Playlist of the week

Perhaps I don’t have the most unique taste in music, however these are songs that really relate to me at the moment and I will definitely be listening to on the plane on Thursday-

Teenage Dirtbag- You know them moments when you just want to rebel and be the person who doesn’t care, no, maybe it’s just me then, but this song is just perfect for them. It’s the kind of song that makes you want to  jump on your bed to and play air guitar, which from experience can be slightly embarrassing when a parent walks in.

Teen Idle- Marina and the Diamonds- I have a serious girl crush on Marina and I’m not afraid to admit it. She’s like perff. Her porcelain skin, dolly like features and feathery eyelashes  are just wow. Anyway onto the actual song I sort of have the same feelings about it as the previous one, the theme of confusion surrounding adolescence and discovering who you are, and regretting things you didn’t do or say just seems so relevant.

Can’t Hold Us- Macklemore- This song makes me actually smile, when it comes on the radio a huge grin spreads across my face, it’s just such a happy song. That’s all I really have to say about it. that and Macklemore is pretty hot. Pfft.

Let her Go- Passenger- This is such an honest and relate-able song about how we don’t acknowledge what we have until we no longer have it. Lately I have started to appreciate things a lot more as after a couple of  big arguments I realised that we aren’t here forever and neither are the people that we love so we should show how much we love the, through how we treat them.  I went through a stage where I was so argumentative and always assumed that people were having a go at me when they were trying to advise me because they care about me,but I didn’t see it that way, I saw them as patronising. But now I have concluded that even if someone is mad at me, the situation won’t get better from me being a bitch back, it just escalates, and backs up what they initially thought about me. And as cringe-worthy as it sounds this was the song that made me realise it.Lets all just be nice to each other, and make each other friendship bracelets and eat ice cream together. So you get my point. That was deep, man.

Here Comes The Sun- The Beatles- Well its the Beatles, what else can I say? But no seriously, it just made me feel excited for summer and my holiday in a few days in Spain , a place where the sun actually exists. And the guitar sounds a bit like the ones that them mad Spanish men play in the street so its like practically Spanish revision, or so I told my mum.

Breathing Space

Today has been pretty much a perfect day. Not one spent running bare foot through fields of daisy’s or snorkelling in the Caribbean Sea or anything dreamlike like that. Instead I just had a lazy day. Actually it started last night when I came back from work at half sixish and got into my lovely snuggly pyjamas. I painted my nails, did a bit of internet shopping, then lay in bed watching Shrek and Love Actually until 2 in the morning. All of this was done on my own. I’m not some loner who talks to herself and has a total of 0 friends (unless imaginary ones count) but sometimes I do enjoy being by myself  Recently my life has been like 100mph with work, blogging, school, ballet and trying to maintain a social life piling up on top of me, so it was nice to just clear my head. Today I have just lazed around eating, reading and not thinking about anything serious. So here are some pictures…

50 Random Facts about Me

Having realised that my blog is now 5 months old (happy birthday), I thought it would be about time to tell you a little about myself, as I haven’t really had the opportunity to do that yet. So let’s get cracking-

1.My full name is Rebecca Louise Stott, but no one calls me that, except elderly neighbours.

2.I am 14 years old and my birthday is the 21st of March.

3. I am 5ft 7″ and have never worn heels.

4. I have a pet dog called Pepe, and have had several goldfish, none of which had names. And I rarely fed them. Ooops.

5. I don’t keep a diary, but I recently found one from when I was in Year 2. It was filled with ‘Mummy is stupid’, ‘Mummy is a poo’ and ‘Emily kept following me today, I think she is a witch’.

6. I find You Tube quite boring and don’t understand how people spend hours on it.

7. As I am writing this I am drinking Orange and Mango squash.

8. One day I would like to move to New York or California or anywhere away from England.

9. My favourite subjects at school are English and Drama.

10. I am not a fussy eater but I cannot eat Marmite or avocado or tuna. Ew.

11. I love reading. I cannot pick my favourite book, I have read literally hundreds.

12. My favourite places are beaches.

13. I am terrified of animals that have really long tails like rats and mice.

14. My favourite food is Japanese.

15. I am a currently working at grade 6 ballet and have been doing ballet since I was 11.

16. My favourite smells are shoe polish and dish washer tablets.

17. My go to perfume is Daisy by Marc Jacobs.

18. I dream of world where everyone is nice to everyone and there are no wars.

19. My biggest fear is dying.

20. I absolutely love children, I only have one brother but plenty of younger cousins to play with.

21. One of the best days of my life was the day I went snorkelling in St Thomas in the Caribbean.

22. I don’t really like the drink hot chocolate, I only order it to eat the cream on top.

23. For me the best mornings are when I wake up and the sun is shining in through the window.

24. When we were younger me and my brother used to sit on the chair swing and pretend that we were in a space rocket.

25. My favourite chocolate is Toblerone and Smarties.

26. I love going to the cinema and getting loads of food, but always end up eating it before the film starts.

27. In February I went skiing for the first time ever, with my school in Austria and loved it so much I’m going back next year.

