Fun and Fabulosa things for rainy days

Meow!(Hello in Cat)
In aid of it being National Rain Day, I decided to give y'all some fun things to do on a rainy day...

1. Take a family trip to Ikea - 
   Now, which is better, having to stay in your house without even being able to play a decent game of hide and seek (unless you live in a mansion) or chill in a numerous amount of disjointed houses with the worlds best game of hide and seek? I think the last one which in my opinion provides great fun on a rainy day
2. Indoor Treasure Hunt-
   If you don't fancy that venture outside, ask your mother to hide some objects or something in the house to find  - not quite to the scale of Ikea but still fun :)
3. Do a spot of baking -
   This is probably one of the things that I do quite often when it rains and to be honest, when it isn't raining too. I just think it's such a fun thing to do and it also makes you all toasty warm on a cold day because of all the oven usage!
4. Create an iccle den under the table -
   Nothing better than making a cozy little next under the table, especially if it is stormy as well as rainy because in my opinion, a table den is a worthy protector of the thunder and lightening that you're hoping to block out.
5. Fish out your Hamma Beads - 
   I know, and you know that you still have them lurking in the back of your cupboard somewhere so why not whip them out when it's rainy? I'm not going to lie though, there is one thing that you should be cautious of before you start...
   -1- Make sure you have greaseproof paper at hand ready to iron them all so that they stick togetehr
   -2- Make sure you are either allowed to use the iron or there's someone else that is (I'm not really allowed) because you might spend aaaaaages creating a technical pattern, and then knock it over waiting for someone iron worthy to come home and iron it for you.

So Yeah...
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Throw Back Tag!

Meow!(Hello in Cat)
Today's post isn't all to great to be honest, because I am still quite tired from Castlerigg and this post will be the Throw Back Tag...

1. What year was you born in?
   The answer to this changes depending on what I am on because if it is on a website where I could win a prize (see previous post for an example of this) I will often say the year 1976 but the year I was actually born in is 1999 - like the rest of the cool kidz.
2. Do you have a picture of yourself when you was younger - show it
   This is a beautiful (not) picture of me when I was only 2 years and 2 months old on holiday to Majorca. I don't really remember anything that went on on that holiday but I am sure that if I knew what my mother tried to make me wear, I would rebel and make her remove the hat immediately as it is the most disgusting thing I've seen in my life.
3. What TV did you grow up watching?
   I absolutely adored the Tweenies and wanted to be just like them which is one of the main reasons that I started my ballet lessons because I wanted to be like Bella. I also went to see them live and dressed up like Fizz and also had a Tweenies birthday cake at nursery.
4. What was your favourite thing to play with?
   I always had my teddy Lambi with me which I have to this day... Other than that I didn't really have any favourite toys.
5. Most embarrassing thing I can remember doing...
   I once wet myself at my cousins house because we were on a water thing outside and weren't allowed in side unless we needed the toilet and Alicia (the cousin) said she needed a wee too but she didn't say she needed to poo as well so I ended up wetting myself because I was waiting for her that long :/
6. Song I loved as a child...
   I don't really know but Josephine says that I used to love 'Hey Baby' wooooo
7. Funniest thing I dressed up as in Halloween...
   To be quite honest, I have never really dressed up as anything funny, I usually stay traditional and be a witch or something but one year I decided to be adventurous and dressed in a cat-suit and wings to be  a bat!
8. What is a weird allergy you used to have as a child?
   I used to be allergic with tomato ketchup and get a red rash around my mouth when I ate it.
9. What was the scariest thing that happened as a child?
   When I fell into the table and cracked my head open - It was all okay afterwards though because I got some Haribos and a sticker afterwards for being a good girl :)
10. Are there any special things you've kept from when you were younger?
    Why of course I do! My mother more or less hoarded everything from dresses to shoes to nappies (the last one was a joke by the way). One thing that I really liked from when I was younger was a 'story' that I had wrote about my Auntie's dog Kimmy which I shall share with you someday.

Casual Keswick Sheep

This sheep is so beautiful

This Week in an Almond

Вітаю!(Hello in Belarusian)
This post is going to be a general summery of this week because I feel like I haven't told you anything that I've done and if I did an account of it next week, we would constantly be a week behind!
So, time for the catch up and really quick accounts of what was going on...

