Two good deliveries and some other good things!

Hey, so I have quite a lot to mention!
Um...Sunday was brilliant in terms of church meetings! Morning gathering was great of course and my dad spoke which wz cool. Then in the evening we had a meeting focusing on teaching on the holy spirit and of course involved lots of crazy dancing and singing singing singing which was awesome. Just love praising ^_^ It's so awesome

We had a bbq for lunch as the weathers been so good this week (it was our 3rd meal using the bbq this week i think!!) and discussed some weddingy things with my sister and her man (my brother and me are going to be performing a few songs at some point during the wedding so we discussed those and stuffff). Then eventually my sister and her fiance left us, so it's just the four of us now (we also had another couple staying with us this weekend - uni friends of my parents who performed at the summer garden party).

Yesterday I had a fairly productive day doing cleaning and also cleared out and re-organised some drawers and re-discovered some make-up and beauty products I'd forgotten about and stuff so that's cool. :) Tried out a new purply pink look on my eyes today. (It's cool coz I've chucked out a load of things but actually feels more like I've got a load of new stuff coz have re-discovered stuff and it's more accessible now!).

Yesterday I also got a delivery I was very happy about :) I'm a 'The Body Shop At Home' Consultant - which basically means I put on parties in people's homes where they can try out different products and stuff! - and I was expecting a delivery on friday from a party I did on monday, but I was out when they delivered so missed it :-/ (This was soooo frustrating at the time). But anyway, it's come now so that's brill. And I was especially glad as I'd ordered a mascara for myself, which was the Super Volume mascara which I needed a top up of, and Neroli Jasmin body mist (I love this scent! A really good friend of mine gave it to me around the time I went to uni and it completely reminds me of that exciting time in my life!). And also because now I have the new catalogues for July to September yey. So has been fun to look through that.

There is a new 'Soft Hands Kind Heart' hand cream which raises money for ECPAT (Visit www.ecpat.org.uk for more info on this charity and ways to support it) which aims to help protect children and young people from human trafficking. During this year I saw a piece by 'The Paper Birds' called 'In a Thousand Pieces' which was about sex trafficking and the experiences of one particular woman. It was so impacting and showed just how horrific this is. It is so great that the bodyshop is selling this product that helps raise money for a charity that is aiming to protect children and young people from this

Today I received another delivery which was a new CD made by my worship leader at the church I am a part of when am away studying. Which I was really excited to hear and am listening to for the first time properly now! So far so good :) She has such an awesome gift.

Today also I went for lunch at a garden centre with two lovely ladies who both mean a lot to me. So that was ace, had a good chat and got treated to lunch which was nice as I'm a poor student!;)

x

P.S. - The pic is from a TBSAH party I did whilst at uni.
Sorry this blog is so long!

HPCC

Yesterday there was a fundraising summer garden party for pregnancy charity HPCC (visit www.hpcc.org.uk for more info on this brilliant charity and how it can help you or someone you know who is pregnant). It was an evening of classical music and was a really good evening. the only thing that spoiled it a bit for me was my bad hay fever!:-( But overall a good evening with some brilliant music. There were also stalls selling strawberries and cream, plants, cards etc, and one selling jewelry, from which I bout some turquoise heart shaped earrings which I am very pleased with. :-)

Sweet Defiance

Today I had a trip to the dentist - sorry, make that the DREADED dentist. I'm not a fan. Sorry if you're a dentist. Nothing against dentists specifically but rather the whole 'dental experience'....*shudder*. I once put my hand in the way of one of the dentists numbing injections...yeh. Annoying thing is it doesn't hurt when it goes into your hand - only when it goes into your gum! eesh. Anyway; so, before I went I had to go into town to pick up a few bits and pieces, so I went via this pick and mix stall which is ace, has lots of good sweets and good price - I used to work there actually hehe - and got a big yummy bag of pick and mix, and told myself it would be treat after surviving the dentist. My sort of defiance against them. I know, I know that makes absolutely NO sense - like, firstly they wouldn't even know, and secondly what do I want -just to have to go back there sooner?? Despite this logic, it gives me a sneaky sense of satisfaction anyway lol.

Well I survived the dentist anyway.

