A Year Review | 2013

First of all,  I hope you all had a lovely Christmas, and even if you didn't, I hope you are looking forward to 2014!

My Christmas was eventful to say the least. You see, I live in Southern England where the day before Christmas eve (or Christmas eve eve as I call it) we had an abnormally big storm. I know places like America get massive storms regularly but England is a boring little country, so when a storm comes along, It's one of the most exciting things to happen that month. 

But this storm knocked out all the power on christmas eve, and made a ginormous tree tilt towards my house! With no power and a possibility of death,  me and my family camped out in the living room, whilst playing headbandz (which is a game where someone writes something on a piece of paper and then puts it on your head, and with yes or no answer questions you have to guess what they wrote.) Luckily, we got our power back for christmas and I can say that christmas 2013 was one of the nicest I have ever had. 

I really hope you all had an equally as nice christmas, and that you were all safe x 

Now that's all of the way, can I just say wow - 2013 is almost over! How did that happen?! I swear it was only January like two months ago?

  2014 will be the year I leave school, the year I go to college and I suspect I will be a lot happier in college. But, 2013 wasn't that bad of a year. Obviously, I have had my up's and down's but so many good things have happened this year, and I really hope it has been a good year for all of you too. 

The Great & Wonderful year of 2013:

     ♥ I went to 5 concerts: The Script, The Midnight Beast, Bastille twice, and Imagine Dragons. I                             really love concerts, they make me so happy.
     ♥ I met Stefan Abingdon from The Midnight Beast!
     ♥ I also met Dan & Phil at BBC Radio One (here is the blog post) 
     ♥ I started this blog on the 6th of January!! I don't regret a thing, and almost a year, 11,000 views and          38 followers later, I am still writing useless things that nobody really cares about, but it's  fun. 
     ♥ I went to Harry Potter World In London! (It is expensive but 100% worth it if you are a                      potterhead)
     ♥ I had a lovely birthday out in London!
     ♥ Me and my family had a lovely day out in Arundel Castle.
     ♥ Me and my friends had a lovely day out in Brighton.
     ♥ Me, Holly , Lauren A, Lauren Tye & Alicia completed our Duke of Edinburgh expedition, which            involved walking 23km TWICE. It was horrible and I wouldn't do it again, but I had good company which made the struggle of walking with 10kg on your back a hell of a lot better. 

Overall, 2013 has definitely been one of THE best years of my life and I hope 2014 is equally as great!

This has been my first year of blogging, and I am so excited to continue it through the years. I can't wait to see what it will be like in 2 years time, whether it will grow or die. I can't wait to write more useless blog posts, and I really hope you will accompany me on this journey!

I didn't write this blog post to boast, I simply wanted to talk about my year and I am just as interested in yours! What did you achieve? where did you go? Let me know If you want :) 

Happy New Year!

~Thank you for reading~

Christmas!!

Hello everyone, so If you can't tell by the sudden chirpiness of the general public, the Christmas lights, and Micheal Buble's Christmas album being sold everywhere suddenly, IT'S CHRISTMAS! (well almost) 

I may be 15, but at heart when it comes to Christmas I am still 5. I literally love everything about Christmas- the food, the tree, the presents and so much more. But this year, I have really gotten into the Christmas spirit. 

An example of extreme Christmas spirit syndrome would be that recently, I have been going to bed at like 7:oo pm, just so I can read a lovely Christmas book  in bed, wearing my Christmas reindeer pyjamas, with a hot chocolate and a candle! If you are stressed, that is definitely a very festive way to de-stress and relax!

Seeing as I am so into Christmas this year, I thought it would be nice to capture it, and so I have took some Christmas photos which I would love to share with you! 

So grab a festive drink , a festive song, (my favourite is 'Baby Please Come Home') and 'ave a browse!

These tree decorations are truly the cutest little things, especially the gingerbread man decoration attached to a little heart aw!

I decided to be creative and add bows to the tree - it's actually really simple, just tie a bow around a branch of your Christmas tree with festive ribbon.

 Whilst looking for Christmas decorations, I found this really nice candle called "Mistletoe Kiss" by Bath Cosmetics, which has a fresh yet festive smell, it smells of cinnamon with a slight hint of orange. However, it doesn't smell like you would imagine it to with that description, but it smells nice... (wow A* for candle description Carys, well done)

My little Christmas book! If i'm honest, I picked up this book because I saw 'John Green' on the front cover, and that enough sold it for me! Let me know if you want a book review of it :) 

Well we are so so close to Christmas, it's mentally in touching distance! 

