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Sorry I've been very quiet over the past week or so! as you know last week I was away on holiday, then the day I got back my boyfriend also returned after 3-4 weeks of not seeing him so I've been pretty much glued to his side for the past 2 days!

I decided against trying sun-in Spray whilst I was away as it has hydrogen peroxide in it- which i'm pretty sure makes your hair green when mixed with chlorine - but I'm going to try it out now that I'm back!:)

Heres a picture of the view from near our room! was a bit of a hike going up and down the steps everyday but hey ho the rest of it was lovely! It was CRAZY hot though. Like usually its around 35-40 and I can bare it.. but it was 44 degrees C and hotter! my parents spent the whole time in the shade so I spent most of the time sitting by the pool on my own reading - I read 6 and a half books in one week!!!

If you like Romancey type books that aren't full of mush but a fair bit of drama - Lindsey Kelk is an AMAZING author. I think the first one of hers I read was a whilst ago and I think that was the Single Girls To - Do List, then I read the I heart series (I heart New York , I heart Paris etc) and finally I read another one called About A Girl. If you like one of her books you'll like them all as they all have similar plots just with different twists:)

If you'd like to see more pics then comment below! Are you going anywhere this summer???

Toodles ♥

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30 Day Snap Challenge Day 19

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I'm discovering whilst doing this I have a very boring life! all I do is go to college, do assignments, see my boyfriend or watch tv -.- I apologise for how boring the june posts are being :P

Today I watched tv, had a driving lesson - got my test soon EEEEK!! watched more tv, then went out for dinner with my boyfriend and his best mate, I felt like a bit of a 3rd wheel and now have hardly any money because the food cost me £12 and as a student... I dont exactly have a lot of dollar. Now im here writing to you, before then continuing with ANOTHER assignment. snore.......

Today's pic is of Barry M 304 Mint Green nail varnish. I do quite like this nail varnish, however I feel it kind of needs to go with what you're wearing otherwise it looks a bit weird. One coat is NOT enough with this nail varnish, I wear 2 coats, but I think 3 would probably make it look its best but I tend to scuff my nails a lot and it takes much longer to try with 3 coats so.. yersh! I've had this nail varnish for probably a year now and it still has not gone gloopy? which I am amazed by! Yey Barry M!:)

Speak tomorrow
Toodles ♥

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30 Day Snap Challenge - Day 10

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Today's snap is of my music stuff! Didn't realise I had quite so much stuff until I got i all out. I'm not actually that good at guitar but I like them and I cant bring myself to get rid of any of them!!

From Left to right in this picture I have

Microphone : sE2000 - around £80 but you need an audio interface box with it ( I use Cakewalk  UA-4FX )
Keyboard : Yamaha PSR E403 - I don't use this anymore since I got my electric piano but it was very good for learning and you can record on it too which is VERY useful when song writing!:) -
not sure if this is still available

Now the guitars

Electric - Westfield baby pink - I got this 2nd hand from the music school that I went to, I've never been able to play power chords or anything like that so I cant get a very good sound out of it! I'm sure a good guitarist could though :) 

Chantry - I bought this from a charity shop called Sue Ryders I'm not sure if its just a local one of its nationwide, but it only cost £50 and its not 2nd hand, the shop actually make and supply them themselves, very good for a starter guitar!! 

Tanglewood - this one is my baby!!! My FAVOURITE guitar, It has a hand painted design on it and my name written on it also!! It's a lovely sounding guitar, its an electric acoustic so good for gigging also and has a built in tuner which is always handy! I bought this from Ziva guitars - this is the make/shape of the guitar I got http://www.zivaguitars.com/#!Tanglewood Discovery Deluxe|c1crq but I got it in black and with the design "la fleur" which made it end up looking like http://www.zivaguitars.com/#!la Fleur|c1m2e 

Westfield - Another westfield guitar! I've not played this one really, I have it out on display though as it's pretty, I got this for my 18th birthday from one of my bestfriends at college. When he passed me the guitar case and said happy birthday I was like.. haha very funny you cant have seriously got me a guitar, and refused to open it thinking something was going to jump out at me, then when I saw it was infact a guitar, and pink it was clear that it was infact for me!! Talk about a good friend or what?!

'Herald' - This one is my slight guitar of shame lol! It was my first ever guitar, I must have got it when I was about 8, it is a nylon strung guitar (at first I thought that was all you could get then I didn't understand why mine sounded different and later realised it was because I didnt have a steel string) & I got this from Argos.... Sorry musicians! I didn't play it for a good few years though! then eventually I did, picked up the basics quick enough and then my collection grew!

Finally!!!! The electric piano - this is a Korg SP250 which costs around £600 and it is VERY good! I was given this for me to learn my piano grades on !:) 

The software which I use for recording is Sonar Le - and I have NO idea how to use it, if anyone knows how to use this software I would greatly appreciate some tips!!!

