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In Brief

27th March 2011

This weekend….

Wearing; FLORALS because I am a walking Spring cliche

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Jon Richard ring available here!

Sunshine; The weather has bought out the best in me, I am definitely a S.A.D. person. The emergence of Spring, warmer days and bright, beautiful sunshine has turned me in to a chirpier, more confident version of me.
I celebrated by purchasing these oh so adorable sweets!

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Thanking; Witch skincare for coming up with this primer! My saviour!

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Geeking; Geeking out over new drug rep pens at work (Becca, if your reading this…the obsession continues!) and these ones are PINK! I will forever be envious of my Mum’s leopard print one.

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Hi, my name is Laura and I hoard pens.

Wanting; SO MUCH! It’s always the week before pay day that I find infinite things I want and need in my life, only to have lost interest or not be able to find them when the time arrives! Currently top of my list is this dress from River Island

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I have new found love for this shade of blue!

How about you?
xxx

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Kreativ (apparently I am)

26th March 2011



Ok, shame on me because apart from Sophie and Beth I have lost track of who else passed me this award…please shout if you did and I will add you on!
Thank you all so much, I love reading other people’s answers and feel honoured to be nominated myself

*Oscar worthy speech over*

The rules are:

1) link 10 blogs;

2) tell these bloggers about the award;

3) write 10 facts about yourself;

Ok, so lets crack on.

Ten things about me…

1. Please don’t judge but I typically wash my hair once a week, twice at a push. I find it really doesn’t need more than that, and behaves better this way. Lucky, or plain lazy? I don’t care! Thank goodness for Bastiste to keep it smelling fresh!

2. I am a complete child at heart. Matey bubble bath, kids TV, polly pocket, jelly tots…the list goes on.

3. I also like to think I can save the world, anyone having a hard time and I feel gutted I can’t fix it for them, but I will always, ALWAYS offer support. It’s my little way of paying back the support my family and friends (including you, dear blog readers) have given me.

4. Once upon a time many moons ago my favourite activities were Judo, Kayaking and general outdoor sport madness. I have fond memories of white water rafting on a body board in Austria one summer.

5. I am a foodie. I always have been and always will be I think. I kept it quiet for a while, due to having been ill and people assuming my interest in food stemmed from that. Truth is, I’ve always loved the stuff. Give me Good Food magazine over Vogue any day.

6. I love fashion, really I do, but for me it’s not about the runways and haute couture. Highstreets and real people inspire me more; seeing clothes on real people and knowing that price wise, they are more within my grasp is much more endearing. Saying that, I will happily drool over runway images and editorials..but purely for dreaming purposes, I never aspire to own the latest from Chanel in the way I do the new arrivals in Topshop or New Look.

7. I drink stupid amounts of coffee in a day…8 plus cups. I must be immune to the caffiene though as it doesn’t boost my energy or give me sleeping trouble.

8. My heart belongs to American candy. And their snack foods in general. The UK cannot compare…especially cereal bar wise.

9. I go through phases of only eating, or liking certain things. Greek yoghurt, smarties, certain TV programmes, certain teas, certain clothes. And then BAM, I want nothing to do with them anymore. The exception to this being my addictions to both tights and greek yoghurt.

10. I will be 24 next month and still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up. Do I care? Not.one.bit. Right now I am happier and healthier than I have been in 9 years and I plan to live in the moment and embrace every second of it!

Now,

I cannot possibly pick just a few bloggers to pass this on to,

so I pick you ALL!


Gratuitous cat paparazzi picture for your time!

Happy Saturday xoxox

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This one is for YOU

20th March 2011




(photo from weheartit)

This week I have noticed more than ever a lot of people having a really tough time of things. This makes me sad…I want to reach out and fix everything for everyone, but I am only one person and I still have to work on fixing myself.

What I’d like to say is don’t give up hope. No matter how bad/sad/utterly shite things are right now…brighter days are ahead. I wish I could promise when, and how it’ll happen, but I can’t…just trust me that those days ARE coming.

