I don't know, I'm just excited and this is the first time I do anything like this so I'll try my best to write a post that's ok.
I've been nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award by the wonderful Ellie (click on her name to go to her blog), who has an amazing style, and I love your clothes and your blog and your hair and yes basically everything. So I'm gonna start with it:
I've been listening to Lonely by Mallu Magalhaes so much recently that it has actually become one of my favourite songs. This is something I made while taking a break from studying. Enjoy.
Collage + watercolour, by me.
Collage + watercolour, by me.
Lonely, no you'll never be lonely again Because you have me now I'm messy but I'm totally yours My clumsy hands will hold you So, you'll never be lonely again Cause you have me. Teardrops and ink drops Fall on the neat floor Forget all this, let's paint our feet. Dream drops and fear drops Raining at our door, Let's lock it up, and let it go... Lonely, no you'll never be lonely again Because you have me now I'm crazy but I'm totally yours My clumsy hands will hold you So, you'll never be lonely again
(...)
And I,
I'll give my best to you You cry, I dry your pain, You smile, I smile também!
While I'm trying to survive to my classes and school stress, in my (tiny but somehow still existent) spare time I find some comfort in watching series, channeling my inner Tracy Turnblad and wishing I had a nice retro uniform to wear to school. This is my 60's uniformed school gurls/girl scouts/school geek /The Virgin Suicides/random obsessive phase. Basically, right now I just want to be someone between Dolores Haze, Cecilia Lisbon and a 60's school gurl. I don't usually write fashion posts since I feel it's a little awkward because I know nothing about it, but I made these Polyvore sets and I'm proud of them, so that's it. Get inspired.
After making it through three exams and a teenage crisis on these past two days, this is what I have to say:
Sometimes risks are there to be taken.
Sometimes you get no happy endings (rather sad ones), sometimes you get miracles.
Life's just that weird: sometimes it's about betting without knowing all the cards.
The future seems to be a creepy, huge black hole. Yet all I need to think about right now is: life goes on.
This is my mantra. This is keeping me through the week.
Well I'm posting this video because this is a song that never fails to make me fall in love and because Alex Turner is the only person who always makes my day 1000% better.
Hi everybody! April has been a month full of miscellaneous feelings, school's grades despair and stress, studying, DIYing, writing, reading (YES I KNOW IT SEEMS TO BE A MIRACLE, BUT THIS IS HAPPENING), and reflections. In the whole, it's been a pretty good month.
So here are some things I want to tell/show you:
FIRST OF ALL, probably, the most important of all, or at least the thing I'm most excited about: I've started this amazing blog with my friends called ROOKIE CLUB MADRID, and we're posting about books (we have this book club thing), movies, writing, series, music, and reflections. Practically, cool kids talking about cool stuff. SO GO AND READ IT. I've added a banner for it on the sidebar, so yeah that's it. Also, I wrote about Sylvia Plath and Tulips for RCMadrid: here's the link.
Cool things about this month:
Homemade facial masks
Family trip to the zoo
I'm reading again!
School trip to the gamelan (this is cool ok)
Went shopping for bday gifts with my friend Paloma (we bought some chocolates and ended up eating them. Clever gurls.)
Found my forever lost iPod from when I was 9 years old, and I had these weird playlists where I mixed The Ting Tings with Hannah Montana and stuff. Also, it helped me realize how much I love Mallu Magalhães.
etc.
As I had already said, April has been a month of reflections too, so while I was going through this sick thing called routine, here are two things I have stopped to think about, maybe they seem to be silly but they somehow make a lot of sense and have importance for me:
On looks:
Autorretrato con el Pelo Cortado - Frida Kahlo.
This painting has meant something to me this month. I have cut my hair short (maybe the shortest it has ever been cut since I was 6 years old) and I couldn't avoid comments like 'Wow you actually look like a tomboy' or 'Girls who have short hair are ugly'. Yet, what upsets me isn't the fact that some people think I look ugly, but the fact that some people actually think they are in the position to judge a decision I have made about my appearance (I repeat: MY OWN APPEARANCE); and if it makes me feel good, and I like it, I don't get why people should feel like it's their decision. And it doesn't go down to the fact that my short hair didn't received the greatest critics ever, but what matters - and annoys me the most - is: people do this all the time; nobody should tell anybody how they should look: not your body, not your decisions. Enough said.
On age:
This month I have realized how much it pisses me off when I tell people that I disagree with something that I consider sexist/machist and people tell me to calm down and don't take things so seriously because 'you're only 14, Inés'. Being 14 or 13 or 12 or whatever is your age, doesn't mean that you are blind and you can't use your brain to judge a situation, and it is not, by no means, an excuse for having sexist/racist/etc ideas. Yes, I'm 14 and I'm young and I'm still a teenager, but I know that I have some responsabilities, that I must assume, and I know it's already time to start thinking for myself. I don't understand how people can live just letting things pass by, and never reacting, and I really don't get what's so good about not taking anything seriously. I don't know if you do, but I hope you understand my point. Instagram Diary:
Some doodles from one of my school notebooks,
that I drew on the first term and rediscovered this month
while studying.
I love this weather because I can wear black tights and skirts,
but I can also wear sunglasses and I don't need coats
(I have a love/hate relationship with coats).
Anyway, I still miss the cloudy, rainy days.
'Aleph' by Paulo Coelho is one of the books I'm currently reading -
also Pride and Prejudice with the Rookie Club Madrid gurls - and
it's really beautiful and inspiring and I just like it a lot.
I also want you to listen to/watch this, because it's amazing. This is the video for Claire's Diary's song 'Girl Next Door'. Claire's Diary is a band formed by Izzy, Sophie (both of them from Care Bears on Fire), Joey and Kiri. And basically all I wanted to say is: HELLO PERFECTION. Congrats gurls, you're doin' it right.
