Another Birthday Lovely

 The weekend before my Hand and Lock project deadline my sister and her boyfriend came down for her Birthday. They were early...I was un showered with a toilet brush in my hand....and a complete breakdown followed before I even said hello! Mid cry to my sister (post shower) i noticed Monty, on the day bed.. in the sewing room...eating something. Yup you guessed it my first finished sample!!! More tears, yelling and screaming happened and my sister and Jordan went to the pub. 

Take two, I was ready, they were on time and we were all so excited! (even with a slightly puffy face from the crying!) We had a lovely weekend, went to the beach, had dinner and saw Breaking Dawn Part 1!!!!! (I don't need to tell you all how incredible it is!!!) I even walked into the front room to see my sister and her lovely boyfriend sat on the sofa trying to make mini felt beads!! My heart melted and I realised just how lucky I was to have people who loved me even through my crazy! London feels far too far away, and I wish for more weekends like this (except the crying!) 

Love emme lou x

Birthday Weekend

This past weekend was my beautiful besties birthday! I cooked dinner, we drank, danced with a puppy and chewed James' friends ear off in the car ride to Town. We had such a good night, laughed and danced a lot and recovered the next day with mud baths and watching New Girl. (if you haven't seen it yet go watch it! Zooey Deschanel is brilliant!) Got a busy week ahead getting ready for a deadline, two more birthdays to get through, a visit from my little sister and a belated birthday celebration! 

I will try and post my uni progress as I make my final samples. 

Love emme lou x

Two Little Birds

So here is the photos from the shoot the other week. My lovely friend is working with Two Little Birds for her work experience and it's very exciting! The photos made me laugh...a lot...I am in no way a model!
The clothes from the shoot are now up and available to buy over at Two Little Birds online boutique so if you love 50s - 90s vintage go check out their shop!

Love emme lou x

Halloween

I wanted a cute halloween at home this year, no worrying about what to go as and what to do, but decided on baking pumpkin pie, soup and watching Hocus Pocus and the like whilst carving pumpkins. 

I'd never had pumpkin pie before but it was delicious!
We watched Hocus Pocus (just as scary as I remember!) on Sunday night after my parents left and James carved a butternut squash but on Halloween night I was poorly and abandoned my friends and half cooked stew and went to bed.

I'm going to bake up a storm this weekend and have a late halloween at home with the girls... and James!

Here's a couple of photos from our Halloween(ish) weekend...

 Love emme lou x

Vintage Frocks

Today I helped a very dear friend with a very exciting job and modelled (she owes me BIG) a lot of vintage frocks. It wasn't as awkward as I thought it would be but I haven't seen any of the photos yet except these little snaps. Larry (who photographed) was so much fun and lets just say quite a bit of tissue was needed for some of the dresses!! I'll share more as it progresses. Well done Nicole! x

Love emme lou x

Day tripping

We went to Plymouth last week and took Moo to meet my family. My parents are still living out in Austria and all of their family lives in the one city (except one!) Monty Moo was a hit! We stayed at my Nan's, had the best evening ful of a roast dinner, wine, bags of antique lace, talk of naughty things and wearing a part of said naughty thing (mentioned here!) Needless to say the swear jar that I have named the wed lock jar filled up...a LOT.
Moo ate a ridiculous amount of chicken and bacon from Nan and thanked her by not having any accidents.

Love emme lou x

Moo's grown!

I need to fall back in love with blogging...not obsessively but I miss it. I miss taking beautiful photos (of anything other than the puppy!) sharing creative goodies and finding inspiration. I go back to Design school in three weeks so a new routine needs to get started, that includes walking Monty moo at stupid O'clock! 

 Autumn is definitely here..I found my first conker today! And this means my huge Autumn clear out! 

It's been the biggest clear out I think I have ever had! I've made a lot of money on ebay! It is such a faff but my god is it worth it! Getting rid of the clutter, boxes of pretties stored here there and everywhere has made me feel so much better and my 3 year itch to move has been stifled by making new things for our home. DIY peeks to follow soon! 

I've booked in to pilates tonight for the first time in a looooooong time. The instructor is brutal...I'm expecting to be crawling out of bed tomorrow! 

Just wanted to share how much Moo has grown this Summer before I get onto DIY and pretty things! He matches the fallen leaves and my new all year Autumn inspired lounge. 

Love emme lou x