1st, September; Insomnia58! The UK`s largest Gaming Event!

I look a lot more like my dad than I do my mum,

we`ve always been very, very close so I seriously enjoyed

our day out at Insomnia.

Last weekend, the UK held one of it`s largest gaming events at the NEC in Birmingham. Luckily, my dad treated me as I successfully got into University!
it was £25 per person for a day ticket and we headed up there on the first day since we figured that it wouldn`t be too busy... we where very, very wrong; people had been queueing up seriously early in the morning so the place was already selling out of Witcher packages and special Xbox buys (can`t remember all of them).

I put this picture on Insta,

and both cosplayers found it...

Awakward.

I`ve heard of Insomnia before, and I`d never actually been over to Birmingham. I had an absolutely incredible day out there and everyone I met was amazing and super friendly... JUST EVERYONE THERE WAS AMAZING.
It`s incredibly hard to describe the feeling you get at one of these events, when you`re completely surrounded by people who love the exact same things as you and people who welcome you with open arms since you`re both completely weebs.

To begin with, me and my dad haven`t really spent a lot of time together recently; I`ve been working full time before University and he`s been busy with his job. Then I`ve been trying to fit in as much time as I can to prepare myself for University and he`s tried to stay out of all of that to give me some time to calm down and take it easy.
My dad was the one who really got me into my video games, he had the old Atari games and Sega Mega Drives; so whenever I went over to my dads house when I was younger, it was either go out on the motorbike or play video games with dad before I go back home. I`ll put it this way, my mum would not go anywhere near an Insomnia event!


We left pretty early, and we also had to go and pick up my Uncle and Cousin before we left off. We actually didn`t have time to have anything to eat so we had to stop off and get a huge trucker breakfast and a coffee. We didn`t get there too late, but when we did get there all if the main car parks where filled up already, the Witcher packs had sold out and, luckily, the queues to get into the main halls had gone down. To say it was the first day it was so packed in there, it just goes to show how big the gaming industry is starting to get.

if you don`t know much about Insomnia, then I`ll stop repeating myself and explain a little bit about it.
It`s held once every year for 4 days at the NEC in Birmingham, they use up the huge halls and invite some of the biggest gaming companies in the world to come and show off their new and exclusive products. For instance; Xbox, PS4, Razor, Sony, RobotWars (or a rip off, I don`t know), they invite loads of youtubers too, Twitch was there this year, World of Warcraft, Game and soooo many more. Along with all of the gaming companies being there, people rent out little stores and sell gaming products, toys and shirts.
Then along with the 4 days of weebing out with your fellow group of nerds, you can camp at the NEC so you really are spending the whole weekend there; also, you can bring along your own game console, so you PC gamers can have an absolute field day playing inside of a hall full of hundreds of people playing the same game as you.

I would love to stay there over the weekend, and next years tickets are on sale now...  So I might book mine and camp for the weekend, but the only problem is that I don`t know who will camp with me.


I was definitely really impressed with the Retro area, it was bigger than I expected as the newest games and VR`s had taken over the majority of the hall.

I didn`t get to play many of the retro games, mainly because every game had someone on it, playing it, and there was people behind them waiting to play the game aswell. I also loved the XBOX area, and I don`t mean the 18+ area that everyone was queuing up to go into, I`m on about the area that was just full of video games that you could play; and if you completed a certain amount of video games then you got a free ice cream, the had an XBOX ice cream van that was bright green. So for every video game you played, someone gave you a sticker for this small sheet and then you took it to the van and got ice cream, yes... I am extremely impressed with the free ice cream.

To get mine, I played; The new Forza, Slime Rancher, Minecraft and Recore. In all fairness, I think I played a few other ones but I`ve forgotten what I actually played; whatever I played, t was extremely fun and I enjoyed that whole section of games... And I enjoyed my free ice cream.

Along with all of the gaming sections, some of the halls had giant shows going on, one of them you needed a special band to get into, I think you got them if you camped over the weekend and that show was about gaming development and designing... I think.
The main stage had the youtubers on in the morning, and in the afternoon we saw the small cosplay show; all of the cosplayers where people who had come to Insomnia in their cosplays, so it wasn`t all professionals dancing around on the stage showing how amazing they are. It was really good to see Amateurs and professionals alike on the stage.

