Tag # || 8 Photos of Happiness Tag

I was nominated by Izzy Knight to do the 8 photos of happiness tag.  This is one of my favourite tags as I love photos but it will probably be the hardest because I love taking photos and I have many that make me happy!  It was actually created by a girl named Ariel so go check her blog out!

Let's get cracking then...

The Rules

1.  Thank the nominator/s and link them in the post

2. Link the creator, Ariel //  http://arielward.blogspot.co.uk/

3. Post 8 photos of happiness (the photos can be anything that represents a moment, object, place or feeling that makes you happy.)

4. Pop in a brief description of the photo, why you chose it, or let the photos do the talking!

5. Spread the happiness and tag up to ten other bloggers

DisneyLand Paris 2014.  Who doesn't love Disney?  This photo I took in October 2014 when we visited (for the second time) and it brings a lot of happiness.  I love Disney and when I went last year it was one of my best holidays I have had! My family and I got along all the time (I mean we had a few arguments about rides etc but we soon stopped as it was funny and ironic how someone was grumpy in Disneyland!).  I met Mickey Mouse, went one my favourite ride when I last went before when I was 6 and I got to go on rides I didn't get to go on last time.

Japan 2015.  This is one of my favourite photos I took of a view in Japan.  I went to Japan with my Grandma for 3 weeks this summer and I had the best time of my life ever!  It really made to think and understand more.  I have always loved travelling but going beyond Europe for the first time and getting to go to my most wanted country to visit (since I was 11) made me realise, maybe I should do something with travelling as part of my job.  Not only that, seeing some of my relatives there I don't get to see often topped it off!!  Looking at this photo brings back so many memories of the holiday and so gives me loads of happiness.

This is a photo of Wembley Stadium on 7th June 2014.  The day I saw 1D with two of my closest friends of that time in London!  It was one of my best days of my life, the atmosphere was amazing and I forgot about everything other than the present moment.  

Well, what do we have here hey?  It's myself with the one and only Alfie Deyes aka PointlessBlog!  This was taken November 2014 when Izzy and I got to meet him at his book signing.  That night was meant to be a not so great night for me but when I found out Izzy bought me these tickets it just turned into one of my favourite nights.

Not only does this photo makes me smile, it also brings back memories from that holiday and many others.  Even though I took this photo this year in April and I was studying for my exams in May, it gives me happy memoires of being on holiday with my family from that holiday and all the other years we've been doing it.  The beach is one of my favourites as it isn't sworming with tourists and the sunset set just tops it off.

CHRISTMAS! I bloodly love Christmas and this is why I have a photo of a Christmas Tree as part of my 8 photos of happiness.  It reminds me of family, fireplaces, candles, love, music, winter and all the things I love into one time of the year.

So this was the day Izzy and I met Lady Gaga....nah, only joking.  Izzy and I went down to London with her sister (Vicky) and her sister's friend (Hannah) and Izzy's mum to go to Madame Tussuades! And here is Izzy and I posing next to the wax figure of Lady Gaga using our hands to a phone! Oh lord...!  That day was an amazing day and it was over 2 years ago now, which is so weird to think about!

February 2014.  For my 16th Birthday Mum and Dad took me and my brother down to Harry Potter Studios and it was just amazing! Not only did I get to see the behind the scenes stuff and ride a broomstick, I also got to drink butter beer! 

So those were my 8 photos of happiness and here are the people I tag for them to do next:

Emma Parsons - http://toastoclock.blogspot.co.uk/

Peace - http://www.waitwhatok.blogspot.co.uk/

Thanks again for the nomination Izzy, love going through my photos but picking just 8 was hard!  Hope you enjoyed it :)

Georgie
xx

Lifestyle || Healthy Breakfasts

So I think I decided, with the help of some of you guys, to not create a new blog for my healthy eating and exercise posts because then it would just be easier for you all to read it rather than having a separate blog for it, making it all confusing. 

So I am going to start off this section of my blog with breakfast. Why? Because not only is the most improtant meal of the day because you have just been fasting whilst sleeping, it is also my favourite meal of the day!  I have many delicious yet healthy recipes/ideas that I eat throughout the week to start my day, so lets get cracking...

