Smiley Sunday - #100happydays day 51-57

Hellooo :D

Welcome to the first ever Smiley Sunday post :) The annoying thing is that I've just realised I'm not going to get this posted this week until Wednesday because for some unknown reason the laptop at my dads wont let me post .. I can only assume its because I'm an idiot when it comes to technology , oh well :) I spoke about Smiley Sundays in a previous blog post but if you haven't read it then i'll just explain quickly : I have been doing the #100happysdays posts for 50 days everyday and its exhausting because I write a whole blog about each of them which also means that I don't have time to write the other blogs I want to write which mean alot to me :) So on sunday everyweek I'm going to do all the #100happydays posts in one so I hope thats okay with you :) I should probably get started <3

#100happydays: day 51 ... also known as Monday ;)

Today was awesome :D I went to my best friends house and me, my best friend, another close friend and her boyfriend ( the guy who I have a joke that I'm married to .. its complicated aha ;) ) but we all went for a picnic in a field with my best friends dog Milo who is the cutest ( bouncy-est) thing you will ever see ... although he did eat most of the food aha :) I love picnics so much and I'm always talking about them on here and how much I absolutely adore sandwiches cut into little triangles :D I'm actually smiling just just thinking about them aha :) We also found an abandoned house and an  abandoned barn with abandoned cars in it .. wow that's a lot of abandoned stuff ;) My friend was talking to me about the cars being like " I think its a 1960's mustang, what do you think ? " and I was just like " ermm I think its a car ? " so yeah that's an example of my never-ending lack of intelligence aha :) When we got home my best friend came back with me to sleepover so we spent the evening watching Russel Howard's Good News and eating strawberry laces :) Yay aha :D

#100happydays: day 52 ( Tuesday ) 

Lazy days are the best .. especially cuddled up with someone you love :) I spent the day at my boyfriends house , we got a chippy ( because his mums amazing ) and started watching all the Shrek films because I really like them but have only actually seen to number three and wanted to watch the first few again anyway's so we got to number two :) He also gave me my birthday present because the post took ages because he ordered it from Australia , they were "Okay?Okay." necklaces :D You've all seen me fangirl over The Fault In Our Stars in this blog ( I did a mini review of the film which you can find here <3  ) I love them so much and I moved them on to black cord because we both do a lot of activities that would lead to them getting broken and they're just so lovely :) I couldn't be happier <3 


#100Happydays: day 53 ( Wednesday) 

I spent most of today catching up on writing blog posts because I was behind ( oh what a surprise ;) ) Despite the stress of remembering to post and the effort of planning and finding time to write, I really do love writing this blog :) I love trying to make people smile and whenever there's a nice comment it absolutely makes my day :) So thank you so much to everyone who's left nice comments <3 It means the world to me :) I also went to see " Mrs Brown's Boys D'movie " It was hilarious XD If your fifteen or up definitely go and see it , I went with my sister and we were both crying with laughter :D 

Today's Quote is a Mrs Brown Quote because it made me smile and smiling's good ;) 

" NEW DIET, Guaranteed to work!! Just fill your tank with petrol, you won't be able to afford the feckin groceries " 
- Mrs Brown 

#100HappyDays: Day 54 ( Thursday ) 

It turns out I'm not very good at painting summer houses ... I mean I did well at painting my best friend , but I'm not sure a paint fight was quite what her nan had in mind but it was fun aha :) I can't say the same for the hours I've spent trying to get the paint out of my hair but ... the I can deal with the odd streak of blue paint in my hair ;) We also had pizza, well we wouldn't of if we hadn't burnt it but that's not the point ;) My favourite thing about today was that in the evening I got a bit ( a lot ) stressed and to calm me down My Boyfriend started planning with me:  if you had a Magic lolly , what colour lolly would do what thing ? It really took my mind off everything :) I think I might do a post about it at some point :) 

#100HappyDays Day 55 ( Friday) 

