Keen Kodaking

As most of you know, by now my theme for the A to Z Blog Challenge this month is Retro Nostalgia. 

I love all things vintage and retro so let me take you back...

Remember the Kodak Polaroid Camera? 

It was revolutionary in its day...instant photographs?!  My dad had a Kodak Instamatic and the refills came in cute packs of 10 instant photos.  They were like wee gold sandwiches in our house.  It was uber cool to look at your pictures only minutes after you took them. 

Blow It and Shake It - Remember?

Reminds me of the song by Outkast "Hey Ya"..... "Shake eet Laaik a Poloroid Peekture".

We even a Kodak Polaroid at work during the 90s.  I worked for a recruitment company and we used them to take instant photos of all our candidates to attached to their profile and resumé.  It was genius and a great way of remember what the candidate looked like (before all the laws were in place not to ask any personal details about an applicant)

I can still remember the smell of the photos as they came out.  It was a great way to take naughty photos without having the woman at the developing shop, peeping at your pix and giving you the stink eye when you collected them.

Nowadays, you can order polaroid look-a-likes of your Instagram uploads by Nifty250.  I loves these print outs.  There are so many funky crafts you can do with them.

Music Feature today is The Kinks. They were brilliant! Besides, Lola this is one of my favourite tracks by them.



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250gram

Hi My Lovely Plonkers

Most of you know how much of an Instagram Whore I am.  Over 1100 pictures taken and shared with the world.   Here I am.

I recently stumbled across and ordered some prints from an awesome company called 250gram online and they arrived all the way from Cape Town today!   I couldn't be happier.  Honestly, I'm Go follow them on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and order some of your Instagram pictures today!  They make great gifts.

I have a few ideas of how I am going to display my polaroid-look 250gram prints.  I want to buy a large board, cut it out into the shape of a puzzle piece and display all my prints there.

250gram Instagram prints

a portrait of me (through my daughters eyes) check out the high heels and tattoos on my arm

Our Year End Function invitation.

 Guess who I'm going as?

My Bitch

 I have been training hard lately, working up a sweat at the gym...I made this treadmill My Bitch and kick the shit out of it every day. 

I've worked my way up to not being able to run more than 2 minutes at a time to a continuous fast jog on an incline at level 10 for half and hour.  Burning 680 calories per session.  Booyah, Bitches!  I still do additional abs, legs and arms afterwards, but I'm really enjoying the running.  Something I thought I'd never enjoy.  It's amazing how quickly you can increase your fitness levels and listening to my body and pushing myself a little further every other day, makes me happy.

Whoever thought I'd get excited about getting running fit?!?