Wellies and Vogue

a woodland walk

2012-02-03T18:18:00.000Z

this is what I'm hoping to be doing this weekend.. we just might have to wrap up walk and trudge through the snow.. these photos we're taken on new years day.. oh so long ago now!

I am well in need of some fresh, cold air - I feel like I spend all my time staring at bright screens and feel a little cooped up. work is crazy at the moment - I've been doing lots of new designs for Gone crabbing which is always fun.. as well as a few logo designs and photo editing.. still lots on the to do list for next week and who knows maybe by March we'll be a bit more caught up and can enjoy some down time..

for now a woodland walk is all I can hope for - but as it's this beautiful I can't complain!

Tori Hancock Photography

2012-02-01T19:09:00.000Z

Please forgive me for my absence.. it has been for a very valid reason and I'm now excited to share with you all - officially - what it is.

I would like to introduce you to my new business.. Tori Hancock Photography!

After years of wishing to do it - I have finally taken the leap and become a photographer.. and it feels good! I am offering my services to you as a wedding and lifestyle photographer. So if you know someone who's getting married or are a family looking for some natural photographs of yourselves to adorn your wall please get in touch!

My website went live yesterday evening and has been built by my beautiful boy who has worked tirelessly over many an evening getting it ready for me as quickly as possible. Aren't I lucky having such a good talented one! I've been blown away already by the amazing response I've had from people who I know only from our virtual world, the twitter comments last night almost made me cry and defiantly made the boy speechless. I'm not leaving wellies and vogue. I love having this space for me.. and having it has given me the confidence to take this step. I've got some great ideas for where I want to go with my blog and I'm hoping you still enjoy visiting here!

For more photos have a peek at my portfolio and I've posted a post with more images on my new blog.. so go and take a look.. Hope you enjoy and thanks again for coming here.. you guys are the BEST!

recently..

2012-01-24T16:39:00.001Z

life recently according to iPhone pictures.. have decided january is not about diets but about comfort!

weekend links

2012-01-20T17:42:00.000Z

well YUCK YUCK YUCK.. this weather is vile. Just wet and horrid - not even that cold.. just YUCK.. so I hope everyones had a good week.. ours has been very busy and I think we're going to be manic for the next few weeks trying to catch up and get projects done. lots to look forward to and we're dying to finally get ourselves re branded and up to date!

I've got lots to do this weekend.. our house is so out of control - everywhere needs cleaning and everything washing.. and I also have an urge to cook and bake.. who knows - I'll probably end up living in my pyjamas eating toast and watching tele! nothing wrong with that hey!

so here are some lovely things to browse over the weekend. Hope you all have a lovely one and catch up next week..

this fox plate by ko ko ko made me smile.. I think he's so cute biking off with his french baguette.. so so cute!

I have a BIG thing for neon at the moment.. and theses cute post cards caught my eye. they're by Jessica Nielsen and can be found here..

please can I have this for valentines day.. i love pugs - even though I love davids more! but isn't it cute! Danielle of Handy Maiden makes unique and hand painted friends which you can find here.. i also LOVE the fox..

I love the seventy trees prints.. I already have one and once again she has followed my favourite colour scheme and come up with a new design.. you can get it here..

behind..

2012-01-18T14:40:00.003Z

whoops - running way behind on everything! Hopefully will catch up soon.. till then heres a few from our new years

the theme was cartoons - we had superman, minnie mouse, the boy as clark kent and us, as I'm not sure what round for drinks and nibbles before an evening dancing and drinking in the local! For our costumes I drew the signs in the morning and once printed and mounted we made hats, necklaces and signs.. I loved the results and had a really good night - hope you like them too..

also on some of the photos theres a little peep and some of theses from i heart this..

and a small taster of something I've been working on... more coming soon - exciting times x

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2012-01-06T19:48:00.000Z

so the weekend has come and at just the right time..

don't know about anyone else but I have struggled with work this week - after all that wonderful time off days suddenly seem longer and mornings impossibly early!

he ho - the weekend is here and I have lots to think and ponder about.. hopefully next week I'll come back fresh faced and excited about 2012 again.. i've had so many ideas in the pipeline for so long - maybe I should just take the risk and go for it.. one door closes and all that.. who knows - till then I'll leave you with a taste of whats coming up next week - oh how I love escaping in woods..

