full circle

Just pictures for now- i will write tomorrow

Wndw

Just another feathery photo

Friday afternooning

I need a 50mm lens. I need one.

It snowed

I've noticed something very strange. In the snow my hair goes a little bit red and my eyes go all funny-coloured...

Hello all! :) It's been just a little bit magical in wiltshire today. It's SNOWED. It doesn't usually happen, since we're so far south, but it did today. No school and no cars. The whole town stopped in it's tracks. I made the most of this opportunity to sit indoors and eat toast, but finally my curiosity sort of gave in and i went outside. I now have cold toes but my world and my dreams are officially covered in white

I took these photographs with an old manual lens from my film nikon. I know that they're a little bit out of focus, but i kinda like that in a way. These last few days have been pretty good. I feel like I'm constantly learning things, which i didn't feel before. Something else has happened too. I feel just a little bit better in myself, like I'm finally starting to see the way, and find my wings, and maybe over the next year i will be able to fly, or something like that. It's a strange feeling, it's like growing up, only you also kind of grow out, as if your world has finally decided to expand, and the boundaries of childhood are finally becoming wider and wider, or just disappear altogether. That is the change. Maybe some of you have felt it too, because it's the most wonderful thing. This year has been full of inspiration, especially from everyone here. I only started my blog early last year, and already I've found invaluable friends and fellow bloggers who just inspire me to keep on going.

So thanks to-

Roz - you truly have an amazing style. I loved swapping ideas with you over the last year, and you really helped in the beginning, hope this year is filled with many many more of your fabulous drawings, outfits and pictures (oh and maybe something to do with coffee) :)

Eve Rei - Although you're really new to this, I find myself reading your blog literally every day. You have such a lovely writing style, and I love hearing about each little adventure you have. I truly hope you manage to buy those awesome red boots!

Anna - You are such a fantastic person, your photographs continue to blow me away. You really inspired me to open my eyes to what was around me, and I think i should really dedicate almost every photo I've taken since the summer to you.

Thanks all! Now to the future...

A few things for the upcoming year-

♥ I have started a journal, a proper one, just because i never have before. I have done this purely because i have a feeling that this year needs to be written down

♥ I'm going to save up seven hundred pounds for a new camera and lenses. I am going to do this by getting a job, and i've decide that if my parents try to stop me, i will still find a way

♥ I'm not going to be anyone but myself. I've had enough of changing for others, and enough of moaning about it

♥ I'm going to teach myself some of my favourite songs on the piano, i have always done this, but not recently

♥ I'm going to be brave

Happy New Year

Shadows

Happy new year everyone :) I know it's a little late but I've been away. I took these on holiday in Chamonix.

Some other photos

Wonderland

Just a little biro drawing i did this morning. It's Alice, only really skinny, tall, and with a unnaturally long neck. Sorry, it's a little random :P

I'm having a lovely holiday, how are you all coping with the festive season? It's been all baking (something i do very rarely, and badly), decorating the house and garden, and lounging around in my new staple clothing item: Soulcal sweatpants. We're off skiing in a few days, I literally can't wait! My dad has given me his old nikon film camera, so i've added it to my ever-growing collection. Life is sweet. I'm going to hopefully receive a massive scrapbook/diary for Christmas, to keep my days, thoughts and ideas in check, so that i can refine what i put on here, and my dad has already bought me a pro account on Flickr as an early Crimbo pressie :) What are you all hoping for? I've literally spent ALL my savings on presents (not that i had that much saved up in the first place) so I'm basically skint, BUT THAT WILL CHANGE next year! I'm trying to convince my parents to let me get a Saturday job, and all the money from that would go into savings for lenses/future camera updates/film etc. I just want to know... how many of you guys (that are still in school) have jobs? My parents seem to think that it's highly abnormal...

MERRY 22nd of DECEMBER!

It FINALLY snowed!

urm yeah...

My favourite colour is green

I like dark brown eyes

I love mango juice

She's like a rainbow

(photos best viewed on widescreen)

Sian and I FINALLY made a rainbow cake. It kinda looks like it's made out of playdough, though! Personally, I wouldn't eat it, it looks untrustworthy. Next time I think we'll go easier on the food colouring! Kinda based the recipe on THIS, although hers looks absolutely scrummy, and ours (for obvious reasons) doesn't, although the icing is DELICIOUS.

I think I'm gonna do a lookbook tomorrow, haven't in aaaages.

Palace of the sun

urm... yeah, just a photo i took a couple of hours ago

Sian's coming round tomorrow, and we're going to make a rainbow cake

Wild thing, i think i love you

Yesterday I went to see Where the wild things are, and I was blown away. I've been looking forward to seeing i first heard it was being made into a movie. The thing is, you really didn't know what to expect, the book was so short, but i think that the movie captured everything the original story did. What surprised me was how deep the film was. I was hoping and praying that they hadn't disney-fied it for little children, because i would have honestly just walked out there and then, but the adaptation was far from it. The way they had done it was mesmerizing. The characters, although being ten-foot balls of matted fur, were absolutely believable. In my opinion, they were all basically different aspects of Max, the main characters' life and personality, each symbolizing something in his life, such as abandonment, sadness, fear, joy and destructiveness. It made me think, laugh, and sometimes cry (just a bit). It really captured the essence of childhood; the longing to belong, the playfulness, the genuine emotions. The only thing that could really appeal to younger kids are the amazing graphics. The soundtrack was awesome, so much so that I've added quite a few of the songs to the playlist (just to the left). I'm not quite sure what I was expecting from this film, but whatever it was, this was a thousand times better.

Just see it for yourselves!

Albany's

This was a candid piccyture taken at Albany's 15th. Please have a look at my other photos if you can/want to right HERE

It has been a preeeetty snazzy week folks. although school-wise it's been a total dud, everything else has gone really well! We've finally got our Christmas tree up (I will do a post on it, because it's the craziest tree ever), My friend Albany had a party (we spent four hours playing Singstar and dancing to S Club 7) and i have some new, this season, studded leather KURT GEIGER boots!!! (post coming up on that too!)

I have a question that has been on my mind- which decade would you have liked to live through and why? (I'm sorry, whaaat a cliche!) Personally, for me, it would be the 60's, when the world started to change.

Have a good weekend, and as our friend Ringo says, 'peace and love, peace and love.'

Goddam traffic jam

SHEESH what happened to the weekend? Life is going way too fast at the moment...