Treasures & Trinkets

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De-cluttering has evoked some memories from my childhood. Items and trinkets that I've come across that have instantly taken me back to that moment in time, remembering the feelings and moments shared with family and friends.

Clearing out the unnecessary is good for my mind. However, the little trinkets and memories found in amongst the chaos are wonderful.

Toodles.

x

Manic Monday #40

 Another milestone for Manic Monday! It doesn't feel like two seconds ago I was writing my 30th MM before I was flying to Costa Rica. 

How time is flying.

Recently I've been getting clutter-head. My description of what my head feels like when it realises I have too many possessions, with the added combination of squashing the majority of my things and Ben's in to one semi-large bedroom, which now basically consists of a bed, two desks and two computers. 

 Bye, bye books.  

They are now sadly tucked away in the spare room. 

Every now and then my living situation gets to me and stresses me out. I feel like I just want to have a massive life cleanse and rid myself of unnecessary items that I have collected over the past few years.

 I've been feeling like that quite a lot recently, I am slowly tidying and sorting through things I don't need. Such as letters from last year, why do these things just seem to collect in the strangest places?!

My addiction to all things make-up and skin care related with the addition of buying mountains of books and the odd lantern doesn't make this room thing any easier. 

Must ask self when buying things; do you really need this, Adele?

The answer will probably be no. 

I am planning on having a huge clear out on the run up to Christmas and the imminent arrival of decorations.

Wish me luck!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend? Did you have any exciting plans? Or stress over your living situation like me?

Let me know!

Toodles!

x

* I realise this is a very trivial point to be making and I want to be clear, that yes I understand I am very lucky for what I have and that I have a roof over my head. Just a small disclaimer.

Moments

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Days like today make me really appreciate family and remind me to take notice of the small things.

Remember their little smiles, things that make them laugh, their shrill giggles and cute little moments spent with them.

Lucky, really.

Toodles.

x

Zen

 I have a hard time relaxing and switching off. 

Especially at the moment, things are in full crazy mode at work and I often feel like once I leave for the evening, I blink and I'm back there again the next morning. 

Manic Monday #39

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I feel like I'm in a time portal that revolves around me writing Manic Monday posts. Not that I'm complaining, I know it sounds like I am, but honestly it's like therapy for me.

We're getting quite scarily close to Christmas now and I haven't even taken a second to comprehend that yet. I don't feel festive in the slightest and feel slightly drained at the moment.

I'm in a funk today and don't want to, yet also can't, go in to detail as to why.

One the one hand, today disappeared in the blink of an eye and didn't feel like any time had passed at all when my clock was flashing 17.2, prompting me to flee the scene before any other problems cropped up for me to fix.

On the other hand, it passed slowly. Allowing me time to think about my reasoning for said funk mood and feeling quite sad about it. 

It's frustrating me that I have no power over it, that the decision was made and I'm choosing to not be selfish and step away. Even though, how today went, I feel the complete opposite to the doing the latter.

I feel a little like I'm floundering at the moment in life, but also feel like I'm being an absolute boss at handling everything that is thrown at me.

I just want to cry, watch a sad film and eat an arctic lorry full of crisps and sweets.

I need to wallow for a day or two. 

As my lady Jessie says, 'it's OK not to be OK.' I need to accept that sometimes. 

I hope your week has gotten off to a better start!

Toodles.

x

Things I Love #3

 It's time for another Things I love. It's been a while and was in the mood for one. 

We're on to the big guns with this edition. 

I have loved this particular thing since I was...doing some mental maths...10 years old. It has been with me now for the majority of my life. I would be utterly lost without it, I regularly think about it, want to go there and let myself revisit it.

Of course, I am talking about nothing other than the wonderful

Emotion

 Crying and me have always had a close relationship.

Ben refers to me as a delicate flower because it doesn't take much for me to shed a tear, from the downright strange to the incapably beautiful.

I've been thinking about the emotion that I feel building up very quickly inside me before I feel my eyes welling up.

