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3285 days ago we said “I do.” . . . The thing with planning a wedding is you have very specific ideas in your head about the day and how it should go. The timings, the decor, the weather. Some things in your control and a lot of things not. The day before our wedding my husband-to-be said as along as the minister is present we will be ok. Soothing words for my particular brain... The next morning while taking care of some of those finer details I had a call from said husband-to-be. He informed me that we needed passport photos for the register. I didn’t have recent photo and needed to organise one and fast - in between getting hair and makeup done of course. This threw a spanner in the plan and I proceeded to have a meltdown. No sooner had I composed myself I heard “there’s one more thing, the minister has double booked and cannot make it to our wedding!” You can imagine my response! To cut a long story short a plan was made and we did indeed get married by a lovely minister. I am sure there are many things that did not go exactly to plan on the day but to be honest I can’t remember any of them (except the minister and the last minute passport photo- I think I will remember those!). The rest of those little details and particular plans have melted and been moulded into one fantastic day. A day where we said “I do” to each other, a day where we celebrated with family and friends, a day where I danced so much that I wore through the heel in my shoes. In case you were wondering 3285 days is 9 years. Celebrating this day with our two wonderful boys. And the plan is to make cupcakes, but you know the thing about plans... The lovely and extremely talented @vanessacoetzeephotography photographed our wedding day💜. #positivelysquared #ourweddingphoto #wesaidido

🐠🐟 Let me introduce you to Fishy 🐠🐟 She is our Betta fish. I must admit I never expected to love a fish so much but we really do. Fishy loves leisurely swims around the tank and spa days. She is feisty, fancy and a big foodie! For this month's #daysofsimpleandslow challenge I've teamed up with some wonderful friends to celebrate love in this month's 💕Love loop💕. Throughout February we'll introduce a new prompt every Tuesday to invite you to connect over this challenge and spread some love. This week's prompt - Unexpected love Next story: @dorinelahamamci To see all contributions, follow the loop until you get back here. #petsketch #procreatesketch #fishillustration #procreate5

Happy International Book Giving Day and Happy Valentines Day!!! On this day, and every day, we should celebrate love and books and a love of books! I like to share both love and books so all my picture books are available for free download in all Amazon stores - link in bio! These include: . . Bright Blue Balloon . . . Hoo at the Zoo . . . Edinburgh City Festivity I couldn’t resist turning the bright blue balloon bright pink/purple to celebrate the day😁 This morning my boys surprised me with Valentine’s Day cards they made themselves and a heart made out of Lego and a cup of tea of course. Owen has the day off school today. Looking forward to playing all day!!! And we may bake something special too. 💜 Hope you all have a wonderful day Lots of 💜💜💜 #valentinesdaylove #bookgivingday #internationalbookgivingday #lovewithbooks #booksandlove

This time 9 years ago... . . . . This time 9 years ago we had our pre-wedding photo shoot to help prepare for the big day! It seems so long ago but I always love looking through the photos and reminiscing about our love and journey. We are laughing in quite a few of the photos which makes me smile so much! I think that’s what I remember most from the day. If I can ever offer a tip for brides-to- be its to have your make-up trial on the same day as your pre-wedding shoot 👍 Our talented photographer @vanessacoetzeephotography did an amazing job and we are so grateful to have these captured moments 💜💜 . . . . . For this month's #daysofsimpleandslow challenge I've teamed up with some wonderful friends to celebrate love in this month's 💕Love loop💕. Over the course of the next four weeks we'll introduce a new prompt every Tuesday to invite you to connect over this challenge and spread some love. This week's prompt - Romantic love Next story: @dorinelahamamci To see all contributions, follow the loop until you get back here. 💜💜💜 #loveloop #romanticlove #februarylove #weddingtip #vanessacoetzeephotography #positivelysquared

Happy #febookary ! What are you reading at the moment? I have always enjoyed reading and would love to read more. I have set myself a challenge to read at least one book per month. My current read is Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. I have to say that I am throughly enjoying it. It’s not one of my usual reads but I felt inspired to read it after our first #ourweekendtheme in January when we had ‘Dinosaur Weekend’. Hubby and I watched the Jurassic World movies and I just had to continue the journey, so I decided to start at the beginning and quickly reserved Jurassic World at our local library #hockessinlibrary My other read so far is The Four Doors by Richard Paul Evans. Definitely recommend this thought provoking book. “A guide to joy, freedom, and a meaningful life.” . . . 📘The lovely @storytimeshelves reminded us of World Read Aloud Day on the first day of February. If you missed it why not have your own read aloud day today! . . . 📘 On 14 FEB it’s International Book Giving Day, what better way to celebrate love on Valentines Day!!! #bookgivingday . . . 📘 It’s also Library Lovers’ Month! #libraryloversmonth So spread the love and visit your library 💜 Also, our weekend theme is ‘All things Lego’ if you would like to join in or maybe have your own theme😃 Either way we would love to hear all about it! Just use #ourweekendtheme theme and tag @bright.blue.balloon so I can share in stories. Have a lovely weekend! 💜💜💜 #whatyoureading #readsomethingnew #readinglover #febrarybooks #bookdays #booksareawesom #legoisawesome #legoweekend #legotheme

Self care =self love. So don’t feel guilty, take a moment and spin the wheel. Indulge in self care and in turn self love💜💜 Read a book, drink your favourite beverage, write in your journal or exercise. Whatever it is for you, it’s ok to treat yourself to a little self care. For this month's #daysofsimpleandslow challenge I've teamed up with some wonderful friends to celebrate love in this month's 💕Love loop💕. Over the course of the next four weeks we'll introduce a new prompt every Tuesday to invite you to connect over this challenge and spread some love. This week's prompt - Self love Next story: @dorinelahamamci To see all contributions, follow the loop until you get back here. The perfectionist in me didn’t want to post this illustration as I don’t feel it’s quite right yet but alas I have run out of time. In the end I decided to give myself some ‘self love’ and a break and post it anyway. Hope you like it! Hope you all have a lovely day 💜 💜💜 #selflovetips #selflovewheel #spinthewheel

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