The Rainyday Playlist!

I often just sit and listen to music while I stare out of the window on a rainy day and as it's as wet as an afternoon with Pingu... here I am in my leggings and hooded sweatshirt. Looking as sexual as usual.

Wide Awake by Katy Perry
 I love this song! It's so meaningful and the video is very Burton-esque.





Home by Gabrielle Aplin
This song is SO lovely. Indie/folk is definitely my favourite genre even though I love all music. Beautiful.






Rain by Patty Griffin
This is an all time favourite song of mine. It's so beautiful and so is this video. No more words.





All This Way by Amanda Fondell
If you haven't heard this yet... you need to listen to it! Her voice is amazing and the lyrics are lovely!





Now We Are Free by Hans Zimmer ft. Lisa Gerrard
Hans Zimmer has always been one of my favourite composers. His work makes a movie what it is most of the time. His sounds set the moods and his music make me feel relaxed or motivated! YouTube more of his stuff. He is truly amazing. And so is Trevor Jones! People often overlook the composers but a song without words can still say so much to your heart.



Quicker by I Blame Coco
I love this girl! The Constant is an AMAZING album. 10/10 for me and I love her videos. That voice!

My ultimate playlist always included Sigur Ros, Enya, U2, The Police, Mumford and Sons, Kate Bush, Anouk, Patty Griffin and Clannad.
I can't make a full playlist or I'd be here all day!
Have a good listen and tell me your favourite tracks for a rainyday!

Hey, Michel... how's life for you? Okay?

Anouk.

This woman touches my soul like no other!

I used to play an online game and a lot of Dutch people played too and I made friends quickly! I met one soul called Roderik who introduced me to Anouk. He said I wouldn't hear another singer like her and he was correct.

She is the coolest chick I've ever seen or heard. She has more swagger than any of these new kids on the block. I just watch her and I'm proud to be a woman... ultimate girl crush.

She's stunning, charismatic, original, talented and amazinggggg.

Gorgeous.

R U Kiddin Me
I love this video. I love the music. I love the depth of her voice.
And those gold teeth!

For something a little softer...

Lost

If you loved her music... I highly recommend Michel and Sacrifice. They're two of my favourites.

Tuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday!

I did miss last weeks Totally In Love Tuesday post! I was at my boyfriends' house and you probably find this hard to believe but...

he doesn't have any internet.

I didn't expect to stay over at his place on Monday night so I figured I didn't need to do a Tuesday post before hand so I could post it through my phone. Silly girl!

 Here is this week's post and it will be a long one as it is making up for last week!

1. Sóley

I chose this song because this video is so beautiful and the song is one of my favourites from her.

It's best heard with your eyes closed! You can make your own beautiful videos in your head.

2.  Karrah Kobus

Her work is so beautiful and she is so imaginitive!

Visit her Flickr here... it's dreamy!

These are my two favourites of her work... I love water so much so the top one is me all over.

Stunning.

3. The Ghost and Mrs Muir

I watched this movie years ago when I came upon it in my mothers' collection. She loved it as a child and I can see why!

It has love, a beautiful actress in the lead and a captain with a beard who is also a GHOST.
You didn't guess that by the title, I knew.
It stars Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison... LOVE!
I always dreamed of meeting a Captain of a huge ship and falling in love.
We could have sailed into the sunset together!



4. Believe it or not...... the rain.

 

It feels like forever since I last heard some heavy rain against my window but tonight I heard it for the first time and I fell in love all over again.

I love the rain but I hate it too... sometimes all I can imagine is the little bunny rabbits all huddles together to stay warm and dry or the stray cats running under cars with their kittens to avoid getting wet.

Sometimes it breaks my heart but I know it's nature.

5. Fiona Anderson

If I could have anyone to photograph my weddings... it's between Fiona Anderson&&Rosie Hardy and seeing as Fiona is in New Zealand and Rosie is down the road in Manchester... I didn't have to stew for months and months over who to choose when I do get married!

I would pay A LOT for shots like these. Stunning!

6. My favourite blog!

I LOVE Fearsy's blog. She's so cute and has the best smile!

I love her music mixtapes and her tattoo posts.

Adorable isn't even the word!

Let the cuteness begin!

9. Mummy, I'm crushing on a geek!

How God damn cute is this man?! PHWOAR.

I don't know what it is about him... actually, I do!

