May 31 Day Blogger's Challenge: Day 31- Current Obsessions

So the last topic of the May blogging challenge is...

Something I'm Obsessed With at the Moment...

 I often have multiple obsessions at the same time. I'll admit I've always had a bit of an obsessive personality; I easily become passionate about things I love, and can never get enough of it. I like to do things properly! Many of my obsessions do last a life time, though; be it music, style, books, movies, celeb crushes or whatever.

I'm currently obsessing over Dorothy Perkins dresses, midi dresses... (hell, any dresses!), bird prints and accessories,  Stephen King novels, Titanic, my Kindle, and The Big Bang Theory!

These are the bird print dresses and tops in my collection. You've seen photos of me wearing most of them already this season. They're all (unintentionally) from Dorothy Perkins, except for the bird cage design in the first photo. What can I say? They have had so many beautiful clothes in recently that I really haven't needed to look elsewhere for pretty new things, which I normally would do. I normally shop around a hell of a lot more.

These are some of my bird necklaces, and my DP toucan t-shirt. I love flamingos, toucans and parrots. I always get drawn to accessories designed around these creatures.

I was once lucky enough to do work experience in the bird gardens at Whipsnade Wild Animal Park for a week and I loved the experience. I got to hold the macaws and African greys that came to them as ex-pets, fly a Harris hawk, and be around all sorts of exotic birds. The good memories have always stayed with me and perhaps a reason why I love them in fashion, too.

These two bright and colourful necklaces definitely have a childish, nostalgic way about them. They're certainly accessories I would have loved as a child- maybe that's why I love em...

I just realised there are also birds on my bedding and curtains!

Away from fashion and style, I love to read, and Stephen King is easily my favourite author. Before my injury, I never had any time or energy to read as my job was exhausting. I'm making up for lost time now and am trying to get through each of his novels, apart from the Dark Tower saga as I'm not  a fan of the genre.

I had The Stand on my shelf for a couple of years and put off reading it because it had so may pages. I downloaded it on the Kindle (my new favourite thing!) in January and found I couldn't put it down; it's easily one of my favourite books now and I highly recommend it if you enjoy end of the world type stories. I think I have 18 unread Stephen King's on my book shelf, and a handful to read on my Kindle as well as some by other authors, too. I'm currently just over half way through IT but I'm a little bored. Under The Dome and The Tommyknockers are great novels, too, and I really enjoyed The Hunger Games trilogy, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

I seem to share the Stephen King obsession with Rachel, whose style is also similar to mine! She has flawless taste!

I've also been obsessed with Titanic since I first went to see it as an eleven year old all those years ago. I keep going back to it time and time again, but recently I've been putting it on in the background an awful lot. I could recite the entire film back to you. Sad, but true.

I've had so much fun taking part in the blogging challenge, and have loved seeing everybody else's posts each day. I'm a little sad that it's all come to an end!

Back to the drawing board for June it is!

What are you obsessing over?

Versatile Blog Award #1

I've very kindly been awarded the Versatile Blogger Award by the lovely Sian of foreverfabulousinbows. Now I'm very new to this type of blogging, so it's both a surprise, and very flattering. Thank you Sian!

So here are the Rules:

♥ Nominate 15 13 fellow blogger who are relatively new to blogging. 

♥ Let them know that you nominated them. 

♥ Share 7 random facts about yourself. 

♥ Thank the bloggers that have nominated you.

♥ Add the Versatile Blogger Award picture to your blog post.

I'm going to twist the rules a little here. As I'm new to Blogger, I don't really know how long many of you have been blogging. Some blogs I've been reading for over a year, some a few months, and others only a few weeks. So I'm going to nominate the blogs that i most enjoy reading.

I nominate the following blogs, because I genuinely enjoy reading them, and seeing how the lovely ladies style up their outfits. Reading these blogs has been a good distraction for me over the last few months, and have definitely helped raise this shy girl's confidence of her body. So thank you!

Nominations

♥ foreverfabulousinbows- Thank you for nominating me, Sian! I love reading your blog posts.

♥ mystylisms- This is my lovely friend Carol's blog. She has amazing style and gives me lots of fashion advice! Thanks Carol!

♥ pashteit

♥ diyfatshion

♥ curvycanadian

♥ molly-pocket

♥ Styleandpoise

♥ style4curves

♥ waituntilthesunset

♥ ilikeprettyclothes

♥ stylefrom9to5

♥ bettylebonbon

♥ theagoraphobicfashionista

There are so many blogs that I love reading on here, and through Tumblr, I wish I could add every single one to the list, but we'd be here all night. You're all fantastic!

Now, here's 7 random facts about me... (all photos that follow are my own).

1. I'm covered in freckles from head to toe, and even have them on my lips, feet, and the palm of one hand. I absolutely hated them until I was about seventeen, because they made me stand out. It took me a long, long time to accept them, but now I love them.

2. I have two tattoos. One is a design of five stars in pink and black on my wrist, and the other is a floral design on my foot. The one on my foot was very painful! There are many others on my future wish list. I'm addicted to them, and love seeing other people's ink.

3. I once did work experience at two zoos nine years ago when I was studying animal care at college. Over six weeks I got to look after a variety of tropical birds and birds of prey, a children's farm of weird and wonderful animals including a huge male camel and black swans, seals and sea lions, chimpanzees, elephants, and about forty species of monkeys! I loved it!

4. My favourite thing to do is to see a live show. I feel most like myself when I'm in a crowd of people watching my favourite bands perform live. Some of my favourite bands are Linkin Park, Snow Patrol, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, Kings of Leon and The Arcade Fire. I'm not a fan of most modern pop music, and have a very eclectic mix of music on my ipod. I really love movie soundtracks and scores, too.

Linkin Park live in Birmingham, Nov 2010

5. Of course there is an exception. I'm a huge fan of the Irish boyband Boyzone, and have been since I was nine years old (eighteen years and counting). I've met them all a couple of times, and they've always been lovely. I always have the best times with my favourite ladies when I see them live. And, no, I don't care how sad fact number five makes me seem!

Boyzone live in Inverness August 2011
(A photo I took and am proud of)

6. My favourite film of all time is Titanic. I've been fascinated with the disaster since I first saw the film in 1997. In general, I find tragedies and disasters like the ill-fated ship fascinating.

7. I love experimenting with coloured eye shadows. I'm especially in love with green shades. I once had so many different colours to choose from, that my boss joked I had a different colour on every day of the year. My favourite place to shop for make up was B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful (B for short), until it went in to administration a couple of years ago. I was devastated! Now I love Inglot!

So, there's 7 things about me you never knew, and probably never wanted to!