Healthy Pancakes

This is my favourite one!  I tend to have this on a Saturday morning because I tend to do a lot of exercise on a Saturday and these pancakes will fuel it.  Sometimes I go for a run then eat the pancakes or eat the pancakes before any exercise.  These pancakes only have 3 ingredients in; 1 banana, 2 eggs and 30g of oats.  That will make around 3-4 fairly large American style pancakes.  (I now use half of that as they are filling!) I am pretty sure you may have seen these recipes floating around the internet, but if you haven't tried them yet, do yourself a favour and make them!  Sometimes I add cinnamon or almond flakes into the mixture to give it something extra but change and adapt the recipe to your preference.

here I topped the pancakes off with a few frozen raspberries :)

Weetabix/Spelt Flakes with Banana

This is my 'go-to breakfast'.  If there is nothing in the house or I am feeling lazy or don't have much time to prepare or cook breakfast I have either a weetabix or some spelt flakes with chopped banana and some skimmed milk as it will fuel me for a fair amount of the day.

Spelt Flakes by Rude Health with chopped banana and
skimmed milk

Weetabix with apple (big change up from the usual
there Georgie!)

Nice Cream

OMG this is seriously amazing!  I have no idea why I haven't seen this recipe around before because not only does it have the same texture and consistency of an ice-cream but it tastes delicious and is quick to make.  All you need is a frozen banana and some fruit.  You could use nutella or coffee instead if you wanted.  I tend to go for raspberries, strawberries or mixed forest fruits.  This can also be used for a snack or a desert.  All you need to do is whiz it up in a food processor. If you added frozen fruits rather than fresh fruit to the frozen banana you may need to add some milk or water to get the fruit to bind together .

Strawberry banana ice cream topped with almond flakes 

 I have some other ideas for breakfast but these are my top 3 at the moment and if you want more or an autumn/winter version then I will probably be able to do one.  I hope this hasn't been too boring for you haha :)

Hope you are all enjoying your summer and getting the most out of it! I will start posting more regularly now I am back from Japan and have settled back into my usual life at home.

Georgie
xx

p.s Izzy I will get round to doing the post you tag me in, sorry for the delay :) 

July Favourites

So, I haven't posted in over 3 weeks and it's nearly mid August and I'm only just posting my July Favourites?? Well, I have been on holiday and only came back on the evening of the 10th.  I went to Japan (OMG!!!!) with my Grandma for 3 weeks and I didn't have any time to write or post any blogs.  So I have only just got round to finalising and posting it now...

MUSIC

She's Kinda Hot // 5SOS
If you have read my blog before hand, then you will know that I love 5SOS. And if you haven't heard or know that they released their new single at the end of July, then where the hell have you been?  I have got to say IT IS AMAZING! I have had it playing on repeat for the rest of July and till now really! Ashton's solo is just brilliant.

Les Mis
I love musicals and Les Miserables is one of the top ones and every now and then I get a craving of wanting to listen to the songs and it just so happens that July was that 'now and then' month.  My favourite songs has been At the End of the Day and Lovely Ladies.  Seriously love the songs from Les Mis.

 1985 // Bowling For Soup 
Now, I have listened to some of Bowling for Soup's songs since I about 10 (7 years ago) and now I started listening to them again and 1985 has been one that has stuck in my head for days and I have found myself listening to over and over again! Definitely give it a listen, it's very catchy.

TV SHOWS

America Horror Story
OMG!! I have finished the first three seasons and they were amazing.  The first season was my favourite by far.  Tate and Violet's relationship is just adorable (if that's the correct word...).  I just want Netflix to put season 4 on now and season 5 will be out soon which I cannot wait for!

Pretty Little Liars

WOW! I've now seen the summer finale and know who A is! But because this is my July Favourites I have to exclude the last couple of episodes.  PLL has always been one of my favourite shows since I started watching it in 2013 but it has seriously just gotten better! 

RANDOM

Cycling
Cycling is one of my favourite sports, no it is my favourite sport.  I have started cycling again, this time with one of my friends who also loves it.  We went out on a bike ride twice in July and one time we made a day out of it and had a cute picnic by the side of a canal.

Iced Latte
In the warmer months in England, I don't tend to drink loads of hot drinks but I still love my coffee.  So I tried making my own iced coffee by making an espresso coffee shot with boiling water and adding cold water and milk and finally adding some ice too cool it down even more.  Was definitely my favourite drink of July.

Sorry, it's been quite a short favourites, I didn't really wear make-up in July all that much so I didn't really have a favourite and I wasn't all that adventurous with my fashion either...

Anyway, I'm going distract myself by watching some Netflix for the rest of the night as I have my AS Level results tomorrow morning and I'm not feeling all that confident!

Georgie
xx

Life Update || New Blog?