28. Every night before I go to sleep I think of something I did that day to make myself proud.

29. I enjoy trying new skin care and beauty products.

30. Sometimes I feel like a fail of a blogger.

31. I really love making smoothies and my favourite mix is Berries, Banana and Vanilla Yoghurt.

32. I have never dyed my hair, as I can’t think of any colour that I would like to change it to.

33. I have been to 5 concerts- Ne-Yo twice, Tinie Tempah, One Direction, Justin Bieber and in September I will be seeing Macklemore.

34. I enjoy my own company sometimes and quite enjoy shopping on my own.

35. My favourite magazines are Company, Grazia and InStyle.

36. I had braces for 9 months and got them off in October.

37. I don’t have a favourite colour.

38. I have no idea what I would like to do when I’m older, except the idea that it would involve fashion.

39. I love roller coasters.

40. My favourite times tables are the 3′s but I don’t know the other ones that well.

41. One of my fears is climbing up ladders.

42. I find the idea of having a bath to clean yourself gross, but I do like to have one to relax.

43. My favourite TV programme was Pretty Little Liars, but it doesn’t seem to be on anymore.

44. I constantly worry that people don’t like me.

45. I have Marilyn Monroe wall paper in my bedroom.

46. This Christmas I am going on a California road trip with my family.

47. I support Liverpool football club.

48. In Summer I love plaving rounders in PE.

49. My fingers are aching.

50. I originally was going to do 100 facts but am too tired.

Thanks for listening (or reading) to me ramble on about myself and I would love to know anything we have in common or facts about you too

Here comes the sun…

As I rolled out of bed at 8 am on Saturday morning to get ready for work, still exhausted from the One Direction concert the night before, I was greeted my something very unusual. Not the smell of bacon butties drifting in from the kitchen, that would be especially unusual but instead rays on sunshine beaming through the gaps in my curtains setting a yellowy tinge across my room. The Sun had made an appearance just as I was beginning to forget what it looked like . So I took the opportunity to dress up in summery clothes and appreciate the sunshine. I don’t think I have mentioned it yet but I have been working in my local beauty salon for tips to fund raise for my trip to Soweto in October, something that I am planning on doing a blog post about very soon, which is where I was on Saturday morning. When I got back at 12 I then spent the afternoon lazing around in the garden, reading magazines and playing cards, then later it was of to a friends house for a BBQ. As I was feeling quite artistic I took some photos that I thought I would share with you . Enjoy

My Outfit- The jeans, t-shirt and shoes are all from last year so to save money I mixed them with new accessories as a cheap update.

T-Shirt- Zara, Jeans- Hollister, Necklace- Freedom at Topshop, Shoes- Topshop, Sunglasses- Primark

Reliving my childhood on the swing-

We made daisy perfume which smelt slightly like cat wee…

Essentials for sunbathing in the garden-

Now I’m just waiting in anticipation for the Suns next appearance  which is hopefully soon , purely for tanning reasons

I drew a picture

Lately I have been feeling a bit insignificant, sorry about the depressing start, and also really apolegetic like I have to say sorry for everything- perfect example a line up. I’ve also felt a bit rubbish as I haven’t been blogging regularly due to holidays and general laziness and guilty to the people actually reading my blog as I feel like I’m letting you down.

So in my unpositive, or negative if you want to be grammatically correct, state of mind I drew a picture of myself at the bottom of a ladder, which I felt I should label so that it didn’t look like a train track and to reassure you that I m not having suicidal thoughts, and a few successful bloggers that I could think of at the top. I’m still not really sure what exactly the ladder represents I just know that compared to the ones at the top I’m nowhere near. However when I thought about this more I realised that I am not the only at the bottom of the ladder trying to climb up it. There are hundreds of people in the same position as me, trying to get noticed in this crazy community. Surely I’m not the only person feeling out of the ‘clique’ like the new kid. So I drew on more stick people just like me.

 

And this got me thinking, by should we feel like this? We can start our own little group and if we support each other we can climb up this ladder. Why should we feel like we have to mither other bloggers that are well known to get us noticed, when the majority of the time we are ignored?

So here is my plan, if you have a blog and feeling the same way as me or want to get it noticed, message me, comment or tweet me and we can all help each other to get our blogs noticed. What d’ya think ???

