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My idea of Summer relaxation

There have been many changes for me this Summer and after a nice long break from the blog, here I am, feeling refreshed and ready to go again.  

I hope you like the design changes I've made here.  For me, the look is much cleaner and more personal.  That picture up there is from our honeymoon in Scotland and the colour is my favourite - as well as very clean and calming.  I'm still making some changes to the layout so look out for those in the next weeks too.

As to the content of this blog, I took stock of what I was posting and while there are some things I want to keep, such as my monthly goals, there are also many things I want to introduce more of, such as my projects and crafts, so look out for that.  

I read a lot of advice about writing a good blog over the Summer and one tip that came up time and time again, is to write posts that I would like to read.  It sounds so obvious but is something I had lost sight of. 

I'm working on some posts updating readers on some of the major events for me this Summer - our wedding, the honeymoon in Scotland, my brother's wedding and the return to school - they'll be mingled in there with some of the newer content, so watch out for those!

September Goals

Summer break

As regular readers will know, I am getting married next week!  Tomorrow we head off to Schneverdingen to get ready for the fun and the chaos that the wedding will bring and then we are heading to Scotland on our honeymoon.

Obviously this means that I won't be updating the blog everyday as I have tried to do for almost two years now.  

I am honestly a little torn.  I love blogging and making regular updates but on the other side, I feel my posts on here are becoming a little stale and I think it will do me good to take the rest of the summer off to first of all have a break, and then to regroup and try to get my creative juices flowing and do something more with this little space of mine.

So I wish you a long, lovely and relaxing Summer and I'll see you on the other side! xx

Inspiration

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Project Life Update

Getting ahead of myself last week meant a quick update this week.  At the beginning of the week you can see the end of our week in England.  I also journalled a little bit on that as well as bringing back lots of things to insert.

Back in Bremen, we settled back into the flat with gardening and cooking and lots and lots of wedding planning!  I also wrote some thoughts on the planning that we got done - you can see the orders of service in progress up there in the corner and then our trip to Schneverdingen for more planning.

I love the tied in colour theme this week.  As well as a note to self on taking more photos (shouldn't be a problem in the next couple of weeks!!), I want to spend a little more time putting this together each week to give the album a more coherent look.

The Matrix

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Just fourteen years late to the party, I finally got around to watching this film on Sunday, while Nico was working on a new computer project.

I believe I have seen at least part of this film before but I either was concentrating, got bored, or fell asleep.  This time, I managed the whole two hours plus and really enjoyed it.

The stars were great, I loved the concept and didn't even mind the overt religious connotations.  It popped up on a lot of the 'one to watch' film lists that I have browsed through and I can see why - highly recommended (if there is anyone else left out there who hasn't seen it).  I'm looking forward to the sequel.

Perfectionism

Video overload at the moment but I saw this via YesandYes yesterday and spent the whole 78 seconds saying 'oh yeah!' out loud!!  Watch out Nico - this may become my new library system and who knows how we will find things then!!