May Aims

So hi...

So er, I'm a little late with this post. BUT I do have a good-ish reason, my Wifi went ka-put at the beginning of the month and I've had no Wifi at my flat for the last few days, it’s been weird and all kinds of boring yet productive at the same time. But my FOMO was definitely through the roof which really sucked. ANYWAY, New month new goals, kinda. Let’s get on with it.

Eat well and Exercise: So I mentioned going to the gym with my flatmate before, and well it just hasn’t been happening, so that was a fail. I'm starting to think I might brave going alone, as I'm often awake in the middle of the night these days and a little gym visit may do me good to tire me out enough to sleep and get some exercise in. Don’t get me wrong I have been exercising, but not nearly as much as I’d like.

Revise fortnightly if not daily: As much as I would like to believe in myself to revise daily, I'm being realistic with myself to know that probably won’t happen. But I think I could definitely get myself to revise at least every other day. Exams for my second year at Uni are literally round the corner and I need to get my butt in gear.

Listen or read the morning news: I really made the efforts to read and listen to the news more often a few months back, but I have kind of fallen out of the habit and I’d like to get back into it, It’s nice to just know what’s going on in the world and it’s interesting to.

Continue Streaming: So I've been live streaming on a site called twitch. I'm planning a separate post to really explain it but it’s been a ton of fun. The community and friendships I've built on twitch have been amazing and I enjoy streaming so much. Even if I'm just a little bit rubbish at it. I mean I can only go up right?

Continuing learning and developing my art: I've really been pushing my art out in April, a cause of this has definitely been the live streaming but I feel like I'm getting more ideas and itching to draw more often and it’s amazing to look back at pieces and already feel myself progressing. I'm also learning more and more about how to get the most out of Paint Tool SAI, which has really effected the quality of my art as well. I'm looking forward to keeping up this productive streak.

Experiment with my make-up: As I mentioned in my April round up, I've really fell in love with make up again, I was starting to get really lazy with my make-up. I just felt that my make-up looked a little rubbish no matter what I did, and it felt a little pointless putting it on. It may have been due to buying some new make-up, or that I had randomly decided to look through my stash and try on some older products. But either way I'm loving doing my make-up and trying out different colours and looks out. I want to keep up with this re-found passion.

Embrace life and Opportunities: when I went to Ireland and travelled alone by plane for the first time, I had planned to write a post about travelling alone and making the most of life, but never got around to it funnily enough, though I'm still planning to do that type of post. But either way I want to push myself more, to try and make the most of each day, to do something each day that I can look back on at the end of the day and say ‘Go me’. I just feel more and more that I'm never getting any younger, and why delay plans that I could be making now?

And those are all my Aims for May, quite a variety I think, and all pretty doable aims I think. The only thing that’d stop me achieving them are my number one enemies, Laziness and lack of motivation, though my motivation has been great… So it’s more just my never ending laziness. 

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April Aims

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So April although lacking in social plans, should be a really good month in terms of personal development and aims. I'll be finishing uni and starting gym and swimming and generally doing a lot day to day. As such a lot of my aims are health and fitness related.

Gyming it with Kate: As I said In my weight post (HERE) I'll be starting the gym that's across from me with my flatmate and I'm aiming to go at least 3 x a week.

Keep a strict budget: Once my third installment of student finance comes through a large portion of it will immediately be put aside to pay for rent and bills throughout summer, because of this I want to be strict with my money so I don't waste money on food or things I don't need.
Slow the Drinking-Try go dry: I've noticed that this Uni year I don't go even a week without drinking and I thought I would try to cut this down a little, To better my spending habits and see the effects of my possible weight loss
Look for a Summer job: Kind of tying in with the budget aim, I'll have a lot of money put aside for rent and bills and not all that much for personal spending, I'd like to do a fair bit in summer including book a tattoo, and that shit needs money! 4 months off also can get really boring honestly.
Start Planning volunteering options:As I'm nearly done with my second year of university I really want to get some volunteering in prisons under my belt to prepare me for after uni.
Complete 5/6 Art Pieces: this one is a kinda regular aim as I want to hit a personal quota of 5 pieces a month.
Start streaming: Watching so many streams has made me want to do it myself with my art work or games, Not expecting to get anything from it, but it's a lot of fun and relaxing.

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That Weight Game.

