Cycling!

   The only way to carry these was hanging out of my bag which made me feel slightly French.

     This was a bench that a few of us stopped at whilst waiting for the others to catch up as the twins hadn't cycled in years and were very hesitant on their bikes. 

We were looking for somewhere to have our picnic and we stumbled upon a beautiful pond so naturally we had to take a trip back to our childhoods and feed the ducks! Although this led to Rita getting chased by a goose. 

This is our picnic with some people cut out as they didn't want to be in the pictures. 

  I stole Emilys' amazing vintage bike which, although is old is so nice to ride!


Overall the day was so lovely and we met lots of friendly people who stopped to have a condensation which is so refreshing because that never happens, especially with old people.
 

Hannah's Baprism

 A few weeks ago, my friend Hannah got baptized and I managed to get some photos of it even though some are a little blurry. It was beautiful and if I hadn't have heard her speech before hand I definitely would have cried full out. Congratulations to Hannah!

Jewellery Box Memories

I was going through all of my jewellery yesterday and the memories attached to them go way back and I thought it'd make a nice mini series on here to share some of those. This will be part one and I will see how it goes.

This is my jewellery box which was a Christmas Present years and years ago from my Grandma and I've had to glue it back together a few times but it does the job well.

I bought this necklace last year whilst I was staying in a tiny fishing village called Port Issac in Cornwall. The cottage we were staying in was one wall of an alley which is the smallest in the world called 'squeeze belly alley' and it really was so tiny that the suitcases got stuck when we went through it. It was from one of the shops there. Since then, it has been an on and off companion as it is perfect for living by the beach as it doesn't have parts to go rusty or break.

This is from a shipwreck museum in Rossilli bay on the Gower Peninsula in Wales where I went on holiday a few years ago. I think that it is just one of those standard pieces of jewellery sold in tourist shops everywhere. It is made of a blue stone called Howlite and it is meant to be a 'super calming stone' and 'an excellent antidote to insomnia due to an overactive mind' and all of that other weird stuff which is a bit weird and if you believe that, that's cool but I just bought it because blue is my favorite colour and I loved the changes in colours and as you will probably be able to tell through this series, I like natural jewellery.

This bracelet was made in Africa by some ladies in a village which name escapes my memory but a man from my church bought some back with him and sold them for about £3 or thereabouts and all of that money would go to them and I liked the look of it anyway but if you can help someone along in the meantime it's such a bonus. I don't know if you will be able to see from the pictures but the beads are actually made of paper. I have done something similar before where you get a long triangle strip and roll it up as small as you can but I love how you can barely tell as they are solid and take the appearance of wood. 

This was a gift from my Aunt for being a bridesmaid at her wedding which was mad but she went completely crazy with the wedding especially as we wore pearly necklaces which we got to keep. There is no specific memory attached to this piece but it's origins are a memory in themselves to me. On the wedding day, during the best mans speech I found out about how many cars my uncle has crashed and all about when he was younger. It was in Scotland and so I knew no one beyond my own family and when you are 12 as I was, you will never avoid the 'school' and 'future' questions from strangers who are just trying to make convosation.

So there we are, there are a few of the pieces in my little collection. I have so much wooden, stone and natural jewellery but that is my favorite type. Feel free to do this yourself showing the meaning and stories behind some of your jewellery.

London

Playing Rummie much to the displeasure of the commuters on the train.

Me and Sophie in our customary seats.
Sophie's blog is: http://wfwwwf.blogspot.co.uk/, go and have a little nosey.

Descending into Topshop in Oxford street to be met by the equivalent of all of the shops in my town.

Don't know the significance of Marble Arch but it is at an entrance of Hyde park which, is my name so naturally we visited it.

A lamp post in Hydpark which I intend to paint.

M&M Beatles.. I still can't understand why four floors of m&m's is necessary.

The Sherlock themed tube station at Baker Street.

This is a very picture heavy post of my trip to London on Monday which was very fun. I went up there with three good friends, Jess, Sophie and Emily although a few more people travelled with us. It was a beautiful day and although it is only the beginning of April, it definitely felt a bit like summer! We started by doing some shopping at Oxford street where we all got some really nice things as it is coming up to summer and of course we need new clothes! We then took a trip through Hyde park which I have wanted to do for rather a long time as it is my name and it is such a lovely place and it feels the most like home out of all of the places in London because you can actually see more than a slither of sky between the buildings although this made it feel nothing like London at all. We then took a tube to China Town which smelled absolutely divine and had a really cool atmosphere. Other than Oxford Street, the main purpose of our trip was to visit Baker Street because three of us are huge Sherlock fans bought on my both the movie and the TV series so we wanted to visit 221B baker street and there is a museum and a shop there now although someone told me it used to be a bank or something of the sort. Inside, it felt really old fashioned and we were the youngest people in there which was strange because all of the older people in there probably think of Sherlock Holmes so differently to us as they have had more experience of all of the stories made him. But we bought a couple of mementos and even picked up a few of the business cards that they had out which were amazing I thought. Finally, deciding to save visiting tower bridge for another day because we were too tired to appreciate it in all of its glory, we took a tube back to Victoria station and travelled home. We arrived at about 10.30am and left at around 6pm and we had a very full day of travelling and visiting some typically British places and I enjoyed myself immensely!
Again, I apologise for the lack of editing in these photos, my laptop is still being temperamental.