I spilled a bag of minstrels in my bag today. So ive been picking them out all day.

Dust dust dust
Munch munch munch
Yum yum yum.

That is all

Well, it's happened. Moody has moved down south to work for his brother. I am officially in a long distance relationship. Bah. Makes it worse when you're used to spending all your time with them. I'm keeping myself busy to - going out with my housemates - making stuff for random quirks ( no more sales on etsy yet - but have had a couple of custom orders for friends) etc. Won't be seeing him til the 8th of feb since i wont get money til then.

On the bright side - i will get to live with him next year. And randomly I got complimented on my purple hair today at the supermarket, awesome. :D

Meh

Hey people. Omg, I've now signed up to etsy and have my own shop. Woo. It was Moody that finally gave me the push and I'm so glad he did. And on the first day a pair of my barbie shoe earrings sold! Yay! Check it out:

www.randomquirks.etsy.com

Awesome. I'm in such a good mood.

How was everyones new years?

xxx

Well, I'm up in Scotland visiting my parents. In the Aber of the deen (Aberdeen :D)

The train journey was a nightmare. It started off so well. My dad got me first class tickets (only £10 extra on a weekend, awesome)! Was soooo excited, never been on first class before. Well, I had to change trains at one point, but my train had to do a detour cos there was a broken rail, so my train arrived 15 mins late in york. That meant that i missed my connection! And my tickets were for that specific train. So I had no choice but to jump on the next train (which was delayed 10 mins - little kids playing on the tracks) and sit in second class.

Problem was that the ticket dude said i couldnt use my tickets cos it was for a different kind of train, and that if I got off at the nextstop then he wouldnt charge me £50. So I got off in Newcastle and went to the info desk. They said that I could get on the train free of charge and the ticket dude let me back on.

So I got back on the train to hear an announcement saying that the train was delayed cos they were missing some staff and we had to wait for them. 15 mins later we started to move and I got to Dundee. My next train was at 9 but i arrived at about 3 mins to 9, so i ran my ass off to the platform and just made it onto the train. To avoid anymore having to explain my ticket problems to the ticket people, I pretended to be asleep all the way to Aberdeen, again in standard class

Supposed to happen: I left at 2.30, supposed to be travelling first class after having paid for it, changing once and arriving at 9.

Reality: I left at 2.30, sat in first class, then missed my connection, sat in standard, got thrown off a train and was almost left stranded in Newcastle, almost missed my next connection and had to pretend to be asleep. Arriving at 10.30

Trains SUCK.

Ah well, I'm here now. Since I used to live here 10 years ago, my mum took me and my brother on a tour today of all our old houses (we moved a lot) and our schools. Was weird being back. Am gonna see my best friend from primary school aswell, we've kept in touch all these years. Makes me feel kinda old, even though Im only 19 and a half.

Well, more soon,

Toodles

Omg, I'm sooooooooooo tired. Today is the beginning of my Christmas holidays so I can finally relax.

Very sorry if I haven't posted or commented in ages but if I can barely make time for Moody, then there's just no hope for anyone else. :D I had too many deadlines, not enough sleep, christmas shopping, not enough food, just too much work and barely any play. Blah! Ok there is the end of my rant, now for happiness:

I'm freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....for a few weeks. :D

Will be making the 6 hour trek up to Scotland on Saturday to see the folks so that'll be cool. Plus, I get to see people who I haven't seen in almost 10 years (used to live in Scotland), so yay!

Plus, with no deadlines a-looming I can focus on making stuff again, I miss it soooo much. And I can also write up all my notes from lectures this term cos I can barely read the ones I took, lol.

Anyway, best be off, I have pizza going cold.

Ah the life of a student.

Well, I am actually doing quite well with money this month. But thats probably cos I had a stomach bug and didnt eat for 4 days. Food shopping suddenly becomes so much cheaper, lol. Ah well, I'm better now and am eating everything in sight to make up for it. :D

The European market has come to Manchester so i get to have yummy beef rolls with stuffing. Theres like only one stall that has beef, the rest have pork. They also have awesome desserts like mini pancakes and hot chocolate with bailys in it. Am going again today, gotta pack in as much food before it goes again.

