ButterflyBoo

Pale face and red lipstick.

2012-02-16T16:05:00.001-08:00

Valentines Day in a club- we were surrounded by really creepy people who wanted to drown their sorrows for being alone. Tbf, we were there too, so that doesn't make us any better. But we're not creepy haha!
I'm not gonna lie- there was a worrying amount of couples there, I would not have been impressed if I had a boyfriend and he suggested we went to a free club for the night where there are lots of creepy people!
I went with just my best friend/flatmate as our Valentine's date cause we have eachother, and that was fun. We didn't take our sprinkles and Parker Pen though (if you have no clue what I'm on about, read my previous post haha).
There were some creepy guys who wanted to dance with us, we managed to convince them we were lesbians to make them go away. I don't think they actually believed us, after we refused to kiss cause we were 'too shy to do it in public' haha. But they left us alone after that at least haha.
There was this really drunk girl and she literally ran into me and nearly knocked me over- was so rude. So this guy came up to me and was like "are you okay?! she hit you pretty hard" after making sure I was fine he went on his way. Then about an hour later we bumped into eachother again and he said "i just wanna make sure you don't have post traumatic stress after that" and I didn't see him again.
Then last night, when we were out (more on that later -awful awful night!) I bumped into him again, and he said he was talking about me to someone earlier in the day. What.
He said they'd asked whether he'd pulled the previous night, and he said (according to him) "No, but I did meet this girl who was really really pale and had bright red lipstick, it was amazing".
It's not just me- that is a really weird thing to say right!?
He wanted to take me out on a 'non-valentines day date', I'm not holding my breath on that one haha.

Anyway, this is what I wore on Tuesday:

I've no idea where I was looking!

Blazer: Charity shop find - see previous post
Top: Tesco White Vest
Skirt: Tesco school range
Tights: Peacocks flesh coloured x2
Necklace: Internacionale
Bracelet: Part of a set from New Look
Nails: 'Pink Skies' H&M

So we went out for the Traffic Light Party last night- it was horrific. You got labelled with a sticker, either "No thanks" for taken, "Maybe..." if you were seeing someone/willing to cheat/I've no idea, or "Try me" for single. It's safe to sat my 'Try Me' sticker lasted all of 2 minutes on me.
How disgusting, why would I want to be labelled like that.
So much drama over boys, I don't know why they act so stupid when they're drunk.
My friend is having major problems with a guy and we spent all night trying to work out what to do, which wasn't great. I got cornered by one of my friends who then proceeded to lick me (ewww) on my face over and over again.
I had to tell someone that I wasn't interested in him after he got the wrong end of the stick and he got very upset and was very drunk.
Then I woke up to a barrage of texts from all of his friends telling me what I horrible person I was and things. Lovely.

Anyways. Rant over.

The past few days have been manic. I've officially become the CU's treasurer so I'm learning the ropes of that as well as being on the Missions Team (for the CU) and our missions weeks is next week.
I'm orgainising and hosting an Open Mic Night tomorrow night so that's been really stressful figuring out everything. And I've also managed to volunteer to orgainise a drama to perform in a weeks time..that's an awful lot of work for a week haha. It's all very stressful!

I hope you've had productive days:)
xxx

A Parker Pen and Sprinkles.

2012-02-14T09:50:00.000-08:00

I live with 5 people, an international student, a mature student and then the best 3 friends a girl could ask for...until their respective other halves come to stay. You see, in the room next to me is the best guy ever, but sadly for him, his girlfriend lives in Austria. They see eachother about once every 1/2 months, so it isn't that bad but she's come to stay this week! Yay for him. Boo for me.

Not seeing eachother very often means that they make the most of when they do, on the other side to the wall to me. Ew. Whenever she stays I'm treated to pretty much 24hr sex next to me. It's horrific, and I find it very hard to look at my flatmate in the eye for a while.

Whenever she stays, I spend a much time in my other flatmates room possible.

Until this week, as my other flatmates boyfriend has come to stay this week, so guess what? She's treated to lots of sex too. Granted they see eachother at least 4 times a week, so it's not as bad. But we can't even escape to eachother rooms...great.

Anyway. I went out on Saturday as I hadn't for a while, and had a really fun time.

They were doing particularly cheesy songs in between the club tracks, so we had lots of YMCA-ing, "Thats what makes you beautifuuuuuuuuuuuul-ing" and Cotton- eye joe-ing, which was definitely what I needed. On the way back I stopped off at the takeaway with my friend, and someone ran up to me and screamed "Whitney Houston's DEAD". Didn't exactly believe her as she was very drunk. But it's a great loss, and my prayers are with her family.
But what was really scary was that at the same time I was at the takeaway, in the road opposite someone was being murdered. I only found out the next day.

Here's what I wore:

Yes it's a mixture of two outfits you've seen before!
Top: Actually a dress tucked in, H&M on sale at £7!
Shorts: Primark in the summer
Tights: Morrisons
Belt: Came with other shorts

Face:
Eyeliner: Collection 2000 Extreme 24hr Felt Tip Liner
Mascara: Collection 2000 Pump Up The Volume
Concealer: Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection
Lipstick: Miss Sporty Perfect Colour 058 Malaga

Possibly the weirdest thing happened to me on Monday:

So I was in morrisons with my best friend/flatmate and we were casually looking at pizza. And this guy came up to us and asked about our Law Assignment. (A couple of weeks ago he'd spoken to me and asked where to hand it in), anyway it took us about 10 minutes to explain where to pick them up, and we thought he understood so we carried on shopping. But oh no, he decided to follow us.
He followed us all about Morrissons whilst asking us questions, he asked where we were from, what it was like, why we came to Bangor, how old we were, what courses we were doing, where we lived. All sorts. So I returned the favour and asked why he came to Bangor, he replied "Because the logo has 5 lions on it...and I like lions" Yeah, so this guy came all the way from Nepal to Bangor, because he likes lions. He asked about Valentines Day, and we said we were alone so we were spending it together, but he took us seriously and starting interrogating us about what we were doing, what we were going to buy each other, and whether were going on Vacation. Eventually he left us alone.
A couple hours later, we were waiting outside our lecture theatre waiting to go in and he came up to us and said "This is for you and Valentines", he handed me a brand new Parker Pen in it's packet, and handed my flatmate a tub of 'Sugar Butterfly Sprinkles'.
That's right- he bought us a pen and sprinkles for Valentines Day.

I will leave you on that note, how is everyones Valentines Day? Doing anything special?
xxx

Versitile Blog Award :)

2012-02-13T06:21:00.000-08:00

Life is ceraaazy, and in this crazy world - you beautiful people are giving me awards!

The beautiful Tia at http://bellezzababe.blogspot.com/ awarded me the Versitile Blog Award!

Tia is gorgeous and blogs with a passion in her writing that I find really special. Go check out her blog - she's fab! :)

Rules of the award

1) Thank the person who awarded you with a link back

2) Tell 7 things about you

3) Pass this on to 10 newly discovered blogs and let them know they recieved the award.

Ohhhkay. 7 things about me.

I was born whilst my parents were on holiday in Shropshire. Of all the things they thought was sensible whilst due - going on holiday was one on them!
I find cleaning very theraputic
I have the weirdest fear ever- even writing that I have it makes my heart go crazy.
My aim in life is to visit all the major zoos in the world
I have a soft spot for Louis Tomlinson in One Direction
One day I hope to set up a charity and change lives
I have developed an addiction to cheese on toast followed by chocolate digestives dipped in tea

The 10 blogs I am awarding this to are :

Clarice at http://thedivamomma.blogspot.com/

Annie at http://othersideofgray.blogspot.com/

Hannah at http://thediaryofapoorgirl.blogspot.com/

Second Hand Rose at http://thesecondhandrose.blogspot.com/

Amy at http://pr3ttypow3rful.blogspot.com/

Bri at http://breeeblogs.blogspot.com/

Rachael at http://islandgirlinsights.blogspot.com/

Jane Irina at http://hellyeahfashionblog.blogspot.com/

Amanda Nicole at http://mandyshippe.blogspot.com/

All you bloggers really deserve it as I love your blogs.
Everyone should go check them out! :)

xxx

Shopping till I'm poor. Check.

2012-02-11T09:04:00.000-08:00

I feel like I've been MIA in blogging world! In reality it's only been 4 days (my last post was scheduled as I knew I wouldn't get on here) So major apologies if you get a flurry of comments from me on your posts haha, I'm just catching up!

So my mum came to stay in Bangor for a few days, which has been lovely! I haven't felt as homesick this semester but seeing her has made me feel a lot better anyways :)

We went on a few adventures around North Wales; like going to church island in Anglesey (its an island with just a church, graveyard and a war memorial!) going to the pier and a costal walk in Bangor, and a day out in Llandudno where there are actual shops!! This is a big deal, cause the shopping in Bangor is shocking haha.

Here are a couple of pictures from our walk on church island :)

Unfortunately, we were in Wales- which meant that is was horrible weather, rainy, misty and cold on for the pier and Llandudno so wasn't able to take any pictures of where we were!

I've been in search of a gold button for one of my skirts (there are buttons all down the front, and one's missing from right in the middle, inappropriaaaaate haha), and would you believe there is no where in Bangor that sells buttons.. I have no idea what welsh people do when they need buttons!!
So my next plan was to buy something in a charity shop with a gold button which I could use, I'm not sure what my logic was- but I thought it was a good idea at the time. So me and my mum went on a gold button hunt in every charity shop there is around..and didn't find one. BUT I did find a packet of broaches which I could transform into a button for 50p..score.

Anyway, whilst I was in the Charity Shop I saw a few gems, and I couldn't resist!
I bought this blazer for £4.99, it's a Tigi one and is a size 10-12. Granted it is too big for me, but with the sleeves rolled up and the buttons aren't done up, you can't even tell! I was mega pleased :)

I also saw a jumper I loved, but my mum was there and she gave me the "You're a very poor student, you shouldn't be shopping" look. So I resisted.
Until today.
Haha, I was very naughty and went shopping today (my mum had gone home). I was sat in my room watching tv and just dreaming over this jumper. It was calling me! So I bought it...oops.
It was also £4.99, from M&S and is a size 16. Again, it's far too big. But it's just on trend, an oversized chunky knit! :) It does smell like where my nan lives haha, but other than that ;)

I also went to Superdrug...well, if I was going to shop, I had to do it right.
And bought a lipstick and nail varnish. Both Miss Sporty (my budget is tight..she says as she's shopping haha).

058, Malaga No idea what number it is - from the clubbing colours range!

Apologies from the awful quality of light - the flash makes everything go weird.

Whilst shopping yesterday, my mum bought me these :) They were on sale in Dorothy Perkins, £9.50 down to £1!! I was shocked and amazed :)

I also bought some books from a charity shop, 2 for £2, I was very impressed! And I finally bought my dad's birthday present (only 2 weeks late haha)

This week it worked out that I either was ill or my mum was here the nights everyone went out! So I'm making up for it tonight, it's gonna be fun :)

I'll take a few pics of my outfit, I also cut my own hair this morning (I'm not sure what came over me haha), nothing dramatic, just a bit more of a fringe and shorter..!

How has everybodys weeks been?
xxxx

Cute Blog Award

2012-02-10T07:01:00.000-08:00

Goodness me, life doesn't get any better than this. I've won another blog award :D

This time I won the Cute Blog Award from Amy at http://marzipanstairway.blogspot.com/ :)
Amy's blog is so gorgeous - she writes about fashion and her thoughts, I really do love her blog. Once you've finished reading this, definitely go check her out!

Here are the rules of the award :

- Link back to the person who awarded you

- Answer the award questions

- Share something about yourself you haven't shared on your blog before

- Award as many blogs you think are worthy of this award

Here are the questions! :

1) What it your go-to makeup product?
Erm, I'd probably say mascara, or concealer.. Or lipbalm haha.
They're the only ones I wear everyday.

2) Favourite fashion trend of 2012?

I'm loving fairisle right now, fairisle jumpers and skirts :)

3) Favourite colour?
Purple!

4) What was the last song you listened to?
It was probably Slumber by Needtobreath
My friend recommended it :)

5) Cats or dogs?
Can't say I've had either. Probably cats.

6) What's your middle name?
I don't have one!

Something you've never shared:
I save labels or reciepts for really special things which have memories attatched to them in a special box :)

I'm awarding this to:
Becca at http://backfortea.blogspot.com/

Martha at http://smarthaa.blogspot.com/

Louise at http://thebeautyoflouise.blogspot.com/

Shelby at http://sweetconfessions21.blogspot.com/

I could have picked many other blogs, but these 5 I have started to read only recently and have found them so interesting and lovely as people and as blogs!
Definitely go check them out! :)

I've also just won another award - the Versatile Blog award! (You guys make me so happy and privileged!) But will do that one in another post :)
Thank you again Amy! xxx

Raving to silence.

2012-02-07T07:51:00.000-08:00

Friday bought the unique experience of a silent disco - I went to one in Freshers week but this one was so much better.
A silent disco is basically where you're given headphones on entry which allows you to switch between 2 or more stations whilst in the club and dance to that. We had one station which was 'rock anthems' and party hits - so basically well known songs like 'Mr Brightside', 'We will rock you' etc and then S club 7, Five..all the good ones :) And another station which was dubstep and drum and bass etc.
I'm sure you can guess which one I stuck too haha.
It was really entertaining though as the 2 DJ's were in constant competition as to how many people were listening to their station. So all of a sudden you'd get the DJ saying "boo to the other DJ when he comes in the booth", and of course the other couldn't hear what he was saying, so he'd just get like 70 people boo-ing at him.
Whilst we were all listening to the channels, we could easily take off the headphones and have a conversation, something that is impossible to do in a normal club situ.
Also, very amusing is that most people were on the party hits station- but the few people who weren't were like raving it up beside us whilst we were do the 5,6,7,8 dance haha!

A few photos of the night :

(You do get over how silly you look after a few minutes- as everyone looks just as silly)

We also went on to the pier last week, it's so gorgeous on it. It's completely abandoned apart from a tea shop at the end which is run by an elderly couple. It's so cute- they sell homemade cake, shortbread and actual famous scones! If you google 'Bangor Pier scones' there are so many results saying they're the best in the world. And I agree- they're amazing!!

We have no snow in Bangor, as we're surrounded by mountains and are next to the sea. But the mountains are covered with snow and it's one of the most beautiful sights ever. In fact as you're walking towards the land from the end of the pier the whole view is mountains. Words cannot describe how beautiful it is and no picture can ever do it justice. The picture below is the view from where I live :)

My mum's coming to stay this week so I'm going to take her around to see these beautiful sights :)

Hope you're all well! xxx

Holding memories tight.

2012-02-04T05:53:00.000-08:00

After reading so many posts about how amazing summer will be, I thought I'd do something a little different and share some memories of one very special summer I had.
(Warning- this is a very long post!)

In 2009, after my GCSE's I was fortunate enough to go on a missions trip as part of a team with my church. There were 10 of us in total, with 6 of us going to work on the Summer Camp. I went to be a junior leader on a summer camp for disadvantaged children. And it was awesome.

Our youth team for camp

My church has been linked with and visited the church in Russia for over 10 years and each yeah my church sends a team out there to help build and restore their church. The year I went was a little different as it was the first year we went to the summer camp.
We went for 10 days, and landed in St Petersburg, the church and our host family live in Kingisepp and the summer camp was on the beach on the Finnish Gulf.

(The summer camp was somewhere along the coast, I wish I could say where exactly. But I do know that we were very close to Ukraine)

We arrived in Kingisepp and was met by our host families. These were families in the church who volunteered to have us to stay whilst we were in Kingisepp. I was staying with my friend and our host family were so lovely. They were so generous, and welcoming - giving us everything and anything we could need. The first night we were there we spent hours looking through their photo albums. (Did you know in Kingisepp/Russia a couple who have just wed must climb a tree and tie a ribbon round it whilst still wearing their dress/tux) They fed us fit to burst. Although the food certainly wasn't to my taste, they kept trying to fatten me up. I used the phrase "pulne" a lot (which I think means full, but the children taught me that so who knows haha!)
We left for the camp not knowing what was ahead, turns out- it an adventure we'd never forget.
In Russia (at least where&when I went, I don't mean to generalise!) they hold the values that men do the labour work, and women do the cooking and cleaning.
So they were our roles, me and the 2 other girls were rotered into cooking the 6 meals a day (!) and cleaning the rest of the camp. Whilst the boys chopped fire wood and collected water from the sea.
The days we worked we had to be up at 7:00am to begin cooking the camp's breakfast, which consisted of porridge, then clear up and begin making elevenses which was some chocolate spread on bread, clearing it up, then dinner, which consisted of unknown 'meat' and rice. Cleared up that, then another snack of bread, cleared that up then cooked lunch, which was another kind of meat and rice. And about 10:00pm we gave the children a jelly sort of drink and biscuits- the perfect thing to send them hyper before bed!

