Overly personal emotional posts are not something I like to indulge in. A lot of shit has gone down, back up, down and up again a few more times and then hit the metaphorical fan.
Anyone I'm good friends with knows the general gist.

In summary, this time last year I was in a relationship & a full time job. I am now in neither, ha.

However, the past few months have probably been the best I've had so far. I've made some beauuuuutiful new friends, had some rad times with old friends and starting as I mean to go on with this year, the 1st, 2nd & 3rd of January 2012 have been a pretty sick few days to begin on. <3

xo

Spent Christmas in Ashby (:

Ink

New tattoo :)

Original design by Tati Suarez

11/11/11

So it goes.

Possesed to bake.

Made some minnie/mickey mouse cakes for Elles birthday.
Don't think I'll be pursuing baking as a career just yet.




Mixtape.

Bestival

Bestival 2011.

Public Enemy & Tom Vek were amazing. I missed Carte Blanche's last set. Later in the evening I found myself stood 2ft away from DJ Medhi (RIP) and regrettably did my best not to fangirl the fuck out and ask for a photo.

The smell of the toilets will haunt me forever.

Cambridge.

Photos courtesy of http://missvenison.blogspot.com/


After a week of stress, sleep & stitching I attended the Cambridge Art Fair on Saturday.

I'm so so grateful to Scott for letting me know about it and getting me in touch with Jacqueline, and also to Jacqueline herself for letting me come and sell my stuff! It's the first time in ages that I've actually sat down and made anything, so that alone made it all worthwhile.

It was my first experience of being the other side of the table at a craft/art fair and I didn't really know what to expect but I met some really lovely people & found out about some really rad artists too.

http://liamashleyclark.tumblr.com/
http://philcalversplace.blogspot.com/
http://doodlehowl.tumblr.com/
http://www.whirlygig.me/
http://analoguejac.blogspot.com/

(There's loads I've missed out, I left it a bit late to list them and I can't remember/find them all. I'll add them as and when I find them).

A small selection of the things running through my head right now...

stressmessstressmessstressmessmessstress.
So much left to do. I hate printers 4eva. Why is there sticker paper everywhere until you actually need it? I should be a blanket stitch pro by now. Why do I always leave things to the last minute? I wanna go out tonight :(

Redonk-a-donk pt 2 (the rest of the week at Rob's)

Got the train home Friday morning, met by Papa at the station and went to Whitstable to get Fish & Chips and go to the Turner Gallery. Lovely week. x

Redonk-a-donk

Trippple Nippples at Old Blue Last. More photos here.

Amazing band. Somehow managed to end up hanging out with them after and they're all so lovely! <3
I thought Rob had got the last tube back so not knowing how the fuck I was going to get back to Uxbridge, they offered to let me sleep on their friend's floor.

Unfortunately it turned out he hadn't made it back and had spent the past few hours walking around London looking for a tube station. So I had to bail and spent the rest of the evening/morning chasing Rob around London trying to find him. I got asked by a quite presentable looking man in a suit sat at Liverpool Street station if I'd be interested in being an actress for the 'adult production' company he works for. Politely declined. (£5000 a day though apparently??...but still, no).

Then I got started on on the night bus by a lady in an Eastpak parka who thought I was laughing at her. I was laughing at Rob, but once she shouted 'Don't you fucking laugh at me you ugly ugly looking cunt.' I got the giggles and had to stare into my lap to avoid getting into a fight.

We were out so late that we actually missed the last nightbus, had to get the tube back to Uxbridge and got to Rob's about half 7.

Absolutely ridiculous, but totally worth it.

Birthday, fuck yeah!

Despite the, er...circumstances. I had a really really awesome birthday. (Thanks guys ♡)

I finished work on the 6th & my Nonna came down from Derby to stay for a few days which was lovely.
Not expecting to be doing anything, Luke, Aaron & Ollie texted me on the friday night asking if I wanted to go out & I spent the eve of my 21st sat in the car park near Poco Loco drinking champagne out of paper cups.



Then on my birthday we went to Moogie Wonderland where I spent the night dancing, wing manning for Oliver & had to be carried home.

The following weekend we went camping to the seaside.



The camp site was even better than I could have hoped for. I wanted to camp on the beach but settled for a camp site in a seaside town thinking we could just pop out to the beach once we'd set up, but no...what I got was this:



We were literally right by the beach. It was beautiful.
I never really thanked these guys for getting me through the past few weeks & I don't know if they'll read this but I'd really have fallen apart without them, I owe them big time.
Gushgushgush.

xo

London

Lovely day of sushi, shopping and more sushi!
After coming home exhausted, I had a shower and something to eat & decided to try the Daria dvds.

I don't think I can quite explain how happy I was when my little tv started playing Splendora and the Daria logo appeared.

I hadn't really realised until Oska (mockingly) pointed it out, but I do actually believe that Daria holds the key to handling every situation life presents me with. He doesn't agree. He clearly just hasn't seen enough episodes yet. Paha.
xo

Incase anyone has been wondering what I've been upto...

I've been working a lot, getting drunk just as much, consuming too much caffeine and not sleeping enough.

So much has happened the past few months but I can barely remember it all. Summer's gone so fast! At least I can dig out my jumper collection now it's getting cold :)

xo

Just got some photos developed. These are from last month when Elliot and his friend Johnson, (who live in Cambridge) rang me at 11pm asking what my address was because they were in Kent and coming to see me.

We drove around looking for somewhere to spend the evening and ended up on the Isle of Sheppey of all places.

After driving through the eerie circus town in Leysdown and past lots of gypsy caravans thinking we might actually have stumbled into a horror film, we found a really lovely grassy bank overlooking the beach and sat talking and drinking till the sun came up.

(there's a few more blurry out of focus photos here)
x