It must be love…

A couple of weekends ago I took a trip to my dear friends Luisa and Ian’s wedding venue for 2013. We went there with the husband and wife to be, Luisa’s mum, and the other two bridesmaids alongside myself 🙂 Cornhill House was about an hours drive away from Glasgow, and the open day boasted free tea and coffee, the most yummy canapes, and some wedding decor examples set up around the venue. It was beautiful, totally stunning. Like a little Hogwarts. The interior was so grand, but cosy at the same time. Log fires, old paintings with big ornate frames, and gorgeously upholstered furniture. They’ve got every room in the hotel booked out the night of the wedding, so we really will have the run of the place to ourselves. CAN’T WAIT! Need to sort out the dresses soon I think, and I wonder if Luisa will mind if I was covered in tattoos by the wedding…

Bit of an eclectic post, but I though I’d share some more love in the form of a competition prize I won from Sarah. She’s a bit of a legend, insanely creative, and her sense of humor and the way she writes never fails to make me giggle. She gifted me with this little Ayden in illustrated form (oh but if only I was that teeny weeny in real life) THANKS SARAH. I’d like to lick your face if we ever meet in person 🙂

Talking about lovely things, and giggly things, I’ve started thinking about Christmas and how I could actually cry at how soon it is. I need to get organised (and perhaps round up some money first) and the first person to ask me what I’d like this year was my good ol’ daddy. Most likely encouraged by my super organised step mum, but I’ll let him take the credit just this once! One rather geeky thing on my list this year is a sat nav. I genuinely feel like having a hairy mary (technical term) when embarking upon a journey I’ve never been on before, and I don’t have a fancy iphone with the tom tom app (and lets face it… if any of you have ever gotten blackberry maps to work then I’ll eat my onesie! And then ask if you could make mines work too) If I do get a tom tom for christmas, the first thing I’ll be doing is downloading some friendly voices like in the video above! Bert and Ernie, far too awesome 🙂 I felt like punching the lady voice on my step dad’s old and never updated satnav I borrowed for various trips like cornwall and alton towers.

There seems to be some decent linkage going on here… as I talk about trips I wanted to share some nice news about a few adventures I’ll be embarking on soon! Railcard are running a competition on their facebook, where through the 16-25 railcard page you can ‘Papp a Postcard’ – which basically means uploading one of your favourite pictures into their postcard generator, to enter a free prize draw to win a Topshop/Topman shopping trip to London worth £500! 20 runners up will also get a rail card gift card worth £26, for the postcards they think are the funniest, craziest, or quirkiest! I know you are a creative lot on here, so you should head over and make an entry if you have a few minutes (you can enter as many times as you like!) Even if you don’t enter I’d reccommend having a look through the postcard gallery, I can’t link to my favourites because it’s an online gallery, but there are some proper belters on there. Show me you can do better 🙂 Best of luck!

I used my 16-25 railcard to book my train tickets to London in december for a course I’m doing, where I’m staying for a week but also popping over to Bristol for the South West Blogger Chrismas Meet 🙂 It gives you a third off all rail travel, and when booking long distance tickets like that it’s really given me a nice wee chunk off my fare! You’re properly wondering what the pictures above are eh? Over the past week Railcard have send me 5 different postcards of their own, describing 5 different places of interest around the UK. My postcards included Manchester, Birmingham, London, Oxford and Brighton. I have the choice of being sent to one of these 5 cities by rail on a little adventure… can you guess what one I’ve chosen? I think I’ve made the right choice, but I’m keen to hear your opinions on each city and where you would have picked.

Final thing, a couple of new snippets up on my youtube and tumblr that don’t always make it on here. Thanks for all your smashing comments as usual on the last post, I had a fabby long weekend away, just what I needed in time for starting back a long contract at work so I’ll be sure to share the pictures from it soon 🙂 Genuinely wish there were more hours in the day for me to reply to every single comment, and write on each and every one of your posts that I read 🙁 But just know I appreciate every one of them, you are a very kind bunch – and I enjoy stalking your blogs/life even if I don’t get the chance to comment on the post :p Much love as always ♥

Ayden x