Whats the weather like there?

BLOOMING BEAUTIFUL!!

Sorry, I just had to blog about the amazing weather today! Even though I spent most of it inside the coffee shop working - its a beautiful warm evening =) I love these days!! 

Happy Happy Happy =D 

xx

To Write Love On Her Arms

"You were created to love and be loved.  You were meant to live life in relationship with other people, to know and be known. You need to know that your story is important and that you're part of a bigger story.  You need to know that your life matters."

This is the vision of the charity called To Write Love On Her Arms. The charity is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide.  TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery. Their main goal is to give people hope and reduce the amount of suicides. It all started as a way of helping a young girl - a friend of the founders of TWLOHA - they made t-shirts to sell in order to pay for the treatment of their friend who was going through depression and self-harming. From there it escalated and in 4 years they have received and replied to over 150,000 messages from 40 different countries. It is a truly remarkable charity in need of even more recognition.

I have been a fan of this charity for 5 years now and am still amazed at the beautiful story. So please take a moment to have a look and let it inspire you too. The website is: http://www.twloha.com/index.php

Thank You =) xx

 

Daily Teachings from The Secret

Think good thoughts.

Speak good words.

Take good action.

Three steps that will bring more to you than you can ever imagine.

Just a little reminder to everyone...

There are billions of inspiring people in this funny little world of ours, embrace them and welcome them into your lives =)

Quote

When life gives you one hundred reasons to cry - show life one thousand reasons to smile.

Is that a chill in the air i feel?

I need to express my excitement for winter!!! I am SO EXCITED!!! ^.^ I love that feeling where you wake up cold and you can snuggle up in bed with your thick toe warmers and dressing gown ^.^ theres something different about the air - theres a certain smell? Time to wear the thick scarves and hats and gloves =) and this year, I treated myself to a new coat which I am very excited about wearing =)

Winter is like the lead up to Christmas ^.^ which I am equally excited about!

It's my absolute favourite time of year because all the family get together and we have Christmas Dinner mmmmmm. Christmas will be different this year because my Ganny will not be with us, this saddens me greatly but Im sure we will make it the best Christmas ever, in memory of her =)

Ahh it was good to let that out =) xx

An amazing idea to let it all out =)

Ever had a secret that you felt the need to get out? Something you really want to let go and get out of your system? Well Frank Warren invented the idea of "Post Secret" which is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on a homemade postcard. I bought a postcard size book with a large selection of the postcards that were sent in. It's so inspiring, sometimes funny, and sometimes very sad. I'd love to do something like this! Not quite sure what I would say haha =) 
If you haven't heard of this - check it out! It's really interesting! I have a massive curiosity about people and secrets etc so I find it really interesting =)

The website is: www.postsecret.com

Enjoy!!

The 'Daddys Little Girl' look.

I was spending some time in front of the bar of the coffee shop today for a change watching the world go by when a family came in. The 'Dad' went and ordered the drink for his family when his little girl aged 8/9ish came over and very gently and sweetly tapped him on the arm. When he looked down at her she flashed him her sweetest, "Im the loveliest daughter in all the land" look as she tapped her finger on one of the chocolate coins. This made me giggle. The power us daughters have over our Daddys at that age. Of course she got her chocolate coin and skipped away to the table. Her work here was done.
This got me to thinking how much we take people for granted, especially family members. I am forever grateful to both my parents for all the advise, skills and experiences they gave me. I'm pretty sure I mastered the 'daddys little girl' look when I was that age =)

Always have Gratitude.
Always give Love.
and Always have Laughter.

No Privacy needed?

Whilst sitting on the train there was a woman half way down the carriage in deep conversation with someone on the phone letting the whole carriage know their life story. Next thing we heard was the overhead speaker telling everyone to keep their music and phonecalls private and to themselves. She, of course, did not hear this as she was so emersed in conversation, but the rest of us in the carriage got a right giggle out of it as we all looked at eachother and laughed at the same time. Isn't it great when you know what eachother is thinking =)


Did anything make you giggle today? x

Yes you can go to the toilet...but it will cost you

It came to my attention today as I made a trip to the ladies room in Manchester Piccadilly Station that whilst it is one of the most natural things that our bodies do, and something we have very little control over - we are now being charged to go to the toilet. What is this about?? It is just me that finds this extremely ridiculous? I very nearly refused to pay it but my body would not allow it - so alas, I paid and got my moneys worth out of soap and loo roll =D xx

Lets all shine a little more!