So hi...
I've mentioned it many times but one thing that extremely hinders my self esteem, confidence and basically all aspects of my life is my weight. It's something that has always worried me, like I feel it does with a huge number of people.
It really changes a lot, but recently I'm just felt worse about it and it's getting to a point where I kinda feel a little sick looking at myself in the mirror. yep.
So to combat this I'm going to get on my exercise game, and stop the takeaways... Dominoes is so good and my flatmates are so convincing!
Anyway.

I'm starting swimming with two of my course mates, swimming is my favourite exercise or general thing to do, I just love the water, but in my hometown there isn't a nearby pool anymore.
Birmingham is different however and I'm hoping to go once a week minimum.
Along with that, is Gyming it. I'm lucky enough to have a Gym about 1 minute's walk away from my flat and me and my flatmate have agreed to sign up together and go with the off-peak membership.
It's good because we both prefer exercising late at night and can help to encourage each other and make sure we both go. I'm wanting to do to the gym 3/4 times a week.
I'll be signing up in April when my student finance comes through but I'm actually really looking forward to it.
Then there's the eating, in terms of general meals I'm quite good, I prefer to cook for myself and rarely have ready meals. My weakness really is snacks and mindless eating. I'm definitely a boredom eater and when I'm casually at my desk or bored I'll eat or go make something.
Honestly this really shouldn't be the case, considering I have loads of things I always want to do, I'm just bad at being productive and get distracted and bored easily.
I'll probably write a progress post towards the beginning of summer, around June maybe?
where I'll hopefully be super happy about how well I'm doing, but we'll see.


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March Goals: 2016

So hi...

Damn man, we're already onto the third month of the year, feels like the year has only just started! With university especially it's felt like our assignments have come around just a little too quick!
But anyway, lets try and be positive and set myself some goals for march.

March goals. ft random doodle...

-Start listening to an educational or interesting podcast.
  -I've been looking around at a few podcasts I could try and get into and I want to get into the habit of listening to them in the mornings and on the walks to and from uni, just as a way to stimulate my mind while doing other things and keeping myself informed about the world.
Podcasts I'm looking into:
-TED Talks
-BBC: The Inquiry
-More or Less: Behind the stats.
-It's a Crime: with Margaret Mclean
-Spark London
-Answer me this

-Continue walking to University.
  - I've been pretty good with this to be honest I at least walk to university 3 out of the 4 times I'm in, which I think is pretty good, I'd like to try walk everyday however, at least to uni, walking back however will be a slow process, we'll get there.

-Stay Engaged and up to date with University work.
 -I've been pretty damn good this term with keeping on top of my work, I made a promise to myself to do the extra reading and make sure I do my notes because I'm not doing this course because I was forced, I do enjoy it. It's just like I have the high school mentality of education sucks because that was how everyone acts, when honestly, I love my course, although there are definitely boring parts, on a whole it's enjoyable. I want to keep enjoying & actually put in all I have to my work, because honestly, I don't remember the last time I gave my all.

-Complete 5-10 digital drawings and continue to improve.
  - I'm absolutely loving drawing digitally, with each piece I start or even complete I'm finding new ways to do things and experimenting with my art and how to improve it, it's so enjoyable and I am so inspired to keep creating.

-Find some sort of working sleeping pattern.
  - I've never been great when it comes to sleeping, I'm definitely a night owl by nature (Currently writing this at 5.23am, have yet to sleep) well maybe more an 'AM' Owl. I have always struggled to sleep, but recently it's becoming a whole new board game.
Although previously I wouldn't get to sleep easily, I would still get about 7 hours sleep at least, the last few months, well the whole of 2016 so far I'm lucky to get 4 hours sleep. Now I am someone who doesn't need much sleep, if I sleep too long I tend to feel super groggy and get headaches, but 2/3 hours is a bit too little. So I need to work out the best times and methods to get me into some form of sleeping routine.

-Read (Before bed). 
 - I think this is forever on my goals as I am never quite satisfied with how little I read in my young adult years when I was such an eager reader as a kid who could easily read a decent sized book in a matter of days. I also don't want to read online either, as nice and convenient as laptops and the internet is, I like my pen and paper, I like written up notes and hard copies of books, it's just more appealing to me. So I want to return to the habit of my child hood of reading 5/6 book chapters a night.

