Sunday, 25 May 2014
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
The Liebster Award!
Thank you so much for Ultracelestial and Lazy Days Beauty for nominating me for the amazing Liebster award, I'm so happy people have recognised my blog, eep! This is a special award created to find new smaller blogs to go and follow and the only criteria for being nominated is that you have a blog with less than 200 followers! (Leave a comment if I made a mistake with that...) So because I was so kindly nominated ^_^ I have to give 11 facts about myself, then answer the 11 questions set by each nominee, then set 11 questions to ask the 11 people I nominate! You following? Just remember the number 11 and you'll be well on your way:p Sooo off we go!
So the 11 facts about me should be a piece of cake as I've done the 50 facts about me tag back in September which you can read HERE
*I've been a bridesmaid twice
*I'm not a fussy eater, I just love food in general (it's a very one sided relationship)*
*I want to be a vet when I'm older*
*My favourite gaming console ever has to be the N64 which I play the original Zelda Ocarina of time on (best game ever.)*
*My birthday is the 7th of January making me a capricorn*
*I have a younger sister called Poppy who's sat next to me on the bridesmaid picture above ^^*
*I have 3 cats, Blackie who's 16, lola who's 4 and Tinka who's also 4*
*I play the Double bass and Violin as my main instruments, I'm working towards my grade 5 on both:)*
*I'm terrible at listening and get distracted WAYYY too easily...*
*I love buying new nail polishes and hate that we're not aloud to wear it at school:'(*
*I can't say the word Squirrel, it comes out either "skirrel" or "squirrl". Luckily the word "Squirrel" doesn't crop up in that many conversations:)*
So now I'm a bit confused because I got nominated twice and therefore I don't want to leave one person's questions out so I think I'm going to do both sets of the questions?!*
So first off it's the questions from Lazy Day's beauty:)
What is your favourite flavour of Ben and Jerrys?
Between mint choc chip or phish food. Great, now I'm hungry:p
Do you collect anything and if so, what?
Yes indeedy I do, rubbers of all things! Infact I wrote a post all about my collection that you are free to read HEREE
What was the last book that you read?
Of Mice and Men for my English Literature GCSE... We had to read it over the Easter holidays and I will continue to reread it until I finish school in 1 year 1 week:( (not that I'm counting or anything)
If you had to only keep one item of make up and bin the rest, what would it be?
I would be so sad if this actually happened. But I guess I'd keep my Maybelline Falsies Mascara or my Mint Candy Apple polish from Essie, because well it's just so pwetttyyy.
Who is your biggest influence and why?
I would have to say Louise from Sprinkle of Glitter (excluding family members and friends:D)
Where is your dream holiday destination?
I would have to say Australia. I can't wait to travel there during some sort of gap year to go and finally meet family over there!
What made you start blogging?
When I was younger I used to go on website building sites and create pages full of pet widgets and pictures that I loved. A combination of that, Cat's blog and reading numerous articles about how relaxing and rewarding blogging can be caused me to create Miyyi! ^_^
When was the last time you laughed out loud and why?
I'm constantly laughing but the last time was probably when I watched THIS World of The Orange video about an hour ago. (comment if you watch WOTO too)
What is you favourite type of blog post to read?
I love it when bloggers write about a topic that they have a strong opinion on that enables you to see different sides of specific things that you may not have thought about previously. (deep)
And what is your favourite type to write?
Trips to places matched with photo's of the day/time spent there.
If I gave you £50, what would you spend it on?
Either some new converse, clothes, food or put the money towards buying a Penny board!:D
And from Ultracelestial:
What is your favourite colour?
Green
Have you ever stolen anything?
I occidentally picked up 2 sweets from the shop without realising when I was 7 and felt so bad that I made my mum eat it.
Favourite band(s)?
Arctic monkeys, The Vaccines or The 1975
Has a book ever made you cry? If so which?
Yes, so many books! Naughts and Crosses, Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Hunger games, When a Monster Calls are just a few!
Favourite flower?
Daffodils and Cherry Blossom
How did you get the name for your blog?
My sister calls my Miyyi instead of Milly so I thought it was a cute name for a blog.
Favourite food?
Cheesecake and fruit
What colour is your hair?
Brown
Favourite fim?
Hunger Games Catching Fire
If you had to meet one Actor/ Actress who would it be?
Jim Parsons (obviously;))
Favourite song(s) at the moment?
Seth Lakeman's Race to be King and The Vaccine's Norgaard
And now I have to come up with 11 questions!
1. What bag do you use everyday or for school
2. Do you want or play any musical instruments?
3. Favourite video game or gaming app?
4. Dream job/ what job do you want to do when you're older?
5. Do you have any pets?
6. Who are your style inspirations?
7. Favourite sweets?
8. Biggest fear?
9. What phone do you have
10. Favourite subject at school / favourite activity you do if you don't go there :p
11. Your top 3 shops
Finally, I have to nominate other bloggers!
