TODAY.

A frosty walk back from work this morning. Also my finished knitting my scarf!

Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me but it was too beautiful to not photograph so please excuse the grainy quality.

Hope you had a great weekend

x

DAILY DECEMBER.

So somehow I managed to not really take any photos over Christmas this year.... partly because I was soaking up the loveliness and partly because I was at work right up until Christmas morning so I wasn't functioning enough to capture anything on the day!

Thankfully, I felt like the Christmassy magic that I get really into would stretch across the whole of Decemeber so I set out to take a picture a day this past month over on instagram. 

Hope you Christmas was filled with joy!

x

TWENTY FIVE BEFORE TWENTY FIVE.

Happy New Year! 
WOW. 2014 is here.

Last New Year's Day we were discussing resolutions as a family over lunch and I decided to make twenty five goals to achieve before turning twenty five. These are all things that I want to try/make/do anyway but I do well with deadlines and I knew a list would help me commit. Quite a few have been ticked off already but I now have just over a year and a half to finish the list. I actually mentioned this in one of my first posts but below is the full list (well done if you make it all the way through!).

one. Start a blog

two. Visit America

three. Graduate

four. Take more photos using my camera rather than my phone

five. Have a dinner party

six. Take up ballet again

seven. Travel around Europe

eight. Make a quilt

nine. See Taylor swift with my sisters

ten. Read 25 books* I've made specific lists below if you're interested

eleven. Watch 25 films* 

twelve. Knit a scarf

thirteen. Write a poem

fourteen. Learn how to play a song on the piano

fifteen. Learn how I play the guitar

sixteen. Have a herb garden

seventeen. Get a pet

eighteen. Run a mile without stopping

nineteen. Make a video

twenty. See a play

twenty one. Relearn my GCSE French

twenty two. Drink a whole cup of English tea

twenty three. Learn all the countries and capital cities in Europe and where they are

twenty four. Learn a letter from the bible off by heart
twenty five. Visit the Harry Potter studio tour

BOOKS

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R.Tolkien
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
1984, George Orwell
The Catcher and the Rye, J. D. Salinger
The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Pilgrims Progress, John Bunyan
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The Lord of the Flies, William Golding, 
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Goldem
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, Mark Twain
Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
Saturday, Ian McEwan

FILMS
The Graduate
The Godfather
Pulp Fiction
Schindler’s List
Casacblanca
Saving Private Ryan
Cinema Paradiso
Braveheart
The Big Lebowski 
Trainspotting
A River Runs Through It
Roman Holiday
Psycho
6th Sense
Manhattan
Midnight in Paris
The Descendants
Silver Linings Playbook
Liberal Arts
Untouchable
Delicacy
Paris, Texas
The Shop Around the Corner
The Guardian
Top Hat

* These are slightly random selections. I have tried to include both books and films that I wouldn't necessarily read or watch but that always seem to be on must-read/see lists and ones that I have been meaning to get round to but just never have. 

TODAY.

I am a graduate!

After three years of University and starting the real world of work I got to celebrate with friends and my parents. It was such a fun day, I literally had the best time despite the rain and the cold.

There were a few times when I wasn't sure if I would get through all the assignments and it was a LOT of work but I did it. I'm so beyond thankful for the friends I have made, the support and love I have received from everyone close to me, and for the past three and a half years spent in Leeds. This feels like quite an achievement.

God has taught me so much through this and it's exciting (and scary) to see what's next...

Photos from my lovely friend Ellerie.

THANKFUL THURSDAY/ DECEMBER.

one my bed. I've been working nights this week and it is the BEST getting to snuggle up after a long shift

two making it to the cinema more regularly, I love it!

three Christmas lights, cooking, traditions, songs, buying gifts. Getting into the full swing of things well and truly 

four a week off work last week meaning  friends could visit that I haven't seen in a too long 

five a new coat with the warmest hood I've been wearing even when it's not raining or snowing
six finally getting the last pieces of furniture for the house, yes to no boxes on the floor
seven this advent series and the encouragement of a friend following it alongside me
eight living close enough for impromptue visits from friends
nine a housemate who walks half and hour with me each way to buy a real Christmas tree and hangs out my washing!

CHRISTKINDLEMARKT.

Every year a Christmas market comes to one of the squares in Leeds city centre just like many other cities all over England. 

It's become part of the build up to Christmas to spend an afternoon or evening there ever since I stater university. In all honesty it's pretty tiny and all you can do is buy small gifts and ornaments, expensive food and drink or go on a few funfair rides. The atmosphere is so happy and full of anticipation that this doesn't matter and the music, lights and Christmassy smells make up for it! 

This year after appreciating the magic (and the food) we headed home quite early to mull our own wine and watch Sleepless in Seattle which was fine by me.

LIFE THIS NOVEMBER.

The months seems to be flying, how is this year practically done? I have plans written into my diary all the way past Christmas which feels partly like everything has already happened! 

I wanted to try and take a photo everyday in November but that very quickly failed. Instead I tried to capture little things that have happened over the last month to share with you. These are not very exciting things but have just made up life recently.

Enjoy!

SIMPLE SHADES OF WHITE.

THE DAY SO MUCH POST ARRIVED, A LOT OF LOVE COMING THROUGH MY DOOR.

AUTUMN SKY.

AUTUMN LIGHT.

AN INVITATION I COULDN'T REFUSE.

SETTING UP HOUSE.

 MY ONLY GLIMPSE OF FIREWORKS THIS YEAR.

NEARLY TOO PRETTY TO DRINK.

A NEW VIEW.

BAKING AGAIN.

HOMEMADE.

ANOTHER COFFEE. ANOTHER CROISSANT.

LONDON STREETS.

SO MANY DRESSES.

GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE...AGAIN. SISTER SISTER.

GOOD MORNING LEEDS.

POPCORN EXPERIEMENTS.