Visit Florida

VISIT FLORIDA

We worked with Visit Florida in April 2019. We created content for them showcasing a family road trip around the state across 17 days, with stops in Miami, Key Largo, Fort Lauderdale, Anna Maria Island, Crystal River, Panama City Beach and Pensacola Beach. We created a variety of different content for them across both my social media channels and theirs as well.

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Things to do in Miami with Kids

Things to do in The Keys with Kids

Things to do in Fort Lauderdale with Kids

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I knew we got this under the stairs dog bed made for a reason. It’s the perfect hiding spot. Hopefully they won’t find me in here.🤫 (The dog is like why on Earth are you in my bed love? This is where I come to escape when I’ve had enough of you all. 🤣)

It’s ok to crave space. 🤍 Will probably delete this later as I’ve never put any of the doodles or ‘art’ I’ve done on here before. But I drew this last night when I should I have been going to sleep (I love doodling in bed 🤣) and I think it’s entirely accurate as we go into another week. Whatever your situation may be, whether you are home schooling your kids, going out to work still, living with your partner and both working from home... It’s totally normal to crave to space once in a while. I know I do sometimes at the moment. Sending lots of love to you, we can only do the best we can. 🤍

My Saturday night is about as thrilling as it gets... got my pj’s on, just started a new book ‘The Lying Room’ by Nicci French (if you’ve read it did you enjoy it?) and I’ve got Jon next to me playing Mario Kart (I’m not entirely sure why, he doesn’t normally play computer games without the kids but I think he’s just bored 🤣). I really want to try and make more time for reading this year, but like everything else I tell myself I’ll do at a start of a new year (drink more water, don’t snack as much etc etc), I never keep it up. 🤣 I did read a little more than usual last year- does anyone have any good book recommendations? I’d love to know what your reading, I always save these posts as inspiration. Hope you are having an ok weekend so far. ❤️

Trying to help this one learn and do his home school work is like wrestling with 100 tigers and a crocodile on a regular basis. I come away feeling tired, a little defeated, and on the cusp of not being sure whether I want to laugh or cry. 🤣 He deep down knows the answers and is quite a switched on little thing, but he has the motivation of a slug to learn, and the attention span of a gnat. It can be so intense it’s comical, but there are glimmers where I manage to get him engrossed in something (even if it’s for 5 minutes) and I can see a bright, clever little boy.
I keep joking (to myself 🤣) that if he spoke to his teachers the way he talks to me, he’d have been expelled by now. He will openly tell me it’s boring or he doesn’t want to learn. 🙃 (I feel the same most of the time but I wouldn’t say it to him 🤣).
My girls are much better and will get on with things on their own, but they still need assistance and then I feel guilty cause I’m not dividing my time equally. So much respect to those of you who are home schooling while having to work certain set hours, or going out of the home to work still, or even teachers teaching while trying to home school their own kids. Mine are now in bed (but by no means asleep) and we are about to sit and watch the second episode of The Serpent (so many people said how good it is), before both getting on with a bit of work. Hope you are doing ok. ❤️

ad| I have definitely been stuck in a little bit of a rut when it comes to fashion and style, and knowing what sort of clothes suit me this year. I got an email a while ago asking if I wanted to work with @lookiero_uk and to try out their personal shopping service. I wasn’t too familiar with them before, but once I read a little more I was excited and intrigued to try it. How it works in simple terms (you can go on their website and get a full FAQ), is that you fill out quite an in-depth style questionnaire online (you can even share what sort of clothes you are after eg casual, work, going out etc, obviously at the moment I chose casual), including questions on your body shape, hair colour, what type of fit you like your clothes etc. They then send you out 5 items of clothing (you can set your budget and also how often you would want a box- it isn’t a subscription so you can just do it occasionally if you would like). A personal stylist for a £10 fee will then select some clothes for you and you can get them sent directly to your door so you can try them on in the comfort of your own home. You can then pay and keep the clothes you like and send back the ones you don’t free of charge- it’s as easy as that.