Those are all my goals for march, they are all very personal development based and aren't really strictly for the month of march as much as they are goals to achieve and keep achieving at but that's all I'd like for this month.

What are your goals or aims for the month of March?

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A Positivity Journal

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Positivity is a big thing for me the last few months, trying to make my outlook on life more positive in all aspects of my life has been a long process for the last few months. I have a habit of getting down really quickly, it's not something I do on purpose but I tend to be quite sarcastic and sarky and it often seems like there is no much awful situations happening in the world, all this just makes it hard for me to sometimes see the nicer gestures and events in like. It's why my blog is called 'It's about the little things' as a personal reminder to myself as there's a lot of good in the world to and that I should learn to appreciate the smaller things in life.

So recently while I was buying notebooks and things for my uni lectures I was able to get a spare notebook as apart of a two for one deal, but I didn't really need it for anything and wasn't sure what to use it for.

Then the idea came to me to use it to note down favourite moments each month and plans to look forward to, as well as lists of my favourite things such as songs and quotes. And I thought to call it my Positivity journal. It's a little book that I can add to whenever something pops to mind, and to look back at and enjoy whenever I'm feeling a little bit down and the negativity of the world is feeling a little too much.

It's a decently big book which I've given each month every other page, with little lists in between and after a page for 2016 top memories and then bigger lists like 100 thing that make me happy and 101 favourite songs etc.

I'd definitely recommend having a place to just wrote down the small positive and happier moments in life.
Any lists you'd recommend for me? how do you stay positive?
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101 Things in 1001 days: New Year 2016 update.

So Hi...

Thought it was about time for another one of these updates! Can't believe how quickly time has gone! it really doesn't feel like I started this list in 2014, Though I do remember that it was just before Uni, (hence the get into uni point duh chenelle)

I've currently crossed of 35 points out of 101 which I think is alright, there's also a load of things which are progressive like visit 15 different unknown(to me) places, which I'm currently at 9 with. There are some changes I've decided to make, such as get to 200 bloglovin followers, considering my long break and current numbers I think 100 is more reasonable, and uploading a youtube video, I've kind of lost interest with youtube so changed it to an art piece as I've always been drawing and I think it's an actually achievable point.

4th July 2014 - 6th April 2017

1)Try To eat healthier (Getting there!)

2)Lose a stone within a year

3)Pass My A Levels

4)Get into university

5)Go to The London Zoo

6)Take up a new sport

7)Do the race for life

8) Keep a Diary for 3 months minimum

9) Visit 15 different unknown places (9/15)

10) Visit Paris

11) Visit America

12) Learn 15 new skills (0/15)

13) Learn to drive

14) Go to airsoft/lasertag

15) Experience 40 New foods/meals(32/40)

16) Watch 100 movies I hadn't seen before(68/100)

17) Cook or bake 25 things I hadn't made before (19/25)

18)Make a list of 100 things that make me happy

19)Make a pizza from scratch

20)Buy a Polaroid camera

21)Get a new laptop

22)Start a scrapbook

23)Walk around a city alone.

24) Give up Chocolate for a month

25) Get a job

26) Attend a midnight movie showing

27)Become an organ donor

28)Give blood

29) Kiss in the rain

30) Go ice skating

31)Make Flower crowns successfully

32)Take my mum out for lunch/dinner

33)Buy 5 things from MAC(0/5)

34) Go a week without swearing

35)Save £1500 in my bank account

36)Complete my Wreck this journal

37)Try 10 products from lush I haven't tried before(6/10)

38)Make a fancy cocktail

39)Get a massage

40) Learn to edit and design (blogs etc)

41)Learn to say I love you in 10 different languages(3/10)

42)Go on a 'Date'

43)Go to an open acoustic season

44)Get a facial

45)Give money to a street performer

46)Save £1 for each task completed(£35/£101)

47)Make a playlist of 101 of my favourite songs

48)Attend A Cosplay Event

49)Draw something new everyday for a month(0/30)

50) Attend 5 Fashion/Beauty Events(3/5)

51)Attend 5 concerts(2/5)

52)Write a list of 25 things I like about myself

53)Blog once everyday for a month

54)Dip dye something

55)Have a picnic in the park

56)Make 5 of my own Cosplay outfits (2/5)

57)Take a road trip with friends

58)Make a list of my 50 most favourite quotes

59)Donate all my unwanted clothes to charity 

60)Make my own jewelry

61)Buy a matching set of sexy underwear

62)Make a list of 25 books I would like to read

63)Go to the cinema on my own

64)Make my own shirt

65)Buy someone a gift just because

66)Learn 3 songs on guitar(0/3)

67)Don't eat fast food for a month

68) Learn to sow properly.

