I’ve finally finished my layout! It’s taken me forever to do but I’m pretty pleased at the outcome. The craters could have been a bit better and I now realise how hard it is to draw girls curves on Photoshop, and hair. In fact pretty much all of it. I used Catherine’s tutorial for the people. The layout is based on a song Saving Grace – The Maine and this is my interpretation of that line of the song.

I’ve also opened my writing portfolio http://rainbowcrush.org which I also did the layout for. I only created a simple layout for that so it wouldn’t detract from the rest of the site. I also took the photograph, which is a place called Collioure that I visited last year.

Now i’ve got the layout up I’m going to be changing a few things around on the site. I’m sure I say this so many times but I forget haha! Yeah I’m getting rid of most of my resources and concentrating on a select few instead.

I finish work next week full time which I’m glad about because it was getting on my nerves. However I’ve got a permanent part time position there for 12 hours a week so I’m really happy about that because I need the money, especially as I want to buy myself a car. I’ve been hunting around for one but I haven’t seen one I like at the moment.

Thursday was the A level results day, not that that matters to me I got my results last year. Mine weren’t the best but I passed and got into my first choice university.

Anyway I wrote 5 articles about living in halls for the first time, so if you’re going to university this year, or perhaps next year give them a read.

“When living away from home, there are quite a lot of things you will need, even with just the basics, so it’s important to make a list of everything you will need.

Different accommodations will provide you with different essentials so it is important you check with them so that you don’t duplicate what they have already provided.”

In other news I got quite a shock, I’ve been a bit reckless this month with my spending on clothes and i’ve clocked up £376 on my credit card D:
I can pay it off but it’ll take all my money which I’m sorta bummed about, but there’s £69 worth of stuff going back (due to me not liking the style) so I’ll have £69 credit next month and if I’m really good this month (which i’ll have to be else I wont be able to afford my car) then the credit will pay my bill.

I lost another 2 lbs this week. I bought a dress from miss selfridge and I really wanted to buy the size smaller but it didn’t look nice even though it fit so I decided I was really going to get serious with my diet in order to shed the pounds before I go back to university and get the dress took in. It’s proof that weight watchers does work as long as you’re honest about how much you’re eating and your points allowance. I’ve got another 6lbs to lose before I move out in 3 weeks. I’ve taken up hula hooping as well. My waist is incredibly wide for my size (29 inches argh!) so I’m hula hooping to get my waist down.

I’ve not really had a lot of spare time, however I finish work full time on 3rd September which means I can update I’m still trying to tidy our house it’s an epic mess and trying to downsize is a nightmare! Hopefully though I’ll get a lot of it sorted before I move out

In other news I’m still working on the layout, I’m hoping to do a coded layout this weekend and get the story up, I haven’t written it yet but the idea’s there.

UPDATE: 1 new article: Choosing the right foundation here

Hey guys,

I’ve no new updates at the moment I’ve not had a lot of time over the weekend plus there was the server upgrade at Bubble but I will be working on some this week.
In terms of the new layout I made significant progress over the weekend and I’ve got a tiny bit more to do on the layout and then code it and then it’s going to be put up so hopefully by the weekend!

I’m also going to be posting an excerpt from a story I’m writing. It’s nothing fancy and I’m not sure where it’s going yet but I like writing for fun.

The reason for the title? I’m excited because firstly my boss informed me there’s evening and weekend work for me if I want it. Having a job = having lots of cash which I need at the moment because I have to pay my parents £250 for my macbook which I owe them.

Also when I’m at university and I pay my rent it doesn’t leave a lot of money for me to live off and spend on myself so having money for that will be nice. But the biggest perk of having a job? My mum will finally let me have a car

I’ve wanted a car ever since I started driving (incidentally it’s been 2 years since I passed my test so I am no longer a probationary driver) and I’m finally getting one in October

And the final thing, I’m planning on a trip to New York for my 21st Birthday so having a job means I can fund that as well because I’m planning to stay in a nice hotel on Times Square (think Hilton) so I’m really excited for that. FYI i’m not 21 for another 18 months so it means I have plenty time to save.