Another show that I saw was D&D, you guessed it, Live Dungeons and Dragons; with Miniladd, and I used to love Miniladd so I was sooo sooo happy that he was there. We didn`t stay watching that stage for too long, since the Live Twitch stream of the finale of Rainbow Siege was about to start. Then we left halfway through that stream to go and watch all of the cosplayers.
So as you could probably tell, there was a lot going on just on that one day, and it was hard to get around everything, we got to see quite a bit and it was just such a good day.

Along with all of this, the youtubers had a meet and greet section where you could also buy their merchandise and have a picture taken with them; I was going to get in line whilst my dad and Uncle went off, but I asked someone how long they had been sat there for and they said almost 2 hours, then when we walked off and looked around a bit more, came back an hour later, the same people where now sat on the floor looking extremely tired and quite bored... I`m sooooo bummed out that I didn`t get to meet Vanoss Gaming, I used to watch him all of the time aswell and he used to play quite a bit with miniladd.
HOWEVER!
I almost got to meet Syndicate, the exhibition hall was closing and they needed to meet up before the people with evening tickets began to arrive; so they shooed everyone away.... But before they did, I managed to get a creepy picture of him when I was standing in line... see creepy fan girl got a quick picture of Syndicate, he he heee.

Another big thing I became a fan off quite quickly, was the small cosplay area where you got to met some professional cosplayers and see some of their work. They also had a small 3D printer that was making tiny little props and characters for one of the guys on one of those stalls.
One of my favourite cosplayers there was a pokemon trainer, who I then found on facebook; her page is called HELEN ALICE COSPLAY, once again that`s Helen Alice Cosplay. She was super, super friendly and let me take a quick picture of her.

There is no way in hell that I could describe how amazing everyone was; the whole atmosphere, the people, the crew members, the volunteers, the youtubers where really friendly and even some of the younger kids who where asking me about my Harry Potter shirt... Start them off from a young age!

If you have any events going on near you that are like Insomnia, and you don`t know if it`s worth the money; grab a friend and buy some tickets, even if it`s only a tiny event... Because, and I can assure you, you`ll meet some amazing people and you`ll have an amazing day out.
You`ll also probably buy some adorable goodies, I was just moments away from buying a fat little Totoro plushie.

There`s no way Ic an out the feelings I had, and the atmosphere of the place into words.
Just amazing really.


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27th, August; Nottingham Contemporary, Michael Beutler Exhibition.

As part of my try and get out of the house as much as possible whilst you still have a life.
And also visit three galleries/museums before I start University, which I now have a date for (12th of September at 9:00am).
This time, we did a very small venture into Nottinghams city centre, I also got lost trying to find the Gallery as I though I knew what I was doing but I was clearly mistaken on quite a large scale. Luckily though, we asked some locals and it turned out that we where only around the corner from it... But I actually insisted that we walked the other way, so I have to admit that I am somewhat of a moron.


So when we eventually got there, I didn`t even know what Exhibition was on and David obviously had to go and make his mark in the bathroom... I`m beginning to slowly think that It`s becoming some sort of ritual wherever we go now.

Also, if no one knows; David and I met up one weekend, the month break that we`ve had has really helped us both out and we`re both a lot less stressed and in each others faces. So this was our first proper day out together as a couple again, which also means that next month will be our two year anniversary together!
Trust me, there where a lot of tears, hugs and crying uncontrollably like a large baby, but we spoke about things, our current situations, our stresses and our worries about University (since that was what was stressing us both out the most when we went on our break).
We`ve sorted things out, again. Being a month away from him and trying to sort things out slowly and speaking only on the odd occasion made me miss him a wholeeee lotttt more. It wasn`t that I was just missing being in a relationship, I missed him, literally everything about him and everything in my bedroom reminded me of him; I had so many framed pictures of me and him, and a book full of photos of me and him, just the simple things made me realize that I was actually supposed to be helping him and not leaving him to face things on his own that where stressing him out. We`re both not as stressed now, and we`re trying to still stay out of each others faces to give each other a bit of space, but my family has missed him a lot and they`re all happy we`ve finished our break now.

Enough of that though!

The day was really fun, we did quite a bit of shopping before we went over to the Gallery, and it was nice to spend some time together again. David was hilarious walking around the Exhibition. As you most of you should know, I do fine art and David does Illustration... So he actually thought that the exhibition was hilarious to walk around, he did enjoy it a lot but he was confused about the whole piece and the production of it, that kind of thing. In the end though he did enjoy it and I really enjoyed it all.

