Penpal pandemonium

It feels like (and probably has been) forever since I last posted. Ooops. I do have a valid reason though - I was on holiday for two weeks and when I came back discovered that my computer had logged me out of my blog...and that I hadn't actually written down my password. After many frustrated attempts, I managed to get back in. I was actually incredibly relieved, which made me realise that I've become slightly attached to this blog, even though I haven't posted half as much as I wanted to this summer.
I start my new sixth form tomorrow and haven't been nervous in the slightest until I woke up this morning and actually started to think about the fact that is it tomorrow. But then I do tend to think too much and then I just end up worrying, so I decided to distract myself by getting up to date on here.
The holiday was wonderful, jut what I needed - a few weeks away from reality to do lots of reading in the sun, eating nice food and smiling. I also got my GCSE results ( which thankfully went very well, as I could have put a slight dampener on the holiday if I'd failed something) and also changed one of my A-Level choices from Drama to History. (I'm really hoping that was the right thing to do.)

 

 

Only have a few photos from the holiday. In the top photo, with my mum, I'm wearing a dress from Primark, that I managed to scavenge just a few days before we left, for FIVE POUNDS! I wore it all the time as it was so comfy and has a gorgeous vintage pattern.

The bottom one is on results day, we ate out at a restaurant called 'La Bodeguita' and it was so lovely. When we booked the table they asked if it was an occasion so I explained about results. When we arrived they had put a big sign up saying 'Felicidades' and little flowers scattered the table. I had a gorgeous pizza with pesto and cherry tomatoes and afterwards, they brought out this pudding for me (for free!). It was a wonderful night that I'll certainly remember - it just felt very special!

I really couldn't sleep last night and so was looking through Instagram

 (which is a bad thing to do when you can't sleep because it just makes you think about everything and anything and then you still can't sleep) and ended up looking through all of 'The Love Parcel's page - you HAVE to check it out (http://instagram.com/theloveparcel) or visit her website(http://theloveparcel.storenvy.com/). It is just to die for. I swoon looking at the photo's - I really can't put in to words what they make me think of so I am just going to list the words that come into my head (this is just proving how lacking my English / creative writing skills are!)

 

- romantics

-autumn

-lace

-nature

-love

-chunky knits

-rainy days

-polaroid's

-vintage-ness

-wonderful poetry

 

 

 

   

Basically, it's exactly what I wish my blog would look like! I just want to own every single thing that is sold (but it's my birthday soon so fingers crossed!). It made me think that that could be something I could do in the future: start up a little crafty business-type-thing to earn some money doing something that I love. Seems ideal! I can just imagine sitting by the fire on rainy days, creating beautiful little parcels and letters to send to strangers all around the world...then again I would hate it if I got sick of doing it because I had to...I'll think about it. I have way too much on now, but it really is something I would consider, maybe at uni to earn a bit (probably would be a very tiny weeny bit!) of money whilst keeping creative? (I literally have to have a creative outlet at all times or I actually get really grumpy.)

It also made me think about writing letters - which I love to do and often write to my grandparents, but that's it, as no one seems to send them anymore! So I was wondering if anyone would be interested in doing a penpal kind of thing? I figured here would be the perfect place to ask as anyone reading this probably has similar interests to me. I find the idea so wonderful - little messages travelling around the world, making peoples day a little brighter knowing that someone, somewhere has spent their time putting pen to paper for them. You could pop little pressies in the letter too, maybe something that you don't really want to keep - they do say 'one mans trash is another mans treasure' and I (obviously!) believe that is so true! Imagine coming home from an awful day at school and finding a beautiful handwritten letter, just for you, filled with little interesting thoughts, jokes maybe, song lyrics to share, and some little presents. It's a way of sharing what you think about and things you love.

I guess you can find out about each other, write about little thoughts that pop in to your head, but the great thing is, things that you find really dull about your life, other people will actually find really interesting, as it may be so very different to their lives or it not then it's interesting to talk about similar experiences.. It's a bit like blogging, I guess, but in letters and more personal! So, after all that, if anyone is at all interested please comment or get in touch! :)

 

 Wim x

(All credit for photos goes to The Love Parcel)