Christmas Instagram!

2012-01-03T18:19:00.001Z

so I was looking through all my iPhone Instagram images today and thought I'd share my Christmas highlights with you.. as always I got ill halfway through Christmas Day and have now just recovered! Work today has been a bit of a shock - forgotten how long days are when you get up in the morning! but feeling good about 2012 and so far! I'll try and get my New Year photos up - we had a cartoon theme party to go too therefor a dressing up headache was involved! more on this later..

So here was my Christmas.. enjoy x

So for my wrapping i went for NEON theme this year - making theses bows was a mission! But I did love the result and manage to find other uses for them as hair accessories!

So first Christmas happened in Bath with the boys family. As always Bath is such an amazing place and had so much fun helping the boys dad and family move into a new family home and the boys Mum hosting us and her family on Christmas day and Boxing day.. amazing food in stylish settings.. Also do you like my hair.. Had it all chopped off and coloured on Christmas eve - the amazing Fran at no3 hairdressing in Bath did it and I couldn't be more happy with it - what do you think..?

Boxing day evening we headed back to Norfolk for a family Christmas on the 27th.. again we had a delicious family feast, with 4 pudding - no less from my mum! and were all amazingly spoiled by my incredibly generous father - iPad for me.. couldn't believe it! I cried! and a little tractor for my nephew - tractors are his most favourite thing and with this one he didn't know whether to sit on it or look at it - way to over whelming.. the boys all had a lovely time flying helicopters outside - resulting in loss of control and a crash.. hey ho.. it still kind of works! also the boy got new glasses from me for christmas.. i am loving his new look - especially when wearing a pink crown!

Christmas done

2011-12-29T15:42:00.000Z

so as always it came and went far too quickly. we've celebrated christmas 4 times - been spoilt rotten and have eaten and drunk enough for for a whole month. i'm now full of cold, stuck in the office waiting for the boy to finish doing some work before we hit the shops for some much needed food shopping and some more entertaining tonight.

i haven't taken many piccies over christmas - well Instagram I have but not with the big camera so thought I'd share theses piccies of our tree - which were featured here on a guest post I did for the lovely 11.54. Hopefully I'll be feeling more like myself before New Years - I am having an outfit dilemma.. Cartoon character - what shall I go as.. starting to panic now and brain just won't work!

Hope you all had a happy christmas and have managed to avoid the dreaded cold.

And if I don't make it back before - Happy New Year!

we're off..

2011-12-22T17:22:00.000Z

leaving 4 hours later than planned but we're now off to Bath for CHRISTMAS!

Have had a crazy week trying to get everything finished - but am hoping that now I can relax a little... Have a christmas tree post to put up at some point tomorrow so watch this space..

eeeeeeeee it's all so exciting! Can't believe Christmas is nearly here! must run x

Wellies the Farmer!

2011-12-16T16:34:00.000Z

so this was my day today..

I had the pleasure of helping my brother move his cows from one field to another.. this field wasn't next door but all the way down the hill and through a yard.. 6 of us - god knows how many of them - and on the coldest day of the year to boot..

I got dressed up in boiler suit and some wellies and took on the roll of barrier.. I have to say I'm a little scared of cows and did at one point feel that I was in the Lion King as when they start running towards me and they don't stop! we did it in two batches and the first lot came past fine.. I stood there frozen with a stick up and started nicely talking to the cows asking them to keep on coming by and not to come towards me.. I shook with fear but they were so cool - they all just follow the leader and went by fine. few..

the sun started setting when we did the second lot and there was an amazing rainbow appearing with the most insane light - oh so beautiful! it was so cold thought and at this point my hands had frost bite - gloves would of been a good idea! - however by this time cows and me where a lot more in tune so I didn't mind the second lot at all.. and I have lean't today that calves are a nightmare.. they really don't have the pack mentality and just panic and go everywhere.. above is a picture of my brother after he had carried a calf to the field as it just would not go the right way!

so today I did play farmer - but the boy and I agreed that our job is so much nicer - to all those who work outside.. you are crazy!