1.First Blood Test and No Sticker
So this week, I had to go to Chorley Hospital (nothing is really wrong as far as we know) and ended up having my first ever blood test which was really quite weird and I didn't even get a sticker for being brave! The cheek! Other people my age get 'well done' stickers and I didn't *cries* maybe next time I will be really dramatic so I get one...

2.Trip to Lytham
This Thursday, I went on a little outing to Lytham but sadly, I forgot to write a letter to put in a bottle *gasps of horror* so I shall have to do that another time :(

3.I have a new addition to the family...
Anyone who had my instagram will know what I am talking about because I posted a sneak peak of him up on there but I shall not reveal anything about Freddie until Wednesday's post - Mwahahaha

This one was short and sweet I guess
So Yeah...
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Castlerigg Dayz - Thursday

Bon Dia!(Hello in Catalan)
Today's post is a very creative post of mine as it is mainly all pictures with very few words and I'm not going to lie, this was so fun to make  - except for trying to organize the pictures into straight lines which I eventually gave up on.

4 Weetabix for breakfast as per usual :)

I re-drew Patricia onto my hand because she disappeared over night

After that, we had a mini-game to show how much we have compared to some other people

It was then time for prayer stations in the chapel which was also an opportunity for an extra nap

A butterfly was stuck in the chapel and landed on me and I felt so cute awhhh

To add more cuteness, we wrote affirmations about each other which are basically nice things and what we like about each other surmised and left anonymous

Dinner! We had chicken burgers outside in the sunshine

Dinner now over, we got into our smaller groups and planned different parts of the mass - ours was 'Welcoming' so we created free hug signs which were actually really fun to paint.

Went on a walk that had a lake view in our still sopping walking gear - nothing special really  and no ice-lollies were provided :(

Went into Keswick town and bought a really nice smoothie which you can see on instagram :)
http://instagram.com/zelovelybeff

If you couldn't tell by the picture - which is probably what's going on because I am so bad at drawing but for tea, we had a BBQ.

Dinner now all settled in our tummies, we played a really really weird tribal game and other games such as...

Bull Dogs...

And Limbo which by the way, I was really bad at!

After cooling down a bit, we put our glam rags on and went to the disco - which played songs from Grease *yay*

Finally, the disco ended and it was time to pack ready for leaving on the Friday

Hot chocolate time...

Accompanied by a bed time story

And then beddy byes

So Yeah...
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Surprise post

SURPRISE! It's an unexpected post alert!
I just thought I would let you know that I have some social media links that I would like you to have and I have had them for some time now but forgot to share them - whoopsies
Twitter... https://twitter.com/zelovelybeff
Instagram... http://instagram.com/zelovelybeff
^ I shall try to follow back on both :')
I don't really think that I am quite popular enough for a facebook page yet to be honest but now would be a good time to point out that I am getting slowly but surely closer to my 2000 page views!
So Yeah...
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Castlerigg Dayz - Wednesday

Tungjatjeta!(Hello in Albanian)
I'm going to once again with my mini-series but to liven it up a bit both today and tomorrow I am going to lay it out differently and see how it goes... today's layout is going to be bullet points (how thrilling)!

1.  Morning reflection - We had a look how not everything looks the way it is for example, they showed us a picture of what we all thought was a member of the Ku Klux Klan but actually turned out to be  a priest at a Spanish festival!
2. Bacon at breakfast! No joke, this absolutely made my day like woooooo (no fret, I had my weetabix too)
3. We then looked at who our neighbor is and how different people may see us depending on who they are eg. society, family or teachers. We also looked at how we see ourselves and discussed why we think that we see ourselves that way.
4. After that, we split into our smaller groups again and made a banner on different topics, ours was relationships so we did it like a dating website online which was really cool and effective.
5. A walk to the lake then followed and it was absolutely pouring it down which made us really cold because out waterproofs turned out to not be very waterproof at all!
6. Dinner - it was a packed lunch because of the walk
7. After dinner we did role plays on the Good Samaritan, ours were in the theme of a Soap Opera and it was probably one of the funniest things we did on the whole trip :)
8. We then had reconciliation and I drew a friend on my hand and named her Patricia
9. Tea Time - to be quite honest, I can't remember what we had but it would have been nice because all the food there was really good.
10. We then had night reflection where we wrote about the day
11. It was then time for hot chocolate and a bed time story followed by bed

So Yeah...

