A-Z Guide to Happiness: P

P

Photography

I love love love photography, for me it is a hobby, I believe that I have got an eye for it and I am capable of taking a good photo, and I never believe that I'm good at anything! So having confidence in this is a big deal. My only set back is that I couldn't do it professionally as I do not have the technical knowledge i.e f-stops and lighting etc.

I did try to learn this when volunteering at a photography studio, however I was not taught what to do, the photographer 'teaching' me would set up the lighting and camera and get me to do the shoot, but I already had the eye for what looked good, the right positioning of the model and the camera, I had an issue with making it happen technically. I also tried reading up on it but I just didn't understand it, I learn much better by doing and putting stuff into practice.

Here are a few of my shots..

What makes you happy?

Much Love

LJ Xo

A-Z Guide to Happiness: O

O

O is for... Orange is the New Black

Following on from yesterday's Netflix post, I wanted to select OITNB as my happiness for the letter O.

If you haven't heard of this series I think you may be living under a rock. Especially if you're on facebook as you must have seen the latest girl that everyone has been raving about... Ruby Rose <3

There are so many different character's on this show and they all have completely different personalities, and most of them have two different sides to themselves as well.

You've got Piper, the start of the story / main character, and she has a nice loving side, then she has a kinda crazy psycho side where she goes a bit power crazy. Alex, who is more firm and controlling, but then also has a sensitive side. and it goes on and on.

I really like the character Tastee as she's often a lot of fun but has a slightly motherly side too and looks out for her friends :)

What makes you happy??

Much Love

LJ xo

A-Z Guide to Happiness : L

L 

Louise Pentland

Yup that's it, another youtuber! I could've gone for the obvious and put love for L but the only Love I have right now is my family really and I've already done a section on that:P

So I decided to go with the beautiful queen Sprinklerino, Louise! I absolutely love love love Louise, to me she is so inspirational. Her message is all about spreading happiness, that's all she wants to do. She tries to boost girls confidence in their bodies, she tries to put a positive spin on everything and literally just tries to add a sprinkle of glitter to the world.

Plus her daughter Darcy / Baby Glitter is ohhh so adorable <3, the relationship between the pair of them is beautiful and I hope one day I will have a relationship like that with my child. I am very close to my mum too :)

Louise has sort of had a hard life really, a lot of obstacles thrown in the way, but look at her now, written a book, hundreds of thousands of subscribers and followers, all because she's one beautiful woman trying to spread happiness through the world.

If you haven't watched any of her videos you need to go on youtube and look now! She's such a bubbly woman who certainly isn't afraid to make a bit of a fool out of herself, which is another thing I love!

I hope one day I will be able to be as happy and as confident in myself as what she is.

What makes you happy?

Much Love

LJ xo

A-Z Guide to Happiness: K

K

KETCHUP!

Ok...so, sounds a bit weird that my happy thing for the letter K is Ketchup .. BUT at work they always laugh at me and call me ketchup girl because if we ever go out for dinner i HAVE to have ketchup.

I don't even know why I like it so much, but I eat it with pretty much everything, including roast dinners and salad. You name it, I'd probably attempt to eat it with ketchup.

For my 18th Birthday, as a part of my present my sister got me 18 ketchup sachets and an apron that says I <3 Ketchup all over it. I still use the apron to this day, and I also carry around ketchup sachets in my handbags incase of like you know.. emergencies! Not the same ones from 3 years ago though don't worry!

What makes you happy?

Much Love

LJ xo

A-Z Guide to Happiness: B

B

Hellooo

So for today's letter I choose BUBBLE BATHS!!!!!!!!!

I've had a couple of rough days so I thought a bubble bath was just what I needed!

I set up my bathroom, lit some lovely smelling candles - There's a place called notcutts near me and last xmas they sold this amaaazzingg vanilla candle that smells like cupcake dolls (a toy from when I was little, they were basically like barbies and when you turned their dress inside out they went into like a cupcake, but they were scented.. sounds strange i know but delightful for your nose lol! -  So anywayyy.. I used that candle, and then a few others.

I got a couple of pieces of Zoella's fizz bar and used that, I love the smell of it and watching it fizz, the only thing is I quite like having bubbles in my baths and fizzers don't have that effect, so I have to use a bubble bath too :P

I stuck my new Toshiba Chromebook (highly recommended) on the side and set up a playlist of Gabrielle Aplin on youtube for whilst I was relaxing in the bath. Gabrielle Aplin is my go-to music at the moment when I'm feeling stressed or on edge, I'm not sure why, something about her music and voice is incredibly soothing.

What would be your happy thing for the letter B?

Much Love

LJ xo

A-Z Guide to Happiness

Helloooo!!

So for the month of August I am going to be making an A-Z Guide to Happiness!

Each day in August (minus a few as there's not enough letters in the alphabet!) I'm going to make a post about something that makes me happy using that day's letter!

The aim of this is to create a list of things to refer to if I'm ever struggling to find something that will make me smile.

Feel free to make your own list! I'd absolutely love to see what other people come up with too, so if you fancy it give it a go and write it in the comments below or tweet me at @ell_jaye :)

Much love...

LJ xo