Life Update & California Pictures

Hello readers, hullooooo.

I've had a bit of a break from blogging recently, things have been a'happening and I wanted to fill you in. If your here for craft tutorials this isn't the one for you. 

This academic year started with a lot of uncertainty. In July Matt left his job and I finished Uni, so we started with no jobs and feeling unsure whether or not we should renew our flats contract for the year. The possibility of having over a £12000 deficit was a scary one. 

I did a marketing internship September to November and then in November both of us got temp jobs. Matt as a delivery driver and me as a Bridal stylist. We see these jobs as absolute provision. It's certainly been challenging on the days when we only briefly see each other as our shifts are at different times and then I work all weekend. But we have learnt a lot, I think mostly we have seen all the things we take for granted. Our compassion for the families who do this constantly, and our frustration at how big businesses justify exploiting their workforce has definitely stirred up something within us. We are privileged to know it has an end date.

This brings me to the next stage of this year. We knew our jobs would only be until April so we planned ahead and have been living on 50% of our budget (if you know Matt you know he's a pro at these spreadsheet things). This means by April we will no longer have a rent and bills deficit, in fact, by the end of April we will have saved enough to pay all our bills until September. 

Which brings us to the exciting part, from May to September we will be doing photography full time, self employed and working to our own schedule. We are so so excited, we can see friends and family we haven't seen for ages, travel a bit and be FREEEE. In September Matt will start training for Ordination and I will take over the day to day runnings of the business.

We are both really looking forward to this time, meeting new people in new places, getting to capture life changing moments and then only needing our laptops to finish the job, from say, the south of France or somewhere equally warm and beautiful. 

We are hoping to travel around lots and fill our summer with beautiful weddings. If you know someone getting married who wants their wedding photographed in a beautiful natural way, let us know. It's soon to be officially what we do ;)

Anyway, we recently came back from California. We had an absolutely brilliant time preparing for Matt's sisters wedding and then doing some roadtrippin' on our own. We want to go back ASAP <3 comment-3--="" nbsp="">