Joy Nash

Joy Nash is a lovelyhead. For definite. Now, I'm not medically overweight, and neither is Flo. But I have been bigger than I am now. I've been a 12/14 British size. I didn't have a problem being that size, because being that size didn't detract from who I am. That is the biggest part of what me and Flo would describe being a lovelyhead as. Somebody who is beautiful in character, in mind, in spirit. It's not your weight that determines these things, which is why I would much rather focus on working on these things, than other stuff. As a "skinny" girl, I support what Joy is saying here, I support healthy GOOD appetites. Because I truely believe beauty comes from within.

*Wednesday Love*

While my amazing lovelyhead partner is finding beauty in bras, well, I'm finding it in the best chai tea ever!!! And, it's a gift from her too!! I am so spoiled. If you've never tried it before, I "highly" recommend it! You won't regret it... I promise! ;)

I guess this *Wednesday Love* is all about bras and tea! :p

*wednesday love*

Bras! Lots and lots of bras! Well...okay...four. But four bras for £32! BARGAIN! Look at the stars, and mini buttons, and pretty prints. YES BRAS! Bras ladies (and gentlemen) are a very serious matter. They cost money, and do a very important job. And they are my *wednesday LOVE*!

*Thursday Love* oups... :p

I was so busy yesterday all day that I completely forgot about Lovelyheads post. I am so sorry... I hope you'll forgive me just as we all forgave Rhi for posting hers on a Thursday too a few weeks ago!!! LOL

NO COMPROMISE!!! That's what I say! Nope, I am not gonna compromise who I am. I am not going to lie about what I believe. I am not going to be someone else just so that people around me can either accept me or even love me. Who cares? If they don't accept me as I truly am in the first place then that means that they are not worth it anyways!
Have you ever met those people who already have an expectation of what they want you to be like? Gosh, they're all around me!!! But I'm NOT going to change what I believe, who I am and everything about me because of them. Yes, maybe my parents have an important position in this country and I do realize that they are well known around here too, but I am not going to change because of some people wanting me to be different!! To be like them? Think like them, breath like them. No way! No chance! Are you kidding me? I'm not expecting anyone to think the way I do... and I wouldn't even want too!!!! And........... wouldn't it be too boring if everyone were and thought the same? Either that or the earth would have already been destroyed!

Happy Thursday x

*wednesday love*

Boys are silly. Very very silly. But it made me smile!

Happy *wednesday love*!

Beauty Love

Wow, I can't believe that it's already been a week that we've been doing the beauty posts everyday!!! I've really enjoyed it a lot. :)

This post isn't gonna be long, but straight to the point and so to finish our 7 days beauty I wanted to encourage you all to not scared of being yourself. But to be proud of being "out of the box". I love that. I love real beauty. And being different is a part of real beauty to me. Let's all BE everyday and let's enjoy ourselves. For we are beautiful. We truly are ;)

Much love x

Beauty in peace

Beauty in peace. It's just a shame it is so hard to come by. And most days, it feels impossible.

The most beautiful people I know though, accept who they are, and how they are, what they feel and what they think. And that is it. They accept it. The most beautiful people I know are honest about who they are, what they feel, how they think. The most beautiful people I know understand the beauty in just being, but the truth in fighting for peace. The most beautiful people I know, accept the fact that peace isn't an instant promise, but choose to still fight for it.

I'd like to have some peace this month. Maybe thats why I find so much beauty in it :)

Childlike

Happy Friday :)

The "you are lovely" card was made by Rhi. Very arty, hey? I love it.

