Dancing with Myself

NEWSFLASH: Rachael has a new obsession!

I go through a fair few obsessions but this is the latest one. LA Ink, Miami Ink and NY Ink. I had heard about these shows before but because we have only recently got sky never watched the wonder of these shows (also Ace of Cakes but thats a whole different blog). 

For a phase of my life I wanted to work in a tattoo parlor (handed in CV's, the lot, but heard nothing back) and to a certain extent I still do. I love the creativity behind it and hearing the stories behind each individual tattoo. I honestly believe each tattoo should have its own story or there is no point in having it, hence why I don't have any yet. I also believe that each tattoo should be individual to that person and that work shouldn't be copied. My latest idea for a tattoo was to get similar tattoos with my friends that are Calladgh tattoos. This is a special ring that are normally given to friends to show that your friendship is true and strong (something similar to the example below). However, I still need to discuss this properly with them.

Back to the actual purpose of the blog, as I have once again gone of topic with an anecdote. Actually as I am writing this blog I am watching Miami Ink, so at least I'm going to have plenty of inspiration at this moment in time. I find it really inspiring how the people who work in these shops can just pick up a pen and draw whatever it is that people are wanting. I would love to be able to do this so confidently.

Ami and his crew at Miami Ink

LA Ink is my favourite as I absolutely idolise Kat von D. I love the work she does and the whole look she has going on. In one episode she shows her leg which is pretty much just a tattoo doodle board for her friends to draw on. To be honest, i love her fashion sense that she has as well and if I could pull off the cropped tops and bikinis, I would wear them all the time (weather in Aberdeen might have something to do with it).The studio that they work in is stunning and very girly and when I saw it, I wanted to start up my own business to decorate it and have something to be proud of.

Kat Von D (center) and her crew

When I was younger I had the perfect tattoo I wanted but I just had to wait until I turned 18. It was Jack and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas inside a thorny heart with Blink 182 lyrics "We can be like Jack and Sally if you want to..." surrounding the outside of the heart. I still kind of want it, but I worry about the day that I might regret it and then be stuck with it for life. I suppose I will just need to think about things and then I will be able to commit to the design I want. 

Watching the shows really makes me want to get a tattoo but at the current time I am a blank canvas, however I can see that changing in the future. We shall see...

From Paris With Love

Hello people. It's been a long time. I'm finally able to get onto a computer and to do a proper post (unlike normal on the iPad, someone needs to develop a blogger app I think).

So, during the holidays I went to Paris for a week. It was the most amazing experience of my life. The BF and I stayed in this amazing hotel that was about a 20 minute walk from the Eiffel Tower. We must of visited it nearly every day. Everyone had said to me that it was an amazing city, but for some reason I didn't know what to expect and to start with it didn't feel like I was away from home. That was until I got my first glimpse of the Eiffel Tower.

It was such a beautiful place. We got attacked by the people who sell items under the tower a few times. Once was these guys who made bracelets and kept telling us not to worry and repeated "Hakuna Matata" over and over. The other was by a guy with a rose (pictured above).

One of the days we were there, we witnessed a photoshoot of a designer. It was definately something as not every day you get to sit between the Eiffel Tower and a photoshoot.

Such an amazing experience

Along with going to the Eiffel Tower, we did lots of the usual Pari trips - The Catacombs, Moulin Rouge, Disneyland and the Louvre. Each of these have a little funny annecdote with them so I shall share a few.

The Catacombs were amazing. I had been wanting to visit them since I was very young. It was terrifying to start with (after queueing for hours) and we had to have a torch light help us wonder through as part of the tunnels weren't open to the public due to repairs that needed doing. When we got the the skulls and stuff I was in my element and the 13yearold goth I once was came back alive. When you leave the Catacombs you have to get your back checked as people sometimes steal the bones and we got told about someone the previous day trying to steal 3 skulls and some other bones. This I thought was strange but the guy said it would be to try and sell on the black market or something.



