May actually went quite slowly, unlike every other month! On the first weekend, I went to London to watch netball finals, post here. I really enjoyed getting on the trains and sightseeing and being a tourist so I want to do this again soon with my friends.  happened was on May 17th when Blossom Of Hope had it's first birthday! I wrote a whole...

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After feeling down for a couple of days this week, I found some quotes and encouragements that I thought I would share with you. I hope this post made you smile and reminds you that it is human to have bad days.  You control your own future You determine your self worth You could be on page 1 and other people could be on...

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One of the things that makes me incredibly happy is when I see people smile because of something I have done, and when I read this blog post describing this and calling it "Spreading the sparkle", I knew I had to write a post on it.  For me, when someone says sparkle, I think of Louise Pentland, known online as Sprinkle Of Glitter. She makes videos on...

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As it is almost the end of May (how did that happen) I have been switching my room around for Spring and I decided to share my ideas to give you some inspiration.  First of all, New Look  been bringing a lot more homeware and decor bits and pieces out and I love them. I have bought a light up star which I...

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Exactly one year ago today, I created Blossom of hope and published my first post. Since then, I have reached 72 followers and over 6500 pageviews, posted 110 posts as well as growing my confidence.  When I first started my blog, I never really realised how big it would be in my life. I didn't really know about all the designing and the...

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Last Saturday, me and my mum went to see the Netball super league final. We are both fans of the sport and my brother and dad were away so we decided to go. We woke up at 8 to leave the house at 9 for a 10:01 train. WE arrived with plenty of time so we bought a hot chocolate from the cafe...

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Hello, today is a very exciting post as I am working with CocoMelody! They sell really pretty designer wedding dresses and I was having a look the other day and I found these absolute beauties that I thought I would share with you.  The first one that caught my fancy was this dress. I love the lace around the neck and shoulders and...

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One of my new year resolutions was to accept myself but now that we are 5 months into the year, I have started looking back to my resolutions and thinking that maybe I chose the wrong ones. I have had a little battle with these thoughts, I always thought that accepting meant acknowledging and moving on in a "yep okay nothing to see"...

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Last Monday I was tagged by the lovely Holly from Holly5901 for the Starlight Blogger Award so thankyou! First, I am going to answer the questions that Holly gave me.  1. How do you find blog post ideas? I come up with them in my head! Sometimes I look online or at other blogs to get inspiration but most of the time I...

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