Feeling Stylish

Ben went away at the weekend and I decided to quell my separation anxiety by inviting over my best friend in the world from Worcester. We had a brilliant four days which involved dressing up, a lot of giggling, some picture taking, doll groping and wibbling.

I’ve honestly had the most amazing four days and this jolt back into the reality that is work has been quite frightening (I blame getting to bed at 3:30am for the last few nights.)

We decided to take my hound for a walk, in Bacton woods. It was sunny, dry and beautiful. The dog, as always decided it would be appropriate to wade through every muddy puddle. She also seemed a little bemused that Lucie and I were stopping every five minutes to take photos of one another pulling strange faces and acting out scenes which the other would narrate.

I believe there were zombies, vampires and many a clue for Detective Holmes… Oh, and the TARDIS.

We spent our evenings watching Being Human, Flash Forward and Watchmen. While writing, ranting wiggling and snuggling.

Yesterday we headed out into the wood at Mousehold for some photography. Armed with dolls, clothes, tripod and remote we got some pretty fabulous pictures.

Fingerless gloves and denim shirt. Yes please.

Please note my vintage cowboy boots and Lucie’s steampunk shoes.

She gives me boob envy…

This jacket is Lucie’s but we swapped for a short time. It was in the sale in New Look. I picked it up to show her, she bought it. Wish I had. Damn.

This makes me appear as if I’m taller than my 6 foot 2 friend. I’m not. I just have long arms. I was in this picture but I cropped it because I felt I ruined it.

All in all a successful trip. Now I just need to work out how the hell I’m going to get through until Saturday feeling slightly ill and seriously tired.

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Firstly, these are images I saved ages ago and I can’t for the life of me remember where they are from. If these happen to be your pictures. Tell me and I will credit/take down. Sorry.

So, onto the inspiration.

I’m a really messy person so the more storage the better. Also, between us, Ben and I have huge amounts of books and notebooks. I also love the cute cuddly toys and boxes on some of the shelves. I think these particular shelves are from Ikea.

I love the dark walls, darker skirting boards – creates the illusion of space – and the red carpet. It looks all romantic and brooding. That red mirror is so striking. This would be a hall I’d be happy to walk into. You know what, I’d just love to have a hall. Our current, terraced, house is

I have this vision, in the house we will eventually own, for black and white interiors but with the odd colour accent. So, bright cushions, colourful picture frames and striking vases. I don’t know how Ben will feel about that because he’s all about the modernness. I also want loads of antiques…

Analog Nights Pillows by Aimee Wilder

These cushions are so cute. Ben’s tastes differ so much from my own. He hates cushions and I agree they don’t add comfort to a soft. However, they look pretty as hell. He might come around to these though, the retro geek in him may approve. Not that he’ll have much choice, if I want them I’ll buy them. The grey ones would go beautifully with a black/white scheme.

From Beware the Moon

You can’t beat anything piratey. I’d love one wall in the house, probably in the computer room, to be covered in this stuff. It’s dark, swashbuckling and shiny.

Once again onto storage. My bed side table is a small one drawer thing. The The one drawer is filled with papers, empty boxes, jewellery, coins and loads of other stuff. I just shove stuff in there to get rid of it. The top is then covered with important things such as pens, my phone, makeup, jewellery, pictures etc. A tall bedside cabinet, shelving system like the one above would solve all my problems. Plus it would match unlike our current bedside table set up.

Want, want, want. I need a colourful inspriing place to work. Our current layout in the computer room is cramped and dull. Ben and I have our computers on one large desk but a 22inch monitor and a 19inch monitor plus and printer and all my shit (makeup, jewellery etc – again) makes for a very cramped space. The reintroduction of a laptop into my life sort of means I don’t have to deal with it but I would like to clear our other desk (under the America map) to have a lamp and some space for the new laptop.

I do intend to stick lots of pretty things on the walls in the coming weeks. Maybe it’ll help my writers block.

Now, I’m thinking of writing a book, two books actually but I don’t really know where to start. I know this blog isn’t about writing and whatnot but I thought some of you may have a little insight as to where to start. I’ll go into my ideas in a little while but I’m currently reading a book called ‘The Wealthy Author’ it is actually pretty fabulous and has really helped me to see that with my marketing knowledge and good ideas I could really make some money. I’ve certainly got the drive to do so, the hard bit will be the writing bit.

I want to write a non-fiction book about marketing yourself when you are a band, not many bands know how to do this. Generally there are two types of people in the music industry, the musically minded and the business minded. Obviously this isn’t the case for everyone but certainly for the majority of industry people I’ve met. I’ve bought business books for the music industry and they’ve all be aimed at those working in the business side of the industry and not the bands themselves. With a gentle push in the right direction bands need not employ big companies to do their marketing for them until they start getting a huge fan base.

The second idea is a novel, actually I have two novel ideas. One I’m trying to map out into chapters (well, I did map it out into chapters before my laptop died) but I’m having trouble coming up with an ending. The other is a bit twisted and a bit dark, about a woman who goes into a man’s body. Pretty much a decadent tale of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll but written in a witty, ironic, literary way. I know how I want it to turn out and how it should sound I just need to write a plan for it and get it down on paper.

What is the best way for creating a good work space for myself? I can’t work at my computer currently because it is in a messy, hot room. I need to move it to elsewhere in the house (or get my laptop working) but I still think I’d procrastinate. When working from home I’m completely different to in the work place, I find there are so many distractions and I can’t get into the mindset of writing for myself. When I’m getting a wage at the end of it then I’m not too bad, so my freelance work doesn’t tend to suffer.

My work circumstances are changing again so I’m going from working full time to working ten hours for the same company which means I need a new full time / perm job, loads more freelance work or to make a mint from writing a book.

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I was in bed last night and I realised that my hip bones were pressing into the mattress, it was odd and because I’m not used to it, painful. However, HIPBONES! Although my weight hadn’t changed this morning a lot of people have said I looked thinner over the weekend, maybe that was because I’ve been ill…

My Grandma, who has always been quite blunt about weight issues told me not to eat the bread which my soup (soup being my main meal when we were out, may I add) or “you won’t keep that nice slim waist of yours.” Then later on my Uncle told me that I have a tiny waist. Very true, the new corset will only accentuate this and I will look bloody awesome. Like I said to my Mother earlier not being able to breathe in a new corset will cheer me up greatly!