Day In The Life: London

Hey everybody, 

So after a very very stressful and looong week, I finished it by going to London, but I'm not explaining in too much detail because I decided to do a Day In The Life which explains everything.
So, here is my, at times, very blurry Day In The Life: London.

I began my morning at 5:25 - got up, washed, dressed and tried to be as quiet as possible.

I went downstairs, packed my bag ready for the journey and got my drink ready for the train. If your interested in what was in my bag for the journey, it was: my book "The Difference A Day Makes" by Carole Matthews; My doodle/mini sketchbook (which I may show you one day in a post), my camera, my earphones and some biscuits and my drink.

The taxi came at 6am and I headed for the train station.

This was my early, sunrise train journey which took about 2 hours. I took only this picture on the way there, I spent most of my time listening to music and doing other things.

I then went to Oxford Street and done some shopping and then went to a food court for lunch and had a Pizza Hut pizza and KFC chips. It tasted as good as it looks.

Obviously, nothing goes as smoothly as you hope so after lunch, I slid my rubbish off the tray into the bin, walked out of the food court, into some more shops and realised that my brace wasn't in my mouth. 

I ran back to the food court with my Mum and she asked the cleaner if he would take the bin out, kindly, he did and my Mum expected him to find my brace wrapped in tissue in the bin but instead he brought her a fresh pair of rubber gloves and she had to do it herself. I found my brace and did NOT put it back in my mouth. 

It was once of my most embarrassing moments, I felt as though the whole world was watching as my Mum searched through the bin. True Story.

This is a delightful picture of some Christmas decorations on Oxford Street outside Primark and Tottenham Court Road Station.

Next and final stop was Harrods. If you don't know Harrods, it is a huge department store which sells everything but can be quite expensive depending on what you're looking for.

I found these really cute 'Beanie Ballz' in the toy department and felt as though they had to be a part of this post.

Fun Fact: I saw the creator of Moshi Monsters too who was there signing his books.

Harrods clearly made an effort with the Christmas lights and I am a fan of the trees with lights on that you can see in this picture.

Now for some super-blurry "I'm running through London undergrounds" pictures.

I can't remember what station this one was at, I visited quite a few during the day. This is getting from one station onto an underground to another station.

Underground Map check to see which line we take to Euston.

Please stand on the right as we go down the escalators to catch the tube.

No seat, as per usual, but a surprising amount of breathing space around me, I was not squished against an unamused stranger. Hanging onto this pole for my dear life.

Fast pace walking, carrying bags which I am surprised got a decent photograph (to be honest, it did take a few go's but this isn't bad) as I run into Euston station to get home.

More escalators.

More of this nonsense. 

Wow, very blurry picture. If you live in London or you have visited there before, you'll know how regular this process is. Insert you ticket, catch it at the top, run through before the barriers close and run to catch your train.

I then came up the escalators out of the underground into Euston station...

...and went into 'Ritazza' got a Mocha Iced Frappe and carrot cake and waited for my train home at around 7ish.

Woah. That was long. Believe me, the day went much quicker than this post seems to have gone. I had a great day except for having stomach cramps for the first 2 hours and almost going home. I'm glad I didn't because it was well worth staying.

I thought you might have enjoyed this because I think I have wrote 2/3 London posts already and there's eventually only so many things you can take pictures of before I start repeating myself so I thought this would be a bit different and a more enjoyable idea.

I really enjoy doing Day In The Life posts personally so I might do it each weekend when I have something interesting to share. Hope to see you again this weekend and you can see what I've been up to if there's anything in particular.

Aoife 

"You Learn Something New Everyday"

Hello, happy Friday lovely lot,

As you have probably heard, people often use the phrase "You Learn Something New Everyday" I had a think about this and for this week I have made a list of something new I've learned each day. Whether these benefit you in anyway, that's a matter of your own opinion.

