drop of inspiration

distance and time

gosh it's been a week since my last post. sorry, i'm completely letting the team down!

last week was a really busy weekend, friday night we hit gatecrasher for pat's birthday.

well, gatecrasher toilets, burger than home due to excessive alcohol ;) goshhhh

then saturday i had lunch at this really nice cafe near by and it's so inspiring for its decor and style of the place. loved it.

sunday i met some lovely people going along to my first church service in roughly like 4 or 5 years. it felt good to be back and i'm gonna' go again soon hopefully, i really shouldn't be turning my back on my faith after so long.

then this week, i've had some busy days at uni and a good tiger tiger night out.

haha, theres always time in the week for tigertiger ;) we met some really nice newcastle ladies and discussed life in the toilets, had some free drinks, had a dance, then had a maccydees! fab :)

then wednesday nights are turning into a bit of cinema nights lately. last night we went to see "the lovely bones." it was really good, Saoirse Ronan played the girl really well although i loved "Atonement" so i guess i'm a bit biased. the man who plays the murderer plays such a creep really well too. i can't say i didn't cry though. it seems i cry at most films i watch at the moment. but no it was a good story.

the other week i bought myself a moleskine sketchbook

which i've been treating as like a design personal diary. i write and cut out some of the inspiring things in my day to day life and throw it all in there.

one day i'll probably look back and think how different things are.. but at the moment they're all the things i love in life.

at the moment its mostly films and quotes that i find most inspiring.

i'm starting to think about the route i'm going to take with this design degree. maybe film, would be an interesting route to go down.

this weekend i've got a trip to sheffield planned :)

going to see bowler, and to be honest i'm well excited. i love a catch up and a night out hehee!

i'll try and write back here sooner. i'll probably to try and write something more interesting too. haa

Bx

"Love ain't done nothing for me. Love beat me down!"

last night i went to see the film "precious"

when it was finished all i could really describe it was "heavy!" it definitely wasn't an easy watch at all, some scenes i'd even describe as horrific, not in a gory way just a literally awful way.

but it was such a good film. the story was so powerful and moving. i seem to cry to much at films these days.

the actress that plays precious is amazing, but i think it was the actress that played her abusive mother that stole the show. she was outstanding, i feared her every time she appeared on screen and i think thats the best an actor or actress can do, is to make you forget that your not actually there in the story haha!

yesterday i also bought the latest CR. it's my first one, but i want to get more into reading up on design magazines and journals etc. i had a meeting for my trip to NYC too, so excited to just spend a few days there trying to cram in as much inspiration as i can. yes!

today i've accidentally slept in 'til 1.15pm. not good considering all the work i want to sort out, but i better get too it now :)

...my lecturer asked the other day if anyone kept a blog. i didn't raise my hand, because if i read back on all my posts, i don't think they'd really count? maybe i should raise my game and write something a little bit more professional or academic? haha

Bx

love is a verb

happy valentines day.

Bx

pocketful of dreams

dog days are over - florence + the machine

a-punk - vampire weekend

hollywood - marina and the diamonds

we get on - kate nash

oxford coma - vampire weekend

the cave - mumford & sons

i need something - newton faulkner

club foot - kasabian

toothpaste kisses - the maccabees

torn on the platform - jack penate

ready for the floor - hot chip

chaka demus -jamie t

blinded by the lights -the streets

flux - bloc party

teardrop -newton faulkner

empire state of mind part 2 - alicia keys

paper planes - MIA

the scientist - coldplay

doesn't mean anything - alicia keys

this is it - michael jackson

end credits -chase & status

this week i have watched so many films...

the reader, power blue, hercules and it's complicated.

i love the reader it's such a good story, and powder blue was so sad, i confess i had a little cry!

last night we went to see it's complicated on a regular orange weds outing ;)

i loved the cocktails before hand @ browns with the fit bartender hehee!

and here's my february spotify playlist ♥

my fave track's probably "teardrop" by newton faulkner. i remember the first time i heard it was when it was used in the soundtrack to a hollyoaks episode and i loved it.

thats pretty much the same for "war sweater" by wakey!wakey! which was on the last ep of onetreehill season 6. i still love it, it's so dramatic. but thats on my revision/work playlist so don't over do it ey.

i don't know what i'd do without spotify. or films!

Bx

another suitcase in another hall

i've just taken this photograph for my photography session on friday.

i know its not like got all the technicalities right like all perfect lighting and optical settings and all that, but i'm quite proud of how it's turned out.

nothing a bit of photoshop can't sort out hey!

i've just finished working for the night. 1.30 am, definately time to go to bed.

tommorow i've not really got any plans for outside my lecture.. possibly film trip with the girlss?

we'll see.

goodnight, ♥

Bx

at first i feel bad for a while

i should not be allowed anywhere near a computer when i'm drunk.

what a stupid blogpost at like 3am. idiot!

i'm such a mess on wine.

i've got loads of work to do.

the thing that most keeps me going at the moment is my ambitions

one day i want to live in a house with decorations like this...