69)Go to 15 Restaurants I've never been to before(9/15)

70)Make a blanket fort

71) Reach 100 BL followers

72) Create an art piece I'm really proud of.

73) Keep a notepad on me for a month

74) Have a dinner party

75) Invite at least 5 people to stay with me at uni (3/5)

76) Find out my blood type

77) Keep a spending diary for a month

78)Complete a sudoku book

79) Do a box swap with an Another blogger

80)Visit a new country

81) Watch all the Harry Potter movies in one week

82)Get up early to watch the sunrise

83) Make a new close friend

84) Build a snowman

85) Don't rely on parents

86) Take someone out just because

87) Make 15 handmade gifts(5/15)

88)Have professional photos taken for my mum

89)Ask 5 friends to recommend a book and read them(4/5)

90) Spend a day in St.Albans And London

91) See a burlesque show

92) Buy something from Etsy

93) Work out everyday for 20 minutes for a month.

94) See a firework show

95) Go berry picking

96) Buy myself a tripod and a wireless remote for my camera

97) Join a club

98) Take pictures in a photo booth

99) Jump into a body of water fully clothed

100) Learn a poem by heart

101) Get a pen pal

Sorry about the last posts lacking photos and all having a more lifestyle aspects but I currently don't own a camera so photos will have to be taken on my phone for a while and I'm trying to work out the best conditions to still get decent photos! So bare with.

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2016 Goals!

So hi...


Yeah yeah I'm a month late I know. I wanted to share my new years drawing as well, even if it's late!.

This isn't a resolutions thing, I don't do them cause I know they tend to last half of January and that's it. This is a things to do or accomplish throughout the year of 2016. So here's things I'm doing and working on throughout 2016.

1. Improve my drawing skills- I've recently become super into drawing again, I did a lot of drawing 3/4 years ago between college and high school but just stopped having time, I've recently been really enjoying in and gotten out my wacom tablet so draw digitally (the happy new year photo was a little thing I did ;) ) and I want to practice and work on my skills for anatomy and perspective.

2. Improve my health and fitness- I've never been super healthy or active, I did a decent bit when I was younger because I was a tom boy and enjoyed running around and dance and karate. I did alot but it all kinda faded in adulthood, Also breaking my foot in summer and only healing meant I was completely inactive and I feel so unfit and weak now. I had to be careful as my foot is weakened a lot from the break and can hurt after walking long amounts but I'm slowly working on it.

3. Read more (at least 20/24 books)- I don't read enough, for someone who could read a book in 2/3 night's I hardly finish a few books a year, so I want to read more again and get lost in my imagination.

4. Invest myself in my uni course- So I'm at university because I chose to be. The course I'm doing is because I picked it, and honestly I've not really engaged myself in it as much as I feel I should. I'm not going to lectures just to pass exams just because I have to. My course and uni degree is something I want to turn into a career, so I want to make an effort to actively read and dive into my course contents and materials.

5. Learn basic Japanese- I've always loved the idea of knowing different languages, we learnt German in school but  forgot everything as soon as I left despite getting a high grade in it. But I've always loved the Japanese language being the huge anime nerd that I am (and you know you gotta watch the shit subbed, not dubbed.) And I already know a few phrases and basic sentences, but Japanese is quite complex and if I understand it right has 3 alphabets to learn, I'd love to be able to write in Japanese as well but one thing at a time. This is a goal that will stretch way way WAY past 2016 though.

6. Find my own style- I still struggle with knowing my own style and working out what outfits I both like and works for me, so that's a super goal of 2016, I'm definitely getting there, I also have a super interesting plan for posts involving drawing outfits then putting them together! look forward to it.

7. Confidence: Fake it till you make it- This is a continuing theme from last year to work on my confidence and self esteem and just be happy with myself both mentally and physically and just stop stressing out over everything and just generally over thinking things, Bad Chenelle.

And those are my goals for the year of 2016, There will be smaller goals for each month which I'll start at the end of February but these are the big ones.

