You’re everything that I hoped for, that’s why I gave you my all

I came to write about something exciting, but first I am going to vent about the crappy day I am currently having (the exciting bit does come, I promise).
Today began with wiggly anxious feet, which is never the way a lady wishes to arise from her slumber. With too much unsolicited adrenaline my extremities tingle and I need to release this, so feet wiggling like I’m in Footloose is my usual go-to. Checking the time on my phone I realise I still have an hour before my alarm insists I get up. So I attempt to go back to sleep but I am met with the anxious thoughts that accompany my eighties dance movie choreography. Great. Then I receive a text from my sister to inform me that Dolly (the dog) has been sick a lot in the garden. Yippee. By this point it’s clear that I am not going back to sleep. I drag myself out of bed, eyes still mostly asleep whilst I get dressed to walk the dog and face the day. As I head downstairs I am met with an odor of vomit and two huge piles of sick. One of them is a revolting tangle of green slimy grass. Oh joy. As I go towards the back of the house to let the dog in to the garden, what do I see? Oh yes, that would be another 3 piles (this time its the raw chicken from last nights dinner), slick and putrid. Excellent. Then there is more in the garden and more in the living room I discover. Poor dog, clearly shes unwell but also, gross. It’s not even half nine in the morning yet. After spending a fair while doing my best Cinderella before she meets the prince impression, I walk the dog; who spends most of her time eating more grass…
My shopping is due to be delivered between ten and twelve today, so I await its arrival and get on with a multitude of boring house chores. However, the shopping still hasn’t arrived half an hour after the time-slot has ended. Weird. After logging into my account it would appear that I didn’t finish the transaction yesterday so our shopping won’t be coming today. And I haven’t even mentioned my strange enchanted hand that keeps going a little numb every now and then. I get to climb into a dark hole and never come out again now, right?!
Okay, I get that worse things happen at sea and certainly worse things have happened in my life, but today’s morning has felt relentlessly bleak. Roll on tomorrow evening and being with the boy I am incredibly fond of in a place that helps me breathe a little easier (when I’m not feeling anxious anyway *monkey covering eyes emoji*).

Now, onto much better news. On Tuesday the seventeenth of May, this blog hit twenty thousand overall views! I am so excited about this. I never thought I would actually keep up blogging, and I certainly never thought many if any people would want to read it. But I did and you did and now I’ve hit a huge milestone for someone who has just written a whole passage about dog vomit.
Thank you to everyone who reads my blog regularly or if you are entirely new and you’re helping me on my way to thirty thousand. I appreciate every view, every comment and every share I receive. You are all lovely people and I am so pleased that anyone would want to read my work.
I thought that I would link you my Facebook page, so should you wish to keep up to date and notified when a new post is published you can do so. Or, if you are a fellow WordPress user, feel free to hit ‘Follow’.
Here are some of my favourite pieces I have published on here, in case you missed them:

• Hold your head high, heavy heart (- Dear teenagers, it gets better or at least different).
• I have the dance moves of a mustache and the singing voice that sounds like a beard on the inside of my cheeks (- for all that love those with a beard and those that have careless whiskers to tame).
• And I am finally seeing that I was the one worth leaving (- Inspired by Frank Turner and moving on from something that never quite fit).
• You hid there last time, you know we’re gonna find you (-My tale of always being the fat girl and how some builders harassed me).
• But I am a ghost, just haunting myself (- An exercise in dissipating writers block, melancholic whimsy at its best).
• I’m ready to hope, swing me out of the low; wide awake in the glow, can’t do it alone (- Sadness and hope combined in melancholia. My canary sings no more).
• And I kissed him back like and arsonist with a pocket full of matches (-romanticised romance).

Once again, thank you.

In the corner of your room, you’ve stockpiled millions of my memories

I have started the very long process of sorting out my bedroom this week. I say started because frankly it has been far too hot since Monday to carry on, that with my relentless battle against procrastination (/internet shopping) means I haven’t quite finished yet. But I have organised the majority of my jewellery and main storage in my room, so I thought I would show you how I store most of my jewellery. (Click on the images to make them larger)

Before I took these photos I had a ridiculous amount of adornments, a lot I had forgotten about or they were broken and old. So, I took a bold leap and threw a lot away…it isn’t often that I get these urges to do away with trinkets in my possession (always erring on the side of borderline hoarder), but I was missing a lot of things I do like to wear because wading through it all was such a chore.

