RFL Project

Has anyone ever heard of Flat Stanley?
Well a few years ago my cousin was sent "flat Stanley", and he had to take pictures with Stanley and write some sort of a journal. I'm not really sure how it works....
The whole idea of Flat Stanley is he is a paper (for lack of a better word) doll that is posted to children who have to spend a certain amount of time with Stanley and keep a journal, documenting the places and activities in which Flat Stanley is involved. Stanley is a character from a book by Jeff Brown , and this book is read by the children first to become acquainted with Stanley.
As you can see it is a great idea, helping children read and write.
 But what about teenagers?
Some will think it's a cool idea, but others might find it weird and embarrassing taking pictures with a paper doll.
So wouldn't it be so cool if instead of Flat Stanley it was a book.
And instead of children it was teenagers.
I'm not saying that you'd have to take pictures with the book, just read it.
I just don't think enough teenagers read and enjoy books as much as they should. This book wouldn't be boring. It would be relevant and maybe something we could relate to. Language should be descriptive and engaging but nothing with "thou" and "thy". You would fall in love with the characters and remember them long after you finished the gripping story.
So a good book would be sent via mail along with a letter informing them of the project and everyone who reads it would sign their name/initials/nickname/only first name on the available space at the start or the end of the book.
I think I'd call it the Marian Project... just kidding!
How about ...the RFL Project .... Reading for Life!

P.S This is not a real project and I am not creating it... just a thought.

Happy Reading!

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The Versatile Blog Award!

Hello,
I'm so happy because I have been nominated by the lovely Shakira for...

...drum roll please...

The versatile blog award

(you probably already got that from the title)

 

There are a few rules one one must follow before accepting the award and they are as follows:

1. Nominate 15 fellow bloggers who are relatively new to blogging.(blogging for less then 2 years)
2. Let the nominated bloggers know that they have been nominated for this award.
3. Share 7 random facts about yourself.
4. Thank the blogger who has nominated you.
5. Add the Versatile Blogger Award picture to your post. 

My Nominees:

 Emily @ Emily's Chronicles

Nicola @Nicola's Notebook

Sophie @A Day Dreamers World

Nadia @Journal of a teen

Holly @Just floating along

Britney @my mind counts

Amy @Life of an Awkward Donkey

Leah @un arc-en Vintage

Ella @Everything Ella

Orli @What Ori Did

Mia @Sky Blue

Hermione @Everything Hermione

Erin @Red Velvet Violets

Sunny @A Sunny Spot

Charli @life through rose tinted sunglasses

My Facts:

1. I am currently watching rain fall from those tormenting, sun blocking yet candyflosslike clouds in Sligo.

2. I'm staying at my cousins for a week...or two.

3. There is two adorable king Charles next to me. Say hello to Molly and Daisey (not to be mixed up with my cat)

4. I go to an all girls school.

5. My favourite chocolate is Terry's Chocolate Orange.

6. I love to drink tea.

7. Someone ask me a question in the comments and I'll answer it as one of my facts....

I think that's it!

Happy blogging!

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My Cat thinks I'm Crazy

and that's why I want a dog! No, I need a dog!
I've always had cats all my life, so I've gotten pretty used to thinking they're part of the family. And as a part of the family they must be treated like the rest of the family.
Introducing ....Daisy

She's 5 years old

mine!

stubborn

and thinks I'm crazy.

You see I like to talk to her and a lot of the time it's in a weird voice
"Who's a little cutie?? You're such a cutie. You are! You are!"
Yeah so that's one of the reasons I think, she thinks I'm crazy. Like, she doesn't understand English anyway so why do I bother putting it in a weird voice, talking nonsense, when even the most Englishists of people still wouldn't  understand me!
I like to ask her opinion on things like  "Is my hair alright? Are you sure... I could tie it up higher then wrap it in a messy bun? Yes? No? Would my earrings go with that?"
Yes, I actually said that.
All she does is stare back at me with those big green eyes, wondering why on earth am I yapping away to her. Cause she's fully aware she's not human!
Then lastly, when I've once again logged on to blogger for the seventh time that Day, I run out to her, jumping up and down, screaming "I have a new follower!!!! Give me a Max (it is no longer called a high five after watching wizards of waverly place. Those who have seen that episode will understand, those haven't... join Daisy)
Instead of being the friendly companion she's supposed to be. Instead of rushing to my side in my time of need. Instead of giving me a Max!
She stands up takes one last look at me then turns and walks away from my outstretched hand.
All the same I still love and adore her.
But I need an animal that will understand me.
I need a dog.
Unfortunately, my Dad is against getting a dog.
 

