“What did you do in half term Amy? In your time off from the day job?”

Welllllll………

I decided to photograph my final postcards on a… fridge. Whenever you receive a postcard in the post where is the first place you stick it to? The fridge. of course.

I then got the amazing idea in my head to order those kiddie alphabet letter magnets and spell out “Pink Angeleno” whilst they proudly displayed my finished postcards. £8 spent on Amazon later, one next day prime delivery and here I was sat on the floor of kitchen (as you do!) arranging the letters into their letter categories on my freezer door! (FYI the alphabet letters are perfect for spelling out expletives when you cannot seem to get the perfect photograph for your blog!!)

I then had what I thought was another brilliant idea…. why use a plain boring white fridge when I could go into a home electronics store and photograph them on a PINK fridge! easy peasy of course… one trip to John Lewis later, (my sister promised me there was a pink fridge in that store – there really wasn’t, it was BLUE (*eyeroll..)

The assistants in John Lewis thought I was an absolute mad woman trying to stick magnets and postcards to a blue (non magnetic by the way!..) fridge door that I told them like the pro I pretend to be “Its ok! I can photoshop the door Pink!!” (**cue another eyeroll!)

Admitting defeat I returned to the internet in search of a photograph of a beautiful pink fridge. Disappointed as I like to take my own photographs I was swayed by the fact that I found what I thought was THE perfect fridge. The perfect fridge was on Adobe stock photos for £20 a month.. although the first month was a free trial period. Perfect! sign up, get perfect fridge photo, cancel trial!….. Nope! signed up to Adobe stock with not just the wrong but non-existent email (really must learn my uni email addy!)… one rather expensive phone call to Adobe in America later (I’m still not convinced she understood my British accent enough to cancel that wrong account!)… my EE phonebill… through the ROOF! (thank you to the nice EE man for giving me a £30 goodwill gesture refund!) #FAIL. BUT!… It did magically download the desired fridge image..somehow?!

Next step was to use my epically bad photoshop skills (I am learning!) to try and mock up something that might look half decent! 3am in the morning later and I kinda have something ok ish that I can work with!

It looks alright on my insta account 😛

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