The WINNER...

2011-12-15T11:32:00.000Z

Massive Congratulations to Vi and thank you all so much for your lovely comments and for as always reading and supporting wellies and vogue.. it's means a lot my silly little blog world!

and a MASSIVE thank you to Kathryn Hague for being so generous..

poor dave..

2011-12-13T13:04:00.003Z

have had a very distracting morning this morning - poor Dave has been to the doggy doctors for a minor op.. he has severe abandonment issues so I was so worries he was going to get himself into a right state - I had to put him in his cage and he was flighting to be let out - he just sat there shaking and crying when we left.. but we've just go the all clear through and are now waiting to pick him up. poor Dave - I'll give you an update once he's home..

this is a photo of dave in his favourite position - staring out of windows checking for intruders or bunnies!

hope you're all having a lovely day..

and remember GIVEAWAY!

UPDATE:
he's fine.. not his normal self but getting there.. he was very quiet last night - not himself at all and a very slow heart rate which was scary.. but all is good today.. the vets said he was very good with them which was a relief - even though he did have to go in a incubator for a bit because he was so cold and shaking so much! poor David...

eeeee

2011-12-12T16:14:00.000Z

it's getting so close to Christmas I'm now getting really excited..

Had a lovely weekend in London with friends.. we had a bonfire bbq in freezing conditions, a visit to the Tate modern with mum to see Gerhard Richter's amazing exhibition (go, go, go closes on the 8th Jan and really worth a visit) we shopped till we dropped, sat in our friends new car, ate far to much in a pub for lunch, drank mulled wine, chilled with TV and wine, brought a chritsmas tree, cried at Black Beauty, ate two kebabs, sang carols whilst putting up the christmas tree and got to cuddle a puppy.. amazing times!

this week it going to be full on with ticking stuff off the work list - as well as crazy last minute present shopping.. we still have so much left to get.. arrhhhhh.. should be good though and come the weekend I can engulf myself in all things chirstmas and finally get my TREE! yay!

right now back to work - remember you still have till midnight on wednesday to enter the giveaway.. I was wearing one of Kathryn Hagues pieces this weekend in citrine.. and you guys could win one yourselves.. whoop whoop - right must work!

a very special christmas giveaway

2011-12-07T13:00:00.000Z

Today I have a wonderful giveaway for you from one of our amazing clients, Katherine Hague! Katherine Hague is offering one reader a small pendant in a stone of their choice with a 50cm chain to go with it! Amazing hey!!! At the moment she has all colours in stock so we're going to try and get the winners pendant to them by christmas - so go here to check out all the options. my personal favorite is the smoky quartz.. but how can you pick one when all theses colours go so well together!

We've had a great time working closely with Kate on her website design and product photography this year - she also happens to be a very special friends mum, so I know her very well! Kate is firstly an artist and an incredible painter. She started to learn jewellery design a couple of years ago and has great joy in creating simple, stylish handmade products a few of which are shown below.

To enter:
Follow @kathryn_hague on twitter* and just leave a comment below telling us which is your favourite item from the Katherine Hague website and which colour pendant you would like!
additional entries: share this giveaway via Twitter, Facebook, or your blog. Leave a comment below for each place you've shared.
feel free to steal this sample tweet: Win a #silverpendant necklace from @welliesandvogue and @kathryn_hague! http://www.welliesandvogue.com/2011/12/very-special-christmas-giveaway.html

Note: Since this giveaway was designed as a special gift for an wellies and vogue reader, you must be a follower to win. Any means of following is fine!