I've been keeping my little sister for my parents while they are away in Colombia for 10 days. It's been great to be able to see what she is like and how she reacts to things. She trusts me when I promise her something and believes in lots of other things like these. Then I thought, "wow that will change for sure when she grows up at some point"... well, won't it?
Her way of thinking is naive and so pure. childlike. I remember that I was like that when I was young. These past few days with my sister have made me realize how much I have changed. Some areas of my heart have become harder and some softer. So strange how you can change when life throws things at you. I kind of wished today that I hadn't grown up.
Now, couldn't we have a childlike heart again? I don't mean being childish. I don't mean staying a child forever, but I believe that we could have as adults a childlike heart. I find that so beautiful. I sometimes feel like that side of me has been put in jail!!! But I am trying to find a way to free the fun girlie girl that 's trapped inside of me.
I've seen lots of little girls that had to grow up fast... too fast. Like that 11 years old little girl who is pregnant today because her step father rapped her! She is so tiny and has no breasts or no woman shapes yet. And yet. Her face is like the face of a 30 years old woman who has already through a lot in her life. How could she be "childlike" again? Would it ever be possible?

Gosh, what a deep subject. I'd have so much more to say... but I'm not going to unless you wanna spend the rest of your night reading my entry!!! lol
I guess, I just wanna challenge us all to try to find that childlikeness that's somewhere deep inside of us. And because of what we have seen, experienced and heard we have become somehow "grown ups"... but maybe too much in some areas. Now, I might be completely wrong about this. I just am on a self discovery journey and wanted to share these things with you.

Hope you all had a lovely day. x

RAK's

I'm really amused by some of the continuity of our posts Flo!

I got back yesterday from London town to land of Wales. On returning I had not one, not two, but three packages from my lovely friends! Post rocks! and friends rock!

Aparently it was my half birthday yesterday. Yes. My friend Jess celebrates two birthdays a year. Nice for her or what? But it was nice for me too! This is just a little bit of what she sent me for my half-birthday, a rockin' tote and this amazing book.

Random Acts of Kindness. You may have heard this term bandied around amongst crafting circles alot. But I really believe this should be a fundamental to living! Random Acts of Kindness. The world would be such a beautiful palce to be. Here are a few from the book:

*Plant a flower in someone's garden under cover of darkness.
*Say something nice about someone behind their back.
*Smile at everyone you see.
*Feed the ducks.
*Forgive someone.

The examples range from the ridiculous to the profound. But there is beauty in all of them. Beauty in kindness. And definitely beauty in Random Acts of Kindness. Create your own. Invent a non-existant special date and shower someone with post. Pay for someone on the bus. Let somebody in front of you in a queue. Be kind.

In the spirit of RAK's leave a comment/email, and get something pretty in the post. It's as simple as that :)

*Wednesday Special Beauty*

I really loved Rhi's entry yesterday. It really spoke to me a lot. She is amazing, isn't she? Rhi loves feet pictures and so, as I was thinking about her the other day, I decided to take a picture of mine. Just for you Rhi ;) The belly that you see on the picture is my baby belly!!! And even though it's been a new learning curve to fully embrace the changes in my body, I am sssooo proud of my baby!!!! Anyways, as I was saying before I was thinking about the few friends that I have got and I felt so grateful. You see, I am not the kind of girl who had 1ooooooo of friends. I choose my friends very carefully cause of sad and hurtful experiences in the past. Also I hate having superficial friendships. I can't stand that. "Hello... how was your day... and work... good to see you... byebye!!!! " Have you ever met people who ask the question: "how are you" but you know and feel that they really don't care and don't even want to know??? Oh man, that kind of friendship is for sure NOT for me!!!! I am so grateful to have the friends I have. They have made my life so much brighter and without them... well, I am not sure how I could have endured the things I have gone through the past few years.
There is so much in true friendship isn't there? So, my beauty tip of the day is to be thankful again, but this time for the friendships that we have. I believe that true friends are rare to find and that once we've found one, we should cherish it like the most precious thing we've ever had!!!!! Now, that's beauty... True Friendships. :D

I hope you all had a lovely Wednesday. x

PS: I know that you might think that I am late for my post, but you see, it's actually 9:40pm my time... therefore, it's still Wednesday here!!! lol ;) So, I am NOT too late!!! :D

Journal the detail

I believe fully in the power of the detail, the little things that make you inately you. I used to struggle with this, unable to understand how everybody can be the same and yet different, and on a personal level how I can display my difference in my life, but still be something that resembles Jesus.

