I'm 16 :)

Hi everyone. My first post as a 16 year old!! A tired one at that after having roughly 6 hours sleep last night following our school prom!

(This may be quite a long post, I'll just warn you now!!)

I had a party at our house on Wednesday evening which was the first time James had met some of my friends and the first time they've been round to the new house (even though we've lived here 6 months!). James absolutely loved having all of my friends round and ended up nearly losing his voice he was chattering so much!! We all enjoyed the evening in the garden.

Now I shall reveal more of the butterflies I showed you in my last post. I decided to decorate my own birthday cake as I haven't done any cake decorating for at least a year, due to moving and then not having space to do it, and wanted to get back into it. I found a gorgeous cake in a book and adapted it to the size of my cake. I really enjoyed making it and am very proud of the result (well what was the result before it was eaten!). Here it is:

(This photo looks a lot more yellow than I thought it was, the cake was a much lighter cream than it looks in the image)

Then Thursday, my birthday and prom day. I received some amazing gifts, I am a very lucky person. I had asked for a point and shoot camera as I had accidentally broken the family one a few months ago, and I was lucky to receive one for my birthday from my Nan and Grandad. I spent the whole morning reading the manual and practising so I could take it to the prom. I received many other gorgeous presents, including jewellery, money, tops and chocs.

I had my hair done for the prom at my normal hairdressers and loved it. We were supposed to be going to the prom in a limo but, as my luck goes, it broke down, so we ended up going in a range rover. As you can imagine I was devastated, I've wanted to go in a limo for years, but at least we got there. I'm afraid to say that the whole prom didn't go smoothly. Me and a few mates missed all of the food as we didn't feel hungry and then they'd run out by the time we did, so I was rather hungry by the time I got home having not eaten since lunch! We also paid money to have professional photos done, to then end up having 2 photos taken as the queue was massive and people kept pushing in!!

However moaning over, it was lovely to be able to be outside and enjoying the warm failing light of the evening. I managed to get some nice photos and it was really interesting to see which styles of dresses people had gone for and the boys in suits looked so different. I'm not a dancing person, I avoid the dance floor like the plague, but as soon as my favourite two songs (Queen 'Don't stop me now' and 'We will rock you') came on I couldn't resist! It was lovely to be able to dress up and I loved my dress, it was so comfortable. Comfortable isn't a word I'd use to describe my shoes though, by the end of the evening my heel ached like anything and the majority of the girls had taken their heels off. At least I now possess a pair of heels and can walk in them. A few photos to show you, taken by mum before I left.

I took this photo at the prom with my new camera, it isn't the best but it really shows the happy lively atmosphere of the dance floor. I would've liked a lay-in this morning but because James hardly saw me yesterday I got up to see him this morning. I'll sleep well tonight, that's for sure!!

I've been out this morning with mum as she needed to take photos for a course she's doing, so I practised with my new point and shoot to get used to the scene settings and buttons.Here's a photo I took which I was very pleased with.

A quick bit of scrapbooking for you. We purchased photoshop a few weeks ago and I have joined one of Jessica Sprague's online digital scrapbooking courses which starts on Monday. For a bit of initial practise I have created a page using the tutorial and downloads she provides you. Here it is, a page about me and mum. I can't wait to start the course now.

Thanks for looking, I hope I haven't bored you.

Bye for now,

Hannah xx :)