Just a minute.... August

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Making: A scrapbook of magazine clippings and personal bits, just to feed my obsession with cutting & pasting.

Watching: 'One Day' (good, but not as good as the book) 'Adventureland' (great sound track) and 'Wilfred' (Elija Wood and a man dressed up as a dog? What's not to love?)

Reading: 'Sputnik Sweetheart' and 'Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World' by Harukai Murakami. One thing I'm loving about my commute- lots of reading time!

Listening: John Smith, Cate le Bon and Ray Lamontagne.

Loving: Having things to look forward to- gigs, a certain dinner, a spa day, etc. Good times :)

Buying: A monthly train ticket, oyster card, bus tickets- I am officially the Queen of public transport.

How was your August?

Song of the week.....

The Noise

Obsessed with this song at the moment. Haven't had a chance to check out the rest of Austra's album, but if this is anything to go by, I think I've met the one.

Have you discovered any new musical loves lately? Love discovering new music!

VW Festival

I should probably start this post off by admitting something...... I don't/can't drive. I am a 25 year old non-driver who relies on bus', trains and, (more often than not), lifts from friends and family. It's just something I never got around to doing, or have ever really had a big desire to do. Having said that I have always thought to myself that if/when I ever did get around to learning my car of choice would be a vintage beatle. Ever since I saw Kate Hudson driving around in a pale blue one in some godawful movie, I said- thats what I want.

So when my sisters other half bought himself a rather stunning purple vintage beatle and invited me along to the VW Festival in Southsea- how could I say no? After a bumpy and break-down ridden drive there, we arrived at the festival just in time for a quick browse, a walk by the coast and an ice cream. 

Even though I can't drive any of the cars, I still appreciated the fest and had fun taking hoards of snaps.....

Are you car-crazy or not?

(PS I wrote a guest post over at Frills 'n' Spills, take a peek here)

 

Where is the love?

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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a distinct lack of love in the world. Between the rioting, the 'couple-blog' hating and the harsh commenting going on in cyber space, there seems to be a lot of hate out there. Now I know life is hard, and not quite as full of candy floss and kittens as we would like, but is taking our frustration out on each other really helping matters? 

So in rebellian I suggest we spread a little love by doing the following.....

1) Compliment a stranger

2) Smile at the bus driver/ postman/ rubbish collector

3) Take a box of baked treats into the office

4) React to a difficult customer/ co-worker with a smile

5) Tell someone you love them

Outfit : Midi Dress + Turban

When you make those steps towards your wardrobe before facing the world, do you look at your clothes first or your accessories?

When I get dressed I usually pick out the clothes first and then accessorise, I think that's the norm with most of us, right? But every now and then I get an urge to wear a certain accessory and end up creating an outfit based on that. It's almost more fun that way- more of a challenge.

In this case my accessory of choice was a grey turban headband from Rock 'n' Rose. I paired it with a grey midi-dress, a black cardi, tan ankle boots and a Najavo-inspired necklace for dinner with friends.

Turban: Rock 'n' Rose
Dress: Primark
Cardigan: New Look
Necklace: Gift
Boots: Primark

Which do you put more emphasis on, the clothes themselves or the accessories?

Watch Me

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Watch Me

Cut me in half and watch me bleed.

Watch me flail in desperation.

Watch me will my bones to join.

Watch my skin graft and tissue repair.

Watch my tendons mend and cells regenerate.

Watch me put myself back together again.

Watch me whisper sweet destruction.

Watch me knock you out with ease.

Watch me watch you fall beyond.

 Watch yourself fall into the depth of your own fear.

Watch me grow like never before.

Just something I wrote on the train home the other day, got inspired after reading another great Harukai Murakami novel. Not entirely sure what I'm talking about in this to be honest- think it's basically an FU to anyone that doubts you or puts you down. I love writing random things like this, has been a while!

Any of you guys do any creative writing?

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