Sponsoring Sailboat

I am now sponsoring Sailboat, one of my all time favourite blogs. I am very happy to be sponsoring Sailboat at the same time as giving my blog a little bit of publicity. Sailboat really is one of the few blogs that I always check up on on a daily basis, and Jennie the blogger is so so lovely. It is blogs like Sailboat that inspire me and keep me blogging. Please check it out....and you will see my little advert alongside a link to another one of my favourite blogs Influence, which I also strongly advise you have a look at.

Leaving the nest

I'm a bit behind with this post since I have already moved! But before I post some photos of our new flat in Edinburgh I thought I would share a few of the sad photos I took of my old room all packed up before I left! It really was so sad to see the room that I had lived in for so many years all packed up in boxes and seeing all the walls empty! It was like seeing my life all packed up into some boxes and bags.

I thought that I was going to get some sort of leaving the nest syndrome. This is the first time I have ever lived away from home and the whole moving out thing was very new to me. To be honest I have been in the flat for seven days now and so far I'm loving it. I have had the odd moment when I do really really miss home and I especially miss my family and the countryside. I think it will take a while to adjust to the noise of traffic all through the night here since at home it was literally silent outside from about 10pm! And as hard as it is to believe I definitely am missing all the harmless bickering that goes on between me and my mum and sisters at home, it's very quiet here in comparison! Moving day was pretty sad too, seeing my mum, dad and sisters help me up the three flights of stairs with all of my stuff, hang around for a while and then eventually leave...without me. Leaving me here to start a new chapter of my life....'country girl adapts to new life in the city'.

The view from my bedroom window back home.

My DVD collection.

Empty wardrobe.

Empty walls.

My gorgeous friends

Amy, Me and Rachie.

I have loved spending some much deserved time with the girls this summer. We don't see each other that much during term time at uni and so it has been great to catch up and have some lovely girly times during our holidays. Especially since I have now moved to Edinburgh it was great to have some nice catch up time before I moved up here. I'm so glad that we have maintained such a great friendship since school, we have all made lots of friends at uni, however I love that when we are all 'home' we can get together and we'll get on just as well as we did when we were at school. We are all working and so, even now, we don't have much time to see each other but we have managed to fit in some fun times like cinema trips and nights out. I am also very excited for future events like my flat warming party in a couple of weeks and our Edinburgh festival day out to see Sarah Millican! I can't wait.

Just a wee shout out to 'the girls'; Rachie, Amy, Rebecca, Rhona and Sophie! Glad to have such lovely friends! 

(I wasn't at all of these events, stole a few photos from Facebook. 
Just wanted to have a photo of everyone. They all look so lovely!)

Belated birthday present for myself

 

My 21st birthday was four months ago, however my Grandma and Grandpa and my other Grandma had both given me some money for my birthday which I had put away into savings until I decided what I might like to buy. I definitely needed a new digital camera since my old one (a very cheap one from Tesco) had come to the end of its life! 

So after lots and lots of deliberation, two trips to Jessops, notes in the back of my diary of possible cameras, a lot of time looking at photography blogs and review websites, and one last trip to Jessops in which I took more than an hour of the assistants time trying to decide which one to buy (I know, I am so very very indecisive!)....I finally bought this Olympus VR-320. I am very happy with my decision and I'm sure you will see lots of photos on here that I have taken with it...including lots of photos of my new flat in Edinburgh! (Just moved on Monday and I love it!)

Blog Features

 My blog is soon getting a much needed re-vamp. I have been so so busy recently, I have been working lots and lots and as I have mentioned before I am spending a lot of my time travelling! I have also been spending most of the free time I have at home packing up my room for moving out next week! I was also on holiday for a week so haven't actually been on my laptop much at all recently. I am SUCH a useless blogger though , I really really am!! But I do, as always, aim to keep up with my blog and I have been meaning to give it a big re-vamp, change of name, change of layout etc for a long time now. Hopefully I will get that done very soon.


The story of my life: 

I have decided that I am going to try and make some weekly or monthly features on my blog, hopefully encouraging me to keep up with posting on here. In the past I had a feature called 'Sunday Songs' which I kept up with for only a month or so, creating a playlist at the end of each week to show you all what I had been listening to that week and what new songs I had discovered. I would like to keep a monthly feature about introducing my readers to new music since I myself love hearing of new musicians and bands.

I am thinking of having a feature like 'Musician/Band of the month' where I will showcase either a band or musician that I really like or ones that are new to me that month. I am also thinking of doing a monthly post along the lines of 'Trend of the month'. The idea for this is that I will write about a certain trend that I am liking at that specific time. It is likely that this feature will mostly be about fashion trends however the idea is that the trend could be anything from fashion to food, interior trends or blogs that I like.

I would also love to make a feature showing images that have caught my eye. I could spend hours browsing through image websites like We Heart It and Tumblr blogs and I always stumble across so many lovely images that I would like to share on my blog.

I am also hoping to start a feature about film soundtracks since there are so many songs that I love simply because they are featured in some of my favourite films. There are so many amazing film soundtracks and I would like to share some of my favourite ones with my readers.

 Hopefully I will start some of these features very soon. I promise I will be a better blogger one day!