Photo Every Day #276

Tomorrow the fish are going to their new home at the Walled Garden. Hopefully the weather will be ok and they'll enjoy having such a big space to swim around in with plenty of food.

Moving Tanks:

Song Of The Day: Metallica - Enter Sandman

Reason: Really intrigued to see their new film. 

Highlight Of The Day: Game Of Thrones season 1 marathon! 

Inspiration Of The Day: Wine racks as towel rails. Just need to find one small enough in the right style for my bathroom. 

Photo Every Day #215

Today we finished painting the main bathroom. It looks really nice and really suits the feature pieces such as the mirrors. We also went to The Chilli Club for a meal with my parents which was amazing as usual! 

Small Bathroom: 

Song Of The Day: Slipknot - My Plague

Reason: My favourite (along with Purity) song ever by the 'knot. 

Highlight Of The Day: The lovely Thai food! The chicken and cashew nuts was definitely the best I've ever had. 

Inspiration Of The Day: Acana recommend rotational feeding to get different kinds of proteins into their diets. Good advice! 

Photo Every Day #214

We went to a friends for tea tonight and Stark got an invite too. He was rather rude and just wanted to play the entire time! Now he's rather tired! 

Worn Out:

Song Of The Day: American Hi-Fi - Rise

Reason: Nice, chirpy song.

Highlight Of The Day: Getting some home bits done. 

Inspiration Of The Day: Extreme Cheapskates. A documentary series on TLC about people who penny pinch. Some of it is way to hardcore for me but there are a couple of small hidden gems to save a few pounds. 

Photo Every Day #213

Today we started painted the downstairs bathroom. It's in 'soft steel' so it looks light and airy. I think it will make our pictures and mirror really pop. We also took Stark for a walk with our friends and their dog. We came across a dead bunnies and their dog decided it looked like a nice snack! Surprisingly Stark wasn't at all interested and just wanted to carry on playing ball. 

Snack:

Song Of The Day: Emanuel - Make Tonight

Reason: Love this album, such a great band! 

Highlight Of The Day: Going through some of my old stuff at my Mums. Really nice to see my childhood toys. 

Inspiration Of The Day: Killah. One of my favourite brands when I was younger and I'm gutted my old things don't fit anymore! 

Photo Every Day #211

Today's PED is of a heart shaped honey nut cornflake. Cute! 

Heart Shaped Flake: 

Song Of The Day: Macklemore - Hands Up

Reason: Love him and his style, he's so clever with his lyrics! 

Highlight Of The Day: One more sleep until my birthday! 

Inspiration Of The Day: Candles. Yankee candles are my favourite but make me so hungry! 

Photo Every Day #207

Today Starky has been playing outside on the new grass. It's growing really well! 

Grass Playground: 

Song Of The Day: Rancid - Ruby Soho

Reason: Up beat and summery! 

Highlight Of The Day: Weather that's not overly hot like it has been! 

Inspiration Of The Day: Cheap, tacky newspapers. Confirming to me that I am still an intelligent, logical human being.

Photo Every Day #205

Today we painted our kitchen! It's called warm red and looks really nice. It's starting to make it look a bit more like our home now. 

Warm Red:

Song Of The Day: Professor Green & Lily Allen - Just Be Good To Green

Reason: Love them both individually and love this collaboration. 

Highlight Of The Day: Transforming the kitchen.

Inspiration Of The Day: Auction houses. I've been trying to find local ones to visit during my week off and some of their catalogues look awesome! 

Photo Every Day #194

Today was boiling in work! I think I was close to sweating all my new hair dye off?! But I have two days off now, so I'll try and keep out of the heat as much as possible. We took Stark to Lymm Dam for a walk this evening. We befriended a Labrador who shared her ball, they were both swimming after it in the water and Stark swam out further than he has before. Then we met two collie crosses then two German shepherds with an Akita.  I like Stark meeting other dogs as I want him to be friendly and capable of adapting to new situations. He's doing really well. 

Song Of The Day: Alkaline Trio - Private Eye

Reason: One of my ultimate favourite songs ever. 

Highlight Of The Day: A nice evening walk. 

Inspiration of The Day: Colour charts. Trying to decide what colours to paint our rooms with is definitely not a decision to be taken lightly! 

Photo Every Day #193

Today our friend moved out of our house and into his own rented place. It's sad that we won't spend as much time with our friend, but I'm glad we can start to properly have time and space to make the house our own. 

Song Of The Day: Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Reason: Classic.

Highlight Of The Day: Tea at The Chilli Club in Lymm. 

Inspiration Of The Day: Vintage stores on Instagram. Lovely photos. 

Photo Every Day #159

Stark made some new friends at the park. There was a big field where lots of people were walking all sorts of dogs, but he mainly played with some smaller cross breeds. They were so cute! All crossed with poodles and other small dogs so thy had superb coats. It was nice to see them all running around in a small herd and good to see how nice Stark is with other dogs. 

Song Of The Day: Queens Of The Stone Age - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer

Reason: I know it's a QOTSA pick again but I'm listening to them a lot and I love the double meaning of the song title. 

Highlight Of The Day: Seeing Stark wolf down some bacon ribs. 