What are some thing you're doing or want to achieve this year?
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The Break is over?

So... um hi
Long time no see, how ya all doing...

Yeah so it's been a while. around 4 months since my last post and it's now 2016 AND already February, whaaat?
Crazy right. Anyway I've had quite a long break, mostly due to restarting University for my 2nd year and trying to reorganise my life and a few personal struggles, but I'm finally feeling up to start over with blogging and getting stuck in.

I'm planning to do daily posts, with maybe one or two days gap a month, but since I'm a bit out of touch I won't be too strict on myself with that.
I'll also be less beauty orientated I think, not that I have always be strictly that, I'm a pretty big mixture of a person so I like to share that but previously worried that no one wanted to read about my other enjoyments. HOWEVER, I don't care now, I'll be writing because I want to, who wants to read posts that the writer clearly forced out anyway huh? it's usually obvious that this is the case as well.

I'm still a big beauty fan and I'm proving my make-up skills all the time but I've also gotten really back into drawing and want to share that and I'm exploring my cooking skills and fashion sense.
I also love lifestyle posts, that are probably my favourite to read and I enjoy writing them.

Have a happy Christmas selfie of my middle sister and I. Aren't we fab?

So yeah, it's all one big messy mish mash right now, but it's my mish mash.
Hope those of you, who previously followed me have stuck about!
It's nice to be back.
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2nd Year Uni aims

So hi...

With one week of uni done with, now starts the real business where the subject content starts and we get right into working on assessments and preparing for exams in January. Now that I'm starting my second year as well I have a much better Idea of what to expect and have a few goals and aims I want to achieve, built off mistakes and things I wish I did better with last year.

-Experiment more with cooking. Although I can cook a pretty good amount of things I always get lazy at uni and rarely cook anything super interesting, I'd like to try and cook something new or just more interesting than pasta/stir fry weekly.

-Learn to properly use SPSS. Last year we learn about SPSS for a lab report, and to be honest I didn't really learn how to use it properly, instead I just did what got the report done, but I want to try and seriously.

-Be more Active. This is to basically not be a completely lazy shit all year, to get out and enjoy Birmingham, even just to not put off going shop, or simply walking to uni rather than always taking the bus.

-Stay involved in chosen Societies. Similar to my October aims, but obviously intended for the whole year is my commitments to societies. I really want to stay highly involved in the Women's football, the Burlesque Society and the Rock Soc Society. I'm also apart of a few more but those one's don't tend to meet up or have socials often.

-Keep my notes updated and Separate. So last year I had all the notes for all my modules in one notebook & it was an awful idea, some people did this then organised the ripped out pages but I can't really do this myself, I end up thinking the separate pages aren't important and it feels very messy to me. So this year I have a note book for each of my different modules, organised.

-Lose weight. This would have been a pretty appropriate aims for October as well to be honest. As I was pretty immobile from July to the beginning of September due to my broken foot this meant I put on weight, Not a lot as I couldn't really eat much anyway but still more than I wanted considering I'm already not happy with my own weight. But on the plus I have already started to go back down for the last 2/3 weeks so yay.

Those are my major objectives for the next academic year, all really doable, I just have to keep motivated and not sit on my butt all the time.

Are you returning to uni? Or just starting?
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October Aims.

So hi...

Only 3 more months till we've finished 2015 and I'm barely used to writing 2015 on the date, but autumn is upon us and I have another set of aims for the month of October, As I'm heading into the full swing of University, a few of them are quite uni/Birmingham related.

-Keep in contact with Friends. Both in and outside of Birmingham, Since my uni friends aren't as easily accessible like last year I need to make more effort, and I just generally miss talking to my home friends more when I never see them

-Learn my way around Birmingham Better. Because I lived and had my campus in Perry bar last year I hardly ever went to the centre, and as such I hardly know my way around, now I'm dead centre and looking forward to exploring.

-Visit more Cafes and little food places around the City. I'm a sucker for cafes and little food joints, and the idea of going into cafes, grabbing a coffee and just doing some work on your laptop seems adorable and oh so chic, so I'd love to try it.

-Stay ahead of Uni work. Pretty understandable one here. Although I passed last year and got all my work done, I definitely could have done it better and I definitely could have made more of an effort to keep my notes up to date, So this year, as it really counts, I aim to.