Monday:
I am older than Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Wikipedia and YouTube. I'm 16 and that makes me feel OLD. I knew previously I was older than Google and I think Wikipedia surprised me the most because that's what I use to research historical figures so I though it was old.
You will never need this to benefit your life.

Tuesday:
On Tuesday, the Youth Theatre that I am a part of were visited by a screen and play write, Morris (sincere apologies as I have forgotten his surname and feel rude calling him by his first name only). After asking a few questions, "What do you do about writer's block?" shortly appeared. Morris gave us some advice for writer's block so if any of you reading this are aspiring writers and you suffer from this, take note. He advised that if you think you have writer's block, write something. As silly as it sounds, it is best to write something, it doesn't matter what it is, for example, you could write a quick shopping list, write a list of people you like/hate, get up from your desk and walk around your room or make yourself some tea or whatever you drink - this can often trigger your train of thoughts again.

Wednesday:
It is better to take a shower than a bath. Firstly because you are bathing in your own dirt, but also now that Global Warming is a worrying aspect of the planet, saving things as much as we can can benefit this. Taking a shower will waste less water. Even if you feel like you have been in there for a long time it will still be not yet enough to fill the bath.

Thursday:
People always remember the first and last thing they hear or read. This is extremely useful if you are coming up to exams in English in school, when you are answering, make sure you cram lots of good features in the beginning of your answer, maintain a high standard throughout and then finish with something that will stand out for the examiner.
Similarly when applying for jobs, writing out briefs about yourself or having an interview. Mention some very employable traits at the beginning and end so the employer remembers that.

Friday: 
The name 'Wendy' is a made up name. This was infact made up for the movie Peter Pan. before the film, there was no previous record of the name Wendy.
That's going to help you in no way whatsoever but it's something I've learned and I hope it is a new fact to you too.

Well guys, I know that was a little bit different but I hoped you enjoyed it, I did and I found it really interesting to remember new things you learn, even if they are useless rubbish.
I'll be back very soon guys, bye.


Aoife

Wreck This Journal

Hello everyone, 

As you may or may not know, I received a 'Wreck This Journal' for my birthday. I've wanted one for quite a while and I finally got one and it has been a lot of fun. If you have read my previous post about Autumn, you'll know that on my bucket list is to finish my 'Wreck This Journal' therefore, I haven't yet finished it but I wanted to share some of the things in it with you guys.

This is quite a good stress reliever, believe it or not, I wasn't even stressed when I did this. I must just be quite a violent person.

This was quite an enjoyable page to do. I did exactly that and think I may have caused more damage to the wall because I got very into it.

This is a page of fruit stickers, I currently have a collection of 3 of Kayleigh's apple stickers.

Simple but effective.

Ooooh look how many different pens I tested out. Some nice colours too.

Well I just love stamps so I have a soft spot for this page. Delightful little stamps.

Pretty self-explanatory I'd say. 

Pen in my mouth - "My pen should be in my hand! Right?"

Write Backwards. See if you can work out what I've written. I'll leave the answer at the very end.

I don't know how well you'll be able to see this one. One of the instructions was to doodle on the front cover and a few other places in the book. I have some doodles on here e.g. I have a bowling ball (before the T), a hashtag by the S, some patterns in the top right hand corner, triangles/spikes along the top above the 'Wreck' and so on...

If you're thinking about starting one, I highly recommend it and don't be gentle because the aim is to wreck it. I hope you've enjoyed it and liked having a little look at some of the things I've done in mine so far. 

Hopefully I'll have some more posts coming for you soon.

Until then, farewell.

Aoife

The answer to what I wrote backwards was: "This is harder than originally anticipated, BELIEVE ME!" If you were able to guess it, a round of applause for you, well done, and give yourself a pat on the back.

Beginning of Autumn

Hey everybody, if you don't already know, I LOVE Autumn. It's my favourite season and it excites me so much.

