Snowbound!

Just when I was beginning to think we weren’t going to get any snow this winter, this happened! It started blizzarding in early January and continued to snow off and on for the next three weeks. Despite the chaos it causes I’ve always loved the snow –any excuse to pull on the willies and go sledging, skiing or have a snowball fight with some of my younger relatives! Although most of it has now thawed, I wanted to share some of very snowy photos I took around the village where I live.

More Snapshots from My Phone

Another set of (long overdue) photos from my phone featuring some of favourite snaps of the last few months.

 ~ A chandelier made entirely from kitchenware spotted in Lakeland

~ Limited edition Coke bottle celebrating the 2012 Olympic Games

~ One of my favourite drinks, iced tea with lemon

~ A pretty fountain Sorrento, Italy

~ A hotdog and curly fries served by a retro 50s-style diner in Newcastle

~ The lounge at Manchester airport

~ The view from the hotel balcony in Sorrento

~ A Victorian tram at Beamish open air museum

~ Creative cappuccino foam

~ The Hunger Games trilogy

~ Inside The Centre for Life science museum

~ Finding out what a sunflower looks like up close

~ A cool curved display

~ Coca Cola lip smackers

~ Some of the birthday cards I received this year

~ Cute kissing bunnies greetings card

~ An ancient looking ‘stone’ window…actually made from fibreglass!

~ John Paul Gautier ‘Tattoo’ coke bottle

~ The amazing fountains at Alnwick Gardens, Northumberland

~ A delicious-looking cupcake tower

Snapshots from My Phone

Photography is one of my passions, I don’t always have my DSLR with me though so when I want to snap a quick picture I usually reach for my mobile phone camera. Due to my extra-ordinary ineptitude with touchscreen phones that camera is a 2mp point-and-shoot housed within my increasingly ancient LG Shine (that’s right, I’m the proud owner of possibly the coolest phone of 2007! Hehe) Over the last five years it has served me well and I’ve amassed a huge collection of mobile phone snapshots, here are some of my favourites, collaged together like Instagram for the non-smart phone user: 

From left to right

~ A burnished silver Buddha from Next 

~ Ice lolly shaped sponge and other bath goodies from M&S 

~ The shape of a horse leaping from the flames at last year’s bonfire night 

~ The new Northumbria University campus at Newcastle

~ Giant butterflies suspended from the ceiling in a local shopping centre 

~ The spectacular fountain at Alnwick Gardens 

~ A gorgeous rose bouquet I was gifted for my birthday

 ~ A cute display of cupcake shaped lip balms, scented wet wipes and Russian dolls in Accessorize 

~ A single pink rose 

~ Guildford castle, Surrey

~ Criss-crossing escalators and skylight in Debenhams 

~ Canada…or is it? The Florida version at the world showcase, Epcot 

~ The undisputed king of doughnuts…a Krispy Kreme with limited edition orange glaze

 ~ Key Lime pie on board the Oasis of the Seas cruise ship 

~ An old fashioned (but still fully working!) petrol station in Barnard Castle, County Durham 

~ A shoe shaped cake at the Cake International show NEC Birmingham

 ~ An adorable cake and patisserie shop in London 

~ ‘The Village’ luxury designer shopping in Westfield, London 

~ Another amazing cake creation at the Cake International show 

~ A patriotic Union Jack shop display

 

Happy New Year & Some (Belated) Christmas Photos

I hope everyone had a merry Christmas and 2012 is getting off to a great start for you all. I wanted to upload a couple of quick snaps I took over the festive period and to thank everyone who helped to make it such a magical Christmas.

Christmas Tree in Red & Gold- this took nearly 5 hours to put up and decorate!

An adorable pull-up Santa I just had to have

Baubles on the tree

And another…I really think I need to invest in a macro lens…

My Christmas engineering project- a gingerbread house

My awesome pile of Christmas pressies! A huge thank you to everyone who bought me a gift, I feel so spoilt!

The First Snow of Winter (Well Kind Of)

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...

Living in one of the coldest most Northerly parts of England, it’s not unusual to find myself buried under several feet of snow at this time of year. Not that I mind at all, snow at Christmastime always makes me feel even more festive and cosy, but unfortunately apart from a freak blizzard a week or so ago we haven’t any snow at all this year. So while it looks like 2011 might not be a white Christmas I thought I’d share some photos I took last year when most of the country was snowbound for nearly a month!

...just like the ones I used to know

Thanks for reading! Have a great Christmas everyone