Life, Loves, and Lipstick

lots of things.  Late night ponderings. Feeling sad. You know when you just want need a hug and that feeling of support from someone and want to be able to trust people around you 100%?  Also, not being able to scream into the world all the reasons why you get these feelings and worries.  I guess this is my vague way of doing that, trying to ease the stress and sadness a bit without actually sharing as such.  Some of the things I'd forgotten myself but had reminders of this eve and, my days,  people can be truly awful.  So immoral and with such horrid ways of looking at things and saying things... Distracting myself with writing. Writing and looking up those daft Leonardo with a smug face memes. Sillyyyyy. They're helping though. As is the writing. I do worry though. People are a disappointment really, aren't they? Generally.  They all just let you down.  That's how I'm feeling about the World this evening I guess. Wanting the best for someone,...

Hi blog world. Wow it's been a long time since I blogged.  There's a bunch of stuff I want to write about, serious life stuff like family relationships, anxiety, moving house, health stress and some light hearted stuff like pursuing a new hobby, interior design planning and some new shows we've given a go recently that I'd like to recommend. For now, I'm going to do a little summing up blog post about the above, and things I'll go into more detail on separately. So, main updates from the past (almost) 12 months... In 2020 we started to talk about what we both want in the future, and starting a family came up, something neither of us thought we'd genuinely wanted previously, but it was lovely to realise we had both started to feel that we'd like to take our relationship to another level. However, it wouldn't be an option where we couldn't live really due to lack of space.  So, we decided to put our/my house on the market early 2021 and should be m...

We all have less than perfect days sometimes. I'm having a bit of a low one today. We were meant to be getting up early and going to a skatepark on route to a yummy food place we'd booked for lunch, then going on to a different skatepark after. Instead, I was up at about 7am being sick.  It really is one of the worst feelings.  I thankfully haven't been sick again since and managed to get a few more hours sleep afterwards but it meant missing the food booking, I've re-arranged it for tomorrow.  Had stomach pains most of the day and haven't had much of an appetite but have managed to eat some stuff. I hate when you're looking forward to something and it gets taken away from you due to things out of your control 😔I hate when you feel like a day has gone to waste too, life goes quick enough without rubbish days that come and go like this. I mean, I suppose I did do some business stuff, and packaged up a load of eBay parcels of things that ended yesterday that I so...

We took a trip out to support a local tea room, Dot-teas Emporium , down in Belper today for afternoon tea.  They're always great at catering for vegans and vegetarians and it was nice to have an excuse to get dressed up and have a bit of a date.  It's nice to feel a bit fancy now n' then! Decided to give setting my hair a go for the first time in forever. I've only ever done it a handful of times and it never goes amazingly buuut it makes a change nevertheless! I remembered I'd bought a cute vintage hairnet with tiny pearls all over it that I used to help neaten it up a bit. I bought this gorgeous little floral novelty print vintage dress from Depop a few years ago and decided today could be an opportunity to finally take it out.  I don't own much true vintage really, much more repro stuff, but I do really like this one. It was from a seller in the US and it has a really cool vintage label in it, 'Spector & Shanler New York'.  Shoes: Miss L Fire The...

Apologies, this is a bit of a heavy one.  My heart aches after reading something incredibly sad when I logged on to Facebook last night. Someone I knew from the Red Dwarf community, Seb Patrick, passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack leaving behind his wonderful wife and beautiful little daughter. I'd only spoken to him on Facebook the day before, in response to one of his posts, so seeing Jo's post featuring a photo of his empty workspace just the next day seemed so unreal. My heart absolutely breaks for her and their little one who has lost her Daddy with no warning,  I didn't know Seb well, he'd always been around since I got into the Red Dwarf forums about 15 years ago, but our paths otherwise never particularly crossed. He was however close with other friends of mine within the community so I was familiar with him and did speak to him in person at the last two conventions I worked at. He made some lovely comments about the photos I did for them and was a fell...

So I've not blogged in a looong time, but I like the idea of getting back into it...let's see how long that lasts! I should probably say another hello, so, hey! I'm Becky, I'm 31, I live in a little town in Derbyshire with my partner and two bunnies. I'm a lover of mid-century style, animals, tea and cake, and handwritten letters.  I'm a self employed artist and photographer, primarily shooting weddings, and taking arty commissions in between! It's going to be a lifestyle blog with a mix of things from general day-to-day musings on life, travel diaries, reviews, vintage fashion stuff, and some art related bits n' bobs. I figured lockdown was probably a good topic to start with, document these crazy times!  I know I'm in quite a privileged place to be able to say this, but I have to admit I've found a lot of positives in lockdown, and I know when I spoke to friends in the first half of it they agreed. Life's been so stripped back and I've ...