Steps

I love photos of doors and steps, I don't know why
Also as I've said I'm talking part in the 365 project this year, the idea is you do something everyday for a whole year :) I would have loved to have made a pot or something ceramic everyday but with the kids it would never happen :( maybe next year?
So I've decided on a photo a day
It's going great so far and I'm able to indulge mg storage passion got taking pics of random things like gates and steps!
So I wanted to share these I took this week

These were the first I found, I just loved the way that they didn't lead anywhere :) oh and the pile of leaves on the one side

This Gate was on the same Road just a bit further along the house was down a very steep path so again it looked like the gate didn't lead to anything, well except this lovely view :)

And finally, again on the same Road!! these were waiting! I love this picture! I love the overgrown edges and the lopsided gates 

this one was taken while out walking with the girls on the weekend, just a quick photo but i am planning to go back and have a proper go soon :)

Do you think I have a problem??

Dinner with a view

Yesterday I mentioned to hubby that I was going out to look for something to photograph for my photo a day task i've set myself, so he suggested going up the drive

The drive is a is a forest area jsut behind where we live, find out more here :)

We decided to take some lunch with us 

Pie and chips :) 

The pie was a steak and guinness pie that hubby had got from the butchers that morning after being told they had won an award for them :)

We shared it and it was lovely :)

here is the view 

Lovely winter trees and ferns :) 

Welcome to 2012

Happy New Year!!

I wanted to do a little blog piece about my plans for 2012, So here it is!

First I am planning to take part in the 365 project be taking one photograph a day

I will try and post most of them on here but I know i'll probably only end up doing a monthly round up post, so sorry in advance.

 I will post them all daily onto Instagram my name is @cariadclay so take a look :)

Another thing I always mean do do every new year is start a journal, I never do :(

but while procrastinating on pinterest (again) I cam across this blog and wonderful idea 

www.designsponge.com

Basically you just get a box or old fruit box, some postcards or 12 pictures to divide each month and some index cards for the days then write a small line on each card each day, then flip it to the back of the box and continue each year until you run out of lines :) 

in a few years it'll be a joy to read back each day as you write a new one :) 

so here is my box 

It's not so cute as an old fruit box but a lot more sturdy lol and it needs to be to survive in my house :)

it's just a plain black index box from Paperchase but i've added one of my own buttons 

Just to make it mine :)

Have a lovely year all x 

A Foggy Walk in Brecon

So we woke up to a lovely foggy Sunday morning here in Wales!

Only in Wales could a foggy morning be classed as lovely :)

We decided to take a drive up to Brecon and go for a walk with the kids! we took some lovely photo's so thought i'd share them with you

We went for a walk and found this lovely stream 

And it even had a waterfall :)

The girls enjoyed throwing stones in it!

The Fog

Rosy cheeks  :)

Another little stream or "fairy fall" as the kids named it :) 

Lastly my two beautiful girls :) 

Camping

My family have been camping in the same field for over 40 years now
we always go for the August bank holiday
I have such fond memories of going there as a child :)
we used to play in the river all day, collect fire wood, go for walks or go apple/plum picking
then in the night we'd all sit around a huge campfire, toast marshmallows and sing, mostly Welsh rugby songs :)
It is a tradition that I am so pleased to be able to share with my daughters :)

So every August bank holiday you will find us in a little village called Hoarwithy near Ross on Wye


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Now above you may have noticed i said field not campsite that is because this is proper camping :) Just a field with a tap at the top, you have to bring everything!
This fills most people with horror until I say that no toilets/showers means no roads so i know my kids are safe :)

Here is the field, Beautiful :)

The drip that I am lol means i forgot to take a picture of the tent!! i know!!
(I will take one when we go for the bank holiday in a few weeks!)

But i did take one of our "Tardis" Toilet tent :)

Anyway back to my favourite field :)

Here is the river where we swim, fish or canoe :)

From the field across the river is one of my favourite views ever, the church at Hoarwithy

when the sun starts to go down the fire is lit :)

My girls cwtching by the fire

Beautiful sunset

Great fire! where's the marshmallows?

Here they are!!!

What more could you want? :)

Hunting for Fairies

So it's the school holidays and the kids are getting restless! 

It was such a lovely day so we went for a walk to look for fairies

I live in Cwmcarn which has the wonderful Forest Drive with miles of walks over a beautiful mountain

The view up the valley :)

This Tree and ferns looked so pretty! 

We didn't find any fairies :( 

But Looking at these you could almost believe they were there hiding :)

The kids certainly believed they were there.............somewhere :)

They had lots of fun looking!

We did find some fariytale looking mushrooms

Lots of fun! and it didn't cost a thing :)