Bx

P.S i got my new rubbish phone today. £15, bargain. err, the free lipgloss is better quality than the phone. i'm still so angry that my other one got stolen. i have no numbers, it's so irritating.

"some were born to sing the blues"

story of my life.

"living rather than hoping" i said the other day.

well, i think i forgot tonight.

i hoped and then got upset, i'm an idiot

Bx

ask me anything :)

i found this new thing called formspring. you ask people anything anonymously to find out new interesting things about people. i think its got the potential to be really interesting. ask me anything please :) i'd love some like deep big life questions.

the address is: www.formspring.me/heyfox

so you can read all the other questions and answers, if i get any (!)

i'm in a much better mood already which is straaange 'cos i've only been working on my design project

but as much as i moan about work i do love it. i love being creative ;)

anyway, back to it. i digress too much away from work when i just "stop for a minute to check facebook"

asif.

Bx

"give me 'til tomorrow then i'll be ok"

today's already rubbish.

friday night was really good, but my phone was stolen.

i don't think it really hit me how big a deal it was until today.

i keep going to check it, to see if i've had any texts...

then i realise i'm never gonna' have it again. and the solution?

i have to buy a really rubbish £10 phone to last me until next january on my stupid contract.

i hate it. why do people do this? i hope they're happy with their shitty scratched up phone..

it meant more to me than whatever fiver they won't be able to sell it for.

absolute idiots.

the postsecret blog's not updated like it always does on a sunday aswell.

i was well in the mood for my sunday fix of secrets.

i think todays my feel like rubbish day.

i've even woken up about 2 hours later than i wanted to because i haven't got an alarm to set because of my phoneless situation.

so now i'm already behind on my huge workload too. fabbbbb.

oh this is such an angry blogpost. :(

maybe "think of a few of my favourite things and then i won't feel so saaaaaad"?

haaa!

Bx

life is for living not living up tight

"Lollipops turn into cigarettes. The innocent ones turn into sluts. Homework goes in the trash. Mobile phones are being used in class. Detention becomes suspension. Soda becomes vodka. Bikes become cars. Kisses turn into sex. Remember when getting high meant swinging on the playground? When protection meant wearing a helmet? When the worst things you could get from boys were cooties? Dad’s shoulders were the highest place on earth and mum was your hero? Your worst enemies were your siblings. Race issues were about who ran the fastest. War was only a card game. And the only drug you knew was cough medicine. When wearing a skirt didn’t make you a slut. The most pain you felt was when you skinned your knees, and goodbyes only meant until tomorrow? And we couldn’t wait to grow up"

i found this on one of those stupid facebook groups that really irritate me. it's title was "add me if you agree" and it had a counter to try and get to like a million fans. what's the point? what are they trying to prove, it doesn't make you any better a person for reaching that?! it really winds me up.

but this one has a really nice message actually and it is true. i do really remember the days when i couldn't wait to be grown up.

tonight i'm going out on the razz :)

i love it.. getting glammed up, drinking just a little too much, dancing away, silly antics, toasties! haha!

sometimes i love meeting that new person that puts a smile on your face.

but sometimes i think it's easiter not to meet them.

valentines day's coming and again i have no plans.

i watched 500 days of summer the other night and i loved this quote:

"...you can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Nothing more than coincidence."

i'm leaving everything to coincidence. living rather than hoping :)

Bx

i'll take these storms away

hiiiii, i'm keeping really on top of my work at the moment.

not really my personal stuff i need to get done. like check ive actually sorted my visa for NYC.

oh and write my thank you notes and ring gran back and book my train tickets.

goshh sort it out.

but tonight i have to do my photography assignment.

it's a self portrait, which i haaaate! especially as i have to "discuss" it in the lecture. the 9am lecture. on a friday. after a very probably messy possibly mission thursday. oh.

theres loads of photos of me i love. but they're always with friends or family...and normally when its acceptable to look like an idiot 'cos of alcohol! haha, so i'm not looking forward to this but i'm going for an emphasis on my love of my family, so hopefully that will distract people away from me!

i've got nothing much to say tonight. gonna' watch a film later.

last week was lovely. refreshers was really goooood, 4 nights out, 3 lovely nights in. aaace.

i love it in leeds ♥

got a bit of love for this man too, especially in these photo's.

hey, maybe one day i'll take photographs as good as these?

Bx