Photo Every Day #218

This evening I have travelled down to Cheltenham as I'm having some aquatic training tomorrow. I'm staying in a hotel nearby so I don't have to do a 250 mile round trip. I already can't wait to see my puppy and it's strange it being so quiet without all my furry babies. The hotel does have some lovely vintage furniture and my room has its own fireplace which is lovely. Now for a peaceful nights sleep! 

Dresser: 

Song Of The Day: Nine Inch Nails - Every Day Is Exactly The Same

Reason: One of my favourite NIN songs and one of my favourite albums. 

Highlight Of The Day: A nice, simple drive down. Nothing worse than motorway traffic. 

Inspiration Of The Day: Gordon Ramsey's Hotel Hell series. I can't believe how bad some hotels are! 

Photo Every Day #188

Today Stark went to the vets to be weighed for his flea treatment and he's now a whopping 11.4kg! He's definitely not my little boy anymore! The nurse said she reckoned he be at the higher end of the usual collie weight bracket as he's so tall. It was nice to have a day off in the sun and to wear a dress instead of my work uniform. So today's PED is of my lovely Hawaiian 50s style dress. 

Song Of The Day: Nine Inch Nails - Wish  

Reason: Really can't wait to hear their new album. 

Highlight Of The Day: Buying some hair dye! Bye bye roots.

Inspiration Of The Day: Victorian mental institutions. I was watching the new Broadmoor documentary on the CI channel and its really fascinating to see how psychology has developed over the years. 

Photo Every Day #56

Today I have been browsing Game Of Thrones related products and have decided I'd like a poster to go up in my study. I'm beginning to think that I'm not going to have enough wall space for all the things I want to put up around the house! I've also been doing a bit more editing of the photos from the airfield.

Through The Wires:


Song Of The Day: Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have
Reason: Amazing song that I can really relate to.

Highlight Of The Day: A bit of me time.

Inspiration Of The Day: Finding a couple of jobs that I'd like to get! Something is out there, just have to keep looking.

Photo Every Day #321

Tonight we had what I refer to as rubbish takeaway. This generally refers to food such as burgers, kebabs, chips and the like which are as cheap as anything. The phrase 'you get what you pay for' is heavily involved in the experience too. They generally have no taste and are literally just to fill an empty stomach after drinking. Anyhow, sometimes it's nice to eat utter crap in order to appreciate nice food.

Rubbish Takeaway:


Song Of The Day: Nine Inch Nails - Right Where It Belongs
Reason: Beautiful lyrics.

"What if all the world's inside of your head,
Just creations of your own?
Your devils and your gods,
All the living and the dead
And you're really all alone?
You can live in this illusion.
You can choose to believe"

Highlight Of The Day: Well not a highlight as such, but giving our manager a good send off as she starts her maternity leave. Sad to see her go, but super happy that she's having the baby she wants so much.

Photo Every Day #282

I nearly forgot I had this photo to share! It's of nice, big red toadstools that I found under a bush at the Walled Garden. Apparently, the word toadstool is not the type of mushroom as I thought it was, but it's actually a made up word which is found in German folklore and early fairy stories. It relates to German stories in which toads sat on the mushroom in order to catch the flies that were trying to get to eat the mushroom itself. It also tends to be used when mushrooms are suspicious or poisonous. In other news, today was Asami's first trip to the vets. It didn't go down too well with her which isn't surprising to be fair. She had her first vaccination, was given flea and worming treatment and she had to have to ears swabbed and cleaned as the vet thought it looked like she had either ear mites, which are common in kittens, or a build up of wax. Either way, she has nice clean ears now, but has been scratching them all day as I think the drops must have made them feel funny. She's been very sleepy and is now conked out on a hot water bottle under a fleecy blanket.

Toadstool Ring:

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 #99

So, today was Easter and here is mine and the boy's easter stash! My mum also bought me a nice heart shaped picnic basket, it's very cute! I spent the evening sorting out my vintage cameras, a Praktica BCX and an Olympus Trip 35, and reading manuals so that I can try and get the best out of them. I've also managed to find two rolls of expired film so I'll be using those in the Praktica and my Lomography Fisheye tomorrow when we go to the Chester Food and Drink Festival.

Stash:


Song Of The Day: Nine Inch Nails - Wish
Reason: One of my fave NIN songs

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 #78

Today was Mothers Day. We had a meal at my Mum's house with all the family and I brought a homemade coffee cake. We also had a variety of other deserts which meant I only ate a bit of main meal so I could save plenty of room for goodies, especially since they're pretty much banned from my house.

Cake Selection:

Coffee Cake:

Song Of The Day: Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug

Reason: Love the song and it's got a pretty cool video accompanying it too. 

Photo Every Day #59

Today was day 2 of my make up course, we focused more on eyes and colour for eyes. Was good and useful to learn some new techniques. I'm hoping that I do try to stick with new methods to jazz up my everyday make up, it gets boring doing the same thing every time! We also got a rather swish certificate. I'd love to do a longer course but sadly they're too expensive right now, especially since I've spent all that money on uni fees. Maybe in the future! But for now, I'm looking forward to practising my new skills on friends (read: victims) and being able to use them on my next film.

All Stations Are Go:


New Make Up:


Achievements:


Song Of The Day: Nine Inch Nails - Right Where It Belongs
Reason: One of my fave songs of all time.

Photo Every Day #48

Today's PED features my new toaster! It matches my Morphy Richards kettle and fits in well with our Union Jack theme. I like it's retro-ish look!

Retro Toaster:


Song Of The Day: Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have
Reason: Nothing like listening to NIN on full blast for atmospheric fun times

Things I Love This Week

Nine Inch Nail's 'Still' Album - Amazing! Perfect mood altering/movie score music!

Vintage Movie Cameras - I now have 5 after starting a collection only last week! Going to try and fix them to see if I can get them working. If not, they're pretty to look at.

The Mighty Boosh - Comedy gold.

David Guetta - He's come out with plenty of songs I like, but I'm over the moon that the boyfriend got to cook for him at work whilst he was staying in the hotel before playing at Creamfields!

Project Black - Had a blast shooting it, really sad to see it end though.

Golden Syrup - Sooooo tasty! Especially on ice cream.