Recently......

in my world things have been up and down. Not long after my last post was was uncle put in hospital by a pissed up bellend that threw him down the stairs. After being told he shouldn't of even survived the fall the surgeons where called in as he had multiple fractures and breaks to his neck and spine. They did there job and did it well but whilst under he had a series of strokes. One that hit him in a bad way and completely shut down his brain. On the Saturday 30th August my parents and other close family members where called to the hospital as he wasn't responding and was brain dead. They decided to turn his machines off and at 4:16pm he passed away.

The son of a bitch that did this to him is now waiting trail for manslaughter and I hope to hell the shit rots in jail. Karma's a bitch and will eventually come bite you back on the arse.

Following that we have had good and bad news. The good being that we can take out our kitchen as we've ordered a new one. 

Matts doing his best to get everything ready for the plaster who is coming on the 7th October. And the kitchen arrives

On the 10th !

But like I said I have had more bad news yesterday at tea time another of my family members passed away. I may not have lived close to them or spent a lot of time with them as the live at the other end of the country but I loved my uncle Ian like crazy. He was a fabulous and intelligent man who like me loved to hoard and collect. Heaven seems to be gaining more and more angels recently. And I still believe I did the right thing of having the quote 'Everybody has their own Angels' on my arm for all to see as I believe in it 100%

I guess that's all from me for now. Maybe later when I get home from work I'll give you an update on my creative world. As that's the one thing that seems to keep me focused recently !

Love Emma

Thought of the day !

15 August 2014

For the last couple of days I've been doing my thoughts of the day. I've been writing and illustrating my thoughts but for the last few days I've had no thoughts on anything until now !

Chavs

Ahhh chavs. Burberry, tracky loving, cap wearing scally's. And oh how they annoy the shit out of me.

I'm writing this now as I'm sat on the bus going to work with two chav bastards behind me talking about 'birds', (what they call females) Drugs and there life on the dole. All they seem to be saying is 'f*ing this' and 'f*ing that'. I can't even understand half of what there bloody saying it just sounds complete and utter gibberish. 

So my thought of the day is why do chavs have to be a drain on society !?

All they seem to do is not work, get pissed, get high, have a shit education because it's more important to have a social life and spend money on an £80 track suit because it's the in thing. 

An annoying subject not just for me I think !

And that concludes Emma's Thought of the Day !

Do you read hardbacks, pocket books, or e-books? Why?

This is one of the questions that I was sent on the Book Blogging ideas from swapbot. 

Do you read hardbacks, pocket books, or e-books?  Why?

I read a variety. I have hard back, paper back and ebooks.

Recently due to the lack of getting out and money I have been reading ebooks. But yesterday I decided to pull out one of my books that I'd thought about reading but haven't.

I miss the feel of a book and it annoys me how I always have to remember that I need to charge my iPad. I'm slowly detracting away from my iPad and books but now that I'm working i think that I can get away with adding to my physical book collection. Roll on payday ! 

13 August 2014

Things have been a little crazy recently which is why I haven't posted on here for a while.

What's new.....

We have been crazy with the house. Finally we have a living room. Our couch is in the floor is in and the walls and stairs are nearly painted. Matt has our new couch all set up at work and ready to get started. So by next week it maybe ready and waiting to come home.

The next new thing is I have set up my online stationery shop where you will find designed pen pal stationery by me. Plus my prints, notebooks / journals, and soon bookmarks and more.

The final bit of news is I have finally got a new job ! I'm now a new employee of Primark and yesterday was my first day ! It flew by rather quickly and I learned a lot. I'm looking forward to being apart of the team there and hope I will get something out of my time there. It's nice to meet new people and do something different.

I will be posting more on what's going on along with having this as my book blog also.

I joined a new swap called book blog ideas where your partner sends you 12 prompts on what to blog about in regards to books and I'm really looking forward to writing about them whether it be on here in my journal or both =]

Hope your all well !

Have a wonderful day

Emma x

Thursday 24th July 2014

Time hasn't been on my side recently. It seems the days are just mushing together one minute it's Monday next its Thursdays then it's gonna be Monday again before I know it ! 

I managed to get a lot of post out this week so I'm looking forward to the replies and getting to know some of me new UK penpals.

As of today I've opened up my tumblr again I miss looking at all the cute and creative stuff that always filled my dashboard ! I wonder how long it's going to last. I remember how addicted I was in uni and loved and met some fantastic penpals and people on there.

I've started reading ' The Life of Moaning ' by Karl Pilkington it's fantastic it's so funny and he's a true manc lad ! The way he's written the book is so funny. His view of life is epic and I agree with quite a lot he writes and is opinionated on. If your into comedy writing / books then I truly recommend this !

The weather is so hot here that me and the dog has stayed at home all week whilst I've worked as it's far to warm in the office ! 

Here are some pictures from my week so far !

He managed to get gloss all over his face! 

That's all from me for now I'm off to get dinner.

Emma <3

Saturday 19th July

I haven't posted in a few days and this is why.........

I've been decorating and working and doing all sorts of creative stuff ! 

Plus I've visited my nephew at my parents. I also set up a giveaway on Instagram if your interested also just follow the instructions !

Climbing on uncle matt !

Hi mummy ! Me up to no good !

All of my outgoing mail !

Making journals. Below is my August Journal where I have challenged myself to take a picture everyday of something that makes me happy or means something to me and scrapbook about it. I'm going to print my pictures and update my journal on a weekly basis !

Here's the Journal !

Matt and Peppa my best friends dog ! She's such a beaut ! Totally loved him.

That's part of my week and weekend so far maybe I'll have something more to blog about tomorrow ! 

Em <3

Giveaway..

500+ followers on Instagram yayy !!!

To celebrate I'm hosting a giveaway over on my Instagram @patternandpaper and hashtag #pnp501. Respost the picture and tag me and the hashtag. You must be following me.

Go check it out and be in it to win it !