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Yesterday was such a nice day, Adam and I decided to get out of the house for a bit… somewhere that didn’t involve supermarket shopping, DIY stores or parents’ homes. We headed to a local historical beauty spot called Oakwell Hall. It’s a small manor house that was built in the late 1500s which has a tonne of surrounded land with some prescribed nature walks, a cafe, a shop, and a bazillion dog walkers. We strolled along the nature trail (which is only short at 2miles) and then walked around the house garden for a while. Have some photos…

Sunshine!

A rare ‘couple’ photo.

Pretty thistles. I’m loving the bokeh on my tamron lens, it’s so much smoother than on my canon lenses!

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Hey guys, hope this makes up for last week’s cold induced absence. This week’s been a good one, if a little too warm.

• If I were a paper princess, I’d like to live in this paper castle.
• I bought the calculator watch of dreams! It’s currently winging it’s way to me :D Wahoo!

• To say I really fucking want this would be an understatement. It would match our kitchen amazingly. omg.
• Doe Deere wrote an interesting article/interview about running your own business.

• Take a look at the diana multi pinhole camera, this looks amazing! Find it on the lomo website.
• This week on twitter, I’ve been mostly enjoying #moonfruit.

• I want those nikes this much. I’ve been playing with outfit ideas on polyvore. Note the watch of dreams, too.

• My flickr favourites seem to have a ridiculous amount of norwegian forest kittens.Tiem to start looking at other things again!
• Happy 4th of July weekend to all my American friends, we’re headed out for steaks tomorrow night in celebration!
• The FinestImaginary giveaway winner was announced on the lovely little deer blog, they went for the pink teapot necklace! For those of you who didn’t win, I’ll be posting a competition on the FinestImaginary website this weekend. You can subscribe to the blog over there to be the first to know! Also, use code ‘madeyoulook’ for a sweet saving at checkout :D

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Good morning & hello, apparently today is the happiest day of the year, happyhaps! It’s ridiculously sunny outside (apart from that ominous cloud… boo) and I woke up with a kitten foot in my face, so I’m totally buzzy :D:D

These works place Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The ‘…happily ever after’ is replaced with a realistic outcome and addresses current issues.

• We’ll kick the week off with this delicious set of photos from Dina Goldstein. The images represent real life depictions of fairytale princesses when their happily-ever-after hit a fail. Lovely, dark imagery… although I would have preferred un-disneyfied costumes for this set, but princess costumes are hard to come by I guess! More here

• I’ve been looking for new art for the house, this was featured on a blog somewhere yesterday and I bookmarked it straight off. Lovely! Infact, a lot of the stuff in this store is super cute, http://www.bodieandfou.com/

• I will turn you all into trekkies, I will! I will!!!

• Kudos to HBO/digital kitchen and their advertising campaign for Trueblood, featured on the CR blog. This campaign sees HBO join forces with other companies to create a great viral ad series.

• Hello floating kitten, I love you xoxo

• I needed a new bag for work, mainly because I want to start walking down. At the moment I have a shoulder bag with my laptop and other bits in, and then an extra bag full of notebooks, sun lotion, pencils etc. Not very good for walking with due to shoulder killage. Anyway, I found this jansport bag on amazon yesterday and it even has a laptop section! So I snapped it right up :)

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I’ve seen these photos floating around for a week or two, but after spotting the ad in this months Elle I decided to really needed to see the other photos properly! Shot by photographer Ellen Von Unwerth, Kylie features in these fun styled images for TOUS to promote their jewellery and accessories (some of which I think are partly her babies?). There seems to be a bit of a love/hate relationship with these photos across the interwebs, but I really like them. I think the colours are a great, cute combination, and any campaign that features giant teddy bears and macarons really has my love ♥ The inspiration from Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette is very evident (same pallete, styling, saccharine sweetness…), and whilst it doesn’t quite match up with the amazing aesthetics of that film, I think it’s a pretty good photo shoot for a celeb, ‘cos lets face it they usually turn out pretty shitty! & Kylie looks amazing, right? Even if she is airbrushed to hell.

What do you guys this of this shoot? I’m interested to hear your thoughts seeing as there’s such a differing buzz about these photos!

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Hi kittens, I’m SLOWLY getting back on track with things after retruning from HK, unfortunately the blog has suffered a little due to this. Hopefully this weekend I’ll have some things lined up for the next week. Anyway, here’s a small weekly good stuff post for you :)

• First of all, if you only glance at my good stuff posts, you really should deifnitely watch this video. It’s fucking amazing, honestly, it’s your cute for the week!

• And if you’re in the mood for cutes, check out these fennec foxes, zomg SQUEE!

• Amazing advertising as posted as CR-blog.

• Super pretty camera, this would sit nicely next to my eidelweiss diana+ (which, I have to say, didn’t stand up very well to my rucksack in HK, the paint started chipping… not good!).
• Adam and I read the whole of this blog last night, Tiny Art Director. Some illustrator guy asks his 4 year old daughter what he should draw, then she critiques his work. Head over there for hilarious commentary and ridiculous briefs!

• My adorable talented friend lindsay has made this amazing dress-up set!!! Get it on etsy!

• OK that’s all, here’s a photo of me and Beardy McBeardFace on the MTR to disney HK. We can never take nice photos.

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The view across from Kowloon at night, we were waiting for the light show (which is so-so), but this view is just amazing. Didn’t have a tripod (or remembered to bring my gorilla pod, grr), so this is just a rocky high iso shot.

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Not far from the flower market you can find the Bird Garden/Market where loads of old guys gather to sell and socialise their birds. There were a lot of white-eyes (not sure if they were the japanese white eye? they looked smaller…) and lovebirds in cages of all varieties. Here’s a couple of photos, you can find more on my flickr.

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I always enjoy taking photos of jellyfish, it’s usually a pretty challenging place to get photos, what with no light and only back illumination. Granted I usually bump my ISO right to the top, but still, you can get some really pretty photos! I seem to manage to take photos of jellies in every country I go to (Australia, Canada.. don’t think I have any from the US though). Here’s one I took yesterday at Ocean Park.