Blogging

I want to blog something, anything, honest.

I really really do but it appears that seven weeks in the library until at least midnight drains all of your personality. All you have left is blemished skin due to lack of sleep and stale air. Oh and the anxiety that your still not doing well enough and there's always more left to do.

I am however lucky enough to have a companion for such times. Now, some time away from library world and the absence of my companion.

Lets see if I have some time to find some words and some images and give this blog some life again.

My fringe needs cutting.

Tin't in Tin

Apparently "it isn't in the tin" said with a Yorkshire Accent i.e "Tin't in Tin", is the most Yorkshire sounding thing to say. Its almost completely indecipherable.

I am writing about tins because if they look old and worn with a different design then I love them. I think they're quire a popular thing to collect but I don't care they look good and they are cheap, not to mention the fact that its recycling! Little rusty in parts all different colours and shapes. They please my eyes. They add a decorative, yet useful (and tidy if you keep things in them!) alternative to the usual generic bits and pieces from Ikea.

Me and the boy bought 4 last week at a second hand market in Huddersfield (every Tuesday), they will find a home in an abode we share when we finish uni but providing the stress of the uni workload doesn't kill us they are living on his shelf.

I cant wait to have my own house again but I will need a shop for the overflow of things I buy for it.

 

So this is December

 With it now being December I think its now OK to start thinking about Christmas- thinking not decorating I might add.

Perhaps I sound a tad like scrooge already? It is very likely. I start off every December being quite excited that it is nearly Christmas and look forward to having some time off and eating some brilliant food and drinking copious amounts of wine. I then remember that I am a student and work at Topshop part time which just means that i will be stupidly busy throughout the whole Christmas holidays.

The stress of Christmas eve, desperate to finish work and get away from frenzied last minute shoppers, not risking being hungover on boxing day (or will get trampled in the stampede of sales shoppers) limits Xmas day champagne time and I cant even comment on NYE yet... The first one I will spend not working in two years will most likely be depressingly spent in an old mans pub or a working men's club.

Oh and the dissertation to finish of course.

Rant over. Lets get excited for the next two weeks before the rush begins and I really do turn into ghost of Christmas grumpiness. By this time next year I'll have graduated (hopefully!) and will get a proper Christmas break, roll on Christmas 2011!

To prove I am getting in the mood I will share the best Christmas song of my knowledge (as verified by  the boy playlist maker extraordinaire..) enjoy

Beauty in Decay

It was my fathers, A.K.A Papa Bear, birthday this month and although I have sent his gift horribly late I think i have managed to get him something he will really like.

I first saw some pictures from the book 'Beauty of Decay' in the Times magazine one Sunday a few months ago. The pictures are stunning and the subject matter of decaying and eroding abandoned buildings quite elegant in the eerie light they are shot in. The idea of Urban Exploration (off limits buildings and spaces which are abandoned in urban areas used for creative projects)  appeals due to my obsession with anything old looking and I also love the idea of abandoned spaces being used for something, even if it is just for art and photography.

Some photo's reminded me of being in Berlin, creatives using abandoned spaces for their studios and workshops, its an amazing way of using wasted buildings, something we should use as inspiration.

I bought the book 'Beauty of Decay' for Papa Bear because he had been taking his camera around the country with him on his business trips and taking photos of how we don't look after our country, its a similar theme. I hope he likes it although I cant imagine him wanting to get into urbex himself! My favourite of an old cinema is below, its gorgeous.

Image below from http://www.beauty-of-decay.com/ - Book available on Amazon & Waterstones.

Sunday

It must have been months since i have not been in work on a Sunday so this week, due to the flu I am experiencing what a Sunday is like when your not stood on a shop floor wondering why people even wanted to leave their homes and come shopping.

Luckily I am feeling much better so I decided to cheer my mood by baking, it really is my favourite thing. Banana and cinnamon muffins, I made up a vanilla and ginger syrup frosting which tastes pretty good!

Unexpected Find

This is the beautiful typewriter that I happened upon in my grandparents garage. They didnt understand why I would want it.

It still works too I made some very cool gift labels on it, its fun to play with, me and the boy were very enthused with it, we fought over it like children.

I love it, I cant wait to have a house and a table to display it on!

Upstyling

My new favourite website, not only because it feeds my starving need for Vintage clothes but because there are some brilliant links to some of the Upstyler teams blogs.

I have been going on the website for over a month now and the mix of vintage, high street and designer clothes displayed are a wonderfully eclectic mix of garments which are parse 'on trend' but lend themselves very well to a person wanting a less cloned more interesting/individual/creative look.

Very good indeed, I will be pursuing Upstyler for some time to come I think, plus the beautiful people there sent me a free paper magazine, and who doesnt love free reading material.....ok I like the images.

www.upsyler.co.uk