Between all the cooking/cleaning up and on the days that we weren't working; we were free to spend time and play with the children. This was the best thing of the whole trip. Most of the children could say the basics of English, and I couldn't speak any Russian, so we spent a lot of time developing relationships by doing things we all enjoyed, doing hand gestures, and playing games. Card games in particular were very popular. It's amazing how close you can get with people by spending time together but not necessarily talking. I made some amazing friends who I'll always hold dear.
In particular I became very close to a group of a girls, they were all between 8-10yrs old and had a good grasp of English so we were able to have proper conversations and build relationships which will last forever.
We spent at least 10+ hours a day together so we were pretty much inseparable by the end of the week.

My girls :)

<3

The summer camp was a Christian camp, so whilst we were leaders, the children spent the week playing, learning more about God and developing their relationships.
They had exercises on the beach every morning (they had to after all that food!) Bible studies every day, a chance to pray and worship, and lots of free time to play and swim in the sea. I spent a lot of time playing 'capture the flag' on the beach with them :) Every night we had a main meeting (in Russian) where we sang worship songs with a guitar (I still know the words, but no idea what they mean!) and then our team used to perform an English song for them with movements so we could teach them. They still remember the dances, I've had many videos sent to me with them showing us :)

Us teaching a song in the evening meeting :)

The children's freetime

After a week at the camp, we left before the children did as we had to catch a flight so we had the hard task of saying goodbye. It was one of the saddest thing's I've ever had to do. One of my friends (from the English team) performed 'Goodbye', and I can still feel the tears rolling down my cheeks, I have a video of it and you can hear my crying over her singing.
I promised to be best friends forever and ever with one very special little girl, Rita. And to this day we keep in contact and she is still a massive part of my life. I still have the teddy bear she gave me the day I left.

Rita and me <3

Dancing with my girl <3

We camped on the beach, with a forest on one side I was told there were bears! And the sea on the other. We had no running water, or electricity. We only had wood, fire and the sea.
The toilets were a hole in the ground with a bin liner round them, with so many bugs around.
I ate nothing but chocolate spread and cereal bars for the week. The food really didn't agree with me!
To wash we used the sea, which is not easy I will tell you now!

We spent the 10 days using hand gestures and acting out things, it really was hilarious.

I have so many stories of going to Russia, memories to last a lifetime.

I hope you enjoyed my trip down memory lane :) xxx

Happiness continued.

2012-02-02T07:12:00.000-08:00

No night out is complete without a drink being poured over someones head..right?

Seems to be an occuring theme amongst my friends these days. Thankfully I haven't fallen victim to it yet, I just need to avoid annoying somebody with a drink in their hands haha!
Recently my posts have been about my adventures of going out, but Tuesday was pretty sedate compared to recent events. I went out with both my flatmates (minus one who was ill, boooo :( ) and a group from CU as it was one of the girls birthday. But we had fun. My flatmate nearly got into a fight after defending me and my friend against a guy, he's so protective- I love him!

Here's what I wore on Tuesday :

Top - New look vest
Shorts - Think they were a summer purchase from Primark!
Tights - Morrissons (I was as shocked as you are right now)
Heels - Regular New Look Heels
Necklace - Avon, many moons ago it broke on Wednesday eve :(

Last night we went to student night in Occy - it was toga night. I didn't take up the fancy dress haha. However lots of people did, there were 2 extremes : Girls who wore tissue paper which covered up nothing or people that went all out and looked fab in a toga- just a little bit silly.
After being out Monday and Tuesday already, I was pretty tired but was determined to have a good night. Occy has two floors, one which is most popular with chart music and general club-y ness, and another which has cheesy music, with less people and less shoving. We chose to be in the cheese music one last night, and it was so much better than usual.
We could dance and sing to 'Mysterious Girl' and S club 7 without the usual strange looks, because everyone else was doing it too!
Was so much fun! Of course the night wasn't drama free.
The guy that I mentioned before who my flatmates took revenge on was there and when his friend dragged me over to him, he was wrapped around some girl who then proceeded to say "He's my brother" yeah right. Haha, his friend said that "out of all the girls, I was his favourite". I'm not sure whether that was supposed to comfort me, seeing as I was just one of the many girls haha.
Another guy took a liking to my flatmate and followed her around everywhere, we literally went to every corner of the club and we still got followed!
When we were about to leave a guy stroked my legs...that was weird.
Anyway, this is what I wore Wednesday: (I am aware one pic is very blurry - sorry)

Top: Primark years ago
Skirt: Tesco school range - an old sixth form one
Tights: Peacocks flesh coloured x2
Heels: New Look (You're just gonna have to take that for granted, I always wear them!)

I gave blood this afternoon.
Last time I attempted I was deemed underweight and they only took half the donation due to the risk to my health. So I'm really pleased that I was able to this time!
Of course I went through about half an hour of rigorous testing, weighing, measuring to make sure I was going to be okay this time. It really is a big deal to me that I do it as I've watched my mum do it for years - and I know it really does save lives.
I can't really use my right arm too much as it's really sore. Accounting Lecture will be fun haha!
I'd fully recommend Giving Blood if you ever get the chance - you really don't know what difference you're making to someones life.

How are we all? :) xxx

Tea and Biscuits solve everything.

2012-01-31T06:50:00.000-08:00

Since my last post I've gained a few new followers - so hello and welcome :)
It's still a crazy idea that people actually want to read about my life!

In my last post I kinda bitched about the male species, and unfortunately I still have no evidence to stop bitching about them, as they've been just as useless as before! However I would like to tell a little story; Last night I was manning the cloakroom at a local club (more on that later) and this young man started chatting to me. He was very nice, and went on his way. When he was rather drunk he came back he started to ask me whether I was a "forward person" (who says that?!), so he asked me out and asked to kiss me. I said no, cause he was drunk, and I'm not one to throw myself over a counter to kiss a stranger. So then he grabbed me and kissed me over this counter. I pulled away and he would leave me alone after that, but no. He then proceeded to call me boring, over and over again cause I wouldn't let him climb over the counter. I kid you not, this is the conversation I witnessed:

Drunk guys friend : "Are you chatting up the cloakroom again?"
(I laughed)
Drunk guys friend: "I'll take that as a yes then"
(To drunk guy) : "Did you not strike out in there then?"
Drunk guy: "Nope"
Drunk guys friend: "So you're relegated to the cloak room then?"

Seriously- people have some cheek, I was standing right there!

*Rant over*

Anyway, last night I was part of a team to man the cloakroom at the student club. Basically any society can sign up to it on specific nights and then can keep any money they make. So I was there as part of the Christian Union, it was Cheese night in the club and was surprisingly busy for a Monday. It was a mad rush for some of the time, and other times we entertained ourselves my doing push ups on the metal bars. We ended up raising over £100 which is incredible! As next years treasurer for the CU, I am proper chuffed with that as I know what the money will be used for :)

The club closed at 3 last night, and it's my busiest days for lectures today. I had 10:00-11:00, 11:00- 12:00, 12:00-14:00, and 14:00- 16:00. All of that after 4 hours sleep isn't great haha. In fact, I should be in my Maths lecture at the moment, but I couldn't hack it after 4 hours of lectures already.

So I'm sat in my room drinking tea and eating biscuits (amazing discovery: Morrisons value chocolate digestives are amazing) hoping I will feel normal again before tonight!

I'm off out tonight and tomorrow so will have some outfit posts for you very soon :)

I hope you're all well!

Love, Elizabeth xxx

Things that make you go "..thanks?" - OOTN

2012-01-28T03:51:00.000-08:00

I've received a few backhanded compliments over the past few days, ones which make you go "..thanks?"

When we were walking home from the club on Tuesday I made friends with a friend of a friend, he was perfectly nice, civil. Bit strange, but we all are in Wales. Until he mentioned that me and his mum liked the same thing, and then "Well, you're a bit hotter than my mum" I'm sure his mum is gorgeous, but he didn't exactly win my heart with this. I argued back and he said "Well you don't know what I meant, that coulda been a little bit hotter, or a lot a bit hotter" yeah.

I was sitting on the back of some comfy seats in the bar of a club on Wednesday giving my feet a rest and chatting to my flatmate. When a guy walked past, he was hot - but that's beside the point, he walked past and gave me a bit of a look and I ignored it, so then he walked backwards and said "You know, you're absolutely gorgeous!" So I smiled and said thank you very much, so then he said "Well, I think you are, it might be just the light" oh. So then he stepped backwards and scrutinised me. A real charmer that one.

The level of classiness in Bangor is unbelievable.

I mention it alot, but my flatmates are truely amazing:
On Wednesday they took revenge on a guy for me. This said guy, has been lovely for the past few weeks, but how wrong I was. I wont go into details, cause he doesn't deserve that. However, my flatmate 'accidently' bumped into him and nearly pushed him over, and my other flatmate gave him such awful evil looks whenever he came near all night. Made him feel sufficiently awkward until he climbed onto the stage to escape us.

Immature, but revenge is sweeeeet!

Here's what I wore :)

Dress: New look - from the children's range. Was on sale!
Tights: Peacocks flesh tights, I was wearing 2 pairs cause it's freezing outside!
Necklace:Internacionale - again sale item.
Nails: (if you can see) Rimmel I <3 Lasting Finish 030 Double Decker Red
Heels: New Look heels featured in many posts!
I added a thin orange belt for the cinched in waist after took the photos!

:) xxx

There once was a girl who lived in a pink house.

2012-01-25T07:53:00.000-08:00

This girl's dreams came true when she found the most perfect house and she got to live with her best friends in the world. People really don't any better than these friends, and what's more, the house was pink! The pink house was picture perfect, 4 stories, and this girl was a very lucky girl and ended up with the biggest room! The pink house was just as she'd imagined, a perfect family house for her little family.

This girl is me :)

We found the most perfect house and we're in the process of signing contracts so it's officially ours!
When the housing list came out, we arranged to see this house, and from the outside..well, we weren't exactly impressed, but when we went inside, we knew we had to have this house. It was perfect.

Of course things weren't plain sailing, we asked for the house Monday evening after viewing it twice that day, and we were told that he'd have to think about it and make a decision in the morning as there were a few groups after it. This wasn't great news. So we waited, and waited, and waited. All day. At 4 in the afternoon we were told that the house had been offered to another group (by a member of said group) and that crushed us. Our dream house, wasn't ours. We looked at housing lists, rang landlords but most of the 5 bedroom properties were gone. We were really depressed at this point, just waiting for a call of rejection.

At 7, we got a call from the landlord, saying the house was ours!! The other group turned it down, and we were second choice!! :D I think we all had tears in our eyes, it was such a relief.

So we found the perfect house (which we can decorate and paint however we like), at the perfect price, with the perfect people.

Perfection :)

N.B - this isn't actually our house, I wish it was. But it is this colour!!

Of course we went out to celebrate last night. It was fun :)

Hope all your dreams are coming true too! :)

xxx

Liebster Blog Award :)

2012-01-21T07:34:00.000-08:00

Hello you lot :)

So the past few days I've realised quite how fortunate I am to have amazing people in my life (if you follow me on twitter, button on the side, you'll know I go on about it alot haha) but today it's only been confirmed like a million times, and I've been very lucky to win the Liebster blog award!

I was given this blog award by a really lovely girl called Etienne @ http://etiennesjournal.blogspot.com/ and it really has made my week! I've been on the blogging scene for just under a year and she is one of the most genuine and interesting girls that I've found. She writes with such honesty and passion, something which is so lovely to read.
Something which I've noticed is that she always speaks from her heart, whether it be through her blog posts or through comments, she wears her heart on her sleeve and it is something that I admire.
(Everyone should go read and follow her blog!)

For me, starting this blog was a bit of a release, I wasn't planning on it to be a big deal, but the more I did it, the more I loved it. Being able to share my life and read about other people's really made me happy.

Putting your life out there on the internet is a big deal, but I am so lucky that I've only ever had nice comments and lovely people visit my blog. So thank you for that :)

Although I know of a few people in my reality life who read this blog (sneaky people found it haha), the majority I've never met, and to me it's amazing that people are so willing to share their lives and be so lovely over the internet.

Here are the rules:

1) Thank your Liebster Blog Award Presenter on your blog

2) Link back to the blogger who awarded/nominated you

3) Copy and paste the blog award to your blog

4) Reveal your top 5 blogs

5) Drop by your top 5 picks and let them know you've chosen them via commenting!

Choosing my top 5 was a lot difficult than I thought, I had so many blogs to choose from which deserved this award :)
I chose the one's I did specifically because I not only love their blogs, but also them personally. By leaving really lovely comments, encouraging me and making me laugh, they really do feel a part of my life! A comment makes my day.
I read all the blogs that I do because I love reading them, and reading about their lives. I feel like I know you all personally! So narrowing it down was tough. My top 5 are below:

1) Laura at http://adaisychaindream.blogspot.com/

2) Gigi at http://fantasyfashioned.blogspot.com/

3) Dina at http://voguelyvan.blogspot.com/

4) Danielle at http://tinkstales-tinkerbelldani.blogspot.com/

5) Rachel at http://sweet--rachel.blogspot.com/

Thank you again Etienne for giving me this award :)

All my love xxx

Growing up is scary!

2012-01-19T10:29:00.000-08:00

If I've realised anything in the past few weeks back in Bangor, is that growing up is scary.

I finished my exams on Wednesday (YAY!) so that led to a little celebration. Of shopping.

We went into town on the pretence to find a house, but more about that later, and I ended up buying a mascara, nail varnish and a new dress..it was on sale, I had to!

It's a tight fitting cream dress which was down to £7 in H&M, I was about to take a picture for an OOTN then my camera died :( so below is a picture taken from a friend's camera - please bear in mind this was taken at 2:30am...I look a mess, but you can see the dress.
We went out last night as it was student night at one of the clubs, and a few of us had finished exams (the others hadn't and now can't face revising due to hangovers haha).

I ended up being the only sober one cause I had to look after everyone else. I'm not gonna lie, nights like these do start to annoy me as I feel like I can't relax as one of my friends is being harassed by a drunk local, or getting into a fight. Last night wasn't too bad.
But what was hilarious, was creepy Nick in a dog costume.
And a guy who I'd seen before out in a couple of nights out was just staring at my backside the whole night, don't get me wrong. There is nothing to stare at, he was just very drunk. However my drunk friends took great delight in this and wouldn't let me forget it haha!
After all of that, and getting in at half 3, we're all feeling pretty rough today...it's a good job I don't have to revise anymore!

Back to growing up, it's scary.
The first 4 weeks back at uni in January is time to find a house!
Which means we actually have to view houses, pay rent, look at gas certificates about being renewed and check for damp! Now, I'm not sure about when you were/are/will be 18, but this seems like a massive deal and responsibility for being 18!
I'm doing it with 4 other people, 3 of my current flatmates and another one of our friends, it's very exciting ofc, but so scary. We've viewed 2 houses, and have put a 'safety net' on one of them. Trouble is, we still don't have much of a clue what we're doing, and 2 of my future housemates haven't actually viewed it yet. The official housing list doesn't come out until next Monday, when panic will ensue and who knows what will happen!!
We did a tour of Bangor's estate agents yesterday and put ourselves on waiting lists for student houses when their landlords get into contact.
With deposits, and retainers, electricity meters, sacrificing heating and signing contracts, I'm a little overwhelmed!

The one we put a 'safety net' on is the one on the right, although they're the exact same, courtesy of Google street view :)

Life can only get crazier.

I would also love to take this opportunity to say thank you to all you have commented wishing me good luck in my exams and revision - being 8 hours away from my family means that I don't get that encouragement as much during exams etc, so it really means a lot to me that you take the place of them and tell me good luck :)

Anyone else had ultra scary finding houses experiences?
xxx

I should definitely be revising.

2012-01-17T08:18:00.000-08:00

Instead of revising, I'm booking festivals for summer, dancing round my room, and going on every website I can think of.
Even watching this horrific video of a sheep multiplying as it runs across a field.
(You wouldn't appreciate me leaving a link to the video)
That is how much I hate stats.

