Wedding Planning Update!

I have now finished the designs for the invitation cards, woop woop! We are going to send them out next week, after that I can share them with you, can't wait!

Next week we are going to Sweden for a week, we are going to meet with all the wedding people: the florist, the bakery who makes the cake, the registrar and the venue manager. I am also going to do a test makeup and have my dress fitted, I think that's what I'm the most excited about out of all of it!

On top of that James' parents are coming for a few days to see Stockholm, and my parents are throwing a party for us, it's gonna be a fun-packed week!

So right now I'm going through lots of wedding boards on Pinterest to find pictures of flowers and makeup styles to show the florist and the makeup artist, I think I've found the right bouquet but still looking for lovely makeups, anyone seen any lately?

Image: Ruche 2012 Bridal Collection “To Have and to Hold” via This Modern Romance, photographer: Stephanie Williams, event designer: Sugar and Fluff

A Photo an Hour // Thursday 3.5.2012

8am

Breakfast in front of the computer while checking emails and twitter. I love tea in the morning and my massive flowery teamug is the best mug to drink it from!

9am

Editing photos for an article about mastering ISO when photographing cakes.

10am

Writing the article and sending it off to my client, this freelance job is really fun!

12pm

Lunch. Nothing too fancy, some wok leftovers and celery with dip.

2pm

Today is the election for London's mayor so I go to my local polling station and vote.

3pm

Checking my schedule for the coming months and pencilling in some cool designer workshops I'm gonna go to, excited!

4pm

Working on some new bits for the peacock pattern, watercolour is my favourite type of paint.

5pm

Calling it a day with work and going out for a run (some stretches first of course).

6pm

After my run I shower and make my way into Soho/Chinatown to meet James and some friends for dinner at a Mexican restaurant called Wahaca.

7pm

James and I are both super hungry because we worked out before dinner!

8pm

Gorging on amazing street style Mexican food!

10pm

Drinking hot chocolate tequila shots, mmm! Here's our lovely friends Rodney and Anya.

11pm

Tired but content and very full we make our way home... and that was my Thursday!

Peacock Design Development

Happy 1st of May everyone! I hope you all had a good weekend? I had a lovely time with my cousin and aunt who was here visiting. It didn't stop raining during the whole time they were here so that was a bit of a shame, but it was really nice to see them and we still had fun!

This week I am doing some design development on my existing patterns to get them ready for production, I will be receiving the grant money in 2 days, yay!

I never felt 100% happy with this peacock pattern, I like the drawings separately but I don't feel it flows as a pattern. The peacock looks too static, I don't know if it's the tail or the layout, but I decided to change it.

So I'm replacing this peacock...

with this one!

I'm also gonna change the pumpkins and a few other bits. This is what the pattern looks like at the moment, I already feel better about it! I have also changed the layout of the pattern, before the drawings were repeated in straight lines, now I've done something called a 'half-drop', it means that the image has been "dropped" and repeats diagonally, I think it works much better!

Now I've got to put it together properly, but I'm happy I figured it out because it has been bugging me for so long!

My First Press Coverage!

Hi friends!

I have got my first press for Lisa Edoff Design, yay! I was interviewed by a website called Inspiring Young People, check out the article here. It's a great site for young entrepreneurs and I feel very flattered to be featured on it! Thanks Naweed of IYP!

Spring Where Art Though?

This is the second week of miserable weather here in London, it's just raining and raining. Sometimes we get a bit of thunderstorm and lightning with the odd shower of hail... Brrr! If you have never lived in England you might think it's always like this, but it's not, last year we had a wonderful spring. Anyway, enough whinging, here's to hoping for a glorious summer! In the meantime let's cheer ourselves up with this wonderful photo collage by Elsa. Next month James and I are going to Stockholm to organise a lot of fun wedding stuff, I hope it will look like this!

Run Girl Run! *

Today was the London Marathon. I really admire anyone who can finish a 42k run.

Myself I'm training for a 10k charity run in July, I have never done anything like that before! Before signing up my exercise regime was very sporadic, and a few years back I would have just laughed if anyone asked me to run 10k!

But!... Since starting running regularly I must admit I have caught the running bug! In the beginning it was so hard, I could barely run 3km without falling over... But every time I went out there it became a little easier, and now I kind of love it! Sometimes I even get a kick and feel like I'm flying over the tracks (not every time though). From stomping out 3km like an elephant I can now run 6km and feel really good afterwards. I want to become a healthy person who is strong and in good shape, I only compete with myself and really enjoy making progress.

I still have quite a way to go until I can manage 10km, but hopefully by July I'll be ready!

A little while ago some of you mentioned in the comments that you were also training for a run, please let me know how it's going!

Meanwhile, here are some inspirational pics, they are from Nike Running and Runner's World.

I might just have to get this cute water bottle from Lulu, that's so me!

* That is the name of my new awesome iPod playlist!

Press day at The W

Yesterday I went to Push PR's press day at the swanky W Hotel in Soho.

Inside I checked out their newest client Nelly.com, a really good online fashion store that originates from Sweden! Nelly is a firm favourite of Swedish fashionistas, so I was excited to see that it has now launched in the Uk.

The new collection looked gorgeous!

They also showed some lovely jewellery, I like these cool bracelets from Eastern Mystic...

And these fabulous sea-inspired pieces from Abilu Creations.

On my way out I was greeted by this mob, they didn't seem to care much about me though... strange! I think they were waiting for Nicki Minaj, apparently she was staying at the hotel yesterday.

Before I went home I stopped by London Graphic Centre, it's the best art and graphics supply shop, I could browse it for hours! But this time I just got some new drawing pens, because next week I'm gonna start drawing a new pattern!

Celebrate Good Times Come On!

Last week I had to celebrate my grant in style! First some pink bubbly with James...

Then my lovely friends Lauren and Josefine took me out for some celebratory ice cream.

Josefine had found this really cool ice cream parlour in Camden where they use liquid nitrogen to make ice cream! It's called Chin-Chin Labs.

The ice cream "scientist" gets the liquid nitrogen from the tanks...

then they mix it with the ice cream base and flavours in a machine.

We all went for their speciality apple pie with caramel sauce and hazelnuts, it was amazing!

Later on we had some tapas at a Cuban restaurant, before strolling around Camden Lock Market, it was a perfect celebration day!