I was once a person so consumed in negativity that I couldn’t imagine anything good happening to me at all,
and if it did…did I deserve it? I felt like I didn’t…catch 22 circle of more negative thoughts.
Last year I dared to hope. Sure it took a long hard fight, but you know what? Every barrier broken…every glimmer of things changing for the better made me fight that bit harder. I remember being SO happy when I came home on my first day leave and I was able to walk up and down our stairs,
to most people that would be insignificant, but to me it meant the world.
Focus on the small things…as Tesco would say, every little helps and you need to learn to walk before you can run.

(also from weheartit)

Some of you probably want to punch me right now, or think I’m just one big walking cliche,
but please…
do dare to hope and have dreams. The pay off is amazing. Once you start to believe things can and will get better, I think it becomes easier to make the steps needed.

Here are a few items on my Hit List and Shit List this week;

Hit:
– Work
– My brother being home for the weekend and meeting his girlfriend (who is lovely, really lovely)
– SUNSHINE! These brighter days are making me act like a child
– Immature giggling fits, usually bought about by Sarah
– Amazing online friends, such as Char and Jodie who sent me this incredible parcel

– Interpol, they were bloody brilliant!
– Sparkly Jewellery (some seen yesterday and another awesome batch to be revealed this week!)

Shit:
– Violent drunk guy at Interpol. This guy truly scared me. He was horrendously drunk and grabbed one girls hair, stomped on many feet and started several fights.
– Anxiety and Insecurity about how I look and needing constant reassurance (sorry tweety peeps you get the brunt of this)

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(thank you for making me feel beautiful)

– Crappy support acts. The main talent was his arrogance and ego.
– Not having enough time to see everyone I was to see…Kez, Trudi and co…I MISS YOU

So there we have my jumbled up post for today.

What have you been up to this weekend?

How do you deal with the tough times?

xxx

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My Bestest Joined Up Handwriting

18th March 2011

…or not.

The ever gorgeous and wonderful Char has not only provided me with Fruitella and a Red Nose this week, but also tagged me for this handwriting post.

I am a handwriting geek, I love looking at how other people write. This possibly wasn’t the best day for me to choose to do this…I ended up handwriting over 100 envelopes for work after some printer fail but hey-ho…It’s pretty neat considering!

((please note my paper is not as snazzy as Char’s lego stuff…thanks med reps for the awesome stationary though))

These were the rules

1. name and blog name
2. url
3. write ‘a quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’
4. favourite quote
5. favourite song
6. favourite band(s), artist(s)
7. anything else you wish to say..

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I would like to tag EVERYONE because as I mentioned above, I love seeing other people’s writing.

I hate how little I handwrite these days, I am penpals with a couple of bloggers but would happily accept more *hint*

Happy Friday loves

and thank you once more for the incredible feedback on this week’s posts. I can feel my confidence growing because of it.

xxx

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Sunday

13th March 2011

Laziest post ever today, sharing some random photos etc from my Week!

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Balloon from Aussie, LOVE! Balloons + me = instant happy.

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I caved in and bought the cupcake partner to my cookie book! I can’t wait to get experimenting (all I need now is some time!)

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TEA. Holland and Barrett are running a promotion on selected items at the moment where you buy one and get one for a penny. Two boxes of my favourite tea for £1.20…yeah.
I would have bought stacks more if I hadn’t have had my hands full and a bus to catch.

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Someone found this week exceptionally hard.

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So hard, right Flash?

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No week would be complete without an utterly random purchase (and yes, I do often have two drinks on the go at once…and neither usually get finished!)

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Sunday outfit…though I think I’ll be changing soon, those trousers are not as comfortable as I remember…damn you ever expanding waist.

What does your weekend look like?

Have you made any utterly random purchases lately?

xxx

P.S. BIG HELLO to the lovely girl who stopped to say hi in H&M, I was so shocked that I forgot to ask your name…but thank you for making my day even better!

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