Useful and fun!

I went shopping last week and spotted these pencils while I was out - I think I've mentioned my painful  hands before and these are perfect to help me, the 'curly' looking bit is made of foam..making the pencils larger and therefore easier for me to hold! :)
Now I don't know if its just me but for some reason other than them being extremely useful for me I find these pencils pleasing to look at! (Am I mad? lol)

I know this pic is quite dark but I quite like the mood of it :)

Now all I have to do is get drawing with them!

Didn't have to wait...

..my parents were in town today and picked my glasses up early for me (thank you! x) so I am now sat here blogging, without rubbing my eye, straining it AND I can see the screen (and everything else) SO much clearer! I am thrilled with them :)

I have a new current fave song that I love! I have added it to my youtube page but thought i'd put it here too, I love everything the song, the sound of it, the words and the video - Speak & Spell!!

Waiting,waiting....

Ok I know I shouldn't wish my life away but I am desperate for it to be monday now! Never have I wanted a weekend out of the way so quickly! Monday morning I collect my glasses and can finally get on with various tasks and hobbies that i've stopped for a while knowing my eyes weren't quite right.

I've had a really croaky throat for the last few days, lost my voice completely for a while yesterday morning (some others were happy about that I think lol), today it is getting better though; I am more confident that my voice will hold for a whole sentence!

I have been searching for quotes and stuff (I love anything like that) and have found a few that have made me smile/think:

A friend is one who believes when you have ceased to believe in yourself : Unknown

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words : Unknown

Happiness is a direction, not a place : Sydney J. Harris

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for an answer : Unknown

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen

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Before I keep going and going with quotes i'll stop for now, will post some more another time though :)

Things that make you smile are important x

Change of view

After being pushed (persuaded) to go to the opticians yesterday I finally had my eyes tested and discovered I do need glasses for close work (inc laptop, tv etc). I pick them up next week, its going to be weird I had kinda guessed that I would need glasses; my left eye has felt tired for a long time now so it wasn't really a shock and i'm not at all bothered by the idea of wearing them, its just gonna be odd/different I guess. I had no real idea of styles etc but as soon as I saw the ones i'm getting it 'had' to be them :)

I have just added another video to my favourites on youtube - yet another favourite scene from a fave movie :)

I cannot believe its march already! Outside still looks so wintry and i'm still cold most of the time (that could just be me though lol). Hopefully will have something bright and spring like to post about here soon :)

Youtube

I have today linked my blog with a youtube account so (hopefully) any videos I come across will inspire me to blog or maybe even vice versa?!

I have added a few favourite videos there so far and will keep adding more, so if you like 'me' and want to see what I like then take a nosey at my youtube account! :)
I could list why I like each vid I post but that could get a little boring... so if you want to know why I like one just ask :) x

A snapshot of colour

I don't think it could rain anymore today if it tried! I can't wait until it at least feels like spring has begun, and some 'colour' returns to the garden etc.
Searching through some photos today I found this one I took last spring on a walk with my children, we ended up in another town and walking through a lovely churchyard that was full of blossom trees. I took this photo from underneath one of them then got all arty with it (lol). I really like this - the contrast of the black and white combined with the snapshot effect of colour.
(Click on the photo to see it bigger :] x )

Only good the notes

A favourite scene from a favourite movie..... x