My life at the moment

I obviously lead a very glamourous life going out for cocktails all the time, ahem, but at the moment it feels like all I do is get up, do some work on the computer, talk to utility companies on the phone, then tackle a room in the house armed with some boxes and a bin bag. After a few days of boring packing I learnt to be less sentimental, but I still cannot come across an old magazine or a photo album without sitting down and looking through EVERY page, like some kind of annoying OCD. Anything is more interesting than packing.

Here are Matt and Steven drafting up our house:



Steven told me not to post this picture because he thinks people won't realise how exciting our new house is going to look when they just see the frame. I think its more exciting because this is the beginning, and hopefully in a year we will have a whole proper house that will look amazing!



Ugh, our tiny little Cardiff house filled with boxes. And lots of disturbing paperwork.



(by the way, I realise the white balance on these photos is not good, but I am too tired to a) use a flash, and b) sort out photos in photoshop later.)

Webber family portraits

I said to these guys as I was leaving that their photography session was just perfect. And I don't always say corny things like that, I meant that we had perfect light (around 5pm), a great setting, an entire family that is not only very chilled out, but also super-smiley, up for anything, and full of energy. The boys, Chris and Adam are very into their football, cricket and rugby, and new addition baby Seren didn't stop grinning once. I have also never seen a 6 month old stand up for such a long period of time - she must have been standing bobbing around for about an hour - amazing! We had a great time, and got some relaxed family portraits as well as shots of everyone playing sport. On to the images!

Phillipa and family

These are Phillipa's gorgeous grandchildren, Bethan, 3, Corum, 2.5, and Phoebe, 9 months. Corum and Phoebe are siblings, united with their big eyes and the longest eyelashes I have EVER seen! Bethan is a real girl, and loves her teddys, twirling in her dress, Angelina Ballerina and arranging things in order. Corum her cousin is a real boy and is very laid back, loves cars, tanks and chaos (i.e. destroying the line of teddies that Bethan is carefully laying out). Phoebe is like her brother - very chilled out and just hangs out blinking at the world with her big eyes. On to the photos:

Corum:




Bethan:



And Phoebe:





Bethan looks like an accomplished flamenco dancer here:




And Corum looks like he's trying to reverse out of a difficult road traffic incident here:





Boo!



What is it Phoebe? Is it your older cousin coming to attack you with a spider....??





Ha ha, I put a photo of Phillipa on my blog!













Thanks guys, it was great fun xx

Our house!

Thanks to my clever husband and talented friend Matt Phillips, here are the first plans for the structure of our house in New Zealand! I think it looks GORGEOUS. Its a simple design (as you can see), a wooden open plan structure that will have strawbale infill walls. That sticky out bit is part of the bathroom and front porch, and the large floor space upstairs will be one of the bedrooms. This time next year it should be built! Stay tuned for more house news as I'll post anything interesting on the blog.

My beautiful friend Rhiannon

We did a photoshoot just for fun, but also because Rhiannon will look AMAZING on my website. She's even better looking in person! Not to mention clever, elegant, creative, adventurous, generous, confident, hilarious- I could go on. Its quite hard to capture someone you know so well, but good fun trying.