Went to see the Foo Fighters at the start of th month. Was amazing! There was this walkway down the middle of the stadium where we got really good places right at the front of it, so we had the perfect view when people walked down the walkway. I was like 6 ft away from Dave Grohl. Heaven! There was this really funny girl on the other side of the walkway who seemed to be a really big fan cos when Dave said they had to go and how could he make it up to us she yelled "By letting me suck your cock!" Hee hee.

Had my Halloween party before that - was really good. I remember most of it, but according to the pictures, I had a very good time, lol.

Uni work is catching up on me, got so many deadlines.

But hey, its Christmas in a month :D

Hope all you yanks had an awesome thanksgiving.

Cheerio

Well this year is definitely underway.

Projects have been given out, I've settled into my house, am still poor, lol.

Am a lot happier with my course, I've made good friends with the extension of my group last year, and I'll be with them for our design workshops. The group I was with last year didn't want me in their group this year, (charming) so I'm in a group with the extension and 2 others who are very nice. I'm a lot happier, :D

Plus we've started getting placement opportunities coming in. After looking at the list of where people are this year (3rd years), I saw that all the good ones are in London. I always said that I'd never live in London cos it was way too big and scary, but now that I look at it logically, I see that after all it would be a pretty good place to live. So bah, I'll eat my words. The more I think about it, the more I look forward to it. Especially since Moody said he might be able to come with me. Since he's still looking for a job here, its probably best since his dad said he could get him a job in London.

The thing is that if he doesn't find a job by the new year, his contract on his flat expires and his dad will make him come home and work for him. Either that or he'll go to his sisters down south where he can work for his uncle. So I've got to help him find a job. He's my best friend, I can't imagine not living in the same city as him. Fingers crossed.

Well anyway, my house is throwing a Halloween fancy dress party this Friday, so I need to decide what I'm going as. I'm poor so I can't go and get anything new. Luckily I have a little collection. Basically I've got:

A glittery silver cowboy hat
A HUGE long blonde curly wig
A Viking hat
A plastic axe
Fairy Wings
A tiara

So far Ive come up with; evil viking, evil fairy, evil fairy barbie, normal fairy, Cowgirl barbie, Viking barbie, and If i team the wig with a shirt, smart trousers and a waist coat - an office bimbo.

Anyone come with anything better? :D

Better be off, lecture to go to, joy.

See ya.

Well, my first week back in Manchester is over. It's been a good one. Tho I do have no money. Cos I'm going to see the Foo Fighters in November so that £30 has been spent. And last night me and Moody found out that Queens of the Stonage tickets went on sale the day before! Crap! So we were surfing the net at top speed trying to get some. They were all sold out everywhere. Luckily we managed to get balcony seats in Glasgow! Thats better than nothing, bout £20 each so that was another £40 gone. Plus I've got to pay my rent, so I'm left with about £70 for 10 days which is definately do-able, tho it may be harder if I want to go out which I'm going to be tonight.

Apart from that, its gonna be a good year I think, went to the first frisbee training today which was cool, loads of new people as well as the familiar faces

Um, yeah apparently, the second year of uni is the hardest so that will be interesting. We've got to compete for our placements for next year. Bit scary seeing as I have no idea where I'll be this time next year, but exciting at the same time.

Monday and Tuesday will be the best days of the week cos on Monday I don't have to go in til 2 in the afternoon, and on Tuesday I don't have to go in at all. Awesome. But it evens out cos I start at 9 the other 3 days. 9 is so harsh, but it could be a lot worse. I'm quite happy with my timetable so far. The year has been split into 6 groups for lectures and I am with the same people as last year plus, apparently we can pick our own groups for team work now so I'll be with the same people again. Theres pros and cons to that.

Anyway, am loving my new house mates. The house is cool, but we have an evil toilet that keeps getting blocked, so annoying. I painted polka dots on my bedroom wall, looks pretty darn cool.

Am still making stuff, and me and my housemate found this really cool market down the road that has loads of fabric stalls. Bought a couple of metres there and then. Plus they have load of other crafty supplies so that will be useful. Have painted a couple more t-shirts and made a load of barbie shoes earrings and happy face earrings to add to my collection. Still waiting on my website tho, getting frustrated.