Have you ever had an idea that seems fantastic at the time but then you do it and end up hurting your foot and running home because you saw two foxes and you were scared they were going to eat you alive !!?! I know I know you wouldn't think that I've lived in the countryside my whole life would you aha :) Well anyway that's the last time I'm ever going for a walk down the overgrown country lanes next to my house aha ;) However when we ( I ) recovered from the "trauma" me and my boyfriend cooked lunch and I arranged the waffles in the shape of a smiley face our plates whilst waiting for the fish to finish cooking :) We then spent the rest of the day drawing in the garden, cloud watching and eating strawberry laces because calories taste good ;) 

#100HappyDays: Day 56 ( Saturday ) 

Some days you just know are going to be a bit rubbish ... and some days it's good to be wrong :) I thought I was just going to sit in all day but instead me and my mum went out to find some new furniture for my bedroom and found the cutest vintage up-cycling shop near where we live so we bought a new desk and new chest of draws and some chalk paint to paint them all up so we spent our afternoon painting together :) It's pretty easy to do, a good way to spend time with loved ones and if I'm honest, I was pretty proud of the results :) We also made plans for me to move into my sisters bedroom when she moves to Germany in September and turning my bedroom into my study :D  Afterwards I spent the evening eating a pita bread pizza that I made because it's a lot lower in calories and actually tastes better and yes I am one of those weird people that likes sweetcorn on pizza .. please don't judge me aha ;) All whilst Facetime to my friend whilst I planned out future blog posts :) I'm really looking forward to writing a lot of these ideas and I can't wait to see what you think but I really hope you like them :) 

#100HappyDays: Day 57 ( Sunday) 

I don't Know what it is about pretty little things that makes me so happy but they do and I like being happy so I don't have a problem with that :) But this does mean that my ideal place in the world is wondering around a Carboot sale :) I bought all the Harry Potter books because I really want to read them, I'm currently half way through the first one :) Then I went to my dads and spent the evening happily writing songs on my ukulele which I still haven't named :/ So if you have any ideas for names then feel free to comment .. I'm currently leaning towards Aurora ? What do you think ? :) 

So I hope you've had an equally Smiley Sunday and if not I hope it gets better ... it will get better honest honey you're doing great just keep going <3 
Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :) 
RAWWWW :D 
Much Love, Love Much-ly 
DontBurstMyBubble 

#100happydays: day 44 ( Heigh Ho, Heigh ho, it's off to work we go )

Good afternoon :) 

#100happydays photo :) 

I'm in a very Disney mood because I just met the loveliest woman whilst I was writing some hopeful notes, who was telling me about how she's going on a Disney cruise and although I am undeniably incredibly jealous , I was just thrilled by her enthusiasm and hope and it just filled me with happiness so now I'm in a fantastic mood :) I know I've now ruined the chronological order that this blog was meant to be in but I just couldn't wait to tell you :D Wow I like being happy ... I think I'm gonna do this more often aha :) 

Anyways, now I've got that little ( MASSIVE ) burst of excitement off my chest I guess I better say something normal ... so urmm hi ? nah I don't do normal I just get way to bored and sad if I'm being normal for too long :) I mean who wants to be normal ? Be yourself ! why ? because you're wonderful and special and so beautifully unique that it would be practically a crime to not allow the world the pleasure of seeing the real you shining through that made up facade that society put up for you ( I mean it was very nice of them to try but we don't need them to hide behind anymore ) You are You isn't that absolutely brilliant you are the only you out there so stop hiding that :) 

Following on from that unplanned second outburst of emotions aha is today quote :

" Be yourself , everyone else is already taken " 

