When I Grow Up
est. 2004
A Style and Creative Living blog by Helen Hobden
I still haven’t worked out who I want to be or what I want to do when I grow up, so on this blog please join me while I try and work it out while keeping child-like creativity alive!  Find home and fashion inspiration; travel and days out; photography, writing and more. Have fun looking around 🙂

 

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Glastonbury festival wedding dress
Making the Glastonbury Festival bag dress – version 2
June 19, 2019
Wishing Glastonbury Festival isn’t over, on the Monday afternoon when most people have gone home, the kids and I usually take a walk through the festival site. It’s sad to say that some people STILL aren’t taking any notice of the ‘Love the farm; leave no trace’ mantra, and during the years when we were given free tote bags on arrival, unfortunately many were left behind. Rather than let them go into landfill, from 2015 to 2017 I decided to pick up as many as I could carry to turn them into a festival dress…
camera choices for bloggers
Finding the perfect camera system for youtubers, vloggers, bloggers & photographers.
June 17, 2019
Are you a blogger, photographer and vlogger? The big camera question! Do you, or do you not carry two cameras around with you at all times? Are you struggling with choosing which camera you need? I love photography and want to take with me a decent dslr to shoot in raw with a choice of lenses and allow me to take creative photos for my personal enjoyment as well as for my blog. However, I also vlog most of my life for my YouTube channel, and need to carry a camera for that as well. Can we combine them both? What should we do?
Making a Glastonbury Festival dress from bags! Sustainable festival fashion!
June 18, 2019
To see photos or buy the Glastonbury Bag dress: https://etsy.me/31F8Yb5 In today's video I show how I made a festival dress from the free tote bags given out at Glastonbury Festival. It would make a unique festival wedding dress! Please subscribe for more videos :) Keep in touch! (Links about me and my blog:) Blog: www.whenIgrowupblog.com e-mail: helen@whenIgrowupblog.com instagram.com/HelenHobden twitter.com/HelenHobden www.facebook.com/whenIgrowupblog Links about my clothing business: Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/threadsofafairytale Website: www.ThreadsOfAFairytale.com E-mail: helen@threadsofafairytale.com www.instagram.com/threadsofafairytale www.facebook.com/ThreadsOfAFairytale Rain's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Rainiepie Jude's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/starstone11
Homeware hauls! Homesense, The Range, vintage & charity shops. *Vlog*
June 13, 2019
In this vlog I attempt to go shopping for homeware at Homesense; have a big magazine declutter and sort-out; show you a lace haul, and buy other bits for the house from charity shops and vintage shops. And the cows are back! Please subscribe for more videos :) Keep in touch! (Links about me and my blog:) Blog: www.whenIgrowupblog.com e-mail: helen@whenIgrowupblog.com instagram.com/HelenHobden twitter.com/HelenHobden www.facebook.com/whenIgrowupblog Links about my clothing business: Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/threadsofafairytale Website: www.ThreadsOfAFairytale.com E-mail: helen@threadsofafairytale.com www.instagram.com/threadsofafairytale www.facebook.com/ThreadsOfAFairytale Rain's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Rainiepie Jude's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/starstone11
Wardrobe declutter! Dressing room / closet sort-out part 1
May 30, 2019
My dressing room was in desperate need of a good sort-out, so here's part one, decluttering my shelving wardrobe - all my jumpers, cardigans, trousers, leggings, and all my 'round-the-house clothes'! Please subscribe for more videos :) Keep in touch! (Links about me and my blog:) Blog: www.whenIgrowupblog.com e-mail: helen@whenIgrowupblog.com instagram.com/HelenHobden twitter.com/HelenHobden www.facebook.com/whenIgrowupblog Links about my clothing business: Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/threadsofafairytale Website: www.ThreadsOfAFairytale.com E-mail: helen@threadsofafairytale.com www.instagram.com/threadsofafairytale www.facebook.com/ThreadsOfAFairytale Rain's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Rainiepie Jude's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/starstone11
Styling a hippy maxi dress
Styling a hippy maxi dress
May 20, 2019
I bought this dress from a magic shop under the shadow of a pirate castle in Lanzarote when we were on holiday last year. By that I mean that it was one of those shops with a tiny front and a little plank door and you have to duck low to get inside. Then you find the shop is massive and goes back and back and back until it comes out onto another street entirely. Anyway, it was from there, but if you want to try and hunt it out out, the label says Elora…..
Glastonbury Festival site panoramic photo
Glastonbury Festival site, Panoramic photo 3, 2019
May 14, 2019
It’s fun to see the second team of fence builders have started on the opposite side of the Glastonbury Festival site this morning – it amazes me how they manage to make it meet – I suppose they must stop at an entrance gate. Anyway, I’m a bit embarrassed to confess that the tall tower in my Instagram Story yesterday, I think is just an electricity pylon that’s always there! It just looked different from a different angle and in the evening sunlight! The scaffolding construction though is definitely new….
