I am a manager in the spoons in Balham, so pop in and say hi sometime, it really is quite a charming little place. I have been with spoons for little under 2 years now and prior to that I was a photography student. I squeeze photo time in around my work, but unfortunately life doesn't always go how we want it to and I don't earn enough to live off it. I know I have a lot of friends and family that would like me to quit and just go for it, but secrelty I love my job. I like meeting new and exciting people, and I am quite the chatter box, so it works both ways.
In my spare time, I have a camera in my hand, whether it is my canon 450D my finace's 550D, my pinhole camera or my mini Diana lomography camera. I do prefer film, and if I had the money I would only shoot film. I love that you have to think about what you are shooting, how you are framing, and exposing it. For me, you can not beat the excitment of getting the photos back from the lab. I dislike that digital need to just click away, although I am guilty for it myself, constantly clicking the same thing and having 4 or 5 photos that are pretty much repeated. I enjoy experimenting with different films, my fruit drawer in my fridge is filled with all sorts of film and picking one is always difficult.
The past few months I have discovered all things vintage. I went to Camden Crawl this year and had a wonder around the stable markets (if you haven't been, go!) there are so many corners just filled with golden gems. Not just clothes, but house hold items, books, CDs, tapes, and even BIKES! On that note I often visit the charity shop, I live 2 doors down from British Heart Foundation and about 25% of my wardrobe has come from there, I often have clear outs and give them just as much stuff back. I once had a beautiful decanter for Christmas which was from that same store!
I have far too many clothes every single one of my coat hangers has at least 2 or 3 things on it and my poor finace is getting less and less room in the wardrobe. He has 2 drawers and about a quarter of the wardrobe. I can honestly say I do not own a single pair of jeans, I have some red trousers which look like denim, but they are not. I am a bit of a sucker for the colour pink, floral prints, lace, and geeky jumpers. I dont really have a set style as such because it often depends on my mood.
In 603 days from typing this I shall be walking down the aisle to my lovely finace Gavin Rye! We met in 2006 I was just a wee 18 year old girl and he a 24 year old man (oddly the age I am now) we met online 2 years prior to that but never really planned to met up and bumped into each other one day. We "went steady" for a few months but I decided I wanted to go to university. When I finished we kind of just got back together and that was 2 years a go and since we have moved to London together, have a lovely little flat and a lovely little black cat called Ebony.
Ebony
Gavin and I
Me
Aforementioned camera (sorry this was taken with my phone)
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