Life passes you by

ENGLISH "SUMMERTIME"

We are approaching the end of July and this is the first blog post I have written this year. I think it's safe to say that a lot has happened in just over seven months. But then again, some things have also barely changed...like the fact I am still crap at this blogging malarkey. My blog is reaching its third birthday in two days and I can't believe how much blogging has changed in that time. I think the days of people taking pictures of their outfits in their bedrooms and just writing about whatever popped into their heads are long gone. But I don't want them to be. I'm just not ready to be prancing around in a public place taking photos of myself that look like they should belong in a magazine. Nor can I afford to buy a £70 (maybe a slight exaggeration, but you get my point)  moisturiser that is sending the blogosphere into a frenzy. I hope this doesn't come across as me trying to bash what people enjoy posting about, as I do enjoy reading them, I'm just trying to explain that I miss how simple it used to be. I don't know, blogging just feels like its more about followers now and if you don't have above a certain number, you're not even worth looking at. The longer I didn't post, the more I felt out of the loop and the harder I found it to get my posts up to the high standards that most blogs at up to at the moment. I don't want to quit blogging as I do love it, I just need to get myself reacquainted with the ropes. So I'm going to take it back to basics and start with an apology and a summary: 

To anyone who still reads this tumbleweed of a blog, thank you for sticking around, and I'm very sorry for the ridiculous lack of posts this past year. However, in that time I have:

• Donated blood for the first time
• Failed my driving test
• Passed my driving test
• Applied to universities and got offers from 4/5
• Rejected all my offers from said universities
• Seen Passenger, Ben Howard and Kodaline live
• Discovered I suck at A-levels
• Finished Year 13
• Celebrated my 18th birthday 
• Went on my first holiday without my parents (DISNEYLAND, FYI)

Hopefully you should see a lot more posts being generated from this little space on the internet, so if want to hang around for that I would really appreciate it. Thank you again for putting up with me and the rambling mess this post has turned into. I hope you all have a lovely week.

I'm still here...sort of

Hello lovelies, remember me? Probably not. It's been a while hasn't it? *cough* only about three months *cough* I can only apologize, which is all I seem to do on here anymore. Truthfully, I just haven't really been in the blogging mood for the last couple of months, which I think has been pretty evident from the lack of posts. I have tried, don't get me wrong, but I wasn't happy with what I was creating, resulting in a build up of drafts which will probably never see the light of day. Not only that but the more time that passed, the more I felt out of the blogging loop and the harder it was to get back into it. Has anyone else felt a bit like this lately?

I think a good place to start would be with what I've been up to the last few months: I started year 13 in September (my last year ever at school...what is going on?), I've seen London Grammar and Passenger live and I've sent off my UCAS application and received two conditional offers so far! I also attended The Hunger Games triple bill so watched the midnight showing of Mockingjay, which was amazing. How has your week been?

I want to try and post more so I will try my best but I am not making any promises, so watch this space and we will see what happens. Hope you all have a fab week!

Bits & Bobs

 

Hello lovelies, hope you're all doing well. There is not really a set topic for this post today; it's all a bit random, but random is good every so often, right? This month I've really been into scrap-booking. I've always collected bits and bobs such as tickets, wristbands etc so instead of them all gathering dust in a box, I decided to make use of my them and my book from paperchase and arrange everything neatly so I can just flick through for a trip down memory lane.

I've also started to plot indoor plants around my room but I've killed about five flowering plants- I don't even know how I do it. I guess I've finally found my special talent;D As a last resort I decided to pick up a cactus. If this dies, then there really is no hope for me, but so far so good. Are any of you serial plant killers too?

I just wanted to say

Image from tumblr

Hello lovelies, hope you're all doing well. I just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas for tomorrow! I hope you have a lovely day filled with lots of presents and food;D Enjoy yourself and stay safe! Stacey xx

Lately...

Hello lovelies, hope you're all doing well. Somehow we're already in the middle of September which means colder days, darker nights and time to go back to school. I'm still kind of struggling to get back into a routine after two months away but hopefully I'll get back into the swing of things soon enough and stop feeling so tired. Is anyone else feeling this way at the moment? So lately I've been...