I can hear them cry, "Buy me. BUY ME"!

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Just 1 Page

If anyone follows Charli's Blog then they probably already know about this wonderful campaign and if not.. keep reading!
This campaign is to get everyone reading- whether it's a story, fact book, magazine or even the menu at the local cafe.
It's very simple to join in. Just read 1 page everyday!
As Charli describes books:
You can travel the world within 5 books, or just go to a boarding school for 2 terms if you follow a series. Reading is amazing... you can go abroad for only £5.99...
Just put this button on your sidebar.

Click HERE! for more the original post on this campaign.
Reading is a gift so join in!

Happy Reading

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Oh look.....

Hello to all,
I know what your saying. "Why did she title this post oh look?". Well your reading it aren't you?
I think I made my point.

Sending my thanks to Britney who has awarded me the belle blog award!
Yay!
I'm not going to go over the rules or my facts or the blogs I've tagged. But if you really want to see all that click HERE!
So Britney's questions:
1. What is your favourite quote?
I have many but one that comes to mind is: "In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away."
2. What do you think of the Olympics 2012?
Ammm.... I don't exactly get it. You know... I missed the
opening and it's on TV ALL day so I don't really watch it either. (Guilty, sorry) It's all about sport too so that decreases my interest even more.
But I do think it's very important and historic.
3. Do you think Scotland should get Independence?
Huh? No idea. Shouldn't there be some sort of vote. I know from the history we're taught in school about the North fighting for Independence caused an awful amount of violence and killing.( and it wasn't even that long ago) I'm anti- violence but I do stand up for rights!

I also want to share with you my writing piece that came in the runners up category at Siobhan Curham's blog writing competition.

Why I love writing

There is a problem. Yes, a big problem. See the title is highly inappropriate as I do not love writing. Nor do I even remotely like it. It is a bothersome and distressing ordeal. First you have to think of a storyline and plot. Look how that’s working out for me. I’m going completely against the topic. I’m commonly found dumbstruck with a pen in my hand. Nothing registering in my genius brain. My thoughts get jumbled up and I forget whether I’m supposed to be writing about my dream holiday travelling around the world, with a book in my hand or a fiercely dragon fighting a knight, destined to live happily ever after with a mystical princess. As you can see it is a big problem. A big problem indeed. And that’s not the half of it. How on earth am I supposed to write what’s going on in my far away mind. It’s difficult enough to focus on one idea at a time. And you’re asking me to write it down? I will forget my capitals letters and full stops. The whole two page essay will be one big sentence with approximately one hundred and fifty two “ands”. Every sentence will start with “I went”. At least my spelling will live through this deathly torment. Thank God for spell check is all I can say! Then after that there’s the proof read to make sure it makes sense. My beginning began in the 21^st century where it meandered to the middle ages and came to sudden stop in the year 3000. That is when I start singing Busted's “ year three thousand” and press x without thinking and forgetting to save. There goes all my effort. My long hours spent in front of my thesaurus. So I can firmly tell you I do not like writing and I will never write again – wait … I’m writing!

I also have been obsessed with nail art with the last week. Here is only of my attempts:

If you haven't notice already, they are the logos of facebook, blogger, pinterest and twitter (this on came out really bad because it's the smallest of my nails.
I love reading (and looking) at Hellogiggles "nails of the day" so I wanted to try it out myself. I'm not sure where I got the idea or if someone has ever done this nail art before.

So what do you think?

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Yet another award!

This really unique award is from the awesome Emily. Can I just say one thing before I begin... thank god there is no facts!
The Toujou Blog Award!
Toujou is a Haitian Creole word for always, so a toujou blogger is someone's blog you always ALWAYS read. So here are the rules:

1. If tagged you must tag five others, giving each a quick sentence as to why you ALWAYS read their posts, and tell them that you've tagged them.

