New Office Setup

I am super excited today because I managed to set up my little office space about 3 weeks earlier than I initially anticipated. 

Two years ago my little sister bought this little summer house for the back garden and I've been allowed to use it as an office space after the capacity of my bedroom was seriously pushed to its limits by the amount of sewing equipment in it.

My mother is a total DIY expert so the inside is all insulated and complete with electricity, electric fireplace, table etc. You name it, I've now got it.

Sadly, because it's Christmas I'm sharing the space with a bunch of sports equipment and a dolls house we wanted out of the livingroom to make room for the tree and decoartions but right now I have enough room to set up a desk and have a heater whilst I work away watching 'When in Rome' (I had a serious craving for Olsen Twin.)

In the long term I want to use this space as a place to really focus more on blogging, I'm giving myself office hours and everything to ensure I really keep on top of posting stuff in the coming year. I'm also hoping to create a collection in the coming year, just a small one that I can try and sell off online to raise some money and get some experience of working alone to produce collections. I just feel like I have had no space in the last 6 months to really focus on design and now that I have that I want to have a good go at creating something I can be proud of, with the luxury of Youtube and movies being with me at the same time!

Decoration-wise I'm pretty happy to leave the London themed pictures up because that is very much my favourite city and once I have all of the equipment and such removed from inside here I'll be able to get the sewing machine in and all my books in and then I will do a little tour but for now here are a few photos of the little blue summer house and the office space I have set up for myself:

 

1. The little blue office space as seen from outside

2. A view of the desk area I've managed to set up

3. All of my pen/felt tip/pencil storage (all plastic containers come from Ikea)

4. A view of the office space behind me that is yet to be sorted and won't be until after Christmas, I'm sharing with some lovely mannequins and bird cages I managed to salvage from my work!  

Goodbye 2014

Hello everyone!
Well it is now December and my absolute favourite time of the year. I've always had a thing for layering knitwear, hot chocolate, sitting in the livingroom with just the Christmas tree lights on and everything else that comes with the festive season.

I've not blogged since August which is insane but I decided to spend the latter half of the year focussing on other parts of my life. The good news is that as of new year I'm gettjng myself a little office space where I want to focus on blogging and sewing etc so that's something really exciting for me to look forward to and should also bring with it a few welcome changes.

2014 has been an amazing year! With graduation and my new job it's definitely been a growing period for me plus I was lucky enough to have an absolutely amazing holiday away to Tenerife with my best friend.

The end of my year is set to be just as amazing. Christmas day and New Year is spent with all the family and is a relatively quiet but deeply enjoyed period of time for us all, our best memories are created at this time and overall it's just a very family orientated period of the year.

After the New Year I'll be sharing some of the beauty products etc I get this year, there's also a lot of fashion design orientated books I'd like to share with people on here who are interested in that field.

The office/workroom that I'm also going to set up will get shown on here as well because I'm hoping that'll be a little hub for me starting next year. That is right now the one thing I'm like...constantly planning for, I'm on pinterest trying to get ideas and everything and I'm just stoked to have my own little area. I can see me spending a LOT of time in it and it's gonna be fun to show you what it is!

I have no immediate plans for what I want to achieve next year apart from continue to improve at my job and travel with my friend again. The only goal I've 100% set myself is to save up £1200 by the end of 2015 and in 2016 I'll hopefully make my parents wishes come true and move out! Also blogging more is a top priority!

If there is one regret it's that my sewing has really slipped since I graduated but that was expected after the trauma of my final year collection. If there's one thing I have realised it's that working independently without the stress of rediculous deadlines or really strict guidelines is that i really do enjoy sewing clothes, something that I really despised come the end of university and that's probably why I took my career in the totally opposite direction.

Sewing more is definitely on the cards in 2015.

So that's all I wanted to say to sum up the year. Thanks to thepeople who have commented and such over the year, next year I hope that'll continue as I update everything and get back into blogging more. 2014 has been incredible and hopefully next year is just as enriching and full of memories.

I'll finish off this post with a few of my favourite photos of the year, it's been a crazy one! (A lot of these are shameless screen shotts off my phone so I apologise!)

Broony.