Loving; Soap and Glory's hand food...IT SMELLS SO GOOD
Reading: History, Biology and Psychology textbooks -_-
Listening to: The Lumineers and Nina Nesbitt
Watching: Crabstickz's animal impressions
Painting my nails with: Barry M's "Prickly Pear"
Looking forward to; lazy Sundays in my PJs
Drinking; TEA and lots of it

What have you been .... lately?

My summer summary

HARRY POTTER STUDIO TOUR / BUTTERBEER / LONDON / TENERIFE / LORO PARQUE / I WENT TO A MEDIEVAL NIGHT / SUNRISE ON THE PLANE / GCSE RESULTS / RESULTS PRESENT- BLUE

Hello lovelies, hope you're all doing well. It's the last day of August tomorrow which means that summer is drawing to a close. I hope you've all had a lovely summer. I'm kind of sad to see it go as I've had a good couple of months, which I will summarise in pictures above, however, I can't help but feel excited for Autumn & Winter. How about you? Please let me know if you want to see my harry potter & holiday photos.

A soppy moment | Blog's first birthday

Hello lovelies, hope you're all doing well. As you can probably tell from the title and the pretty picture, my blog is celebrating it's first birthday. (Well belated birthday-26th July) A whole year of blogging, wow. I know for some people, a year is nothing but I feel really proud in what I've managed to achieve in that small space of time. There are 515+ of you from bloglovin' and GFC alone, who have hopefully actually enjoyed reading my ramblings and stuck around, which I think is crazy, considering that is more people than in my school year, so I guess I owe you all a massive thank you:) *huge cyberhug* I really do appreciate every single one of you and as cheesy as it sounds, your lovely comments and emails actually do brighten my day and make me smile like a cheshire cat, so thank you all so much.

With my sentimental cliched but true piece over, I'll move on to some more boring blog bits and pieces; I recently made a facebook page for this blog so if you have a spare thirty seconds, please could you check it out and like talk pretty here? I'm also looking for some more people to do an ad swap with, so if you're interested, email me (talkpretty@hotmail.co.uk). Lastly, I'm thinking of changing the appearance of my blog or just "jazzing it up" a little bit, so if things start to look a bit funny, you know why.

Once again, thank you all so much and I look forward to the future of talk-pretty.com

*Original image from weheartit, I edited it & added text

Hello lovelies, hope you're all doing well. It feels odd to actually sit down and write a proper post as I haven't done one in so long but I have some exciting news to share with you lovely lot: I'M COMING BACK TO BLOGGING, WOO. Now some of you might be like "you never even left" which is true; I never officially said "I'm not going to blog any more" however, in the last six months I've only posted four times,which was due to a number of issues: I had no laptop from which to blog (which made things just a tad difficult;D), school and all my exams and a serious case of writer's block.

However, for my birthday, my parent's bought me a new laptop which eliminates problem number one. Also on my birthday, I had my last exam (woo!) so now I have 10 weeks off school, which means a lot of extra time for blogging, so here I am. I already have a couple of posts lined up for you, including a DIY and a haul,  but if you have anything you want to see, tell me in the comments and I'll try my hardest to get that up for you:) I look forward to getting this blog up and running again.

Motivational Mondays

Image from Pinterest 

Hello lovelies, hope you're all doing well. It looks like it's that time of the week again: MONDAY IS UPON US. However, never fear, motivational Monday posts are here.

This week's quote is "A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not why ships are built". Now grab your swimming goggles and flippers, we're going to read deeper into this...

Many of us, including myself, like to stay in our comfort zones with our routines, friends, social activities and whatnot. Whilst there is nothing wrong with that, sometimes  it's good to push yourself and see what comes of it. Like the ship, we can stay doing what we already do and play it safe but if we never leave our "harbour" we will never discover or experience anything new or exciting and where's the fun in that?;D

I'm going off on a tangent now but there's another quote that says something like "you should do something that scares you everyday" and I think these two quotes go really  well together. Basically, step out of your comfort zone every now and then and see what happens. (Unless it's something like jumping out of an aeroplane without a parachute because you will most probably die and that's not good;D).

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A little update: Here I go again, apologizing again for my awful blogging skills as I've only posted three times this year *cue tutting* however, I am really sorry, can you forgive me? Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you to you lovely lot, for sticking around and saying such nice things in the comments, it really has made me smile. I'm still laptop-less so I can't promise regular posting yet (boo!), but now that I'm a working 'gal, I should hopefully be able to buy myself one soon.

