Guided tours, giggles and guffaws – behind the scenes of the wedding reporter photoshoot!

Posted on February 23, 2012

This time last week I was running around the house like a headless chicken; sweeping mopping, hiding the washing up, spraying Scratch with his sugar cookie deodorising spray (yes my dog smells of cookies) and generally making the place look presentable!

My two favourite girls, Emma (the wedding reporter) and Ali (ali lovegrove photography) were coming over for the day, hurrah!

After tea and chat (whilst fending off my over excited puppy) we set off into Leicester city centre to take some photos of the lovely new books that I had created for Emma. As a dedicated Leicestrian (I love my city!) I took them on a nice long walk to show them all of the lovely historical parts of the city. Ali & Emma were both convinced that they were coming into some kind of ghetto (“Will my car get stolen?”) so I wanted to show them how nice Leicester could be!

I thought that The Guildhall (with its beautiful furniture, big old books and historic charm) would be perfect for the photographs, with Newark House gardens nearby for any outdoor shots we might need.

We walked into town via Bow Bridge, Castle Gardens, St Mary de Castro Church, Leicester Castle and Newark House, Emma and I giving Ali a lesson about Richard III along the way. (If you’re interested you can find out more about Richard III’s connection with Leicester here)

After a delicious Mrs Bridges breakfast we proceeded to the Guildhall, where Ali took many photographs, much to the amusement of the 30 odd children who were enjoying an indoor snowball fight and treasure hunt in the next room!

After all of the hard work, Ali became sleepy and decided to take a nap…night night Ali!

Such dedication to getting the perfect shot!

Here are some of Ali’s photographs from the day…

We had such a fab day, full of silliness and laughter! It was great to have a day off to spend time with two lovely people who I don’t get to see very often.

If you would like to see more photographs of Emma’s gorgeous books you’ll have to head over to Ali’s blog – click here to do so!

You can also read extracts of Emma’s beautiful wedding reports here.

Have a lovely day!

Leah xx
@leahgoldenapple

Happy day of pancakes!

Posted on February 21, 2012

Source: teawithmarykate.wordpress.com via Leah on Pinterest

Yesss Joe is nearly home so it’s almost time for me to stuff my face with sugary lemony pancake goodness! I love this image of a 1950′s pancake tossing competition, what fun! (I found it here – there are more retro pancake pics on there too!)

Anyhoo, enjoy your pancakes! You can also head over to the new look So You’re Getting Married where Phoebe has shared a rather awesome foolproof pancake recipe!

Happy eating!

Leah xx
@leahgoldenapple

So You’re Getting Married wedding blog makeover – before and after

Posted on February 21, 2012

Last night I helped Phoebe from So You’re Getting Married move her blog over from blogger to wordpress, and give it an updated new look!

As Phoebe already had a domain registered for the site I also helped her with the technical side of things like domain mapping, redirecting and also importing her blog posts from the old site to the new one.

Check out the before and after pics below…

As you can see i’ve updated the banner with a fresh new look, and whilst Phoebe wanted to keep the existing font I broke it up a bit by using it with an additional font to make it more pleasing to the eye. I also created some cute social networking buttons for the side of the blog and added interest to the background with a subtle polka dot pattern.

So You’re Getting Married is a UK wedding blog dedicated to pretty things – click here to go and check it out.

Would you like your blog updating? Prices start from £60 for a customised blog set up that includes a blog header plus matching background, colour coordinated links & fonts* plus you have the option to add on as many buttons as you like down the side to link to social networking sites, pinterest, your about me page – whatever you like! Click here to visit my website and find out more!

Leah xx
@leahgoldenapple

*Dependent on wordpress package – custom fonts are only available on upgrade. My prices exclude any fees from wordpress.

Leah Spicer Creative has had a facelift!

Posted on February 20, 2012

Source: postworthy.com via Gertie23 on Pinterest

I’ve given Leah Spicer Creative (my creative design website) a little facelift>

Yes, i know it’s only been live for about a day, but you know what i’m like…. always coming up with new ideas and finding new fonts that I just have to use immediately!

Here’s the new look… do you like it?

I love it as it includes all of the things i love… grey, awesome new fonts, geometric shapes, diagonal lines… yummm.

CLICK HERE to visit and have a click around!

Leah xx
@leagoldenapple

Keep Calm!

Posted on February 15, 2012

I Just wanted to share Alex & Penny’s on the day stationery with you!

It’s the first time that i’ve incorporated this design into on the day items and i’m really pleased with how it turned out. I loved their chic and stylish monochrome colour scheme, which worked really well with the design..