My first stitches!

This week I have set about ticking off another one of my New Year's resolutions, learning to sew. With the expert guide of my mother who has a ridiculous amount of knowledge and experience I have learnt a whole array of information and techniques for sewing. And I am extremely proud to say that I have not only made my first piece of clothing, but that I managed to finish it in just two days, and managed to finish it to a standard that I am happy with (being a perfectionist is not always an easy thing!).

I am extremely pleased with how it turned out. We decided to make my first sewing project a nice easy one to start with, that could teach me the basics so that I can move on to more advanced things with more confidence in pattern reading as well as general construction.

This is the completed item

(Sorry the picture is naff, I was taking it in a hurry. I am sure I will have a better picture at some point!)


One very simple black A line skirt. I am really pleased with it, and I have most definitely caught the sewing bug. I will most definitely be moving on to my next project of a blouse very soon!

Onto other things in the world, my new YouTube video will be going up on Friday this week. As I said in the previous post I am away from my usual location at the moment and have extremely slow internet! Once I am a little more reconnected to the technological world again, I will post my next video! How exciting! An actual tutorial! Lets just hope that some one finds it useful, or better yet actually watches it!

As for now I am going to go and prance around in my lovely new skirt!

xoxo E

It's time for Family & Food

This weekend has been a weekend filled with Family & Food, one of my favourite ways to spend a weekend.

We have managed to squeeze a lot into this weekend. But I have still managed just about to almost finish editing my first official video for YouTube! Which hopefully should be going up in the next week, I'm not staying in an area with particularly good internet at the moment. I think I may break the internet if I try to upload a video!

We have managed to do a day down to Plymouth and looked around the shops, and had a beautiful meal last night, quiet literally the best chocolate brownie I have ever eaten in my life! Followed today but a 3 mile morning run (still going with the fitness resolution, although I can't say that it's going amazingly, simply because I have discovered I love cake more than running!) and an afternoon of great home made food, and cuddles with my 14 week old nephew :)

The one thing I love the most about visiting my mum (besides seeing her in all her gorgeous-ness) is the amazing food. If I can ever learn to put together a buffet like my Mum then I'll be pleased.

This is what I mean:

 

• Salmon Fillets
• Five Spice Turkey
• Pasta Salads
• Summer Pudding

Now that's what I can a tasty looking meal!

Another thing I love about family days are catching up with my sisters, my big sister has just told me she is doing an amazing thing; every day she thinks of 20 positive things in her life, to ensure she has a positive mentality everyday. This is something which she has just started after learning it on a training day. Personally I am loving this idea and I think I am going to try doing the same thing. I have always been a strong believer that positive thinking leads to positive things.

So why not give it a go - think of the things which are positive in your life. It can be as simple as having running water, the little things in our lives which we may take for granted someone else won't have.

I have always been a believer in being grateful for the small things in life, this is definitely going to be my new way of doing my positive thinking, why not try it with me?

xoxo E

Learning Curves

Decide to record my next YouTube video.

Patiently position myself in the right lighting, set up my laptop and camera.

Spend an hour recording my make-up tutorial video (a lot of faffing about involved).

Edit video.

Realise when editing I have applied my make-up the whole way through using my middle finger...

Somehow I don't think that this is a good way to attract more viewers, or convince people to subscribe to my channel!!

Muppet.

So this is all a learning curve and tomorrow I am going to re-shoot the whole thing and try again and this time I will most definitely not be using my middle finger to apply my make-up! Extremely pleased though considering its a somewhat boring video with just a short introduction speech to my channel, I have over 60 views already. Which personally I am over the moon about! I didn't think anyone would be bothered enough to click on it!

If you are wondering which video I'm on about its in the blog below.

Other stuff... Exercise regime has taken a bit of a dive, which lets face it was inevitable! So I am restarting myself on a new challenge! NikePlus Running App has an option to set a training programme so I am starting an 8 week training programme to improve my best time for a 5k (which I am not going to embarrass myself by tell you what that time was). I'm thinking this is a reasonable challenge and it means that I will be getting myself fit enough for a peak in June / July time to be in a habit of running and hopefully yoga.... bring on the bikini body!


As always will keep you posted on all progress!

xoxo E  

It's Official... I am up and running on YouTube!

So I have taken the plunge and I have finally uploaded my first ever YouTube video after about 3 years of thinking I would do it, today I woke up and just thought... today is the day.

It's up and running and out in the big wide world... if you fancy a little look....

Click Here!

It's only a short video just as an introduction for me to YouTube really!

I mainly uploaded this short video so that I could test out the whole process of uploading and see what it was like and see how things turn out. Before I am trying to upload something which I have spent a while working on and it all ends up going pear shaped!

So hopefully this will be the beginning of something which I will keep going for a while, and something which will be of interest to people.

Like I said in a previous blog post, I am hoping to do a variety of videos so hopefully it will stay interesting for people with a mixture of Beauty tips and Tricks, tanning advice and guidance, possibly make-up tutorials, and outfits of the day (OOTD - for those of you who didn't know the abbreviation!)

So fingers crossed that this is the beginning of something which lasts and keeps people entertained, and on a real bonus, teaches people something new along the way!

I had fun trying to upload this video! I am so unused to Google+ and the way that all works I didn't realise that I had managed to create myself a new page! So I ended up uploading this video to a new page rather than the account page I thought it was going to go on! (Hence why I wanted to do a short video first, I knew it would be an interesting experience!)

Enjoy! As always feel free to let me know if there are any videos you think would be worth uploading or doing for people.

My next video is going to be a make-up video for covering birth marks I think!

Stay tuned!

xoxo E