- Oscar Wilde 

Wow, okay I seriously need to work on my rambling aha :) So today I started my work experience helping out in the special needs department of a school, only I didn't really because today I went out shadowing an educational psychologist ( I know, I didn't like how serious that sounds either ;) ) It was really interesting but not positive enough for me to particularly care to remember for the now because I don't want to write about sad things because there's so many positive things in the world , why focus on the negative minority just because; as John Green so beautifully ( as he puts everything ) puts it  " Pain demands to be felt" .. so when sad things start getting demanding I like to climb into my metaphorical happy bubble and think about nice things because a lot of the time I can't do anything about the sad things and worrying rarely achieves anything so I'd rather smile :) However when I was out I was asked to do some filing and yes that sounds boring and actually it was very boring however I like to think of it as good time to listen to my music because that sounds nicer than filing <3 I thought I'd share with you my top 10 songs ( In no particular order ) to work to in that sort of way and by that I mean work that involves moving slightly and requires some form of positive motivation :) Although I like these songs they're not necessarily my favourite's but they did put me in a good mood and gave me a great working attitude at the time .. but will probably of changed by tomorrow because my brains temperamental and  I'd like to apologies on it's behalf for that reason aha :) 

So here we go :) Top ten feel good songs... for today ;) 

1) For Baltimore - All Time Low 

2) This Kiss - Alex Day ft. Carrie H Fletcher 

3) Give Me Love - Ed Sheeran

4) Four Simple Words - Frank Turner

5) Lighthouse - Lucy Spraggan

6) Long Live - Taylor swift

7) Lightening In A Bottle - The Summer Set

8) Real Girls Eat Cake - The Janoskians 

9) My Favourite Thing To Sing - Tonight Alive 

10) Lived a Lie - You Me at Six 

Let me know what your favourite positive/feel good songs are in the comments,

Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :) 

I hope you have a truly wonderful day and are feeling equally positive :) If not I recommend listening to a few Disney songs and singing along because I always feel better after a sing song aha <3 

Much Love, Love Much-ly 

DontBurstMyBubble xxx

:) June Favourites

Hello :) 

I try to only write things that do at least one of three things : 

1) Help Someone

2) Make someone smile 

3) That I would want to read 

I have recently started reading quite a lot of monthly favourites blogs and I have realised that I actually really enjoy them :) So I thought I'd try it and see how it goes because if you don't try anything you'll never know if anything works . One of my favourite quotes to leave on quick hopeful notes is : 

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take " 

This is so true you have to just take a chance sometimes because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be <3 

Soo I guess I better stop rambling and get on with it ... Please don't like throw rocks at me or anything I'm just trying my best oh and if you want to comment any of your favourites this month them feel free to comment below ( I am aware you probably won't but just in case you fancy it the offers there ;) )

Cinema :)

Well considering my recent obsession with John Green's amazing book The Fault In Our Stars there's no prizes for guessing what my favourite film is right now :) This beautiful love story wasn't just a love story but a tale of truth and cancer . These star crossed lovers who can't fathom their thoughts into constellations left everyone in the cinema in laughter, tears and most of all despair over the death of their beloved Augustus Waters and his crooked smile <3 As a result I have also become obsessed over The Fault In our Stars merch :) I will leave the link to the official merch store of DFTBA ( Don't Forget To Be Awesome ) here :) I also wrote a blog straight after I saw the film , It's kind of a review and kind of not but I talk about my opinions of the film compared to the book and you can find that here.

Books :) 

I love reading <3 I always have since I was very little I remember Reading in bed trying not to get caught because it was ten o'clock on a school night ... I still have that problem but at three am ;) My Top three favourite books this month are : 

One Million Lovely Letters By Jodi Ann Bickley :
My thoughts of this book can't even make words. Jodi Ann Bickley is a remarkable, self less woman whom started off the most inspirational project to send people who needed it a " hug in an envelope" This heart warming auto- biography has changed my views on so many things forever <3 Please just read it I promise you won't regret it :) My favourite part is when she talks about her child hood I love the quote : 
" There were cups of tea to fix slit wrists and laughter to sellotape heartaches " The book really shows just how far kindness can go <3 I wrote more about my thoughts while reading it here . I also wrote about Ms Bickley's Project a while ago if you want more information on that you can find all the links in the blog i'll link to here :)

