Sorrento, Italy: Part Two

I figured I would skip the latest Project 365 post seeing as we were on holiday for the whole week and these two Italy posts are gonna show the photos anyway. So here's part two!

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Project 365: Week 26

Day 170: Got a gorgeous new dress and have been wearing it a lot seeing as it's been the hottest weather ever recorded this week!! 

 

Day 171: Pizza time with our Al who looks pretty homeless I must say.

Day 172: A hot summer's day's salad - covered in sweetcorn haha

 

Day 173: Dark roots update: coming along nicely! Did I mention that I'm growing out a full head of my natural colour? 

 

Day 174: Yeah I can't believe it either. Yet another new cactus!?

 

Day 175: My first international Schooner House sale has been shipped off to New Orleans! I hope it gets there alright!

Day 176: I've only got one thing to say about this: hell yes my friends.

 

 

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Project 365: Week 25

Day 163: Going through all the stuff that the last occupant left in the cellar and discovered, along with hundreds of books, such treasures as a camera, cowboy boot (singular), photo of woman with tarantula and best of all... someone's personal (and oh so apathetic) diary! Bingo!

 Day 164: I've put this on the wall in the studio where I can see it as I sit and attempt to be creative. Thanks Frankie!

 



Day 165: I've been on my travels recently to lovely old York to see some friends. More on that later!

Day 166: More house plants!! These ones are gifts from my mum and are flowering!

 

Day 167: Me, Ben and my sister Sophie went to The Rude Shipyard for tea the other day. Here's me not actually playing a banjo because it was so very out of tune. Not that I would have anyway!

 

Day 168: Ahhh so cute! Not ashamed to say I was excited to use some of these stickers this week! >.<

 

Day 169: A week off work so you know what that means! I'm sure we've seen this design before...

 

 

 

 

What have you been up to lately?

 

 

 

 

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Snapshots from July 2014

Cute stickers, you'll be the death of me! I found the loveliest little kitchen stickers (along with a whole stack of others) plus a stamp. Now everyone will find my birthday cards to them even more insufferable, hah!

Stink bug! Found this little guy in the middle of the pavement and quickly proceeded to drop everything in pursuit of him. It was even harder to snap him in focus - he was fast!

Opened my Etsy shop Schooner House and finally put my cards up for sale. If I'd written a list of goals for this year, this would be a major one I could cross off now. I'm so happy to finally be sharing my work. Got some new designs going in soon too!

Now that's some gooood eatin'.

Also, I made a lemon meringue pie that was actually successful! I can't believe how good it was. It was the practise run for the one I'm gonna make for our anniversary gathering later this month.

My well known love of cacti seems to know no limits. The collection has grown with the latest one (a gift from mum) being the cutest, tiniest little thing. It's practically polka dotted!

Also new is the antique 'kakteen' print that got lost in the mail for 4 months.

And finally, my sister went on holiday to Tenerife which is apparently covered in them. "You'd have been in cactus heaven Charlotte." She brought us back some marmalade made from their fruit, prickly pears!

The heatwave we've had this month has been amazing, not like English weather at all. With all that's gone off in the city - The Tour De France, Tramlines festival etc - I've been outside a hell of a lot and my favourite post from this month is from one of those outdoors days:

A Mini Ramble

Hope you've all had a brill July too. If you want to see more you can follow me on instagram. 

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Nail Stickers

If only I could have my nails painted all the time. That's how I'd have it if I could but unfortunately my work wont allow it. I know, it beggars belief! I'd love to do nail posts more regularly but for now it'll have to be just once in a while.
Anyway I had a few days off recently and so took the opportunity to wear my cactus nail stickers that I blogged about here.

How cute are these. I was debating whether to stick them onto an already painted nail which would have had to have been a light powder blue colour because all my greens would be too dark. I didn't think powder blue was right for them so I put them instead onto a plain nail. I've got a lot left out of the pack of 24 so I can experiment next time with colour.

They went on really easily, topped off with a few coats of clear varnish.

Side Note: I've been attempting to 'deal' with my cuticles recently and made a bit of a mess. I wasn't really sure if I was meant to be pushing them back or trying to remove them altogether. I ended up trying to remove them with the edge of nail scissors. I'd really appreciate some cuticle advice from all you tidy nail experts, I know you're out there!

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