The Louvre was a beautiful place and like every other tourist we headed straight for the Mona Lisa and was disappointed like every one else. It is such a huge hype over nothing. Anyway, we headed downstairs and I was really looking forward to a couple of the other exhibits but the BF didn't realise this and headed straight out the door not realising. Oh well, I'll just have to go back another time.

Till next time my lovelys. =)

 

We're all going on a summer holiday!

So uni is finished and everything is finally passed. Wooooohoooooo! Am so glad, no worries for a few weeks or so. Am so happy especially since I passed with decent enough grades and was able to go onto my honours in both English and film and next term will be studying awesome subjects (as I got to chose them this time).

Anyway, it's summer! However, am still yet to see the sun as it seems to enjoy coming out and taunting me when I am working. Speaking of work, am a tad annoyed as they screwed up my holidays as I go to Newcastle this week, and after everything I have been through recently I figured it was the least I deserved, but apparently I wasn't meant to get it off as it is he start if sale, even though they only recently (in the last two weeks or so) brought forward the date that sale would start. (rant over)

Things have been a bit hectic lately as my Daddy has been poorly, but he is on the mend now and is no longer in hospital so I am a happy girl again and can come back to blogging and enjoying the inter webs while looking after him.

Something I have been enjoying over the past few weeks is my television. The Jew series of Dexter has just started and I have become obsessed with Ace of Cakes. Duff and his team at Charm City Cakes are epic and totally make me want to set up my own business. I really want them to make me a cake but they don't deliver to the crummy UK so therefore I am thinking if I'm in America for a long time I will get one of their cakes. I s the episode with the Squig cake (Warhammer Online creature - big dork) and it waas actually epic.



Anyway, that is all for today...

Till next time!

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

This is a random blog because I am procrastinating and don't want to do uni work so I thought that I would post some cute pictures that I found on We Heart It   I was enjoying some peace and quiet and searching through blogs when I found this website and there is some adorable pictures on it. Oh, and whilst I was procrastinating I decided to change my hair since I haven't for a while and also get sorted for Newcastle on Saturday with the boyfriend. Super excited to go to the land of the Geordie's

 I adore paw prints and for ages wanted some as tattoos. I saw this picture and instantly loved it. 

This reminds me of my baby, Ginger! Sadly, he is no longer with me but he used to cuddle into me like this.

I thought this was amazing and that it would be a very good way of promoting endangered animals.

I told my boyfriend that this is all the animals we are going to have when we are older. 

This makes me think of the future. I have so much ahead of me and it's up to me how it turns out, so watch this space.

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"Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

Aberdeen is having abnormally warm weather at the moment, not that I am complaining or anything, but nobody was expecting it. Hopefully it lasts for a couple more days as I am finally off work! And in other news, I am going to Newcastle at the end of the week for some shopping and to celebrate the boyfriends 18th birthday.

Anyway, it's been a while since I did a fashion blog so here's one of the rare ones that I will do. I'm not going to lie, I am not overly into fashion but with a friend like Laura you cannot help but take an interest some of the time.

So, one of my favourite designers is Betsey Johnson! I love her quirky style and when I walked into her shop in Florida I instantly fell in love. The only thing was I couldn't afford anything when I went in. Betsey Johnson is an American fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. Many of her designs are considered "over the top" and embellished. She also is known for doing a cartwheel at the end of her fashion shows.

I really wish I had a Prom or something like that to attend so that I could buy this stunning Prom dress.

This is the coolest jumper ever!!! I wish I had a spare couple of hundred dollars to be able to purchase it! The quirky idea of the duke box pattern makes the design cute and something different. 

 

This monkey ring has been on my wish list for months now. It is adorable! There are also earrings to match!!! 

 

 

So if there are any millionaires out there who want to buy some pretty things from Betsey Johnson or if the designer herself would like to give me something then I would happily accept. 

You can follow Betsey Johnson at twitter here: http://twitter.com/#!/xoBetseyJohnson

Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ….And then you shot across my sky like a meteor.

