Date night @ Sketch

So Tom and I don’t usually call night’s out ‘date nights’ as we generally see each other and do things together quite a bit and as we don’t have children, we have time for each other, but when we don’t we like to make sure we have schedule some 'us' time, if you will.

Tom has recently quit his job to go it alone in the Design and Illustration world (go check him out www.tomgaul.com), the first few months have been overwhelmingly busy, plus with all we have going on right now with the new house, we need date nights! We decided to schedule a couple special nights, just us. Him first, and he whisked me off for a surprise night at Sketch. It was our first time there and i was so wowed by the beauty of the room, it was dreamy and the David Shrigley art work was a pleasure to be amongst, we secretly wanted to walk round looking at it all…! 

The food was lovely - i've had better steaks, but with all the delicious steak restaurants in London, that's not hard. Wasn't huge on the potato Dauphinoise either, but over all the service, food and atmosphere was gorgeous. Unfortunately i've not taken the best detailed food shots, but here's a few of the night...

Cheers - btw the Pisco Sours was AMAZING

Gladly this isn't a date night i"ll be forgetting about in a hurry!

Obligatory Sketch toilet shot

Hopefully be back soon for with some decorating chatter xx

Musings of the last few months…x

Ok, alright, SO, so far this blogging lark hasn’t quite gone so well, don’t they say its hard getting into in at first…? Ok well it is for me. Its kind of like getting a new diary for Christmas and writing in it until mid January. 

I think where i fail with blogging is that half the time i don’t particularly want to take a camera out with me, so all i’ll grace the interweb with is iPhone photos. Must. Try. Harder.

My life right now is pretty hectic, we’ve recently exchanged and completed on a new house which required a complete refurb…! I’d like to blog progress, so watch this space, literally. Lets see how organised i can be. Lets hope the blog posts won’t just be me moaning of how much painting i have to do…! 

Here is a photo of me, i am in Brighton for the Mod Weekender back when it stayed light past 16:00...

See you soon xx

The Amalfi trip.

Ok so this post is a little late, but way back in May, myself, my husband Tom and 4 other friends made our way out to Italy. We spent 3 nights in Capri before heading to Sorrento for a wedding. It was a week of pure indulgence, we ate so much white pasta, pizza, bread, gelato - not to mention gin and Italy's standard triple measures...! Every meal generally was 2/3 courses, as well as bread - it was a helluva week, needless to say i started a 3 day Juice detox once back.

In Capri we stayed at the Best Western Syrene, which was such a lovely hotel. It was quite traditional Italian, and felt quite family run, it was very clean and all the rooms had the dreamiest floor tiles - winner in my eyes, and for anyone not wanting to splash out too much but still wanting to stay on the island, we would 100% recommend.

I organised a boat trip with http://www.giannisboat.com/ which was the best. The guide took us out for 3 hours and showed us all the beautiful grotto's and coastline. The boat was so comfortable, which was just as well for our hungover, drowsy on seasick tablet states.

The famous Blue Grotto

We ate lunch up in the lemon groves at a restaurant called Da Paolino, the setting was beautiful and I can imagine it getting very busy in the peak season. It was worth the short inclined walk to get there. Friends of ours also in Italy for the wedding got engaged here! Dreamy!
Probably our favourite restaurant in Capri, and maybe even the whole trip was Aurora - and hey if its good enough for Bey, its good enough for us ;-) The restaurant was busy, so i'd recommend booking, but the vibe was good, the food was amazing and we left when they kicked us out - always a good sign.

On our last day in Capri we headed up on the cable car that takes you up to the top of Mount Solaro, its definitely not as scary as you think its going to be and the views at the top, as well as the gelato shop are well worth it.

We then spent the next 5 nights in Sorrento, taking day trips to Pompeii and Positano. Positano was lovely. We took the public bus there which was VERY windy, be warned in your suffer with travel sickness or are hungover. The combo was not a good one, but once we were there we filled ourselves up in Caffe Positano which served up some of my favourite pasta i'd have in Italy with an amazing view to boots.

Positano Beach

As much as I loved our trip to the Amalfi coast, I was super glad to be home eating some fruit and veg - not something I managed to get much of whilst there ;-)

Hello, its me x

Hi, my name is Eveie. Well infact its Eve, but when people called me Eveie whilst growing up, i asked my mum how to spell it, she said to just add an ie on the end and i came up with Eveie instead of Evie, i kinda like it and the spelling has stuck, with me anyway.

I want to say i’m a twenty-something London girl enjoying the city life BUT i’m just about to turn 31(eek), just not quite ready to call myself a thirty-something yet though. I can’t grumble about my 30’s so far, i was swept off my feet to New York to celebrate, got engaged and got married. So actually being 30 has been 1 of the best years of my life.

I’ve read blogs for years and often thought of starting one and kind of wished i’d done it sooner, so here it is…

I like to think of this as a online diary for myself and hope i stick to it, if you would like to read too - that would also be wonderful.

When, and if you swing by my blog, you will find thoughts from my little mind in my vacant hours, which will include but not limited to, musings of travel (forever  wanderlust), outfit posts, wish lists, restaurant/bar recommendations and beauty ramblings.

Photo credit on this occasion was the ever wonderful Joanna Brown - go check her site out www.joannabrownphotography.com