I've made my way through half a packet of cookies, and found a new programme called 'Come Date With Me' on 4od.

Time well spent.

"You look like revision's got to you"

2012-01-15T08:30:00.000-08:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the words "you look like revision's got to you" is code for saying 'you look freaking awful'. Lovely.

To be honest, she's probably not wrong.

It's been a crazy week - full of stress, exams, arguments and illness.
Tuesday night was easily the best night since I've been in Bangor. Was so good.
However after that it kinda went down hill after that.

The argument that happened on Tuesday night kinda got a lot worse over the week between my flat and the friend. So that hasn't been great for morale, it's just added stress really :/
Exams are self explanatory really, they're not fun. And they make you feel rubbish, but hey ho - only 2 more and then I can sleep for 5 days! :D
On top of stress and tiredness, I managed to get food poisoning at the end of the week.
It was my own fault really, but it made me very very sick over the past few days.

The past couple of weeks, since it was on TV at Christmas, I've been listening to the Hairspray soundtrack nonstop, the songs are just so happy! So I ordered the DVD and me and my flatmate entertained ourselves by watching it whilst dancing and singing along!
We were serenading each other - an awful lot of people believe we're closer than best friends haha!
We all have friends like that right?!
(Zac Effron in Hairspray = hot)

So exams, revision, unnecessary stress led to "You look like revision's got to you". Lovely.

I hope you've had a less stressful week :)
xxx

Pausing a moment of happiness.

2012-01-11T09:23:00.000-08:00

I stuck to my word, 2012 is a good year. I realise it's just started, but seizing every opportunity and making the most out of life is going well so far.

Yesterday I had my first exam, and y'know what? It wasn't too bad.

I woke up extra early to revise before my exam at 9am, and that seemed to do the trick..I don't think it went badly, yes I could have done better on the second question (my hand hurt so much, haven't written that much is so long!) but I have faith that I tried my hardest in the moment.

To celebrate, I did not much haha.
I had the intention of revising Accounting for tomorrow, but me and my flatmate just sat around and chilled, we were so stressed and worried about this exam - it was a massive weight of our shoulders. We spent the afternoon looking at funny videos on youtube, and watching hot guys vlogs. Hello j1mmyb0bba and his twin!

We went out last night, and it was the most fun I've had in so long! Me and my flatmate were planning on going out anyway, but it was my friends birthday too so we turned it into a birthday celebration with him and another friend.

We were together, and we had so much fun dancing and laughing (and pretending to be a walrus).
I can't really tell you why it was so much better than other nights out, but it was,

There was a moment, during Living on A Prayer, we were all huddled in a circle for 'we gotta hold on' and I thought, "If I could pause time right now, I would be happy forever. I have my friends, and I'm happy" It was a moment of bliss.

The birthday boy got very drunk, and then him and our other friend got mistaken for a gay couple - hilarious.

I also met a very nice young man, who happened to look really similar to Joe Brooks (anyone else love him?! he's so lovely, sings amazingly well, and is so hot.)

Joe brooks = pure love for him.

So anyone who looks like Joe is a winner for me.

Yes, this young man, who looked like Joe Brooks, who also happened to share my birthday, was very kind and bought me drinks. He made the last hour of my night very fun.

The last part kinda went down hill as our friend got very pissed off and stormed out of the club whilst we literally had to wrestle birthday boy out of the club as he refused to get off the dance floor when the club was closing. We don't blame birthday boy for this, as we told him to get drunk however we could have done with other friend's help as he'd be stronger than us two trying to get him. But it was very embarrassing, everyone stared. I'm pretty sure I wont be hearing from Joe Brooks lookalike anytime soon...

Also, I got pegged twice! They both had names on, I'm not really sure why or what was happening! They just appeared over and over again once I got rid of them. Hot guy told me I was sposed to buy the person a drink, does anyone else play by those rules?!

A couple of photos of the night:

Zara, me, birthday boy and Ben :)

Me and Ben

Because.

We love to poutttttt.

Best Person Ever!

Because my flatmate would kill me if I didn't post it.
I secretly think Joe Brooks lookalike saw this and though 'now being a Walrus is a quality I like'

:)

Back to revising! Accounting exam tomorrow. Oh dear.

How is everyoneeee? xxx

Every possible distraction.

2012-01-09T10:48:00.000-08:00

Picture this, wearing my Dalmatian pyjamas, have drank about a gallon of tea today and have quite clearly given up on work.
Pretty picture eh?

Exam season has struck Bangor- and in turn has either made everyone absolutely depressed, or crazy.
There are two approached to exam season, either:

Lock yourself in your room, remove all possible distractions and work your fingers to the bone until you have the knowledge of the world in your brain.
OR, you find every distraction that there ever could be..and do that instead.

I have developed the latter attitude today, it's been very unproductive.
I had full intentions of waking up early to work lots and be fully prepared for my exam tomorrow, but then I actually woke up..I got a text from my friend asking whether I was going to the maths revision session. I wasn't, but decided it may motivate me for the rest of the day. So I went and that just confused me! There is actually a stats method called 'Poisson distribution' and that just makes me thing of fish, which then makes me think of something else, and then that makes me think of something else...and voilia, distracted.

I started revising this afternoon - I really did.
Trouble is, I think I've forgotten how to learn things!

At A Level I didn't have this problem - I locked myself in our study with no distractions, turned off the internet, and spent 6 hours straight revising. I even hid my phone somewhere far far away so I didn't feel the need to text anyone how depressing it was. In the full knowledge that once I released myself from the study, I could go back to the normal world and be happy again.

This method is not working in Bangor! I've done about 3 hours revision today, which isn't good.

We got an email saying our assignment for the module the exam's in was in our pigeons holes and we could collect them. I wanted to find it out purely because it's worth 40% of our overall mark, and I thought maybe if I got enough, I'd only need a little bit in our exam tomorrow to hit the 40% pass mark for the year, and my panic would be over.
However, my panic is not over, we didn't get our results...and then I made myself feel better by going round my friends flat and eating flapjack&tea...how English.

Good news is, I finished my law assignment yesterday! :)

I know I revised at home, and have done over the past few weeks. So hopefully that'll be enough.

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How is everyone else? January Blues hit anyone...or Monday blues in fact...
xxx

ps- Whilst writing this, I was dancing along to the Hairspray soundtrack - another beatiful picture for you?

Hitting the Sales! What I bought :)

2012-01-07T08:19:00.000-08:00

This little haul was bought over a couple of trips into town.

I've been SO restrained this year, as I know that I have to take everything I buy on the train back to Bangor, and at the moment..is looking a little impossible, so with that in mind, I haven't gone crazy.

First little thing is this bag, I bought it from Primark for £3, down from £7. I was in need of a new bag as my other was splitting at the seams where I carry too much in it. As this is a little smaller, hopefully I wont load it up too much!

Next are these little shoe boots, I bought them for £5 in Notting Hill. I needed a pair of proper shoes to go with my new brown trousers, as my current brown biker boots are very holey and make me look like a jocky with my trousers haha! I know Notting Hill is a £5 shop, but I had to keep making sure as I couldn't believe they could really be only £5!

I bought this necklace in Internacionale for £3, down from £5, I thought it was really pretty :)

The next two I didn't actually pay for, my parents did, just so you know.

These boots we got from the market. Finding boots has been a nightmare, as North Wales is so hilly and rainy, I needed some with a subtantial sole with good tread and they are very hard to come about!

So these were £20, and are perfect, you can kinda see the sole in the picture, it's just pure rubber with apparently the same sole as uggs. They're fur lined and laaavely!

Another North Wales essential, a warm coat with a hood! I've had a decent coat which has lasted me 3 years, but it doesn't have a hood which in the place which murders umbrellas in the wind, is a must! We found this one in the H&M sale, half price at £20. I love it! :)

I did also buy a hair doughnut, a hair ribbon and a pair of jeans :)

What have you all bought in the sales?! Any good bargains?

Would also like to say congrats to my THREE friends who got engaged this Christmas, there must be something in the water! :D

Hope you all had a fab week! :) xxx

You don't know what you got 'til you're sitting in the pub with them. (OOTN)

2012-01-04T09:46:00.000-08:00

I've been home for the past 2 and a half weeks, and during that time I managed to be ill, have a family crisis, and a lack of a driving licence every time I was due to meet up with my friends from sixth form, rubbishness.

BUT I eventually got there! It was one of my friends birthdays yesterday and we went to the pub, nothing fancy, nothing too exciting. Perfect.

I think since I'd gone to university, as I hadn't seen any of my sixth form friends, I'd been able to convince myself that I was okay with not seeing them (I had accepted this fate), and I'd survive.
And then I had a rubbish rubbish few days; including taking my brother back to Watford :(

At that point, I needed to see them.

So last night, we gathered to attempt to win a pub quiz. I can easily say I am the most useless person at pub quizzes. But it was so good to see my whole group again, there was like 30 of us in the corner of this pub, along with the rest of my year in the other 3 corners.
It was such a laugh, and I got to catch up with everyone I'd missed. The banter was unreal.

I realised that even though we're now scattered across the country, when we're all back in Essex, we can still laugh, and have as much fun as we used to.

My outfit of the evening is below :)

Shorts- Tailored ones from Select, featured many times on this blog!
Tights - Opaque black

Top - Christmas Present, has the cutest peter pan collar, you just can't see it with my hair in the way..
My hair is au naturel.
Kept it simple.

I have 4 exams and a law assignment I should be doing/revising for. Blaaaaa.

Hope you're all good :) xxx

2012.

2012-01-02T03:57:00.000-08:00

I don't tend to agree with the 'whole new you' thing, for the new year. Because you are who you are and there's a reason for that. Obviously it's a chance to get all the bad bits out of your life and take a fresh outlook of certain things, and I'm all for that :)

2012 will be a good year, I've decided.
My new years resolution is to work my very hardest in university, as at the moment it's a massive struggle, so I figured the harder I work, the easier it'll get...right?

I'm taking on a few new things in 2012, mainly to do with the Christian Union at my uni.

As I've mentioned, I've been chosen to be part of the Missions Team, to put together a week of events run by the CU to let people have to opportunity to know more about God and get to know the awesome relationship we have with Him :) So I'll busy organising that, and I also have another role within the CU.

Through nominations, votes and prayers, I've been chosen to be the Treasurer of the CU, which includes managing their bank accounts, applying for their grants and handling all their money. It's literally terrifying as it's a massive responsibility. It's nice to be nominated/voted for though :)

There's gonna be no more needless worrying, or stressing, and no more illness.

One last thing, life is short, time is precious.
Treasure it with those that you love.

Hope it treats you all well xxx

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Reflection on 2011.

2011-12-31T08:14:00.000-08:00

2011 was a big year, the biggest yet I'd say.

So many things happened to make me who I am today.

Each year me and my best friend always say "well, it's been an interesting year" and laugh about all the dramas we'd gotten ourselves into (mainly concerning the male species haha!)
Picture Heavy Post- just a warning!

In 2011

A guy at sixth form tried to destroy my social life and the rest of me through rumours, bitching, back stabbing and lots of horrible bits.

I finally started going out with my prince charming who I'd been admiring from a far for a year and a half haha!

I did my A Level Exams and survived! (yay!)

Left sixth form forever!

I went to an initimate gig with my favourite band and met them afterwards!

I went to my Summer Ball!

I went on a massive once in a lifetime holiday to Malta with my family and it made memories to last forever!

I spent the summer with my (then) boyfriend and had the most perfect summer ever! (All photos included him and he wouldn't be ever so happy if they were on the internet haha!)

I turned 18, finally not a baby!

I was a youth leader on a summer camp and it was the best ever year (and I've been 7 times now!)

I got my A Level results and managed to surprise myself and everyone else!

I got into university :D

Went seperate ways with boyfriend as he couldn't handle long distance

Said goodbye to my family and friends which was the hardest thing I've ever done.

Moved to North Wales and started university.

Met the most amazing people at uni who have changed my life

Actually having to become an adult with cooking and cleaning and everything!

I said it had been a big year. So much has happened, and most of it all amazinly lifechangingly good!
I've never laughed so much than I have this year, with new friends, new jokes, and old friends and memories <3

I can only hope that 2012 is filled with as much love and laughter as this year has been.
Those that read my blog can come to their own conclusions, but I am a very blessed and fortunate girl with the most amazing people in my life, who love and care for me. I try not to take it all for granted. I may moan and winge, but I know how lucky I am compared to others.
I'd like to thank God, my family and friends for giving me a life I don't deserve.

I hope you all have a blessed 2012 and look forward to reading all your blogs and getting to know you all that little bit better next year.

Happy New Year :) xxx

All photos taken by myself or my family.

Christmas, OOTD and looking like a Dalmation..

2011-12-29T06:38:00.000-08:00

It feels like it's been forever since I've blogged, in reality it's probably only been a couple of days.

I hope you've all had a lovely Christmas, and you got to spend it with the ones that you love!

This year I was a very spoilt girly and was very blessed, and I am very thankful for everyone to gave me gifts.

I'm not sure on doing the whole 'this is what I got!' thing as it seems a little showy off to me, however if you would like to see, please comment and tell me and I shall :)

Christmas in my house isn't a massive affair usually, but as me and my brother don't live at home anymore, this years emphasis was on spending time together, which I think although we attempt to do each year, we fail due to being very materialistic! But this year we've managed to really value our family and visited lots of them as well as managing to spend time with them :)

I went to my aunts house on Christmas day as usual and we playing 'Million Pound Drop' in game form, it took me at least 15 minutes to put together the board as I actually had to make the desk with the flaps and things. Which caused much hilarity as I attempted to make it. But we had a nice time and is tradition.

I spent boxing day with my immediate family, eating LOADS, and watching all the Christmas TV we didn't see when we were at my aunts, which was the best. That is what I love about Christmas, we also watched Bridesmaids which I got for Christmas, it is hilarious! Me and my mum went to see it for my birthday in August, but I forgot how funny it was! Does everyone else think its that funny or is it just me haha?
My mum had to go back to work on Boxing day, but only for the morning, and has been working all week until 4, so it's just been my dad and my brother (and me!) in, which has been nice to spend time with them, although I miss my mum when she's at work!!

I have a couple of photos to share from Christmas Day:
The first I think is funny, we have a tradition on Christmas Eve where we get to open a present of pj's so we can wear them on Christmas morning, this year, mine were in the form of Dalmatian Print! I know they're not officially Dalmatian related, but I think they look like they are. And I also got a gilet from my brother, and together, I thought I looked like a dog in a little jacket haha .

The next one is my outfit of Christmas Day! I got the outfit for Christmas :)

I went to see New Years Eve with my two best friends from church last night and thought it was fab! I wasn't expecting it to be very good I'll admit, but it surprised me with it's storylines and the face that it was also funny!

In my university CU, we did this thing where we each wrote a poem or a prayer on a piece of paper, folded it up and put a Christmas tag on it signing our names. We then put them all in a box and took one out at random and put it under our tree. On Christmas Day we opened it up and it reminded us the real reason for Christmas and why we have these celebrations as we so often forget. I thought this was a really good idea, and I opened mine up at about 7:00am on Christmas Day (I reverted back to a 7 year old this year and woke up 5 times during the night and eventually settled on being awake at 6:30 haha) and was so glad I had. It really reminded me of God's gift to the world, and that He put his almighty self in the form of a baby who couldn't even see 10 inches ahead of himself to die for us. Here was mine, I hope you find it as special as I did :)

I hope you can read that, if not and you'd like to know what it says, let me know and I'll type it out :)

I hope you've all had a lovely Christmas and are enjoying the holidays!
My next post will be a VERY awkward but hilarious story that happened on Christmas Eve!
xxx

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-24T15:56:00.000-08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Hope you all have a lovely relaxing few days and get to spend lots of time with your loved ones!

Hopefully Father Christmas will bring you all that you wished for.

Also, thank you to all those who are working on Christmas, police, doctors etc, those who are serving in Afghanistan and those who are away from their families.

Thinking of those who have recently lost loved ones, or who are going to be having a hard Christmas.

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Merry Christmas to you all, thank you all for reading my blog :)

xxxxx

I'm an Essex girl again :)

2011-12-20T10:06:00.000-08:00

I'm home!

I'm an Essex girl in Essex again! :D

On Saturday I was reunited with my parents at Euston and it was beautifuuuul!!