So if you know me then you would know that I love healthy foods, trying to stay fit and baking/cooking.  So for the longest of times now I have been thinking of either having a separate blog on food, fitness and recipes or different sections of my blog on them.

 At the moment, I am thinking of creating a new blog where I post all of those types of posts but have it linked within my main blog.  The reason I have decided to do a fitness, health and recipe blog is because that is what I am interested in.  I love knowing what I am eating, I love baking and cooking and recently I have came to love sports and fitness more.  

Therefore I naturally thought of maybe going down the nutritionist route for my career but I chose the wrong A Levels to do so.  So either I take a gap year and do a science access course or go back down the media or psychology route and do this as a 'hobby' or interest.  That is why I am starting this blog up.  I know it won't be everyone's cup of tea but I have so many recipes I want to share and I suppose that is the creative side to me; I love experimenting with food and making my own recipes.

However, I don't think I will start it up until mid August due to not having enough time to blog for the rest of July and the start of August.  But I will definitely get everything sorted to have it started soon.

Let me know what you think in the comments, maybe leave some suggestions of names for the blog because I am still messing around with some ideas.

Hope everyone is enjoying there summer, whether you are still at work or on your holidays:)

Georgie
xx

A Levels || A Year Done

So I finished my first year of A Levels.  What can I say? It was tough. Very tough. When people say it is a massive step from GCSE I thought I built myself up for it being hard but geez, I was no where near the emotional or physical stage to start in September 2014.

The whole point of these posts on A Levels is not to soften them for year 11's or 10's thinking about doing A Levels and give advice, tips and antics about what I went through.  They are meant to be something that I would have liked to read when I was a couple of years younger.  I am not saying my experience will be everyone's experience, it will differ from person to person, subject to subject and from each sixth form or college.

I can say though, it was probably the fastest year of my education that has ever been.  It feels like last month I was nervous about starting my A Levels at the SAME school as I did my GCSE's {so I don't know why I was so nervous!} but that was nearly one year ago!

The year came with some amazing friends that I made who I will hopefully stay in touch with for the rest of my life.  It taught me to be stronger, emotionally, mentally and physically.  I have gained confidence, not massive's but a little more, and realised what my strengths are.

btw I do have other friends than Izzy but I don't know whether
they would want their face on my blog...

A Levels are hard.  But I have picked up many ideas of what could come next, but it also gave me more control of what I could make of my life next.  Yes, this year has probably been my most stressful and emotionally draining but I have also had a brilliant time with friends and the more freedom we have as year 12's.

In Year 12 people start learning to drive, I started learning in March {wow that's weird to type!} so we all start to get that little bit more independent than when we were in Year 11 at GCSE.  It's completely different to being in secondary education, only having to study four subjects of your choice is another bonus, make sure you choose the subjects you want to do, not what would look 'good' or what your friends are doing etc.

Overall, I think this year was my worst yet favourite educational year of my life.  It was my worst because of the stress, emotional drain, the pressure, the no social life and feeling guilty for doing anything but revision, homework or extra research.  But it was my favourite because of the brilliant memories I made, new friends I found, learning about subjects I actually like and the free periods I got!  So do not be put off A Levels if you are wanting and willing to do them and put the effort in.  It will be worth it. 

Hope you all enjoyed this post and gave you a slight insight of my first A Level year.  Any questions comment them below & I'll try my best to answer them! 

I hope you all had a good day and your summer holidays {if you have them} are amazing and make sure you relax.

Georgie

xx

Some of my Favourite Photos I Have Taken #1

So, I'm not photographer, I have had zero lessons in taking a good quality photo nor have I done a GCSE in it or an A Level, though I wish I had.  But I am just a teenage girl who loves, seriously loves, to take photos.  I use a Canon SX600 HS for my best quality photos and then my iPhone 5C for the others.  I am trying to use my Canon a bit more as the majority of my photos are taken on my iPhone.

I thought I would share with you some of my favourite photos I have taken this year so far. {I might put some of 2014 in too}  I thought it would be slightly different to normal and a lot more aesthetically pleasing rather than just words on my blog, as much as I love writing.

