Thursday Treats: Been Adventuring

March 13, 2014

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Those of you who followed my recent adventures while I was in Palm Springs might have had a sneaking suspicion that we weren’t just there to soak up the sunshine. Oh no, Gala, Shauna and I were working on a brand new Blogcademy project!

I can’t tell you exactly what it is just yet, but believe me when I say we’ve listened to you and we hope it’ll be worth the wait! Our new offerings will be launching in the spring and we’ll have much more to share real soon…I AM VERY EXCITED.

At the other end of the weather spectrum, I got back from my family ski holiday in Whistler on Sunday evening. It was FREEZING (one day it was -20 °C!!!) but it was so lovely to get away, and for it not to be work-related for once!  My whole family are complete ski nuts so everyone had a great time. It was so awesome to hang out with them all week.

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I hope you’ve had a good couple of weeks too, whatever you’ve been up to. OK, onto dem treats!

Weddings & Weddingy Things

Dark Crystal wedding cake!
♥ Gorgeous boho hippy wedding
Tattoos and airplanes
Five chic but ethical wedding ideas
Vintage Portland wedding
San Diego loft wedding (those bridesmaid’s boots and the bride’s pink dipped hair are both SO perfect!)

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Bethany Carlson

Intimate Louisiana wedding
Gorgeous lesbian engagement
Stylish Oregon wedding
Fort Mill barn wedding
♥ Final Fantasy wedding!
Stunning waterside wedding
♥ Colourful Italian wedding

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 L&V Photography

Sales & Events

♥ The Quaint Queer Weird Wedding Fair is taking place in Brighton this coming weekend and they would like to give one lucky Rock n Roll Bride reader two pairs of free tickets and a bottle of bubbly! To enter, simply complete the following sentence and post it on their facebook wall “I want to win a pair of QQW tickets because …. “

You have until midnight tonight to enter and the winner will be picked at random on Friday. They’ll then be contacted via private facebook message with info on how they can claim the prize.

♥ Rachel Simpson is offering £25 off all of her men’s shoes. Use the code RSMEN25 at the online checkout. Valid until 30th April 2014.

Agnes & Norman are offering £10 off any of their shoes using code ANS10 at the online checkout. Valid until 30th April 2014.

Business Bites

Five marketing tips courtesy of instagram
♥ GREAT news for bloggers needing imagery for their sites – Getty’s new embed tool makes MILLIONS of their photos free for use non-commercially! 
What kind of content does better on twitter?
♥ Search out and define your niche
♥ The key to viral content is emotion
♥ Do you care too much about what people think?
♥ These food bloggers made $17k in one month! Here’s exactly how they did it.

Best of the Rest

Connection (Emma, I love you!)
Sequinned hangers – oh yes!
♥ Talking of sequins, I love this jumper DIY!
♥ My friends Elsie and Emma over on A Beautiful Mess just launched some Photoshop actions. I nabbed myself the full set and they are awesome! There are so many options that it’s a little overwhelming but I can’t wait to really get stuck in and try them all out!
How to make a terrarium
♥ Did you see the awesome first kiss video that went viral this week (below)? Well apparently it was just an advert for clothes. DAMN IT. I so wanted the cute girl in the striped top and the horny beanie hat dude to get together too!

♥  I was interviewed by The Wedding Planning Academy at a party a little while ago and you can watch the results below. I’d definitely had a couple of glasses of champagne beforehand haha!

Whatever you have planned for this weekend I hope you have a blast! I’m off on another adventure, but this time a little closer to home. Gareth and I have rented a house in Camber Sands with Emma and Pete, Ronnie and Craig, Sophie and Gareth and Chris. (AWW THESE GUYS!) I can’t wait to hang out with them, drink wine and gin, lounge in our PJs and probably hug each other for about 45 minutes straight. It’s been way too long.