official Outlander outfit
Styling khaki check / tartan for spring – an Outlander outfit
May 14, 2019
Have you seen the Starz Outlander series on telly? Or read the books by Diana Gabaldon? Chris and I have watched the four series through twice, and have begun to listen to the audio books in the car on our little jaunts around the country! When a clothing catalogue from the company EMP came through the door last November and I was browsing through for Christmas presents for the kids, I literally squealed in delight when I saw a page full of official Outlander clothing!….
Visiting Salisbury & Avebury + Easter fun *Vlog*
May 21, 2019
Chris and I have a trip out to Salisbury and see the famous cathedral! And then stop for photography at the Avenue and Avebury stone circle, and dinner at The Red Lion - apparently the most haunted pub in Britain. Then it's family time and the kids' Easter egg hunt! Please subscribe for more videos :) Keep in touch! (Links about me and my blog:) Blog: www.whenIgrowupblog.com e-mail: helen@whenIgrowupblog.com instagram.com/HelenHobden twitter.com/HelenHobden www.facebook.com/whenIgrowupblog Links about my clothing business: Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/threadsofafairytale Website: www.ThreadsOfAFairytale.com E-mail: helen@threadsofafairytale.com www.instagram.com/threadsofafairytale www.facebook.com/ThreadsOfAFairytale Rain's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Rainiepie Jude's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/starstone11
Should you buy a Neapolitan Mastiff? Owning an English or Neapolitan Mastiff
May 13, 2019
This is the blog post about what it's like to own a Neapolitan Mastiff to go with this video: https://bit.ly/2JDpNfO If you're thinking about buying a Neapolitan Mastiff or English Mastiff, or are wondering what Neapolitan Mastiffs are like, this video and blog are for you! Hopefully it will help you decide if this is the right breed of dog for you. Please subscribe for more videos :) Keep in touch! (Links about me and my blog:) Blog: www.whenIgrowupblog.com e-mail: helen@whenIgrowupblog.com instagram.com/HelenHobden twitter.com/HelenHobden www.facebook.com/whenIgrowupblog Links about my clothing business: Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/threadsofafairytale Website: www.ThreadsOfAFairytale.com E-mail: helen@threadsofafairytale.com www.instagram.com/threadsofafairytale www.facebook.com/ThreadsOfAFairytale Rain's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Rainiepie Jude's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/starstone11
*Vlog* My birthday, decorating the house for spring & a mini craft haul
May 2, 2019
Hello! I'm back with a vlog - some pyrography, some speed spring cleaning and decorating the house for Easter. It's my birthday! And what I bought at a craft shop closing down sale. CLICK SHOW MORE Please subscribe for more videos :) Please consider supporting this channel by purchasing your gifts from byHelenHobden.etsy.com or your fairytale clothing from ThreadsOfAFairytale.etsy.com - all handmade by me. Thank you! x Keep in touch! (Links about me and my blog:) Blog: www.whenIgrowupblog.com e-mail: helen@whenIgrowupblog.com instagram.com/HelenHobden twitter.com/HelenHobden www.facebook.com/whenIgrowupblog Links about my clothing business: Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/threadsofafairytale Website: www.ThreadsOfAFairytale.com E-mail: helen@threadsofafairytale.com www.instagram.com/threadsofafairytale www.facebook.com/ThreadsOfAFairytale Rain's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Rainiepie Jude's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/starstone11
Older Posts
  • I’m finding it extremely difficult to concentrate on anything! This was watching the Foo Fighters on this day in 2017. It’s very busy here in Pilton and I can’t wait till Wednesday. 🎪🤹‍♀️🎇#glastonburyfestival
  • For this photo I had to put down my bag and both cameras that were dangling from my wrists. Musings on whether there’s a better camera solution for bloggers/photographers and vloggers on the blog. I’d love to know your thoughts. (Link in bio) #bloggerlife
  • An empty meeting point and no queues at the compost loos. It won’t be like this for much longer! #glastonburyfestival #glastofest
  • Is that the sun shining again?! Happy Friday everyone and merry summer solstice.🌞 #ootd (Outfit post on the blog!)
  • What do you do to relax in the evening? We often watch episodes of Poirot and it was lovely to see Castle Combe was the setting for The murder of Roger Ackroyd!
  • Are you getting ready for festivals this summer? I wore my Glastonbury Festival boots out for a walk on Sunday for the first time in two years. Luckily they’re still as comfy as ever! #glastonburyfestival
  • “Gentle fairies hush your singing, can you hear my white bells ringing..?” -Cicely Mary Barker.
  • Walking the path less trodden. #ootd
  • Discovered the beautiful village of Mells at the weekend. I highly recommend the tearoom next to the village shop. 🌮☕️
  • If I wear blue, change the cushion covers, buy sunflowers and make yellow dresses, will it make the sun shine and the sky blue again?! (Dress @threadsofafairytale )
  • Luckily we managed to dodge the worst of the showers on Sunday. Not quite sure how I made it up there though (hashtag veryunfit!)
  • The whole of Dartmoor became covered in hawthorn confetti while we were there. - I’ve written about our camper road trip on the blog today (Link in bio)!

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