Instamonth: December

Hello and Happy New Year!!!!

2013 is gone and 2014 is here. How did you celebrate? We went to a murder mystery party which was so much fun!

Anyway, time for my Instagrams from December. If you like them Id love for you to follow me my username is sequins_n_glitter 

On with the show!!

Of course, 90% of Decembers pictures are Chrismas based which makes me happy. I try extra hard every year to make Christmas extra festive and lovely as I worry the magic gets lost if you don't make the effort.

How was your Decmber? 

Do you have and Instagram? I'd love to have a nosey!!

See you soon,

Chloe

Clevedon Pier.

This last weekend we went to Clevedon to go to a friends wedding reception. The morning after we had to go out in search of full fat coke to wake up and cure our ever worsening hangovers.
The hotel we stayed in wasn't far from one of my most favourite places ever.
Clevedon Pier.
Clearly other people love it to as it won Pier of the Year (who even knew that was a thing?)

Look how lovely it is? Completley traditional and not an arcade machine in sight.
This isnt even the best part for me. The sides and the floor are pretty much entirely covered in brass plaques with different messages on them. Some are marriage proposals but most are in memorial of someone. This doesnt mean they are all morbid and sad. Some of them are so touching and sweet while others have a lot of humour in them. Either way, they will bring a smile to your face.

Here are some of my favourites:

Antonia, I love you. Will you marry me? Ken x

Please don't commemorate me with one of these. Tom Pearse

Gerbil. Loves by everybody (except the postman)

Weetie. Catkins, sunshine, swifts, sweet peas, cups of tea and badeadas baths.

We were here.

And if you havent had enough picture based content, here are some more beautiful pier photos (if I do say so myself)

Someone had yarn bombed the very front of the pier. I kind of like it!

Clearly I have a big space in my heart for Clevedon pier.

Do you have a place like that? That you just love?

See you soon,

Chloe

Instamonth: November

Happy December!!
Christmas is nearly here and I could not be more excited!

Anyway....
I do love Instagram. Its definately overtaken Facebook as my favourite social network.
Here are some of my photos from the last month.

First red cup of the year.

Yummy hot chocolate

Bristol Christmas lights

Pretty park

My lovely Archie before his operation

Lovely autumn walks

Getting to work so early that I saw the sun rise

So pretty.

Do you have an Instagram? I'd love to see!
You can follow me @sequins_n_glitter

See you soon,

Chloe

Wanderlust: Morocco

The last week in September the boyfriend and I took off to Agadir in Morocco. The idea was to just chill out by the pool or the beach and just recharge.
We've both had a hard 6 months and needed the time to relax and start again.
We stayed in the Hotel Timoulay which was set one street back from the beach .
It was a lovely, small hotel with a spa, pool and bar and we were lucky enough to be upgraded to a Sea View room! The girl was so excited when she handed us our card keys I thought she was going to burst but the minute we went to the balcony we could see why - a full panoramic view of the beach and the sea.
The sun goes down over the sea so we were able to sit on the balcony with a cheeky Gin & Bitter Lemon and watch the sun set.
Perfect.

Most days we hang out by the pool and read (I got through SO many books!) because the hotel didnt have its own section of beach and its not a good idea to leave your things unattended.
We did venture down once or twice though - the beach itself was huge! So wide and about 9km long! For someone used to the magical *ehem* beach that is Weston-Super-Mare I can tell you this was a nice suprise!

Word of warning - There are looky looky men all around the beach. If you're anything like me the urge is to say no thank you and walk off. This doesnt tend to work as they then know that you are polite and might carry on trying to chat to you which, of course, ends in them selling you something. Just a firm no and walking away will do the trick.
Also, the sea is strong! Perfect for surfers and strong swimmers. I am not the strongest of swimmers and did ok until a wave smashed me in the side of the head and I had to have a sit down!


On the second to last night we had a walk down the promenade to the restaurants. We went to The Camel Bar - mainly because it had the exact same name as our favourite place when we went to Sharm El Sheikh the year before last! - we sat out with our dinner (which was ok, nothing special) and watched the sun start to go down.

On the walk back I basically took a million sunset pictures and we did freeze frames which have become a tradition for us and slept lots!

I would 100% go back to Morocco and we've already talked about going to Marrakesh for a long weekend as we are both explorers at heart and would love to see the city in all its busy, crazy glory!

This was a very picture filled post but trust me, I really narrowed it down!

See you next time!

Chloe

Autumn Colours

I'm not sure these pictures need words.
The colours of the leaves were just amazing and the sun was shining through making them more beautiful.

I hope you like them:

Many of my photographs are for sale in my Etsy shop so why not check it out?

xXx

Out and About

Today was a beautiful autumn day so we took the pups for a lovely walk crunching through the leaves.
I, of course, took my camera and snapped up a storm!
Here are my favourites:

^^ This one is my favourite of the lot ^^

I tried to mess around with Photoshop a bit here just because the butterflies were so pretty they had to be the centre of attention! 

I've said it before and I'll say it again - I love having my camera, playing around with it and learning all the new tricks! 

Many of my photographs are for sale in my Etsy shop so why not check it out?

Hope you're having a great weekend 

xXx