Hello April

Welcome to April,  I can't beleive its the 4th already, this year is speeding by far to quickly! This time last year i'd done so many things, as noted by the gargantuan folder labeled 2010. January 10 I turned 22, February 10 I, my partner and some friends went to climb Mount Snowdon in Wales (I then realised I have a large joint problem), March, April, May were spent spending time with family, birthdays, parties, heading down to bournemouth way with my partner, and on occasion his family. So far this year not to much has happened but what a busy summer I have coming up making up for this!

Loves

The partner and I are setting off moving again! We haven't been in this flat (were in a one bedroom before this) even a year but the oppoutunity of a lovely house came up for the same price, so within 6 weeks we'll be house-bound! I'm so excited and it's such a lovely step for us to take, a proper house, with a little garden :)

One of my partners oldest friends and his fiance had a baby the other week, I went to see it at the weekend and he is beautiful! I was holding him for a good hour and he was so sleepy and cute, suprsingly large feet and hands for an 11 day old. This definately hasn't cured my broodiness, but I have always wanted to be a mother so this is to be expected.

I get to go to there wedding in May which'll be lovely, and the little one will be dressed up in a teeny tiny suit, cute!

...this means I need to find a dress to wear, so any ideas send my way!

We're having a weekend away in May also which'll be nice, work is exceptionally busy for him at the moment and we both could do with a change of scenary, down by the beach, where I feel at home, counting down the days till I can see the waves and smell the fresh air.

Mothers day was wonderful, dad, my siblings and I created two large beautiful photo frames for her. The pictures were ranging from her as a young child to as recent as Saturday, which was a lovely suprise for her. She loved looking through the photos from various years, of us, her and dad, her parents/relatives, instead of being left in photo albums which never see the light of day they are now on the wall for all to see and enjoy. It felt a particularly emotional mothers day this year, as it was my grannys birthday and she hasn't been with us for at least 15 years now. As much as we all miss her, mum especially, I think this was the most perfect present she could have received, didn't mean to create the waterworks though!

My partner has his birthday this month, and my little sister turns the ripe old age of 16 at the turn of may, it's an expensive old month, and i'll without a doubt have to turn to the overdraft to buy presents but I love buying presents for people, hopefully I can think of lovely inexpensive, thoughtful gifts to give.

I want to start a photography diary, I don't know if i'll ever upload it to this, but I really enjoy the 365 photo diaries (Im to late to start this) as I think it's a great way to capture the goings on of the year, and I really miss taking photos.

A new month means a chance to redirect my  failed atempt at completing my March Monthly Tasks.

April Monthly Tasks

1. Visit the Yohji Yamamoto at the V&A: LOVE!!  (12 March - 10 July 2011)  Maybe impossible this month with mothers day, partners birthday, siblings birthday..
2. Finally get round to photographing and selling things on eBay I may scream, i've needed to do this for 2 months! I REALLY NEED TO DO THIS
3. Start one form of excercise a week (to eventually increase to 2 etc..)
4. Start packing up our things for moving day- Ee :)
5. Plan mood boards to create a photoshoot for my final collection, potfolio standard (I graduated in 09!)
6. Gather research for my jackets project

 This is the best part of my monthly tasks so far, in addition are all the previous march fails.

 Stunning

Monthly Tasks: March

1. Visit the Yohji Yamamoto at the V&A: LOVE!! (12 March - 10 July 2011)
2. Visit a castle, manor house or some sort of architectural building and take lots of photographs
3. Take at least 2 Polaroid photos (which will in someway describe my month)
4. Finally get round to photographing and selling things on eBay
5. Save up to purchase a new snap shot digital camera (may continue into april)
6. Research things to do for the partners birthday/presents (and save save save also april)
7. Visit London (financially same day as v&a would be ideal)!
8. Start a project (be it fashion, photography, housework)
9. Update more on this blog (and change layout if i can work out html enough)
10. Start and complete one book
11. Make one from scratch dinner from a recipe book
12. Get my first haircut at a salon (seriously never have) & have a change with my hair as its in a massive rut
13. Continue to swim each week 
14. Start using Wii Fit  again, at least 3 times a week!

I think this is a list enough for March, there'll be a lot of saving over the next few months, and few of these have a cost other than a ticket entrance, electricity and petrol.

So keep reading to see what tasks I come up with, how many more get added to my list and how many don't get accomplished.

January 25th

Well I was 23 at the weekend, which feels like such a ripe old age, don't get me wrong, in the world of numbers it's still an insignificant little one, but growing up from 13-16-18-21 to now be 23 feels like old age.

In my attempt to organize my life, make myself more grown up a task i've set myself) I have a list of goals to get me through, some mundane, some necessary, some essential, most need accomplishing within the next few weeks.

1. Hoover once a week 

2. Do 1-2 loads of washing a week.

3. Take at least a few photos a week (or people, what i'm doing, anything)

4. Apply to 2 jobs per week.

5. Have at least one bath/pamper evening, where I sit and relax instead of stressing.

6. Complete a book within the next month.

7. Dust off my sewing machine and actually MAKE something

8. Photograph and sell my clothes on ebay, I dont wear them, they dont fit, I dont need them, money I do. 

9. Print off all photographs and put them into the lovely albums I received at the weekend.

10. Try and keep our flat tidier so it's a more relaxing place to come home to.

Note: Extra

11. Organise my life using my diary, look back into my diary to organise my life.

12. Learn how to put little buttons at the top of this blog and make a prettier layout

13. Photograph more on my DSLR

14. Buy more polaroid film complete. Need more now!

15. Finish season 3 of gossip girl.

16. Arrange a date night once a month with the Mr.

17. Save and research for our holiday £100 in piggy so far, gulp.

18. Put pictures up on the wall

19. Archive my old magazines for images/photography/clothing ideas, instead of having them sitting on my bookcase, arranged and never looked at.

20... All I can think of at the moment.