Being home is amazing, yet cold. We have loaads of heating in Wales as it's so cold, but not at home, so I'm wearing lots of layers.. but I don't care, cause I'm home! :)

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On Saturday evening I went to a nativity at my church with all the little children, was SO CUTE.

It was called 'Born in a Barn' and they were basically all dressed as animals in the scene that Jesus was born, rather than the usual Mary and Joseph and 3 kings.

The angels were all the little ones, and they were gorgeous dressed up in white dressed (there was one boy who wasn't in a dress haha) and tinsel in their hair. Cuteness.
Going to church again was so lovely, as I got to see eveyone and feel like I belonged again!

On Monday we went to pick up my brother (YAY!)
(My brother's doing a leadership course at an organisation called 'Soul Survivor', he's working for the church and with the young people within it, He's going to Malaysia and Australia next year as part of his course, so jel.)

Before we both left, me and my brother were really close, we usually go in phases, but we'd gotten to the we're best friends stage. So leaving him was really really hard.

But we went to pick him up from his flat house thing and bought him home.

So, we were REUNITED AGAIN :D
I even watched Indiana Jones because he wanted to and it was his first night home, that's how much I missed him. (admittedly it wasn't that bad, I was just very tired and missed a few bits so it didn't make so much sense)

Today was high emotions.

We went to see my nan in her home (she's very ill, dementia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all rolled into one), of course it's always nice to see her. But it's also really sad, as my mum always gets upset as my nan never knows who we are, and obviously that's hard coming from the woman who bought her up and well, her mum.
Then we went to lunch with my aunt, uncle and second cousin who I hadn't seen in a year or so, which was nice. But obviously the topic of conversation as always was my nan.
In the afternoon we went on a tour of cemeteries! I know, could not think of anything else to cheer us up haha! We visited my mum's dad, who I only have one memory of as he died when I was 4. Although it's a very happy memory of sitting on his lap. We then visited my dad's parents who died when he was quite young, so I never met, as well as both sets of grandparents, who again died before I was born.

It was really sad, as although I never met them, therefore couldn't miss them. It's sad that I never could meet them, never have little chats with them, sit on their knee, or have Christmas with them. Anything that other people get. My dad never talks about his parents, as they both died in pain, so it's not good memories.

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That's been my week so far.
Tomorrow we're going up to London to see the lights and sing carols in Trafalgar Square, which should be good family christmas times :)

How is everybody else's weeks going? xxx

A night in heels, 6 mile walk, another night in heels =death to feet.

2011-12-15T17:47:00.000-08:00

So on Tuesday, I went to Embassy (as usual), it was fun :)
To be honest, I can't remember much about it apart from the last 15 minutes which were cer-azzzzy so it can't have been that exciting.

My crazy 15 minutes started with me dancing with my flatmates, until a group of guys surrounded us and tried to dance with us, unfortunately the one that tried it on with me was going about it in the completely wrong way ie grinding and groping, so I swiftly moved on haha. Next was a guy called Leo, now Leo is, in the nicest way possible..not smart. He's best friend's with my flatmates really good friend and he text my flatmate saying he really wanted to come over and dance with Zara, now Zara was so not interested so we thought it would be funny to tell him to come over and dance. So he came, and danced next to us and we tried to get Zara with him, until he pulled my flatmate over and said "I meant the other one!", me...oh dear. So we chatted about our assignment for a while (he's on my course) and then a reeeeaaally hot guy asked me to dance, and I was subsequently pushed onto him by my flatmates..thanks guys. He was very pleasant, and danced like a normal human being, ie not groping or grinding ha, and we got on very well :) UNTIL, another guy from my course, creepy Nick (have I mentioned him before?) literally ran over to me, grabbed my arm and pulled me as hard as he could until I was off the dancefloor with him. I had no idea what was going on. He started slurring things, and I had no idea what he was saying, all the while the hot guy was just looking as puzzled as me, we eventually established he was saying he was very drunk, was going home, and wanted me to go with him. Lovely. After I'd escaped creepy Nick, and went back to hot guy, another guy came up to him who I'd met a couple of weeks ago and said "she's mine" !!!!.
We left at that point, I don't think it could've been any more crazier, cause I genuinely had no idea what was going on!!

We'd planned to go on a pleasant walk around Anglesey on Wednesday, little did we know it wasn't going to be a pleasant walk for long..it turned into a frog march!
6 whole miles in the absolutely freezing cold and the bitter wind, I thought my face was going to fall off. However, it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
We drove to the general area of the walk, but had to walk 4k before we actually got to the start of the walk, and obviously we had to get back somehow. We were at a place called Newborough Warren, and ended up at Lover's island, which happened to be a nesting site of some rare birds. Here are a couple of pictures I took of our walk :)

It was really beautiful :)

Last night we went Occy, wch was £4 entry!! It was free up until last week, which was £2 if you weren't in fancy dress, and this week it was up to £4, ridiculous. Especially as the cloakroom is £1.50 on top of that, and that is an essential when walking home at 3 in the morning in north Wales!
It was fairly fun, wasn't the best.. but I eventually found myself upstairs in the cheesy music room, which was so much fun it's unreal, it was a good change to club mixes! Me and my friend Ben gained some fairy wings somehow, the girl either said "do you want these?" or "are these yours?" I couldn't tell..either way I said yes haha :)

But as the title of this post suggests, my feet were in agony. On a normal week my feet are killing me by Wednesday night after Tuesday, let alone after a 6 mile walk!
They've just about recovered, as has the rest of me. I didn't get up until half 2 today, and it was bliss :)

I'm very sorry if this was very rambly, it's 1:42am right now and I couldn't sleep, so blogging was the sensible thing to do. I'm also really hungry but cannot be bothered to eat anything and have to brush my teeth again.. I think I'm going to heat up my microwaveable sheep and see what happens..hopefully sleep :)

I hope you're all good and festive! xxx

ps- thank goodness for spellcheck, this didn't make any sense in my state haha!

A weekend of Chrismassyness! (and seal spotting: when dogs attack)

2011-12-12T10:19:00.000-08:00

So I'm feeling festive finally! :)

I had such a fab weekend, I thought I'd share it with you.

On Saturday, I went to see Arthur Christmas with my flatmate. It looked very childish, and it was...but it was also awesome! It was such a cute christmas film, would definitely recommend it, and will now be on my list of christmas films to watch every year! We were also the oldest ones in the cinema by far..average age was about 5 haha. (minus parents of course)

We then went to the christmas fair in the town centre, it was like a proper funfair with rides and fire eaters and reindeer's (we didn't manage to see them though :( ) and a fireworks display..and it was impressive and a half! It started kinda small, and then it properly started, and man was I impressed! They were massive and looked so gorgeous, and that made us feel mega festive!
Then X factor to top it off :)

Sunday, I went to church in the morning and that was really good, I think I'm really appreciating the church I found in Bangor right now, they're all so friendly, and I'm really learning a lot from it. But I really do enjoy it, rather than it being a chore on Sunday morning.

Next, we went seal spotting!!
My flatmate does marine biology, and also drives with a car in Bangor! (best thing ever) He was told about a secluded bay where seals gather so we made an afternoon of it.
We had to do a bit of cliff climbing up a dirt mud track to get there which was rather dangerous haha, I slipped down the hill on the cliff which wasn't pleasant and the steepness of the track going up and down was very worrying at times..but we eventually got to the bay, and there were seals already there!
We stayed there for an hour or so and we saw 4 seals, a couple came very close to the shore so we got a chance to see all of them from the top of the cliff. It was so lovely to see them in the wild, as I'd only seen them in sealife centres/sanctuaries/zoo's before.

In the first picture there are 3 seals if you can spot them, and the second is one of the seals that almost came out.

My flatmate gave me a heart attack at one point, where she was only about 10cm away from the edge of the cliff because she kept on edging back after a dog was chasing her. She was so close to falling and she didn't even realise. When I saw it happen, I screamed at the top of my voice trying to get her to stop. It could have ended so differently, and I'm really thanking God that no harm came to her!
Apart from that, we had so much fun, and was so cool to see the seals!

In the evening, I went to another carol service, and it was so cute! The whole hall was lit up with fairy lights and we sang all the classics, was gorgeous. And I could belt them out! Seriously felt so good to belt out 'Oh come let us adore him' on the last line when we all got louder..

The whole weekend wiped me out, and I finished it by watching the x factor final results.
So glad Little Mix won! They totally deserved it, not just because Jesy's from Romford haha.

Also, this is a picture of the teacup necklace I spoke about last post...

How has everybody else's weekend been?!

xxx

Outfit of the night :) Elf dress up #2

2011-12-10T04:02:00.000-08:00

Wednesday nights at Occy are student nights, and last week the decided to spring a charge on us!

Usually it's free before midnight, but they changed it to £2 after 10:00pm, but free before 11:30 if you're in dress up.. so there was only one thing we could do, dress up! :)

In the months I've had this blog, I've already shown me dressing up 3 times, so as you can tell, I love it haha. This week was a little unsavoury for me however.. the theme was 'Sexy Santa'. The thing is with nightclubs, especially occy, the DJ's scream things like "where are all those dirty girls" and "Ohhh that one's got bigger tits than I've ever seen" about random girls when they're like 40 year old men. It may be that I'm a bit of a prude, or just being a Christian influences how I see things differently, but I really don't enjoy that bit.

Don't get me wrong, people can do whatever they like, I'm not against it, I just don't enjoy it. So the sexy santa theme kinda lended itself to girls wearing outfits that hardly covered anything, which is absolutely fine for them, I just can't take part in that.

*serious bit over haha*

So I dressed as an elf!! A little differently to the one before, to make it a little more interesting.

This was the finished product:

Excuse the quality - I was trying out different settings for my self timer :)
Outfit:

Elf hat - Poundland. They do still sell these, but with ears...I took mine off cause they looked horrific on me haha.
Brown Vest - £3.50 Peacocks.
Red top - I do voluntary weeks at home and we do community work, we get t-shirts for a corporate identity. This was one of my old ones for 2007/6ish, and I cut it up and was wearing it inside out.
Black skirt - School range in Tesco, no idea how much it was
Tights - 2 pairs of skin coloured tights

Makeup/face:

Liquid eyeliner - Avon Lasting wear
Mascara- Collection 2000 Super Size Lashes/ Collection 2000 Skyscraper
Lipstick - Barry M, Sunset 151
I curled my hair :)

When we got there, I was wearing my coat and we got to the booth where you had to pay. She looked at me and was like 'you have your hat, and yes okay you're wearing a santa dress', obviously I wasn't but I wasn't going to argue for free was I! But apparently, they had strict instructions to only let girls who were dressed up in these sexy santa dresses...I think that's a little too far. You had to dress questionably to be able to get in for free... obviously I didn't haha, but I still thought that was too far.

I went to the uni christmas fair and bought the most gorgeous teacup necklace, I'll show a picture in the next post.

Going to watch Arthur Christmas and some fireworks with my flatmate today..trying to feel christmassy!

Anyone else got an christmas dress ups? Or Christmassy things this weekend?
xxxx

Dear Santa ♥

2011-12-07T09:42:00.000-08:00

I've taken this off Life of a Sweetaholic. She has such a good blog I thought I'd copy this bit, check it out! http://sweet--rachel.blogspot.com/

Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?

Hot Chocolate for sure! With lots of cream and marshmellows, I keep on buying hot chocolate in uni, there's a particular cafe under the university who does lush hot chocolate.

I've never had egg nog, but I can't imagine it tastes nice...the name doesn't exactly scream nice does it? Anyone else tried it?

Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?

I'm pretty sure the elves do that bit, although Santa does put the bows on at the end...just to make them extra special :)

Coloured lights on tree/house or white?

We always go for white lights and then have a theme of colours for the rest of the tree.. white lights are more versatile with themes. My dad doesn't let us put lights on our house...every year I try and persuade him!

Do you hang mistletoe?

I don't, I can just imagine the awkwardness when you end up (or knowing my friends, being pushed) underneath it with some random person haha.

When do you put your decorations up?

We usually do it 2 weeks before Christmas, but as I'm at university at the moment, I decorated our flat last Saturday, and my mum will decorate the house whilst I'm still here... I'm quite sad I'm missing out on that, me and my mum do it together every year.

What is your favourite holiday dish?

Oohhhh, I do love the actual Christmas dinner!

But on Christmas Eve we always get loads of food, like a buffet with mini everything (cheesecakes, burgers, pizzas), lay it out on the table for the evening and watch a Christmas film, and I love doing that...so I think the buffet may win.

Favourite Holiday memory as a child?

Being really really happy surrounded by my family :)
But I get that memory renewed every year, as its hard to pin both my parents and brother down for a whole few days!

Also, I guess getting presents that are truly surprises.

Like one year, I got a tv for my bedroom, and I hadn't asked for one at all, hadn't expected it, in fact the thought of having one hadn't crossed my mind, but my parents were really generous and bought me one :)

When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?

I've absolutely no idea, I can't actually remember believe in him but I'm sure I did :)

Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?

Not really, we had never done it but last year we were watching 'Modern Family' and they had a tradition on opening a present of PJ's every Christmas eve. So we decided to do it!

It was probably a one off though haha...

How do you decorate your Christmas tree?

White lights, a colour theme for the baubles, the usual ornaments like a birth announcement for my brother (they never thought of it for when I was born haha) and ones that we made when we were little :) And then beads and fake snow..and the topper changes every year depending on how my mum feels!

Snow! Love it or Dread it?

I love snow itself, because everything's so peaceful, quiet and beautiful.

However I absolutely detest when it gets so icy as I'm clumsy under normal circumstances, let alone ice. And now that there's Bitch Hill in my life, it will not end well.

Can you ice skate?

I've been once, I can't say I was very good at it, not good combination with my afore mentioned clumsiness haha.

Do you remember your favourite gift?

My favourite gift..there have been many.

One that stands out is a present from an ex boyfriend last year.

We'd been best friends for a year and a bit before we went out, and we knew each other really well. So for christmas, he got me a toy Red Panda. I am obsessed with Red Pandas, and it was so touching that he'd actually listened and hunted out a toy one (which is actually harder than you'd think as they're not common animals) and to this day Ming Carlos is a very treasure friend and one of my favourite possessions.

We dressed him up in winter gear haha.

What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you?

Spending time with my happy family.

My parents work a lot, and are so committed to working hard to have money to spend on us, sometimes we hardly see each other (obviously before I went to uni), so any time we spend altogether and in a happy warm environment is so special :)

What is your favourite Holiday Dessert?

Custard :) I don't like Christmas Pudding, but I adore the custard haha.

What is your favourite holiday tradition?

Lounging around, watching christmas films, and eating lots with my family :)

What tops your tree?

It differs every year, usually a different variety of star.

Which do you prefer giving or receiving?

I love giving gifts that I know my family are really going to love and appreciate.. but of course I love getting them too :)

Candy Canes: Yuck or Yum?

I don't have them often enough to be able to judge...

Favourite Christmas show?

Ohhhhh, anything christmas themed haha!

Saddest Christmas Song?

Are there sad christmas songs?!

What is your favourite Christmas song?

All I want for Christmas is you....haha :)

Feel free to leave your own answers so I can have a nosy

xxxx

Christmas in Bangor :D

2011-12-06T10:08:00.000-08:00

Christmas is hereeee :D
I'm finally feeling more chrismassy -despite dressing as an elf in the middle of November, I haven't felt the least bit Christmassy...until now!

So on Saturday, my flatmates were either at work/home/or actually doing work SO I decided to surprise them and decorate the flat :)
I made a Christmas tree out of a cereal box and coloured it in (so much colouring yesterday!)

This is where the One Direction Poster was in our kitchen, it got taken down by my warden for being a 'fire hazard'. Personally, I think she was jealous that we had a One Direction Poster and she didn't, so now it's living on my bathroom door :)

I googled how to make paper doll chains, and made a few rows of them, and this was the end result! :)

The lighting's a bit rubbish, but you get the picture, these are on the wall next to the one above in the kitchen.

Next I made some snowflakes out of paper - I am particularly proud of these, because I think they're very pretty :) I also made a paper chain out of plain white paper. I put them on the windows in the kitchen and some on the kitchen door. And it all resulted in a festive kitchen :D

Ignore all the rubbish on our table, the cleaner puts anything on the work surfaces in a pile on the table and half the stuff never gets moved afterwards.

What do you think? :)

My 2 flatmates that are here at the moment didn't seem too thrilled haha, but my other 2 flatmates haven't seen it yet..so hopefully a better reception from them :D

As I'm a very fortunate girly, I have 2 advent calendars this year, my parents bought me one when they came to visit and I was very kindly sent another one by my old youth worker from church.