I hope you all have a beautiful Christmas and New Year, and if you don't celebrate Christmas, then I still hope you have a nice relaxing break :) 

(Here is my favourite Christmas song by the Christmas legend Micheal Buble - what's our favourite festive song?)

Thank you for readingggg!!

P.S (Here is a fun game ((well not fun but entertaining i guess)) you could go back all the way through this post and count how many times I say 'Christmas' - the title does count...oh how fun my blog posts are, I even include a little game for you! anyway off your pop and get counting haha)

Bastille Live!

Hello everyone! I am so sorry that I haven't wrote a decent post in ages, school has just been so stressful at the moment but now I thought would be a perfect time to chat:)

So yesterday (Wednesday) Me, Holly and Lauren went to see Bastille live again! This was my second time seeing them so I knew what dreams were about to come true, but this was the first time Lauren was to see Bastille, So I was slightly excited just thinking about the look on her face when they start playing...

So yesterday after school, us three busily rushed off to go and get changed so we could head to Portsmouth, where we were seeing Bastille as fast as we could, and with a quick Maccy'Ds stop, we arrived at the venue at 4:45. At the time, we were thinking "ah you know, the queue is going to be massive but it will still be a great gig" but when we arrived, there were only about 12 people in front of us! We hurriedly joined the queue and stayed there for 2 hours, before we rushed into the main hall where we grabbed barrier front spots! I can now say that I have been barrier front at a bastille concert!

The support acts were extremely good! you can see the band's name below :) 

Within 10 minutes of Bastille's hour long set, Dan Smith (the singer) had already spotted me and pointed at me!! Then later on, he saw me and Lauren dancing and laughed whilst raising his eyebrows at us, then when I was getting some water he was watching me which made me drop the water (oops). Also later on, he came over and sang the lyric "Hold my hands" to me and we both smiled...I am one lucky girl! Despite all this, Will (The guitarist) was lovely and kept glancing at me and my friends! I then got to hug Woody when he leaned into the crowd :')

I have to say, Bastille are one of the best bands anyone can say live! For example, during their song "flaws" Dan dissapeared off the stage and appeared on the top balcony, so all the fans up there got to hug him and see him up close which I thought was very thoughtful! 

As I am writing this now, I am smiling so hard that my cheeks are hurting! Definately shall be seeing these boys again for the 3rd time :)

Tour name: Bad Blood

Support Acts: Bipolar Sunshine & To kill a king 

 Me and Lauren :) (Lauren's on the left)

 Holly, Lauren & Me in that order :)

 To kill a king

 To Kill a king

 To kill a king

 Thank you for reading!

Harry Potter Land | Warner brothers studio tour #1

Hello everyone!! so on Thursday, me and my family embarked on a literal magical journey to the wizarding world of Harry Potter in London! I will admit it, I am a secret potterhead & i'm not afraid to admit it! 

The first harry potter film (Harry Potter and the philosophers stone) came out in 2001 when I was 3, so I have basically grown up with flying cars and magic spells, a bit deceiving & disappointing to reality but it was so nice to watch the harry potter grow and finally visit the sets that I spent most of my younger years 'oohing' and 'awing' at!

I'm not even exaggerating when I say that I screamed when I saw the harry potter sign!

((I strongly suggest around now that you once again grab a cup of your preferred hot drink & 2 biscuits!))

*Spoilers alert now, if you are going soon or plan to go soon, don't read!*

 Me and my fabulous mother outside of the entrance!

My very excited self putting my hand in Rupert Grint's hand print! (it looks like I have 2 mutate hands im scared)

 ACTUAL chess pieces from the ACTUAL first film! 

My hand is Daniel Radcliffe's hand print *squeals* 

 All the portraits and pictures of harry potter characters that were in the entrance (yes the camera already came out in the entrance)

I found Luna Lovegood's potrait! After many years of deciding, I can say that Luna is my absolute favourite character because her character is so random but yet wise, I love it! There is also another reason why she is my favourite character and that is because of how the actress, Evanna Lynch got the role of lovely Luna. 

Evanna Lynch wrote to JK Rowling at the age of 11 to look for hope I guess as she was severely anorexic and was literally fighting death. To her surprise, JK Rowling responded in the way a counsellor would, saying how "anorexia is destructive, not creative, and the brave thing was not to succumb to it."