Anyway, gotta go.

Moody can't be suddenly woken up himself, ha ha, I'm mean.

A taster for the fun to come from my course. Last year during a lecture a girl with a HUGE goofy grin came in asking if her scarf was under one of the desks. A girl picked it up and said "Is it white?". The girl yelled back "No it's white!" Cue sniggering.

I love my course. It amuses me.

I love wearing big baggy jeans and my huge team frisbee hoodie to my fashion lectures. It really freaks people out, ha ha!

Yes, I am packing to go back to the land of Manc, and more importantly back to the course full of scary thin girls with HUGE sunglasses (its raining dammit!). Luckily, there are a lot of interesting people too otherwise I don't know what I'd do.

The bad thing about my course is that no one knows anyone outside their group. On the first week you sit next to people and they are your friends, no do-overs. Everyone forms tight cliques so if you're in a group you don't like, well tough. My group are nice enough, but I'm not really sure if they like me as a close friend. When I say I'm not sure, I mean I'm pretty sure they don't like me like that. They never invite me out with them and when I was having trouble finding people to live with for this year, they just said, I'm sure you'll find someone.

Oh well, I'm very happy with the people I'm living with as of tomorrow. They are a cool bunch of down to earth girls. And another thing, I have decided who cares if my course mates don't invite me out. In fact, next time I'm going out with my friends, I'll invite them along. And if they say no a few times, then I know they don't like me, lol.

Am really looking forward to moving in tomorrow. Still got a whole load more stuff to pack, but think I'll leave that to the morning. On the website design thing, I still haven't heard anything from the cousin. So am waiting til the 18th, then it will have been two weeks so then I'll send him a friendly email asking how he's getting on. Am also taking things into my own hands by attempting to learn html via the internet. For someone who didn't know squat about it a week ago, I'm pretty clued up now. Just need to get it all into some kind of order which all the tutorials seem to have forgotten about. May ask Moody as he's a bit more computer savvy then I am.

Oh, the wedding went well by the way. My dress was ok, even got a couple of compliments, yay. Met Moody's family. Its funny cos everyone calls Moody posh cos of his southern accent but in fact his family were all cockney, lol. They were all really nice and it was great to finally meet them all.

Got my hair cut finally today, looks pretty damn good, lol. Nothing fancy, just a trim with my layers re-done.

Anyway, better go got some sleeping to do. Got a long day tomorrow.

I'll leave you with this: Why is it that magazines are using the word chic all the time, you know, military chic, ooh that would look so chic with some ankle boots, and Victoria Beckham is soooo chic? Is it like in primary school when you were writing a story and could only come up with suddenly and all of a sudden, so you kept alternating them? Moody pointed this out. It made me wonder

Hmmmm..........

According to my facebook fortune cookie. Wow, that hit the nail right on the head. Am gonna be making a few of those.

Its my last night in Jordan. The family is now at peace with my grandmas death and so am I. It's kinda odd she's not here, but at least she's at peace. Her death reminded me that life is too short. She lived her's well (hell, she had 6 kids and 14 grandchildren, lol) and now I'm gonna live mine. It gives me that extra push to do the things I want in life. I consider myself more of a creative person, not really academic, and really enjoy making things. I feel that now is as good a time as ever to do what I've always wanted to; run my own shop. Obviously I'm poor, so ive got myself an online business. I've been thinking about it all this summer, making plans, and so on, but now i'm definately gonna do it. I've already got me a web domain, just £10 a year (thank you dad) just need to make it work.

I am very fortunate to have a family full of computer geeks. They are awesome and all have their specialities. My brother has just done the basics for it and is brilliant at making it work, while my cousin has just told me tonight that he can design it for me. I am sooo lucky. Just hope people like my stuff.

Am gonna be selling bags, painted tees, jewellry (just made a load of barbie shoe earrings, lol), pretty custom made camera cases and maybe even some of my graphic prints.

I've been working non stop when i have the time to sort things out and my grandma has helped me to just go for it. If it fails, hey, I'm at uni, got a degree to fall back on. I would rather find out i can do it now with nothing to lose, then to wait til after uni and have to juggle it with a job, or quit my job for nothing. Its now or never.