The piece itself is environmentally sensitive, so it`s all been built to fit the room it`s in and was all constructed inside of that room so it fits everything perfectly, the only downside is that if this was to go to another gallery then it would have to be modified to fit rooms and ceilings and stuff. The whole piece was made out of just fishing nets (I think), papers and cardboards covered in inks. There was some make shift scaffolding in one area with little statues and pots, and huge lanterns made out of wire mesh and... Well I want to say tissue paper with layers of PVA glue because it felt like paper but it was also extremely shiny.
Along with giant walls made out of paper and covered in netting, photos, sofas made out of paper, scaffolding, pottery, videos of how they made the piece and giant lanterns; there was also a large carpeted area that you could walk on if you took your shoes off, this was like rolls of fabric that was all strung together with chunky string. The image at the top is me sat on it, it was very comfy and I kept whenever we went by it.
It really is impressive, the way everything fits together perfectly and it`s all on a huge scale.

If your in the Nottingham or Derby area, then Nottingham contemporary is free.
It`s also one of those places that you have to go too to appreciate it, the exhibition space was very, very big and it`s hard to appreciate it just through me telling you what it was like for me.

If your near the area then go and check out the Contemporary, it`s free and open all through the summer. If you don`t live nearby, then check out Michael Beutlers work online!


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18th, august; Results Day!

As everyone one in England should of known, everyone who's doing A levels has been sh*tting themselves for the past month or so, as Results day fastly approached.
Well results day was today, and boy, did everyone do some last minute panicking last night.

I went and got mine this morning, along with David; I guess the picture in the local paper can explain how it went for the both of us.

Well, Derby University changed my conditional offer to an Unconditional in mid July, So I wasn't too worried about getting in.
But then when I got my grades, as you can see by the picture at the side, I was over the bloody moon!

I managed to get my B grade last year up to an A grade, and as the grade boundaries didn't move at all, it stayed at an A! So, I have an A in Fine art now! But I was expecting a B grade which made the A grade a happy surprise.

The course that I was studying was the BTEC extended national diploma, and within that you get three other grades. I got way higher than what I was supposed to get, my target was in fact Distinction, Merit, Merit; now that amounts to an A, B, B.
Another amazing surprise was that I in fact got Distinction*, Distinction, Distinction; which amounts to A*, A, A!

I got three A`s and an A*!

David also did incredibly well, he got his place at Derby University for Illustration, and he got A, A, B! So we`ll both be off to University soon, and I`m excited but also quite nervous at the same time!

On another note, after this quick update, all other updates on all other blogs should continue to run normally. I know I haven`t been taking as much time as I should to do updates, but life has been quite hectic and quite busy.

I`ll see you all soon!

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11th, August; Wollaton Hall!

Would you look at that, my rota says I`ve got three days off of work this week...

Best plan something productive!

So today, my mum, my little sister and my nephew all went to Wollaton park for a cute little family day out. Well it was supposed to be cute but it ended up being me running off and trying to take pictures of everything that looked mildly interesting. Luckily, not many people where there since we went there quite early, so not that many people saw me throw myself on the floor to get some good close up photos.

Not a lot of people will know about Wollaton hall unless you live in Derbyshire, it`s a rather popular place for History enthusiasts. The place is covered in detailed paintings from the art deco movement, some of which cover walls and ceilings on the staircases, and some of which are framed and dotted around some of the halls most famous rooms. They have small exhibitions on at times, and hold quite a few big wedding events where models come and prance around the halls grounds in their beautiful dresses.

The place is well known for it`s taxidermy art which runs throughout almost all of the rooms, I think there`s only like two rooms that don`t have any taxidermy in them at all. I`m actually acquaintances with one of the taxidermy artists, and I also met one of the other taxidermy artists who was actually at the hall when we went. He was rather friendly and was stood rather proudly in front of a giant hippo skeleton. I would still love to learn about taxidermy and how the process works, but I`m struggling to find someone who will actually let me shadow their work for a day or two.

The grounds of the halls are hugeeee, but if you`re quite a fast walker like me than it won`t take long to walk around the lake. Another thing that the park is very popular for has to be the deer's that they have, and they actually scared me sooo much when we went. They where laid down in the shadow of the trees and we had actually walked straight past them without even realizing that they where there, we only realized when we got to the car to leave and they had stood up and began to walk away from the trees... So if I had realized that they where there I could of got some amazing photographs of them just chilling out.

