The End of a Long Week...

Hello my lovelies, how are you all? I can honestly say I'm glad this week is over. It has been full of revision, exams, stress and arguments within my friendship group at school.

One of my friends, Megan, had an operation early on in the week due to a back problem, and she is slowly recovering, so please, Megan, get well soon! Miss having you at school :/

But one thing that has kept me going is the thought of being able to blog to you lovely people! This blog is one of the only ways I have to be able to express myself. Sure, I'm not sharing lots of personal stuff, but I find blogging is a great way for me to get all of my stresses out rather than keeping them bottled up, which is never a good thing.

Friends aren't always around for me to talk to. I haven't been sleeping very well recently, maybe it's because I can't fall asleep until gone-eleven most nights. But when I wake up in the night and when I'm waiting for sleep to find me, I often think about post ideas and what I can do with my blog in the future.

I'm in year 10 of school at the minute, meaning I'm in my second year of my GCSEs. This means a lot of mock exams and even some real ones, like my German ones and coursework for various subjects.

Once I finish year 11 at school (and my GCSEs, yay!!), I'll be heading off to sixth form or college. I've been recommend to go to a dance/theatre college, which I'm quite excited about, because otherwise I don't have a clue what I want to do with my life.

When I do go to college, I'll most likely be living over there, meaning less time for blogging, seeing friends back home and all of my other hobbies. I will have to stop dancing with my dance school as well, which I've been dancing at for over ten years, currently. That's the one thing (apart from my family and friends!) that I will miss the most, I think.

But this is why the internet has been invented. I will be able to Skype my friends, talk on Facebook, text them, you name it! I'll be able to stay in contact with my old friends, and make some new ones too at college.


So, these are just my musings for today. I'm also looking at buying some new clothes, so I've been browsing several new websites this evening. And talking to friends; I'm almost never not talking to them!

Have a good evening everyone, I'll try and post tomorrow. Night :))

Tunesday...

Two exams down, one to go!! I gave myself a night off from revision though, and I just did maths homework and talked to a couple of my friends.

Today's song is one that means an awful lot to me. It's been almost a year since My Chemical Romance (my most favouritest band EVER of all time!) did the thing (insert huge sad face here) D:

But the lyrics also mean a lot to me. My favourites include:
"I'm empty when you go."
and
"I'm thinking of you, every night, every day."

I'm partly posting this for one of my friends, seeing as they mean so much to me. If they're reading this, then they know who they are. Text me when you see this? :)

So enjoy, and check out more of their music!!

Revision...

Oh, the joys of being a teenager! I have to revise for my GCSE German speaking exam (which is tomorrow!) tonight and tomorrow night I'll be revising for a chemistry mock, so I might not be posting tomorrow. Sorry in advance!

Think Happy...9/52...

Hello, how is everyone? Good? I hope so!

This week hasn't been great, I must admit. My friend is really ill again, one of my bestfriends has had mock exams all week so we haven't talked much, and another of my bestfriends has been totally upset and I couldn't do anything to help.

But this is a post for happiness, to remind me to take joy in all the little things that matter to me. So here we go.

1. A really cute little girl won my mouse and she's just the cutest!!

2. Christmas Fayre at my littlest brother's school! Okay, I can walk the circuit of that school in less than 40 seconds, but I met up with five my friends (two of whom I stuck around with) and had a great time eating cupcakes and burgers!

Nina (left) and myself, trust us to not get the picture in focus xD

4. Dance classes yesterday. We're working on the little girls' character dance and ohmygosh it's so cute!!

5. Cookies! We made delicious cookies from this recipe on my favourite blog.

Fresh out of the oven!

6. Cats rehearsals today! After a minor dilemma of having to change venue last minute (and travelling to it with the four little girlies I love so much) we got in three great hours of rehearsals.

We started the Pre-Ball dance, which I and my friend have a long time dancing on stage together, which is fun and so so pretty! And we have an almost-complete cast! There are a couple of roles that haven't been filled and some of the people who are meant to be in it are abroad, but it's going great :D

Thanks to everyone who constantly puts up with my ramblings, I don't really have that many people to turn to recently, so thanks again!

Tunesday...

Sorry I'm a day late, life's been catching up with me again! I have my GCSE German speaking exam next Tuesday, and a Chemistry exam on the Tuesday. I've also just finished one of my English Controlled Assessments, so I've been very busy!

I chose this song because I've loved it ever since it came out 7 years ago (I actually didn't realise it had been that long; oops!!). Anyway, enjoy and have a great morning/evening/day :)

Think Happy...8/52...

Happy December! Flippin heck, this year has gone so fast! But I've seen a huge change in myself as a person in this time, which I'm very happy about.

Well you've probably read my post from earlier, about how amazing yesterday was. If you haven't, I'll still mention those facts in this post.

