tale as old as time

todays inspiration.

my motivation to work today definately comes from: "will you follow me to london?"

i'd love someone to whisk me away to that city. ♥

but lots of work on a hangover seems to be todays reality.

Bx

words in my memory are like music to me

i've fallen back in love with snow patrols, "set the fire to the third bar"

it's so beautiful, i'm ridiculously into songs lyrics.

and thursday's pirate night was so good.

i've had so many occassions over the years dressed as a pirate.

this years attempt was probably my worst on the effort scale...

but the challenges were so funny, love it!

loving these pictures of johnny depp i've stashed on my mac from like a week ago too.

haaaa sad how much i hoard images for my design inspiration.

..back to my real design work i think?

:) Bx

make you feel brand new

i am nineteen years old :) ..bit late, haven't been on my blog in aaages.

saturday was my nineteenth birthday. sounds well too old for me, i don't see myself as that old. nineteens a well boring year anyway, because what does it bring? nothing new really... now i'm not eighteen anymore and its really just a lead up to next year, where it's the end of being a "teen" or twenty-one...which sounds good. but i had a lovely chilled day. i knew i did't wanna do the whole mad, going out on the birthday, get hammered and all that because we celebrated that way a few weeks back, when everyone in leicester was around, and the next week i planned to get hammered loads in a refreshers week stylee, haha and poss a flat bday party on friday.

so instead i opened my lovely presents from family in my pyjamas :)

then went and had a very overpriced drink and a meze platter with my bessie down the local!

...meze doesn't stand for meat.

and then i chilled out in the afternoon; followed by a lovely indian meal in the evening with my family. i think it was literally the first time all four of us had been out together since they bought me up to leeds in september.. so it was really nice.

the next day i wasn't feeling great about leaving home again. i think it made it tons harder knowing that the last few days had been really nice cos it was my bday and i had had such a strange and quite bad christmas because of the major tonsilitus. but mum made another christmas dinner to make up for it and it was really nice. we had crackers, the little sausages.. everything babe!

now i'm back in leeds and fully into refreshers week.

monday night we went to haaaalo. got hammmered with plenty of cranberry vodkas!

tuesday we went to tiger tiger, back to the usual tuesday night antics haha!

we ended up with quite a collection back in the flat and chatted on 'til the very early hours

last night i had a much needed alcohol night off. we were too tired and still a bit hungover from our previous nights to manage it, so instead we had an orange wednesday cinema trip :)

avatar is stunning. it's so good, james cameron is a genius.

the graphics and computer animation in it is simply beautiful and it has a really powerful storyline which on surface is a bit of sci-fi ridulousness, but it has loads of subtle connections to the world we're living in today.

i loved it. it's the second 3-d film i've seen and there actually well good. it works really well!

today i've just woken up from a 10hour sleep! heaven!

and i'm gonna' hit the work big time, especially on this personal project.

Bx

P.S we have a house for next yearrrr :) :) woooo!

dj blow my speakers up

sometimes i get addicted to collecting pictures off peoples blogs.

my macs already cluttered full of stuff i'm constantly dragging onto my desktop

but they are inspirational. ♥

Bx

project: done

could not feel more relieved.

i've probably worked a lot harder and more passionately about my design in the past five days than in the entire first semester. this proves i do really need to raise my game big time and knuckle down to it next term. it's not all about the partying y'know.. but it is very easy to forget that.. especially with a refreshers week lined up. haha!

im so excited i can think about the next few things lined up now.

tomorrow i'm working the full day back at my old saturday job :)

thursday i'm dying my hair blondeee, much to everyone elses bemusement. and having stanny drinks with my bessie hopefully!

then friday, im carting all my stuff back up to leeds for term twoo, but heading straight back again hopefully via Meadowhall shopping centre for some seriousss birthday shopping.. yes!

saturday is then my birthday. i plan to spend the entire day chilling out big time. then going for a meal with the family to the nicest indian restaurant ever.

then sunday its back to leeeeeds for the fun times to recommence..

and work. definately lots of design work that i will keep on top of this year.

theres simply three words for this evening.

bring-it-on.