I went to the park recently with Kayleigh to pick some autumn leaves and do leaf art with, unfortunately we didn't get round to doing leaf art but I got some lovely pictures that make me more and more excited for Autumn.

Look how beautiful and cute it looks! We also made an autumn bucket list which we wrote on a leaf. Incase you can't read it, which I can't in that picture, I've rewrote the list.

Autumn Bucket List

 Collect Autumn Leaves

 Park Hopping

 Buy Autumn things e.g. socks

 Leaf Art

 Leaf Catching Competition

 Complete Autumn Sketchbook

 Finish Wreck This Journal

I hope you've enjoyed reading this and it's got you in the mood for Autumn. Hopefully you're as excited as me. Have you made plans for Autumn? Have you made a bucket list? Maybe this'll give you some ideas and inspire you to do your own.

Have a lovely weekend and a wonderful Autumn.

Aoife

Writing Letters

Hey everybody,

So I've been busy lately as it's been my birthday and I had a sleepover and party with my friends on Friday night and everything is kind of slowing down so I sat down today to write some thank you letters and I had been neglecting writing sets for a while. I already had the bow set but I had never used them and I saw the black and white ones while I was out shopping today and I had to bring them home with me.

When I got them both out, they were lovely paper and the envelopes were very different and unusual which I liked.

I really like writing to people and I have decided now that I'm going to write more often. Even if it's pointless things, it might mean a lot to the people you are writing to. I want to encourage you who is reading this to write more often, write to a friend, write to a family member who lives far away, write to yourself and open it in a few years. Write to somebody to ask how they are, or to tell them you love them, or maybe just to tell them you were thinking about them.

I think letters are great to keep and sometimes cards can get lost or thrown away so I decided to write each if my friends a letter to say thank you.

Another thing that I think is great is having a pen pal, for those of you who are unsure of the meaning of a pen pal, it means that you have a friend that you write to who may live far away or live in a different country. I think this would be great to do and for some of the students at my school, the teachers have set up pen pals so hopefully we will hear from them soon and we may get to visit.

Despite saying all this. I still think technology is great and I love having my blog to share things on but for the people you are close to, letters are special and personal.

I hope you have enjoyed this calm little rave about writing letters and I hope it has encouraged you to write a bit more, if your reading this now, I challenge you to get some paper and a pen and write something to someone and give/send it to them tomorrow.

Speak to you all soon

Aoife

Mike Wazowski - Monsters Inc. Nails Art

Hello everybody, long-time-no-see, I know. I hadn't had any ideas for posts and then all at once I had a load come to me so I won't be gone for a while.

As you can tell from the title I'm doing a nail design post. I didn't plan to do this it just sort of came to me when I found some googly craft eyes.

I used Avon Arabian Glow nailwear in 'Electric Green' on my thumb nail and fourth finger nail and I used MUA nail polish in 'All Nude' for the bases and black and white nail art pen and brushes and some googly craft eyes.

 

First, I painted all of my nails with these two colours, previously mentioned.

 

Once I had left them to dry I got 2 googly eyes and with the green nail polish, I dabbed a bit near the top of my nail where I wanted the eye to go and then carefully placed the eye on top.

 

BE PATIENT! That's my advice because I am very impatient and so the eye step took me more goes than it should have.

 

Next, when that is dry and stuck down, get your black nail pen and draw an open mouth smile. This shouldn't take too long to dry.

 

Then, you take your white nail pen and draw some teeth inside the mouth, I did 2 but depending on how big you have drawn the mouth, you may choose to do more.

 

It's as simple as that! However, the next challenge is to do it on the other hand, haha, however, if you notice in the picture (below) this picture is of my right hand, which means it was drawn with my left hand and this turned out to be the better of the two.

 



 

 

 

So that's all for now, I have more soon, it's my birthday tomorrow so we'll have a post on that next weekend after my party with my friends.

Hope you enjoyed this and want to try it out, I think it's easy enough so why not?

 

Aoife