Enough of my musings, have got a lot of trips to do. Tomorrow, back to london, drive up north back home. Fit in making myself a bag for my wedding outfit when i get home, then the next day take a train to moody's dads house. Day after that drive down south for the wedding. Day after, back to his dads house, day after that back to mancs, then a couple of days after that may be going with Moody to Blackpool to visit his mum, then gotta go home get my stuff and move into my house in manchester. All this in 10 days, phew. I'll be living out of a suitcase...again. Thats part of the fun.

These last two weeks have been hard, obviously. I hated the funeral cos it was 3 days long. You sit there doing nothing while a bunch of old ladies talk in arabic. It made losing my grandma even worse. When it was over, we tried to make sure we had lots to do. We even went to the Dead Sea last weekend, just to get away from things. It was very relaxing and I felt much better having gone there. Bloody hot tho.

Anyway, i'd better go, its almost 1 in the morning here and i have to leave at 7 for the airport.

Hope you've all been well.

The giant trip begins.

Today was the day
you left your bed,
Today was the day
you flew away,
Tonight is the night,
you reach the stars,
There's no looking back
at us down here.

Today was the day
you closed your eyes,
Today was the day
you left the world behind,
Tonight is the night
you find your love again.

Today was the day
you slipped away.


My grandma died this morning. She didn't feel any pain, she just slipped away. I'm thankful she's at peace now. I went to see her this morning. I've never seen a dead body before. I just kissed her on the cheek and whispered in her ear "goodbye tayta" (arabic for grandma). The reality of the situation was that her body has been here, but her mind and soul died last saturday when she had the stroke. She's up in the sky now.

...Only to be leaving again.

Just got back from Manchester. Got to see Moody and go to a mates birthday.

Found out that my arab grandma had a stoke a few days ago. She's still unconcious and is critical. Not looking very good. So we're flying back out to Jordan again to go see her. Apparently she stopped breathing at one point and is now most likely brain damaged. Don't really know what to do. I only hope that if she's going to go, she goes quick so she's not in pain for months on end like my english grandad did before he died. Its kinda good to have some warning so at least we can get there and say goodbye. I didn't get to say goodbye to both my grandads. Don't really know what to expect, but kinda do at the same time, when I get there. Guess all I can do is be strong for my younger cousins cos they're old enough to understand this time. I just really hope she's not in pain.

We booked the flights so we're gonna be there for two weeks. So I'll get back two days before Moody's sisters wedding. Will just have to take a train straight to his parents house but thats cool with me. That way I'm not letting anyone down. So I get to go to Jordan and go with Moody to the wedding.

Hmm...yeah other things....got some fabric in mancs and went to see the simpsons movie. Plus I forgot my ID when I went out for friends birthday, so had to go all the way back to Moody's house to get it. Cost £25, but at least we only missed 20mins. Was really annoyed at myself. Just wanted to scream I'm 19 god dammit. Ah well. On a funny note, on the same night, when I was putting on my converse, I didn't notice that I had put one of Moody's converse on. Its the same colour, just dirtier and two sizes bigger than mine. So i had odd shoes on, lol. Guess that teaches you not to have the same shoes as your boyfriend. I took a picture but can't really be assed to put it up. Maybe next time.

My next post will be from base camp jordan (my grandmas house)

Toodles

Ok, spent so much time reading everyones journals, I lost track of time and am gonna be late, so I'll make this quick.

Yep, I'm back to Manchester today for another week. Get to see Moody and maybe a couple of my house mates. Yay. Ooh, and Moody has 2 interviews today. Yay. Hope he gets one of them, he has a pretty good shot I think. Anyway, he left buying a suit til yesterday, lol, typical Moody. He sent me a pic of him in it. He looks so darn cute I think I'm gonna jump him when I see him, (cos he'll be wearing it when he picks me up), lol. He hates wearing suits but he does look good wearing them. He's more comfortable in jeans and converse.

I'm also going to a friends birthday on saturday, so am realllly looking foward to that, whatever will I wear? Lol.

Um, thats about it really. Anyway, my train is in less than an hour and I haven't had a shower or packed yet. CRAP!

