Spring is here!

Well March has arrived in a flurry of activity and sunshine!

I always look forward to winter. I love snow, and I love going to bed and it being dark. But by the end of 4 months of cold, wet and rain I am getting rather fed up with it.

So imagine my surprise and joy when the 1st of March came and it was the first sunny day for months. It was warm and I even ate dinner outside to celebrate the coming of spring and warmer days to come. I saw the first bee. - I screamed, then ran, - but never the less I saw a bee and that is always tidings of sunny things to come.

I started a you tube channel with my friend Emma! We filmed the first video outside :) We felt

eco-friendly for some bizarre reason.

I have a maths test today.

It should be fine! I hope.

I also have dance with my friends and German which is my favourite lesson of the week at the moment, though that tends to change regularly.

All in all, things are look great for the future!

Finished Product

For christmas my auntie got me lots of different fabrics, because you never can have enough!

So I have finally finished the first of what I hope will be many projects.

So, patch working is very simple. You simply press the front sides of two squares of fabric together and sew down one edge. Then repeat to make whatever size piece of patchwork you desire!

The world is your oyster.

I have named him Charlie

I had a maths test this week. Traumatising to say the least.

But after a hard nights revising, my mum brought home the newest addition to the family.

I have named him Charlie. I love him very much :). So far he has helped me make my patchwork cushion which will get its own blog post later! Next he's going to make a bag for me! How sweet of him. I was planning on designing a dress too.

That might be a bit ambitious.

Might just have a party...

2oo blog views! Wow. What a round, wholesome number!

Two of my friends have taken up vlogging now :)

http://www.youtube.com/user/sparkysplash

http://www.youtube.com/user/HelloThisIsHope

Just a little bit of advertising there...

I prefer to write my thoughts down. My voice sounds weird anyway.

My brother turns 18 tomorrow, on the twelfth day of Christmas. And after tomorrow, Christmas is officially over. We have already taken the decorations down and eaten all the Christmas cake.

I am definitely what you might call a 'Yuletide joy' filled

person :) looking forward to next Christmas already.

Life This October

Things have been going well recently. God has blessed me and my family. The weather has been beautiful, and my brother recently took me to Alton Towers for a day trip :)

Up at 6, like the early birds we were masquerading as.

It truly was too early. It was pitch black outside, and the birds were most definitely not singing a dawn chorus. Wiping sleep from our eyes, we tumbled into the car to collect Vicky, Chris's friend, and then onto the station to get caught up in the early morning commute, full of business people in posh suits with shiny shoes and brief cases (which I am almost certain are empty, and only there to look the part).

After a quick dive into M&S for a bag of grapes for a quid, we queued for centuries to access one of two ticket machines. Sensible really. To have only two ticket machines in a major city railway station. I can really understand there though process on that one ;)

On the train, dawn broke :) It was rather picturesque, even though we were too busy chatting and eating our breakfast to really notice...

Anyway, after a full day of G-force and hair wrecking wind speeds, we collapsed onto the Alton Towers bus. It was, naturally late, but this was alright, due to the simple fact that we had a box of jaffa cakes. They do tend to sweeten situations such as this. Anywa

y, our train got cancelled, but that too was alright, because we would have missed it anyway...

So we got onto another train, of which there are SO many, and travelled to the half way point. Here we entered a cafe, and purchased a snack. The man serving was, and this is the only nice way to put it, utterly GRUMPY. I do not care whether he had had a hard day, he still could have tried to smile, whether it came out as a wince, or a grimace, I would not have cared, if only he had tried. But no. He did not try. So I did not smile at him. That is how it works.

So all in all it was a great day :) I got wet, but there you go, it was after all, 27 degree's so I dried VERY quickly. And I returned home to tumble into my bed.

I then promptly had a nose bleed.

This is what excitement does to you.

Be warned.

Parka Passion

Winter is coming, even though its September and we're stuck in a 28 degree heatwave :)

But things need sorting out.

Important things.

Winter Coats mainly.

Problem is, the one coat I love is....

well,

how to say this.

175 pounds.

Not that much.

really...

Photography

I, like many other adore taking a good photo. So when I discovered 'Instagram', an app for itouch, I was delighted! You can use it to add tints and blurs and edit photographs to make even the worst shot look good! I thought I would share a few of mine with you :) Because I love you so very much.

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