- Those lips

- That humour

- The intelligence

- His wit

Gosh.

Richard Osman. Legend.

And the rest...

8. This article sounds just like my life! It's an amazing read and the end line is a real stinker! *stinker being a good thing!* 

9. I actually really need this bow strap for my camera! I swear it's for practicality reasons and not because it's the most adorable thing I've ever seen!

10. Little Blog of Horrors is the best name I've seen for a blog in a longgggg time! I love her! She's so cute! Go check her out!

Keep all of your secrets in a happy place.

I have kept a diary almost all my life. I was 9 when I wrote my first one and here I am... 15 years later and still doing it!

I always kept them for when I was older... I wanted my children to learn from my mistakes and learn about who I am through them.

I don't understand my mother most of the time and sometimes I'd just love to dive into her thoughts just to know how she is feeling or what memory she is dwelling on.

I read my old diaries again and every single one is full of anger, upset, depression and complete frustration. I've never been a happy person in general. I was always the strange child or the dark girl. I've always been one to be completely comfortable on my own... until I met Michael.

Friends have come and gone on a regular basis. No one has really ever understood me or how my mind works so it does clash with others often. Only my family and Michael understand how I am and that's why I kept a diary for years... I'd get angry at my friends for being strange with me until I realised that I was the oddball.

Last year I completely demolished my life of these thoughts. I stopped feeling 'different' and 'strange'... now I just accept who I am and I also accept that other people don't always accept the person that you are.

No one understand you fully... just you.

I decided to be positive about my differences and embrace them. I now just add those to a diary instead of the negative thoughts that I always had swimming around my head.

I include my favourite pictures, poetry I love, ideas I have, funny moments, dreams I adored.

Nothing negative!

Make it as colourful as possible too and draw everything you can! Even if it's absolutely terrible... make a thought into pictures... rather than words.

Sometimes it's too hard to put something into words.

Document the start of a happier, brighter life.

It also helps to listen to your favourite music while you do it.

Inspire yourself.

My personal favourites are Anuna, Enya, Clannad, Hans Zimmer, Aaron Zigman or Gustav Santaolalla.

BUT I am a huge fan of classical and easy listening music!

Totally in Love Tuesday again!

1. Having nice nails on bad days!

Today has been stressssfullll so I did my nails. Always cheers me up.

BarryM's Berry Ice Cream (Shade 308)

2. Nice, simple, healthy food!

This was my lunch today with some yummy carrot&&tomato soup.

3. Lusting over these accessories.

Their designs are so classy lately!

I especially love the little coin purse!

4. THIS SONG.

I haven't listened to music like this for a while now... I went back to classical music for a while and I do move from genre to genre but then I heard this one by Demi Lovato and I thought it was brilliant!

Stand up for the love!

Jessie J is amazing to me. She inspires me so much and it's rare for a "celebrity" my age to even get under my skin but she really has.

No one who reads this little blog will know this yet but I was bullied so badly in High School and I never got over it until I turned about 22. That's pretty embarassing to admit but I think the mental scars take a lot longer to heal than the physical ones.

I was always different and strange. I always liked the Wicked Stepmother's instead of the Princess's and the Rizzo's instead of the Sandy's. Tim Burton was my hero while Britney Spears was so loved by all of my friends.

I spent so many years dressing like everyone else and feeling completely trapped.

This is relevant, I promise!

Jessie J has said publicly how she coped with bullies and if you want to hear about it... just list to this song.

I don't drink, smoke or do drugs and I'm probably considered boring by many of my old peers but I can finally say... I DON'T CARE. It's so relieving to read that someone else can admit to that too without being considered "strange"... instead everyone looks upto her.

Jessie J is the complete package to me. She's overcome so much. She even had a stroke and it still didn't knock her back.

She is the type of role model I'd want my children to look upto and I hope she stays around for a long time.

Why do I like Jessie J so much? 

Her talent! That voice, that knowledge, those concepts, that writing. Amazing.

Her style. No boundries.

Her beauty! I don't just mean she's pretty (because, by God, she is) but her make up and hair is always so inspirational and out of this world!

She doesn't drink, smoke or do drugs.

She overcame all of the hardtimes.

And the thing I love most about her is her positivity.

She always seems happy.

I REALLY want her hairstyle but I would not suit it at all!

Her album is also phenomenal... get it if you haven't already!

This is her newest song.

It pumps me up every time!

Katy x