Hotel Love

Today is our last day in Krabi. Our honeymoon is fortunately not yet over but tomorrow we are taken back to the airport and fly to Bangkok for the last 4 nights of our adventure.

I've not shared the wonderful details of our honeymoon because I've been rather busy enjoying it but as I lay out in the sun earlier I had a pang of love for our beautiful hotel. And then I felt it: the air turn and a storm on it's way.

With a matter of minutes to spare before the massive droplets of rain began to pound down I grabbed my camera and tried to capture some of the magic of the Amari Vogue Krabi experience.

You can see the storm coming and later, the rain itself. My photos don't do it justice so take my word for it - this place is very special.

Currently...

Wearing...
A new ring and it feels oh so good!

Actually, ever since we purchased this in Nassau on our trip to the Bahamas I've been desperate to wear it and have been "practicing" wearing it (on the right hand of course) at least once a week.
As it contains diamonds I've been careful not to wear it to the beach or when sunbathing so as not to get suntan lotion or sand in it but I miss it so much when it's locked in the safe. I'm thinking about getting a stand in band so I can always wear something.


Eating...
Afternoon tea. Each afternoon, I reach a point where I'm starting to get peckish and a little bit cranky. As if they have a radar that can read my mood, a hotel employee knocks on our door and gives us a plate of cake. It feels magical and I cannot stress enough how much I love it!


Reading...
The PC Peter Grant novels by Ben Aaronovitch. I started with Rivers of London on the recommendation of Sam's mum and devoured it in a day. I'm hoovering up the rest at an alarming rate.


Planning...
How to resurrect my blog. In the months since Project:Wedding has pushed everything else out of my brain Project:Lorna has suffered from a dearth of posts.

But now I am free to share everything I worked so hard on without fear of spoiling anything for my guests.

I am working on freshening up the blog and have a number of plans for world domination. If you are on Pinterest I have started a board for all things blog: http://pinterest.com/projectlorna/blogging/


Feeling thankful for...
My wonderful friends and family.

I gave a speech at my wedding and being a well prepared girl I wrote it in advance. I preemptively wrote how great everyone had been in the run up to the wedding. And at they point, they really had. But then, with 2 days to go everything  ramped up and people's generosity and general amazingness blew me away. It actually reduces me to tears when I think about what people did to make our wedding so fantastic. Words will never do justice to their kindnesses but I'll never tire of trying to find some.


Floating on...
Air. Well it feels like it after my Thai massage today. I said I like firm and deep massages and so this tiny Thai lady beat the crap out of me. And it felt great! I feel 6 inches taller and she even braided my hair when she was done.

Working on...
Sorting out, labelling and just generally twiddling about with my photos. I half heartedly started labelling my photos when I moved to a Mac and iPhoto but this holiday has given me loads of time to really sort them out. I need a photo workflow and that is something I hope to bottom out while we're away.


Loving...
Thailand. I know that a lot of my love is actually for the hotel which is funny because this isn't the hotel I wanted to stay in. The original hotel we picked is undergoing construction work so we had to switch places at the last minute which was a small bummer. In the end though, I LOVE this place. It is seriously beautiful and I cannot get enough of the bubble jet seats in the pool. Sadly, they keep you so cool and relaxed that you don't notice yourself burning and both Sam and I look like proper typical lobster Brits! It's not got in the way of us enjoying ourselves so far.
It's not just the hotel though, we took a day trip yesterday and the sea is the perfect colour, the sands are all soft and pale and the islands rise up out of the water so sharply it takes my breath away.
The people we've met here are all incredibly friendly and helpful. Even the wildlife is awesome.
I love Thailand.

Missing... 
Gwildog, but I'm sure he's having the time of his life on his doggie holidays with my mum.

Tip of the hat to...
Danielle of Sometimes Sweet for the currently blog post format and Elsie and Emma for their wonderful new A Beautiful Mess photo editor app used on all these photos (and many more in the future I can tell!)

WI College - Sewing Class with May Martin

Oh hey guys, are you enjoying the Great British Sewing Bee on BBC2?  I sure am!

And did I tell you that I've met one of the judges: May Martin?

My final session at Denman College in December was a sewing class with May Martin.

We made three Christmas decorations and they're very professional looking if I do say so myself.

Here's Emma wearing our first efforts as earrings:

The sewing classes at Denman College aren't just run by celebrity tutors. They're in a wonderful purpose built sewing room and cover every type of sewing you can possibly think of.

Sewing up a storm

It is 33 days until the big day and instead of working on really important wedding things today I made a little sundress for the honeymoon!

Although it is not on my mahoosive to do list it is at least something I can actually blog about. Because it has been KILLING me that most of the awesome things I've been doing recently are unbloggable until they get snapped by our awesome professional photographer and seen by my lovely guests.

A few weeks ago I went fabric shopping for some alterations to one of my wedding dresses and came across some fantastic fabric that I couldn't pass by. So I bought a couple of meters and stashed it away with the idea that I would make it into a dress for the honeymoon.

I envisaged something cute and strappy but when it came to it (not having any time to devote to it) I decided to go for something super easy and super quick. 

Clueless was on TV and I took it as a sign to get going on my dress and by the end of the film it was finished:


  

It's basically a girl's pillowcase dress pattern made a bit bigger and I cannot wait to wear it in Thailand.

On existing

My mum said that after she hadn't heard from me for nearly a week she checked out this blog to see what I'd been up to and in finding that I hadn't blogged at all in 2013 was worried that I must have expired.

Around the same time I came accross this post by Michael Gilpert via Nubby Twiglet and it struck a chord:

"What I was reminded by this whole ordeal, besides for the paranoid framework ive inherited from my mom, was that my friends and I currently live in a world where we dont exist if we dont post to the network."

Worry not: I have been existing!

A lot.

And some times, all that existing keeps me from proving to the rest of the world that I have been existing.