Making Memories With Cheerz

If you follow me on Snapchat (Jemmamorgan) you may have seen me recently gushing over my latest pressie in the post from Cheerz, that photo company that never fail to just get me. Those fab guys let me customise a beautiful photo album* for myself, and the result was just wonderful!

I'm one of those people who loves taking photographs every single day. Whether it be selfies, the cat, blog photos, landscapes, artwork, whatever! I love to document everything. In fact, you may remember me creating a few photo themed DIY posts on this blog too; like the 4 Ways To Use Polaroid Photos, and the Photo Collage DIY. So yeah it's fair to say I'm a fan of photographs being kept, stored and displayed in different ways.

A Cute Photo Collage DIY

Hello little unicorns! (Soz, I'm in a weird mood.) I hope you're all having an incredible week so far, and have nice plans for the weekend. This week I've been organising my office, trying to categorise everything and give it a good overhaul so it's the perfect place for me to work on all my projects. I'll probably do a post on this soon to be honest. But anyway, in the middle of my tidying, rummaging and organising; I found a bunch of polaroid photos I had printed a few months ago (from Polargram).
They are the nicest bunch of random photos of completely different memories, friends and times in my life. Some old, some recent; but all awesome. Sadly they were just sitting in a drawer and I felt they were being completely wasted. So why not use them for a DIY?

I decided I wanted to build up a cute collage and frame it, and luckily I already had a spare frame hanging around. I collected some pretty papers, stickers, washi tape, buttons and some AMAZING prints which I had bought from Toni over at Lemon Freckles a while ago. These were made for bunting, but I kept my bunting quite short, so I had one or two images over that I decided to use in this collage.

After that it's just a case of arranging everything until you're happy! The joy of this project is that there is no right or wrong way to do it; just go with whatever you find aesthetically pleasing and you're onto a winner. Mine is one bursting with different colours and textures, and has a really happy vibe about it.
I think something like this would be perfect for a DIY gift for someone, or simply brightening up a room :) What do you guys think?
Also, 10 points to the first person to name that blogger you can spot in my photographs! :)


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Four Ways To Use Polaroid Photos

Today I shared a little creative guest post on Erica's blog, and I was so happy with the outcome I wanted to post it here too for you guys. Have you ever fancied doing something a little different with your photographs? If so, keep reading!...
With Instagram fast becoming our generation's version of a photo album, it's not surprising that many of us have taken to getting our Instagram photographs printed, or even enjoying Polaroid cameras for the pleasure of seeing your work instantly. I'm not one of the fortunate people to own an Instax camera yet (*cry*), however I came across Polargram recently and I'm happy to say it's almost as good as having one of those beautiful cameras.
Since I've been ordering batches of prints ever since, I thought I'd share with you some of my favourite ways to use them around the home. So forget Instagram (only for a moment!) and get creative with your images in a good old fashioned hands on DIY!

1. Hang them & use as bunting; Is there anything as lovely and Pinterest as this? You can find pretty string and miniature pegs to hang them from easily enough; I got plenty in Wilkinsons. I find this works most beautifully when displayed over a desk or workspace.. maybe a dressing table? Somewhere you'll be sitting and can surround the area with pretty photographs. You could even stick to a 'theme' for different work spaces. Inspiring quotes hanging over your desk maybe? You can find an example of one I've tried here.

2. Make a gallery wall; Similar to number 1, this one works best on display somewhere you'll see it often. But it can also be used to bring a little life to any plain wall. It's really important if you're going to be doing a grid or series of photographs you align them all perfectly straight! 

3. Use as handmade cards/postcards; A little bit of glue, some card, cute washi tape and a stamp; done! The effort required here is minuscule, but the payoff is adorable. Send someone a little handmade card to cheer their day up, and you'll look ever so creative as well as thoughtful.

4. Book covers; A random one? Maybe. But all you obsessive, organised types will love this. I use two or three on different notebooks at the moment for different things. You can see below I use one for my healthy habits notebook; full of recipes, healthy snack ideas and different work out ideas. I've popped a very pretty (albeit arty) looking banana photograph on the front and viola!; Easy to remember which notebook is for which. Plus, it just looks a little bit fantastic.

I hope you guys enjoyed this post.  What other ways can you think of to use Polaroids?



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My Week..

So it included some shameless selfies, sightseeing around Liverpool, trips to the Library/Aquarium and just hanging out with my lovely boyfriend Gary & friends. I quite enjoyed it and the weather hasn't been bad :) 

So I thought I'd share it all here for you guys to see!

It's actually my last full week of being 25 too :( I turn 26 on Wednesday and although I love birthdays, I'm so sad! I feel super old and I hate it. In my head I'm still 19, lol.

It's actually been a fun week though. I'll be excited for Wednesday, celebrating with Gary. Even though I really, really do not want to turn 26. I'm sure we'll have fun ^__^

Keep an eye out for my birthday post (probably Thursday) to see how I get on!

Thanks for reading guys!

xxx