I was sitting on the train today looking out the window at the gloomy dark sky and then noticed all the things on the ground were glowing bright! The railings, the fences, the signs were all shining, have you ever noticed? It was such a strange sight to see, it was as if they were rebelling against the gloominess - making a stand and saying "no! i will not be miserable just because my surroundings are so gloomy - i will shine and sparkle in the hope someone will notice and feel the same =D" ...hehehe i know im exaggerating a little - but if only more people could be like this? ...

Just a thought =)

Rain, Rain, Rain

Isn't it funny how it looks so miserable and gloomy outside when its raining and you see everyone rushing through it to get inside. But have you ever just stopped and appreciated the rain? That liberating feeling you get when you just stop and feel it tap tap tapping on your skin? Have you ever danced in the rain? Its so much fun! Everybody always says, 'oh i love the sound of the rain against the windows' - and its true! As long as we're not in it then we are fine haha! 
Anyway, its looking pretty gloomy outside right now =) iv just been walking in the rain and guess what *gasp* nothing bad happened! So WOOP time to enjoy the rain!! 

Enjoy the rest of you day =) xx

*Sniff*Sniff*Cough*Cough*Splutter*Splutter*

I feel Fine.

I feel Amazing.

I feel Fantastic.

I feel Full of Health.

What is this thing called 'Life'?

Sometimes I think to myself Im going to get to the end of my life and look back and wonder - what was the point in all that? To have the perfect school grades? Have the perfect career? Be Wealthy? Get married? Have children? So many paths to take - but what is the point of life? 

I feel like its been drummed into us that we are supposed to wake up decide what we want to 'be' when we grow up - do it - work hard hard hard then meet someone, fall in love, get married, have children....and then what? Why can't the meaning of life simply be...HAVE FUN! Why do I need a career? What if someone doesnt want to get married or have children? What if what fulfills them is travelling around the world and at the end of their life, saying "wow..what a wonderful world I have seen?". There are so many confusing paths to take! 

Instead of asking 'what do you want to 'be' when you are older?' how about.. "what do you want to DO in your life? Now? Tomorrow? Next week? Forever?" Whatever it is, do it! 

Conventions say that at my age - I should work twards building my perfect career - which is teaching in early years - i will love it! But what i really want to do is start a family. But again, conventions say "you dont have enough money" "you need to find a new place to live first" "you should sort out a career first cos once you have kids you can't do anything else."

Whatever happened to .. "Life is too short" ??? 

If i want to start a family now why cant i? Doesnt mean i cant be a teacher later on. Being a Mum is my goal in life - thats my ambition, my passion - why do i need to wait for that?? Surely i will get to the end of my life and think "I should have done what i wanted to do when i wanted to do it!".

Anyway, rant over =)

Live life to the fullest guys - life is too short!

What was the best part of your day?

I want to start off with this phrase that I encountered last week from Miss Sparkles, she informed me that this is something she asks herself and her two little girls daily. I thought, what a wonderful way of inducing positive thoughts into your day!

"What was the best part of your day?"

After being greatly inspired by this - I went straight home and drew myself a sign to put on the wall - now when I get home I see this sign and straight away start thinking about all the great things that happened today =) even if you've had the most stressful and miserable day - there's always something that must have made you smile or giggle - whether it be a nice text/letter/email from someone, or something that inspired you, or maybe something silly that you did? If not, you need to think harder and change the way you think about life - its too short to spend your days with misery! It may be something small or something huge - either way - whilst you're thinking of something happy - you are not thinking of something miserable =) 

So what was the best part of your day today?
Have a think =)





 

Let's Get Blogging

Oh hello world!

Just to start off, I don't know much about blogging but I thought I would give it a go anyway just to try =) Iv been following my Dads blog; http://conversations-with-blog.blogspot.com which is really inspirational and today I had a look at; http://technicoloursparklevision.blogspot.com which is also an interesting and funny read! The blogger for the latter link actually inspired me to start blogging =) so thanks to Miss Sparkles for that! 

So I am sitting here with my adorable Chihuahua friend, Rambo who has curled himself into my  oversized hoodie, making it as difficult as possible for me to write lol. Its a hard life for a dog. I work in a lovely little coffee shop with some wonderful and weird regulars that I may blog about - otherwise, i'll leave you with my thoughts and tales of the day. 

Enjoy!

Hannah