I think it would by nice to be able to look back at this post and see my favourite photos of 2015/14 as well in a couple of years time.  So anyway, lets get cracking and search through my thousands of photos I have taken...

iPhone 5C // South Port Pier
End of September 2014

iPhone 5C // Sun setting in South Port
End of September 2014

iPhone 5C // Safari Park
August 2014

iPhone 5C // Safari Park
August 2014

iPhone 5C // Ruby
Sometime when I was meant to be revising 2015

iPhone 5C // Solar Eclipse {I was late that's why it isn't that good}
20.03.15

iPhone 5C // View from Conwy Castle
22.03.15

iPhone 5C // Sunset view from Conway Castle
22.03.15

iPhone 5C // Conwy
22.03.15

iPhone 5C // Mini Waterfalls
24.05.15

iPhone 5C // Seaton
04.04.15

iPhone 5C // Beach Walk from Downderry to Seaton
05.04.15

iPhone 5C // Easter Beach
04.04.15

iPhone 5C // Beach {again!}
05.04.15

iPhone 5C // Stairs from garden to beach
05.04.15

iPhone 5C // View from holiday bedroom
04.05.15

iPhone 5C // Easter Sunday walk
05.04.15

iPhone 5C // Evening beach walk to the pub
06.04.15

iPhone 5C // If you couldn't tell I love photographing beaches
06.05.15

iPone 5C
06.05.15

iPhone 5C // Mum's birthday cliff walk
07.04.15

iPhone 5C
07.04.15

iPhone 5C // Polperro
07.04.15

iPhone 5C // Sun setting in the pub car park
07.04.15

iPhone 5C // Beach once again
09.04.15

Canon SX600 HS // my road one spring night

iPhone 5C // Indiana Jones style bridge {at least that's what we
called it!}
28.05.15

iPhone 5C // Llamas in Wales!
28.05.15

iPhone 5C // Milly on her journey to her new home
11.06.15

Canon SX600 HS // Muke guitaring at my 5SOS concert
05.06.15

Canon SX600 HS // Ash drumming at my 5SOS concert
05.06.15

Canon SX600 HS // Dougie at my McBusted concert
28.03.15

Canon SX600 HS // McBusted
28.03.5

Canon SX600 HS // James and the Ballerina Hippos at The Vamps concert
08.04.15

I hope you guys liked this post, a little different to normal but it's a bit more of an insight of what I love doing as well as blogging!

Hope you all had a good weekend and next week will be even better.  Only 4 more days for me (3 and a half if you're being picky) till I break up for summer!!!

Georgie
xx

The Blog Tour Award

I was kindly nominated by Izzy to do the blog tour award so you should definitely check her blogs out, you will be glad I linked it!

The award rules:

1. Pass the tour to at least four other bloggers
2. Give your nominees the rules and specify the Monday in which they should post their nomination answer
3. Answer the four questions about your creative process, which allows other bloggers and visitors to understand what inspires you to do what you do
4. Compose this one-time post on a specific Monday (date TBC by your nomination)

My Answers

1. How does your work differ from other in your genre?

Well, my blog is about me so there isn't really going to be a blog exactly like mine, but I wouldn't even know what genre I fit into?  Is there a personal genre because I tend to write about things that happened to me, tag and things I love.  To be honest, anything could pop up onto my blog because I don't limit myself to just being beauty or fashion etc.

2. How does your writing/creative process work?

I tend to have loads of ideas for posts come to me all at once so I write it down in a notebook or on my notes on my phone.  I tend put them into drafts, and believe me I have many drafts, some still from last year...But when I have an idea that I love I keep going back to and adding to it and editing, taking photos for the post and reading through the preview to check everything makes sense until I am happy to upload it. 

3. Why do you write and create what you do?

I write and create what I do because that is what I love or like writing about.  I wouldn't just write about something for the sake of it.  A lot of my posts to do with what I got up to in a day or weekend are to remind me that I had a great time that day and I can read it and look at the photos in a couple of years time.

4. What are you working on at the moment?

I am working on adding an extra blog to my blog, if that makes sense? No, not a beauty side blog but a food and fitness one because I have a passion for it and I have been wanting to write about nutrition and exercising for so long now and share with you some of my recipes and favourite healthy things to eat.  It probably doesn't appeal to some of you or interest you but I love it and I think I would love to write about it:)

The four nominations

Emma Parsons - http://toastoclock.blogspot.co.uk/
Peace - http://www.waitwhatok.blogspot.co.uk/
Cara Dixon - http://carasblog612.blogspot.co.uk/
Chole Cook - http://ccmybaby.blogspot.co.uk/

The Monday which the award post should be 13th July but if that's too soon, then you can upload it on the 20th.  I hope you enjoyed this post, thanks again to the beautiful Izzy for nominating me.

Hope everyone's Monday wasn't too bad and you all have a good week.  I'm off to watch some America Horror Story now:)

Georgie
xx