-Do Extra reading every weekend. Adding on to the last point, I really want to read more into my subject and the topics that I'm interested in, I choice to do this at university so I should make a real effort to learn the field.
-Increase Daily Productivity. There are 24 hours in a day, and because I have such a bad sleeping schedule I probably only sleep for 6/7 of that, that's 17/18 Hours in the day that I could be spending doing useful things to be productive and improve my life. I spend way to much time lazing around doing nothing.

-Keep Working The Confidence. One of last month's aims was about being more confident, and I even note a post about it. And I've achieved that amazingly well, I'm not 100% sure how I made myself do it but the same body I thought was monsterous and fat I now look at thinking, I'm not ideal, but damn do I look good in that dress/top etc. I'm still working towards small fitness and health goals, but confidence is growing in me and boy do I feel sassy.

-Read and listen to news more. As shameful as it is, I hardly ever read the news, I see and hear a lot of things through the odd facebook post and tweet but that's a minor amount to what i should be reading, especially as a criminology student. and I do enjoy reading the news, but I think I like to have a newspaper to read the news, online there is just a little too much going on everywhere for me to read and know everything. But I'll start slow and find a way.

-Attend and get involved with my Societies. I joined up to 3/4 Extra societies this year on top of the 2 I was already apart of last year, and two of them are rather active, That's at least 3 societies and meetings to keep up with weekly, as well as the other which meet every month or so. But I'm super excited to be apart of the different communities and I know I'll love it.

And those are my aims for the month of October, very doable and most of them are just a case of setting a new habit for myself.

What are the aims you've set yourself this month?
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Lifestyle: Long term Saving.

So hi...

Saving is something I feel everyone is doing all the time for one thing or another, me included. There are always short term and long term things people want in life and unless you're stinking rich, you gotta save towards those things, I have a pretty long List of things I want to save for in the long run, some things are only a few months to save and some are things I'll be spending the next couple of years saving for, so I thought it might be interesting to share those things with you guys, as well as the rough amounts for each.

-Sewing machine: £50-£100: I'm dying to get into proper dressmaking as I'm getting a good grip on sewing by hand but for that I'll need a sewing machine, I know IKEA does one for £40 but I'm considering saving for a slightly better and bigger one, I'll hopefully have this by December, if not then I'll be asking for one for Christmas.

-Mannequin: £20: This is nearly short term as it's not expensive but It's not necessary either which is why it's considered the long term, because I'll be waiting till I feel I can spare the £20 and it wouldn't do to better use else where. It'll be awesome for cute display purposes as well as dressmaking.

-Slow Cooker & Food Processor: £70-80: Living alone and cooking for myself for a year really made me want to get better with cooking and experiment with more recipes but I've had a few cases where I've needed a slow cooker or food processor to make the recipe properly, I'm aiming to have this early next year.

-PS4 & Xbox One: £350 odd each: These are big buys. I first wanted only the Ps4 because of Bloodborne but more and more releases are coming to Xbox One that I'm starting to think of getting one, I currently have a Xbox 360 and a laptop capable of playing most PC games. Maybe I'm just being a collector/hoarder but I want them. This will be a long time coming though because of the I don't need them thing, The PS4 will be first and if I could get another job in Brum I think I could get one mid next year some time.

-Car and Lessons: £5,000 The longest saver here, Saving for driving lessons, the needed tests and for a good car. And I most like will need even more than £5,000, but that's my aim. I'm hoping to have the lessons money mostly collected by next summer so I can hopefully learn and pass then, after that saving for a car will be dependent on my job situations but with any luck will only be 2/3 Years/

-Holidays: £1,500: So next year I'll be going on holiday 3 times, Dublin in march, Spain in the beginning of April and Amsterdam in July. It's going to be amazing but that's a lot of spending money and travel costs to cover. But they are all around £500 and If I'm well behaved with my spending and work, I should be quite set, Though these Holidays set back the rest of the long term savings options.

Nokia Lumia 725: £140: The phone I already bought and got broken in a month due to drunk people in clubs but I really adored this phone and want it again as soon as possible, It'll be another one for the Christmas list most likely.

That's my long term Saving list, I'm hoping to have 1 or 2 of them ticked off by the end of this year if I budget correctly and another 2/3 ticked off by the end of next year, It's a long process but after I tick them all off I'll have a car been on holiday a load and have the next gen consoles happily in my room. That'll be the dream eyy.

