Halloween 2016

Wassup creepers,

I decided that I actually wanted to do something for halloween this year so I hopped on a train from Canterbury to bae's flat in Sheffield to do spooky things. 

That's a lie I actually went home to Nottingham for a bit first, but that's not halloween related.

Here's what went down...

1. Got my nails did a halloweeny colour

2. Carved pumpkins

Note: The dragon/castle one is Tom's (bae) and mine is the monster extravaganza.

I think this is the first time I've ever carved a pumpkin!

(Sure my mum will correct me if I'm wrong) 

 It's actually easier than I thought it would be.. with a stencil. 

Although I did accidentally chop off one little fella's arm.

3. Decorated bae's flat

Apologies for the shite photo quality!

 It was dark and I can't afford a meal out never mind a fancy camera. 

If you can't tell we threw 'cob webs' around, put a banner up, got light up balloons and put little ghosties on the ceiling. 

We also gave Bonsai Bruce a little costume.

4. Went to one of those horror maze things

We went to Yorkshire Scare Grounds specifically.

Here's me and my beautiful bride.

Two of the actors called me out for being short and one scared the shit out of me in the queue because I was too mesmerised by an actor of even shorter stature than myself dressed up as a clown. 

5. Baked halloween cakes

Lol.

We guessed that measurements okay! 

There's one missing because Tom ate the black one.

The actual cake was pretty nice but the icing tasted as awful as it looks and had wayyyy to much butter in.

That is quite clearly a bat, spider and cobweb. I can hear you asking.

6. Made Tom watch The Nightmare Before Christmas, after convincing him it wasn't the same film as The Grinch...

And drank gin out of these cute cups.

7. Dressed up

For those interested:
Choker - New Look
Cheer Outfit - University of Kent
Lipstick - MAC Russian Red
(I patted highlighter over the top of the lipstick with my finger and did the same with a black eyeshadow in the corners).

(Bitch licked my hand) 

Tom's in his scrubs being a really scary doctor if you can't tell...

How did you spend your halloween? 
I want to steal your ideas for next year.

Also, wtf is the word 'spoopy' people are using? What was wrong with good ol' 'spooky'? 

Feel like I'm missing something here and asking this is going to make me look stupid or 'not with it'.

Happy Halloween!

x

Third Year University Room Tour

Hey Petals!

 I said I would write a third year room tour post 'soon' back in September 2015.. My bad. Fashionably late and that.

I'll be posting a fourth year one too (might be next year again), but a lot of the stuff will be the same.

Info on where I bought items is at the end of the post. 

I've left out the items that were gifts as I don't know where these were bought from.

Sheer material for window - Amazon 

Butterfly Ornament - B&M 

LOVE Ornament - B&M 

Tea lights - Amazon

Love heart fairy lights - Amazon

Storage boxes - B&M 

Hanging flower vine - Amazon

Photo frames - ASDA

White love heart hanging decoration - Amazon

Coasters - B&M 

Red incense - Poundland

Darks and lights washing basket - Argos

Bits and bobs storage box - B&M 

Elephant candle holder - Amazon

Clean linen incense - Aldi

Black storage drawers - ASDA

Bedside lamp - ASDA

Pearl fairy lights - B&M

Bed covers - Amazon

Blanket - ASDA

Raspberry Candle - The Range

Tray - B&M

xxx  

Emotional Evenings

I have always been a night owl. 

Waking up at 8am with a spring in my step is a thing I have never ever experienced, and I will not see 6am unless I have stayed up all evening to get there. 

Contrastingly, I can quite easily stay up until the early hours in the tranquility of the night (here I am writing this post at 1am). 

Nighttime is quiet, peaceful, lacks distractions and is all-in-all much more relaxing, calming and comforting. So you early birds might think I'm wasting my day sleeping in, but I know you're missing out on the world at rest.

Not only is the evening tranquil, but I find myself much more emotional and reflective. 

Have you ever noticed that you ponder about things that might have been or unresolved issues at nighttime?

Or that you have the most meaningful, deep and emotional conversations with others under darkness? Conversations that you wouldn't think about starting in the middle of the day..

I've wondered this on numerous occasions. 

Mainly when I've sent a risky message at 4am, when I wake up totally regretting my decision and absolutely dreading the reply because I don't even have the excuse of being a little tipsy. 

It seems that I'm not the only person to experience this and there's a whole load of theories of why we are more emotional at night, but here are just a couple:

• During the day, we are distracted by work, chores, people and suppress or hide our thoughts and emotions. Whereas, at night we are alone in the quiet and can focus solely on ourselves; nothing and nobody is around to disturb our thoughts or judge us and ask questions, so there is no need to hide anything. 
• Being tired and more relaxed can actually enhance our creativity and emotionality. When you're tired, your brain (specifically the frontal cortex) is less efficient at controlling and filtering out distractions. So, when we are tired we are more likely to let our thoughts run wild and be less rational. We can create various scenarios in our minds at these times which could aid creative work or just keep us awake at night overthinking everything. Thus, heightened emotions are actually associated with fatigue/tiredness rather than the nighttime - it's just that we are more likely to be tired at this time.

We now seem to create lives in where we focus on being physically and socially healthy, yet we forget to keep our mental and emotional health in check. Make time to talk to yourself, as crazy as that sounds. Chill out or let your mind run wild - whatever it needs to do.

xxx