Weekend Summary and Next Week Plans!

Happy Sunday everybody!

This week has been pretty busy but thankfully I'm healthy again, yey! Si I've been able to get myself out and about, I managed to get to college for two days this week where my class started the unit I've been most looking forward to since I started the course, Caring for Children and Young People. Unfortunately earlier in the week I got a puncture in my rear left wheel so I had no way of getting to college and I hate missing college as well so that wasn't too fun. 

Anyway, I found out on Thursday that my college placement has been approved so I'm able to start that this Thursday, when it hit Friday I had planned to spend a quiet night at home just relaxing with the family as I had taken my Grandad to a bus station where he was going to be picked up by a cache to take him and his friends down to Blackpool for a weekend. However, I ended up having an impromptu sleepover with Aymie which was definitely unexpected but lots of fun, at this sleepover we did some blogging together, talked about anything and everything and we actually found an old SD card with pictures of us both from about 6 years ago so we nada good laugh at those.

On Saturday we spent the day together and did some baking, see my previous post to see what we made, that was cry interesting as we didn't exactly follow recipes but the teacakes that were made tasted very yummy. 

Saturday night I was with my Grandma watching a concert of Celtic Woman: Emerald and I've completely fallen in love with their music and their voices, Lisa Lambe is an absolute Angel and her voice is stunning, as is her hair and her accent and I just love that woman. I think it's safe to say Irish Folk is porbablymy favourite music genre now and Celtic Woman is just wonderful, I personally don't hear that many female Irish Folk vocalists, I mainly listen to Foster and Allen, The Dubliners and so on. It's truly refreshing to have stumbled upon such fantastic vocalists (and violinist), I've actually spent quite a lot of this weekend listening to music, artists such as Fletwood Mac, Celtic Woman (obviously), McBusted, Olly Murs, The Beatles, Queen and Demi Lovato have been my favourites this week. I think I'm obsessed with the Celtic Woman song Téir Abhail Riú at the minute, find that video below.

I actually have quite a lot planned for next week, hopefully I should be able to get everything done! Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will conist of the usual routine, 6am start, college, assignments and I'll be reading a couple of new books in-between whenever I get time. However, Wednesday will be quite busy for me as I have college from 9am-12:30pm, a dentist appointment later in the day (ugh, I hate dentists), because i have a very painful wisdom tooth that I could do without to be honest, then later in the evening I will be attending a Yoga class from 6-8:30pm which I'm actually rely looking forward to, as I've said previously I really enjoy Yoga, it should be quite fun. 

Thursday is my first day at work, I get to work with babies (YEY!) which I am genuinely so, so excited about as I adore children. Also I'll be scheduling a post for later in the week on how to prepare for your first placement or day at work, so be on the look out for that. Friday I believe I'll be meeting a friend for a coffee if both of our schedules allow and Saturday will be taken up with going for a catchup with another good friend from Secondary School with Aymie I think. Also I may be going ice skating later in the week if that can be organised. Hopefully Sunday will be my day off and I'll get to relax at some point haha. 

Thanks for reading guys and let me know some of your plans for next week, I'd love to hear off of you guys!

Love Katherine. X

My Bedroom Wishlist

So, it's the New Year and, for about 99% of the people on my Facebook timeline, a "new me". I was looking at my bedroom earlier in the day and thinking... to hell with it. For me it's going to be New Year, New Bedroom! I adore interior design and it's something that's always fascinated me. At the moment I have a rather childish bedroom, I have a light pink feature wall with light cream surrounding walls, none of them have any pattern which is kind of boring. I have an ugly brown carpet and most of my furniture is white or off white, I thought that if I'm going to redecorate my bedroom I may as well do a Bedroom Wishlist post. This might be a long one but still it's been really fun to write. 

The first thing I'd like is the Gersby Bookcase (£17) from IKEA. I already have one Gersby in my room now but the sheer volume of books I have is unbelievable so it'd be really helpful to have another just so I don't have to pile books upon books anymore. Also it's pretty sturdy the one I have now so it's not a bad bookcase to begin with.

The second thing on my wish list is the Malm chest of 4 drawers, again from IKEA (£49). These drawers would be perfect for keeping underwear, pyjamas, shoes and even make up in. Personally I'd also use the top of the drawers to put my television on and that way there'll be no need for me to buy a TV stand. 

Next on my list is Colours Oak Effect Luxury Vinyl Flooring from B&Q (£25 per M2). I've always wanted wooden flooring on my bedroom but because I live in a council house I'm not able to have wood flooring put down but I am able to put wood effects linoleum down which is, in my view better because then the planks can't crack and it's much warmer. I like this one from B&Q because it's very light and it'll go with the colour scheme of my room.

Fourthly, I would love the Antique Rose Bouquet Wallpaper from Cath Kidston (£25 per roll). This wallpaper is beautiful and would work perfectly in my room ad a feature wall with surrounding light cream walls in Matt finish paint. I've always loved Cath Kidston designs and to have there wallpaper in my room would be fantastic, plus it's not brash or bold so I would be able to get some subtle and feminine decorations to go with the bedroom.

So far those are the only things I'm sure I definitely would love in my room however there are many more things that'll list below, I just haven't found the exact pictures of what I'd like yet:

• White bed frame - storage preferable
• Mattress and mattress topper
• A fuzzy cream rug
• A wardrobe
• Decorative pillows - I might make those myself because I'm rather snazzy with a sewing machine
• Various storage boxes for make up, hair essentials, college work, DVDs etc.
• Vase and artificial flowers, I won't have real flowers because they aways die after a couple of days. 

There you have it, that is my main bedroom wish list and hopefully the rom will be decorated completely my this time net year! Thanks for reading all, tell me about what you would like fr your bedrooms!

Love Katherine. X