What are your long term saving Goals?
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September Aims,

So hi...

September is gonna be a bit of an odd one, it's the ending of summer for me and when I go back to uni, It's gonna be a quiet start with a super hectic end as I visit Southampton, Bedford and Sheffield and go back to Birmingham to my own flat. It's gonna be a strange one, it's also the start of my second year of uni, but I'll have a post on that close to the time! So my aims for the month of September.

1. Walk regularly & Exercise. This has been something stupidly hard to do the last 2 months, a broken bone is highly limiting, but with the healing process nearly done I'll definitely be easing myself into regular walks and exercise.

2. Get out Often. Kinda linking in with the last aim but on more of a do something other than sit inside angle, just because I've really done enough of that the last 2 months,

3.Get involved in blogger chats on twitter. I got involved in a few a while back but it's so much dedication to remember when all the chats are and keep up with the topics and stuff but I'm going to try and keep up with at least one chat.

4. Enjoy myself. This is a super personal one in that I have missed so many opportunities in life from laziness or just being too worried to do it. And I really regret that I did that to myself. So my twenties I hope will be the year of opportunities and testing my boundaries, a quote that relates to this feeling is 'Adventure starts where your comfort zone ends'

5. Don't sweat the little things. Despite the name of my blog, I really consider the little negative things way too much, I let myself overthink and ruin my happiness. I end up trying too hard to 'have fun' and end up thinking about it too much. So aiming to stop that, don't worry about people's opinions, especially if it would mean you holding back from things that make you happy.

6. Eat Clean and well. I think I'm quite a good eater generally, especially at uni, although I can't help the odd takeaway, but I'm quite well behaved, but at home, I have little control and tend to eat pretty badly, But Before I head back to uni I want to kick start my clean eating again.

7. Explore more often. This is more for the end of the month when I head to Brum but I really want to make a point of exploring my surroundings more, with Birmingham being the second biggest city in Luton I'm sure there's a load of hidden gems and things to explore, and I want to do that.

8. Fake it till you make it. This is a confidence one, I've always been super conscience of my size and body image, when I was younger I was taller and much bigger than the other kids, Although I've grown into my height and size a bit (I'm quite the shorty now) I'm still quite big I feel, But a comment made about some other people made me realize that I'm really not as big as I think I am and A new part of it is my huge lack of confidence in myself, I also really don't know how to properly dress to make the most of my body, but I'm getting there recently, and It's exciting. I'm still on that weight loss grind but not as recklessly as before.

And those are my aims for the month of September! What are your aims for this month?
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August Aims.

So hi,

July's goals, were super unsuccessful, but then again I didn't write them with a broken foot in mind, so I don't think there is much I can say about them. I did get to practice my make-up application and draw a little but not really as much as I wanted, I think I'll definitely do my 30 themes I wrote about but I think I'll wait until September as I have a bit more time and will be more settled down.
Anyway here are a few of my aims and goals for August.

1.Walk often: Once the cast is off my foot I want to try walk often to help re-strengthen my foot as well as to up my fitness, 6 weeks of sitting around can't have been good for that.

2. Get back into reading: I've really not been able to read much recently, when I do have time I just haven't and I miss it, I'm definitely going to re-read my collection as I have a pretty decent collection of around 50 books.

3. Keep up sewing/Dressmaking: I'm getting the hang of sewing, but I want to start to progress with dress making and getting the hang of patterns and maybe even make myself some clothes.

4. Start Blogging again: so after not really being too active on the blog for both June and July I've decided to try and blog everyday again like I did May to get myself back into the groove, I've heard daily blogging actually gets the ideas flowing, which I did find with may, hoping for that again.

5. Over haul Wardrobe: I'm really sick of my wardrobe, it just doesn't shout any form of style and i really don't have that many clothes that I feel fit the style that I love. Though there any a lot of clothes I love but wouldn't wear as my confident grows I'm hoping for the style and fashion I admire to be the clothes I also rock.

6. Build up my confidence: I'm forever questioning myself and apparently although I do well to make people think I come off confident it's definitely an attempt to fake it till I make it. Sometimes I get bursts of confidence, a nice outfit, a good hair and make-up day, but more often than not I hate what I see and question everything about myself, so I gotta stop that, no more.