Sweet Honey by Cathy Cassidy: 
What was thought to be the final in The Chocolate Box Girls series turned out to be fantastic :) In Sweet Honey, Honey moves to Australia for a fresh start with her dad and meets the gorgeous Ash who works in the cafe on the beautiful beach ... a lil bit different from Tanglewood house . I love the whole series and although it's not my favourite; it's got to be a close second . Definitely read the book as part of the series though just so you can understand Honey's background :) Best of all on the last page of the book is an announcement for a surprise sixth book <3 I can't wait :) 

Eleanor & park by Rainbow Rowell :
By Far this is my favourite book this month <3 I would recommend this book to anyone :) Eleanor is an unusual ginger girl who is best described by Park “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something." <3 So well written and told from both characters prospectives this book will do exactly what John Green said it did for him : 
" Reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book " As usual Mr Green couldn't be more right :) 

Song :) 

 

My Favourite Song changes pretty much on an hourly if not momently ( is that a real word?) basis :) But in this currant second it's The Wrong Direction by Passenger :) I like songs that make me feel happy and although the lyrics are well written yet slightly depressing, I find that the cheery guitar music just makes me smile :) 

Clothing :) 

I have found quite a lot of tops that I like this month as well as a new found love for wearing dresses because well everyday is special :) Anyways this month I think my favourite top is a Batman top that I found on the New Look website , I haven't bought it yet , I'm hoping to tomorrow though :) What do you think ? It's £12.99 and  If you like it , you can find it here :)

Etsy

This month I've discovered Etsy which is amazing and full of cute home made things.... It's like my paradise :) It was so difficult to pick my favourite item because I found so much awesome stuff for all the fandoms that I have become obsessed over but in the end I decided that it had to be this Hufflepuff top after my awesome day out at the WB Harry Potter Studio's in London That I wrote about here :) 

Click here to find this top <3

Website :)

Only recently I've started using Pinterest again :) If you want any quick fix positivity then follow my on pinterest , I post positive quotes  days :) You can find me here :)

Jewellery :) 


On many occasions I've written about hopefuls and the hopeful forum . Well I found a hopeful on the hopeful forum who made and sold really cute jewellery on her website :) I'm definitely going to order some stuff , you should check it out at daisymaejewellery.com/ My Favourite piece of jewellery from her website is a really cute Four Wishes Necklace which is a tiny bottle with four little dandelion seeds in so you will always have four wishes on you <3

Blog :) 

I know I mentioned this blog earlier in the month because it's just so good and a similar positive style to mine :) You can Find BeNiceItsTuesday here :)

YouTuber :) 

Last but by no means least , I'd like to mention a new YouTuber that I've found :) She is also a hopeful and I really like her videos <3 She does a lot of reviews ( her most recent is of John Green's " Looking For Alaska" )and she's just generally got a nice style so if you want to check her out ; Her account name is Little_Dreamer3 

I hope you enjoyed that blog :) let me know if you want to read more of this sort of thing <3 
Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :) 
I'm sorry this took so long to post ... I still have no idea why it wouldn't aha :)
Much Love, Love Much-ly 
DontBurstMyBubble xxx

#100happydays: day 24 ( TFIOS Film - Warning minor spoilers )

Good evening :) 

I still haven't caught up on my sleep due to staying up to write two blogs yesterday , so this one will once again be short .. and hopefully sweet :) 

Today was a good-ish day that got better ... and better .. and then even better and now ? well I am in a very good mood :) You know those moods when you just feel warm and cosy and kinda fuzzy inside and just want to cuddle up in your favourite pyjamas in bed and continue to think lovely thoughts until you drift off into dreams of them ? yeah well I'm in one of those moods :) So how did you get into such a mood that sounds so perfectly marvellous ? I hear you ask ... well you probably didn't and probably aren't particularly interested aha which is fair enough but I think I'm going to tell you anyway because I'm sure I can fit some form of minor life lesson in there ... and if it gets really boring you can just skip to the quote at the end ;) 

