Monday, 17 November 2014

I'm Talking About Winter?! But It's Almost Summer!

Oakstar over at An Amazing Case of Wanderlust, tagged me for the My Favourite Things About Winter  tag. Thanks so much!

Just so you guys know (though it properly won't bother you), it's actually almost summer where I live, but this tag looks cool and hay, I've been tagged for it. I might as well do it anyway.

So onto the tag:



The Rules:

1.Thank the person who tagged you. (Link to their blog!)
2. Tell your top 5 favourite things about winter.
3. Answer the person who tagged you's questions about winter.
4. Ask 5 questions about winter for the people you tagged to answer.
5. Tag 3 or more people!

My top five favourite things about winter:

1. Wearing scarves. I have an obsession with scarves. I'm collecting them. There is no such thing as too many scarves in my option. If you could wear scarves in summer, the world would be a better place.

2. Cuddling down in a blanket and reading a good book. There's nothing like an amazing book on a cold winter's night, when you're all wrapped up in a blanket.

3. Heaters. Being able to turn the heater in my bedroom always makes things more cosy and peaceful. I always know winter has arrived when I flick the power back on.

4. Tea! I drink tea all year around (some might even say I'm addicted), but winter is the time of year when I get an excuse to drink more tea than should really be good for me and get away with it.

5. Staying indoors. I'm not really a social butterfly. I love staying home, reading and writing. Winter is the time of year when no one expects you to go out into the world and see people. It's the time for getting on a doing your own things.

Oakstar's Questions:

1.Favourite carol, for any holiday in this season?
I'm not quite sure about this question. Sorry, about that. If it means favourite carol for any holiday that falls in winter where I live, then I honestly have no clue. I'm not even sure if there are any big holidays in winter.
But if this question means, for any holiday this season I'm in currently, then I still have no clue. Nothing falls in spring. But next month it's summer and it's also Christmas and my favourite Christmas carol is:
Wow! It feels strange to be sharing Christmas carols, I didn't realise it was so close.

2.Favourite winter dish (ex. turkey or hot chocolate or candy cane)
Does tea count? It's sort of my favourite thing all year around!

3.Favourite winter sport? I don't really have one. I can't do any of them, but my favourite to watch is the skiing or the ice dancing!

 4.How old were you when you built your first snowman? (if it's summer where you live, change this to sand castle)
Thanks Oakstar for this extra option. I was seven when I built my first sandcastle. That was the first I'd ever been to the beach.
Believe it or not, I've never seen settled snow. It hardly ever snows in Australia. Where I live it only snows once every few years and then it never settles and that's when it's really cold (for us).

5.Favourite holiday movie?
If this means, Christmas movie (I'm really bad at understanding questions, but we have different uses for words in Australia), then that would be A Muppet's Christmas Carol. I think that's what's it's called, I haven't watched it for a few years.

I tag:
SW from A Free Mind
Celia from Celia Boldizar
Jollygirl from Reflections of a Jollygirl

My Questions:
1. What's the first five words winter makes you think of?
2. What's your favourite thing to do in winter?
3. What's your favourite winter drink?
4. What's your favourite winter clothes?
5. What months are winter where you live?

Thanks so much for getting to the end of this post. It's seems really weird to be talking about winter when I'm sitting here on a really hot train heading to my job.

-Kat

Sunday, 16 November 2014

I've Got a Problem...

Something's been on my mind for a while, so I've decided to talk about it and ask for some advice.

The problem is, I'm thinking about redesigning this blog. I love the design and everything (Morning is an amazing designer), but it's not quite the style I want anymore. It beautiful, but not quite right anymore.

I think I want something a little more simple, without all the colour. However much I love colour, I've decided I don't want quite so much anymore.

So, here is where I ask for help, should I redesign this blog or not?

 

And while on this subject, I have another problem, who should I have redesign my blog? Where did you get your blog designed?

Sadly I don't have any money to spend on a blog design so I will either have to go to a free blog design shop (there aren't many around anymore) or try designing it myself.

Do you know any free blog designers or do you think I should try to design it myself? Please give me some feedback! I really need some help.

-Kat

Saturday, 15 November 2014

God Loves You

via
God loves you, nothing else matters.
I know that boy hurt you a lot,
But try to move on, forget him.
He doesn't deserve you, your love.
It wasn't meant to be, but remember,
Better things will come soon,
God had everything planned.
 
I got a strange email a while ago from someone asking me, 'Why do you write so much about love?'. This kind of felt strange to me, why do I write about love? I never realised before that I did write about it a lot, but it seems I do. The answer to that person's question is, Love is important, it's hard and painful and beautiful. It's what most girls dream of a lot's loose their hearts over. So yes, I might write a lot about it, but I hope that what I write helps others.
 
-Kat

Friday, 14 November 2014

Blogger Recognition Award

Thanks Lydia for tagging me for the Blogger Recognition Award. I feel really special for this!



Rules:

Select 15 other blogs you want to give the award to. Do some digging if you must! Find those blogs. You cannot nominate yourself or the person who has nominated you.

Write a post to show off your award! Give a brief story of how your blog got started, and give a piece or two of advice to new bloggers. Thank whoever nominated you, and provide a link to their blog. List who you've nominated in the post. Make sure to also attach the award itself!

Comment on each blog and let them know you've nominated them. Provide a link to the award post you created.

Provide a link to the original post on Edge of Night. That way, anyone can find the original guidelines and post if needed, and we can keep it from mutating and becoming confusing! (It happens LOL).

Story about my blog and my advice:
I started my blog about four and a half/ five months ago. I can't really believe it's been that long already.

I mainly started my blog to share my writing and make friends. I wanted somewhere to share all my little bits and bob that had no where else to go and blogging seemed like the best thing to do.

My advice is, don't expect too much at first. It takes a while to build up you're blog and you can't expect too much all at once.

Also, talk to other bloggers. People won't find you unless you do, so it's worth it.

Nominees:
Imogen: Gossiping with Dragons
Morning: The Ups and Downs of my Not-so-Average Life
Charlie: Diary of an Unschooling Teenager
Beth: Just my Cuppa Tea
Lizzie: Castle in the Air
Yasmine: Cloudy Dreams
Emily: Lynde Avenue
Cait: Notebook Sisters
Stephanie: Called His
Rachel: You and I
Abbey: Miss Abbey Noelle
Vellvin: An Irish Maiden
Elly: a Girl
Rose: Truly. Madly. Deeply
Bethan: Think. Read. Write. Dream

Link to the Original post:
http://eveofnight.blogspot.ca/2014/10/lets-celebrate-whos-up-for-award.html

Thanks so much for reading this post. Sorry it's not exciting or anything, but I need to get some reading done. TBR list is getting really long. Oops.

Till next time!

-Kat