1. I entered Milli into a competition, and I had a lot of amazing people from both Facebook and the 365 Project very kindly vote for me. Thank you so much everyone!

2. Day off on Friday! I got some levitation photography done, which I'm super pleased about.

3. My picture is/was on the home and popular pages of 365 Project!! I'm so unbelievably ecstatic, and the sense of community on that website can't be matched by anything else. The people are so supportive of each other, and they critique where necessary and praise too!

4. Cats rehearsals today! They were very good - we've now finished the entire first song (minus the last verse because Ed has only just started today and doesn't know his lines or the choreography)!

5. Christmas Craft Fayre for Cancer Research UK this evening at a local pub, which Milli (who I named the mouse after)is organising. It was great!

I have more ideas for posts, just need to think them through before I commit to them. Maybe it could be my New Year's resolution?

The Best Day Ever...

Yesterday was a good day. A very good day, in fact. I woke up late in the morning, which meant I'd had a lot of sleep last night; it felt great to be snuggled up under the duvet and various blankets!

I got up, dressed, brushed my teeth, did my make-up, you know, the usual, and checked my laptop.

Little did I know that when I opened up my 365 Project account that I'd have 27 notifications to check through, and that my succulent photo had been featured on the home page and that it was also on the popular page!

Home page

Popular page

I was so unbelievably happy, and I walked around for the whole morning with the hugest smile on my face!

What else made me very happy today, you might ask? I had my dance classes again, surprise surprise, and the little girlies were so cute again!

We were doing character dances with them, to this amazing song! And I think Hannah and I are going to be doing a 'duet' section in it together! I actually can't wait!

I also found out that my right pointe shoe is broken in just right, so now I can go fully over and not worry about falling over!

I love my hairy little succulent!! It has brought me so much 'fame', you could call it, and it's just so cute!!


P.s. This post was scheduled to be released yesterday, but because of time I have to post it today. I will still be writing my Think Happy post for today too, so double-post day! Yay!

Not So Lazy Day Off...

I'm so glad that my school decided to have a teacher training day today, because I really needed to catch up on a lot of sleep! I managed to get quite a lot of things done today, all of them enjoyable.

 

I sharpened my eyeliner pencil, like you do. I love looking at the sharpenings!

Trying on various dresses I've been given. This one is one of my favourites, and now I really want summer to hurry up! Don't get me wrong, I love snuggling down at home and watching movies all day, but the lack of light at this time of year drives me crazy, and it's really bad for photography.

I much prefer spring and summer, where there are long hours of sunlight and there are golden hours, which give amazing chances for photography.

 



Had a lunch of my favourite soup today (oxtail) and it warmed me up so much. All the time I spent in my room this morning chilled me to the core, and I needed something to thaw me out.

I got my advent calendar as well today. I'm not liking the exterior, but it's the chocolates on the inside that matter, so soon I'll be enjoying them.

But if I had to choose my favourite One Direction member, I'd choose Niall without a doubt! We have the same birthday, and he's exactly five years older than I am.

Photography. That's what my afternoon has been made of today. This is my beautiful camera, a Fujifilm Finepix S4400 bridge, which I got for my birthday. This isn't the best picture of it, because of the awful winter light.


Now for my very exciting part of the post! I love my photography, and I was taking a few shots today.

Succulent plants! I think they're so pretty, and this is the one in my window. See it here!

Levitation photography! Oh wow, I love it so much, and it's surprisingly easy! I used this tutorial, and it's so simple to follow. I used a free program called Gimp, and it's pretty similar to Photoshop.

  

A shot of my amazingly lovely dancers' feet.....don't look for too long if you don't like feet! Mine aren't very pretty.

This is probably my least favourite levitation photo: my face is pulling a weird face; I don't know what my hand is doing; and I look strangely flat. But it gets worse before it gets better, as they say. Let's hope my attempts get better soon :)

Thankyou for reading everyone, I really appreciate all of you reading my posts!

Milli the Ballerina Mouse...

I know I'm not normally a beg, but I feel I just have to share this with you. I designed this little mouse, her name is Milli, for a competition and the voting is now open. Would you mind popping over and voting (for me!)? You have to choose your five favourites, please make mine one? http://amigurumipatterns.net/designcontest/vote

Now I've entered her, I'm giving her as a raffle prize in aid of Cancer Research UK, as a young lady I know, who I named the mouse after, is only 22 yet has one of the worst cases of cancer I've ever heard of!!

It would mean so much to both myself and her family if I won! Please take thirty seconds to vote, and share this around :)

Tunesday...

Without a doubt, these guys are my favourite band ever! Their cover of Kiss' classic 'Unholy' is truly amazing, in my opinion anyway. I don't know if any of you guys are fans of this style of music, but isn't that why we're here, to listen to new artists?

Anyway, enjoy! This might be a double-post day!