So lets start at the beginning or a day that gets progressively better :) Firstly when I got on the bus that I nearly missed ( because it's me and I'm un-organised ... I think I can assume you have already picked that up from my late posting times aha ) I sat down and got a precious 30 minutes to read my book which is Sweet Honey by Cathy Cassidy it's the last in a series called the Chocolate Box Girls . I really enjoy her writing however this series is not my favourite of her books ... actually I don't think I could even pick one maybe Scarlett ... or Gingersnaps... or maybe Driftwood aha :) I might do a top ten books list in another blog post at some point ... that should be urmm interesting as I can't even decide on my favourite book by only one author haha :)

Then My friend got on the bus who hasn't really been feeling great for days however after an assembly about the possibility of going on a four week exhibition around Ecuador in 2016 with chances to learn to scuba-dive, Help out building in the community and meet and help school children who live in such different circumstances to us . The prospect of a new eye-opening experience in a one of the most bio-diverse places in the world , to indulge in a new and amazing culture and through ourselves into exciting opportunities all whilst travelling across a new country for such a long period of time just gave us both a massive burst of enthusiasm :) Soon we were talking about how amazing it would be if we could go and possible fundraising ideas if we do and even though we know it's pretty likely that we might not get to go, she cheered up very quickly :) I think that if your feeling down or you know someone that is, then you need to find something to be enthusiastic about or to work towards . This will automatically give you a new sense or focus that people can't take away from you and the prospect of something new and exciting can make you feel way more enthusiastic than sitting in your bedroom, eating chocolate and allowing yourself to wallow in self pity all day :) For example . say you didn't get then grade you want be it in a music examination or a school test whatever it was , pick yourself up, dust yourself off and say right now they think I can't do it so i'm going to work hard so that I can prove them wrong . Be honest with yourself .. come on everyone likes proving people wrong ;) Or even if it's just about doing something that you want to do and have wanted to do for a while, just go for it ! What's the worst that can happen as long as your pursuing your idea's safely and not causing anyone any harm then a new hobbie is a fantastic thing to pull yourself out of a time when your feeling really down :) If you want to read more of my stuff on passions I wrote a blog about it which you can find here :)  I know you can do anything you put your mind to :) So for once I think I'm going to put today's quote here in the middle instead of at the end because I like to live dangerously like that sometimes ;) So here have a quote from the most amazing man who was behind my childhood .. I seriously couldn't thank him enough :) 

" All our dreams can come true, If we have the courage to pursue them . " 
Walt Disney 

When I got home from school I did my make up and straightened my hair :) I really enjoy the actual process or getting ready to go out, just how you do your make up a bit different and feel abit more special :) It's important to do things that remind you you're special sometimes because I can promise you that you really are <3 You might just forget it sometimes .. which is okay because everyone forgets things ( seriously the amount of trouble I get into weekly for forgetting my PE kit is unbelievable aha  ) but it's important you let the people around you who you tryst know that your not feeling great because then they can remind you .. like my friends remind me about my PE kit ;) Anyway's so the reason I was straightening my hair ect was because me and my boyfriend were going to the cinema to go and see The Fault In Our Stars and Oh my gosh it was amazing <3 I loved the actors for both their obvious talent and well in some cases simply gorgeous looks *cough* Augustus Waters*cough* I thought It was a good adaptation of the book , it got me pretty emotional .. I'm not going to  lie, I cried but then again so did literally every other person in the cinema . I was vaguely amused by how the cinema was full of just groups of teenage girls fan-girling with mascara running down their faces and the occasional girl with a boyfriend who had been dragged along ... all of which looked sceptical at the beginning but were definitely also crying at the end even if they wouldn't admit it ;) However the film missed out many crucial parts of the book and this did rather annoy me ( and probably my boyfriend as I interrupted the film every 5 minutes moaning about it aha ) But seriously these were such important things to me in the book I was actually completely shocked by how they were just missed out . Things such as Augustus doesnt say he loves Hazel Grace on the plane, they miss out the part in the eulogy about seeing through girls tops, they don't even sell the swing set it's just gone at the end , Hazel constantly calls Augustus  "Gus" so the part at the end where she actually calls him Gus ( you know that really significant bit ) well that doesn't happen  , they miss out like half of the ending, your barely even see see Augustus when he's deteriorating from the illness , and lots of other little things that really annoyed me .. Now I think I've made the film sound bad , that's not what I wanted though . The Fault in Our Stars is a really good film that I thoroughly enjoyed and I would definitely recommend it to anyone :) But please don't watch the film and think you don't need to read the book the book because you've seen it because in my opinion The Fault In Our Stars is a utterly amazing novel which would make grown men cry and everybody laugh and I feel to fully appreciate the story of Hazel Grace and Augustus that the novel is a necessity :) 