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Casterigg Dayz - Tuesday

Helo!(Hello in Welsh)
Today I shall be talking about my Tuesday at Castlerigg - if you couldn't tell by the title.
I woke up at 8am which I thought was really cool because on the Monday night, we were all discussing how we wanted to wake up early enough to get a shower before everyone else and the hot water only turned on at 8.05 so we all agreed to waking up at 8am, which I did exactly.
We then had our breakfast  (4 weetabix) and then assembled again where we watched a 'job interview' which was really interesting because it was about... actually, I won't spoil it for you, just watch the video :)
After that, we talked about our home, family, school and future lives and were meant to talk about them more when we got into our smaller groups but instead, we played mind games because we are wild and can't be tamed.
Following that, we went on our first walk/hike to 'Stone Circle' which was what it said on the can really, a circle of stones. This walk/hike included a really steep hill that hurt my poor iccle legs but one advantage to the walk/hike however was that we got an ice lolly when we reached the top of the hill for free (which the teachers bought for us).
Lolly now finished, we had to make the descent which was actually okay because I got a beautiful photo of a sheep which I might post later.
We finally got back and I decided to take (another) shower which was the speediest shower of my life may I add when I realized I brought two different types of shampoo thinking that one of them was conditioner *sighs in despair*. Mini shower trauma now over, it was time for tea which was pizza and chips outside where we sat on some very cozy blankets. We remained outside for some 'free time' where I played  catch/rounders with Beth and Niamh and I'm not going to lie, it will be a shock if I don't make it onto the rounders trip when I get back to school.
Nightly reflection then followed and we had our nightly hot chocolate and bed time story.
So Yeah...
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Castlerigg Dayz - Monday

konnichiwa!(Hello in Japanese)
Today's post is the first part of a mini-series that I shall be doing about my time at Castlerigg. Tonight, I shall talk about the Monday I was there, and tomorrow about the Tuesday and so on.
I shall start know otherwise I might get off topic like I usually do!

Who needs bunk-beds when you have the floor?

The day started as normal meaning that I had to go to lessons in the morning *eurghh* but the day was made a bit better because instead of having our first lesson (science) we had our Year 10 celebration assembly which Sammi and Alice took part in!
After what felt like forever, we set off and was finally on our way and 2 hours and one pit stop later, we arrived safe and sound at Keswick (which is where Castlerigg is). When we got there, we had time to unpack and make ourselves at home and trust me, we did just that! 
Around 6/7 ish we had tea which was chicken wraps - yum! We then all assembled in the main lounge where we got split into smaller groups - mine was the 'Squid Lickers' and in these groups, we played a series of games and challenges in which we got marked out of  20. I personally thought that our group won but apparently, 'we all won'. Lies.
Because of the hike the next day, we all got fitted for boots and (not very waterproof) waterproofs as we found out on the Wednesday hike...
To finish the day, we all gathered together once again for a hot chocolate and bed time story.
So Yeah...
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Sunny Dayz

Why hello there fellow humans!
I seem to be a bit bad at keeping on track of my blog posts at the mo but I have a reasonable reason this time and that's because I  have been away on a school retreat at Castlerigg...
Next weeks posts will be a little different too because I am going to post everyday, telling you what I would've been doing that day if I was in Castlerigg (if that makes sense).
I'm not going to go on about this much longer because it's officially the beginning of Summer as I have now broken up for school *cheers and wooos*
Sorry that's it short but that's it for now,
So Yeah...
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The Babybel Tradgedy

Sssssssssssssssss!(Hello in snake)
Today my post is going to be quick and is about a major tragedy that happened to me today, all because of a babybel wrapper!
So there I was, happily munching away on my babybel when a sign on the wrapper caught my eye. obviously, I went for a closer look where I found that it was a competition to win a babybel football by entering the code on the packet into the internet.
My hopes weren't really that high to be honest especially because not everyone would win but low and behold, I WON! I don't think I have ever felt so proud of myself for doing so little work in my life than I had at that moment in time. But then, *cue dramatic music* my laptop died before I had even managed to enter the details for postage.
Running for the charger like my life depended on it, I quickly plugged it in, hoping that I hadn't lost my hard-earned prize but being the unlucky person I am, when I opened the internet once again, I was not greeted with a screen asking me to enter my details. So once again, I opened the babybel website and entered my code but you'd never guess what it said?! 'THIS CODE HAS ALREADY BEEN ENTERED' flashed up on screen meaning that my prize will be forever unclaimed :(
So Yeah...
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Summer Time!

