Update: 04/02/13

Hello lovelies! 

I've been neglecting this blog quite a bit recently and I feel utterly guilty, but to be honest, I haven't felt enourmously inspired to write any posts. 

My life hasn't been majorly interesting since new year, but nevertheless, it's been quite fun...


1. I went to my first rugby match ever with one of my best friends! We caught the train to High Wycombe and watched the London Wasps VS Rugby Mogliano game at Adams Park. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit, the only downer was when my friend, Em, knocked a cup of hot coffee all over this old farmer guy when we were trying to get to our seats and he went absolutely mental, and worse, we had to sit next to him and his equally-fuming farmer friend for the next hour and a half. Oh well.


2. It snowed! There was almost 7 inches in my area and I spent days taking pictures of the gorgeous white blanket! Kind of annoying though... the first day it started snowing happened to be an inset day sort-of-thing because of these 11+ examinations taking place there (exams for the 10/11 year olds that are applying to get into Year 7 at my school). However, my year had to go in and sort everything out and organise them and get them into their exam rooms while everyone else from my school enjoyed the day off, playing and sledging in the snow. But it snowed constantly all weekend and on my way to school on Monday, I slipped over and messed up my back, so got the day off to sit at home and rest! :) 

my pink snowboots! 

Alfie got a snow beard!

3. On the 23rd of Jan, I went to the birthday party of one of my close friends! It was at an amazing, trendy restaurant called Nobu in London, and we were sat in the 'VIP Corner'. And guess which incredibly famous star happened to be on the table next to us that evening? Only Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas! He sung happy birthday to my friend (along with the rest of the restaurant), he bought us dessert, then just as he was about to leave, he decided to sit down at our table and talk to us for the next hour about why we should study and appreciate our parents, and how technology is advancing so rapidly! It was crazy, I practically fainted when I first saw him, and almost died when he started talking to us and agreed to have a photo taken with us. He was the nicest, funniest (if not slightly tipsy) guy! 

I look like a complete idiot, but aaaaah (here's proof! :) ) 

my friend's absolutely amazing, yummy birthday cake 

I really liked my hair that night :P 

4. I had a little group of friends round for dinner on Saturday night. I nicely forced Em into helping me cook (pasta and meatballs for main course, Oreo cheesecake for dessert). However, we ended up cooking the meatballs while we were half-drunk, so most of it ended up splashed all over the wall, or on the floor for my dog to lick up! When we'd finally cooked it and poured it onto the plates, it sort of resembled a pile of meaty-tomato sick, so the running joke all night was 'I really hope we don't get food poisoning tomorrow morning!'. But despite this, it went down well and everyone enjoyed it, and the Oreo cheesecake was the cherry on top! It was amaaazing. I used this fab recipe from Lottieslittlekitchen and it went down a treat. 

5. Next Saturday evening, Em's having a little Chinese New Year party with a couple of our friends and her older brother and some of his friends and I'm already excited! An endless supply of margaritas, strawberry daiquiris, gin and tonics, tequilas and mojitos has been guaranteed! 

Lots of love, 

Ellay xxx 

Liebster Blog Award!

I've recently been nominated by the lovely Shona ( http://shonalouxo.blogspot.ie/ ) for the Liebster Blog Award! I'm am completely and utterly chuffed to bits to have recieved this award and will be silently celebrating tonight with a massive mug of hot chocolate and a wide grin on my face all evening.

The 'rules' of the award are to...
1. List 11 random facts about yourself
2. Answer the 11 questions that your nominator set for you
3. Choose 11 blogs to nominate (who have less than 200 followers)
4. Create 11 questions for who you choose to nominate to answer



11 random facts about me:

1. I'm a fairly picky eater. 
2. I study biology, psychology, art and English at school
3. I would love to live by the beach when I'm older
4. I'm a naturally cautious and anxious person - I rarely take big risks
5. I absolutely adore stars and the night sky
6. I'm quite a sensitive person and I take everything to heart
7. I have a diary that I write it quite often (my biggest fear is someone finding it and reading it!)
8. I love making people laugh
9. I never go out the house without make up on
10. I have naturally really curly, dark brown hair
11. I love listening to movie soundtracks more than any other genre of music



Shona's questions:

1. What's your favourite TV show?
I watch so many different programmes, I don't think I could possibly choose one! I've been watching Eastenders since I was about 11 and still love it. I also like Miranda, Casualty, Skins and Fresh Meat.

2. What's your favourite online shop?
I think BooHoo.com would have to be my favourite, but blackmilk is amazing as well.