On a much better note; I have an amazing friend with her own business which is a sort of weekend club teaching drama and speech to kids and young people. I've been along once before during this holiday and I went along again tonight to get some experience learning from someone who's had experience teaching drama, and it was really fun and a really enjoyable few hours :) It was funny because we did some improvising of general fun scenes and it feels like ages since I've done that - just properly played around drama wise coz it is so fun. Felt out of practice really! I really enjoy my course at uni and I know it is preparing me for the sort of work in the industry and so on but sometimes it's so good just to play and remember why you love it in the first place! It's like me and my friend were saying this eve - actors are just kids who loved let's pretend but as they grew up couldn't let go of the games! hehe. Well that's what it should be ;) (so many acting people i know would not be impressed with what I'm saying lol but i think you've gotta keep perspective). So yeh, and was nice to have a natter with my friend on the way back ^_^ To be honest, before I set off I was feeling a little bit fed up and I prayed that the evening would really cheer me up and it totally did. :) Praise God.

Then, this evening, my older sister and her fiance arrived as they are staying for the weekend. :-) My sister is getting married this summer and my younger sister and I are being bridesmaids - along with a friend of hers. And - drum roll please! -this evening we got to try on the dresses!Which was really nice. I'm very excited for the wedding!

Exhibition

This evening I went to my younger sister's final college photography and fashion textiles exhibition which was really cool. Good to see so many people's hard work come together, and those little pieces of paper saying 'Next destination...' and what they're going on to. Kind of exciting.

My sister is at the college I studied at too so it brought back memories to walk back through those doors. I remember when it used to feel so familiar and now it's so distant to me. College was such an ace time I really enjoyed it so much and it's wierd how long ago it seems. At college I studied Performing Arts and English and had some brilliant times with friends there.

At the exhibition we looked at work by the fashion (textiles) students, photography and fine art students. I was very proud of little sister as her work is ace ^_^ My bedroom happens to feature in her photography and I feature in her textiles (a picture of me and her when we were little) which is also cool ;)

All the exhibitions were just so full of images -so many different images, some original, some not, and all those images bombarded at you, and yet we're so used to it these days that they just go into your head so easily. And every single image has influence on you. for instance there were lots of pictures of food and so I started thinking about eating and what I wanted to eat at that moment (namely the things in the pictures) and of course there are far more powerful images around us than that of just food. And they go into our head so easily and influence our thoughts!

On the other hand, we're so used to images that it takes something really major, really different or affecting to us in a certain way for it to stand out to us. And different things will stand out to different people... some images i think we think stand out at the moment we see them, but then we forget them. Others truly impact us and stay with us for the rest of our lives. I know there are certain images for me that just seemed to jump out at me and stick in my head - images I saw when I was really young that have stuck in my mind. Often pictures of real things or moments that impact you are the ones that stand out. Would be cool to know if people agree or what images have impacted you?

Also whilst I was there I bumped into an old friend which was cool :) On the way back I briefly went by the house of a really good friend of mine who is going away to central america for a month on a volunteering trip - which is really cool, but am gonna miss her. (Also went to get chips...wonder if that was the influence of the food pictures lol...)

x

BTW- this particular image is of my sister in the make-up she wore for her fashion show at college last year :)

well, i'm thinking...why not?

hey, so i thought a while ago about maybe doing a blog or something but then i never really did anything about it and whenever i thought of it again i thought hmm not sure what to write though...but now, just recently my friend started a blog and so i got a profile sorta thing on here so as to be able to comment on her blog as she does it as i find it interesting to read. I really am new to this so i dont know how likely it is that anyone other than myself will be looking at this page or what but i just thought hey why not give it a go seen as i've got a profile!

...so what to say for now? ... well maybe a few basics about myself to put what i write in a bit of context i guess... I'm from the north of england (yey!) but am currently studying Acting (yes, the course really is just called that) at uni in the midlands, and I've just finished my second year of that. At Uni I live with 5 other girls which is brill and we've been together for two years now and are living together again next year :) And when I'm at home I'm with my mum, dad and little sister. I also have an older sister and brother who now live in the midlands. I'm a born again Christian I believe that Jesus died for our sins and rose again which is totally amazing and this means we can have a relationship with God which is so so totally brilliant. So that is a huge part of my life as it's sortof my whole reason for being really!:D

So yeh, I reckon that'll do for now as I'll be talking bout stuff so don't need to say much...

If you are the one person who's stumbled across this blog anways lol I hope you are well and happy and aren't wishing back the last minute of your life you spent reading this ;p
Laters x