Happy thanksgiving!!!!

Yes, I celebrate random things…and one of the random things that I celebrate is Thanksgiving – the traditional american start to Christmas shopping! Day after thanksgiving is when all the chaos and commotion starts and don’t end until christmas eve….maybe I always celebrate it because it reminds me of the fab Thanksgiving sales.

Funny that, as my memories of Thanksgiving are not exactly heart warming ones. One Thanksgiving, some of the ‘Christianity society’ (not sure what is the cult club called) people had a party/meal for all of us ‘alien’ students. All I can remember from that meal is the burnt pumpkin pie and stale breadrolls – the rolls were practically growing moss. I am sorry, but that’s just taking the piss. Take note, the christian society people at CSU Fresno, we might be poor students, but please don’t serve us rotten food. Dree might remember this meal , but I’m not sure if she was even there. And my other memory of Thanksgiving was when I had my whole family with me and we were at Reno. Being thanksgiving, the only meal we could have that was semi-affordable/still open for business was the turkey meal at one of the casino’s foodcourt. Complete with sulky and rude servers pissed off with having to work Thanksgiving day.

But this Thanksgiving I give thanks that someone has offered me a job. YES! I think my boss is heaving a big sigh of relief, getting me out of his hair and not having to sack me in 6 months time. Even comes with a pay rise. And the area is probably the only area in financial services that is going to grow in the next few years…now that I’ve said that I will probably jinx it!

So yes. Bring on the turkey. What do YOU have to give thanks to this year?

Phew…

After months of dilly-dallying and being completely lazy, my shop at etsy is up at last. There will be updates to items for sale coming up soon – may not be until this weekend as I only take pictures powered by natural daylight – something that I am sorely lacking mondays – fridays.I spent the weekends taking pictures, its ridicullious. You can see me by my windowsill, snapping away…

This weekend have been spent stringing up necklaces as well…I’ve had my pearls in its loose form for ages, and have not bothered stringing them up.Phew. I spent all Sat afternoon stringing pearls, and only stopped when I realised that I had attached the same clasp to both ends of the necklace. Hm. By that time I have been stringing necklaces for about 4 hours nonstop. And now they are up for sale. Hooray!

This should work as a sideline to my winter market stall. I must also say – not doing well on that end as well. Due to the cold (and pure laziness) I have only signed up for two markets. Most of my items are going to go as gifts anyway – and now that I am working with women again , I can bring it into work again and make a killing .

I won’t ask you to browse the shop yet, as I have not had all my items uploaded. But if you’re wanting to buy from me – just let me know, my readers get 10% off everything. Love from me to you!!!

crocheted hair slides/brooches

black pearl necklace on a toggle clasp

Roundhay Park is a huge park located on the north of Leeds. Basically the city’s green lung, it’s surrounded by beautiful trees, lakes, rose garden and even the strange tropical world – where various rooms of the indoor gardens brings you through from the desert to the rainforest, right down to the humidity, butterflies and temperature.

Not wanting to miss capturing autumn again, last weekend was spent in Roundhay Park doing a photoshoot. Shamefully enough, I did not manage to capture much of anything. I ended up directing the shots instead – vanity overtook and I decided I wanted to capture myself. Heh. Yes, I have no shame. So this post is not really dedicated to autumn, its me me me me. And thank you to bacon for rolling his eyes whilst he obediently clicked away..

The falling leaves. I love the starkness of autumn – and how trees literally go to sleep but get up just as it becomes warmer.

Feet up ! Do you love the colors? Finished with a lomography effect.

Feet down! I love the colors of fall…helped along with a 1960′s styled cross process.

Vanity begins. Don’t you think this looks just like some old fashioned poster? Bacon reckons I look dead.

Another napping picture with lomo effect

Unprocessed

My favourite is still the 60s styled cross process.Bacon threw loads of leaves on me…am just glad that it was a very chilly dry morning

I love how the pictures turned out…I think I might be falling in love with myself. Yes, I have no shame. It’s not actually me – bacon took the pictures. Now, if only he’ll let me take pictures of him…

Crunchy leaves, crisp bright air, stark empty branches….welcome into autumn.We took the sunday off for a photoshoot…tune in later – am tweaking around with them.

Snapping away at the beautiful sight in front of me, I realised that this is abnormal behaviour. Here I am, taking pictures of the beautiful sunrise from the 3rd floor – AT WORK. Not at home, AT WORK. And not after a long night out. It was the start of a very long day at 7am.

You must admit, it is a beautiful sight. The combination of the waking sun with the early mist produced this beautiful multicolored sight. This was taken with the sunset module on the Ixus 90

Another view, this time just on normal mode on the camera.

The mad part about all this is that I am ‘still’ going to be jobless, irregardless of how early I start. There has been too much to do. The scary part is that the whole team is already in by 7.30 typing away, disregarding the fact that we officially start at 9am. After a week of 7am starts, I am hoping that next week will be looking slightly better and shorter hours. Well, at least later starts. I have been downing cups and cups of coffee and tea I am all caffeined out. I blame this on the people who are unable to understand that 1+3 do not equal to 5 – if I am giving mathematical advice out, they must REALLY suck!

Jobhunt is still going on full steam ahead, with my manager now taking an unhealthy interest in my jobhunt. He is now making me go thorough each job adverts sitting by my side and questioning why am I not applying for it. It’s good in a way, a kick up the ass that I need. Being so busy at work sometimes distracts me from jobhunting