Evie's Room

My friend Michelle decorated her daughter's room so beautifully and it's been featured on Apartment Therapy! Thanks Michelle for letting me shoot this. ♥

Krystal Images

I have the most talented of friends. My lovely friend Krystal has started her own business capturing the sweetest moments shared between families and lovers. She took the beautiful photo above of me and Andy this summer. I love love this photo.  If you look closely, Andy's right hand is a bit blurred - it's my favorite part of the photo. So beautiful. I can feel Andy's love for me every time I look at this photo. I can't wait to have it printed off and put it by our bed. You can find her FB page here.  I've been working on her logo; here's what I've go so far.

My Friend Stephan.......

....... is one of the best photographers ever. He's posted this photo of Andy and me on his site here. This beach was absolutely amazing, one of my favorites I've been to in the UK. 

Goal Post

Sammy the Seagull by Wayne Pate

I don't want to toot my own horn, but I think this post is pretty cleverly named. I like witty things.....

Since moving to Korea, I've been asking myself a lot, "What am I doing here?" It's a fair question.... Why would we leave our beautiful new house in beautiful England, move back to Crazy Korea into a studio apartment where crazy ladies purposely run into you on the street. It all seems pretty crazy actually. Korea is crazy. But I know this is where we're supposed to be right now. 

I've been going through a lot of grief lately, remorseful over the fact I was supposed to start my MA tomorrow, that I'm not renovating and decorating our first home, not starting a family.....
But I know that this place, right now, is where we're supposed to be.

Besides buying stationary, pens and cards - making goals is another way I deal with life's craziness. Goals are a nice idea in theory....You plan something, work hard towards it, but know that most won't come to pass. Even so, it's nice just to plan. So I've been planning a lot lately. 

I will go to grad school, I'm learning a new language so I can go. That's how much I want to go. Seriously. While purusing the internet, I found this blog. I love it. This is what I want my blog to be like because I can do those things. But with food obviously. Because I am a foodie and their must be posts about food.

Things That Make My ♥ Go Pitter Patter

My new favorite dress from ASOS. So comfortable and beautiful. 

Leather bags. It was Andy and my third year wedding anniversary last month and the gift is leather. He's going to buy me a handbag.... I might hold out for an Orla Kiely one this fall.

My favorite flowers from Andy.

And of course pens, pencils, stickers, tape, stationary, notebooks, cards, bookmarks......

Camp

The past month I've been busy teaching kids about soccer, tennis, cameras, film, and loads of other important stuff. Like don't hit your classmates and screeching like a banshee won't make you any friends. The sweet little lady in the photo below with the white glasses was one of my favorites. Actually most of them were petty great. We finished off camp with a couple of great games including "Eat the Onion Ring" and "Face Post it". These games may have been more for the amusement of the teachers. Not sure, but I think probably yes.

Camping

 Officially of the sat nav.....

 Turtle Rock

Having a foot massage, probably the best part of camping.

Camping

Today, Korea celebrated it's independence from Japan which meant a nice long weekend for us. We went camping with another couple in the middle of the mountains on a riverbed. It was wonderful. I got some good snaps I'll be sharing soon. I hope you had a relaxing weekend as well. xx

Shirley

Shirley, Andy's mum, has been here the past week and it's been lovely. She's the perfect guest. She cleans our apartment, cooks every night and brought us two suitcases full of our junk all the way from England. Bless her. She's camera shy but I snapped this photo a couple months a go when we were having a cuppa in her local. (that's a cup of coffee in her local pub)

This week has been crazy again with Sports Camp. We've just bought an oven, so I can finally start making some tasty treats.  I can't wait to try this Crispy Potato Recipe. Might try it with apples in the fall.......

Sung gi tong goodness

Last Sunday, Minju and her hubby, Jesung, took us to an amazing sung gi tong restaurant. Sung gi tong is Andy's favorite Korean food. It's a chicken stuffed with ginseng, spices, green onions, chunks of sweet potatoes and rice cooked in your own personal pot with a type of delicious broth. It's basically Korean chicken noodle soup and it's really really good. We went to the park near our house afterwards and discovered a book park full of sculptures. They have the most amazingly designed library and gardens as well. Amazing architecture - I will most definitely be going back to take some pictures. 

House Warming Party

My friend Minju is adorably pregnant. She also just moved into a new apartment with her husband so we had a party complete with angle cake by Sara and Go Stop. I think I might be addicted. I just downloaded the app. You'll see me in the park with ajoessis in the park betting my wages away......... 

My Sweet Rosa

My sweet friend Rosa is leaving me to go to Tuscon to do her masters. We went to uni together in Kansas and have been friends ever since.  Today she took me to Seoul University, the country's top uni and I was chuffed to bits. It's a beautiful campus and makes me want to go to school real bad. I love you Rosa and will miss you. xoxo

Koreafied

We had a great time at MudFest this weekend. It was great to hang out with friends. We're both a little pink and from the caricature that we had done Saturday night, we're also turning Asian. Love it. 

Killer Moves in the Mud

Photo by Stephan Anderson-Story

I am officially on vacation. WORD! Tomorrow we're headed down to Boryeong to the annual Mud Festival. Besides mucking about in the mud, we're going dancing. For those of you who don't know, I love to dance- and that's putting it mildly. As you can see from the photo above, I have some pretty sweet moves. Have a fantastic weekend! Or  좋은 주말을합니다!

Vemio and the Greatness of

Most of you probably know about Vemio, but for those of you who don't... It's the artsy fartsy version of youtube. And it is wonderful. Our school is having science camp soon and I'm creating a class about cameras and Polaroid film both of which contain awesome videos from Vemio. This one is for the Polaroid class. It's pretty boss, you should check it out.

 The video below was shot in Manchester. Ah Manchester, home of the world's best Paperchase. Warning Mom, they drop some f bombs so maybe watch it on mute.


Second Shepherds - Make Do Die (Tilt Shift Music Video) from Danny Cradden on Vimeo.