The gardens are looking mazing aswell, the flowers seem to be mid-way through blooming so there where some amazing colours and flowers to be seen in the garden area.
The taxidermy rooms are jam packed with dead animals, and my nephew seemed to be quite scared of the ginormous giraffe and the screaming gorilla. Downstairs you have all of the deer, bison, moose, bull heads lining the top of the cabinets and then birds inside the cabinets that cover every wall. There`s skeletons in some rooms, a bunch of butterfly cabinets that are brightly lit up so you can see every little detail, and there are a lot of insects that I`ve never seen before; like exotic aqua blue beetles.

If your reading this and you haven`t been to Wollaton hall yet, then where have you been?
I`ve been going there quite often from a young age and I still go now even though I`ve seen everything there well over 60 bloody times.
It makes for a good day out, and it certainly got me out of the house for 4 hours so I`d say it was a win, win really. The only downside to when we went, was the amount of people walking around the halls just trying to find pokemon on pokemon go, even though there was some amazing art work there. Even though I love pokemon go myself, seeing the amount of people who are no longer bothered about the amazing places they`re in is actually quite sad.

Overall it was a very good day out, and rather productive too.
It was productive as I really, really, wanted to go out and get some photography work done during the holidays; but I didn`t want to go by myself.
So going to Wollaton hall with my family gave me a good opportunity to go and get some really good photos taken.

I do apologize for this being such a short update, there isn`t really that much to say unless you`ve been their yourself.
I will also be doing an art blog update showing off all of the photography that I got from this lovely day out. I`ll also be updating some time next week about a day out at Nottingham contemporary gallery and It`s also results day next week!!
Meaning that we'll all find out if I got the grades to be definitely going to University!



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31st July; Derby Museum and stationary shopping haul!

So then, I recently got paid which meant that I was able to finally go and do some shopping for workbooks for university and start visiting galleries and museums for the beginning of the project at University.
I am trying to be as prepared as humanly possibly at the moment, and with that comes a lot of university updates!

Since Derby University wants me too visit three galleries/museums, it was the perfect excuse to spend the day out with my little sister and get some shopping done. Unfortunately I had only just been paid, and I borderline regretting the shopping part of the day. We only visited one gallery and museum, and that was Derby Museum which is right in the city centre. If your in or around Derby, I would definitely recommend it; I only live half an hour away and I`ve only just been! I never knew someone where that was close by would have mummies over the age of 2,300 years old! I was rather impressed.

We only have one small museum in Ilkeston, so seeing mummies and taxidermy animals will impress someone like me quite quickly; aswell as the museum area, they also had a range of different styled paintings that where in their own separate exhibition space. Some of them where seriously detailed and looked amazing! Whilst others where only little drawings, still impressive but it didn`t have the !wow! factor I was looking for. My younger sister, Georgina, instantly fell in love with a painting of a horse. I ended up falling in love with some of the blotchy paintings that created quick paintings that still had plenty of movement and detail; I`ve always wanted to be able to paint like that, but I lack the skills and the patience to even be attempting a painting like it. I think I ended up getting most of my inspiration and breath taking moments from the museum section of the building.

I had to grab a picture offline

since mine had a reflection in it

and was quite dark.

On the ground floor, there are tea rooms which are full of old statues and pottery; which was very relaxing to sit amongst. Then the rest of the building is dedicated to the museum and gallery, and it was nice how the modern paintings merged into old fashioned ones from the 1700`s. There`s a small set of stairs that lead in too a large open room that`s full of extremely detailed paintings of upper class people living in the past; Unfortunately I walked in as a man was currently talking about the exhibition and missed almost all of the information on the paintings... Great.
The taxidermy area was quite good to say it was quite small; I would put that down too having a wide range of animals. Usually when you go to museums they`ll have areas of taxidermy, but it could be all birds or all mice or something like that. In Derby however, they had one of each animal so it wasn`t repetitive or the same as every other museum you went too. The wide range of animals actually surprised me, and I even saw some taxidermied animals that I had never seen before, like; Armadillos, Bush babies, huge parrots, fossils and a small bats that we stumbled across in a different part of the museum.
I lovedddddd the mummies! I had no idea that there where Mummies in Derby?! I know that probably sounds quite stupid, but I thought that mummies would be saved for bigger museums; like down in London, Birmingham, Manchester and stuff like that. There where three mummies overall and the one who's face, feet and hands where visible creeped out my younger sister quite a bit.


