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Showing posts with label french. Show all posts

Les fleurs et les mots.



"I didn't know who I was supposed to be at fifteen" - Fifteen by Taylor Swift

I still don't know who I am meant to be in this life, I have so many ideas that run at full speed through my head in the hope that some day I will catch one and run with it. But until then I shall wander through the gardens of old houses and write scruffy words and weird meaningless drawing on lined paper. 



Maybe it was the way I was brought up or the number of times I read the Narnia collection that influenced my love of old houses and their formal gardens. There is something magical about them, that makes me feel like I am living in a fairytale or I should be swanning around in Downton Abbey style dresses...



An open door to the not so secret garden...



Pages from the last couple of days in my journal, some days it is 4 or 5 pages of solid writing and then other days I draw and write. I get the majority of my inspiration for this blog from my journal so I guess my blog is the best bits of my ideas that I scrawl in black ink and watercolours.

XO, Miriam

Bowler Hats and Diary Entries.

The photo card says: "You're my cup of tea" and it reminded me of Alice in Wonderland so it has been added to my wall.

Lately I have be wondering about my blog, and what it is for now I have completed the CAS programme section of the IB. I considered whether it could go in new directions, or if it should be removed entirely. I came to the conclusion that it shall go in new directions, ones that suit me not the few people who read my blog. That doesn't mean I don't appreciate them reading, but I believe that for me at least having a blog should be for me. 

Now I have decided to get back into blogging for me more than I have over the past few months, and for that I need to be more comfortable with myself both internally and externally, which I hope I will be able to achieve more easily when I have finished my exams. I also want it to be a place to recorded my thoughts and internal monologues that I keep in a neat on the outside but scruffy on the inside journal. There is no time like the present to begin a new way of thinking and therefore typing. 

So here goes nothing important to everyone but me:



I guess this is something I have always wanted to do, cover up "that" school logo, with it's obnoxious motto. But I also know that "that" school and it's logo shaped me to be who I am today, whether that be good or bad.

 

"This world is all so real and fake. Only what you experience is real, what you see with your eyes and believe in your heart, everything else fades into nothingness compared to those memories of what you have done." - mon journal intime



Blurred images and unrealistic ideas of what I should be to "fit in" hide under this bowler hat. All of those stupid, crazy, fansical (is that even a word?) dreams that spill out on to pages of paper filled with in and ideas of my own personal wonderland fill my head when I take myself away from people where I sit nervously, never knowing how to act or what to say.


//Tee - Zara//Blazer - School//Trousers - Fat Face// Hat - Topshop//


XO, Miriam

Fancy in pink.

So April has begun with the last coursework deadline for the IB, then it will be a month of revision... I just hope that it is sunny so I can make notes and read up on topics outside. However it is Easter this month so that means chocolate! Not much though I am trying to eat clean and workout at the moment to de-stress, as I find that get worked up a lot easier when I don't! Besides the nearly endless college work I have been loving the colour pink, which is a bit of a shock as I tend to stick to blue when it comes to colour, but don't these look so good:

If you have read this space on the internet before you will know that I wear these tights at every opportunity, you cannot tel from the picture but that have the silhouettes of Paris' most famous monuments.  and go really nicely with short skirts and shorts, of which I own plenty. (Only because I was gifted long legs)
So instead of blogging and going on fancy day trips like a lot of blogger do on their weekends I have been working as a lifeguard and swimming teacher, not new to me of course, but I am working extra at the moment to make up for the fact I won't be around in June. And naturally I have been revising my french by reading this funny little book, which I might do a review of in English and French.. maybe. I have only made it through one chapter in a week as I have to look up words but regardless of whether the book is good I really enjoy reading in another language.
I nearly knocked over the tripod several times while shooting this outfit. I have done a similar thing before with different dress also from Hollister, layering it over an old school shirt to almost create a new dress, I have also layered skirts and jumpers with dresses here and here.  And having worn school uniform for so long I just couldn't resist being super preppy by wearing my brogues which I believe to be from Clarks.

XO, Miriam

The Coffee Shop List


Recently I have discovering new coffee shops in the city that I go to college in, and that I find it a lot easier to concentrate when I have good coffee, and no one I know around to distract me. So me and my boyfriend have decided to create a list of all of the coffee shops in the city, and visit them all before I head off to university in the autumn. It is my version of getting to know a place if they have good coffee shops and book shops I am sold!

The pictures were taken in a small place called the Exploding Bakery, where not only do they do amazing coffee and the photographed hot chocolate, they bake several gluten free goodies including some of the best chocolate brownies I have ever tasted.

XO, Miriam

P.S. What do you judge towns and cities on? and do you prefer independent coffee shops or big brands like Starbucks?
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