Trip reports

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Now regular readers may know about my passion for journals & memory keeping, and as this weekend just gone myself & Gareth were reading trip reports, thoroughly enjoying them...
... And this afternoon it struck me. My very first trip report in 1993 aged just 10 years old was in a cupboard tucked away in a "holiday folder" along with a few momentos (see, I've been at this since a very early age, and I have to admit as I'm older I am enternally grateful to my young self for doing this!)



I plan on getting this scanned to share with you all, and yes it's in comic sans but I was only young so I hope you forgive me! On our home computer we had some creative writing software aimed for kids & I loved it and the only thing I could think of writing at the time was about my very first holiday abroad.



Then I see the awful quality photos in the back and want to cry, and save this piece of my history, so I'm debating whether to re-write the trip reports I have and putting them into PDF so I can keep them on my phone to read or a mini book in their own rights :) My parents have the photos, but I can scan them in :)

And if you're wondering where you can read these Disney Trip Reports, they are located on the forums of thedibb.co.uk but you need to be a member to view them

It's been a Disney sort of weekend

Apart from the absolutely necessary housework (washing up, preparing meals, making sure we have clean clothes...) I have been lounging around with Gareth yesterday & today watching Phil, Emma & Ben's video trip reports.

Yes, we've seen them maybe twice already, but they are really fab :)

Check out there youtube channel with their playlists: http://www.youtube.com/user/elnicholson1

I love watching over videos, and reading our book of our trip (Blurb books RULE!)





Which makes me think I really should post our trip report on a page here so not just dibbers can read it lol :)

Hope everyone had a nice bank holiday weekend!

 

 

New Pages

I've been MIA for 4 days, but Thursday I got my boxes back from my parents after selling stuff in a car boot, and everything else went to charity. I just wanted my space back, so I have been slowly getting things to how they should be.

The pages I have done this week:







I'm super excited, I'm hoping to apply for a design team. It's something I've always wanted to do :)

Pinterest

Seeing as I work late on Wednesdays & have enough to fit in, in keeping with posting every day this week (woo-hoo! Let’s keep this up. Though maybe not every single day after this week!) I thought I will share some pinterest finds. Please leave me a comment if you’d like an invite, I honestly don’t bite. And it saves you waiting in a month long queue to receive one from pinterest themselves. Unless the wait is shorter now, I believe it was a few months back when I requested mine. Either way, here they are:

I wonder if I could pull these hair styles off…

Source: daisypies.tumblr.com via Kirsty on Pinterest

Source: None via Kirsty on Pinterest

Because friendship bracelets are back!

Source: henryhappened.com via Kirsty on Pinterest

I adored this. Not everyone can do everything, nor is everything perfect!

Source: facebook.com via Kirsty on Pinterest

There’s always a back up plan

Source: weheartit.com via Kirsty on Pinterest

Because I have to keep tissues on me alllll the time, it’d be easier to carry them in something like this…

Source: marthastewart.com via Kirsty on Pinterest

So many ideas! I need to try this!

Source: blog.craftzine.com via Kirsty on Pinterest

After the whole Christmas in July phenomenon that happens online every year, got me thinking of what to do as our ornament for this year.

Source: stumblesandstitches.blogspot.com via Kirsty on Pinterest

I need some pretty shoes that make me feel fab

Source: next.co.uk via Kirsty on Pinterest

Hither & Thither link

Just a quick one (to make three in a row, I know, what is this? Christmas?) I found a link on another blog, cannot for the life of me remember exactly but I'm guessing it was Kelly Purkey's  (whom I adore!) and it was for a blog called Hither & Tither. I particularly swooned over this post yesterday. What an amazing view & experience!

Now off for my evening Betty fix.

That chill in the air

I think the reason I'm feeling a little restless lately is probably because there's a bit of a chill in the air. Autumn is slowly on it's way. But it's august for pete's sake! I'm most certainly a summer girl myself but it was probably the other year when I finally appreciated the beauty of autumn. All the back to school hype makes me happy with all the stationery & the prospect of getting some new trousers as I can fit it the kids clothes so I get them cheaper & think that, now I'm older, that this isn't for the kids, it's clearly for the adults lol. I only ever appreciated the back to school season when I was first going to college.

