Scrapbooking again!

Today I did more scrapbooking! I am definitely enjoying it! I managed to get all the photo's I wanted from my birthday, some of which you can see in the beautiful collage above! I've been using ipiccy.com to create the collages that I have been using on the blog recently. It's really easy to use and I recommend that you all have a go at it. You basically upload photos, chose the kind of collage you want, then drag the photos into it! I'm not sure what you guys think but feel free to let me know in the comments!

If you've been in touch with the news then you will know that Jessops has gone bust. Living in a small seaside town means that I have NO IDEA where to print my photos off. Before I would have gone to Jessops but that is no more. I know that Boots has a photo printing service but it's so expensive. So I went looking for alternatives. Online Photo Prints! I simply Googled photo prints and found Photobox. I actually used Photobox first to create a personal birthday card for someone. You can upload a photo and then write whatever message you want in the card and they send it out to you. You can chose from different card sizes and the most basic (A5) comes out at £2.50. When I received the card I was seriously impressed with the quality of the print and it certainly was a unique birthday card (at least in my eyes)! Anyway, after being pleased with my card I thought I might as well try out their photo printing services. At 12p a print for a standard 6x4 I was very pleased. I did have to pay a small amount for delivery, but they arrived so quickly that it didn't really bother me! 

If you require any online photo printing services I suggest that you definitely give Photobox a look, with good value for money and excellent service who could ask for more!

In conclusion I am making good headway with my 22 before 22 list and it's giving me something to focus on. I've had a bit of a tough week this week, after trusting someone and letting them back into my life only to be dumped again. I'm aware it's my own fault for being a trusting fool, and this is all I'm really going to say about it. I'm just glad I have something else to focus on so I'm not wallowing in self pity!

Making a (good) Start on my 22 before 22 List!

Today I've been making a small dent in my 22 before 22 list which you can find in the tabs above. I thought that I would share with you how I have began to make a dent in my goals!

5. Make a Scrapbook!

I bought the things to begin making a scrapbook last week when I was birthday shopping in town but today I made a start by organising everything I got and making a title page!

I know the title page is a little boring, but I really like it and I know that they other pages are just going to be FULL of pictures etc. I've called this scrapbook 'The year my life truly begins' because it really is. I'm graduating this year and I'm going to have to settle down and get a job. Scary stuff! The picture on the right is what my bed looked like when I was creating this page earlier. I managed to find some cool bits and pieces in The Works such as the Owl, and the Flowers on the title page. Also you'll see there are a tonne of birthday cards in the picture. I'm going to be cutting out little pieces of those and using them as decoration whenever I can. I've kept the cards that mean a lot to me in my keepsakes box, but these are ones that I won't mind chopping up. I can't wait to make a page with that cupcake card!

7. Watch every film on my 'to watch' list

I opened up my 'to watch' list this morning and to my horror it was severely outdated. So of course I had to make myself a new list! and here it is:

1. The Godfather

2. Casablanca

3.Psycho

4.Pulp Fiction

5.The Good, The Bad and the ugly

6.Lord of the rings: 1,2,3

7. The Hobbit

8.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

9.Sin City

10. Pan's Labyrinth

11. Children of Men

12. Rear Window

13. The Shawshank Redemption

14. Requiem For a Dream

15.Little Miss Sunshine

16.Lolita

17.Ed Wood

18.Breakfast at Tiffany's

19. One Day

20. TiMER

21.10 things I hate about you

22.Jawbreaker

23.Never Been Kissed

24.Pretty Woman

25. The Ugly Truth

26.Shop Girl

27.P.s I Love You

28. The Time Travellers Wife

You may notice that one of the films is crossed off already! I watched it this afternoon and I will be writing about it shortly! Some of the films on the list are films I've started watching, or ones that I have seen parts of in passing, but most of them are ones I haven't seen at all!

9. Lose Weight

Something that I have been trying to do and failing at for a very long time! I recently purchased 4 exercise DVD's in the hopes that these would kickstart some kind of fitness regime. I HATE going outside to exercise, the entire time I am worried that someone is going to be staring at me and judging me so doing these things in the comfort of my own home is definitely the way to go! I did 2 workouts this morning and I'll admit I almost died, but I'm hoping that they'll get easier the more that I do them!

14. Read 5 Classic Novels

I've been meaning to do this for a LONG time, I have read a few of the classic's when I was in secondary school, but I've been putting off reading them for a long time, for no apparent reason. Anyway I haven't started reading any yet, but today I decided that I would at least make my list of the books I am going to tackle!

1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
3. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
5. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I kind of chose these at random from a list, but I do know of them all, so we'll see how this goes!

So that's what I have been getting up to today! Let me know in the comments if you have a goals list and how you are doing with yours!