It always makes my day to have my chocolate. And also is a fab way to count down the days till I go home. I'm so looking forward to going home, literally can't wait!!!

Finally, I said I'd post a picture of my nails when I have my new Rimmel Double Decker Red which I blogged about here on. Apologies for the chips, I've been wearing it since last Thursday. The colour is so gorgeous, the camera really doesn't do it justice. It's a very Christmassy colour too :D

Is everyone else chrismassy yet? Any pictures of decorations?

xxxx

Also, last night me and my flatmate had a bit of a sugar rush at midnight and decided to draw our flatmates as snowmen (its weird I know ha)
But this is on our front door, and the one on my door is below.. :)

There's an inside joke about the carrots, they take the mick outta how I say Lasagne (they're northern and I say it too Southern haha), you've heard about Creepy Tom here (it's a funny story for those that haven't read it haha) and one direction on my body. Also I have a panda hat..hence the panda hat :)

Outfit of the Night! :)

2011-12-04T10:08:00.000-08:00

This was Tuesday night's outfit, when we went to Embassy.
As it's Rock vs indie night, I always feel the need to not wear bright colours haha, as you may have noticed from the OOTNs I've been doing.

So this was what I wore:

Top - Dorothy Perkins, £15 in the sale I think in the summer.

Vest - Plain navy, no idea what it was from!

Skirt (promise I am wearing one, you just can't see it!) - Tesco school range (yes, shamefully it's an 11 year old skirt...)

Tights - Tesco Cable Tights

Makeup:

Eyeliner- Avon Lasting Wear Liquid Liner, black

Mascara - Collection 2000 Super Size Lashes / Skyscraper Collection 2000

Concealer - GOSH skin corrector, in number 1.

I took this picture before I put on my lipstick, but I was wearing my Barry M shade 151 Sunset

And I straightened my hair :)

Hope you like :) xxxx

I'm back, back again.

2011-12-04T09:28:00.000-08:00

I'm back!

I've got my head into gear and I'm ready to blog!

My previous post was about my nails, so I'll start with another picture of my nails once I'd done them :)

I used Rimmel I <3 Lasting Finish 195 Perfect Plum for the 4 fingers, and nails inc London OMP (oh my pink!) for my accent nail.

The whole accent nail thing is supposed to be in fashion, but I'm not so sure about it, so they didn't stay on for very long haha.

On Friday, me and my flatemate went on a walk to Anglesey, and of course we had to buy something!

So as she works in Rowlands pharmacy, and gets a discount, we naturally headed straight to the Rimmel counter, and this is what I bought :

Rimmel - I <3 Lasting finish 030 Double Decker Red

This was £2.99 orignial price I think, and it is such a gorgeous colour, will post a picture on my nails once I've done them :)

Rimmel - Match Perfection Concealer

My skins been so yucky recently, due to my new tablets, so this is literally a lifesaver after replacing my old concealer with a rubbish GOSH one. It goes on so smooth and does really cover up my blemishes, this was £5.99 original price.

Have you bought anything interesting recently? xxx

I'll be back! (imagine that in Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice)

2011-12-02T12:41:00.000-08:00

So this is a short post to let you know I'll be back regular posting soon.

I've had a bit of a tough week in a few ways, so posts have come to a bit of standstill.

Our flat is a little bit down at the moment so that doesn't help, but amongst arguments, tears and bitchiness that all came to a head last weekend, we're starting to settle down now.

Also, I've had to change my tablets this week and although they seem to be working a lot better than my old ones, my bodys taking a while to get used to them, on top of that I've got a virus, so generally feeling yucky and blaahhh..

Work is an overload and with so many exams in January, revision should really be started.

I'll be back soon with christmassy posts and the such like!
How are you lot? xxxx

Procrastination at it's best.

2011-11-28T08:55:00.000-08:00

I'm going to admit something...I should be doing something else.

Story of my life eh? And probably loads of yours too.

Yes, I have 2 assignments due. One of them in 2 weeks, yes I have notes to write up, and have exams...but am I doing any of that? No :)

Thursday evening, I witnessed my friend Phoebe do newspaper nails, and they look fab! Which inspired me to look at my own nails :)

On Friday, I was bored...surprise surprise, so I went looking on some blogs for some nail tutorials... until I decided to be a little creative and do my own. So I cut out the letters L.O.V.E out of a piece of paper and coated my nails with a base coat, I used my 'On Ice' from H&M and let that dry. Then came the more complicated bit of taping the letters onto my fingers without smudging them..interesting to say the least haha. Then I filled in the gaps of my stencils with Barry M 'Bright Pink' (imaginative name eh?) 279..

I have to say I wasn't that pleased with the results as it did still look messy, but it was going to have to do as I was going to go to a flat party in the evening and I wanted something a little different :)

That's how they turned out!

On Saturday, again, I was bored. I was the only one in the flat all day and it was pouring with rain outside, and lets face it..I wasn't going to do my assignment.

So I took off my nail varnish..and started again.

This time, I didn't do a base coat, just used my natural nails as they were looking kinda long and healthy for once (they've gone waaaay downhill since uni, blame it on lack of vegetables haha)

And just went wild! I was just playing really, seeing whether I could do it. But they turned out okay for once. I have the same pattern/flower on my thumb, middle finger, and little finger, and then different designs on the two others, but the same on both hands.

I much prefer these ones, I'm going to play around some more soon, probably as my deadline gets closer and closer haha.

What do you guys think? Have you got any cool nail tutorials I could try?

xxx

Olive Oil and Popeye (not both in my hair)

2011-11-25T08:03:00.000-08:00

So coming to university is slowly killing my hair!
When I was at home, I never used to do anything to my hair, literally (apparently I say this too much as I'm an essex girl haha) just used to let it dry naturally and it would be straight without straighteners!

But since 9am lectures, and the horrible weather of Wales, I've had to start using heat on my hair a lot more often. Obviously if i wash my hair in the morning, I can't really go to lectures with wet hair, so I dry it with a hair dryer, and then by the time I've been outside for 10 minutes in the wind and the rain, my hair is so frizzy it's unbelievable..so I straighten it. And when we go out, my hairs either straightened or curled..just so it doesn't look like Tracy Beaker hair!

I do use heat protection, I use this: Tressemme Heat Defense Spray

I'm not sure whether it works, my hair's not in bad condition..I just feel bad with so much sudden heat on it. What does everyone else use as a protectant?

But anyways, my flatmate has (so she says) really course and thick hair, and when she went home for reading week got a hair cut.. and the hair dresser actually found a dread. Yes her hair had actually formed a dreadlock! (I would be horrified) so now she has to use treatments on her hair more regularly. But because of this, she told me about putting Olive Oil in your hair to make it soft!

I have to admit, when I first heard this, I was like "...er yeah okay" But after drying, curling, and straightening my hair in the past 3 days, I felt I should try it.

So this is what I did.

Before I went to bed, I got a handful of Olive Oil and massaged it into my hair (yes I did feel silly), then got another handful and worked it through my hair...and I did this until my hair was covered in Olive Oil. Then I covered my pillow with a towel so it didn't get everywhere and went to bed!

In the morning, I washed my hair as normal but used more than my usual amount of shampoo to get out all of the oil, and dried it.

I'm telling you honestly, and truthfully... my hair has never felt so soft!

I cannot believe that I 've never known or tried this before!
It's such a simple thing to do, and it genuinely worked.

So if you're in need of a hair pick me up or just want to treat your hair.. I would definitely recommend getting yourself some Olive Oil and putting it in your hair!

Just make sure that you don't leave your room or let anyone see you with it in, it looks awful haha.

Has anyone else got any home remedies I could try? :)

Now, not really connected but kinda.

When i was in Malta in the summer, I went to Popeye Village, where they made the film set of the 1980's film of Popeye (with Robin Williams) into a theme park. And they had people dressed as the characters, Olive, Popeye, Brutus and other people walking around and taking pictures (we made a film with them, hilaaaaaaaarious!) And whilst on the theme of Olive Oil..I thought I'd share a few pictures of it! :)

This was the main film set (apparently, I haven't actually seen it..) and you could go into all those buildings

A Landscape shot of the whole bay :)

Me with Olive! :)

I love looking at the pictures and remembering the sun haha! It seems so far away.

Has anyone actually seen the film? Does it look like that?

xxxx

Favourite Bloggers :)

2011-11-22T22:00:00.000-08:00

I thought I'd do this post because I really do get a lot of inspiration for my blog from elsewhere - although we don't necessarily post about the same thing, I read them avidly and am a massive fan, so I thought I'd give them a post :)

Louise aka Sprinkle of Glitter - http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.com/
- Louise's blog/youtube channel is amazing! And hilarious, her reviews are always really good and sound proffessional (mine certainly wouldnt!) Being herself is what she's best at, and along with Baby Glitter, she makes the most beaaautiful blogger/vlogger mummy!

Laura aka A Daisy Chain Dream - http://adaisychaindream.blogspot.com/

- Laura's fashion sense/ clothes are so fabulous, she always looks so gorgeous in all her photos with her outfits! She does some really good reviews on products and PR material and she's got such a lovely style of writing! With her life and her baking - her blogs soo good! :)

Zoe aka Zoella - http://schoee.blogspot.com/

- Zoe is so gorgeous, I'm jealous! She has amazing clothes and photographs them so well. Her reviews of products and tutorials for hair etc are great and I take much inspiration from her! I love how she has such a following for being so nice and gorgeous!

Gemma aka FlutterandSparkle - http://www.flutterandsparkle.com/

- Gemma blogs about such interesting things! Beit make up, going out, her hauls or her life, they're always written so well, and she comes across so lovely in it! Her clothes and make up always looks fab and she always always always has such good nail varnish! Really love reading flutter and sparkle!

Danielle aka Tinks Tales! - http://tinkstales-tinkerbelldani.blogspot.com/

- Danielle's blog is so lovely! I really love reading about her family and how she's getting on, she does fab posts about all sorts including her family, her new courses, being a beauty therapist and make up! Again, she has such a good style of writing, it's so easy to just keep reading!

Kim aka Dottie K - http://www.dottiek.com/

- Kim was the first blog that I started reading years ago when I wanted to find a review of a Superdrug face mask because I'd had an allergic reaction, and since then I've been hooked! Her posts about her weeks and things she's learnt are so nice because we really get let into her life which is really cool. Her make up reviews and reccommendations are so useful and i still go by her word eachtime!

Those are a few of my favourite bloggers, I do love reading loads more but those are just a few :)

weheartit

I don't necessarily agree that wearing perfume makes you have a lovely day haha..but I thought it was cute.

Who can you not stop reading? xxxx

Creepy Tom, doughnuts, and chavs in our kitchen!

2011-11-20T14:44:00.000-08:00

I feel like I haven't blogged in ages, I keep on starting posts and saving them, but never finishing them.

My blog's starting to be a lot more life based with little bits of hauls and Outfit's of the day/night..I hope that's okay?

So, a little update.

You know when it feels like you can't function anymore due to lack of sleep and you seem to just get through days? Well that's definitely been this week.

We went out on Tuesday night, and then again on Wednesday, difference being that on Wednesday night I had about 2 hours sleep and the most hectic day ever.

But I'll start with 'Creepy Tom', we were in Occy on Wednesday and I was sitting down with Zara as both of our feet hurt (killer heels!) and this guy came to sit next to me, so his friend went to Zara. My guy is now known as 'Creepy Tom', cause that's exactly what he was! He sat next to me, started stroking my chin and asked me for a kiss.. I quickly answered "er I've known you for 2 seconds, do you really think I'm going to?" He thought it was perfectly acceptable to then continue, and offered to take me to dinner so I could kiss him.. I said yeah, in the full knowledge that it'll never happen.

We then went to the dancefloor.. If anyone reading this can tell me why certain guys think it is perfectly acceptable to rub themselves on a girl that they don't know and think that it's enjoyable, I would be forever grateful. (He was also a good 2 inches shorter than me). And just kept grabbing me, ew. To rectify this awkward situation, I got my flatmate to pretend to be my boyfriend, that soon scared him off and he went home depressed. Well, he only has himself to blame!

The guy Zara ended up with turned out to be so nice, and sweet and even paid for a taxi for all of us (6 of us) to take us home because there was no way my feet was going to make it home!

So I eventually got to bed around 4, and what delights awaited me? A fire drill, of course. We had a fire drill at 5:30am, which is terrifying (it flashes red from our ceiling, and says something in Welsh), so of course we ran out the building, and waited in the freezing cold for 20 minutes, only to find out that we had failed again it because some silly person took 5 minutes to get out, and that we were going to have to do it again. Last time we failed, it was 3 weeks ago, but oh no, the next fire drill happened to be half an hour after we went back to bed. Laaavely. Thankfully, we passed that one, and we could go back to bed..for an hour, until I had to get up at 7:30am. Grr.

Thursday was as good as it started really, after getting up at half 7, I had lectures 9-5 straight, and then a doctors appt..then we did dial-a-doughnut with the CU. Dial-a-doughnut was were people on our accomodation site rang/text a number with a question about God or Christianity, and we went to their flat and delivered their answer as well as a doughnut! As you can imagine, we got some really stupid ones like "why did Jesus wear Sandals?", but overall the response was amazing, with some really genuine questions, with some people that were actually interested! But that just finished me off...I was asleep by half 10. I had spent the whole day just being a walking zombie.

So Friday and Saturday were uneventful, until we got to last night.

We went to Embassy, where Diana Vickers was DJ-ing...I'm sure she's a lovely person and everything, but was she any better than the resident DJ? Not at all, and we paid £5 entry.

It was an interesting night, including one of my flatmates saying 'I love you' to her bf for the first time (so cute!) another flatmate getting so so so drunk. And a visit from a never-happened boyfriend but he still likes her so much and wont give up for another flatmate! ...and then there was me.

Don't get me wrong, as I said earlier, random guys grinding against me makes me sick, as do those similar guys who only talk to you because they think you'll sleep with them. But sometimes It'd be nice if a guy (who wasn't a creep) actually stayed talking to me, instead of finding my flatmates far more attractive and ditching me for them. (which happens all the time, and I'm just fed up with it)

Sorry for the rant - blog seemed the best place to put it!

Cue chav guys. As I said, flatmate with never-happened bf - they went for a 'talk' and left me under the charge of these 2 guys that we had seen earlier. They were friendly enough, apart from one was 17 and had snuck in, we chatted for a bit and the older one was quite nice. He got my number and things, and told me how whenever he goes out, he ends up sleeping in a bus shelter cause the cab fare's too high.. right.

Cue flatmate- now as I said, this happens regularly- they completely forgot about me, and felt she was far better to talk to and look at, and ignored me for the rest of the time. After about 20 minutes of this, we left.. we got to our building, looked at our phones and saw we each had 3 missed calls from Tom (yes, his name was Tom too!). Cut a long story short, they managed to persuade us to sleep in our kitchen cause they had no where else. We took all valuable things from the kitchen, gave them the floor, and told them they must be gone by the time we got up. (we have keys for our doors, they couldn't get anywhere near our rooms!)

So all night, Tom was sending dirty messages to my flatmate (she wasn't replying) and all day. Again, laavely.

So that's how we ended up with chavs in our kitchen!

I'm sorry for the rant for this one, I hope you don't mind my bluntness, and is totally the insecure 18yr old girl in me.

I had a photoshoot today- but that's for another post!

So... how about you? :) xxx

Outfit of the night!

2011-11-17T09:08:00.000-08:00

On Tuesday nights, there's a rock vs indie night at a local club called Embassy, which we always seem to attend! It's a good break from the usual club scene, its obviously not as popular as normal club nights, which is a good thing as you're not crammed in there and not constantly being pushed/shoved. The music is also pretty good, a nice change from club mixes, and having a bit of Kings of Leon, The Killers, Blink 182 etc is always fun :)

So, this is what I wore this week! (apologies there are no photos including my face&make up etc..)

Outfit:

Plain White Vest - Tesco £1.50 in the summer i think...
Shorts - They were kindly bought for me when I went home for reading week as they were half price when we bought an Christmas present. Select - Sale price £5...I love these shorts! :)
Tights - Black cable tights - Tesco £3.00 maybe?
Necklace - Pendant chain, Avon. Bought years ago, I can't remember the price!
And of course, my lovely new heels! :) (which by the way, have slaughtered my feet, they may look pretty, but boy do they hurt!!)