In other news, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY IN TWO WEEKS TODAY! I'm not excited or anything... I've also left school now, well until sixth form in September, which means I'm currently on "study leave" *cough someone please make me study, I'm going to fail cough* yay. Anyway I need to revise for my math's exam tomorrow or else I really am going to fail so thank you for reading all my ramblings and I hope to speak to you all soon!

I wanna scream until the words dry out

^Not relevant at all but Barney enjoying the snow 

Hello lovelies, hope you're all doing well. Once again I seem to be starting off with an apology but I think it's only fair since I haven't posted for well over a month *slaps wrist* but for once, I actually have a valid reason...my dell laptop has completely died on me so I've lost everything (Photoshop, pictures, music, the lot ): ). So I hope you guys understand why I haven't updated and stuff but I'm going to try and blog more from my mum's laptop. Can you recommend some good laptops? I need to start saving for a new one.

 The last month or so has been exciting as I've found out that my last day of compulsory schooling is the 24th of May (A month before my birthday;D), which is actually not that far away and then I'm free...well, not quite as my GCSE exams start on the 13th of May but shh. I've also chosen my A-level options for Sixth form; History, Psychology, English Literature and Chemistry which I'm really looking forward to because I get to drop P.E and Maths sixth form just seems so much better, however, please feel free to share the reality below;D 

Happy New Year!

From weheartit.com

 

Hello lovelies, hope you're all doing well. Just a quick post at 12:30 in the morning, (as you do) to wish you all a happy new year! I really hope you had a good Christmas and a good 2012 in general and that you'll all have an even better 2013. I can't wait to see what this year brings! What are your new year resolutions?

Dry your eyes mate

 

Hello lovelies, hope you're all doing well. Firstly, sorry for being a bit AWOL as of late but I was on holiday for a week, then I had to go back to school (oh the joys)  & now I should be revising for my mock exams but I'm being bone idle instead. Woah, watch out, we've got a badass over here;D  But in all seriousness, school has taken away my social life once again, not that I had one to begin with, so please bear with me. 

Also, I've jumped on the twitter bandwagon, even though I don't have a clue what I'm doing, so if you lovely chappies wouldn't mind following me here, it would be much appreciated. 

Sorry this wasn't a very interesting post but I do have some more posts coming soon, and well done if you managed to keep your eyes open during this post.

P.S please let me know if you'd be interested in seeing my holiday photos?

If you could see me now

Hello lovelies, hope you're all doing well. First and foremost; I recently reached 100 followers, which is crazy and I'm eternally grateful, so I just wanted to say thank you all so much for following, commenting and reading my blog, I can't honestly explain how strange it is and to think that over 100 people enjoy reading my ramblings, so basically I love you all, you're amazing and have great taste in blogs;) Hope you like the photos.

Life can show no mercy, it can tear your soul apart

Hey lovelies, hope you're all doing well. I just wanted to say a big thank you and hello to all my new followers, it was such a nice thing to come back to so thanks once again. I have a question for you all, would you mind if I started to do an odd post here and there about "my views on..." so for example, underage drinking, old people driving? Just silly little things like that? I would do it as a read more post so those of you who aren't interested don't have to read it. Please tell me if you would enjoy them or not and any suggestions on things I could talk about?

This is sort of a pointless post as I have no real news to share with you, apart from I went back to school today woo..so I will put up a decent post and reply to comments on the weekend so until then please enjoy the picture of my cat, Alfie.

What's the complication, it's only conversation

Barney surrounded by wool which he pulled all around the house:L...

Hey lovelies, hope you're all doing well. A bit of a random post today but I just wanted to say well done to everyone who got their GCSE results today, hope you got the results you wanted! I only did History and Science this year and I predicted myself a  B in History and a C in science but I got 100% in History (A*) and an A in science:DDD I'm so so happy and I hope you're pleased with your results too.

She's like cold coffee in the morning

Hello lovelies, hope you're all doing well. Just thought I'd post a little update on how my summer is going... I think the photo says it all. So far, we've had rain with a hint of more rain, so I've been sat inside reading and watching films. On that note, any film or book recommendations would be much appreciated. How is your summer going so far? I'm hoping better then mine:L