

I love the Argos home ware range- it always has on trend, good quality, affordable pieces. When we moved in to our house, we furnished most of it using Argos! It was just so useful being able to get the styles we want, at prices we could afford, and having branches nearby made it really convenient too. Therefore, you can imagine how thrilled I was when they very kindly offered to send me some of their items from their home ware range to review!

How amazing is the birdcage tea light holder?? The style and the detail is just gorgeous- I absolutely love it! In fact, I love it so much I am considering buying several more to use as table centre pieces for our wedding instead of traditional flowers! I can imagine draping strings of pearls through the bars, and perhaps adding some silk flowers or vintage brooches. I may use little wooden pegs to attach the table numbers written on luggage labels to the bars. I think it would be just beautiful! And at £19.99 it is an absolute bargain. I can't say enough good things about this product. I love it!

I think there is something really elegant about this little clock. It's actually an alarm clock, and I love the simplicity of it. It's a lovely soft grey and I love the style the numbers are written in- I think it's a beautiful font. I like quite minimalist, yet pretty and feminine items and I think this fits this style perfectly!

I think the crochet cushion is another item that could be described as minimalist yet feminine. I really love crochet items at the moment, and this cushion is a lovely shade of cream that will go with anything, with chunky buttons to stop it being too plain.Our bed has rather a lot of floral and pattern going on too (sorry, David!) so this cushion balances it out nicely!

I am in love with these beakers! How retro and lovely are they? The pastel tones are so pretty- I love the hint of mint on the inside of the large one (mine) and the soft pink of the small one (Lily's!). Argos now has a selection of ex Habitat stock at very reasonable prices and these are part of that range. They are just perfect to serve some milkshake in with some pretty paper straws! I know this sounds like such a gushy post, but I actually have nothing negative to say about any of the items, I am so happy with all of them!

Here's the exciting part! All of these gorgeous items totaled at just pennies off of £50- so Argos are very generously offering a £50 voucher to one of my readers!

You can enter using the Rafflecopter widget below. You must be a follower of my blog on Google friend connect and a resident of the UK (sorry! I will host a giveaway for my international readers soon!). You can earn extra entries by following me on twitter and tweeting about the giveaway. The giveaway will be running for two weeks. Be sure to leave me a comment below and include your email so I contact you if your the lucky winner!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Good luck everyone!

x ♥

holiday & excitement & winner

I am back from holiday :) I had scheduled some posts for while I was away, but neither of them worked unfortunately! I have no idea why, but those posts will be up soon!

My holiday was lovely. Luckily my morning sickness has passed, and I could really enjoy it! It consisted of many beaches, long walks, card games in the caravan, collecting shells, lots of pebbles, paddling in the cold sea, rock pools, finding crabs, finding jellyfish, old fashioned arcades and fun fairs, spotting boats, rainy days, sunny days, little zoos, white lions, ice cream, petting farms, gift shops, sweet shops, homemade fudge, fish and chips, roast dinners, swings, standing on cliff tops, lovely views, feeding white doves out of my hand, and the swan. Our friend the swan. Our caravan had a little private beach, that had one swan living alone there. We went to our little beach only feet away every morning, and the swan would immediately come over to us and nip at our legs and feet until he was fed! It was a little scary at first, but he was lovely.

And we returned home to have my scan a few days later. I was so nervous and scared!! eek. It was yesterday. I was having nightmares for days before about everything going wrong, and it being bad news. The lady rubbed the gel on my belly, and as soon as the little ultrasound thingy was on my tummy, there it was on the screen, our little baby!!! I have felt so happy. I knew immediately everything was ok, our little one is so energetic and playful! It was jumping about all over the place, kicking its little legs and waving its arms. We saw it sucking it's thumb, and even saw it drinking the amniotic fluid! It was opening its little mouth and swallowing!! I couldn't believe how much detail we could see, we could even see its tiny toes wriggling. It was so so amazing!! Heres our baby:

In the picture, it is sucking its thumb, and the other arm is down by its side, and you can see its little toes curled round too! I can't stop smiling. Its about the size of a banana now :) Now I can't wait for our next scan!

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More exciting news now!! I have used random.org to choose the winner of my giveaway. and the winner is:

LONE ALASKAN GYPSY!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will be contacting you about sending your prize very soon :) thank you to everyone who entered!!

I have also put more items up in the shop today, if anyone would like to see :)

x ♥

GIVEAWAY!! ♥

FINALLY I am doing the giveaway I promised ages and ages ago!! I finally have lots of items up in my shop and have got everything organised so I can do a little giveaway for you all to celebrate!

The items I am giving away are:

1. one of my jar necklaces filled with beads. These necklaces are on a antique, bronze coloured chain that measures 25 inches long. The jars are little, corked glass jars that are about 2inches tall and I have filled each with different coloured beads, which look really pretty and effective when worn :) You can choose one of ten colours, I have numbered them all the first picture. Just let me know which number you would like when entering!

2. A really cute ring, which is an antique gold colour and is of cat ears! Very unusual and pretty design. 

3. A little friendship bracelet, with different tones of blue thread woven with teeny star beads all along it.

To enter, leave me a comment on this post! Remember to let me know which colour jar you would like, and also make sure I have some way of getting hold of you to let you know you have won :) To enter you must be a follower of my blog.

