This Is Not A Book Review

I'm actually dreadful at reviewing books, films or anything! when trying to explain films to friends I always just end up acting out the whole film and of course spoiling the ending. So I wont bother trying to review The Help by Kathryn Stockett, but I will give it 5 stars out of 5 and say that it is now one of my favourite books, its gorgeous, sad but full of hope, It's shocking to think that only a few decades ago people were actually treated like this. I adored Aibileen and Minny and Miss Skeeter, just the most wonderful book. read it!

I went through my old diaries today, still have to go through them all properly -I literally have 4 huge boxes of me moaning on about being unhappy etcetera etcetera all the way through the noughties- I also found some old cards that my mum had given me for birthdays and a lovely little book of mother/daughter poems she had given me one year. I'll upload pics of them when I can but for now, here's some little sketches and doodles I did in early 2000.

The Unmoved- Shawn Dulaney

Christopher Lee Donovan

E.E Cummings Selected poems a sketch

E.E Cummings Selected poems a sketch, a photo by lookingatyourfaceinthedark on Flickr.

E.E Cummings Selected Poems Cover

E.E Cummings Selected Poems Cover, a photo by lookingatyourfaceinthedark on Flickr.

Untitled

Untitled, a photo by lauryn holmquist on Flickr.

love letters

love letters, a photo by laura makabresku on Flickr.

cold

cold, a photo by laura makabresku on Flickr.

the girl who had been eating breakfast on the rooftop

the girl who had been eating breakfast on the rooftop, a photo by laura makabresku on Flickr.

I adore Laura Makabresku's photography.

she's like a winter bird

she's like a winter bird, a photo by laura makabresku on Flickr.

Tun

over christmas I will mostly be decopatching, I have gone a bit decopatching crazy :) expect lots of pictures of things that I have decopatched, I wonder if I can decopatch people :) - I think I may of said decopatch a tad too many times.

I went to see the boy with no soul today, again! I don't know why I do it to myself or how I really feel about him, I know everytime I see him I just feel really shit about myself and when we make love it just doesn't feel right anymore, I don't know. I think it doesn't feel right because I don't trust him and it's always so rushed, and I never really know what he's thinking.

I did get to talk to him a bit though, which was a change! normally we never speak, I asked him about why he broke up with his girlfriend, and I know she was pretty uber! but fucking hell, he told me that her dads worth 7 million, she went to Cambridge to study law, she will be earning 70 grand a year before too long, she's a tennis coach, a singing coach, she plays piano to grade 2, she's like really famous in south Africa and will soon be releasing an album! she's also quite pretty .. and I just sat their feeling like a total .. potato, how can I compete with that? I'm just the girl he calls up, charms in to coming to see him for an hour, fucks and then throws out,

I always feel pretty rubbish after seeing him, but right now I feel spectacularly dreadful! and I miss my mum pretty bad.

interiors

Thinking of doing a massive overhaul of my flat in the new year! which will surely be nothing very grand, a few licks of paint and a good scrub down,but here's some ideas, I especially love the swing in the living room :)

❝

I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.

— Neil Gaiman 

indecision

I'm so indecisive at the minute! I can't even decide on a book to read, I've always been pretty picky with books, if it's winter say, I wont then read a book that's very much set in summer. I want something quite short to read that I wont have to commit to, that says alot about my life at the moment! so any book recommendations would be ace! something set in winter and relatively short.

I also have to pick a party dress for new years and some new jumpers and christmas presents! I'm not going to go to to much trouble, for my dad I want to buy him some slippers so that he wont feel the need to wear his shoes in the middle of the night and JJ some books that I've enjoyed throughout the year that I think he would also enjoy and for my Nats I wanted to get her something very special,  she really has been the most wonderful friend this year and I don't think I would actually be here now without her, So I really want to make her something as I know she may feel awkward if I get her something and it would be nice to make something.

"The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances."
Audrey Niffenegger

"Help me give up my addiction to Hope."
― Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
Augusten Burroughs

Just a few Images I've loved this week