My new hobby

Hello everybody,

Welcome to my first post! I've recently decided to pick up a new hobby. Well, I actually decided to pick it up a couple months ago but I didn't get very far because I was broke AF and couldn't afford any supplies!

Anyway, the hobby I'm talking about today is hand lettering. You may have seen pictures of this phenomenon around on Instagram or Tumblr and they look absolutely stunning!

I've always been interested in typography and I guess hand lettering (before I knew what that even was) ever since I was young. My revision notes and gift tags and anything that I could write was always done in nice fonts and well designed and they would make all the other kids in my class jealous. But alas, I have lost that talent since I finished university last year as I don't need to write by hand very much in my job or in every day life.

When I discovered hand lettering as a hobby, it was like the younger version of me had been awakened again and there was a whole world of this kind of stuff! It's great and I'm loving every minute of it!

Anyway, this blog right here will be used to document my journey with hand lettering and brush lettering and to keep a portfolio of my designs and work etc. I hope to post fairly reguarly, but lets see how it goes!

You can also follow me on Instagram as well: @Letters_By_Paige

You got this,

Paige x

Hello, again!

Hey guys,

So it's been a while!

Did you miss me? How is everyone? Everyone good? Good.

I've been pretty busy since I last blogged, I bought a new car, me and my boyfriend are planning to move in together and are saving up for a house deposit.

I'm on my way to becoming a fully qualified adult! Who'd have thought it? I know I didn't!

Anyway, I thought I would come back to my blog and switch things up a bit to reflect who I am today. 

It will mostly be stuff on my new hobby, the art of handlettering! I'm hoping to post what I design and make and talk about my progress and all of that fun stuff :)

If you want to see some of the stuff I've, I post it all up on my instagram @Letters_By_Paige :D

Anyway, that's all I had to say for now.

Give them hell,

Paige.

Graduation

If you didn't already know, I graduated from the University of Huddersfield with a 2:1 degree in History, and if I'm gonna be completely honest, I'm quite proud of myself!

Anyway, I thought I would upload some photo's from my graduation. There isn't many but here they are. Enjoy!

My boyfriend and I with our fancy caps and gowns on. Don't we look like a sight for sore eyes!

I love this photo, it's a shame my mum's camera was blurry!

Not the best photo, but hey ho! My dad took this whilst I was in the middle of a sentence and not prepared at all!

Here is me in my complete graduation get up!

I hope this gets those of you starting you're last year at university/college excited for what's to come! :D

Paige xo

Book blogging

So I've been thinking about what I want to do and where I want to go with my blog.
Then I had the bright idea of book blogging!

Books are one of my passions and I read and watch so many book bloggers, I thought I might try my hand at it. Although, my blog won't be entirely dedicated to books, I do have other interests! But the majority of my posts will be based on the wonderful world of reading.

To start with, Here's a photo of me with what I am currently reading :D

I hope you're looking forward to the review!
Paige xo

So it has been a while!

I guess I should start with the question 'What have I been up to during my blogging break?'

Well, I've just been busy with general life things!

I went on my birthday holiday to Rome, which was INCREDIBLE! I loved it and I am dying to go back already... but there'll be more on that in another post.

I also graduated from university. How exciting is that?! Graduation went smoothly and I didn't fall over, I call that a success! Again, I'm probably going to a whole other post about my graduation.

Finally, I've just been going on the worlds most difficult quest, also known as job hunting. So far this hasn't been going as successfully as I imagined it would. When I signed up for university I was promised the guarantee that I could finish university and employers would be begging at my feet to hire me. I have since found that this is not the case. Job hunting itself is like a full-time job and this is what has been occupying my time the most! I've had a few interviews, but nothing has come of them unfortunately.

However, I had an interview just this morning for Lush handmade cosmetics as a Christmas temp. I worked there last Christmas, so hopefully they take me on again and I can finally have a little bit of money coming in! I also have another interview tomorrow at my local leisure centre. Sure, these aren't the big and exciting job that I thought I would walk straight into, but at the moment I'm in the mindset of 'a job is a job'. 

However...

So far in this post I have been playing it cool about my interviews. But there is also one other very exciting job opportunity that I have an interview for, and that is.....

working as a cultural representative at DISNEY. FREAKING DISNEY!

This has been my dream job since I was about 8 years old and I'm on the first step to achieving that goal! I AM SO EXCITED! It is a pre-screen group interview in Essex, so I am having to travel quite a way, but I am so willing to do that for this opportunity! At the moment that is all I know, but I will let you guys know how I get on!

Thanks for reading!

Paige xo

Rome travel journal!

So as I mentioned in my last post, I will be going to Rome pretty soon (on the 25th to be more precise :D) and I really cannot wait!

Because I am so excited to go, I thought I would create a travel journal of sorts for my trip!

This is what I have so far:

This is all I have so far, but I will be adding more to it soon!

Basically, I created this Rome travel journal as a way to keep track of everything that needs doing and where we want to go etc. But as it is quite a chunky notebook, I thought I would also use it to journal everything we did on our trip.

The layout is as you can see in the images, part one is checklists, phrases we need to know etc, then the second half is going to be a travel journal of everything we did :)

I still need to add more places to visit in each of the Roman districts and more basic phrases but I'm loving how it;s coming along so far!

Obviously we're not going to visit all of these places on this trip, but I am hoping to go back at some point and visit all the places I didn't get to go to this time around :)

To fill it out we're going to be collecting receipts, tickets, leaflets, bottle caps, wrappers, and loads of other fun things like that.

Most of the finishing off will be done when we return because I have loads of fun scrapbook paper and project life cards that I want to use in it.

I'll keep you guys updated on how it gets filled out and anything else I decide to add to it :D

Paige xo

My trip to Rome!

For my birthday this year, I asked for a holiday.

I know, I know,  it's a HUGE  present to ask for, but I figured it's my 21st birthday so I could ask for something big! My parents were kind enough to agree to it so now I'M GOING TO ROME! 

I have never been so excited for anything before in my life! I'll be going with my boyfriend for 6 days and it's going to be amazing :)

The last time I went on a holiday abroad was about 7/8 years ago! I need a holiday so badly!

Since my last holiday I have: Finished high school, did my GCSE's, Started college, did my A-Levels, finished college, started university, did a 12,000 word dissertation, and finished university. I think I deserve this holiday before I go into the big wide world of adult.

There'll be a blog post up soon about when, where we're planning on going, what we plan on doing and all that fun stuff. And of course there'll be a post after my trip of how we got on!

Paige xo