I journal ALOT. I blog, I write, I art it up, I have a million and one journals scattered around my flat. Within my scrapbooking I don't ever really touch on my brother's death. I can think of maybe one page that I have done, and that was a hard page. It doesn't feel like something that can be made pretty, that can be turned into something beautiful. It is what it is, and that is overwhelming and hard. This is part of the reason I believe in the power of the detail. Of the trivial; the order you eat a fast food meal (fries, burger, drink, for the record ;)) whether you count the amount of hours sleep you get on waking, your favorite smells in the whole world, where you find glimpses of peace and beauty. Those things are inately you, you may share some of them with others, but there are always things that are just you. The smallest and stupidest detail occurs ALOT in my pages. The small triviality is not necessary unscrapworthy/unjournal worthy/un-note (word?!) worthy. In fact it can be in those things the beauty is found.

I find comfort in knowing I find going to the toilet so boring that I always leave it till the last minute. When i'm angry/excited/shocked/disbelieving my voice will get higher and higher untill it is only audible to bats and dogs. It's part of me, that I can't sleep without socks. These are the small things that make up my daily person. I believe totally that knowing these things, will also help me to know more about my character. To learn more about myself.

Amongst all the mess, the pain, the big challenges, it is these little things that help make me, me! It is these glimpses that can maybe be something to be thankful for.

So I challenge you, blogland, to create a layout/journal an entry/paint a page in your art journal, with 3 - 5 short facts, little snippets, one liners, that are you. Your habbits, your loves, your dislikes. They can be as insane as you, as quiet as you, as kooky as you, as long as they are about you! The layout doesn't have to have a picture, it can have more than 5 things if you get on a roll! It doesn't have to have any kind of structure, its just about getting those things down on paper, documenting them, so that generations to come will know I found going to toilet boring and that's where they get it from ;)

These are just some of my recent pages from a digital art journal I am keeping, just for a little bit of eye candy and inspo!

Please share with us if you take up this challenge. Send us a link to your blog, send us an email, leave us a comment, send a smoke signal in the air if its your thing! I'd love to see the details of you :)

*Monday Beauty Love*

Have you ever thought that all you want to do is close your eyes and find yourself in the place you so crave to be in? Or, have you ever desired to be able to sleep at night cause you are restless and yet tired all at the same time... but there is no way you can sleep the way you want to? Have you ever felt overwhelmed by everything around you and just wanted to disappear... just for a few minutes, days, weeks, years or maybe forever? Have you ever felt that you were living reality as a nightmare and that all you wish is to wake up to the lovely reality... the only thing is that nightmare is reality? I have experienced those feelings so much. Many times. And maybe too many times. I don't know but I am always trying the best I can to look at life, at what happens around me and in my own life in a positive way even if it just seems impossible to at times. I shouldn't complain and keep being thankful for the little things that I have. In those days where everything seems so dark, I have to try to keep being positive. Yes, it's hard. I guess, that's my challenge for the week. Let's try to be thankful for the things that we do have. I was walking in the street the other week and saw this middle age man who didn't have his legs anymore. I went towards him and put a few coins in the little hat he had on front of him. He seemed so in pain emotionally and yet happy all at the same time. So, I asked him: Why are so happy about? And he replied: "Well, I am alive aren't I? I am still breathing... I am thankful for that." And I thought "WOW"!!!!! That man touched my heart and he doesn't even know it. I guess, that's the secret... being thankful for what we do have. I know that we all could debate a lot on that subject, cause maybe some of us don't even wanna be alive... but we just take a day at the time and BE. I have felt that before. And I still do. I don't even know how to "BE" sometimes. But, from now on I am gonna try to be thankful for the things that I have and I am going to BE. Everyday. Even if that means not knowing exactly what it means!!! LOL Is that way too complicated to understand? Am I even making any sense?!?!
Anyways, I just wanted to share with you what I feel is a beauty tip... being thankful.

