Lady Bug Says ... Floral Photography

Guess who loves the super macro setting on her camera and the flowers in her garden?!

Posts will be resuming as usual next week!

Lady Bug Says ... New Toy!

My little Sony point and click has certainly seen better days! It has served me well though and survived many falls and being buried in snow, but I thought it was time that it was retired to be used on the odd night out rather than my main camera.

I was searching for something a bit more substantial, but knew that a full on DSLR would be wasted on me! I settled on this little beauty, a Fujifilm Finepix S2950 for the bargain price of £123.99 :)

The bank had kindly credited my account with £100 after they caused me a whole load of trouble (not sending me a new bank card because my name is too long and leaving me without a debit card for 2 weeks!) , so I basically got a new camera for less than £25!

I have had lots of fun testing it out and I'm pretty pleased with the results!

Love the panoramic setting! Can see a lot of fun being had with this!

Sorry it's been so long since my last post! I've been ill for the last week (stomach if you would like to stop hurting me that would be great!) and the screen on my laptop helpfully decided to die! But the Mr has kindly bought home a rebuilt laptop for me today so hopefully I am back for good!

Lady Bug Says ... A Foody Post

Evening Ladies!

Hope you have all had a lovely weekend, mine has largely been food and dress making (so proud of myself, next post on this!) filled.

On Thursday one of the guys at work retired so we finished early and had a bbq :) Thankfully the rain stopped for the few hours we were outside! As has become a tradition at work whenever there is a special occasion, I bake cakes! Having seen this idea for Oreo Stuffed Cupcakes I knew I had to make them! They turned out even yummier than I imagined, biscuit and cake combined in one, whats not to like! I used my fool proof sponge recipe and sandwiched an Oreo cookie in between 2 dollops of cake mix. I finished them off with cream cheese icing but the recipe I used was really runny :S Anyone got a recipe for a less runny, more pipeable one?!

On Saturday the Mr and I went on our first date day :) We realised that since we bought our house we have spent the majority of our time together doing DIY/gardening/house stuff and hadn't actually done anything like go out for a meal or to the cinema just the 2 of us. So we are going to take it in turns to organise dates for each other every now and then, the Mr is taking me to the circus next week, beyond excited!!!

I managed to snap up a voucher on Groupon for a restaurant near us so we went for a lovely lunch then a wander around the antiques centre and farm shop :) Lovely afternoon out!

Now I love seeing pictures of yummy food on peoples blogs, so here is what we indulged on!

Pan Seared Brixham Scallops With Rocket Pesto

Plaice Goujons With Alioli

Chargrilled Westcountry Rump Steak

With Homemade Chips and Rocket & Parmesan Salad

Pan Fried Free Range Chicken With Chorizo & Wholegrain Mustard Mash

Hands down best scallops I have ever tasted! Plus the chicken was a piece of melt in the mouth, moist amazingness! We will definitely be revisiting :)

Lady Bug Says ... Keeping Busy!

Evening Ladies!

I'm trying to be a better blogger, promise! I managed to catch a stomach bug from my friends little boy on the Royal Wedding day so have spent the last week feeling pretty awful. Today is the first day I have felt almost back to normal!

I haven't been taking many outfit photos recently due to mainly wearing pyjamas, which probably wouldn't make a very good outfit post! But I did find this photo of an outfit from a few weeks ago which I thought I would share with you all :)

Ankle boots, Primark £8, Tights, Primark £1, Dress, Primark £5, Cardigan, H&M £5, Necklace, Primark £2

Outfit total - £21

Whilst looking through recent photos I found some from some days out that I hadn't posted about!

Back in March my sister and I were supposed to go away for a long weeked to France with our Dad, but unfortunately he was ill so we were unable to go. So instead we went for a day out and a pub lunch on the moors, I very rarely get to spend time with just my sister and my Dad so it was a really nice day :)

Just a little collage of our day, complete with my Dad being a loon :)

For Mother's Day we took my Mum to the Eden Project. She had been saying for a while that she wanted to visit so we decided to suprise her. Both my sister and I were not expecting to enjoying it as much as we did!

My lovely Mummy and me :)

My sister and I doing our 'perfect daughters' pose!

The Mr and I took 11 days off over the Bank Holidays recently and managed to go on our first bike ride of the year! 12 miles later and oh my goodness my legs were hurting, definately going to take some getting used to being back on the bike! But I did purchase a basket for my lovely bike so we took the opportunity to take a picnic and a few ciders to have down by the river :)

I am starting Zumba classes next week so hopefully that combined with regular cycling should help towards my 'get fit this year' resolution!