Pictures of you, pictures of me. Hung upon your wall for the world to see.

I had a lot of love on Facebook and Instagram for my wall!! I love having photos on my wall and recently took down all my old ones, printed off a lot of photos from last year and then put them up. I'll let y'all decide what'cha think. The video down the bottom used to be my ultimate favourite song ever when I was a little kid!

Valentines day.

Yes I'm making a blogpost about Valentines day. Becaaaaause, I love valentines day. I love, love. So I love a whole day dedicated to love. I just love how romantic everyone gets around one time of year!

No I have never had a valentine sadlonelyface haha oh well my time will come!!! I just love how people, mostly in America, tell eachother they have crushes on eachother! Wish I was brave enough. I'm pretty good at keeping who I like under wraps, all at Lytton no body knew who I liked, and then he didn't know. I guess I'm just too shy and worried they won't like me? I dunno I'm just not like that type of person to announce who I like to everyone?

I love all the creative ideas that I've seen on Pinterest. Even just if its cheesy little kid stuff. It shows you care enough to take all that time to put all that effort into making it. Cute guys. Cute gifts. Good chocolate. What's not to love!?

This year me and my sister Ton decided to give each other valentines, coz we're fattys and just wanted some chocolate!! I was like meh I'll just do something dumb, BUT THEEEEN I saw someone pin the heart attack box. A box full of cut up hearts with a reason you love the person on each one. So yeah I did that for my sister and filled it with chocolates too!! I so hope she loves it!! Not the best photos but you get the idea!

And you know always gotta look good in case any of dem boys walk by! Haha did my nails and these are actually the best I've ever painted my nails hahaha! Just to get in the spirit!

England and summer.

Aah summer, definitely not my favorite season of the year! So much I don't like about it but there are a couple of things I do :D

In New Zealand we have summer from December to February, we have a six or seven week holiday from school. In that holiday we obviously have Christmas and New Years. Here's how I've spend my holidays!

I've actually kinda had an extra week because I missed the last week of school :/ I missed prize giving and getting to say a proper goodbye to everyone which kinda sucked coz I love doing all that stuff! But I was in Japan for two weeks!! And it was snowing there!! So nice cold winter! But I will actually make a blogpost about that and sort through all my photos!!

Three days after I got home me and my family, the little jet-setters that we are, left to go to England, ma home country y'all!! Didn't do that much over there

Did a bit of sight seeing! Where I was born is where Stonehenge is, so we just looked at it through the fence, coz we too cheap ta pay! My mom and brothers went to London for the day but me and Ton decided not to go because they were just gunna go on a bus trip, and we've done it twice so yeah, but when I go back I'll go and shop and do proper London stuff!

Ate so much ice cream it's not even funny! Ben and Jerry's is the absolute best in the world!! I know it was winter there but I can bare a little cold :D ugh it was just the ultimate best, I wish we got it here!

Ugh little kid letters!! We found this in an old book of our grandads. I wrote this when I was about six, and I was in the maori class so couldn't write English very well! It took us forever to figure out what it said!
"I hope you two have a good flight home on the aeroplane and be welcomed home by uncle Dan"
too cute!

We went to Wales and saw some cool castles. this photo was my dad tryna direct and be a creative photographer, not quite perfect! It was fun, a little family trip within a trip :D

And of course hung out with the cutest babies out! my wittle cousins so cute!

Then we came home to the boiling heat and i seriously cant handle it! We came home on the 18th. The next day I went to Rere rockslide with one of my bestfriends and all her family. Rere rockslide is this huge natural rock that's sloping down and the water from the river runs down it so you can slide down it and yeah that was really fun, and then we went to champagne pools which is just as great. New Zealand truly is the best place to live!! It was real fun and the best way to start off my summer!

Then I went to my other best friends house and pretty much stayed there the whole week, we just watched movies, went swimming, cooked some food and made me prettaay!!

And then I came home and I've literally done nothing. I've slept until noon everyday, watched disney movies and literally only left my room to get food and go toilet! Living the dream!! But no I've had an excellent time watching movies I haven't seen in years, watching movies I just saw the other day (tangled :D) and then watching a whole two seasons of How I met your mother, all while pinning all day and well into the night!

So yes tomorrow is the last day of the holidays and I plan on doing absolutely nothing all over again! But I can not be more excited for this school year! Year 12 bring it aaaaon!!

My hair.

The other day I said something about me having short hair, and my friend didn't believe me, and just couldn't picture me sorta thing (she so didn't say that, I just over exaggerated) And then I saw another blog where this girl had all these picture throughout the ages or whatever, so I looked around my room and house and thought yeah why not! I've had some crazy regrettable hair over my fifteen years! So hair we go! Oh I make myself laugh with stupidity!

Yah know just normal baby hair, it was dark and I had a lot of it I guess? I'm too sure how old I was, but that photos from when I was in England so before 11 months? If that helps!

