Our Day by Design

I've been given my first blog award & been tagged! I'm very excited to get this award from the lovely Marie at Wife in the City so thank you Marie, its wonderful to know others are reading my little blog. So on to the 10 random things: 1. It took me 9 and a half years from leaving school / starting uni to become an Architect! I passed my final exam in March. 2. I love reading and always like to read a little before I go to sleep every night; my current favourites are the Twilight series but I do also love Harry Potter; I cant wait for the New Moon film in November! 3. I'm still debating whether to fully change my name when I get married; I definitely will for general purposes but may keep my old name for work. 4. I absolutely love to travel to new places / countries; looking forward to our honeymoon to Sri Lanka & the Maldives. 5. I cant wait to be an auntie although I think it makes me sound old! 6. I love both X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing and as usual, ITV ...

I've been tagged! I'm very excited to have been tagged for the first time from a fellow British bride to be, the lovely Anna at anna and the ring ! The "rules" for this tag are: 1. Mention and link back to the person who tagged you. 2. List 6 little things that make you happy. 3. Tag 6 other bloggers and let them know they're "it". So I have to list 6 things that make me happy. Since I had the start of a draft post about some of my favourite things, the topic for this tag is somewhat appropriate and will allow me to include most of those things! OK, so here goes with my current list: 1. Stationery : I have always loved stationery (whats not to like about it) and I have been know to drag Graham and other members of my family around different paper shops in numerous cities {think leather bound journals in Italy and patterned paper, envelopes and ribbon from Kate's Paperie in NYC - a fantastic shop filled with any kind of stationery you could possibly ...