Ola!(Hello in Chabacano de Cavite)
So, celebrating the 'unofficial' end of Year 10, which also signifies the beginning of Summer *yay* I am going to do a nice summery post so there's no better way to kick start summer than making a Summer Bucket List!
(I shall keep you up to date and post pictures once/ if I complete anything)

1. Take 1000 Photos
   Anyone who know me will know that I am really quite photo happy and the complete opposite of camera shy so I decided that this should be on my list. As well as this, Year 11 is growing closer which mean leaving school is growing closer too so I want to get as many memories as I can with my friends before we all go our separate ways...
2. Acquire a Pet Rock
   This is one of the weirder things on my list but I decided that I should have a pet that will be in the house more than Margo this summer as I can guarantee that she will just end up falling asleep outside in the sunshiney garden and only come inside when hungry.
   I don't have a name yet though, one will probably come to mind when I find my precious little pet for the first time.
3. Find a Four Leaf Clover
   I have never in my lifetime found a four leaf clover and so I think that this summer is my time to find one! It also seems like one of those things that everyone else has on their list so I decided to be a sheep and join in.
4. Hide and Seek at Midnight
   I live in a small estate that has a mini gathering of trees right in the middle of it and I also live with a woods behind the estate so I think that playing Hide and Seek at Midnight is an absolute must-do this summer because even though I am 15, I think it will be quite fun. As well as this, it will be quite dark but not dangerously dark so that one of us might accidentally fall over bin or something stupid and die.
5. Send a Message in a Bottle at Lytham 
   This is kind of killing two birds with one stone because one of the things on the original list was go to Lytham and another was send a message in a bottle so I decided to bunch them both together - much like bananas. The plan is to just write a letter, shove it in a letter and place it in the sea at Lytham and hope someone reads it. Another version of this that I might do is bury it in the sand ans see how long it takes to be dug up and replied to...
6. Get 2000 Page Views
   A bit cheesy I know but I feel it would be quite the good achievement as this is my first ever blog so it would be cool to get so many views by the end of summer. I also want someone from Japan to read this blog so if anyone has anyone Japanese relatives or friends, show them my blog!
7. Place Random Items in Other People's Shopping Carts
   I just think that this sounds really fun and really lives up to my rebel persona - I don't know how I will get proof of this but hey ho! I shall have to take a sneaky selfie of get my mother on the job too.
8. Receive a Tweet Off Someone Famous
   Once again, this is quite a  typical thing to be on a teenager's summer/bucket list but that's probably why it appeals to me and I am absolutely determined to get someone famous to reply to my tweet to them - I got a signed photo off Tim Minchin so why not a tweet off someone else?
9. Outrageous Clothes to Fancy Restaurant
   This is quite spontaneous but I think it will be quite fun especially if I get my friends to join in too and I would say that this is one of the weirder things on the list and I quite look forward to it. Perhaps each friend good go for a different style e.g. Gothic, Grunge and Neon etc
10. Watch a Meteor Shower
    This is such a cute idea (in my eyes) so I decided to shove this on my list. I don't really know how to prove that I have done this as i don't know if you can really take pictures of meteors very well but I shall have a go. Anyways, I plan to do this on the 12th August as that is the peak of the meteor shower Perseids.
11. Homemade Ice-Cream
     I also really like this idea a lot and I look forward to doing this even though it will probably be disastrous as I have no ice-cream maker so it will all be done by hand but who knows, if it's successful, I may even make cookies to go with it.
12. COLLABORATION BLOG
     I hope to be able to do a bit of a collaboration with Alice and Sammi where Alice could perhaps pain my nails and Sammi write a blog for me to post.

A bit of a longer one tonight to make up for forgetting you last time
So Yeah...
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I forgot to post AHHHH

Osiyo!(Hello in Cherokee)
Okays, as you can probably tell, I am not very punctual at the moment and I do apologize but I  was just so tired after yesterday's hard work that I ended up falling asleep as soon as I got in meaning I completely forgot!
So, you're probably wondering... What was that strenuous event that caused Beth to have several naps and abandon us? Well, it was sports day - quite frankly the worst day of the year!
I absolutely despise PE and anyone knows me knows that I will go through any length to avoid a PE lesson and doing an event in sports day.
There I was, happily avoiding participating in years 7,8 and 9 - I was 'Sports Captain' who wasn't allowed to do an event but then the dark gloomy cloud came over my head as in year 10, someone else had bagsied Sports Captain so I had to actually join in :(
Naturally, I successfully  avoided all the long distance running events as I don't really run unless it entails a bus that I am meant to catch. Anyways... being the unlucky person I am, I ended up doing triple jump - something that I have never done in my life until today.
All that drama really took it out of me you know?
So Yeah... (Sorry I forgot)
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(I also got ridiculously bad sunburn that only runs down half of each leg making me look slightly weird)