Have a nice week people. I know I will :)

Ok, photos. Here's there stuff I've been busy with the last few days. Enjoy under the cut:

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Ok, thats all for now folks, got a few others that are works in progress, so will have to wait for those to be posted here.

Thanks for looking. Theres more to come.

See ya.

Good afternoon ljers. I've been a busy little bee these last few days. I made my first bag from scratch and with a lining. Not the bast bag ever, so am keeping it as a prototype. Am just about to finish my second bag which is out of the cute fruits fabric I got in Manchester. Just need to finish the straps, which I will do after this.

I went to Lincoln yesterday with the family so we could buy a new car. Woo. I also went looking for a dress for Moody's sisters wedding. Got a gorgeous number from Monsoon. Check it out under the cut:

( My dress )

I just hope its right for the wedding cos apparently its not too formal. It doesn't really help that I've never been to an english wedding before, especially one in a church. I've only been to 2 and they were both arab (two of my uncles), one where I was 6 and a bridesmaid and one where I was 17 it was black tie. So really don't know what to expect. I really hope I meet a couple of family members before the wedding otherwise I will know no one besides Moody and I'll feel really awkward.

Ok enough rambling bout that. I also got 9 camis at peacocks for £11, not bad at all. Have been puting prints on them. Only done 3 so far tho. I'll get onto that as soon as I finish my bag. And finally, I went up into my loft and found a load of my old toys, including some little tiny plates, cups, and shoes that belonged to my barbies. So am turning them into pendants and earrings. Just need to figure out how to attatch them to the chains and earring hook things. All in good time. Will put up pics of my bags and camis next time.

Will be going back to Manchester on the 14th to put more stuff in my house, see Moody and go to a friend's birthday. I haven't been out in Manchester since June. Oh the horror, lol.

Ooh I sold a pair of shoes and an old doll on ebay today. So I'm about £12 richer. Woo. And my dad said I can sell my old phone aswell so kerching. :D Am trying to raise money to fund my crafty projects. Hopefully very soon I'll be able to sell my stuff, so watch out people.

Well, thats my news.

Ta-ta

Ok, I'm not ganna say anything, just feedback please. :D
I hope this lj cut works

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Thanks for looking - sorry about the insane amount of pictures.

Edit: BAH IT DIDN'T WORK! Sorry! I really need to work on that - at least the pics are small I guess.

Edit Edit: Oh.....it did, sorry for the outburst. WOO I DID IT!

Dear lord this has been a rollercoaster of emotions. First Moody is leaving then he's not leaving, then he's leaving, and now he's not leaving! Yay! His brother changed his mind so Moody is off the hook, he's staying in Manchester with meeeeeeeeee!

Only thing is, we need to find him a job now as he is unemployed. So this morning, I applied for 7 more jobs for him while on the phone with him, as he has no internet. So fingers crossed.

Ok, now I've just got to tidy my room before I can do any more crafting. Boo! And I just found a load of old stuff last night that I can turn into jewellry. So that will have to wait.

Au revoir!

Woo, I'm back.

Had a cool week. Spent lots of time with my darling and got to do up my new room a bit. So thats all good. Got some awesome fruits fabric, so tote bags, camera cases and who knows what - a go-go, lol.

Sad thing to report tho, Moody hasn't got a job yet, so his dad and brother persuaded him to work for his brother in, oh dear lord....Bristol. Thats not in Manchester. :( He really didn't want to do it, but he doesn't really have much choice in it, cos he hasn't found a job in Mancs so far and his dad is lending him the money to live there. So he has to work there for at least a year and only gets 2 days off a week (not the weekend). So it will be a lot harder to see him. Its annoying because I had accepted the fact that he was moving away when he graduated, but then my hopes were risen when he decided to stay, mostly for me. And so I got used to the idea and we were both really happy, so this was a major blow. I cried. He had tears in his eyes (I've never seen him cry). It was really sad. He said I had a say in it, but I knew that he had to go.

Now that I've gotten used to the idea, we're sure that it'll be ok. He will finally be earning some money and he'll have a manager position to put on his CV. It's only for a year and we both know that our relationship is strong enough to survive it. It could be worse, it could have been abroad. Plus he said he'd take me on holiday, lol, you can't argue with that.

Well, hope all is well with everyone.

Kisses. :D