I curled my hair with straighteners, and had classic make up:

Long Lasting Eyeliner - Avon. (I can't remember the specifics as all the info has rubbed off haha!) And had cat flicks.
Super Size Fat Lash Mascara - Collection 2000
Lasting Perfection Concealer - Collection 2000
Boujoir Eyeshadow - They've discontinued the one I have as it's so old, but it's similar to the 'little round pot intense eyeshadow'
Lip Paints - Barry M

That was my evening wear :) How is everyone? Is anyone actually interested in these posts or shall I stick to the life-y stuff? xxx

Scottish Barn dancing, serial killers in a tunnel, an elf and shoes!

2011-11-14T08:55:00.000-08:00

So after my horrific journey home, which I blogged about here, I went home for the week! :)

Being at home was lovely, seeing my friends and family, and going to my church was so good!

Strangely enough, I did miss Bangor, loads. My flatmates were missing from my life, and that was hard haha.

But I had a good break, did (some) work, and came back again on Thursday!

And then I went away again on Friday with the Christian Union, we went away for the weekend at somewhere called the Quinta in Oswestry. It was incredible. Really bonded so well with people I hadn't really gotten to know yet, so that was nice, we had lots of meetings, so much cake. A ceilidh (scottish barn dance) which was possibly the funniest thing I've done in ..ever. My stomach hurt so much from laughing so much whilst doing it, my friend Phoebe was my partner and just made it hilarious.

After the ceilidh, we went on a night walk....we were so naive thinking it was going to be a pleasant walk. We ended up at at tunnel, being told to hold onto the wall, and to the person in front, not to use torches or phones, and not to fall into the canal. Cue mass panic. The walk through the tunnel ended up being one of the most terrifying experiences ever. It felt like hours, when in reality it was probably only 20 minutes through this tunnel. I was gripping onto my friends hands in front and behind, determined not to die. About half way through, to make it less scary, a couple of guys a while behind me (there were 60 of us) started singing. Now in my terror, I couldn't really work out what they were singing, and all I could imagine was men standing at the end of the tunnel with massive cloaks and hoods on with fire sticks chanting whilst we walked into their trap and we were going to die.

Clearly, this was very very wrong, but I didn't know that! So that made it very scary...it turned out they were singing amazing grace haha...but it took me a while to realise that.

We also dressed up, I was an elf! :)

Also, when I was home, I was fortunate enough to be bought some shoes! They were £19 (£5 off) from Select.

And then I came back to Bangor and was feeling alittle sorry for myself.. so I bought THE most gorgeous shoes from New Look, £24.99, but £22.35 with student discount!

How gorgeous right?!

When I went away, I left my room key with my flatmate Zara in case she needed to stay in there (other flatmate had bf staying, and we have very thin walls!) and I had possibly the greatest surprise ever.

It took hours, was so thoughtful (and an inside joke haha)

The post its are the lyrics to 'What makes you beautiful' by One Direction.

One line on each post it, I've never felt so loved hehe <3

This was so long, and major procrastination from revising for my Economics exam tomorrow.

Has everyone else had a busy busy week?

xxx

Train journey from hell.

2011-11-10T10:25:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the silence, I've been doing a little travelling :)

On Saturday I had the worst train experience of my life. It was horrific, and horrendous.. and all the other superlatives I could think of!
I got on the train at Bangor at 9:22, planning on making my train journey and then my parents were gonna meet me at Euston to help me with my stuff on the tubes (I had a lot of stuff). But oh no, virgin trains had other plans.

It was fine until we got to Crewe, where we were told there had been overhead wiring problems at Wembley, but they didn't really know the extent of it yet.. so we carried on going. And then stopped at Nuneaton for half an hour (we weren't supposed to stop there!) with no info, to then be told that it was severe problems in Wembly....so we waited some more. Then we moved! We got to Rugby, and waited there (a common theme of my journey) for half an hour, until we were kindly informed that the train was going to terminate there, and we needed to get on another one on another platform. Now, I don't know why people think English people are so polite, but when they're running to get on another train when there is a little girl with mountains of stuff in front of them, they are so not polite!
So we got on another one, which said we could go to Milton Keynes..so we went to Milton Keynes, to then be told we had 3 options:

Get on a bus to Luton airport (why this would be useful is beyond me)
Wait it out, which could take hours..
Or get on another train to Watford and see what's happening there.

Now, none of them seemed to make much sense, but I got on the train to Watford!

Once at Watford, we were told trains on platform 3 and 4 were going to London Euston, and everyone get on those and you'll get where you want to be! So we got on those trains...and waited.

We were then told, that all trains to London Euston were cancelled indefinitely, and to not travel unless it was essential...now I don't know about you, but trying to get home and not being stranded in Watford is pretty essential!

So I did the one thing I knew how to do, cried.

There I was, with a suitcase, 2 big bags and another small one, crying in the middle of Watford Junction Station. So my next port of call was ringing my parents, but as they thought I'd be going to Euston, they were underground therefore had no signal...so I called my brother.

Now my brother was a hero in all of this, because VERY conveniently, his new flat is about 2 minutes from Watford station (I didn't know this, he moved after me!)

He gathered his friends, and came to my rescue, and after a few teary voicemails to my parents, they knew where I was and decided to abandon all plans of London, and went home to get the car..and drove to Watford to pick me up!

After 2 hours in my brothers flat (which btw, is so cool. I love his flatmates!), my parents came to save me and drive me home...

It was a very awful and emotional day, and I never even completed my journey!

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Anyone else had bad train journeys like this? xxxx

Superdrug Haul.

2011-11-03T07:39:00.000-07:00

So I was naughty and went to Superdrug! Ooppps.
Basically, I lost my concealer somehow (sad times, it was absolutely amazing!) in the past few days, and my skin's been a mess...so a trip into town was in order.

However, I was in a lecture just before I left, and I got a '3 for 2 on all cosmetics in Superdrug' email..and that's when it went downhill! I started thinking about what I could buy, and before I knew it, I was in Superdrug.

I knew I had to find a concealer, and spent aaaages trying to find a decent one, I tend to think with concealers that it's worth spending a little bit more on them because of colour matching and them going flaky (unfortunately I have to use mine a lot..) whereas with mascara, eyeliner, nail varnish etc I go for cheapy ones. I used to have Collection 2000 Lasting perfection concealer (it must be in my room somewhere!) so I almost got that one again, but felt a little adventurous, and found a GOSH one instead, 'GOSH cover corrector stick' in 1 as I'm very pale which was £5.99

Now that I have it at home, I realise it wasn't worth the money, if I hadn't swatched it and tried it, I would take it back and get back my beloved Collection 2000 concealer. But hey...

Next I realised that I've been looking for a lipstick, and now was the perfect excuse to find one! This would be another cheapy thing, but alas, the only cheaper one I could find was £2.99 but the colours were horrific. So I went on a search, and settled on a Barry M lip paint, in shade 151, Sunset for £4.49

Above is swached on my hand, I'm not sure about it, but I'm sure it'll grow on me...

Next, because I knew I was going to get one free, I thought 'what would I really like' and that answer it always nail varnish haha!
So I went on a search, and fell in love with 'Bourjois innovation' I think the number's 4201 but it's kind of rubbed off so I can't be sure. It's pink and sparkly, after applying it to my nails I realise it wasn't quite the colour I was expecting, and it is just pure glitter, which will be nice as an overcoat. However I did just put it over my 'On Ice' nail varnish from H&M, so maybe the pink will be more prominent on a bare nail. This was £5.99

Altogether, they were £11.98, and I'm not sure it was worth it...

Has anyone else bought make up they regretted because of an offer? xxx

When parents come bearing gifts!

2011-11-02T09:00:00.000-07:00

So my parents have come to visit for a couple days, I spent the afternoon and evening with them...it's SO good to see them :D

I'm sure you know how much I miss them, and how homesick I've become over the past few weeks, so seeing them and spending time with them is just amazing :)
Over the 6 weeks I hadn't seen them, I made a list of the things that I needed and forgotten, and they certainly came bearing goodies :D

As well as milk, cheese, butter etc, they bought chocolate, biscuits and cake :) So so good.
They even bought me an advent calendar.. they know me so well.
Also, they got me a new hat and gloves, which I totally appreciate after how cold and windy it is here. Look how cute!

Also, a selection of tights and leggings which are much needed :)

Finally, an elf hat, which I need to dress up as an elf in a couple of weeks time..aren't my parents amazing?! :)

How is everybody else? xxx

Fancy Dress: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as you've never seen before.

2011-10-30T14:54:00.000-07:00

I've never done Halloween before, it's just not done in my family. However, this year, being at uni and all that meant that it had to be done...and properly.

So we went as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Normal I know, I was Donatello apparently, and I've never seen so much effort go into any costume...

So firstly we had to make shells, these were baking trays that were spray painted green and brown and attached to us with string.

The masks were felt which I made into masks with measuring peoples faces and eyes (funniest thing!).
The bands were left over felt, and we were green head to toe. The girlies had green tights (Thank goodness!) which made it easier, and we covered every little showing flesh in green paint.

It was so hard to get off, even now, 24 hours since, I have green paint patches all over me and I keep on finding them!

Our flat was basically covered in green paint, and having to get into the shower at half 3 in the morning wasn't the best idea, but there was no way I was sleeping like it..it'd probably stain my skin!

We tried to win a £100 bar tab for the best costume, but they never announced the winner :(

Now, a couple of photos of our amazing efforts..

We were so proud of our efforts.

Anyone else dress up? Any photos? xxx

Outfit of the Night :)

2011-10-28T16:13:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday night we went to Occy (surprise surprise!) and this is what I wore: :

I am aware it's a dodgy photo, but I had to bend down because the heels were so high it cut off my head!

So the outfit:

Top - New look, new generation range, on sale £5 (see haul here)
Skirt - Tesco, school uniform (aged 11-12 ha, hence the uniform)
Necklace - New look, £2.50, again, see haul.

Hair courtesy of my flatmate curling it :)

Shoes also from my lovely flatmate.

They were so high!

We had a fun night.

Tomorrow we're dressing up as teenage mutant ninja turtles. We've made shells and masks and everything, with green body/face paint. Gone all out, I'll make sure I post a few pictures.

Anyone else dressing up for Halloween? xxx

The longest cold ever.

2011-10-26T02:47:00.000-07:00

So I've been at university for 6 weeks on Saturday, which means that I have had some sort of cold or flu for approximately 5 and a half weeks!
I'm not even kidding, I'm still ill!! It started off with freshers flu, which wasn't good, and then it kinda petered out until it was sniffles. But each time I go out for the night it comes back in full force in the morning! Which means an awful lot of sneezing/coughing/sniffling, attractive I know.

A guy who was sitting behind me in one of my lectures last week has even labeled me 'coughing girl' because that's all that I was doing for the hour.

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Obviously being ill is taking it's toll, so I don't feel great, lots of headaches and being unbelievably tired. For example, last night I was the most useless part of a pub quiz, I didn't have a clue haha, but me and my flatmate were so tired, we left at 9:00, and I was in bed by half past. That's definitely a record for me!

Plus I have an exam today, it's worth 20% of my whole year grade, and it's a bit of a case of I've revised everything I possibly can about 1000 times, but I still don't feel as if it's enough, so I blogged instead haha. But it's my accounting exam, and I have another next week worth the same in maths. Now, I am definitely mathematically challenged, numbers just do not work for me, I've been to every extra session I can and I still don't get half of it, but I'm persevering! It's just so hard.

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On the plus side, my parents are coming to visit this weekend :D It's been 6 weeks without seeing them, and I'm so excited to see them. And then the next week I'm going home for reading week, so much excitement to see my friends again :D

How is everybody else?? xxxx

My room :)

2011-10-21T09:30:00.000-07:00

So it occurred to me that I've been living in my room for the past month (!!) and a half, and made it all homely, but haven't posted a picture of it yet.

So here it is :)

My noticeboard is covered with photos from (surprisingly doesn't help homesickness at all!)

Each photo is really special to me <3

It's littered with quotes and Bible verses which are really important to me, such as "Be true to yourself", something my dad told me just as they were about to leave when they bought me here.

I have a few other things pinned up, like leaflets/stickers/bands from the very memorable freshers week. As well as my timeable, the list of books I've bought, and my registration for my weekend away with the CU.
Above are my shelves, obviously, which have a few more photos which are extra special (with my fam in Malta, and on holiday with my best friend), a few cuddly toys which are very special, my folders and notes, my heated rollers, heat defense spray, perfume and a lollypop from freshers haha!

Excuse the mess.

My mirror on my window ledge, awkward when doing my makeup in it and then people walk past the window thinking I'm staring at them...(on ground floor!), the photo my best friend gave me for my birthday, a few cards I've been send, textbooks, my very special red panda, Internet cable, books, and other little bits.

That's my room!

Hope you're all good :) xxx

Outfit of the day!

2011-10-18T08:26:00.000-07:00

So I'm going to try and do a few regular posts, for outfit of the day, face of the day/night (it always looks better at night haha) and things. So this is my first outfit of the day! Again, I apologise for the lighting/mirror/standing on chair, I'll have to figure out an easier way of doing it, plus the lighting is rubbish.

So from head to toe,

Hair, au naturel.. my hair's natually straight, although tempremental in Wales. I have had a hat on most of the day, because it's freezing, so I haven't done much with it today.
Pale pink vest top - Topshop, approx £4 I think, I got it last year.
Navy blue cardigan - H&M, got it for my birthday, however they do still sell it.
Demin Skirt - Peacocks, I got it for £3 in the sale a couple of years ago.
Grey cable tights - I love these ones! They're from tesco, and picked them up when it was double clubcard points off clothing, so got them for 50p, score!
Belt- Peacocks, got it as a set of 3, brown, black, and this purple flowery one £4, 2 weeks ago.
The Slippers - M&S, as a gift 2 christmases ago, they're so warm and fluffy.
Necklace- New Look, was a gift approximately 4/5 years ago from my best friend, but still a lovely necklace :)

Gone for bare essentials today, very bare :

Miss Sporty Eye Pencil - 001
Collection 2000 SuperSize Fat Lash Mascara - 1 Black.

Like I said, bare essentials. I got up for an 8am maths lecture, I couldn't be bothered.

That was today :)

Did you enjoy this post? Would you want me to do these as a regular thing or just stick to the life stuff?

Toodles xxx

My retail therapy haul :)

2011-10-15T10:02:00.000-07:00

Considering I am a poor student, I spent more than I should have.

But Bangor is pretty small, with not too many mainstream shops (we don't even have a primark!), so I didn't go overboard.

Firstly, I bought a top from New Look, I've been looking for one similar for quite a while and then when I saw this one and it was on sale, I just had to get it! Thankfully, I still fit into children's sizes, so this one is a size 14-15yrs top. They did have the exact same top but in a women's size 6, but it was a pound dearer, so I went for the children's one.

This was £11.99 down to £5, so was very chuffed at my bargain :)

I then went to the sale rails of the women's, and found this dress. I wore it today and didn't take a picture of it before I put it on, so this is it being modelled haha.

This was £9.99 down to £5, and below is how I fashioned it. The leggings were from H&M, the belt from Peacocks and cardigan from TU in Sainsburys.

I would also like to mention that the biggest mirror is the one above in the bathroom, but the only way I can make it full length is if I stand on my chair, hence the whole standing on a chair thing! :)

Next I bought a necklace, again from New Look, and again on sale!

I've been looking for another long one which is pretty for a while, and I couldn't say no hehe.

The detail is really cute. This was £5 down to £2.50... I know, bargains galore!

Next I went to H&M and bought these beautiful colours. I realise I'm repeating myself, but I really have been looking for some nail varnishes these colours, and they were so cheap considering.

They're actually Disney varnishes, and have Bambi on the front which is really cute :)

The pink is called Pink Skies, and is a really cute pale pink, it's got a shine with it, but mostly Matte. It's a really lovely block colour, and will go with most things.

The blue is much like the name suggests, an icey blue, its very similar in it's matte-ness with a slight shine.

They're both really nice colours and would really recommend them.

I've had lots of compliments on my nails since applying them, and the photo really doesn't do them justice! They were both £1.99 each.

That is my haul :)
Will do a more lifestyle update soon!
Hope you're all well xxx

Little Update.