Bx

i would never let you down

last night was really fun. it had its very surreal moments, but very fun :)

theres always a quote of the night and last nights was definately:

"washing your hair in the bath is liking having a shit in your pants."

erm...probably not that bad. hahaaa

i loved the tequila shots; the cheeky free ride into town -despite the hour wait; the reunion with my form bessie; drunken conversation with a fake criminal; the tearing up the dancefloor -especially to paper planes and the traditional maryland stop-off...mayo girls! hehee they love us.

also didn't really love the 5.15am ending, because today i have been solidly working on barely any sleep and now my brain can hardly function. i'm so over this project it's unreal. i really just want it finished. off my chest. but it takes so long, and honestly at this rate, i don't think i'll even make the deadline. i'm gonna' make a fab designer at this rate.

but this time next week it will be my birthdayyyyyyy. and then re-freshers week. ace ♥

Bx

i love this picture. i got it from this blog, its got some stunning pictures: http://hardtoexplain79.blogspot.com/

no one on the corner has swagger like us

i'm addicted to grand designs.

not a new series or anything... just any old repeat on more4!

i love the beginning when they talk through what they're planning but you don't really take any notice or understand 'til they show the computer-version bit.

and more than anything i love kevin mc-clouds bit to camera at the end of the programme.

he always seem's to sum up the designers journey perfectly in such a well written way!

love him. can't wait for his new slumming it programme on tonight.

...and the one i'm watching tonight has a well fit guy as the lady's husband who's designed and building this american house in sussex.

one day i will be on the programme. i well want to design and build my dream house and i think i'd be well good at it, 'cos i've seen so many of them, i know what not to do!

anyway, i'm back home after my couple of days of exams up in leeds. i love living up in 103, its so nice to always have people around to talk to and have a laugh with. and i loveee all my flatties :) and our antics and pranks.

i can't wait for next term in a week or so, when we're all back properly, and can get back into the drinking and partying, woooo! heheee

but for now. project needs to be done. bye!

Bx

fine baby how are you

i seem to only blog when i have other things i should be doing.

history of art is a right sod. i'm sorry, but i'm doing a design and communications course which shows my talents lie in my ideas, my presentation of ideas and how i can construct them

is there any mention there at all of memorising georgian artists, dates and why they represent that style. not just georgian.. baroque, renaissance, medieval, modern, postmodern, roccoco, arts and craft movement, romanticism..

oh, didn't quite think so.

i cannottt wait 'til it's over. -this means the very probable resit in august.

all this work is making me long for my break in NYC.

it's not long, less than two months and i'm sooooo excited. i really can't wait to get back to that city, is was amazing. it's so strange that 6months ago i was reading this lovely book about a girl jetting off to new york and living her dream out there, whilst i was on a sun-bed in corfu... and now i'm heading there and then corfu in the summer. i absolutely can't wait for that.

by my desk here in my uni-room i have a collage of pictures and theres quite a few of corfu..

the one of my whole family gets me excited the most. we all look so happy and relaxed chilling in the evening at the kv weekly bbq.

d'awww roll on march then july. exam season your such a tease.

Bx

ten days of perfect tunes

take-out pizza with the flatties ♥

lovely tunes..jose gonzalez - heartbeats ♥

winegums ♥

a few unread fashion blogs ♥

skype calls home ♥

tonight i'm throwing revision for thursday's exam out the window.

i'm gonna' work the hardest i've ever worked tomorrow instead

and i love it.

i don't think the fact that i've probably not passed today's exam has hit me the way it should

i could answer the questions, but hey.. possibly not the questions that were being asked. oh.

i just want to watch secret garden. i found this picture on this blog and i miss it

i used to love it and get proper freaked out at the boy who couldn't see the light or go outside

and then theres that wierd bit where proffessor mcgongegal taps his leg with that wind up medical apparatus.

i miss vhs players. :(

Bx

glitter in the air

"have you ever looked fear in the face

and said i just don't care?" ♥

i have an exam in a few hours.

but theres not much more cramming i can do... i've managed to do a lot. i think i know more than i dare myself to believe, i just hope i can prove it in the exam. it's been about 7 months since i sat an exam and i'm terrified. i don't know how i used to keep it together so well.

whoever invented exams was ridiculous, why do we have to prove ourselves under pressure, we should be in an environment where we can show what we've learnt in ease and when we're comfortable. idiots.

but i'm being optimistic. bring it on, i'm ready to prove myself on this course.

colour? it's a sensation babe, that people have tried creating systems to make it universally understandable, like CIE XYZ and the Munsell system.

and colour management? just set up profiles to so that RGB isn't device dependant.

booooom.

fingers crossed hey. less nerves, more confidence.

