These are a few of my favourite things....

After the last favourites post of the month, I thought I'd show you some of my favourite things, both in photos and text. I like things. Some would say that's materialistic (which it is, of course it is) but I'm just not one to be able to live out of a backpack. I like pretty, pleasing and memory-laden things in my posession and I like to display them and use them in any and every way that I can. I like games and products, technology and stationary, scents and visuals. I just really like things.

I love to read and write, so much so that I have a semi-colon tattoo on my left wrist that represents my love of the written word. One of my favourite books is John Green's The Fault In Our Stars and it's one of the books alongside Harry Potter and a handful of others that I can read time and time again and fall in love with the story in a new way each time. It's a very powerful book for a novel focused on two teenagers which is rare to find and thrilling to read. I laughed, I cried and I'm not embarrassed by that because I think books should evoke emotion. Language is such a powerful and important tool that most of us have the power to wield.

We Heart It is a website I love to browse at night via the app. It's like Pinterest and Tumblr made a sweet, pink riddled baby with quotes, gorgeous photographs and inspiration in one place. I like to delve into it for an hour or so and when I find photos I like, I save them for a rainy day. I'll post a few on Instagram from time to time or use them here in placement of photos I meant to take but didn't. I'm one of those people who have folders on their laptop and phones for wallpapers and backgrounds and save them all so I can change them to suit my mood on a whim. I find Tumblr to be for humour and fandoms (which I love) and Pinterest for home inspiration and recipes but We Heart It will hold a special place in my bookmarks.

Hair accessories. The doughnut you can see above was purchased from Primark for a mere £1 and is a saviour for days when I want my hair to look a little more polished than my standard messy bun. I have shoulder length layered hair naturally so it's a little fiddly to cover the entire thing but when I do I'm pleased with the result. Hair accessories of any kind are favourites - from floral crowns to hair chains, hair bands, hair clips (where do all the bobby pins go?), head scarfs - you name it, I have them (somewhere...). I like to change my hair up a lot so semi-permanent dyes and wigs are in abundance in my house. Wigs to me are what a pair of false eyelashes are to someone else; they can make a look go from nice to wow.

I love scents, mainly ones you'd associate with Autumn/Winter but scents adorn my home in various guises from reed diffusers from Next to candles by Yankee and perfume by Marc Jacobs. The Body Shop Vanilla EDT reminds me of my first winter at college when I was fifteen and sitting my GCSE's there full-time as I'd decided to leave high school due to people making my life terrible. It reminds me of meeting friends, meeting future and now ex-lovers, terrible coffee from the canteen and sharing headphones and a Kerrang magazine with a 6ft4in later-to-be cyber goth (and dear friend). It reminds me of growing up, of discovery and of youth and I am still transported there now when I wear it.

I love my daughters, my boyfriend, my dogs, my parrot, my home, clean floors, helping someone out, the feeling you get when you take your bra off and realise it's significant of you being in for the night, the smell of Christmas, Baileys over ice on December 1st to mark the transition to festivity, Harry Potter or pug anything, floral designs, a clean and organised computer, a well built house on The Sims 3, Indian and Japanese food, fresh flowers, coffee and a bacon sandwich in bed with the latest issue of whatever glossy magazine takes your fancy, dresses with tights, flat shoes with a pair of heels for back up and most of all I love that I can share this and so many of you will get it.

Thank you for getting it.