I cry when I laugh, I cry when I'm happy, I cry when

Manic Monday #38

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Today has been a test of my patience and prioritising. 

Of the former, I have very little, and the latter, I am quite good at. I've had the task of strengthening these skills quite a lot today.

A lot seems to have fallen upon my shoulders recently, with certain changes that have happened and this was even more evident today when a whole host of other things seem to have, for some unknown reason, landed under my nose. 

I'm not too sure why these things have suddenly fallen upon me, but I never try to shy away from things that are handed to me.

If anyone asks me to do anything, I am more than happy to go out of my way to help.

I like to be busy and like to be constantly doing something.

Fortunately for me, I see this as a great opportunity to increase my skill set, if I'm handed something that I'm not too sure how to do I like to find out the best way to do it and learn something new from the task at hand.

I enjoy learning new skills, always have done. So I have enjoyed this Monday, even though it has tried my patience on many levels! I am getting better with it, hopefully one day I will be like a patron saint of being patient. 

But for now, it is still something I need work on!

How was your Monday? Have you been tested today or had the opportunity to learn something new?

I hope you all had a lovely, if fleeting, weekend!

Toodles.

x

Equality

I've been wanting to write a post like this for a while, as it's been on my mind for a fair few months and seeing as it's been quite a large topic of debate in the media recently I thought now was a good time to air my thoughts out.

It is about the degrading of women and the attitude that comes along with it. 

I've never, ever thought of myself, as a young girl, a teenage girl, an awkward teenager transitioning in to a young woman as something to be ashamed of or less than a boy or a man. I am not weak because I am a woman.

Of course, I myself have been subjected to the usual jibes of 'Oh you're such a girl, why don't you just do...' Why, yes I am. Clever you.

With the rise of social media and absolute tat on TV,

100

According to my post counter, this will be my 100th post!

It's probably a little belated and should have been earlier in the year, but whose judging?! Except me towards myself...

I feel like I've come a long way since I started this blog, I started out with the idea of just posting about more affordable fashion, beauty and so on and so forth.

But I seem to be leaning away from that slightly, not that I am any less of a make-up or beauty hoarder, but I just feel like I have so many other things I want to talk about, and this feels like the perfect place.

I post quite a variety of things and I'm happy with that, because I think it reflects me quite well. To put it bluntly, I'm pretty flaky. I like a lot of things and think about life a hell of a lot. Where better to write down all of my coherent and well constructed (eh...?) thoughts!

I have thoroughly enjoyed making this blog what it is, I'm looking forward to much more content and a bit a sprucing in the near future!

Thank you all for reading, I appreciate all of the triangles on my stats!

Toodles.

x

Manic Monday #37

Monday;

You dragged today when I didn't want you to, then the moments I want to save slip by too quickly. There is truth in 'time flies when you're having fun'.

I spent the evening with friends tonight, which isn't normally on the cards for a Monday, but it made for a lovely change. Hanging out with the people I love, eating loads of food watching and watching and narrating David Attenborough's Life Story, like we seem to do a lot.

I may have shed a little tear for the poor little goslings, catapulting themselves off the side of the cliff in hopes of finding food. But it was fine, nobody said anything, because I was surrounded by people who know me.

Mixing up the routine of everyday feels great, especially when it means seeing friends I haven't seen for a while.

I do like to think of myself of a bit of a lone wolf and take a definitely solitary stance on life; doing everything for myself and at my own pace. In no way do I mean this in a 'poor me' kind of way, I just enjoy my own space and time.

But hanging out with my oldest friends, doing nothing other than relaxing together, definitely reminds me that I do need people in my life and their nutty company.

They've brightened up my day :)

How was the start to your week? Have you got any plans that normally aren't on the cards?

Toodles!

X

November

Dear November,

As soon as I hear your name, I always instantly partner you with freezing temperatures, grey skies, dam, soggy grass and naked trees.

Yet it only feels like 5 seconds ago that Autumn hit, however I think I may be a little hasty with my instantaneous association to you with Winter.