More snow photos...

If you read lots of UK blogs, then you've probably already seen loads of snow photos, but this morning was so glorious, I have to share these from my phone. I can't remember the last time I actually enjoyed my walk to work so much, the snow just makes everything look stunning. As well as photos on my phone, I took a whole roll of film too - I can't wait to get those developed.

If you follow me on Instagram, then you've probably already seen these, sorry... they are pretty though aren't they.

p.s. I didn't draw the heart, I saw it on the way to work, someone is enjoying the snow :)

p.p.s. These were edited with the newer 'Willow' filter on Instagram, have you tried it? I like it.

Snoooow!

After a weekend of waiting to see if it would snow, it finally did on Sunday night. It only lasted for a day, in fact Leeds got lucky, my parents got 5 inches of snow yesterday in Norwich whilst the snow here is practically all gone.

I did bring my OM-10 with me yesterday morning on my walk to work but I forgot to check the batteries on it (batteries in cameras?! I'm totally not used to that haha) so I used my LC-A instead and finally finished a roll of film that I started last year (only two weeks ago really) woohoo. I also managed to snap a few shots on my phone too. I can't decide if I want it to snow again, so I can use the OM-10, or if this one batch was more than enough.

365 / 2013 1-10

This year I decided to start a 365 project. I've been thinking about it for a while and it took me ages to decide on how to do it. In the end I decided just to use my phone. I wanted to do a film one, but during the week my days are pretty dull and most of my photos are taken in the evening where I wouldn't really be able to use my film cameras without a flash and I'm not a huge flash fan with film.

Also, I'm trying not to take this project too seriously, most of my favourite blogs and instagram accounts, are by people who are really good at capturing those everyday moments and I want to get better at that, rather than focusing on the quality of the photos, its the content I want, even if the highlight of my work day is a chocolate bar lol. So here are the first 10 days, I'm pretty impressed that I've managed it so far and I'm even in half of them in some way too.

1. A winter walk on New Years Day before a pub lunch.
2. A GIANT Reese's Peanut Butter cup from my Uncle's visit to NYC, I didn't even know they made him so big! We cut it into 8 in the end.
3. Messing around with reflections whilst we took down the christmas decorations.
4. A glass of my favourite wine, in my PJ's. Yup.
5. New boots to go with my new skinny red cords. Now I just need to be brave enough to wear them outside haha.
6. My parents got me Tunisian crochet hooks for Christmas, which I love, so I've been practising my simple and knit stitches.
7. I've been feeling ill for a while now (turns out I have an ear AND throat infection, nice) so new favourite TV shows in bed are the way forward. (Anyone else like Once Upon a Time? I watched the whole 1st series in a week!)
8. New Kit Kat chunky's!! We tried all of the last ones that they released, so we're trying all of these too. So far the mint is my favourite, yum! The coconut wasn't as nice as I wanted though.
9. A pretty view out of my work window for once.
10. Thomas got a snuggy for Christmas as part of a secret santa and this is the first time I wore it, with a hoody too. It's cold.

Is anyone else doing a 365 project? I'd love to see how you're finding it. I'm hoping I manage to do the entire year.

Have a great weekend!

A little healing...

Even though I still had posts on here last week (WP's scheduled posting is better than Blogger's) I actually spent the majority of last week in bed sick with Flu. It sucked. But this week is a new week and my first act to feeling better was taking my time walking to work, enjoying some sunshine (even if it was freezing) and snapping some quick photos on my phone.

I've taken photos of this walk a million times* but I realised this time last year (as part of Susannah Conway's Photo Meditations) that it was my way of letting go before having to deal with work. In looking at things that are familiar differently, perhaps I can learn to do the same with everything else that's happening around me too. Or perhaps, when everything hits the fan, I just like a bit of familiarity... I don't know. Either way, I feel a bit better.

*slight exaggeration...