I was really impressed with the clothes that they selected for me. I felt they got my style down to a tee (you can even send them a couple photos of you beforehand so they know what kind of clothes you like), and I would genuinely wear all the things they chose for me. They all fitted great as well and overall I liked them all a lot. It was exciting and interesting to have someone choose clothes for me, I have never had anything like that before. I think this would be a great service if you are feeling a bit unsure of your style.

If you would like to try out Lookiero then head over to their website (link is in my stories) for more information and also if you do end up giving it a go, you can use the code KATIELK which means you can order without paying the £10 service fee.

Which of my outfits do you like the best? I like them all but I really like the dress. Let’s hope I can wear it outside my four walls soon! #Lookiero

And relax. Well not quite yet cause the kids aren’t in bed yet, but they are having a sleepover tonight so they’ll be noisy and awake for a while, no doubt I’ll have to tell them 3217 times to go to sleep. Cannot wait to get in here. I’m going to attempt to zone out and read my book for a bit (I’m giving ‘That Day You Left’ by Dorothy Koomson another go as I started it and then got excited to read another book I got so didn’t finish.). Then Jon and I are going to watch a film called The Captive, I think it’s old , it’s on Amazon Prime, has anyone seen it? It’s called Ryan Reynolds in it.
Anyway hope you are all doing ok and enjoying you Saturday evening. 🤍

Sunset / Golden Hour Photography Tips... ☀️ If you’ve been following me a while you may know that sunset photography is my favourite time to take photos. We went on a walk the other day and couldn’t believe how beautiful the sky was, and luckily I had my camera on me. I love these photos so much.

I thought I’d give you some tips for taking photos in golden hour....( you can save this post by clicking the little flag on the bottom right of this photo so you can come back to it at a later date)

☀️Golden hour is that period approx an hour after sunrise and one hour before sunset, the colours vary so much over the hour, but seeing as light is everything in photography, it’s the perfect time to take photos. It gives a lovely soft light which is much easier to take photos in than harsh daytime sunlight.

☀️Shooting directly with your camera pointing towards the sun gets you that lovely sun flare, and lots of artistic options, and gives your photo a magical haze and glow. Everything looks a bit dream like and it is my favourite type of photography (all the photos here are shot with the sun directly in front of the camera and behind the people in the photo ), but you can also have the sun to the side or behind you to create a different kind of look.

☀️ If you have a dslr camera set your camera to manual mode otherwise your camera will auto adjust and you won’t necessarily get that lovely haze and glow.

☀️ I tend to shoot with a low, wide open aperture of f/1.8 to f/2.8 (depends on your lens) - this puts the background out of focus and makes everything appear more hazy. I then just adjust my ISO and make it higher as it begins to get darker so my photo stays light.

☀️Switch up your angles. Try getting low to see what happens to the sun flare, or position your subjects with the sun between them to create a sunburst in between. Or shoot with it to side (but still shoot directly into it), to see the different effects it gives. The sun flare, sun spots and haze will vary.

☀️ If your camera has the function then shoot in RAW mode rather than JPEG cause that gives you more chance to rectify any light issues when you edit them later.

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Fresh air always helps . Our morning didn’t go too well today. I felt guilty for not being able to spread myself equally between all three kids and their different learning needs. There were grumps, tears and tension headaches, alongside a bit of learning too.
We decided to go out for a late afternoon walk (what’s new there 😆), and we got there and it started raining and hailing. Then the weather changed really quickly and we witnessed the sun setting and the sky changing some pretty incredible colours. I’m not sure if it was the fact it had just rained, but I’ve not seen the sky look like that in a while.
I took a few photos (I’ll share them in another post tomorrow maybe) but I just wanted to share this one Jon took of Lottie and I. The sun was so incredible, I’ll never tire of a sunset, and I love this photo so much. It weirdly makes me get goosebumps when I look at it.
As we were walking the kids were being so sweet and I got tears in my eyes because I just love them all so much and it was the most simple but well needed moment. They were all looking at me and pretend rolling their eyes as I said I was getting a bit teary cause I loved them.
But it’s true. And they are probably used to me by now. 🤣 The fresh air, cuddles and Mother Nature at its best, were just what we all needed today. 🤍

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