Becky xxxx

Macklemore- Same Love

So this is my first post regarding music, which is quite exciting. I’m going through a stage where mainstream music irritates me, and I no longer want to just download the UK Top 40 each week. For me music is an intimate and personal experience, so the idea that practically everyone I know is listening to the same song as me takes away the specialness of it. However; trying to find new artists is easier said than done and just because I am exploring different artists , I am not trying to be ‘hipster’ or want to listen to folk music. Although I enjoy most genres, I love rap, but its hard to find rappers that do not try to follow in the footsteps of Wiz Kalifa and sing about there ‘bitchez’.

When I heard Thrift Shop by Macklemore on Radio 1 I immediately liked it, mostly because of its catchy tune and lyrics, however it just seemed to be another one of those songs. You know, its everyone’s ringtone for a few weeks, and blasted from the back of the bus, forgotten when the next big thing plays for the first time. But one day, whilst exploring You Tube , I found myself typing Macklemore into the search bar. Ignoring the first hit, Thriftshop, I scrolled down finding a song called Same Love. Expecting nothing much I clicked onto it, weighing it up against my maths homework it seemed a better option. Listening to the lyrics though was intriguing  Not one mention of cars, bling or bitches, instead he was talking about something that mattered, some thing important and current, often a controversial subject-gay rights. I thought it would be a good idea to post the lyrics here also as when you read them you can really appreciate the effort that has gone into this song and actual meaning.

When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay
‘Cause I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight
I told my mom tears rushing down my face
She’s like “Ben you’ve loved girls since before pre-k tripping, “
Yeah, I guess she had a point, didn’t she?
Bunch of stereotypes all in my head.
I remember doing the math like, “Yeah, I’m good at little league”
A preconceived idea of what it all meant
For those that liked the same sex
Had the characteristics
The right wing conservatives think it’s a decision
And you can be cured with some treatment and religion
Man-made rewiring of a predisposition
Playing God, aw nah here we go
America the brave still fears what we don’t know
And God loves all his children, is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five-hundred years ago
I don’t know

And I can’t change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
I can’t change
Even if I try
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm

If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
“Man, that’s gay” gets dropped on the daily
We become so numb to what we’re saying
A culture founded from oppression
Yet we don’t have acceptance for ‘em
Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board
A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it
Gay is synonymous with the lesser
It’s the same hate that’s caused wars from religion
Gender to skin color, the complexion of your pigment
The same fight that led people to walk outs and sit ins
It’s human rights for everybody, there is no difference!
Live on and be yourself
When I was at church they taught me something else
If you preach hate at the service those words aren’t anointed
That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned
When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen
I might not be the same, but that’s not important
No freedom till we’re equal, damn right I support it

(I don’t know)

And I can’t change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm

We press play, don’t press pause
Progress, march on
With the veil over our eyes
We turn our back on the cause
Till the day that my uncles can be united by law
When kids are walking ’round the hallway plagued by pain in their heart
A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are
And a certificate on paper isn’t gonna solve it all
But it’s a damn good place to start
No law is gonna change us
We have to change us
Whatever God you believe in
We come from the same one
Strip away the fear
Underneath it’s all the same love
About time that we raised up

And I can’t change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
I can’t change
Even if I try
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
Love is patient
Love is kind
Love is patient
Love is kind
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
Love is kind

One of my favourite lines in this song is ‘But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five-hundred years ago’ referring to the bible. I had been thinking about this a lot at the moment, and how much of an impact the bible has on peoples believes. I am a Christian, although I do not go to church but some things that the Bible states I do not always agree with. Gay rights is a prime example of this, and I think that is important to remember that although a lot of the morals that the Bible teaches are true, it was written a long, long time ago, and the world has developed since. Sometimes I think that people use religion as a shield as they cannot accept that others have different views to them. Whilst I am not trying to suggest that all Christians are wrong, and am in no way trying to cause offence, this is just my humble opinion.

I would love to know your views on this and whether or not you agree with me, thanks for reading

 

Vogue,Paper,Scissors

The cool kidz seem to making collages and ‘mood boards’ so I thought I would be a sheep and follow the herd. That’s a lie actually, I have been making collages for ages but this is the first one(or two) that haven’t been shoved in my sock drawer dismissively  They are for inspirational purposes. Basically I had a creative brain wave and decided to cut up my latest copies of Vogue and Company to use as inspiration for my Spring/Summer outfits. So these now hang proudly in my wardrobe to give me some inspiration (bloody hell I need to stop using that word!)  in the morning, that is when I am not wearing my dull school uniform…

This first collage is made up of many bright pictures as I cannot wait to get colour blocking once again- oh how I despise jumpers now!

And the second is a look I’m will be attempting as soon as the sun makes an appearance- tribal, ethical patterns and prints in earthy tones.

Just add sunshine

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