Project 365

This weekend is my 23rd Birthday and with it, I'm starting Project 365 on Flickr. Determined to stick with it! My first picture will most probably be from my shiny new Polaroid camera, which takes some fantastic photos.

My birthday plans for the weekend involve...a day off work tomorrow, so I'm getting my hair chopped and going for food and to see Black Swan with my Mum.

Saturdays plans are...cake for breakfast! Followed by drinkies with my lovely friends all day. Can't wait!

Weekend Treats

Me and the boy ventured to Tynemouth Market yesterday. We haven't been for a while so I was looking forward to getting some new bits! However, a lot of the usual traders weren't there which was disappointing, so there were only a couple of stalls selling what I usually go for. We ended up getting this very small St. Peppers alarm clock and Joe got some new records including The Beatles' White Album (which had some amazing individual portraits of the Beatles inside, so we're going to frame them when we find a flat and hang them on the wall.

The rest of the weekend has been spent making soup for the week ahead and having a nice relax; have a busy week coming up at work then off to London for the Top Drawer show on Friday, where we're creating physical trend features to showcase trends for Spring/Summer 2011 and Autumn/Winter 2011/12, so I've had a very busy couple of weeks sourcing props, sorting press samples for the show and designing a trend guide for the show. Can't wait to see everything in place! Expect to see some photos next Sunday.

Inspiration: Miss Capricho

Images © Miss Capricho

Found these beautiful images (via Oh Joy) of Miss Capricho's absolutely stunning illustrations. I especially love the Louis Vuitton girl with the bunny ears. Love the simple lines and fantastic use of colour. These will now be adorning my studio wall - feeling very inspired by them!

Image © Miss Capricho

Resolute and Resolve

It's that time of year when we all make New Year's Resolutions...and then instantly seem to break them. This year I'm not so much as making resolutions, but more like having goals and ambitions for the year ahead. So here are a few of my plans for this year...

1. Complete the Great North Run - have always wanted to run this, for Help for Heroes or Asthma UK, and the run goes past the end of my road in South Shields, so I'm going to start training very shortly, which be be a killer but all worth it in the end.

2. Be fit, happy and healthy.

3. Push on with my blog - I've gained a fair few followers over the past couple of months and really want to start a regular document of what I'm up to.

4. Redesign my website and portfolio - these need SERIOUS attention, as haven't really touched them since I finished uni.

Sorry this is a bit of a boring post, but I need these ambitions cemented so I actually achieve them!

Mistletoe and Wine.

I have had a festive filled couple of weeks and been working very hard, so haven't had any time to update my blog!

Have had 2 lovely weekends in Corbridge with my parents stocking up on Christmas goodies from The Corbridge Larder and of course RE: (where I pretty much bought all of the shop!) including beautiful wooden heart gift tags for presents, which I also used last year, and some lovely things for myself! Well it is Christmas.

Had some very good news this week as well - my boyfriend was meant to be working away for Christmas but his company let him finish early so he's now back and I have him for Christmas, New Year and my birthday in January! Ecstatic beyond belief - really wasn't looking forward to Christmas knowing he was away on a barge in the cold Baltic sea but now he can enjoy the festive season properly.

Work has been super busy - we have a big trade show next month which we're creating 4 physical trend features for so I've been sourcing props and trying to scrounge free expensive wallpaper from big companies! Not doing too badly at the minute but will still have lots of work to do on it after Christmas. It's going to be a fantastic show and I'll reveal more in January.

Hopefully, will have some more pictures up tomorrow of Christmas Eve festivities in the Barnes/Millican household :)

Merry Christmas everyone!

xxx

Christmas is a coming...

...and I have been very lazy with blogging this week! Work has been busy this week and have been completing lots of interesting projects - we seem to get busier before Christmas?!

This weekend, I'm off to RE: to buy christmas presents and decoration, and then me and 2 of my lovely friends are getting together to make lovely Christmassy food (Guinness Gingerbread!), drink mulled cider and watch the X Factor final. Perfect weekend, non?

Some nice things from the last week.

Beautiful Tynemouth last Saturday morning

Vintage posters at Tynemouth market

Lovely saturday night cider

My beautiful boy and his little brother Tom.

Deciding on future interiors trends at work.

Snowy Northumberland on the very long drive to work this morning

Stuck on the road.

Outside my house this evening. Winter wonderland!