For extra entries, you can also:

♥ link to my giveaway on your blog

♥ tweet about my giveaway

♥ favourite my shop on etsy

let me know what you have done in your comment, and link to your twitter and blog if you have done those :)

The winner will be drawn in two weeks, on wednesday the 5th of september. The winner will be picked at random by a random number generator.

Please go take a look at my shop, I have many other items up there! I also have lots of cute baby clothes I want to buy, so could really do with the extra pennies :) haha!

I also have set up an ebay to sell some cute rings like the cat ears one. more will be coming soon :)

I am on holiday next week, but have some posts scheduled. I hope they work, Ive never scheduled posts before!

hope everyones happy and enjoying the end of their summers :)

♥ x

p.s: I've started a pregnancy blog!! hello baby

studio!! ♥

Picture of the girl in glasses: David Shrigley, rabbit and squirrel print: matt saunders, larger painting: lyzi

 fabric cat: lyzi, Rosie Bird: Donna Wilson

 Drawing of me, poppy, Alfie and Archie: charlotte

here is my finished studio!! finally, after weeks of building and painting and decorating, it's all done :) It's such a lovely place to work, I love it! 


Now it's finished I've been able to spend all day making all sorts of bits of bobs for the shop, so expect to see some items up for sale soon! Probably early this week, I won't be doing much this weekend as I turn 21 this Saturday, so will be celebrating :)  I will also finally get round to that giveaway I have been promising for so long!


hope your all having lovely summers


x  ♥

Graduation ♥

My David & I have graduated :)  It was a lovely day, with our families there and everyone we have been at uni with for the last 3 years. We wore the silly hats and the gowns that made us look like we were in Harry Potter, and now, university is finally over for good!!

This week my studio will be finished, and i am going to work really hard to get my shop up and selling in the next two weeks! I will be having a giveaway as soon as its all done, so I hope all of you will enter! There will be lots of goodies available for winning.

Congratulations to all the other people graduating or finishing school at the moment! 

x ♥

one hundred

Finally writing post number 100!!! although it isn't what I promised- sorry!! no giveaway yet. I've had such a busy few weeks and I'm not quite ready, but in the next few weeks there should be one. Without sounding cheesy, thank you so much to all of your for reading my blog!! I know I'm an absolutely rubbish blogger, as uni and a job with long hours has made posting difficult, rare and a bit all over the place. So for those of you who have stuck with me, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have finished university!!!  wow, it feels weird writing that. It still hasn't sunk in yet. my work for the degree show was one of my animations of my stick man and dog, projected onto the open lid of an old fashioned school desk. It was all about childhood and memory, and forgetting memories ect, and was in a tiny little space in the exhibition. I wasn't 100% happy with it if I'm honest, but I've had good feedback from other people. And one of my external examiners was Mariele Neudecker, which was amazing!! I had to be interviewed by her for my assessment, and was nervous, especially when the girl before me came out crying!! but she was so lovely, and told me my work was beautiful and even gave me some contacts she thought i should get in touch with for galleries she thought would be interested in my work!! it was amazing!! 

I have been doing lots of celebrating with friends and family, and have been completely spoilt too. My mother bought me some new pretty dresses, one with a starry skirt, and one with cat print all over. My Nan bought me a lovely wooden necklace with a triangle pattern sewed into it, and David bought me some beautiful flowers, wine and fudge!

I also recieved a wonderful package from Lyzi over at being little after winning her giveaway!! I was so excited :) I got so many amazing goodies!! I received a print of her beautiful mizu no kokoro painting, one of her really cute sewn kitties, a recipe for raspberry lemonade, some really pretty cupcake cases, a headscarf, some lovely jewelry by ella masters and a 'knit your own ninja' kit!! I finished the ninja last night, and love it!! My David tried to steal it from me he liked it so much :) If you haven't visited Lyzi's blog before, go do it now!!! She is very talented and her blog is one of my favourites!

we have had some bad news though this month. Archie, our kitten, is missing. He's been missing for a week and a half now, and it is awful without him. we are keeping everything crossed that he will turn up soon, but we do miss him. As does Alfie. It's just not right having Alfie without Archie!! Archie is quite silly, and likes to wander into neighbors houses, and get himself into strange places, so our guess is he's been accidently locked in somewhere. But we are desperate to have him back. I know this is a long shot, but if anyone who reads this is in the Reading area, have you seen a black cat with a blue collar wandering about anywhere?? or know of one thats been found?? we miss him :(

since finishing uni. I have been busy trying to set up my own little business. It's very scary and daunting at the moment!! I have been working really hard too produce lot so things to start selling, such as the sewn animals, little woven bracelets, and miniature jars with little sewn characters inside, which will become pendants! Hopefully my shop will be up and ready soon. Once it is, I will have that giveaway I promised. My parents are also building my studio in the garden this weekend, which is so exciting!! I will be in there next week decorating and can't wait!! I have also filled the time with some day trips out to farms and castles, painting my nails bright colours,   drawing and cooking lots, and watching lots of rubbish TV!!  

Also, now I've finished uni and my job in the student bar, I will blogging LOTS more!! I'm hoping to blog at least once a week now, I've been waiting so long to be able to blog properly! It also means you won't have to read huge long posts like this where I try to squeeze a million things into one post!! I've been trying to comment on some of your lovely blog posts I've read and reply to you all, but blogger won't let me comment??! hopefully that will be fixed soon!

take care

x ♥