Happy New Year!

Wishing you a Happy New Year, full of love, prosperity and good health!

May all your projects be successful, your relationships happy and your experiences fulfilling.

To a great 2024!

xo

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas full of joy and love! I hope you get to spend a lovely time with your nearest and dearest, eat the most delicious food and get spoiled beyond imagination.

How are you celebrating this Christmas?

xo

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas accompanied by all your loved ones! I hope you all enjoy the most amazing food, your day is full of festive cheer and that you get spoiled by Santa today ;)

xo

New Valentine's Collection: Rainbow Love Hearts

Now you can find this new Rainbow Love Hearts pattern available across stationery, apparel and home décor available on my Red Bubble shop. Just in time for Valentine's Day!

Get 15% off everything with code BIGONEFIVE and don't forget to check out my other Valentine's designs in my shop.

xo

London Music Tour

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you a lovely Christmas accompanied by all your family, friends and loved ones! Hope you enjoy the most delicious dinner, have a lot of fun and receive everything you have wished for. 

Much love,
Naville

xoxo

White Ruffles & Roses

Pictures with my birthday outfit from a couple of years ago, I always postponed uploading them but now seemed like a good occasion as it is Valentine's Day this weekend.

Wearing a Dresslily top* (Similar white strappy top) - I really like all the romantic details on this top: the ruffles, shirring, embroidery and lace up front, and the flowers were a gift from my husband. 

Have a lovely Valentine's Day!

xo

Happy New Year!

Wishing you a very Happy New Year, full of love, fun and prosperity. In some ways this year felt quite long and dull but looking back it also feels like it went by very quick (or is it just me?). Anyway, goodbye 2020 and may better things come your way!

xo

Merry Christmas

It's Christmas Eve but I wanted to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas full of happiness and cheer. 

Sending you lots of love and strength in these uncertain times.

xo

Christmas Cactus & Other News

Yesterday I got gifted a new plant: a Schlumbergera hybrid or Christmas Cactus. It has that name as it flowers during the winter. 

On other news I finished my latest watercolour painting, which you might have already seen in my Instagram stories. Also I hope to be styling a new outfit post soon (probably this week). Oh, and I made Master Ball tier in the Pokemon VGC last week within only 3 days and I'm around the top 1000 best players in the world for this month, which is the fastest and furthest I've ever been, yay! haha.

xo

PS. Don't forget to check out my Christmas Gift Ideas Under £50. 

Miniature Pink Asiatic Lilies

A picture I took of the bouquet of flowers that Dot got me for our anniversary. It has beautiful fuchsia and pink dwarf Asiatic lilies as well as white roses and I wanted to capture it for posterity. I've also made this design available in my Redbubble shop (without the watermark, of course), where you can find it on over 80 different products including apparel, stationery, home accessories and more so if you like it please take a look at my shop.

xo

Easter 2020

Hope you had a nice Easter weekend. These are the gifts I received this year: a chocolate egg, a Lindt 90% cacao and Tesco Orange Chocolate bars, as well as a rabbit planter with a yellow kalanchoe. 

In Mexico, a mainly catholic country, Easter is celebrated by going to church for mass and before that people have Lent or a 40 day red meat fast, however as we weren't that religious growing up we rarely did any of that (except for the period of our lives when we went to a religious school and were made to attend mass, amongst other activities, ha!).

So even though I knew about the Easter bunny and chocolate eggs, I hadn't actually received or eaten one before I moved to the UK. 

How do you celebrate Easter?

xo

Meet Me In China Town

For some reason I just love this photograph I took in China Town when we went to see the Christmas Lights in London in December 2017. 

The glowing neon lights and the contrast of the Chinese writing in the middle, plus the colouring and depth of field are something that really caught my attention. That and the fact that the busker started playing Space Oddity as I turned around the corner to this sight, it's like that's the place I was meant to be at that exact moment ha.

You can find this photo to purchase on prints, homeware, stationery and t-shirts on my Red Bubble shop.

xo

Winter Lights At Canary Wharf

Life Lessons

What makes people think that when treating someone consistently a certain way that they do not like  to be treated they'll never grow resentful or reach breaking point and snap back?

Probably the story of my life: always letting people walk all over me, laugh at me, treat me disrespectfully. I've taken a lot of that, which is my own fault, really. But every time I get to the point where I will not allow it any more, suddenly I'm the horrible one. 

This is the way that some people like to take advantage of others they see as weak - I've felt small and scared in many situations, letting people dictate my actions or bully me - it dates all the way back from primary school, through secondary and even my high school years. 

It finally stopped in university but it wasn't for good: at one of my first jobs here in the UK I was also bullied by a colleague around 7 years younger than me. And I let them carry on with it, so it got progressively worse until I got falsely accused of something very serious at work, which is when I decided it was time to report their abuse and make it stop. 

That's what I've learned over the years: I have allowed things like that to happen out of fear of speaking up. I've always been "a good girl" that just does what she's told, afraid of what could happen if I don't, when everyone else gets away with pretty much anything you can think of - even the things I get wrongly accused of doing.

One of my general "rules" in life is to treat people the way they treat me, it's what I've done since I can remember. How I treat people I get along with (family, friends, classmates, co-workers, etc) is what I believe to be a reflection of their treatment towards me. 

Granted, I never mentioned I was perfect, however if someone thinks I have turned into a despicable version of what I used to be, they should have a think about how they treated me in the past. They might realise that they prefer me weak, quiet and submissive so they can bring me down but they need to know that I am not condoning this type of behaviour anymore.

Passionflower In Full Bloom

I took this picture a couple of months ago (in September to be exact) of a hypnotising passionflower from the garden out the back of the house. If you are equally mesmerised by flowers as am I, take a look at the products available with this picture in my RedBubble shop (just scroll down to see the full item list).

xo

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year 2020!

May you achieve the goals you set yourself. I wish you prosperity, new meaningful friendships and that you can make a living out of the things you love doing! Not just for this year, but also this new decade and beyond.

xo

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! I hope you have an amazing day surrounded by the people you love, that you get spoiled, eat delicious food and feel warm and cosy sharing cuddles with your nearest and dearest.

xo

Flowers In The Garden

Birthday Flowers

It was my birthday yesterday and my husband spoiled me with some beautiful flowers (and many  other gifts which I'll share on here soon). 

I feel like I could just look at flowers for hours - how can something so entrancing exist? The softest velvety textures, captivating scent and vivid colours - they're just amazing! If there's someone that says they don't like flowers I don't believe them ha.

xo