These bangles never leave my wrist, I’m not even sure I could get them off even if I wanted to. Unfortunately one of them broke and I haven’t had it fixed yet, but to briefly outline: the bottom 2 I got with the broken one for my twenty-first birthday from my parents. The twisted one was my grandmas, the big plain silver bangle I bought for myself with some birthday money I got this year. My lovely lovely skulls I bought with money my parents gave me for my twenty-third birthday. As I have mentioned before, wearing bangles is a tradition in my family.

In the first small perspex draw are my rings. Mostly I have silver rings with various crystals in them, a Butler and Wilson wing ring, a vintage mirror ring and a sparkly heart that I got one year for Christmas. In the box at the back is the most beautiful transparent pink acrylic unicorn ring from my friend Jasmin as a birthday present last year. The Brighton based company specialise in laser cut jewellery and I want one of everything! I am a complete fiend when it comes to rings, I just cannot stop buying them, I ran out of fingers a long time ago.
The second small draw is filled with various earrings and 3 nautical themed charm bracelets, one from primark, one from Lyme Regis and another as a gift for Christmas – I am  a complete sucker for anything nautical and anchor related (the photos came out really blurry though and then my camera died, so you’ll have to use your imagination I’m afraid).

On to the next two draws. The first one has my Sugar and Vice ‘Dia de los muertos’ and custom made ‘Magnificent’ necklaces. On top of the magnificent box is my silver chain with 3 tiny keys on that I got in the Isle of Wight a couple of years ago. A Lydia name necklace, pentagram pendant that I’ve had since I was 13 and my very favourite, often adored big rose necklace from New Look about 8 years ago.
The bottom draw stores my Primark chunky gold necklace, a leather rose ring, a spinning sparkly anchor from Camden, a little round clay pendant with a black bird with gold flowers on and a sparkly starfish ring. In the box at the back are the most fabulous cross earrings that are glass with a pink A/B finish that were my grandmas, a metal blue humming bird pendant and my beautiful multi crystal winged pendant. A tiny sparkly gold elephant, my adorable Tatty Devine blue anchor necklace from my friend Samantha for a birthday and a huge red heart from primark for a whole pound.

To the right of that is a pink plastic goblet that I got from Tiger and it holds all of the things I like to have out, but don’t wear as often. The felt tattoo style heart brooch was a birthday gift from my Mum’s friend. The tiny tile with a little sail boat on is just darling and a gift from my cousin and the L scrabble tile ring was a gift from my mum. There are also a few random rings and bobby pins scattered in there.

On the left of the perspex storage is the gorgeous Pandora’s box from my parents that I have stored all of the jewellery I can’t quite throw away but don’t really wear inside of. Here you can see a flower ring that when you twist the gem in the middle lights up, a pair of massive hoop earrings, a pink plastic anchor, two faux crystal rings, a large metal rose ring, a skeleton holding a diamond that you wear across 3 fingers and a multicoloured bead bracelet my sister made me.

On top are 2 velvet covered jewellery hands, The black one is holding my giant Butler and Wilson rose, a twenty-first birthday gift from my aunt and uncle. The pink hand is holding many bracelets as well as the four rings that are my go to day-to- day jewellery. At the bottom is a Turquoise with silver leaves ring from the Isle of Wight. On top of that is a Hematite thumb ring that also came from the Isle of Wight and my beloved Bloody Mary Metal stacking rings – the Lonely Bone and a personalised stacker that has ‘Heavy Heart’ stamped across it, taken from the lyrics: “Hold your head high heavy heart, and save your strength for the morning after” of ‘The Phrase That Pays’ by The Academy Is… Go and check out the BMM website though (closed until 25/7), because it is all bewitchingly enchanting and I cannot wait for the new Luna Tribe range to launch (more rings)!

On top of the perspex box is my dazzling Tatty Devine mirrored swallows necklace. Now I have to say I haven’t worn this a whole lot because the edges are super sharp, but now I have had a sort out I’ll remember to file down the edges a little so I can wear it more. It is far too pretty to sit inside a box all the time.

And that’s about it, I do have more in a hanging storage thing but that is mostly hair accessories with a few bracelets thrown in. I have a few more bedroom tour style blogs to come in the future, so I hope you liked this one. If you would like to see my already massive and ever growing hair accessories box just let me know.