7. Try to learn new things everyday: Even if that's trivial information or actually learning a new skill, I feel it's super important to always try to improve and develop yourself further. so this is one little step to attempt that.

And those are my aims for the month of august, mostly personal development ones but when aren't they?
Have you set yourself any goals or aims for yourself this August?
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101 things in 1001 Days: Summer 2015 Update!

So Hi...

Another little update and I now have 24 things completed out of 101, and added a few to the ones such as eat 100 new foods etc. It's July now so it's been over a year since I started this, think I've done pretty well, I also changed point 35, from save £300 to save £1000 as I feel £300 was a pretty small amount when I think of how much I have available from student finance.

4th July 2014 - 6th April 2017

1)Try To eat healthier (Getting there!)

2)Lose a stone within a year

3)Pass My A Levels

4)Get into university

5)Go to The London Zoo

6)Take up a new sport

7)Do the race for life

8) Keep a Diary for 3 months minimum

9) Visit 15 different unknown places (4/15)

10) Visit Paris

11) Visit America

12) Learn 15 new skills (0/15)

13) Learn to drive

14) Go to airsoft/lasertag

15) Experience 40 New foods/meals(23/40)

16) Watch 100 movies I hadn't seen before(41/100)

17) Cook or bake 25 things I hadn't made before (15/25)

18)Make a list of 100 things that make me happy

19)Make a pizza from scratch

20)Buy a Polaroid camera

21)Get a new laptop

22)Start a scrapbook

23)Walk around a city alone.

24) Give up Chocolate for a month

25) Get a job

26) Attend a midnight movie showing

27)Become an organ donor

28)Give blood

29) Kiss in the rain

30) Go ice skating

31)Make Flower crowns successfully

32)Take my mum out for lunch/dinner

33)Buy 5 things from MAC(0/5)

34) Go a week without swearing

35)Save £1500 in my bank account

36)Complete my Wreck this journal

37)Try 10 products from lush I haven't tried before(3/10)

38)Make a fancy cocktail

39)Get a massage

40) Learn to edit and design (blogs, vlogs etc)

41)Learn to say I love you in 10 different languages(0/10)

42)Go on a 'Date'

43)Go to an open acoustic season

44)Get a facial

45)Give money to a street performer

46)Save £1 for each task completed(£24/£101)

47)Make a playlist of 101 of my favourite songs

48)Attend A Cosplay Event

49)Draw something new everyday for a month(0/30)

50) Attend 5 Fashion/Beauty Events(1/5)

51)Attend 5 concerts(0/5)

52)Write a list of 25 things I like about myself

53)Blog once everyday for a month

54)Dip dye something

55)Have a picnic in the park

56)Make 5 of my own Cosplay outfits (1/5)

57)Take a road trip with friends

58)Make a list of my 50 most favourite quotes

59)Donate all my unwanted clothes to charity 

60)Make my own jewelry

61)Buy a matching set of sexy underwear

62)Make a list of 25 books I would like to read

63)Go to the cinema on my own

64)Make my own shirt

65)Buy someone a gift just because

66)Learn 3 songs on guitar(0/3)

67)Don't eat fast food for a month

68) Learn to sow properly.

69)Go to 15 Restaurants I've never been to before(4/15)

70)Make a blanket fort

71) Reach 400 BL followers

72) Upload a video to YouTube That I'm really proud of

73) Keep a notepad on me for a month

74) Have a dinner party

75) Invite at least 5 people to stay with me at uni (1/5)

76) Find out my blood type

77) Keep a spending diary for a month

78)Complete a sudoku book

79) Do a box swap with an Another blogger

80)Visit a new country

81) Watch all the Harry Potter movies in one week

82)Get up early to watch the sunrise

83) Make a new close friend

84) Build a snowman

85) Don't rely on parents

86) Take someone out just because

87) Make 15 handmade gifts(0/15)

88)Have professional photos taken for my mum

89)Ask 10 friends to recommend a book and read them(0/20)

90) Spend a day in St.Albans And London

91) See a burlesque show

92) Buy something from Etsy

93) Work out everyday for 20 minutes for a month.

94) See a firework show

95) Go berry picking

96) Buy myself a tripod and a wireless remote for my camera

97) Join a club

98) Take pictures in a photo booth

99) Jump into a body of water fully clothed

100) Learn a poem by heart

101) Get a pen pal

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Chenelle

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