Inspiration Of The Day: House magazines. I'm making a mood board to better envisage my style. 

Photo Every Day #128

Today we had a dog trainer to see Stark and to give us some advice. We've got some things to be working on including 'leave' and voice tone changes to indicate good or bad behaviour. We have another session in a couple of weeks when he's grown up a little bit more, but he's doing really well considering he's only 3 months old! I also got round to putting our photos up of us and the cats from our photo session. They look really nice and I'm glad we chose the ones we did. I called at The Range this afternoon as well; I picked up some new bedsheets and some photo frames. I just need to start hanging them all now!

Photos:


Song Of The Day: Sugarcult - Crying
Reason: Not heard this for so long. I first heard it on a CD that came with Kerrang! magazine in around 2004.

Highlight Of The Day: Seeing how quickly Stark can learn new things.

Inspiration Of The Day: Reversed high heels by Leanie Van Der Vyver.

Photo Every Day #87

Today we came back home from our holiday. We called at Stratford on the way back to do a bit of shopping; we saw Shakespeare's birth place and stocked up at the sweet shop! When we got home I was super glad to see my kitty cats and they seemed pleased to see us. There's nothing like sleeping in your own bed with your beautiful kitties to demand attention at 5am!

Mmmm:

Song Of The Day: Kansas State Song - Home On The Range

Reason: Such a classic song, I'm sure I remember a Disney film where a cow sings it! 

Highlight Of The Day: Coming home feeling well rested! 

Inspiration Of The Day: Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe, it's full of retro goodness and proper sweets!!

Photo Every Day #19

Today was a poo day really. Just cos silly things happened and one person wanted to stir the pot. But we did have a nice takeaway and watched Jonathan Ross so it's all good in the end. We also got to meet our friend's new lady friend, who seems lovely, so that was a nice end to a crappy day.

Sweetheart:


Song Of The Day: Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
Reason: Any band that are that beautiful should live next door to me. And walk round naked. Often. RIP The Rev.

Highlight Of The Day: Coming home from work.

Inspiration Of The Day: The Haunted Places website shows hundreds of haunted places across America. There are some truly beautiful buildings in there too.

Photo Every Day #254

This is the chest that we bought from the carboot yesterday. It's a good size, nearly as high as the bed and plenty deep enough for all my camera gear that I intend to keep in it. It's nice and rusty and looks as though it was forgotten about in an abandoned building for years. It's like my very own piece of abandonment right in my house and it's beautiful.

Lock:


Song Of The Day: Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Reason: If I could listen to songs in an abandoned place, this would be one of the first to be played.

Highlight Of The Day: Playing with my ratties

Photo Every Day #245

Just a quick one to finish off a busy week. My parents are back tomorrow so I can finally move back home with my ratties and geckos! I'm also getting a new tv tomorrow so I need to go and pick out a tv bench from Ikea. No rest for the wicked! Today's PED is one from my Rent A Lubitel workshop.

1980:


Song Of The Day: David Bowie - Space Oddity
Reason: My favourite Bowie song, rather fitting as Neil Armstrong has recently died. I wonder what it was like to be the only person to have ever walked on the moon and to have been so far away from Earth.

Highlight Of The Day: Watching tv with friends

Domestic Sluttery: Wallpaper Wednesday: Merci's Brooklyn Tin Tiles

I often read the articles on a site called Domestic Sluttery, so I'm going to start sharing the ones I like the most! So here goes, the first one is about some gorgeous wallpaper that gives the old, decaying urbex look that I love so much! 

Domestic Sluttery: Wallpaper Wednesday: Merci's Brooklyn Tin Tiles: Sometimes I like wallpaper to be wallpaper. You get to play with motifs and fool around with colour and quirky design. But then there are...

Photo Every Day #147

Today has been so hot! It feels like I haven't seen weather like this for years! I was starting to get really sick of the winter weather, I find it so depressing. But I'm not mad on it being baking hot all the time either, so a few days is a nice change.

Stag Art:


Song Of The Day: Jedward - Ice Ice Baby
Reason: This is the only song I know that they once sang! GB will never win Eurovision, so Jedward and my second choice! I actually find them funny, in a good way.

Photo Every Day #146

So it's nearly the end of mega week, but I couldn't let it go by without buying something! Especially since it's payday today. Since we have ended up with a stag themed front room, I decided to add a nice white stag ornament to the collection.

White Stag:


Song Of The Day: Nachtmahr - Titanic
Reason: One of my fave Nachtmahr songs, and because I am, as a woman, not offended in the slightest by them, nor do I agree that they are sexist!

Photo Every Day #79

Today has been a long, tiring day. Sometimes it's nice to just get home and chill out.

Welcome:


Song Of The Day: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Reason: Uber ultra super loving NIN more than usual at the moment

Photo Every Day #54

The washing machine is finally here!!! I've done about 4 washes since I came home from work and there's still another 3 at least to go! But I'm glad that it's finally sorted even though it was far too much faffing around when it should have been simple. Now to get Sky tv working...

Squeaky Clean:


Song Of The Day: Swedish House Mafia vs Knife Party - Antidote
Reason: Makes me want to dance!