My mom and nana always talk about my golden curls, my hair was so soft, like all little kids hair, and yeah so curly and cute! This photo just looks like it's brown with just blonde on the top. My hairs brown now, and my sister got all the blonde, and all the stereotypes about blondes. The other boy in the photo is my moms best friends son, I've known him his whole life, and yeah that's us in a paddling pool

Hahahaha ma eyebrows been gaaaon for a loong time!!! I remember always wearing these little clip on earrings, me and my sister had this big box of those colorful plastic hair clips! And then when the boy from the photo above would come over to our house we would always dress him up too!

My hair getting longer, long enough to tie up at least.

And then it gets the chop!! Yup my nana came to NZ for the summer and I decide I wanted it short. My nana used to be a hairdresser so she always used to trim our hair. So yeah, my hairs really thick and so it was summer time and I don't really like summer and being hot so I just cut it all off. Haha I so remember that, I just didn't want to be hot!! I was eight. Just a little story for y'all, while having my short hair, it was Halloween so I dressed up as a witch thing person, it was just a school party thing and there were prizes at the end of it, they were all split into categories. I won one. Guess which one? Best dressed eight year old boy. I cried. They thought I was a boy!! This is the slickest photo of me by the way!

Aah bandanas!! I was obsessed. I don't know how it all started but, I went through the longest phase of wearing a bandana every single day for about three years :D I had so many different ones too. And then I remember one day at school when all the "gangsters" wore like red bandanas on their pants and me and this other boy had just come back from senior Maths (because I'm just so smart) and our teacher was telling us how we weren't allowed bandanas anymore, I freeeeaked out!! But then she looked at me and was like Kei te pai koe, coz I was in the maori class so she just said you're alright :D aaah memories!! Oh yeah and this is me with my youngest brother :D

Then one day I just stopped wearing bandanas!! My hair was still short so I couldn't really tie it up so I tucked it behind my ears all the time. And then I thought I was real cool when I would put glasses on my head, errmahgerd I thought I was just the best most stylish person!! But I so wasn't!

This was like 2010 I think, before we moved. My hairs about shoulder length? It was nice then, and then I decide to get bangs, and they weren't very good so I just pinned them back a lot, I don't have a photo though :/

This is when I was at Lytton, and I straightened my hair a lot, because at Lytton I thought I needed to be pretty to fit in. I also went through a phase of wearing clip in flowers! And then I went to England and bought about fifteen more at poundland :D its just the British $2 shop for all y'all who don't know :P but then I kinda lost a lot of them and I like bows now!

And then last year I dip dyed/ombré'd my hair really blonde so I could change it different colors with crepe paper, maybe ill do a tutorial!! I took a whole bunch of photos the day I got it done, but they were so ugly and I deleted them :D but this is an alright photo with our countries very own boy band :P

Just to show you my hair now, I literally just took this photo and I'm super proud! Haha I just woke up and let my hair out! I'm just so perfect :D I don't straighten my hair so much, I embrace the volume, frizz and curls. I never brush my hair because it just uncurls the curls and makes it more bushy. I don't use any product but yesterday after my shower I used some Argan oil and curl enhancer, and it turned out like this so maybe I might start using a little. Embrace messy hair. And this year I'll try be more adventurous and wear bows and headbands, those little hair scarves and just try make my hair look really nice. I super really want some coconut oil because its all over pinterest and has a million uses. I just wanna grow my hair real long.

So yeah there's some cute and not so cute photos, and some stories about my hair journey! There it is, for the Internet to see :D

My blog.

So my blog is going pretty good right?! I guess this is one of those YouTube story things, even though its not like a certain amount of time like a year or something but just because I really want too!

I started my blog because I am such a follower and so not a hipster that I always have to know what people are up to and just want to be included, haha that makes me sound so desperate, I do lead sometimes though! But yeah, so one of my friends had a blog aaaages ago, and then my other friend saw this one girls blog and decided she'd make one, so then my first friend decided to make a new one too. They were so into it and talking all about what they were doing and stuff, so I decided to check it out. I was so confused about it all, I just wanted my blog to look good and I just couldn't figure it out, so I just settled for it looking alright, and then I got some help from my friends and woop der it is my kinda perfectly laid out blog, even though one of my friends really hates it, I love it!!

I sorta think of my blog as a YouTube channel, I just write about topics and stuff, but they're all just topics all about me, so it's sorta like an extremely detailed and loooong dating website bio thing :P but I seriously only write my blogs directed at three people. My two best friends, and my future boyfriend/husband. Seriously. Haha I know it's weird but I do hope he "stalks" me to find out what I like, don't like, how I feel about stuff, I hope he looks at my Pinterest to find out what I want for my birthday, hahahah or what our wedding will be like!! So yeah I think of my blog as my YouTube channel, and then I think of my journal as my daily vlogs :P

So yet another totally pointless blog post that probably less than three people will read aaaall the way through then realize it was a waste of their day. Sorry :/ But I won't let the muggles get me down!

New Years resolutions.