I hope you all had a lovely Easter Monday... eats lot and lots of chocolate!!! I am so going chocolate shopping tomorrow cause all the easter eggs will be on sale!!! LOL Sneaky sneaky!!!! ;)

7 days of beauty

Happy Easter to those lurking in blogland! We hope you have had a chocolate filled day of love and sparkles, with perhaps remembering what some of us celebrate most about this holiday :)

To celebrate Easter (rhi's fav holiday) and flo's return from the jungle for three weeks (broadband baby!) we are going to run 7 days of beauty. From now untill next Sunday we will alternatively be posting glimpses of beauty that we've seen, thought about, made, baked, eaten, felt! We have no idea where this is going, we have no set plans for it, we're just going to wing it. Hoping we would have learnt something about each other, and maybe ourselves in the process.

Suggestions of beauty are always welcome! If there are any ideas out there for us, please just drop us a line! There may well be a RAK included somewhere amongst all this beauty we're hoping to discover, because we love to spread the love!

We're enjoying keeping this blog so much so far. The huge distance between us can sometimes feel quite ridiculous, but this enables us to be able to share things with each other that we would of missed out on otherwise. We'd love for you to join us too if you would like, making friends is what its all about right?

*~*sparkles and love*~*

A huge *Wednesday Love*

Did I even mention that I love cooking and baking? Well, I made that amazing pineapple cake and yet, it's such an easy recipe. The name of the cake is it's recipe: "5, 4, 3, 2, 1":
5 big spoonful of flour
4 big spoonful of sugar
3 big spoonful of milk
2 big spoonful of sunflower oil
1 egg
(1/2 little bag of baking powder)
You will then have to put the mixture in the mold and then add your pineapples on top of it. Put it it the oven for about 30 minutes on 220 degrees. Once it's cooked, you can add some icing sugar on top of it... and then BON APPETIT!!!! :)

I promise that I didn't know that Rhi was gonna give you a recipe either. I was planning on doing this for my wednesday love today all week!!!! LOL



Do you like lazy mornings? I love them sssooo much!!! I really love staying my PJs. Esp those PJs... they are so comfy and so soft. I just thought I'd share my Wednesday Love laziness morning with you!!!

Hope you all had a lovely day x

ALOT of *wednesday love*

A bit of a blue theme, aparently. Lot's of smiles today. The lamp posts that run up my road. My road. The underground. Starbucks. Blue sky and sun. Being at home. Yummy walnut and banana cake. Cherry fruit tea. Seeing friends. London streets.

To make this cake you will need:

200g sugar,
115g butter (or pure if you are going dairy free like moi)
2 eggs (or4 egg white, 2 egg whites = 1 egg)
4 bananas mashed
150g self raising flour (or plain and add in suitable amount of baking powder)
100g wholewheat flour
100g chopped walnuts
Vanilla extract (optional, I add it to everything I bake ;))

1. Cream the sugar and butter.

2. Mix the eggs, flour, and banana into sugar and butter.

3. Mix in the walnuts, and spoon into a cake tin. (If need be seperate into two tins, a deep one will take forever to cook. Trust me, I learnt the hard way!)

4. Cook for 45-60 mins on 190 degrees C.

Eat your yummy cake with a cup of nice tea and all might seem well with the world for a brief moment.

Hope your wednesday's were happy <3

*A living miracle*

Yes, baby is a miracle. I can't stop thinking about the fact that I will be a 1st time mum in August. I keep reading about how big the baby gets every week and all the changes that happen in his/her little body. I feel like only 50% on my brain can understand this amazing living miracle. Isn't it amazing to think that a human being is growing in me? I am speechless when I feel his/her moving and kicking. There is just no word that could ever express what I feel right now. I am just in awe. I feel the weight of the responsibility. I am already so in love with baby. So protective. I feel so excited and yet so terrified. Nervous. Scared. Happy. In awe.

I guess, just as I said before, baby is a "Living Miracle".

I crown her...

What a bunch of useless lovelyheads! Amongst the votes Flo voted TWICE, Christine couldn't even make her mind up, and some lovely anon threw in a whole new name to mix it up!! So I am going with....dun dun daaaaaaaaar:

*~*Dee Dee*~*

It ended up being a tie between Shirley and DeeDee, and I wasn't about to run this poll all over again! She can be Dee Dee Shirley and win the competition for camera with the longest name ever.

Now I need to make me a contraption....