Katie Morwenna

Bits of my weekend

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:08:09 -0500

Bits of my weekend (& last week)

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:17:24 -0500

It feels like my life is spent doing DIY now. This weekend we took a break from doing work on the house. How did we spend it? Fixing our broken shower, adding in a dimmer switch to the living room and starting an upcycling project. Apparently since we started working all weekend every weekend, it’s much harder to take a break. When you know how many things need to be done, it’s hard to sit still for very long…

The bedroom (aka, my weekend)

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:53:26 -0500

Phew.

Hopefully we can unpack some boxes soon though…

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:35:38 -0500

Hopefully we can unpack some boxes soon though…

The flat is starting to look pretty awesome

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:34:53 -0500

The flat is starting to look pretty awesome

Welcome 2012!

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:01:22 -0500

Despite the recession and seemingly endless bad news on a wider, country-wide and global scale, last year was one of the best years of my life.

This is a bit of a smugfest, so apologies for that. But it’s been a good year. I’ve had some years which have been pretty crappy so I feel doubly appreciative of everything I was blessed with in 2011.

Some of the best bits:

- moving in with Peter
- getting engaged
- going to Denver and meeting my friends’ son for the first time
- fake Christmas with the NMIS group
- having really good friends who are great at fish punnery
- my god daughter saying my name for the first time
- my parents moving to the UK
- thanksgiving at my parents’ house
- buying a flat and getting excited about what it will look like when we finish doing it up
- finding out great work news for both me and Peter right before Christmas

If 2012 is even half as good to me as 2011 was, it will be a great year. I hope your year is full of happiness!

Doing up the flat: mid-way through room one

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:53:34 -0500

Tomorrow: the new floor.

I must say, this has been a very slow, but rather stonkingly good week.

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:30:13 -0500

I must say, this has been a very slow, but rather stonkingly good week.

It's London, innit?

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:48:18 -0500

It's London, innit?

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Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:34:53 -0500

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Photos from the last week

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:46:00 -0500

Deer-y me

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:18:15 -0500

Deer-y me

Thankful for

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:02:26 -0500

Peter, who is more wonderful every day.
My family (especially my amazing parents).
Good friends.
Food in my belly and a roof over my head.

I finally signed up to Etsy

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:08:44 -0500

I finally signed up to Etsy

Bits of the weekend

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:52:43 -0500

Drilling. The Killing. Brockwell Park. Bacon sandwich in the mist. Balham roast.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:53:57 -0500

a) Felt all inspired today after a workshop/training session out of the office

b) It’s the weekend

c) I had some BRILLIANT news today. Don’t want to jinx it, but next Friday I should be exchanging on a soon-to-be-beautiful flat in London

d) It’s Thanksgiving on Thursday and for the first year EVER my parents are in London

e) There is going to be a LOT of pie this Thursday. P & I have all of Wednesday off specifically to bake pie(s)

f) It’s getting SO close to Christmas. I am SUPER excited about this year. I have some awesome gifts already to give my family and I get to spend it with P and (fingers crossed) we’ll be in our new flat and I might have had too much caffeine at the training day today but I feel PUMPED!

Bits of my weekend

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:18:00 -0500

I know that Thursday is not technically the weekend, but it felt like it to me. P and I went to Mama Lans in Brixton Village for some VERY delicious dumplings. Including a bottle of wine purchased from Sainsburys, we ate ourselves silly for £24. What a deal!

On Friday, I met up with ex-colleagues/amazing friends. We had a great Chinese with exceptionally slow service at Manchurian Legends in Chinatown. But the service was irrelevant because we were talking and talking and talking and talking… sadly Louise had to leave at 10:30 to head back to west London, while the remaining three of us (plus Martin who we managed to bump into next to the restaurant) continued on to Strawberry Moons.

Now, the problem with Strawberry Moons is that you can’t take drink on the dance floor. This results in either a) things you can drink quickly (shots) or b) downing glasses of wine quickly so you can get back to dancing. I blame both of these things for the series of photos I took on the walk back from the night bus.

Luckily, I am marrying an absolutely amazing guy, who had left me snacks in the fridge and this helpful sign:

Needless to say, I felt pretty rotten on Saturday. I did manage to make it to both the South Lambeth Market (small but quite lovely and I bought some great children’s books for my god daughter) and The New Vintage (also small and lovely, but a bit too jostly for my hungover tastes. That said I could have spent a stack of money as everything was gorgeous). And the supermarket. So not a total washout.

Today I woke up fresh as a daisy, and P and I were treated to the delights of Wandsworth Homebase followed by a walk through Battersea Park. It looks so gorgeous at this time of year (Battersea Park, not Homebase).

And now, le sigh, another Monday looms. I wish I had the week off!

Bits of my weekend

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:48:17 -0500

After a cold walk in east London and a chilly bonfire night in Battersea Park, it feels as though winter is finally upon us.

A year ago...

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:08:27 -0400

I can’t believe it was just under a year ago that P and I went to Bath. It was such a great long weekend. So much has changed over the past year, it’s amazing and a little terrifying but mostly just really exciting.

I haven’t been taking too many photos lately but I have been looking back at last year’s photos. It was such a cold, wintry holiday. In some ways it’s been great having such an extended mild autumn, but in some ways I can’t wait for it to get properly cold!

Bits of the weekend

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:14:47 -0400

Tea and scones at the Balham Bowls Club with Hannah after the Vintage Event (blogged about by Hannah here).

I bought some old magazines, just out of curiosity, really. I think they may form part of a project soon, but so far I’m not sure what. I really enjoyed reading some of the articles and especially loved reading all the adverts!

Mmmm… Pie…

I made my first stencil and made some cards (blog coming here later on this week).

I had fun creating a crafty photoshoot.

I got glitter everywhere in the flat (sorry Peter).

I also had a great evening out on Friday with work colleagues, a great evening in on Saturday with P, and a trip to B&Q in West Norwood on Sunday. Fun times. The B&Q in West Norwood is totally sh*t, by the way. They only have two sizes of tool box! Tiny or storage cabinet! So much for organising my art supplies…