3. Would more money make you happier?
I may sound shallow when I say this, but I wouldn't say no to a little bit more cash that I could use to indulge myself with now and again. I do love my shopping trips quite a lot :)

4. What song sounds like it was written about your life?
I've been thinking about this question for ages, but I really can't choose just one. My life is such a mix of awesome-ness and crappy-ness, so it's hard to pick just one!

5. What three words would you use to describe yourself?
Sensitive, energetic, joker.

6. What's your party piece/trick?
Sadly I don't think I really have any 'special skills'. I can roll my tongue and put my leg behind my head, but that's about it.

7. Do you have any piercings?
Yep, I've got one piercing in each ear. I really want a cartilage piercing, but I'm still mustering up the courage to actually get it done.

8. In what was are you different to how you were twelve months ago?
I've learnt not to trust everything that people tell you, to not care so much about what people think about you, and although you might be having an absolutely awful time and feeling really low and sad, it always gets better. 

9. If you could eat only one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
This may sound boring, but I reckon I could live my life only eating chocolate. I adore the stuff, any flavour, milk/dark/white, yum.

10. What three items would you want with you if you were stranded on a desert island?
If I had to take items and not people, I would bring an iPod full of music (with an unlimited battery life), a diary + pen, and a phone that always got a signal in case I got bored of sunbathing.

11. What is the meaning of life?
I have not a single idea, but I'm hoping eventually I'll find out.



The bloggers I'm tagging are...


beadollblog
sequinbuttons
oliviagracebradley
lauracuddles
tan-livelaughlove
maddiestevens
frankest
treetrunkslife
vanillaparadisee
appletoothpaste
bettinahearts



My 11 questions for the people I nominate to answer are...

1. What is your favourite thing about yourself/your body?
2. If you could see anyone in concert, who would it be?
3. Do you miss anyone right now?
4. What one thing could you not live without?
5. What's been your most embarassing moment?
6. If you could only use one beauty product for a month, what would it be?
7. What makes you happy?
8. What have you done recently that's made you feel really proud?
9. What's your biggest fear?
10. What's your ideal career?
11. What's your favourite song at the moment?

Defining a style.

To my lovely readers,

I have really come to envy those who have their personal ‘style’ and way of living defined to every detail. I envy those who know exactly what they enjoy doing, what sort of movies they like to watch and books they like to read. I’m especially jealous of those who can express their particular style and personality with the way they dress. You can look at them and know immediately that they’re the sort of country-kid that enjoys reading and writing. They’re the sort of person that you can imagine siting at their desk for hours on end, a steaming cup of tea next to them and soft music playing in the background as they scribble down their thoughts and feelings 

I’ve always longed to have a style and have spent many years experimenting in the hope that one would stick, but alas, none have.

I began actually caring about what I wore when I was about 9/10 years old (in year 5). I decided I wanted to be a goth, so every non-uniform day I would come dressed in all black, wearing silver lipstick with heavily rimmed black-eyeliner-d eyes and my hair slicked back into a ponytail. I looked awful.

Then when I finally realised that this look didn’t work too well for me, I moved onto my neon phase. This involved wearing extremely brightly coloured, patterned clothes that clashed and made people squint when they looked at me. Not too great either.

me a couple of years ago during my 'neon phase' - what was I thinking??

After that phase, I went onto the ‘I don’t really give a crap but I do’ phase which I feel like I’m still stuck in now. It mainly consists of wearing massive woolly jumpers and t-shirts over a pair of jeans almost every day. It’s not too bad – you could definitely call it an improvement from the other phases I've been through, but I still don’t feel completely satisfied.

At heart, I’m quite a girly-girl. I love pampering myself, putting on make up, pink, pretty objects and watching romantic movies in my pyjamas. But I wouldn’t really fancy dressing in frilly skirts, pink vests and high heels every day. But of course, there are elements of this style that I adore.

You could also say I’m a bit of a tomboy as well though – I love getting muddy and messy, I quite like the ‘dragged-through-a-bush-backwards’ look and I live for jeans and Converses. But again, I wouldn’t define myself as a ‘tomboy’.

I also combine elements of the ‘sophisticated, classy, smart/posh’ style when I want to. I love to wear sharp blazers, shirts, chiffon and high-waisted skirts and trousers in pastel colours. However, I definitely would not class myself as a ‘sophisticate’.

this is the sort of thing I wear nowadays - shirts, leggings, jeans, big t-shirts, jumpers - not the most flattering clothes I must admit.

This is my dilemma! For so long, I’ve been desperate to pinpoint my exact style. However, I’m yet to have my fashion-epiphany, so until then, I’ll just have to accept my love for mud, jumpers, white chiffon, silk and obscene amounts of black eyeliner and embrace this ‘individuality’ that I have seem to adopted. 

Lots of love,

Ellay xxx