That's all there is to it! Giveaway closes at midnight on Wednesday 14th December. I'll announce the winner on Thursday and aim to get it in the post on Friday so should (if UK based and postman depending) be with you by Christmas. This giveaway is open to everyone - it might just not be with you by Christmas! Good luck!

*if you don't have a twitter account don't worry - you can still enter!

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2011-12-05T16:50:00.001Z

happy monday.

hope you all had a good weekend.. ours went well - bit foolishly over indulged on Friday night at the local that kind of killed us for the rest of the weekend.. did get to the farmers market on Saturday followed by a brisk walk on the beach and dinner at friends.. on Friday night I'd stollen a bit of beef off my brother for our sunday lunch so I thought the only decent thing to do was to invite him and his family over to enjoy it with us.. I always love winter sunday lunches and this one went down very well with me just using up what I had in the fridge.. and my brothers beef tasted yum, yum, yum..

today we are working in the coldest little office.. 3 jumpers and a coat on and my hands are still numb! hey ho - the weather this year has been so mild and as we have 20 days till the big C it's nice to feel a little more wintery!

a year ago I took this series of photos of my friend - I remember it being such a lovely day and randomly she's down in Norfolk today so we're popping over to her families for dinner tonight! can't believe how quickly these years are flying by!

me

2011-12-01T13:00:00.000Z

wellies at work.. so I never post photos of me but as I was in a playful mood today dressed in my girly chiffon dress I thought I would.. this is one of my new favourite dresses.. it was a gift a few years ago from my bestest friend and I've only just started giving it regular outings.. my shoes are new from toast and I'm still loving my glasses which are from here!

not sure if you want to see me.. and I am so rubbish in front of the camera.. 2 out of 50 that I don't mind! but I always love seeing other peoples style on blogs - there's always great ones here and here and I LOVE this families amazing style..

recently

2011-11-29T18:14:00.001Z

my life through instagram..

if you play twitter you would of seen some of these before.. but as there the only fun photos I've taken recently thought I'd share them with you..

tick, tick

2011-11-28T17:41:00.001Z

weekend went very well thank you.. didn't stroll to far from the nest but it did get a dam good clean and I had fun playing in the kitchen - even though I resisted the temptation of baking cookies - which - I'm very proud of myself about. the boy and I have started a pre christmas diet.. umm diet might be too strong a word - carb cutdown and run when we can routine! this I feel is necessary for maximum Christmas enjoyment.. as for me it's all about the food and booze!

I have to say I am lacking in christmas cheer at the moment.. mild weathers not helping and the to do before christmas work list is a weeee bit scary.. even though today has been good as I have managed to get through quite a bit - hence rewarding myself for a babble on the blog. anyone else lacking the cheer? think I need some mulled wine, fairy lights and glitter to lift the spirt!

fading

2011-11-25T12:30:00.001Z

so autumn is fading and winter approaching.. but oh my hasn't it been a good one! mild, mainly sunny, colourful and randomly full of flowers!

I am super excited about the weekend - a whole weekend with nothing to do! might go shopping - might not - might go walking - might not - might bake - might not - might see friends - might just do nothing!

after the busyness of life and work recently nothing is sounding pretty darn good.

have a lovely weekend whatever you're doing x

2011-11-22T12:52:00.000Z

so this is the only surviving table decoration from this weekends festivities..

ever since the wedding I now have a slightly obsessive want to style and decorate any party I hear of.. so when a 10 year school reunion was mentioned I immediately offered my services in the flower department.

the brief was:
charity event - maximum £200 budget
six large circular tables with white table cloths and nothing else
need to be made the day before due to double booking ourselves and not being around on the day to deliver and do the flowers.

my creative partner (mum) and I had some serious debates and once again came up with a mountain of ideas.. potted plants, herbs, full on flower bouquet - but all theses were going to cost to much. mum remembered about some cider jugs she got for my brothers wedding and luckily had six lying around therefor the simple and cost free solution was to attack the hedgerows on the farm and fill the pots with berries and other colourful finds on the farm.