So as much as I cannot stand the Twilight Franchise anymore, the next installment is on its way. I swear I saw the first film 30+ times but I think I over exaggerated the obsession then and since haven't been as interested, but the end is nearing and I'm interested in the how they end it because to be honest, the books were a disappointment but there is so much in it the film could be interesting.

I also found out some interesting gossip about the film: The Wedding Scene has been shot. Apparently there are only a few weeks left of filming left which is quite exciting to be honest. I always find it exciting when a film that's quite high profile is close to its climax (such a film dork). Lot's of the stars from the films have been tweeting about it recently too. “Long wedding night until 6 am. Everyone was SO neatly frocked up Just about to start facing this Saturday…,” “Twilight” noob Mia Maestro tweeted on Saturday (2/4/11) night, revealing nothing else about the highly anticipated scene. Ashley Greene seemed equally tired by the shoot when she too took to Twitter on Sunday to share with her fans her exhaustion from shooting into the wee hours. “Whyyyyyyyy can’t I fall asleep! These night shoots are killing me! Messing up my sleep patterns hard core,” she wrote.

(Breaking Dawn - official poster) 

Also, they are making sure that these scenes are kept private for now after the sex scenes were leaked a few weeks ago. The problem with this is that the scenes were shot but not edited so therefore were to explicit. The leak prompted “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer and director Bill Condon to release a letter proclaiming how “heartbroken” they were over the shots being released. Pattinson was also reported to have been fairly pissed about this: "I want the 'Twilight' troops to mobilize, all the good fans, and find out who these little sh--s are and just hack into their computers and destroy them. I'm being genuinely serious, 'Twilight' fans ... Punish them."

I suppose before it's release I really should watch the other films, but I always prefered the fan fictions (sometimes they were even better than the original) If anyone fancies reading any then visit:

Twilight Fanfiction

Why hadn't I thought of that? No blood. What a beautiful idea!

After a brief blogging hiatus, I am back! Been having a bit of a crisis with what I want to do in the future, but that is over now and surprisingly I have decided what I want to do thanks to a TV series.... No doubt, I will change my mind again but for now I have decided that I want to learn Toxicology and eventually work for a Forensics team... Slight change of career eh?

Anyway, I have to thank Dexter for this specific change of career. Am now working my way through the third series of the show and am slightly obsessed. The idea behind it is so amazing and I am hooked. Now, don't get me wrong - I don't want to be a serial killer or anything but the work that they do within the office is amazing.

Taking the murder aspect out of the picture, I love the work that Dexter does with forensic bloodstain pattern analyst, however there is no need for this in the UK or if there is, I am certainly in the wrong area for it. Toxicology on the other hand is used quite a bit in my area - for those who don't know Toxicology is the study of the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms. It is the study of symptoms, mechanisms, treatments and detection of poisoning, especially the poisoning of people. Since I was little I have wanted to be able to help people and this would be a way of me fulfilling that.

Anyway, enough of my ramble. Back onto the point of Dexter. So the show has five seasons (which I am currently watching the third) and has been commissioned for a sixth, which I am very happy about. Michael C. Hall is the genius that plays Dexter Morgan who has inspired this blog today. Set in Miami, the show's first season was largely based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, the first of his series of Dexter novels. 

Dexter structures his serial killing ways around "the Code of Harry", a body of ethics and procedures devised by his adoptive father Harry Morgan (who was a Miami cop) to make sure Dexter never gets caught and to ensure that Dexter kills only other killers. Harry also trained Dexter in how to interact convincingly with other people despite his dissociative mental illness, which Harry believed to be sociopathy, arising from Dexter witnessing the brutal murder of his biological mother, Laura Moser.

So that is a brief introduction to Dexter and I thoroughly suggest that anyone who hasn't seen this show before rents it or watches it in some way or another. It really is brilliant and has the perfect mix of suspense, fun and mystery.