This was very hard to find people who hadn't already done the award so I'm really sorry that I have only nominated 3 people, if you have already excepted this award then please let me know in the comments so I can read it!:D
*Madi*
*Lauren*
Well done for any of you who have got to the end of that EXTREEMLY long post! ^_^
Good luck to any of you who have got exams at the mo, let me know in the comments how you're finding them!
Cheerio! Milly x
Friday, 18 April 2014
10 Reasons I'm Excited for the Sun to Come Out ☼
BBQs
Flowers
Baby animals
Painting your toenails pretty
Sunglasses
Camping
Fresh sheets dried outside
Evening picnics
Ice cold smoothies
Shorts
Thanks for this awesome tag by Maiya over on WISPY AND WILLOWY ^_^
Cheerio! Milly x
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Currently I'm #3
Hello everyone! It's that time again over on Miyyi for another Currently I'm which I love doing as its a lovely way of letting you all know what I'm up to and just have a good ol' catch up. So off we go...
Watching
Friends, Big Bang Theory and desperate housewives. Oh dear I have a terrible obsession with all of these shows recently. I'm not going to go into detail so I thought I'd just share with you my favourite charaters... Friends: Joey, BBT: Sheldon (obviously) and Desperate Housewives: Susan. So there you go incase any of you were interested:)
Reading
Miss Perigrines Home For Peculiar Children is a fantastic book so far as I'm about 150 pages in! It's about a boy called Jacob who loves his Grandfather and his creepy stories about his old children's home run by Miss Pereigrine. As Jacob grows up he starts to question his Grandfather's stories and this questioning leads him on to remarkable discoveries. I love how the freaky pictures tie in with the novel and the picture on the front instantly draws you to the book. This is a real page turner which I would definitely recommend for anyone wanting to get into creepy style books.
Watching
Friends, Big Bang Theory and desperate housewives. Oh dear I have a terrible obsession with all of these shows recently. I'm not going to go into detail so I thought I'd just share with you my favourite charaters... Friends: Joey, BBT: Sheldon (obviously) and Desperate Housewives: Susan. So there you go incase any of you were interested:)
Listening To
The Starwars soundtrack on R E P E A T. I'm just loving orchestral movie music recently but Starwars just has to be my favourite.
Drinking
Earl Grey Tea, Smoothies and Mochas from McDonalds, a nice variety:))
Enjoying
The longer evenings! The clocks have changed which is super awesome, how I've missed having the sun out until 7:30. Roll on the first BBQ:D
Loving
Walking! I'm loving walking at the moment, especially now the weather has improved in England:D
Learning
It's the Easer holidays *Loud Cheer* which means not very much at all! But before I broke up I had a frenzy of year 10 mock exams which wasn't the most enjoyable thing I have ever done...
Wearing
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| Top: Newlook £10 |
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| Shorts: Primark £5 (Last Year) |
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| Sunglasses: £4.99 NewLook |
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| Bracelets: £8.00 Accessorize Necklace: Newlook (Can't find it online any-more) |
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| Sandals: Marks and Spencers £25 (Last year) |
I hope you all enjoyed that nosey into what I've been up to! You can read my previous currently I'm by clicking HERE Let tell me in the comments what you have been doing (I'm nosey too you know;)) and since it's the Easter holidays and I'm going into the last school term *another loud cheer* I will hopefully be posting more regularly *the biggest cheer ever*.
Cheerio! Milly x
Sunday, 9 March 2014
How I kept the Spiders Away
Hey everyone! Today I thought I'd share with you all how I've kept the spiders away this autumn and winter. So here you are, you'll improve your general knowledge with this post kids:p
I'm scared of spiders. I don't mind looking at one behind a cage or in a cup, but as soon as I see a spider around the house, I leave and demand someone to remove it. Oh and I definitely don't scream, just thought I'd point that out;).
There are many spider stories which include: Me not noticing one being on a tissue IN THE TISSUE BOX and crawling on my hand, me waking up and the first thing I saw was a gigantic spider making a web down my ceiling and being about 2cm from my nose (not a fun experience) and me opening the sun visor in the car and a spider falling out of it and landing on my freaking lap (one of the scariest moments of my entire life).
So because of all these horrific and soul scarring stories (sympathy please), it's not surprising that this autumn /winter I decided that my bedroom was a "no spider" zone. And a "no spider" zone it miraculously was, all thanks to my new best friends: Conkers?!
I'm scared of spiders. I don't mind looking at one behind a cage or in a cup, but as soon as I see a spider around the house, I leave and demand someone to remove it. Oh and I definitely don't scream, just thought I'd point that out;).
There are many spider stories which include: Me not noticing one being on a tissue IN THE TISSUE BOX and crawling on my hand, me waking up and the first thing I saw was a gigantic spider making a web down my ceiling and being about 2cm from my nose (not a fun experience) and me opening the sun visor in the car and a spider falling out of it and landing on my freaking lap (one of the scariest moments of my entire life).
So because of all these horrific and soul scarring stories (sympathy please), it's not surprising that this autumn /winter I decided that my bedroom was a "no spider" zone. And a "no spider" zone it miraculously was, all thanks to my new best friends: Conkers?!
