so you're ill, huh?

I'm ill. This, for me, means my Hello Kitty dressing gown, woollen socks and blankets in abundance.

It also means I'll be able to do lots of blogging, yay ~ *cough* yay ~

First of all, here is a list of things that are good to do when you're ill.

1. Eat/drink soup: It's a classic for ill or wintery times. A good and easy recipe for soup is Bouillon stock with boiling water in a mug. Takes like 3 minutes to make, it's genius.
2. Surround yourself with duvets, pillows, tissues (and cats, whenever possible): Soft things are always good. And cats are extra good because they're company too.
3. Sleep in the daytime: BECOME CAT. Some people find it hard to sleep in the daytime, but I find it really helps sometimes. If sleeping is not an option, just arrange yourself in mounds of blankets and fluffy things and relaaax(I personally love hibernating and being nocturnal, its so fun).
4. Have a nice bath: the nicest baths are to be had at night time. Wait til it's completely dark outside, then light lots of pretty candles and DON'T FALL ASLEEP IN THE BATH TUB. DANGEROUS.
5. Paint or draw: sometimes using a creative outlet can distract from being ill. Try and stick to painting happy things (e.g. unicorns, rainbows) to encourage your illness to go away.
6. Sew/knit/crochet: If you can't go to school, then you may as well be productive in some way. And this way you can make more warm things to help you get better (une example; making crochet squares and then joining them into a biiiig cosy quilt).

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go and do a few of these. 

Bye kittens

Sinead 

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Here, take a look at some of my watercolours.

I've got really into doing watercolours recently. I never really liked to use them before, because I found doing  tone difficult with them. But after lots of practice I think I've got the hang of them, huzzah!

 Mimi probably trying to drink my painty water, the fiendish thing.

 First of all, I am not a satanist, I just like the shape. Here's a portrait of the beautiful Lana Del Rey. Took me a while to do the hair, but I think it worked out quite well. ^^

Stencil-effect used on the flowers by dabbing them while they're still wet, and making sure I left gaps between the petals.

Veins painted on whilst skin colour was still damp so the blue bled into the skin background.

Sinead

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Hydrocarbons and Audrey Hepburn

Sinead has been mildly bugging me to show you this; why? I hear you ask.Well there is two pieces of Sinead's art on the this wall ( which happens to be my bedroom wall. ) The canvas is of Me (Sophie) in the middle, Sinead on my left and our Bestest tall friend - Holly on my right. I find this painting fabulous and delightful and also Sinead has been very generous when painting my face. The other piece of art is the card on the right of the picture, which is of my favourite person of all time ( and the person I think should run this earth) Florence Welch from Florence + the machine. My wall also includes revision sheets ( yawn ) an Italian poster of one of my favourite films 'Roman Holiday' and a postcard of four determined ladies in front of the eiffel tower.

Lots of sweet loving 

Sophie xxx 

I ♥ my film SLR

Painty water

 A book about space

Teeny-tiny bird skull with lavender shadows


There's something more exciting and special about taking photographs when you don't know how thy're going to turn out.


Peace, Sinead
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