Bx

flash up on my phone, i no longer feel alone

tonight i should probably be revising, but it's too scary.

i think i have it under control, i know quite a lot about fundamentals of imaging i hope.

just nothing about the history of art and design. oops.

i'm scared because what if i fail these exams? then i fail to make it to my second year. i fail to make it back to the course and city i'm loving. i fail to do anything with all the opportunities given to me. i fail to have a chance at my dream job. and i'll have to go get a real job. oh.

thing is, this year i'm worrying less. it's all about optimism so i'll concentrate on the things i love and what work i have done. i will be fine. it's only 40percent after all!

i've been shopping today. bought two lovely jumper tops from river island, which means ive blown all the money i had for christmas. but i did need a new wardrobe. i saw a really nice dress and handbag i'm going back for next week too, but thats for my birthday. the winter seasons brill for moneyy ;) hehee.

i got a box of hair dye too. blonde. i'm so excited to go blonde, i was going to do it tonight but i'm not sure i have time. i decided against having it done professionally 'cos its too expensive and i'm a student with a trip to new york very soon.. i can't have everything, so i'm having more money for abercrombie and fitch clothing!

i'm back up to leeds for a few days of exams tommorow. i'm dead excited to get back in james baillie and see everyone, but the fun can't recommence til a few weeks 'cos of these stupid exams.. so i better not get myself too hyped up.

larkrise to candlefords on tonight so i'll go and watch that. there's nothing like a good period drama on a sunday. it's what sunday's where built for.

Bx

P.S small crush on ewan mcgregor keeps getting worse, might be falling a little bit in love.

you really got me.

today i am getting quite a bit of work done. i'm quite inspired, & im haaappy.

i can't help but get sucked into the blogs again though. i've found some amazing ones, i'm gonna' but a list of links up of my favourites. but theres quite a few, im quite the fanatic.. sorry, whoops. i was reading one the other day and their first post of 2010 wasn't resolutions or a recap of all the memories of 2009..it was a list of all the books they'd read during the year. i love that. i wish i could read and have something to show like that.. but i guess my book list is more the blogs and magazines i get through.

and somehow, my book list wouldn't be very creditable with book one of 2010 being ant and dec's "ooh what a lovely pair" autobiography!

i'm currently listening to the kinks. i admit there one of those bands where i know loads of there songs, i just never realised it was them... i love them though. proper sixties rock 'n' roll, that really means old pop. classics without the over-hype of the beatles :) lovely.

and thank you spotify, you really are the best thing since ever for music.

i've had such fun these past few days with everyone here in leicester. i love reunions. i love seeing people, and i love my favourite bunch of girlies :) we hit the dance floor last night. after a shakey start in super-fly..not our scene, no club room open? no thank-you.. we hit high-cross and then liquid(!) ..a few years ago if you told us we'd go there, we'd have laughed and made a bit of a chav joke, but actually it wasn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. there's the odd right trampy state in there, but we had a laugh and teared up our moves ;) we also had our half price maryland chicken meals, because frankly they love us.

and we are the mayo-girls.

hahaa, d'aw i'm gonna' miss them all in leicester. i've seen so many people i didn't think id get the chance to catch up with and now i'm gonna' miss tons more people :( but i am getting so excited to get back to uni. i miss it. i miss the independance, and how theres stuff going on all the time. and of course i miss everyone from up there toooo :) bring on term two.

tonight i'm having a one tree hill series one marathon. after the series six finale, i got a craving to see how it all started, and to be honest series one is probably one of the best seasons. chad doesn't look quite as fit though- roll on season seven. tenner for this box set though? bargain. i love it.

thats it i think. i'm done.

oh i probably should moan a bit about the snow.. but wait? thats a bit boring. i hate that thats all everyone talks about at the moment. why do people always talk about the weather anyway, it's boring. it happens all the time. it's not the first time babes.

