New Dorm Room

After three very stressful moves I finally, third time lucky found the house I'm (fingers, toes everything crossed) staying in for the college year. I've won the lottery with the lovely lady I'm staying with with have great gossipy chats and the house is an adorable little place where I can come in from college and cook up a bit of dinner, do work and chill (chilling being she just got me a tv in my room and is letting me use her Netflix, HELL YAAA!!). 

The bedroom is adorable with a skyline window looking out on the countryside and a big old bed that I'm not using to having (me, boyfriend & dog squished into a single at home). 

I learn't this year to not go crazy and bring so many things so I kept it to minimum decorations such as my candles and incense. 

 

Trying to back lightly was an extreme challenge for me but I settled on bringing just six books (that's not a lot okay don't judge), the basic college things, laptop, pens etc, and minimal make up as I don't plan to go out too much here, its my golden year here (we'll see how long that lasts).

Bookstagram

I have become addicted to following bookstagram people on Instragram who daily upload pictures of their 'shelfies' and being a book lover and someone who thinks organizing by colour is simply genius I got on board and have organised my own books into little categories.

My animal books are first on the shelf as they'r he main ones I use. After putting them in colour order I placed some of my animal ornaments around the books to emphasize this is the Animal Section. 

Although this is a mixture of books I do like this section as I love dark mysterious looking things and I think this shelf has got this. I kept my favourite books the Morganville Vampire series in order along with a Charles Dickson collection then the rest are random books.

I was worried about this looking a bit cultured as I tried to capture the Harry Potter shelf that many Bookstgram accounts have. It obviously includes the series but also any Potter memorabilia I have including posters and letters  I made, my wand and my little Ron vinyl Pop figure.

I also put my potion bottles that I collected and was given on this shelf as it adds to the Harry Potter theme.

 

Lastly my recipe books which annoyingly I just noticed aren't in colour order but this shelf is an issue as short girl problems come into play when trying to reach this shelf as it is so perhaps I will let the colour order rest for this shelf. 

Our Adventure Book: The Summer Page

I've been planning this all Summer. 

Every trip we went on I've been recording little clips and now that Summer is over I've combined them all into a little movie and put it on a disk to keep in the book. I kept this page simple as I wanted the main focus to be on the DVD so I kept with bright writing to be Summery and noted down a few of the little trips we went on.

I've planned to surprise my boyfriend with this and the book on our last day together for a little while while we go to college in different county's. 

Our Adventure Book: The Holiday Page's

 The key with most scrapbooks is to keep tokens, tickets, receipts leaflets and anything you get your hands of from a certain memory you want to remember and with our little holiday to Dublin I collect everything I could along the way.

On the first page I have the map that was well used throughout the whole trip and was the only way we found our way around, the train tickets that brought us to Dublin, a card from the BnB we stayed in and plans we made so we wouldn't miss anything.

 I like to be able to lift up the leaflets and look at them so I only glued half of pictures and left them able to be lifted as shown in the video.

 This busy page is one of my favorites because it is the day we went to one of my favourite places ever, Trinity Library and I spent the day in amazement. I kept it simple with just the leaflet , our tickets and a photo of us there as these speak a lot for themselves. 

The other page is tokens from when we went to Comic Con included the brochure, our wristbands, badges we were given and a photo booth photo we got. 

 Going to the zoo you're left with endless amounts of pictures of animals so instead I kept the tickets we got, bus tickets and the map we were given.

While we were in Dublin it was also my boyfriends 21st birthday so I wanted to make a page to remember when we went out to dinner. I picked up a card from the restaurant we went which is a perfect way to remember as you have the name and where it is and I also added some pictures and a note about what we did that day.

Our Adventure Book: The Festival Page

Those of you who know me know I love my festivals and if you read back to this time last I had one of the best weekends of my life volunteering at Sea Sessions so its without surprise I went again this year, also dragging my boyfriend along for the ride. 

It didn't really go to plan as last year as we had few problems the first few nights with the wind at the tent and the noise from campers we were so wrecked by the time we finished our shifts so we decided to book into a BnB for the last two nights which was luxury to have a comfy bed and somewhere to keep clothes dry. It was more like a little holiday this year then a festival as we were tourists looking around the village but it was a really nice time and of course the festival and acts were amazing. 

For this page I actually cut the logos of my volunteer t-shirt to keep them forever in the book along with our wristbands, the receipt from the BnB and some shells with collected on the beach. 

Our Adventure Book: The Tree Carving Page

One day while in the woods for a walk we decided to carve our initials into a tree like the old school romantics that we are and I wanted to dedicate a page in the book to this because its one of those special moments in the relationship that I want to remember for ever. 

 I simply clued on some pictures we took that day and also I collected leaves from the tree that we carved on as an extra token and I pressed them for a few days then stuck them around the pictures.