My evening then got further better when it was topped off with a long hug and a really cute goodnight text from my boyfriend that left me feeling all fuzzy and smiley :) I hope someone's made you smile today if not then try making someone else smile because that will coincidently make you happy and I want so very much for you to be happy <3 :) Feel free to comment what people have done that made you smile today or even what you have done for someone else .. I mean you don't have to but it would be nice to see that there are nice people and positivity in the world :) 

So now I'm going to sleep to hopefully dream dreams as lovely as my currant thoughts
Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :) 
I hope your all doing marvellously ;) 
Much Love, Love Much-ly 
DontBurstMyBubble xxx

P.s. I'm aware the short and sweet thing didn't really work out aha ;) 

#100happydays: day 15

Good afternoon :)

 

How are we all today?  :) I'm grand if anyone wondering in fact " I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up " :) you have no idea how desperate I was to quote that haha :) I've been re-reading The Fault in our Stars by John Green before the film comes out this week . I'm about half way through and actually finding it painful to continue reading whilst being aware of the tragedy I know awaits me, drawing closer and closer with every page I turn ... yet I can't turn them fast enough :) If anyone reading hasn't read it ... just go and read it I can't say anything that will make you love the book more that reading it :) You wont regret it .

 

Today's been nice I hope your today has also been nice because then you will be smiley and smiling's good :) I'm sure your beautiful when you smile ... well beautiful-er <3 cheesy but true . Wearing your smile whether your feeling it or forcing it ; smiling's proven to make you feel better and I guess if you smile at someone else whether it's a friend or a stranger they will quite likely smile back and then they will feel happier because they're smiling and BAM you've just set off a chain reaction of smiling and people feeling better , aren't you a fantastic human being ;) 17 muscles, one tiny movement , it's not that much effort but it could do so much  :) So a quick challenge, not even a challenge because it's so easy but worth while all the same : Smile at someone, anyone just let them know that you're happy and it's okay for them to be too :) I found a blog that seems pretty positive and I really enjoyed reading here if you have time you should definitely check it out :)

 

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh

 

of smiling and happiness; My #100happydays today was kind of difficult to choose , there were lots of things but none of them are massive but little things make up big days :) In the end I chose a photo of a box of quotes a friend gave me at Christmas, she found them , wrote them out ( I'm mean like a hundred of them or something ridiculously sweet) , and gave them to me to keep me smiling.. I have to admit , I cried ( I know it's ironic) But happy tears I promise you ;) I have kept them and looked through them when I'm down. Today I decided my room needed brightening up so I stuck up a world map to remind me if things aren't always going so well here it doesn't even matter how bad it is because I have the rest of the world to explore , a lot more people to meet and so many more smile's to come...I think that's a important thing to remember :) I then found some blue tack and stuck all the quotes to my door to make it like a doorway of positivity :) I only got about a third the way down but I'm going to write up some more quotes and get to half the door and then I think I will find a positive poster to cover the bottom half :) If anyone knows any good quotes to use for this sort of thing then please feel free to comment them :)

 

Remember to Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :)

If your having a bad day try making a box of positive quotes, it will distract you from the bad day and you will have something to turn to if you get another bad day :)

Much love, love much-ly

DontBurstMyBubble xxx