Bx

steal a fiery kiss.

i'm surrounding myself in bliss at the moment to make up for my depressing week-and-a-bit of absolutely horrible illness right over the festive season and to be honest i'm loving it. it's a huge battle to do with all this revision piling up, but i think that fingers crossed i've got it under control.

the other night we had our first full gang reunion. where else can you do it but at the gynsills?! love it, i love that we still go there like 4 years on.. with the same girls, having more or less the same meals. there really is nothing like tradition. it was my first proper outing since the fever so it was really nice to get out the house, although i probably shouldn't have.. i wasn't fully feeling well!

then last night i went with my mum to see nine. it's been quite a while since we've watched a film together so it was nice. and nine was absolutely stunning. anyone that knows me, knows that i love a good musical.. they could be singing and dancing about absolutely anything and i'd love it. but this one was so amazing visually, the flickers of gritty black and white filming was quite inspiring and the singing in it was beautiful too. i loved the irony that it was a huge blockbuster about a man who couldn't think of what to make a huge blockbuster about. fergie, penelope cruz and marion cottilard were outstanding, whereas i thought nicole kidman played the character she always plays, which didn't really sit well with all the other feist in the film. i hate that it got bad reviews, because it puts people off seeing it, whereas actually it's well worth it and deserves the applause it would get where it performed back on broadway.

today i have been back to gcc. it felt so weird being back sitting in the post sixteen room. i'm not gonna' lie, it felt like a huge step back. i think because thinking about it, ive come along way from sitting for hours in that room with my head in revision or watching people that i'l never see again, let alone talk to. but seeing everyone was so lovely. it's lovely to see your best friends because you know they're gonna' be there for you, you've kept in touch loads and have tons of catching up to do.. but when you see other friends who haven't kept quite so close, its really nice to see them and know that you all still care about each other and are still interested on how you've been doing. i bumped into quite a few people, teachers -heheheee a very funny double take from pazza, form friends and old friends. it was nice. i'm gonna' do it again soon :)

and tonight i'm going to the local. just for a few bevvies because i'm still finishing my course of antibiotics and as mum says... "you don't know what they'll do to you."

followed by a sleepover with the girls and tommorow night is when we hit the town for birthday celebrations. i don't even want to consider that i'll be nineteen.. that sounds so old. and eighteen was the best year of my life. goshhh, lets just party and forget the numbers hehee.

back to the revision. frankly i don't care about the elctromagnetic spectrum and how that causes colour blindness or deficiency, or the scientific cells in the retina.. ask me a question about it.. i'l tell you naaathing 'cos im doing graphic design not science baaabe.

oh and i actually can't wait to go blonde.

we were looking through all the family albums the other night and i was well blonde and it made my eyes and face look well nicer. lets hope i've not outgrown it when i try and recreate it.

i want hair like this. bye.

Bx

ARRRRRILLASSSSSS

ARRILLAS 2010.

BOOKED.

BOOOOOOOOM :)

excited is an understatement.

6 months 'til we hit KV for 5th time guysss! it's like our second home.

this years already set to be a good year

march is new york new yorkkkkkk

july is corfuuuuu babyyyy!

bring.

it.

on.

Bx

P.S the doctor thinks its probably glandular fever, but thank god its getting better.

new year. new decade.

i've got a feeling it's gonna be a good one. :)

it can only get better, because ive seen it in, on my own with swollen glands and in unbearable pain, with my drunken mother reminding everyone at her dinner party that it's ok...

"REBECCA'S STONE COLD SOBER." oh. thanks mum.

here are my new years resolutions. i'm keeping them this year.

1. i will go blonde. i need a big image change, i'm bored and exciteddd

it's gonna' be pricey to maintain but i hope it'l be better, i'd like it a mix between fearne cotton's and kate moss

2. i will be healthier. that means yeah stay out til all hours drinking, partying meeting fab new people and tearing up the dancefloor. but maybe take it easy with more sleep, more relaxing and maybe eating a few more greens.

3. i will hopefully find prince charming. i really hope this years the year.

but i'm not gonna' go out searching, 'cos that only finds you the idiots

i hope they'l find me, someone to adore and be adored by..

4. i will worry less and this will let me work harder to reach for my dreams.

aaaand of course i will hopefully have many more happy memories with the people i love now :)

oh if i only i was with them all tonight.

n'anight all..

love you. farewell 2009, you were outstanding ♥

Bx