Obviously, this lead to back and forth letters to each-other when eventually Evanna mentioned how she would love to be in a film & so JK Rowling accepted this and said that she could play Luna once she got better! All it needed was a lot of fighting and movitvation from her idol and Evanna beat Anorexia and lived on to play Luna in the harry potter films, ultimately because JK Rowling saved her life and gave her something to fight for! True Story.

Harry's cupboard under the stairs!

The great hall! where all the houses sat for meals and those are the actual costumes worn by Gryffindor members :)

just some of the costumes :)

The costumes from the yule log ball :) 

Harry, Hermione, and Ron's wigs which i actually don't understand why they have these because their hair looks exactly the same in real life?! 

~~~~Luna's shoes and various costumes~~~

More costumes from harry potter omg I'm so geeky

 Gryfinndor boys dormitory

Gryfinndor common room 

 Harry's invisibility cloak &Ron and Hermione's outfits

 Philosophers stone im crying

 I always wanted a remembrall for some reason hmm

The Weasleys house! Things were actually moving as if magic o0o0o see what I do there 

Well this post is quite long so I think I shall make a part 2? if you want! I love doing posts like this because its so like a diary entry, so you look back on them and think 'aw that was a nice day' & I like recording the memories, whether you like reading them is a different story ha! 

~Thanks for reading~

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Baby Birds!

Hello Everyone! Firstly, I would just like to say thank you all for 5500 blog views & for such a nice response to my 'Meeting Dan & Phil' post! I'm really happy that you are enjoying my blog :-)

Last Wednesday, I had a very dramatic evening! I just came home from school, ready to procrastinate on the internet when I was frantically called into the living room. It turns out that during the day, seeing as my sister has now finished school (insanely jealous), she found 2 baby bluetits in the garden! Unfortunately, they were surrounded by 3 dead ones, but we took the alive ones into our house and just stood there looking at them thinking "what the hell are we supposed to do with these?!" 

*sorry for the bad quality photos*

I genuinely felt like Snow White because the baby birds would hop onto my hands and most of the time refused to leave! 

Anyway, I was trying to figure out what to do with these abandoned birds because apparently you had to feed them every hour! I couldn't do that, I didn't even know what to feed them! Eventually, when I went to check on them, they both just looked up at me with their mouths open, I started to panic. I wasn't prepared to go hunting for worms and mash them up, So instead I got some meaty cat food, smashed it up very finely and this seemed to do the trick.

This bit was adorable, after the many feeds and sips of water, the baby birds fell asleep next to each other and we decided to take them to an wildlife center.

I actually don't know why I'm putting this up because I am pulling the most
 unattractive face, but hey  he was sitting on my finger! 

We gave my newly adopted children to Hart Wildlife who are taking brilliant care of them and even gave as a reference number if we want to know how they are doing :-)

 Have you ever found any wildlife in need of help?

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Music Monday #3

Hello Everyone! I hope you have all enjoyed a lovely (and very sunny) bank holiday! This week is the third in the series of 'Music Mondays' - just a quick re-cap if you don't know what 'Music Monday' is, Basically I just say my top 5 favorite songs of the week, as they pretty much change weekly! :) 

1.Bastille - Of the Night 
This song is amazing - They mixed together Rhythm Is A Dancer and Rhythm Of The Night in one successful song! 

2. Bastille - Requiem for Blue Jeans

Yeah, I have been listening to Bastille a bit this week... Ages ago, they covered 'Blue Jeans' by Lana Del Rey (another one of my favourite artists) but they put their own personal twist on it! To make this song even better, at the end they faded into 'Flaws', another population song by Bastille.

3. Hoodie Allen - #WhiteGirlProblems

Hoodie has popped up again! This is old an older album called 'Leap Year' and I just really like this song because he mixes an old stereotypical pop song into his rap song, it was quite a risky decision but it worked out really well! :)

4. Muse - Follow Me

I'm pretty sure I have mentioned this song before, but I still absolutely love this. I'm not normally fan of this type of music, but Muse is the only exception. 

5.  Ben Howard - Old Pine

This is such a beautiful song - I recently bought his album and I don't regret it! Ben Howard really is talented. 

Well, there is a wide range of music genres there haha! I hope you enjoyed this post! 

~ Thank you for reading ~

p.s I need to share this with you! Basically, I love youtubers, my favourite is pointlessblog aka Alfie! and he replied to me on youtube on Saturday night, I still can't believe it! Ok sorry bye x

Happy Easter!!

