Attic

When my laptop died a few weeks ago, I decided to find the restore disc and fix it that way. Only when I hunted high and low throughout the house, I could only conclude that A- my mam had thrown out the laptop box and all its important contents, or B- the only place it could possibly be now is in the attic.
So into the attic I clamoured. Our ladders are at someone else's house, so the only way to get up there was to push my mams wardrobe under the hatch, climb onto the wardrobe with the help of a kitchen stool, et voila. I'd poked my head into the attic once before, not long after we'd moved in, and I saw that it was pretty much full of junk such as empty cardboard boxes and plastic bags. Also I was scared of spiders and didn't stay there too long.

This time though, I was different- confident, nay, cocky. After about 10 minutes poking around with a broom and finding some vaguely interesting things, I thought 'fuck it', and climbed all the way in. I love our attic, its massive, I want to get it converted and have my bedroom up there. The two main reasons I was too scared to get in before were firstly, massive hairy spiders that might land on my face/head, and slight panic that the floorboards wouldn't hold my weight. That was mainly my mam scaring me though and saying you're not really meant to walk about in the attic.

So I blocked out the thought of spiders, and decided the floor would easily take my puny 7 stone weight, people must walk about in their attics all the time.

I had a fairly good mooch in there, the torch was on its last legs though, it weren't too bright so that wasn't much help. I took loads of photo's, cause the spider threat was still hanging over my head, despite how brave I was trying to be, and I thought I'd get a better look at things if I took pictures to paw over once I'd got out.

I found some ace old clothes though, not loads but they were pretty cool. So I was chuffed about that. There was a brown old leather satchel but I didn't dare move it incase there was crawlies in it. There was also, strangely, loads of pairs of old workmen style boots. A chair, a cup and saucer, a massive beam of wood, and old suitcase with the contents spilling out, loads and loads of spare wood, old staircase spindles, a few kids toys. There was a mass of junk and stuff in the centre, but I couldn't get at it.

That was as far as my bravery went. Next time I'm planning on taking some sort of spider repellent like citrus spray or something, and proper lighting, lanterns or something, or even better one of those miners torches that you wear on your head, iv always wanted to have one of those and this is the perfect excuse!

So that's my attic. Here's the clothes I found therein.

I think this might be my favourite one, you can't tell from the picture but its got cute little pockets. I'm planning on turning into a nice little strapless dress. Hopefully.

This spotty one is kind of hideous, I know, But I'm kind of having a thing recently where I really like ugly clothes. No idea what I'm gonna do with this one yet. Feel free to make suggestions.

When I first found this in the attic, it was a crumpled heap of fabric, infact it was the first one I found. I was really excited cause I thought it might be a tweed jacket, so I was a bit disappointed when it wasn't. But I like it a lot anyway, I'm hoping to turn this into a nice miniskirt.

The blue jumper I think I didn't like much at first, but I reckon will look quite cute on, I've not tried it on yet, but I might wear it tomorrow. The shirt I like too, but its really really dirty, we've only washed it once, hopefully the dirt and marks will come out after a couple more washes and it can be salvaged. I guess its kind of shapeless, but the detail around the collar and sleeves are so pretty.

Maybe this old sailor dress is my favourite find, I can't really decide. I thought it was so cool when I found it. Its ginormous obviously, though the tag reads size 12, sizes must have been different then. Anyway, its kind of huge and shapeless in general, but the addition of a belt makes it look tons better already. I have no idea how I'm going to tackle this one, maybe I'll get it made to my size professionally, maybe I'll just hack at it myself. Either way, I reckon it'll end up looking ace. Its got massive shoulder pads as well haha. I am a lucky girl.

Anyway, that'll do. Im going to the beach in the morning, well if the weather is nice. Im looking forward to it. And now im sick of writing, adios.

Back again, briefly, or maybe not

Sup.

Obviously, I'm back again. Not that I went anywhere interesting. (though in the interest of my blog I should probably say I was away travelling in space, eating my own weight in waffles and squirty cream, and volunteering at a home for Pugs)

Got the laptop fixed, I did about 1% of this myself, thanks to locating the restore disk, not sure how I managed to get it up and running, cause at the 2 hour point of trying to get it to restore I was about to give up, but then it worked. I then handed the lappy over to my computer genius friend Leon who kindly sorted out the rest (thanks a million if you're reading!) the resolution was all funny, or as I technically put it "everything has gone big?!" So yes, fixed, he even fiddled about with it so that I could stealy steal unsecured networks in my road, which is how I'm writing this here blog, because Virgin are massive bastards and keep cutting us off and not letting us leave. So its all good, I guess!

I have been staying away from looking at anything to do with Leeds festival, in order to save heartache.

Last weekend I went to Bowes Museum with my auntie, look it up if yr unfamiliar with it. Its this massive stately home place, relatively close to us. Back in the day a man called John Bowes had it built as a wedding gift to his french wife Josephine. How perfect is that? Things were so much more romantic in those days, I kind of went weak at the knees when I found that out. I hope the man I marry will build me a fucking huge stately home when he marries me.

Bowes museum is in a town called Barnard Castle, most things were shut on account of it being Easter Sunday, but there was a second hand bookshop that we went in, it had some ace books that I wanted to buy, but I, as ever, had no money left (7 fiddy to get into that museum y'know)

But its a nice little town, I reckon we'll go back soon, I hope so cause I wanna buy old cool books!

Today I went to Stuart park in Middles'bro cause there was a fair on, a very tiny fair. The animal part was cool though, loads of goats, I would quite like a little pet goat. Here's some picturez
The goats were actually kind of ignorant, they wouldn't come over to me for a stroke.

This one spent about 5 minutes scratching its ass on this post

Look at the look of satisfaction on its face haha. I also took a picture of a big cock. (fnar fnar) I've been dying to say that.

In other news, Saturday was the most beautiful day of the year so far, I reckon. It was hot and bright and sunny and the sky was dead blue. I wore a summery dress, it was lovely. Today was a bit colder unfortunately. I planted some of my sunflower seeds at my aunties, that I harvested from my sunnies last year, though I don't think yr meant to sow them till may but oh well, might as well give em a crack.

I've been playing with the macro on my digital camera recently, I just realized macro photos are ace. Here's some from when I very first had a go at them, on an apple that still had a little leaf on that I thought was cool, a fake flower in my room, and some from Saturday that I took of a daffodil.

Also on Saturday, man Saturday was a good day, I didn't realize! On Saturday I got a flower press from a charity shop. Its a bit weird cause I'm not sure it'd have entered my mind to want one before, but as soon as I seen it, its like I knew instantly that its the kind of thing that actually I would totally love. And it was only a pound! At the moment I'm just pressing a few daisies, I would love a Daff but I can't bring myself to pick one! So I'll give the daisies a week and see how they turn out. Buzzin.

Okay, before I started this, there were a lot of thoughts in my mind, but now they've all gone, I've probably forgot things I was gonna add but ah well, I can't remember.
Next time I will recount tails of my adventure into my attic, and a trip to the flea market.
Bye.