Kia oraaa!! Back home safe and sound now! Amazing trip to England, really relaxing and good to catch up with family. Today I thought I'd share with you ALL my many New Years resolutions. It's the 20th of January but you still wanna know right :D

I really like New Years its a whole new year and just a fresh start! You feel like your accomplish heaps! I think this year will be my year! It my one of my bestfriends last year at school and my other bestfriend is coming in to our class so friendship is gunna be a big part of this year! I'm sixteen this year and my mom gave me this talk about when she was sixteen she was much more mature and had it all figured out, so haha I'm just gunna rebel and be forever young! I think I'm perfectly mature for my age, I know lots of stuff, am aware of danger ;D I just don't quiet have it all figured out, but who does?!

So with out further a do:

~Take more photos and videos~

I just need to capture all my wonderful memories and not be afraid of the camera or whatever, just be more vain with friends and even my family! I find that if you just give someone you're camera or even iPod, it's like you give them a mission to take as many selfies as possible, but they sometime manage to get others in too, so maybe I should do that!

~Read more~

I really like reading and really don't know why I don't do it more! Last year I started three really good books but just didn't finish them!! I have begun a bit of a book bucketlist I guess you could call it. So why not share it! I really wanna read all the Harry Potts again, I read them when I was little but only got upto the fifth one, I WAS ONLY LITTLE, don't judge me :P I really wanna read the Nicolas Sparks books too!! I love the movies so why not! And then The perks of being a wallflower and Life of Pi. I guess that's sorta a pattern, I've loved the movies so decided to read the books.

~Be more fashionable, make an effort to look good~

In England I looked good a lot!! I hardly took any of my own clothes over there so bought lots of really stylish things, and also winter fashion is waaay more easier to style and everything that say summer wear! But I will try! Try to do my hair nice rather than just throwing it in a bun, or even just jazzing up the bun with a headband or bow? I dunno just see how I go :P I'm such a rapper!

~Write more~

My journal!!! I always am having to catch up on my journal entries! I love my journal and can't wait to grow up and read all about my life! I know ill fully look back and be like errmahgerd I was so ugly! But everyone I know has done that :D I'm really jealous of my friends who have journals from when they were in intermediate and stuff, but instead of being like ngaw nah that sucks I just decided why not just start now because when I grow up ill be happy with that and not even think about how I missed out intermediate! So yeah, they don't have to be pages long just everyday or second day!

~Save more~

So this year mom promised pocket money and stuff, she used to watch a lot of Oprah and she always talked about how important it is for your kids to know how o handle money, so we do get pocket money, we get half our age, $7.50 for me, but she's not very good at remembering but yeah she said she'd try. I have four money saving boxes, people may judge me for it but these are the things I care about and want to save for, yah wanna know what they are? First of all a spending one, for like clothes, movies or candy :D then for England, I'm going back in 2015 and will need to pay rent and buy food and stuff!! My house, ill talk about it in another blog, but my future house will be the epicest house ever, and epic houses cost right? Last one is for my wedding. Yes I'm fifteen. Yes I'm single. But my wedding means the world to me so just gotta think ahead! I think am a forward thinker, and I like to plan so yeah, save!!

~Gradually start tryna change my name to Ellie~

In England everyone called me Ellie, nobody knew me as Ellen, and I liked it. It's not that I hate the name Ellen it's just I like Ellie a lot more! I bought one of those swirley name necklaces and it says Ellie. It's just my childhood nickname and all my family calls me that, I'm moving back to England in two years as might as well get used to it, start introducing myself as Ellie etc :D

~Make my friendships stronger~

When I was younger I thought year twelves were the most coolest popularest people with lots of friends. And lots of their friends were boys. And I've never had a boy bestfriend, I have a couple of guy friends now but they're not best friends, so I just want o strengthen my relationships with the friends I've already got.

~Get a talent~

I have no talents. I'm just average at a couple of things! I'm smart but there's people smarter. I'm an alright swimmer but there's better swimmers. I can't sing and I so wish I could. I have no idea of how to dance. I just want to be good at one thing and be able to show it off to people. All about the attention!

~Get my learners~

I'll be sixteen in July and I don't wanna be someone who just puts it off and off so I wanna be able to drive as soon as I can. I got my road code so that's one step forward!

~Stress less~

Last year I did an art board and I stressed!!! I stress a lot, about little things! I worry about things that usually don't even happen. I seriously just need to calm down and let things take their own path! This'll be my stress free year!!

Haha so not much really! I just want to be a better well rounded person. I think their all kinda original, and definitely super easy and do-able, the first one is the biggest most important,

Also, I guess I'll tell y'all, every day of last year I wrote something I was thankful for on this big scroll thing, so now I have this giant list of 365 things I'm thankful for, it's really cool and I'm super proud of it, I cut it up and hung on my wall in front of my bed so I can always see how much I have to be thankful for, reading some of the, this morning some are so stupid but I do really love my life and everything in it! I kinda did it in secret and didn't tell my friend or sister until like November, and I'm not like broadcasting what I'm doing this year because what if I just didn't finish it and was like meh but yeah I'm super proud and can't wait for ma guuuurls to see it fo'real but for now here's some real bad quality pics!

Just 5 words.

Life's incredibly perfect. Embrace it.