Hello Everyone! So today, I broke up from school (thank god, I couldn't bare it any longer) for two weeks because of Easter!! I'm looking forward to a lot of late nights and layins...oh and eating as many Easter eggs as I can whilst thinking "I'll start my diet tomorrow" pft I sit on the throne of lies. ~ woo ~ So I hope you all have a egg-cellent (sorry) break! As much as I would love to give you all Easter eggs, I can't. So here is a virtual one for all of you!( It's Hotel Chocolat you lucky people) Have a good break ^.^ 

~ Thanks for reading~

Liebster blog award!

Hello everyone!! So to my surprise, I have been nominated for a blog award! Which is absolutely amazing and thank you so so much to +Tean Williams for nominating me! (This is her blog. Please check it out) 

So Here are the rules!! :) 

1. The nominee must link back to the blogger who nominated them.

2.The nominee must state 11 facts about themselves, and then answer the 11 question provided for them by the person who nominated them.

3.They nominee must then nominate bloggers with less than 200 followers, who they think deserve the recognition, and pose 11 new questions for them to answer.

4. They must then tell the bloggers who they have nominated about the award.

11 facts about me!:

So I did a recent post about 10 facts about me, so I need to do 11 more. By the end of this you'll know me from top to toe!

1. I prefer to get things done quickly then time my time to make a masterpiece. 

2. I'm 14 years old 

3. I have a really quirky fashion sense

4. I love mustaches

5. I'm a tweetaholic... I love twitter

6. I have a Cat called Poppy and a Dog called Chica - Both from animal rehoming shelters.

7. I volunteer at Cats Protection

8. I love Cats

9. I'm very indecisive

10. My eye colour changes from green to blue each day (they're blue at the moment)  

11. I make the best brownies

Now I have to answer the 11 questions set by +Tean Williams :)

1. Premium beauty or high-street?

Good question - Mostly High street.

2. Leggings or jeans?

Hmm jeans ... I wear jeans a lot more than I do leggings but i'd like to wear leggings more often .3. What is your favourite place to visit?

Well I haven't been very far in the world - I'd say the beach with my family and best friend :) 

4. Favourite scent of candle?

Oh my gosh this is a hard question - you would give me any candle and I'd love it! I'd say anything sweet - like Vanilla.

5. Favourite chocolate bar?

You're making me choose?! Probably a twirl :) 

6. Favourite Harry Potter character?

Right, this may be a weird choice but it would have to be voldemort because of the laugh he does in the final harry potter movie haha (Hiya Lauren) :')

7. Favourite movie?

I'd have to say Titanic. I just love it.

8. Your quote for life?

I have so many but this one is by far the best one for me:

" Good things come to those who wait, but the best things come to those who do."

9. Inspirations?

Zoella (blogger and youtuber) and Stefan Abingdon (Musician) You can read more about them here :)

10. Favourite food place?

Greggs. By far. It's not very classy but the food is mouthwatering aha

11. If you could change anything in the world what would it be??

I could answer this question in so many ways. I have literally been sitting looking at this question for a good 20 minutes. The honest answer is I don't know. There are so many things that need to change that I couldn't pick just a couple.

Right, I have nominated:

http://thelianey.blogspot.co.uk/

and these are the questions that you must answer :) Have fun!

1. Favorite Animal?

2. Favorite place to be?

3. Places you would like to visit?

4. If you could have a super power, what would it be?

5. What would be your dream job?

6. Who do you look up to?

7. Who would you like to meet?

8. Favorite time of year?

9. Favorite food?

10. Favorite TV show?

11. Favorite thing to do in your spare time? 

 ~ Thank you for reading! ~

Hiya, I'm the new girl.

Hello everyone!! I'm new to blogging, so bare with me whilst I get the hang of it.  This blog won't be exactly funny nor interesting or frankly worth your time,but I have wanted to make a blog for a long time now, but just never had the courage. So, here I am. I got inspired to create a blog by Zoella's blog. 
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=Who is Zoella?=

Zoella is a youtuber who makes videos about beauty and fashion, she also (as you would know if you clicked the link) is a fantastic blog writer. In fact, her 'Just Say Yes' post is probably one of the most inspiring and my most favorite blog post...ever! I definitely recommend you check that out if you suffer from anxiety or you're just shy, it helped me a lot. So, If you like make up and beauty, or are just curious about new products, I definitely recommend subscribing to her. It's funny because I'm not particularly girly, but I love watching her videos. 
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Well this went a bit off topic, I just wanted to introduce myself and say hi. I've ended up recommending her to you! She's not paying me to do this either, haha. So yeah thank you to that small handful of people who read this, You've probably realised by now that you'll never get those minutes back you spent reading this, sorry about that ....