LIFE UPDATE

School sucks.
Essays suck.
Art homework sucks.
WELSH ORAL EXAMS SUCK.
A wedge has been driven between my bed and I.
Is this what a mid-teen crisis feels like?

Bits, Bobs and Thrift Shops

I'm  going to Paris next month and have been shopping for clothes to take today.
It was a successful shop if I say so myself ahhh, I bought two dresses and a burgundy jumper. I'm in love with both dresses and the jumper is so pretty, I mean I already have like a billion burgundy clothes but come on, a girl can never have too many burgundy clothes am I right or am I right??? I'm totally right. So anyway the cream dress is from H&M, the navy dress is from this super cool vintage shop in Cardiff called Hobos and the jumper is from Topshop. I love the navy dress because it's so witch-slash-Wednesday-Addams-like and the collar and cuffs are so pretty. There was THE most perfect tan faux fur coat in Hobos but it was way too big for me, damn my girlish shoulders. I also introduced my sister to vintage thrifting, she has never been in a vintage shop like EVER. Poor girl.

Farewell Internet Folk

X

P.S. Here are some photos from today. :)

                      

There Ain't No Rest For The Awkward

Holler @ U ma blogger people. I had my hair cut today!!!!! How exciting!!!! (it actually is, I haven't had it cut in like 6 months) I've been like...scared to get my long hair chopped but you know I needed something uh... fresh, you know?
Anyway the point is, as the title suggests, the hairdressers is actually THE MOST AWKWARD PLACE EVER for an extremely awkward person like me. Seriously. I mean I do love having my hair done but as soon as the hairdresser starts to make small talk it's like WHY DID YOU HAVE TO RUIN IT??? Maybe it works for all the other customers who could talk 25/8 about nothing in particular but me, well uh I'm..me which means that conversations with strangers usually consist of one word answers on my part before the conversation dies a slow, painful death. I mean it got so awkward during the washing of my hair that the poor soul of a hairdresser resorted to saying 'wow your hair is really long isn't it?' yes well um that's the whole reason why I'm here, to get it cut? you know?

Ugh life is just so TOUGH when you're awkward.

Sincerely Yours,

The Breakfast Club

Okay got carried away,

It's just me,

Catrin,

Toodloo

X

Lavender Lies

Also pleaaaaaaaaaaaaase check out my Etsy, I want to make my first sale!!!

New Page

Check out my new page for 'Writing and Ramblings' :)

A Playlist For The Independent Mind

Click to listen to these perfect songs.

• Keep You - Wild Belle
• Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
• Open Season - High Highs
• Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
• Rome - Yeasayer
• Punching In A Dream - The Naked and Famous
• Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
• Young Blood - The Naked and Famous
• Linger - The Cranberries

Keep You by Wild Belle is my favourite song right now, it's just so chilled.

Don't Go Break(eat)ing My Heart

Happy Valentine's Day to all you fellow members of the ♡ Lonely Hearts Club ♡ okay that was cheesy but oh well  there's nothing wrong with a bit of mature cheddar... Anyway moving on to the point of this post. I hope you have all been spreading the love and have received a present, like I have (FREE CHOCOLATE AND IT HAD STRAWBERRIES IN IT MmMmMmM) in the spirit of St. Valentine. It was from my mum if you were wondering. There is no need to baffle yourselves over who on earth would give me something on Valentine's Day as I've just answered your silent question. At least my mum loves me. 

So it turns out there is a positive to Valentine's Day, food. As with every holiday / celebration, there is always food to make it better. And you know what is even better??? This means that there will be loads of unwanted Valentines chocolate on sale in Thornton's mhm this will be the highlight of the year for me.

Sorry for wasting your precious time

Who am I kidding? You're part of the Lonely Hearts Club, you have loads of time to spare!

Take 2:

You're so so welcome for this mind blowing blog post,

I mean I really don't mind, you know blowing your mind with my amazing wit and coolness,

I love you all

(except you, oh no, I DESPISE you)

X

Pancake Day

Happy Pancake Day!!!! Pancake Day is actually like one of my favourite days of the year (apart from Christmas and Halloween ofcourse) because you get to eat pancakes all day and honestly, what's better than that?!

Enjoy your pancakes

X

New Etsy Listings

These cool Marina and Harry Potter inspired patches are now up for sale on my Etsy shop, for more details check out lavenderlies!!! :)

London Baby

I left the wonderful country of Wales yesterday and went to London on an art trip!!! I went to the Saatchi Gallery and the Victorian & Albert Museum, they were both so so cool and the pieces in both were just perfect. It sucked coming back to good Ol' Newport though, London is just so pretty and cute and lovely and wah I just want to live in London. Seriously, we saw primary school  children and their uniform was burgundy and mustard, I mean my two favourite colours...THAT SHOULD BE ME (eventhough I'm not in primary school anymore but whatever).  But on the bright side my sadness for leaving London didn't last too long, and I kind of  had a sugar rush on the bus ride home, which lead to a crazy outbreak of sarcastic, overenthusiastic dancing (raving) to this really crappy heavy metal radio station which the bus driver had tuned in to. My friend Louise, joined in too when I burst out into song (god knows how I knew the words when I had never heard the songs before) (I'm lying it's my favourite station and I always tune in) (I'm joking) (or am I?), so anyway half way through my crazy-dance-sugar-rush-trance Louise had to sort of explain to the shy girl who happened to be sat next to me that I was being sarcastic and didn't ACTUALLY like this kind of music, she just kind of giggled, I don't think she believed us. All in all it was a really fantabulous day and I just want to go back to London now, withdrawal symptoms and all that, I kind of feel like I did the day after I saw Mumford & Sons live, almost. 

Well that's all for now folks,

Internet hugs to you all,

Catrin :)

p.s. check my instagram for a couple pictures of my favourite pieces from yesterday!

I saw this on Tumblr and just had to have it on my blog.

Tumblr

I've neglected my tumblr for so long that it's such a relief to have it tidy and up to scratch again.

lavenderlies on Etsy

I'd super duper appreciate it if you could check out my Etsy shop: lavenderlies 

Please please please! I can't wait to make my first sale and add new stock!

A Day In The Life of a Complete Nutter

So today I realised that I'm like really weird and yes tell me something I don't know but hey-ho I shall proceed to tell you how in note form:

1. I told two (in my opinion) hilarious jokes and burst out into laughter before I had even finished saying them.
2. I walked (practically danced) the dog around the park whilst listening to Vampire Weekend which, obviously  made me really happy and so I was kind of jumping and prancing around not caring about any onlookers. 
3. I let the cats go for a run around in the garden and I went out to check on them but instead found myself holding one of the cats in the air and singing my heart out to Two Door Cinema Club while running from one end of the garden to the other.
4. And finally, instead of vacuuming, I spent 90% of the time running, jumping, dancing and singing enthusiastically to my iTunes library and now I'm really worn out and tired.

The other day I also got extremely overexcited just because I went on a swing for the first time in ages.

I'm such a child.

And that folks, is why I'm single with no social life.

Tune in next time for more on my extremely weird, awfully boring but spontaneous life.

So Long. X

Wild Friday Night

Last night I was supposed to be going to a house party but instead decided to stay home, eat pizza and watch Teen Witch, which might I add was FREE on YouTube. Life's good when you're a loser with amazing taste in films. I don't even regret this decision, 80s movies take priority over everything.