2. If tagged you must post your five favourite words. I know, I know, most people do facts, but facts are hard to think of so...

3. If and only if you want to/can be bothered to/have time to you can put up five questions for the people you've tagged. If and only if you want to/can be bothered to/have time to you can ANSWER the five questions your tagger set. If you want to answer questions but your tagger left none, answer your own questions :)

My 5 favourite words are:

1. obviously

2. bazinga

3. precariously

4. outrageous

5. magical

People I tag:

~Emily's Chronicles: (mwahahaha, you never said anything about tagging back) - I adore this blog because mainly her english is so engaging and just wow. I often need my dicionary. Also these ~face things~ make me laugh out loud.

~Nicola's Notebook: - I only came across this blog not so long ago but have been hooked ever since. She has really cute craft ideas and it's really honest. It's very versatile as well.

~A Day Dreamer's World- this is one of the first blogs I ever found. I love it because it's about the everyday life of a teenager. She write's about relevant and interesting things like books, movies and right now the olympics

~Life of an Awkward Donkey- this is hilarious. Especially her remarks. It's a LOL Blog.

~Just Floating Along- Holly has a mixture of topics which are all really interesting. She also hosts games like writing captions for hilarious photos.

I wish I could tag more!  There's 3 other blogs I wanted to tag and I had to choose between them!

Moving on....

1. Favourite song lyrics?

Lyrics

~Taylor Swift, Best Day

And now I know why the all the trees change in the fall
I know you were on my side even when I was wrong
And I love you for giving me your eyes
For staying back and watching me shine
And I didn't know if you knew, so I'm takin' this chance to say
That I had the best day with you today

~Katy Perry, Wide Awake

I'm wide awake
And now it's clear to me
That everything you see
Ain't always what it seems
I'm wide awake
Yeah, I was dreaming for so long

2. Pet hates?
When your in class and the person next to you keeps talking! and if she uses up pretty much all of the desk! When a person writes in my book!! When someone starts talking during my favourite Tv shows. When someone takes a drink out of my bottle/glass! The list goes on....



3. If you could change one thing about your appearance, what would it be?

  My freckle on my arm. Well there's 3 of them and it looks like a koala bear. Often my friends draw a smile under it to make it a "happy koala bear". You see the middle one is approx 5 mm in diameter.

4. If there was one endangered species that you could prevent from being extinct, what would it be?
Elephants. Yes they are endangered. All species of elephant are "vulnerable".
5. What colours appear most frequently in your wardrobe?
Blue. Though there is quite a lot of maroon. And I have a lot of pastel/ floral pieces as well!

My Questions:
Favourite Flower?
Favourite Film?
If there was one thing you could do... anything... absolutly anything?( like go to hogwarts ;D)
Team Jacob or Team Edward?
How often do you paint your nails?(Weird question I know)

Thanks Emily. Even though awards are so painstakingly long I love them.

Finnito!

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I, Alex Cross

Whilst on holidays, I actually ran out of books! Can you believe it? I only brought half of my Gallagher Girl collection, so, suddenly I was found with nothing to read! Oh the Trauma!!! My aunt had just finished hers and luckily she said I could read it.
This is probably the first adult book I have read. It is from the "world's bestselling thriller writer" James Patterson.
Basically it tells the story of Detective Alex Cross and this completely crazy and sick murder investigation. The first piece of evidence is of his niece Caroline. There are many other killings very similar to Caroline's, which is really creepy, because everything is linked and there is only one killer.
It is an alright book. I didn't think it was brilliant though. There was so many characters, it was hard to remember who each one was!
The chapters were extremely short. In fact, out of the 456 pages there was 117 chapters!
The ending was good in some ways. It went on a little too long because just when everything was coming together and life was starting to get better for Alex, it's all turned up side down again. So I was kind of left with a "cliffhanger".
This is definitely a gruesome story and not for the faint hearted. I won't go into too much detail about the killings only it involved a wood chipper (shudders).
Apparently, this is the 14th instalment and there are more sequels. But, I will not be going out of my way just to read them. It is intriguing with a very surprising ending, but, if I were you I wouldn't get too upset if I never get the chance to read it.

6.8/10

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