I've placed a few conkers all around my bedroom, particularly on the corner of my bed, on my bookshelf and dressing table as you can see by the pictures. At first I thought that conkers stopping spiders was an old wives tale and wouldn't work. But I'm completely amazed that I haven't had any unwanted spider visiters crawling around at all these past few months which I'm super duper happy about! I don't know if this is just a coincidence or if it's something else that's keeping the spider's away but it's definitely worked this time so I'll repeat next autumn and winter and get back to you to see if it's worked again!
So if you're scared of spiders then I would definitely recommend the conkers! That's if you don't mind having random conkers all over your house that is:))
Want to know more about the conker spider theorum? Then click THIS link:)
Hope you all enjoyed! Tell me your spider stories in the comments below and I'll be sure to read them.
Cheerio! Milly x
Monday, 3 March 2014
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Book Review
The most striking thing about this book at first is the extreeeemely long title^
Hello everyone! I think it's time for another book review the last one I did was back in September when I reviewed "The Fault In Our Stars". Man that seems like a longggg time ago! You can view that post HERE. The book I'm going to review for you today is: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, so off we go...
15 year old wannabe astronaut Christopher Boone lives in Swindon with his father and pet rat Toby. Christopher has "a memory of a film, a maths genius (knowing all the prime numbers up to 7,507) and is studying for his A-level maths during the book. However, he doesn't understand human emotions and finds it hard to communicate, sometimes "not talking to people for a long time".
“I would make a good astronaut. To be a good astronaut you have to be intelligent. I am intelligent”
This book immediately draws you in, Christopher has already found the corpse of his neighbours dog impaled by a pitchfork in the first chapter. This discovery leads him on a mission to find the culprit of the murder, using inspiration from his favourite writer Sherlock Holmes.
Christopher has severe autism which ultimately affects how he goes about solving the case. Confronting his neighbours and the public in order to ask questions regarding the case is frustrating for Christopher, resulting in him groaning and covering his ears in order to retreat from the situation.
"I put my hands over my ears and closed my eyes and rolled forward till I was hunched up with my forehead pressed onto the grass. The grass was wet and cold. It was nice."
Writing a detective novel from the perspective of an autistic teenager is a very difficult task Mark Haddon has taking on. The ingenious idea of creating Christopher to love Sherlock Holmes has kept the novel flowing as he has the much needed motivation to try and be like his icon and break his strict social boundaries. Because if this, Christopher quickly progresses in solving the case and uncovers many more intense mysteries.
Because Christopher is such a visual thinker, Diagrams are frequently used in this book as this is what he understands. In order for something to make sense to Christopher, there must be science and logic behind it. In order for the book to make sense to the reader, you must un-train your mind of the conventional way we are taught to read.
This book isn't just a child detective novel nor a book about disability, but an insight to readers into how people with autism see the world and undertake tasks. This is why I love The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time a very touching and intelligent novel that I feel everyone should read.
Hope you all enjoyed that!
Have any of you read the book? What did you think? Let me know in the comments below and if you enjoyed my review:)
Hello everyone! I think it's time for another book review the last one I did was back in September when I reviewed "The Fault In Our Stars". Man that seems like a longggg time ago! You can view that post HERE. The book I'm going to review for you today is: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, so off we go...
15 year old wannabe astronaut Christopher Boone lives in Swindon with his father and pet rat Toby. Christopher has "a memory of a film, a maths genius (knowing all the prime numbers up to 7,507) and is studying for his A-level maths during the book. However, he doesn't understand human emotions and finds it hard to communicate, sometimes "not talking to people for a long time".
“I would make a good astronaut. To be a good astronaut you have to be intelligent. I am intelligent”
This book immediately draws you in, Christopher has already found the corpse of his neighbours dog impaled by a pitchfork in the first chapter. This discovery leads him on a mission to find the culprit of the murder, using inspiration from his favourite writer Sherlock Holmes.
Christopher has severe autism which ultimately affects how he goes about solving the case. Confronting his neighbours and the public in order to ask questions regarding the case is frustrating for Christopher, resulting in him groaning and covering his ears in order to retreat from the situation.
"I put my hands over my ears and closed my eyes and rolled forward till I was hunched up with my forehead pressed onto the grass. The grass was wet and cold. It was nice."
Writing a detective novel from the perspective of an autistic teenager is a very difficult task Mark Haddon has taking on. The ingenious idea of creating Christopher to love Sherlock Holmes has kept the novel flowing as he has the much needed motivation to try and be like his icon and break his strict social boundaries. Because if this, Christopher quickly progresses in solving the case and uncovers many more intense mysteries.
Because Christopher is such a visual thinker, Diagrams are frequently used in this book as this is what he understands. In order for something to make sense to Christopher, there must be science and logic behind it. In order for the book to make sense to the reader, you must un-train your mind of the conventional way we are taught to read.
This book isn't just a child detective novel nor a book about disability, but an insight to readers into how people with autism see the world and undertake tasks. This is why I love The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time a very touching and intelligent novel that I feel everyone should read.
Hope you all enjoyed that!
Have any of you read the book? What did you think? Let me know in the comments below and if you enjoyed my review:)
Cheerio! Milly x
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