Nail Varnish and Margo Don't Mix

प्रणाम!(Hello in Bohjpuri)
Today's post is about something that recently happened to me...
So here I was, after being inspired by Alice's fabulosa nail designs and so had a go at painting my own nails a simple pinky colour but believe me, this process was anything but simple!
First of all, Margo decided she needed to be stroked whilst I was painting my right hand which was already hard enough but I then had to add the strain of the cat headbutting my hand so I now have pink all over my fingers.
So once they were painted, the cat left me alone and decided to take a nap because all that head butting was very tiring and taxing work - Typical!
Anyways, so the cat woe up roughly 5 minutes ago and has since demanded the food, left it and then stared intently at my hand. Next thing I know, she is clawing at my hand like it's a toy and trying to drag it down to her using her claws. At first, I didn't know why but I have now realized that my nail varnish is making her think my hand is something to play with.
Next time, the cat can go outside next time I paint my nails as that was too much effort.

So Yeah...
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Happy Independence Day!

Hello!(Hello in English - obviously)
I saw it fitting to use this language as a greeting today because today is the 4th July which some people (Americans) may celebrate as Independence day - Yay!
So for all you who don't know what Independence Day is or what it's about, no fret, I shall inform you now.
Independence day is the federal celebration of the deceleration of national independence.
Today was only a quick post but I thought it should be of this theme.
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The Pasta Story

Ciao!(Hello in Italian)
Today's post is the tragic story of my tea tonight and what happened when I went to make it...
So carrying on with the Italian theme, I decided to make myself some meatballs and pasta with some garlic bread - accompanied by several tictacs afterwards...
I put the meatballs on first, they have to be cooked slowly in my opinion and I then filled another pan with water which I then brought to the boil. When I went to the cupboard however, I found that I had only four pieces of pasta left in the shell pasta and only a few tubes left in the packet of tubed pasta leaving me in an ultimate catastrophe! My meatballs were nearly cooked and I had nothing to eat them with :(
In the end, I had to settle for meatballs and rice - yipeee
To read another story as tragic as this click HERE
So Yeah...
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Why Hello There July!

Salam əleyküm!(Hello in Azeri)
So before you shoot me for not posting yesterday, I decided to postpone it and post today instead as a one off (more like I completely forgot to post). So hello July and goodbye June - my birthday month is now over *sob* *sniff* but I am sure July will being lots of fun things such as National creative flavor ice cream day (today) and Compliment your mirror day!
So this post is my going to be my June favorites, talking about all the lovely things that went on :)

1.   Favorite nail design-  This a design that a fellow blogger, Alice has done and I think that they're really simple yet effective meaning they make it onto my June favorite list see Having a Nail of a Time for more fabulosa nail designs and don't forget to follow the blog whilst you're at it!
   
2. Favorite shop - At the moment, I have been having a slight addiction to etsy which is an online store where people can make things and sell them or simply just buy them from all around the world. As you probably (maybe) knew, it was my birthday this month and I was struggling to tell people what I wanted but thinking about it, I could have just asked for either vouchers for here or items from here instead
3. Favorite Purchase - My favorite purchase I got this month was a deal on in booths and it was to buy 2 Barry M lipsticks and get a limited edition nail varnish for free! I on one hand thought this was really good because I really wanted to get some nail varnish but Josephine told me I had to get a new lipstick as the other one had broke - oopsies so when I saw this deal I was a very happy bunny :)
   So I just realized how much I was wittiling on then but here are two of the things I bought - I couldn't find a picture of the nail varnish but yeahh, click on the pictures to link to the website.
   The green lipstick isn't actually green and is called 'Genie' and it reacts with the Alkaline in your lips to give you a unique color and costs  - £4.49
   The other lipstick is called 'Just Peachy' and that also cost £4.49
4. Favorite post to write - The post(s) that I enjoyed writing the most is by far Drunken Mess and Drunken Mess Part 2 because I had someone in mind when I was writing it and it was really fun to vent my feelings about the whole situation and what not without them knowing. *cue evil laugh*

That's it for today and I've never done a monthly favorite before
So Yeah...
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