Childhood Memories. | Collab w/Charlotte C

If you've been reading my tweets over the past few days you'll know that I've been feeling extremely emotional and that's all because on Friday I performed in my last ever school musical at my high school, even writing that makes me feel like crying. My performing arts family means everything to me and knowing that we'll never perform together again breaks my heart. Anyway, I'll tell you what relevance this has to this blog post as I stop crying over my keyboard. After the musical finished I found all my childhood photos and started thinking about my childhood along with all the great memories I have from it and seeing as I'm turning 16 in two weeks (SCARY) I thought that I'd share with you some of my childhood photos and some of my favourites things from my childhood. I'm not going to lie I have no clue how much writing I'm going to do to go along with this blog post at the moment, I might come back and edit it who knows? Also, before I forget this a collab with the beautiful Charlotte C from Pastel Beauty, go check her out; her photography is stunning!

I love a good photo or two and when I came across all my childhood photos I was literally so happy. I thought I'd share a few favourites of mine.

I tell you I was an animal when it came
to outdoor rocking horses.

Who knew a blanket could make a girl so happy?

A budding artist.

Playing princesses with my older sister.
I loved Snow White.

My best friend and I at a Christmas play.
Yes, she's wearing curtains.
Yes, our parents are obsessed with this photo.

What a bunch of posers.

The posers are back...

Daddy's little girl.

The cold never bothered us anyway.

I'm basically David Attenborough, just look at me.
Ready for adventure.



And here we have one of the most dangerous creatures alive,
oh and there's a komodo dragon.

This was the birthday where our parents deciding to buy relighting candles.
Longest five minutes of my life...

I'm still slowly learning to love the beach.

I was quite happy to be left alone with my ice lolly.



This is one of my favourite photos.
Me and one of my best friends at our Holy Communion.

Just keep swimming is always the motto in this house.

Something that I remember from my childhood is all the amazing television shows that we're on! I remember that 'The Tweenies' was always my favourite so much that to this day I still own a stuffed version of the character Jake; he was always my favourite, actually he still probably is. Another show that I remember was '64 Zoo Lane', even as I type that I've got the theme tune going through my head. As a child it was always my dream to live next to a zoo so I could live like the girl in the show and slide down the giraffes back. Now I think about it, it was a bit unrealistic.

Another thing that I always remember was that days out used to be so much better in my 6 year old mind and it always would make me really sad when we had to go home. However, I always remember getting home, dressing up in my Snow White costume (the one in the photo above) and playing pretend with my sisters for hours on end. I think that's what made my childhood so amazing, I had some great sisters who were always willing to play doctors or teachers or whatever came into my mind.

I really loved it when I used to do school plays because we always used to take them so seriously. I mean we'd all get really excited when parts were chosen. When I got Mary I was so excited that when my mum came to pick me up that day I ran out of school to tell her and she had to catch me so I didn't fall over. Now I think back to it, it was quite funny. Also, I remember in Year 6 when we did our end of year play and we did 'Oliver.' I was so nervous because I had the opening lines to the play and was afraid I was going to mess it up so one of my best friends drew me a picture to wish me luck; I still have that drawing.

It's actually mental to think actually that if I hadn't moved from Wales that I wouldn't know my best friends or have the same memories. As I come to the end of my high school experience I've realised just how precious friendships are no matter the age gap, I'm so glad I took part in my high school's school musicals because without them I wouldn't be friends with so many people or be as emotional as I am. Would I like to eventually stop crying whenever someone mentions Les Misèrables? Of course, but for now I'm happy that I have them emotions to remind me of how great my childhood's been.

Remember don't forget to check out Charlotte's blog post and blog in general. Until next time!

♥ 

Welcome To The New Year.

I'm literally about to step out the door to go party the night away but I thought that I'd publish this blog post before I left. 2015 was an interesting year to say the least, on my behalf at least but I'm ready to leave that behind and say hello to 2016. Did we all have a good 2015? What was your highlight? What are you looking forward to this coming year? I want to know all the answers to all the questions below in the comments.

I did a similar thing last year and I'm going to do the same this year. So without further ado let's look back on the absolutely incredible things that happened in 2015...

-Same-sex marriage became legal in ALL 50 states
-The World Health Organisation declared the ebola epidemic was over
-Social Media split in half over the colour of a dress...P.S. it's blue and black
-Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch in the UK
-Adele released her new album 25 and sold 2.3 million copies within the first few days of release
-The world took a stand together when it came to terrorism when the City Of Lights turned off and we all lit up for them
-The YouTube community waited 3 years for the wedding of the century. Yes, ladies and gentlemen Janya (Jim Chapman & Tanya Burr) finally tied the knot
-NASA discovered water on Mars (I don't find it that interesting but you might)
-David Beckham played 7 football matches on all 7 continents in 10 days all in the aid of charity
-195 countries singed the world's first accord on climate change 
-Jamie Brewer changed the modelling industry by being the first model with Downs Syndrome to walk the catwalk
-Tom Brady set the record for most Super Bowl wins by a quarterback
-Mustafe Mawla stood blindfolded with outstretched arms on a busy street asking for trustful hugs because he was labelled as a terrorist for being Muslim. Dozens of passers-by of all ages, genders and colours, stopped and embraced him in a hug
-A World War II veteran had his birthday meal paid for by two others diners because of his service in the war

Now last year I made new year's resolutions and as always I didn't stick to them as most people do, I think it was because I don't have the commitment to stick to four resolutions so this year I've decided to make three. Just three simple resolutions that aren't that hard to stick to. Do you want to know said resolutions? Of course you do, or at least I'm guessing you do. So let me tell you my resolutions.

Resolution #1: Drink More Water
Now I'm not actually too bad at drinking water, I actually drink it a lot but this coming year I want to try and push myself to drink more than enough water because I have been slipping. I don't know whether to download an app that calculates how much water I need to and have drunk throughout the day. What do you think? Also, have you got any water measurement apps to recommend to me? Let me know in the comments below.

Resolution #2: Live Everyday As It Comes
Last year was an extremely shaky year, there's almost so many bad things that happened that I feel as if I've had my fix of bad things for a lifetime. Anyway, that's in the past and I'm ready not to always make plans. I'm ready to live in the moment, if bad things happen they happen and there's nothing I can do about it. I want to be able to freely do as I wish and live life as much as I can because last year I didn't get to do a lot of that and I'm done with that.

Resolution #3: Put Myself First
This might seem self centred but I'm not going to lie last year I put others before myself without thinking about myself or the consequences. A lot of the time this made me feeling extremely low about myself but not this year! This year if I want to put myself first and if I think situations call for it then I will. There's nothing to it. If you put too many people before yourself maybe we can share this resolutions.

There's one last thing I want to do, I want to thank you. Yes you sitting there reading this; THANK YOU! Thank you for sticking by me and my blog this year. It means a lot to me that even though my blog has been very up and down this year you've stuck by me and commented and favourited my tweets about new posts etc. Here's to the new year and all the exciting things to come! I love you all lots.

♥