I think they came out really well and in the big wooden hall looked very fitting and seasonal. I did spend £9 on roses but I think it was money well spent and as my original budget was going to be £200 think we did well and our little bit for charity and I obviously swallowed the £9 myself.

I wish I had a photo to show you from the event.. but I was so wired after the craziest day in a long time couldn't face getting the camera out. the boy and I had breakfast at home, lunch in Oxford then dinner and dancing in Holt, Norfolk. Therefore we drove for 6 1/2 hours I had two coats of makeup applied and 2 shoe changes.. well worth it though - ended up being a very good day!

nest..

2011-11-21T16:09:00.001Z

this is my nest..

theses photos were taken a couple of weekends ago when I was feeling a little under the weather.. today I wish I was back there.. had another crazy weekend and feeling the effects today!

have got some lovely things to post so fingers crossed I'll find a minute or two to sift through all the images and put some posts together! we're off to cambridge tonight for a gig which will be fun.. think we might enjoy a cheeky burger before the event as well.. I might have to had a cheeky nap in the car on the way down there - I'm sure the boy won't mind..

Happy monday and catch ya later!

lovely and local

2011-11-15T21:47:00.001Z

theses are photos from the boy's and my trip to a local farmers market a week ago at creake abbey.. we spent a lovely morning walking around the stalls trying and buying lots of yummy local produce including macaroons, cordials, apple juice and sushi.. we arrive a little late and dazed so missed out on a few treats but it's good to know that theres a lovely market just down the road..

next one is a christmas special and I am already way to excited!

yummy!

2011-11-04T18:09:00.001Z

lookie what I found..

so was meant to post this ages ago - and competly forgot..
as it's the weekend and from the looks of it may be a wet one, thought you might appreciate a little cake inspiration! mini banana cake with nutella icing, trust me it's yummy - not as heavy as banana bread but still has that same moreishness! I made a mini cake but I think the recipe would work in one large cake tin.. and nutella buttercream - oh me oh my.. secretly kept on spreading it on bread after I made this - oh so good! the decorations and photos weren't great but I loved the little cake - perfect for 2.

recipe found here on Always with Butter - great blog!

have a lovely weekend x

no time

2011-11-04T13:26:00.000Z

so once again I seem to have no time this week for my little blog.. very boring but just how it is..

this week has been an interesting one.. sometimes you suddenly realise that your not just playing - but running a business.. our work is so much fun and working with my boy is amazing, we have the so many great projects and clients to work with that everyday is always a good one. this year has just been amazing - we are SO busy - which I keep on saying but somedays you just realise how lucky you are!

anyway back to work.. as it's Friday there's lots to tick off the list before we go home and I think tonight might be a late one!

have a great weekend.. I'm hoping to enjoy some good food, beautiful colours, country roads, bit of baking, fresh air and catching up with friends.. oh and a bonfire! very exciting! have a good one x x

sunday lunch in Bath

2011-11-01T15:43:00.000Z

had such a lovely weekend in Bath.. the boy got to spend lots of time with his 7 year old brother and I got to spend lots of time on my own shopping and watching tele.. even though I did join in the fun and games occasionally! but apparently girls are no good at james bond on the PS2.. what a shame!

the boy and I did get a little time off on Sunday - we had the amazing No3 hair salon to photograph in the morning and then fitted in a cheeky little shop.. on the hunt for winter shoes - not that I could find any! we finished off our free time with a real treat.. sunday lunch from the amazing Schwartz Bros. Hawaiian chicken burger x2.. they only do takeaway so we enjoyed our burgers and chips in the park looking over the traffic as we were so hungry and couldn't be bothered to walk further up the hill.. I'd forgotten how good they are and can't wait till we're in Bath again for our next stop by there.. love Bath and love burgers ..