colour your monday happy...

Image credits: 1. Saídos da Concha, 2. E L K, 3. andrea hornbuckle, 4. un arc en ciel dans le lavabo, 5. seven spoons • tara

Happy, happy Monday everyone... :)
I am completely in love with this wee collection of images from our fabulous Flickr pool 'all colours in'. They perfectly capture this sense of transition I'm feeling today. It's getting a wee bit nippy here in Edinburgh lately and the air has a crisp freshness about it. One or two leaves are beginning to turn and the autumn is almost upon us. I am looking forward to it. I love my scarves and chunky cardigans and I love making lots of yummy soups with all the new season veg, not to mention all the apples and plums for making delicious crumbles... but at the same time I'm feeling just a wee bit wistful for warm sunny days and picnics... *sigh*

Emma, x

the Royal Mile : part 3...

Happy, happy Friday my lovelies... :)

We're on the final leg of our wee tour of the Royal Mile... was that a wee sigh of relief I heard from some of you!? Hehe... ;) Anyhoo, after the fun of the Fringe all we need to do is wander up to the fabulous Edinburgh castle, dodge a few more tourist trap shops along the way and take in some of the more visit worthy attractions such as The Witchery, Camera Obscura and The Scottish Whisky Experience... I definitely recommend leaving the whisky tasting til the end as a wee tipple or two before taking on Camera Obscura's optical illusions might not be such a great idea! Enjoy... :)

Well my lovelies, I do hope you enjoyed this wee tour... and maybe I've even persuaded you to make a wee trip over here some time!? I know you will love it, Edinburgh is such a beautiful and inspiring city... :)

Now I'm off to get myself organised... I have a bunch of exciting things I'm working just now, which I will be able to tell you about very soon, but with the chaos that has been going on here lately I feel like I'm playing catch up just a wee bit too much. I need to get on top of things and get organised with lists, an organised calendar and a damn good tidy up wouldn't go amiss either... both my studio and computer desk are drowning in piles of chaos! Right then I had best get to it...

I hope you all have an amazing weekend,
Emma, x

the Royal Mile : part 2...

Hello again my lovelies... :)

I am so thrilled you enjoyed yesterday's 'Royal Mile : part 1' post. There are so many things to see and do there that it is impossible to capture them all in one wee walk... You guys will just have to visit sometime if you want to see them all for yourself... :)
Today I have been sorting through all the Fringe Festival photos I took, I must admit I had great fun re-living them... :) All these pics are from one wee stretch of the Royal Mile around St. Giles' Cathedral, between the junctions at North Bridge and George IV Bridge. That is one wee block with a whole lot of people and a whole lot of fabulous things to see! I shall let my pictures do the talking, enjoy... :)

I know, fabulous isn't it... !?
Although my Man might disagree slightly as he has to battle through these excitable crowds every day just to get to his work... that is every day for a whole month, yikes!

Emma, x

the Royal Mile : part 1...

Hello my lovelies... :)

So last week, before I was so rudely interrupted by a series of unfortunate events, I was sorting through a whole bunch of photos I wanted to share with you. I wanted to show you guys a wee snippet of Edinburgh and bring you a wee taste of the Fringe festival atmosphere (remember last year I blogged a few summery shots and these fireworks pics!?). So one day, a couple of weeks ago now, I took a wee walk up the historic Royal Mile, starting at Holyrood Palace and ending up at Edinburgh's castle gates. Of course you know me, I snapped a lot of pics on the way... ;)

I'll share a few of the highlights here over the next couple of days and pop the rest up on my Flickr pages as I go along. Oh, and I'll not bog you down with too many links and whatnot here, there will be just a few key ones that I will link these images to... so that if you do want to know more you can go off on your own wee information adventure right before you book your tickets and hotels for a wee visit... ;)

Otherwise just enjoy a few city snaps... !

Tomorrow I'll be sharing a few fun snaps from the Fringe festival... should be fun!
Until then have a fab day... :)
Emma, x

colour your monday happy...

Image credits: 1. Three Red Apples, 2. wood & wool stool, 3. nanaCompany, 4. sealswithakiss, 5. Teawagon

Ah, what a blissfully uneventful weekend that was... I have absolutely nothing to report what-so-ever, which suits me just fine! Thank you all so much for your kind words and comments over the weekend, you are all too lovely... :)

So after lots of rest, peace and quiet I feel refreshed and happy this Monday morning. The sun is shining over Edinburgh and it has been so lovely to tip-toe my way through our fabulous 'all colours in' Flickr pool. I have pulled together a wee handful of very pretty, summery pictures with lots of lovely vintage flowery details... always a favourite of mine and absolutely perfect for keeping my good mood going all day!

Wishing you all sunshine and flowers,
Emma, x

hoping for some calm...

Hello my lovelies... :)

Well, this week I have truly been AWOL haven't I... !?
I so wish it was because of good things but unfortunately it wasn't... well some of it was nice, such as chatting to really lovely friends over a new wee project I'm working on... but mostly it has been 'crappity crap' to coin a dottie angel phrase... :)

Everything from a gas leak in our flat early in the week, which was really stressful but is thankfully now repaired and all is safe again, to pesky wee mice keeping us awake at night... doing their very best to chew through the floorboards, and believe me, at four o'clock in the morning it sounds like they have come armed with chainsaws and bulldozers!

Last night there was a really crazy 'incident' of a drunken person breaking into our tenement stairwell. They climbed up to the highest window ledge and were threatening to throw themselves off... seriously frightening! There were swarms of police, a couple of fire engines and an ambulance outside our building for at least three hours while they tried to talk this person down. I had to leave quite early on in this whole event with Spanner (call of nature and all that) but of course once I had left the police wouldn't let me back in... thankfully I bumpbed into a dog walking buddy and went for a wee cuppa with them. What I am even more thankful for is that this whole 'incident' was resolved safely... I don't think I could have coped with anything else.

Then today my email account, which is proven to be a wee bit unreliable at times, completely crapped out on me. I am working so hard to sort this out just now so please do bear with me if you're wanting a wee chat about something. I have set up a new email account for the time being, you can find it on my personal Facebook page at the moment.

And of course, to top it all off the dog has just thrown up on the carpet... !

As a very lovely friend said to me earlier in the week that sometimes you just have to giggle when things go wrong... a giggle would be lovely, but to be honest I would be quite content with just a couple of calm and uneventful days... surely that's not too much to ask... !?

I do hope each and every one of you have just the kind of weekend you are hoping for... :)
Emma, x

colour your monday happy...

Image credits: 1. RubyRed06, 2. Max Harmony, 3. Cottage45, 4. A Crooked Sixpence, 5. couleurs bonbons

Hello my lovelies, how are you this fine Monday morning!?
Do you like today's picks from our 'all colours in' Flickr pool? They're looking a wee bit patriotic with this red, white and blue combo but I kinda like that this morning. All we're missing is a wee bowl of ripe juicy strawberries with a dollop of thick Devonshire cream on top. That would have made the most perfectly quaint British summertime collection... a wee bit of red, white and blue bunting wouldn't have gone amiss either... ;)

Anyhoo, I am off to spend the rest of my day in the studio to finish up a few orders and get them ready to send out. There are some new ladies in the making too and if the day stays sunny I should be able to get some lovely pics for the shop later in the week. I've also got a bunch of photos from the weekend to organise into a couple of posts for you but more about them later... :)

A wonderful day to you all,
Emma, x