What a birthday weekend! Not only did I get to go out and celebrate lots, I also got this beautiful new blog!
This is the new home of Bookish Brunette, designed and built by Tom and co. at Phoenix WS, thanks to funding from SPEED WM. It also features a beautiful illustrated header by the talented and fabulous Claire Goldthorp. The site and illustration are so perfect that I shed a tear of joy when I first saw it.
Have a look around and enjoy it. This is a pretty big deal for me as I’m finally starting to realise that anything is possible. Bookish Brunette started out as a mere mouse of blog, the voice of a girl who wasn’t sure what she wanted from life, other than to write. That girl is now a journalist and business woman, who has found that life really is what you choose to make of it.
My story isn’t spectacular, I haven’t had any real adversity to overcome other than my own self-doubt. But I know that there are millions of young men and women who share the same nagging doubts and worries. You know what? Sometimes we have them for good reason, other times they do nothing but hold us back from doing what we really want to do in life.
Enough of this self-help, motivational speak. Time for pictures of me posing in an outfit in Birmingham’s Brindley Place on my 27th birthday:
Top: The Kooples
Jeans: Topshop
Brogues: Topshop
Satchel: The Cambridge Satchel Company
Sunglasses: Topshop
Necklaces: Gifts
Before posing, me and Mark went to the launch party for Brewsmiths Coffee and Tea on Livery Street in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. The place had a real arty and community orientated, friendly atmosphere. The owners, Dave and Kate are throughly nice people, who have managed to achieve something pretty flippin’ special in just a few months. Their story was inspiring, the coffee was fresh, the cake was delicious and the quiz was a beast ! Good luck to the team at Brewsmiths!
The divine and sparkly cake at the Brewsmiths launch party
Post-posing, we headed to Cafe Ikon in the Ikon Gallery for a tapas feast. We drank Cava and ate Spanish delicacies to our hearts content. My sister gave me a birthday copy of “The Ultimate Eloise”. Would it be wrong for my new role model to be a six-year-old with behavioural problems and a pet tortoise called Skipperdee?
An arty shot of the Ikon Gallery entrance sign
My new role model
Thanks to everyone who has supported me and Bookish Brunette, although you all know that we are one and the same, over the past three years.
I hope that you all love the new blog as much as I do.
BBxxx
P.S. There will be minor tweaks happening to the blog over the next few days, so if you notice anything that is kind of screwy or out of place don’t worry.Though if you spot anything really screwy, let me know!