2011-10-14T12:43:00.000-07:00

Hello! :)
This is a short and sweet post just checking in really.
I'm going to do a longer post with my haul from today (naughty naughty buying clothes as a poor student!) but I just attempted to take photos of my bits but the light is so horrendous in here, so I'll do them tomorrow! But I got some really nice bits, 3/5 were on sale, score! It's so true about retail therapy!
I had some friends round after Christian Union, and one of them managed to offend every person in my flat rather well. And made some very inappropriate comments and questions....he's been the talking point of the day in my flat!

My flatmate's girlfriend has come to visit from Austria, which is lovely for them. Just very awkward for us. You see, my wall is very thin, and on the other side of my bed and wall, is his bed.. with him and his girlfriend. Awkwaaaaard. I've heard them twice, and I'm planning on staying in my flatmates room tonight to save myself from any more!

I hope you're all well and will definitely do a longer post tomorrow or Sunday! :)
xxx

It's the little things.

2011-10-11T12:47:00.000-07:00

So anyone who read my previous blog post knows I was really homesick, if you haven't and want to, you can read it here...
I wrote it on Sunday, and posted it on Monday. You should know that things have really gotten better and I feel a lot more at peace now.

On Monday evening I went to 'a fresh start', which was a socially kind of meet up organised by a local church with masses of free tea and cake. Now when I say masses, I mean masses.

I'm not usually a cake person, and icing person yes, cake, no. But I managed to eat 4 cupcakes and 3 cups of tea..and boy did I feel fat afterwards! I was definitely grateful for the walk home to walk off a few calories! But I sat with my friends, and it was really nice to get out of my flat and talk to other people about different things, and that made me feel a lot better :)

This morning was horrific, not because I was homesick or anything but because I had an 8am maths lecture! Who on earth would make anyone get up that early to do maths?! It was still dark when I left my halls! But anyway, after the lecture which was horrible, I checked my mail. I check it in the hope of someone sending me something, because I love getting letters! I save them all, and it's such a special thing to know that someone put effort and time to send me something!

I usually have nothing, in fact, I always have nothing. BUT today was different!
I had a parcel waiting for me :D
A couple in my church sent me a card updating me on all the going ons in Essex, and sent me some biscuits! I was so touched, and it really made me feel so much better about everything.. and plus, I LOVE biscuits, so that made me so happy too :D

Today I had 4 lectures, starting at 8:00am and ending at 6:00pm, and I am tired!
I was going to go out with the girls of my flat but I'm just so tired I can't bear to bring myself to go. So I 've bought some chocolate (Galaxy Cookie Crumble no less!) and am planning on catching up on some tv with my other flatmate as he decided not to go out either.

To prove I am a lot happier, I even took a picture to prove it! I am aware I look so tired in it, and all my make up has worn off...but hello, I started with an 8am maths lecture!

How is everybody else?

xxxx

I cracked.

2011-10-10T08:56:00.000-07:00

So I’ve finally cracked. I’m homesick.

If you’ve read my previous blog post, then you’ll know that my weekend didn’t start out great, and I went home early on a night out because I didn’t feel part of it. But I think that was all just leading up to a few tough days of homesickness. I knew I missed home, my family, friends and bed. But I guess I didn’t really realise how much until now.

My ‘cracking’ came this afternoon. I needed to talk to someone and fast.

I spoke to my best friend first and that was so good, I spoke to her honestly about a couple of private things and a few things I’ve been worried about and the things that’s been worrying her, so it was really healthy and I did feel better about it, we even worked out how long it was until I could see her. (A month minus 5 days!) It was genuinely a really good chat, and although it made me miss her more, her coming to visit me soon is impossible because she has her BMAT and A Levels to work on!

Next came my family, I skype my family at least 3 times a week, and usually its really lovely to see them, remind them that I’m still alive, and that I’m managing living without them! And it was today, until my mum informed me that since she almost chopped her finger off at work (A&E all day, steri strips and lots of bandages), they’re making her have the week off as it happened on their property. That’s amazing for her, because since she’s gotten this job, she hasn’t had a sick day off in 8 years and it’s paid! So I asked whether she could come and visit me, because I missed her. She told me she couldn’t…. I’m sure she has a million things to do, and obvious responsibilities at home, but it still was really upsetting.

And I cracked.

I cried, and cried and cried. Now I don’t know whether you’ve done it, but crying whilst on skype can be veeeery awkward, because the people you’re talking to can only watch (and in my mums case, cry too) and not do anything.

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I wrote that last night planning on uploading it then too but the only place I have internet is in my room, and I was spending time with my flatmates last night.

I feel a lot better, but I think crying it out helped, I spent a long time crying yesterday.

But today got better, in fact last night did. I had a really long chat with one of my flatmates and sorted out a few things, and that was good. But today I've busied myself with notes and assigments and it's helped.

I'm going out tonight to a church social, so that'll be helpful :)

Hope everyone else is cheerful :) xxx

Birthdays and Beaches

2011-10-09T05:25:00.000-07:00

Thursday was my flatmates birthday!

We've had 3 out of 5 birthdays in 2 weeks, and the 2 that haven't been aren't even in term! So we had lots of celebrations over the past few weeks.
We went to a place called 'The Greek'. It was loveeeely, its so cool inside! You go into a little alleyway shop front and then inside it's like a proper greek tavern set outside (but undercover) so little patios and stone walls with traditional trees (fake i guess) and fences, and it's so cute! It had such a nice vibe to it, and was fairly quiet which was nice because it was about half 11 by the time we got there, so was nice to relax a little.

I got this from a restaurant review website, but this is basically the main inside bit :)

On Friday night, 2 of the birthday girl's friends came down to stay for a night out...it was interesting.

They turned up drunk, which obviously wasn't a problem, just egged on the rest of my flatmates to join them!

We went to Occy again, and it was good for the first 2 hours or so. But then my shoes started to hurt (as always) but having to look after 5 drunk people isn't that much fun.

Don't get me wrong, I love each and everyone of my flatmates, and their friends, but it was just one of those nights which wasn't fun unless you were on the same level as everyone else.. and as I don't drink, I was definitely not on their level! So I left at 2, kindly escorted by the mature student from my flat, after I had just had enough! I think they left at 3, and by the sounds of it, and judging by going into my kitchen on Saturday morning finding several hungover people sprawled across the floor, I made the right decision.

Anyways, Saturday was so good.

I went to a place called Rhosnigre in Anglesea with the CU.

We caught the train there, and ended up in a pub for lunch. Finding somewhere to eat for 26 hungry students wasn't easy, and the pub staff certainly did panic when they saw us! But it was literally the nicest food, it might not have been, but I've been living off student cooking (ie pasta, frozen things!) for the past 3 weeks, so it was so nice to have a proper meal cooked for me. I had half a chicken, salad (healthiest thing in 3 weeks) and chips, and it was good.
We went to the beach afterwards, which was beaaaaaaaautiful!

Ultimate Frisbee was played, a little paddle, wrote things in the sand, climbed over rocks and went looking for crabs. It was so much fun, and really nice to know more people within the CU.

Below are a couple of photos I took on my phone (hence the quality), I'm going to have to back with my camera!

Thankfully, the weather held up until we got to the train station, so it was ultimately a really lovely day out :)

It's half one, and I've been to church and back, cleaned the kitchen and been sitting here for the past half hour, and my flat is still asleep!

How is everyone else? What did you do at the weekend?

xxx

Lecturer's gone wild.

2011-10-04T07:56:00.000-07:00

So the title may be a little deceiving.. I just had to comment on a few of my lecturers. I have one crazy one for intro to Business and Management, but he is hilarious and makes the hour go a lot quicker. I have one 5-6 this afternoon, how crazy, but he'll make it a lot better :)
I have an Economics Lecturer who is a less attractive version of Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, if you didn't know!) which isn't a bad thing at all. But I mean less attractive! And he goes over the hour a lot, like today it got to 1:00 and we were all raring to go, and he started on another batch of slides...annoying.

Another one is a little like Sarah Millican. Now don't get me wrong, I love Sarah Millican, she is my favourite comedienne by far, and going to see her record Sarah Millican's support group was one of the funniest expereiences of my life. However, my lecturer doesn't posess her hilarity, but does have her looks and her voice, just a much more squeaky and annoying version. And given that she is teaching my least favourite module and I dread the moment I have to walk into the classroom.

My law lecturer is the biggest mumbler EVER! We had a 2 hour lecture last week, and the only thing I undestood was that he was a twin, and that he grew a beard but it doesn't suit him. Helpful...mumble mumble.

Anyway. Lectures are in full swing, and trying to write up notes, learn everything I don't understand in my spare time and managing to survive is going surprisingly well. I've even got a social life..I know, shocking.
I'm part of the Christian Union, so I have church with lots of students on Sunday, a Hall Group with 20ish of us on Monday Evenings, and Christian Union main meeting on Thursday Evenings. So lots of people :)

On top of that, I'm still going out lots with my flatmates. In fact, on Saturday, Comedy Dave and Dom (Radio One DJ's, co-hosts with Chris Moyles) came to Bangor! They didn't make much difference, they played the same songs as any other local DJ would have, however, I did get to shake Comedy Dave's hand, which made my day! Haha.

How has everyone else's weeks been?

xxx

Uni madness

2011-09-29T09:49:00.000-07:00

I apologise for neglecting my blog for so long, It's been a bit manic, with ups and downs, lectures, parties, and friends.
So I'll start where I left off, I've started lectures now, and I've started the proper ones rather than the introductory ones. And one word comes to mind: Panic.
The one's that I've had are REALLY hard. And on a few occasions I have questioned my place at university. Take today's for example, my 9:00 lecture was 'Quantative methods' which just screams numbers to me, which is never good. I have never been made to feel so stupid and little in my life. I mean, maybe I didn't have the best maths education in my school, certainly not as much as others, and I'm definitely not gifted in the maths dept. But she was going through quadratic equations, opening and multiplying brackets and fractions. But when i say going through, I mean just saying 'you all know how to do it, yes?'. But when there's 200 people in a lecture hall, its not the best time to pipe up.
So I've the afternoon in my room with my flatmate (who did A Level maths) whilst he teaches me GCSE level maths. I feel so stupid.
My second lecture today, was so unbelievably boring it was awful. I understood about 2 words the lecturer said because he mumbled SO much, so the module's really going to go well, its a law one too..hard. We then had a law library talk, which went on for hoursssssss, the woman even drew a map of the library, yes really.
But that's enough about work.

I went to a foam party last night, and although fun and exciting beforehand, once the foam went over my head, soaked my through and in my eyes so I couldn't see, it wasn't pleasant. I felt really vulnerable and had to get outta there, wasn't fun. We left early because I got hit in the head, which was painful, and I didn't wanna stick around..

On the plus side, my flatmates are still amazing (esp maths geniuses!) and it's been so hot the past 2 days. Shorts, vest and sunglasses in Wales! A-maazing.

Here are a few pretty pictures I took when I went out for a walk..once I'd got bored of maths haha :)

How is everybody? xxx

UV paint and more.

2011-09-24T10:48:00.000-07:00

Last night was a UV paint night at a local club called Ocatagon.

The point of it was that everyone was on the dance floor and then get shot at with paint guns which resulted in very messy painty people. But what they didn't say, was that the dance floor has a maximum capacity and only the first 100 in it will be able to get painty. I have to say, I wasn't that annoyed with not being one of 100 because I would have been plastered with paint, in my hair, my body and it didn't look too pleasant.

However, we did get prepared. We bought UV paint and put it on our face, which looked amazing under the UV light in the club, and wrote our names on our backs. It was so fun, definitely one of the best nights. My flatmate got very drunk and I looked after her for the last half hour because she couldn't stand up and kept falling, but apart from that!
Below is a picture of my flatmates all geared up ready to go. There are loads of pictures but most are on my friends camera :)

Today we went to a fun day, it was better than expected that's for sure.

They had the expected fair ground games: coconut shy, hook a duck, hoopla and things. And the more unusual: bungee jump running, surf board bucking bronco type thing, crazy golf and caricatures!
We did a treasure hunt earlier on in the week, and we came first!
So we collected our prize of £40 amazon vouchers each too! :)
I managed to fail at all the games and didn't win anything!

But thankfully my flatmate took pity on me and won me a little pig, and then I begged a stall holder to give me a crocodile.

And my caricature isn't flattering at all, but hey, I'm not really sure why I expected it to be!

How is everybody else?

I've noticed some new commenters, and followers, so thank you so much for taking the time out to read my blog, and I hope you enjoy it :)

xxx

Bangorian Adventures.

2011-09-23T03:52:00.000-07:00

So university's amazing. Tiring, but amazing. Fortunately, my body clocks gotten used to little sleep at 4 in the morning this week, so I haven't been really tired during the days like earlier in the week.

We've done a treasure hunt, freshers fair x2, bought masses of decorations for my flatmate's birthday, and ate lots of free pizza.

They gave out free domino's pizza vouchers at freshers fair and in and around the town, so naturally I have about 10 in my room ready to be used. Only thing is, Domino's is down the hill so that means we have to walk back up the hill haha.
We've started to make our flat more homely, i.e loads of mess everywhere, but more importantly..we have put up a one direction poster in the kitchen so we can stare at their beautiful faces.

Louis is our favourite, him being more our age making it less weird haha.

I'll take pictures of our decorated flat, we went a bit crazy in the pound shop ahah. But it'll be good because the guy who's birthday it is, doesn't know about it yet :)

On to the nightlife, we've continued to go out every night, naturally ;)
We've been to embassy again, a place called Base (which was rubbish, it was 11:45, and we were the only one's on the dance floor!) and Octagon. the night at Embassy was really good, as it was a silent disco, so everyone had headphones and looked a bit crazy, but it was so good :)

Will take more pictures, and update soon.
How is everyone else doing?!

xxx

University Antics

2011-09-20T03:12:00.000-07:00

Life is good.

Never thought I'd say that after last week haha. But I finally get why everyone says university is amazing.

Me and my 3 (sane) flatmates have formed a little gang, and we're all good friends. I'm genuinely blessed that I got such amazing ones!

I've done the formal welcome, health and safety talk, and talk about modules.. with the most boring guy I've ever witnessed, he talked so slow, and repeated everything twice, we were in there for 2 hours! And I'm choosing my modules today.

On to the interesting things, I wasn't expecting any nightlife at all, being in the middle of nowhere and to be honest, that was on of the selling points. I don't drink which makes dancing with hundreds of drunk freshers not that much fun. But I was wrong! On Sunday night we went to a new club called Embassy (and octagon and Oscars, but they weren't interesting enough to blog about!) It was a bit of craziness, lots of drunk dancing around me, lots of grabbing and being drawn on. At some points I did feel quite vulnerable with the knowledge that I was the only sober person there and I had no idea what to do if the touching up of me and my friends got worse. But it all ended fine, we got back at 3ish, and I wasn't mentally scarred haha!

Last night we went to another new place called Academi, it was cheesy music night, no more explanation needed. It was better, how could it not be with S Club 7? haha. But we were so tired from the night before that it was only half hearted and got back about half 1.

That's the update of uni adventures, no doubt there will be lots more this week!

This and mountains is the view from most of the town and university, bliss :)

How's everybody else? Any adventures? xxx

I'm a uni student.. craazy.

2011-09-18T03:32:00.000-07:00

So I'm all moved in, and was on the whole..painless.
I've made my room look all pretty and homely with lots of pictures.
My flatmates are lovely, which helps, 2 girls and 3 guys. Two of the guys are awol since yesterday..but the others are really nice :)
Saying goodbye was hard, but once I'd gotten over the original 'I'm on my own' thing, I was fine.
I'll do another update soon, this one's short and sweet :)

My new room :)

How's everyone else? xxx

The saddest of goodbyes.

2011-09-15T10:13:00.000-07:00

So I'm leaving on Saturday, at 5 in the morning.... I hope my new flatmates don't mind me looking particularly bedraggled when I get there aha.
I've (almost) packed, most things are sorted, and it's starting to be more real now.
I've met my neighbour through facebook and he seems lovely, and potential flatmates (depending on how the numbering works..)
So the hard bit's left to do, saying goodbye.

Now I hate saying goodbye, because I really do tend to miss people an awful lot.

On Sunday I said goodbye to my best best friend which was very sad, but also hopeful of the future and another one of my close friends who I hadn't seen in about a year, so a hello drink was probably more appropriate than a goodbye one!

But also I said goodbye to my family. Not by blood but by being the most amazing people alive. My church and youth group, they're my extended family and they mean the world to me, and as much as my actual family do.
Some in particular were sad, but others were bittersweet knowing we were going on to do exciting things.