So overall, the museum was great and I kind of want to go there again but with my mum or something; she liked museums and nerdy old stuff, but she was at work all day so she couldn`t come with us.

The main shops I went too where Tiger, Rymans, Asylum and Primark; I did go into a bunch of other shops, but ended up not buying that much that would actually be interesting. My two university books arrived and I bought loads of new sketchbooks for when I head University, like, I`m trying to be as prepared as possible and I still don`t know what to expect at the moment.
I bought for books from Tiger, A soft cover red book with lines for note taking, a small set of watercolours, a book filled with graph paper inside and another little black and white notebook with lines in to it aswell. Then there`s a slightly bigger blue notebook (A4) that`s full with lines, so I`m planning on taking a lot of notes to start off with. Since I haven`t got a proper pencil case, that only has pencils in it (I like to keep organized), I also bought a small pink case from Tiger. Everything I bought from Tiger ranged from about £1 to £4.

I couldn`t find a precise sketchbook; Derby wants a sketchbook that isn`t spiral bound, A4, with plain pages inside so we can begin documenting our museum and gallery trips.

Unfortunately, Tiger didn`t have what I was looking for, so I popped to Rymans and bought an A4, softcover, black sketchbook. Then a range of  H and B pencils, along with a small fold up ruler to pop in the case. The sketchbook was £6.99, the pack of 14 sketching pencils was £3.99 and the folding ruler was only £1.49.


I`m actually thinking about making another update that includes all of the clothes I bought whilst I was out shopping aswell; feel like it might be about time for me to start being a bit more girly!
Hopefully I`ll be updating a bit more now I`ve done some work over the holidays and that I`ve been able to go out a bit and have some nice days out.

I`ll be back soon with another update!

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18th, July; University Coursework, And Days Out!

And once again, we are back with another quite plain update! It`s been ten days since my last update on the live diary blog; and I`ve been quite the busy bee.

For starts, in my last update I spoke about how I was excited to now be an Avon representative... However, after trying it out, there is absolutely no one possible that I can actually make money from something like Avon.

To begin with, the roads I was assigned have been pinched by two other local woman, and one who is quite aggressive has been shouting things across the street at me; making me feel rather uncomfortable. Then there`s actually receiving orders from people, no one who took a catalogue actually ordered anything! So when I did eventually find people who didn`t already have one, they didn`t want one anyway! Also, the amount of doors that where slammed in my face and some of the verbal abuse I received when I was knocking on doors, was absolutely disgusting... Like seriously disgusting. Then when I tried to order some products for one lady, they wanted me too pay full price straight away for her product, and because the order was under £15 I would have to pay extra for delivery and I wouldn`t be paid any kind of commission price for selling products.

In other words; you`re wasting your money on products, when you`re not guaranteed money from your customers, you end up working for Avon for free and you get a lot of abuse off of disgusting people who have absolutely no manners or respect for anyone whatsoever.
So in other words, f*ck you Avon.

Anyways, enough of ranting at how stupid being an Avon representative was!

The other day, I got back from buying some amazingly cute fabrics, and there was a letter from Derby University. Naturally, I got seriously excited and opened it up right away; the letter was from my course leader, Carl.
It basically just said to check my e-mails for the coursework that they want me to begin over the summer holidays, and then to e-mail him back just to confirm that I had received the work for Summer. It does look pretty interesting at the moment, and very different to what I`m used to doing at sixth form.
At the moment, I need to buy a brand new sketchbook for writing down Ideas and thoughts, but too do that, I also need to buy one of three books that they want us to read through and analyse? I think it was too analyse and annotate really. The very last thing that they wanted us to do was too find three everyday objects to bring in (as a starting point), and these objects are going to be taken apart and smashed up... I still can`t think of anything that I could take in, I was thinking of just starting with something quite basic, like hugeee light bulbs that have got all of the wires inside for me to draw out or cut up.
I still feel a bit unsure about everything, I`m going to wait until my next payday to decide on what to buy; it might be a job of going in certain charity shops and finding old items, obviously charity shops will be cheap and you can find some very vintage looking items in them. It`s just finding the time aswell, since I`ve got even more shifts to be doing during August!

