christmas 2012

just wanted to pop by and say i hope you all had lovely christmas breaks, i meant to post before christmas but things were crazy, and then i went home to hampshire and didn't look at a computer screen for an entire week! think i needed a bit of a break! that's not to say that my christmas was calm and chilled out or anything... ha! but it was fun and lovely and cosy and filled with amazing food and good company. here are a few of my snaps from december - the first frost of december | christmas lights on camden passage in islington | cable & cotton fairy lights | christmas lights in winchester | the tree | gorgeous gorgeous presents from my family and friends, my gosh, they know me sooo well (or they just look on my pinterest a lot!) polka dots, monochrome and neon pink, whoo!

all photos take on my iPhone and edited with vscocam.

designer | lisa hedge

i'm doing the usual sunday night homework thing, and just stumbled upon the lovely design work of lisa hedge. urm, she has theee most beautiful, varied and amazing portfolio. i pretty much love it all. lisa hedge collage lisa hedge invite soooo much awesome design, check out loads more here.

wishlist | christmas

oh hello lovelies - thanks for all your lovely comments on my brighton pics! things have been so so busy since then. i knew this course was going to be a lot of work, but sheeeesh! anyway, i have an evening at home tonight, a little luxury in the run up to christmas, yipeeee. so thought i'd share a few things that went on my christmas list this year...

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*pssst* imogen heath is offering 20% off her cushions at the moment!

brighton

we booked 3 days off work, for a much needed break, and zoomed down to brighton for a couple of days. the perfect way to start a 5 day weekend & i literally think we chose the most perfect week! all of a sudden the temperatures dropped and the skies cleared and it all got incredibly christmassy! winter is ok with me when it looks as pretty as it has done the last few days. nick and i had never really been to brighton properly before so it was lovely to wonder around the lanes, keep warm by pub fires and enjoy being beside the sea side! which is exactly what most of these photos are of...

if it wasn't for the low sunshine you might even think it was summer! our 5 day weekend was finished off nicely with a trip home home to hampshire. christmas markets, good food and my family. yes.

photos taken by me on my iphone | edited with vscocam app.

photographer | saul leiter

some beautiful, slightly magical photographs by saul leiter, for this wintery week. i absolutely adore the mysterious compositions and the painterly, voyeuristic quality of these photos. love love them. quite a few of these are on display at somerset house at the moment at the cartier-bresson: a question of colour exhibition. which is so lovely. and free. so londoners, go!

moodboard | sittin' in the morning sun...

...i'll be sittin' when the evening comes - otis redding. a mood board i made for a project i'm working on at college. it's got me dreaming of turquoise sea and high summer. le sigh.

all images here.

along the canal

i'm not usually the biggest fan of autumn, but either it's growing on me or it's just been the most beautiful autumn ever this year! sunday was gorgeous and so our day = tea and pastries, a lovely walk along the canal, some shops and home for sunday evening relaxing, food and wine. yum. i squeezed quite a bit of homework in too! but i couldn't stay in on such a fab day, and walking along the canal is one of my favourite things, it's a nice way to escape london, right in the heart of london!

photos taken on my iphone and edited with vscocam.

candyfloss hair

two fabulous series of photos which have been inspiring me at college this week.. sky series | eric cahan all dressed up and nowhere to go | rebekah campbell

designer | tom davie

oh hi! sorry it's been a while. the course is going really well, and i'll be able to share some of my work super soon! but everything else is just crazy hectic. i can't believe it's november already, i can just tell this course is going to fly by and it'll be summer 2013 before i know it! and so, i'm spending another saturday night doing homework, le sigh! but annyywaaayyy, here's some work that has inspired me lately... design by tom davie of studio twenty six. totally awesome, yeah? i've been studying typography loads and loads and loads and have a new found respect for the attention to detail that is put into it! i think tom's work is beautiful, clever, creative and fun. so much awesomeness. love it!