One thing which was lovely was that I got adopted! Not literally adopted. It's a thing we do in our church, when the students going away are 'adopted' by other people in the church, so they keep in close contact, send them letters, updates, other treats, and keep them in prayer :) I've been adopted by my old youth leader, and that means a lot to me as they've really looked after me in the past years and have even let me stay at their house for a week a time :)

Today I said goodbye to one of my other best friends, it was supposed to be a 'business crew' meetup (we all sat together in business studies everyday) but organising the boys was just so hard we did our own little private one :) It was lovely to spend time with her, but also wish her the best as she really is a genius and will do so well in her life.

And tomorrow is my leaving meal with my family.

Do you want to see my efforts of packing? I have SO much stuff, my dad has actually hired a bigger car to take me there hahaha.

How is everybody else? I've got a grand total of 2 followers!

picture courtesy of weheartit

xxx

Going Ape!

2011-09-11T10:23:00.000-07:00

As previous blogged, I turned 18 a couple of weeks ago!

My youth group and my best friend are the cutest and the most thoughtful people alive, and this is why..

A couple of months ago, I suggested going to a high rope place for a friends birthday, but after deciding they were too scared and would never do it we dropped it.

HOWEVER, my best friend planned and plotted, and organised a trip to go ape for me for my birthday! She got my youth group to chip in money so I wouldn't have to pay, and and organised transport and things. Bearing in mind they're all 13-16, and my ticket was £30, this is a massive thing for them.

So yesterday, we went to go ape! :D
There were 4 of us, because of the cost each but that was just perfect.

Our training instructor found out it was my birthday and made a little demonstration of me haha, and he was practicing his flirting skills on me to say the least. It made it hilarious but oh so awkward whilst he was tightening my harness round my waist, legs and everywhere in between!
The course and experience was both terrifying, hard and difficult!
It was very high, but you got used to it after realising how scary the rest of it was.
If you didn't distribute your weight on the many log/rope/tiny rings appropriately, it would over balance and then slip off. If you didn't do it quick enough you'd end up doing the splits with your legs on two different ones screaming haha. The rope/Tarzan swings into a cargo net was terrifying. Especially on one particular, in which the rope you were attached to was longer than the platform you were standing on, which led to throwing yourself off and then plummeting (at that point I believed to my death because I hadn't clipped myself on properly) until the rope got taught and then swung you onto the cargo net.

The zip wires (info from the website) were 20 meters off the forest floor, which was just amazing as the view was just amazing, and 250meters long. Hello scary.

But I manned up, and did it all, throughout lots of "God please don't let me die" In fact, my friend behind me told me I'd said that every time I was faced with something aha.

It was SO much fun, 'challenging', and really gets the adrenalin rushing. Especially as it was wet and slippy. I've got a few rope burns!

Picture's from the website.
But that was one of the many nets we swung into.

It was an amazing day, and I was so touched that everyone had chipped in to let me do something I've always wanted to do!

Has anyone else been to a go ape?

xxx

Uni packing and things.

2011-09-09T06:03:00.000-07:00

So it's no secret I'm going to university. Far far away.
Not purposefully at all. In fact, if I could I would bring Wales to the neighbouring town to me and my family. I'm dreading leaving home, for me it kinda signifies leaving my happy childhood behind and that's a really sad thought. I know that uni's going to be a massive exciting adventure, meeting new people and doing lots of new things. But there still is a part of me that really wishes I was going to a London uni where I could commute and not leave home. I'm a proper homebody, there is no denying that, I think my parents secretly think I wont make it at uni and will come crying home soon enough, just because I'm so close to them and my brother, and being 7 hours away from them isn't filling me with joy!
However, on the plus side, I'm going to gain a lot of independence, which I know is a very good thing! My brother is moving away to Watford in October, so even if stayed, it wouldn't be the same home I knew and my best friend (who I'm still planning on fitting in my suitcase!) will be going to university next year, and leaving home, so even though it feels like I'm leaving everything and everyone, I'm just the first person to leave!

Sorry for that.. I just felt I needed to say it haha.
ANYWAYS.
Moving means packing! Now, I know I'm unusual in this, but I LOVE packing, I guess it just means that you're always going somewhere exciting to have some new adventures :)
I move in a week and a day, so I decided I'd start sorting out my cosmeticy things.
I have a massive collection of creams, files and pots of exciting things. But there is no way it can all fit in my uni room let alone my car. So sadly I have to decide not to take some!
My jewellery collection is ridiculous too haha. I have a jewellery box, two cosmetic cases, a little box and a jewellery stand lady. Seen below (she's fairly empty because I put all of it in a pile to make a decision!)

But in the end I managed it.

Hard decisions haha!
I decided on my favourite, my special pieces and every day things.
To take it I decided to put it in my jewellery travel case, but that might change before I go.

And these are the pieces I decided to give to charity :)
I threw away loads, lots of broken necklaces and bracelets, goodness knows why I had them!

And finally, this is how far I've gotten to preparing/packing so far...

Anybody know anyone else going to uni? Or moving?

Ciao xxx

My Summer in photos :)

2011-09-05T10:54:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd share some photos I've taken over the past few months of summer :)
My camera was well timed as I got it at the start of summer! Warning: Picture heavy post!

Flying over the alps, truly beautiful!

Taken on my patio in Malta, to the left was the sea, straight ahead was the bay :)

Flower on my patio.

Again, beautiful. Blue Lagoon in Malta.

I have at least 1000 pictures of Malta, but most of them have my family in them and I know they wouldn't appreciate me putting them on here.
I'll probably put some more Malta ones on random posts :)

These were at the zoo, anyone who knows me can tell you one things about me.

I LOVE ZOOS.
I go to so many, only been to two this year.
Anyway, the giraffe on the right was trying to get an apple out of the little basket and wasn't doing too well. Was funny to watch.

My salt and pepper shakers fell in love on my grass.

In actual fact, I got my camera that day and wanted to play haha.

Me and my brother went to see my favourite band, We Are The In Crowd.
I was at the front, just had a short pink haired person in front/to my side depending on how much we jostled about.

As you can see, we met them afterwards. It was literally amazing.

At our Summer Ball for the end of year 13.

Again, lots of pictures, but lots of people who don't want to appear on the internet :)

Soul Survivor - unbelievably fun.

We dressed up too :)

Me and my mumma did Water Zorbing- may do a separate post for this.

But it was so much fun, made me feel like a hamster!

Also, I am aware these aren't attractive, but it's hard to look nice whilst in a tiny ball!

And a little vein moment hehe.
My room was a mess I realise...

So there we are, a little glimpse of my summer in pictures.

I've had so much fun (minus the breakup!) but it ends in two weeks once I move to uni in Wales.
Still lots of fun though, going to go ape on Saturday, a catch up with one of my old best friends who I haven't seen in years before we go off to uni. And saying goodbye (which will be SO sad!)

Anyways, sorry this was so long.

Anyone got any photos of their own summer? I love looking :)

Ciao xxx

My 18th Birthdayyyyy! :)

2011-09-02T03:32:00.000-07:00

I've patiently waited to turn 18, I'm one of the youngest in my year.
EVERYONE (apart from one) turned 18 before me, and it was starting to get very frustrating, but I go there, and it's very exciting :)
I got my provisional, and I got to use it as ID for the first time last week, it's the small things..

Anyways, I was a very spoilt girly this year.
I got a fujifilm z90 red camera in July which was my main birthday present, I was just given it before we went to Malta so I could document our fun! It's my pride and joy, I don't exactly have the best track record with cameras, and have broken more than I care to recall, so I'm guarding this one with my life!

Google image obvs :)

It's the most gorgeous camera, i love it! It's slim enough to put into my pocket, and the slide down function is very practical. So far it's survived Malta, the zoo, Soul Survivor, my party, Wales and soon Go Ape (!) :)

I also got Tresemme heated rollers, I'd been lusting over them for a while, and my mumma manged to get them for me! They really do give volume and a slight curl, they're definitely coming to uni with me :) I'll have to take a picture once I've used them!

I got lots of other bits and pieces, but I wont name them all.

BUT my aunt was very very lovely, and got me a Tiffany's bracelet :D

It's gorgeous, and again, I'm guarding it with my life!

Below is my haul, and my Tiffany's bracelet :)

Also, as mentioned in a previous post, I went to Wales for the weekend to do a reccy for uni, and this is two of the many photos I took :)

He was fishing in the middle of the lake! Madness!

Anyone else had a birthday recently? Was it fun?

Ciao xxx

Apologies: Busy Busy Busy!

2011-09-02T03:14:00.000-07:00

Time for a massive sorry, it's been weeks since I did a blog..but I've got good excuses!
The last one I did was I came back from Soul Survivor, well since then the following things have happened:

I turned 18! YAY. Lots of busyness ensued!
I had my 18th party, I don't think I've felt so loved in a long time!
I got my A level results, and got into my first choice of university :D

All of that in 4 days haha.
Then...

I slept lots to recover haha..
I went to Wales for the weekend, we did a reccy of uni and things. The aim was to get a job before I got there so I wouldn't be a poor AND starving student haha. Even if nothing comes of it, it certainly put my mind at ease a little bit of going so far.
Going round lots of people's houses who think the world is ending as I'm going away so lots of free lunches at people's haha :)
I broke up with my boyfriend - yes, not so happy. In fact, I was very sad for a while hence the silence..but he's silly and doesn't deserve my sad time (rant over)
Lots of sudden parties.
Again, slept lots to recover..

BUT I'm back to normality now :)
I've got 2 weeks until I move, scary! But I've bought lots of things and I'm feeling a kinda prepared.

Posts will follow with pictures of my adventures :)

Has everyone else been busy busy busy too?

Ciao xxx

Life in a muddy field, Minnie Mouse and my return :)

2011-08-15T12:28:00.000-07:00

I'm back from my muddy adventure!

This is gonna be a picture heavy post, I warn you now :)

Life in a muddy field is a lot more fun than it sounds.

It rained 4 out for the 6 days, and it was SO muddy! I said wellies were essential, some people just wore flip flops and was just crazy muddy.

This was the mud on concrete..you can imagine the mud on the actual grass!

It was also very cold, so hoodys were a God send.

On the second day, I was going to boil some water for some hot chocolate on my little camping stove, so I got it all ready and turned it on and it BURST INTO FLAMES. I realise that this seems over dramatic, but genuinely I was terrified. The gas canister had leaked over night on the cooker, and then just consumed itself in flames. After shouting "STEVE" (my youth leader), he came a running and poured 2 water carriers over it to put it out. Was very traumatic at the time, especially as I was very very close to it, and was very very fortunate not to be burnt!

This was the controls after it had been put out:

The week consisted of lots of meetings and was just so fun. I've been going for 7 years, and this year was easily the best. There were 15 of us and we all became so much closer over week and I think we really bonded. Of course there were some stressful moments (certain members of the group had no respect for other people's property, and others claimed they were too young to cook and wash up therefore refusing, resulting on us waiting on them hand and foot a lot). But overall just so fun, we laughed so much, I shared a tent with my best friend Claire, which was hilarious. We hadn't seen each other that much this summer, so spending time with her was amazing and we became so much closer :)

Only some of our group, I was one of the youth leaders this year :)

The last day was dressing up day and I got a chance to wear my Minnie Mouse costume :)

Note wellies, myself and Claire :)

Marie, Princess, Rex, Hercules, Scooby Doo and Minnie Mouse :)

It was a sleep deprived, sugar fuelled, ninja game playing week and was fantastic, amazing, brilliant :)

We came home yesterday and my bed was so good. I had a bath and the dirt that came off me was horrific. The showers at Soul Survivor was disgusting and cold, so anything hot was so welcome!

I slept for 12 hours last night, and I'm still so tired!

In other news, I made these today

They look yummy, I'm yet to try one yet though!

Also, I'm 18 in 3 hours and 40 minutes :)

Hope you're all good

Camping Chic

2011-08-08T09:28:00.000-07:00

Going camping, or glamping as it is also known and looking good is a struggle. That much is true.

I've been going camping since I was about 6, but it's only since I've been going to Soul Survivor (summer camp, roughly 12,000 young people a year) that I've actually cared how I look when emerging from my tent to brave the mud!

It's my 7th year, and possibly my last with uni and things coming up, and I am determined to look good, and this year, I wont be looking at every other girls thinking 'how on earth do they look so good?!'

Colourful wellies are a must, if you've got to live in mud, you may as well traipse through it in style. Mine are black with pink and white flowers. But rest assured, you'll always see someone else in better ones..it's a way of life.

I'm trying to go down the dresses and leggings route this year. Because it's an awful lot easier. No need to worry about your top riding up and jeans falling down when sitting on the floor, which is an annual battle. Easier to layer up, putting on a cardigan is perfect. And also, takes less space when packing, very important! :)

Hoodys/Hoodies(?) also a must, it gets so cold at night wherever you go..unless you go camping in hotter climates than England haha. And they look good over jeans!

Packing is always difficult..packing as little as possible is impossible. If you talk to anyone else whilst packing, they'll come out with something about how good they would be in that situation and would only pack one bag and would be amazing. Which is so annoying they wouldn't believe, because it really isn't that easy! (I admit, I only wrote this bit because my boyfriend just said exactly that, and annoyed me no end)

I've only got one bag for clothes, one bag for food (cooker included), and one for my airbed and pump and everything that didn't fit in the others haha. Which I think is impressive for a week away.

Here are my efforts: I know it's sideways, I don't have the patience to figure out to fix it haha.

I'm off tomorrow morning, so it will be a blogging free week. But I'll do a post about Soul Survivor with lots of pictures hopefully, including fancy dress!

Have a lovely week :)

Look what I made!

2011-08-05T10:55:00.000-07:00

Next week I'm going to Soul Survivor!
Soul Survivor's a summer camp in Somerset which I go to every year. And the last night is fancy dress, and the theme's Disney this time :)
Last year it was fairy tales and I was a princess fairy but I decided to be Minnie Mouse this year!

The majority of Minnie Mouse costumes that I'd seen were either very little, or not covering much of my body, sooooo I decided to make my own! I used to make a lot of things when I was younger, but kinda grew out of it, but it meant I've got lots of material and sewing things so I was all set!

So I got to work.

I found a plain pink dress in Notting Hill (it's a £5 shop for those who don't have one in your town), it has a Peter Pan collar, and kind of flary at the bottom with cap sleeves.

I found lots of pictures of pink Minnie Mouse's and tried to base my costume on this one..

I found an old white t-shirt which my mum didn't want any more and cut out about 30 circles the same size and then sewed them onto the bottom half of the dress, below the middle seam (I'm sure there's a technical word rather than middle seam..). And I think they're all distributed evenly on the skirt.

Then I got to work on the ears.

They are definitely a DIY project, the ears are pieces of cardboard, which fabric sewn around them to make 2 black circles. Attaching them to the headband was the hard part. I used a white Alice band because I couldn't find a black one, and basically sewed as much as I can to every available piece of fabric to make them stay upright! This took the best part of 2 hours haha, but it was worth it.

Minnie Mouse ears are not complete without a ribbon, so I managed to buy some very pink ribbon from a little craft shop down the road for 40p and made it into a bow and sewed that onto the Alice band.

And volia! It was finished! I'm going to draw whiskers on with liquid eyeliner and have bright red lips. I have practiced it and then opened the front door, the neighbours haven't looked at me in the same way since haha!
Below is the dress and the ears :)

Didn't come without injuries haha.

Needle's are dangerous.

Anyways, I'm sure I'll post everyone else's fancy dress outfits as well as me in my one!

Hope you're all good!

So, I decided to start a blog :)

2011-08-04T10:58:00.000-07:00

After years of reading various blogs, I thought I'd start writing my own.

So a bit about myself.. I'm 17, (18 in 2 weeks, I will finally be old YAY), live in Essex, and hopefully going to uni in September (I'm pretty sure I'll cry about how nervous I am about my results on here, and then whether I get in or not) .

At the moment, I've got my summer ahead so I'll be able to blog quite regularly. I read Sprinkle Of Glitter, Zoella, Dottie K, Flutter and Sparkle, Maylovesmakeup and the like alll the time, so they've inspired me to do this.

I'll try and do beauty blogs, although I can't say I have much money to buy lots, but those that I do, I'll definitely review for you. But this blog'll probably be more of a life blog, and all my unexciting adventures :)

I'd love to say hope you're all okay, but until I get followers, I'll be talking to no-one haha :)