As for days out; my mum, little sister, nephew and I all had a lovely day out at Shipley Park fun day. It was seriously cute!
it was all in support of guide dogs, and dog training; so naturally we took our little dog Seams with us and he loved it more than us! There was tons of stalls selling some of the cutest doggy supplies, hand made treats, hand crafted collars and coats. Naturally, sweet stalls for the little ones, hand crafted gifts, hand made bags, donut stands and hot dog stands. They even had some of their training guide dog puppies for people to meet, little sessions where you would be blind folded and the dog would guide you around crowds of people, dog training events where the dogs would dance with their owners; also, some competitions for owners and their dogs to take part in, like the waggiest tail, the fluffiest dog, and so on.
It was fun, and it was seriously hot... Meaning that I`ve got seriously sunburnt shoulders and back; so when I went to work today, it felt like my work uniform had suddenly turned into Sandpaper and it`s been killing me all day!
I have been coating myself in aftersun since I got back form work this afternoon, but it`s just gotten even redder now. I`ve got my little USB fan on whilst I`m on my laptop and I`m going to sleep with my window open so I can try and get some air to my back.

I`ll remember some form of sunscreen next time...


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8th, July; Avon Jobs!

Raspberry still lemonade with a slice of Lemon...

GORGEOUS!

So then guys, I`ve had a small break from blogging on here; not as big as usual as nothing really happens to me anymore... How boring! I`ll get to the Avon update in a few minutes, a quick recap of what I`ve attempted to do the past week or so.

I`ve been at work and I got paid! But then spent almost all of my wages on an amazing sale in Primark! Even though it was a sale, I still spent a ridiculous amount of money, I think I went over the top since everything was so cheap... Starting to think that someone should take my bank card off of me!

In all fairness, some of the stuff I got was actually quite nice, I don`t go there too often since some of the clothing can feel quite cheap and uncomfortable; I`ve got very, very sensitive skin that gets irritated and peels off easily, which means that some items of Primark clothing can make my skin feel kind of itchy and sore. Since my skin is getting better, and it`s coming up to summer; I thought I would try and treat myself to some clothes, and really did go overboard..
I might do some sort of small update on the clothes that I did buy, I`m not too sure yet. I`ll see when the weather gets nicer and I can actually take some summery looking photos.


After the shopping, which was actually on Saturday and not today, I met up with Dan and we grabbed something to eat at ASKItalian in Derby. I`ve never been there before, but it was adorable and I got spaghetti all over my face... How very ladylike of me.
Then I had the most amazing Italian styled cheesecake and Raspberry sorbet, with extra raspberries. It was seriously good, and I`m definitely going back there when I`m next in Derby... Probably just for the cheesecake actually, that was just absolutely gorgeous! Even though I`m heading to Derby University in September, I still don`t know my way around that much; so Dan is being really helpful and he`s shown me all of the must-go-to places around.
This is my must-go-to place for cheesecake now...

Anyways, now too Avon!

So Avon Representatives where going around door to door, and they where wondering if people would like to sign up and become new representatives in their area. When I was looking for jobs around Ilkeston, Avon did come up; but I didn`t want to work for them since there's a woman around the corner who covers the whole estate and to be honest... She isn`t very nice. Like, REALLY isn`t nice.
Hopefully, the area manager will give me somewhere nearby where the woman around the corner doesn`t cover... I hope so anyways. I genuinely think that was the only thing that was putting me off. But when she signed me up I was ridiculously excited and I`m really happy since she`s coming around tomorrow to come and finish off the paperwork with me.

I`m slightly nervous; obviously I`ll be going door to door and meeting a lot of new people, and you can even host Avon parties which would be seriously fun to do. I guess you could say that I know have two jobs aswell, I`m working at Bramble Lodge and I`ll be helping them with their new wall art projects aswell as my normal shifts, then I`ll be starting to work towards being an Avon Representative in my spare time.

It should be quite fun, I know a lot of people from work who order from Avon; but unfortunately another woman at work now does it, and I obviously don`t want to go in and steal customers from her, she was there before me so I`m not going to be rude and invade.
I do seriously hope that I`m given somewhere quite close by since I`ll have to walk to hand out the catalogues to customers and then walk to collect the orders back in. This will also help me gain a little bit of extra money before University, which means that It`ll be easier for me to save up for expensive equipment.

Seems like I`m going to have a lot going on over the summer holidays!


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