My lovely friend Shanni showed off her new camera strap the other day and I was instantly jealous. I have no idea why it had never occured to me to cover up the big chunk of black with “EOS” written all over it, so, inspired by Shanni’s purchase, I set about giving my camera strap a facelift. This is literally a tube of fabric, so it’s a great beginners project and it only took me about fifteen minutes, so perfect [...]

I have been doing a LOT of browsing around Etsy, MadeIt and Artfire recently looking for some prints to put up in our bedroom, of course, I start looking at prints and before I know it I’ve got about forty tabs open with everything ranging from prints to clothes to jewellery. Now I’m certainly no photography snob, but so many times I saw something that might have been fabulous, if only the picture was a little clearer, a little brighter [...]

I love the vintage look of Lomography, and yet can’t bring myself to fork out money, for a camera (or “another toy” as my husband would refer to it!)  just because it takes some interesting looking pictures, particularly considering it took me almost two years to get the films printed from my wedding – who knows how long a roll of lomo film would have to wait! Lomographs are characterised by their grainy appearance, over saturated colours and funky exposures. [...]