Anywho, this lunch time I decided on a treat! I walked on over to Sainsburys cafe, as working in a small office with no cafeteria has it's draw backs. Most of the time I am quite content sitting in my car, but today I needed the hustle & bustle. Another reason I am not entirely sure of, but although I was sat alone, I wasn't alone exactly and just having people around chatting made me feel a little more comforted.


It was certainly a treat to get a nice hot meal for lunch!



Closely followed by reading Marie Claire, a magazine I would never ever normally buy. I'm a simply homemade girl, anything creative & scrapbooking oriented, and maybe on occasion I do pick up a food magazine for the husband and have a quick flick through myself. But never ever a woman's magazine.  Now, I'm starting to realise a few patterns here: Anne Hathaway is on the cover, the reason for buying it. I adore Anne, it started with Princess Diaries (irony being Hanson's song was featured in the movie so I watched it for that reason and LOVED both films!) and I own quite a few of her films. One being: Devil Wears Prada. Can't put my finger on why I like this film either. But I'm guessing it's because it's sort of Ugly Betty oriented and I have since become OBSESSED with watching Ugly Betty over again. And the swooning over New York. And the fawning over Gareth's Next Catalogue (Yes. The Next catalogue is my husbands!) eyeing up clothes in it, which for me is quite unheard of because I'm not one for remotely caring what I look like or wear. But I know I need new clothes. I also heard about Anne's new movie and apart from the Twilight films, I usually wait until a movie comes out on DVD, then I can either buy it (unlikely) or rent it (a little less unlikely) or wait for it to come out on TV one Christmas a few years later. But I want to go to the cinema and watch it. Husband goes to the cinema as much as he can, the last few months alone we've seen the new Transformers, Harry Potter and Thor to name but 3. This year for me, it's Just Breaking Dawn & now One Day. Brain has been working over time lately, thinking over lots of stuff...

... And best of all, was looking out the view while I was doing it ...

What I've been up to lately...

So I've been up to all sorts these past few weeks...



My work colleague Paige turned 18, so we all turned it into a HUGE deal at work :) I made her that monstrosity of a cake. I thought I'd channel my inner Duff Goldman (Of Charm City Cakes/Ace of cakes) and figured I would make her a lovely cake, complete with edible glitter. Didn't quite turn out the way I had hoped from the wonderous image I had in my head. Turns out cake decorating is blooming hard, and I need plenty more practise!



Completely back into Ugly Betty, and I have found a Youtube channel with ALL seasons on, so I am slowly making my way through them, and adoring Betty tons! Just love her!



The UK had riots... including our hometown. It was a crazy time, but peace seems to be somewhat restored.



While sorting through some bits and bobs, I found my old Mood ring. I had one that turned out to be a fake and never changed colours at all. Upset me hugely! Luckily my super dad bought me this one when I was younger, and now it just about fits on my ring finger (used to fit on my index finger back in the day!) I rarely wear it due to the whole "keep away from water" thing. As you can probably see my ring has a slight "flaw" which it was like that when I got it, but I love it anyway. I'm guessing that's what the water does to it? I wouldn't actually know, and I don't particularly want to try neither! Anywho, I have been wearing this for a few days now and I've fallen in love with it all over again. I have bought myself a cheap one off ebay though, one that I'm not so scared of wearing and ruining (I mean, my dad bought me this ring, it was a lot of money back when he got it, and it means a heck of a lot to me, so much so that I've kept it safe in a box for years ) so I am excited about getting that one :)



I have even done 2 car boot sales. For those who are not familiar just what a car boot sale is exactly, people turn up to a big field as organised by a group (today's was at a school, the previous one was at a race course), you park up put out some tables, put your stuff on it after paying an entrance fee, people turn up to buy your stuff. We spent hours sat in the boot of my dad's car LOL, and today mum nearly fell asleep in it. It wasn't remotely as brutal as the one we did 2 weeks ago at the Racecourse. Good Grief. We were there and set up, selling by 5.45AM. Yes, freaking AM! Yard sales isn't something we do here in the UK, but I think if you lived on a main road, and had a decent front garden (both of which we lack, but would be good to do at my parents house!) it's something I think we should do!