Anyway this has turned out to be quite a long blog post so time for me to shhh!!

Toodles ♥

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30 Day Snap Challenge Day 8

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Today was LAZY DAY!! yey. I went out last night drinking with my boyfriend and a couple of friends - bad idea. I didn't get drunk as I was feeling poorly, but being out until 1 am then staying up with him and my dad until 3 am playing call of duty probably wasn't the best of ideas because day I've felt awful so have remained in my pyjamas all day and am now sitting here eating ice cream! My mr has now gone on a course for the next week so I shall have to find something entertaining to do in order to give you more entertaining pictures than my fluffy socks...

Speak soon :)

Toodles♥

30 Day Snap Challenge - Day 6

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Just a short post today as I'm still not feeling too great and just got home and as its 11pm I think I should go to bed soon!!

It seem's that my eye-makeup post is getting some interest, would you like me to do more makeup posts? (just to state I am not trained in makeup or anything like that, I just enjoy playing around a learnt a little bit when I was training as a photographer as I had to work with Makeup artists)

Anyways... Today's picture is from my lunch time! Mcdonald's yey! I go there every Thursday on my lunch break from college! don't know why, it was always monday before but then our timetable changed! bit of a tradition for my class!!:) This is my local shopping mall/foodcourt.. :)

Bedtime now!

Toodles ♥

Barry M Nail Varnish

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2 posts in one day, aren't you lucky ;) I've not really worn this nail varnish much as honestly I didn't know if it really went with any of my outfits, i'm a bit obsessed with nail varnish and I often try if possible to coordinate it with clothing lol,  not sure if that's a bit weird or if other people do it to, let me know if you do so I don't feel like a loner!! This varnish doesn't seem to have a name on it anywhere? The sticker says "Superdrug Xmas" which makes me think it could have been a Christmas limited edition ? If anyone knows please comment and tell me because I would be quite interested to know!

Anyway, I have A LOT of nail varnish, and I'm always wanting to add to my collection, so far Barry M is one of my two favourite brands that are in the highstreet range because they really are a bargain for the quality that they are, they apply great coverage, I tend to do two coats, and they last a decent amount of time. However as I'm often very busy doing this and that, my nails do tend to chip, so I'm trying a couple of techniques; applying a bass and top coat, and painting the tip of the nail is supposed to help aswell, at first i thought that sounded really silly, but i assume they mean the literal edge of the nail tip. Any other tips would be very welcome!!

I'd love to do lots of comparisons of Nail Varnish as time goes on,but right now I cannot afford to go out buying lots of pretty things :( sad times!!

Haven't got much more to say on it other than that! Are there any other nail varnishes you recommend? Sorry if this isn't very detailed, I've not done beauty blogging before but I'll gt better in time!:)


Toodles ♥

30 Day Snap Challenge - Day 3

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Today I spent 4 hours from 9 until 1 working in the recording suite at college, firstly setting up the equipment, and then recording all of the tracks for a band in my class as a part of the course I'm doing. I have to say it was INCREDIBLY stressful!!! Trying to set up 14 microphones and check that each one is working (and if its not - trying to work out what the problem is) and communicate with everyone, whilst people are missing around and not paying attention... very hard work! But eventually we did it and got the song laid down! Now  the next step is to mix it! Although next week it's my turn to do the performing so I might mix our track instead of another band's :)

I'm now sitting at home on my own, procrastinating... I have lots of assignments to be in, some that i didn't even know about until today! Woopsie! But I really don't know where to start, or have the will power to do anything after a 9-4 day at college, but it needs to be done! So anyway, must be off now! Feel free to drop me a message on here or twitter, would love to talk to some other bloggers :)

Here's my snap for today...

Toodles ♥

30 Day Snap Challenge - Day 2

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So today I didn't really get up to a lot as my boyfriend spent pretty much the whole day washing his car.... snore!!! However the weather was pretty good so I joined him and sat outside in the sun :) So anyways, due to the lack of 'activity' today I haven't got anything new to write about particularly, other than back to college tomorrow... sad times !!

Anyway, here's my picture :)

Toodles ♥

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Hey! Not really sure where to start with this whole blogging dealio or what I should even say really... but here goes!!

First off, my name isn't actually Ell unfortunately *sad face* - but basically people call me LJ so that's how I got the name EllJaye :) I am 18 years old & I'm a music student in Norfolk, UK. Some of my hobbies are, singing, photography, gaming and I quite like experimenting with makeup too - so I might even put a bit of that up on here if I'm ever feeling 'wild'!

The reason for why I'm starting this blog is because I was initially going to try vlogging on youtube, however I haven't got the guts to do that just yet, so I thought blogging would be the best place to start! I've not got a specific topic that this blog is based around, I'm just going to talk about pretty much whatever is in my head at the time the keyboard is under my fingers! Whether it be about life, love, makeup, music - whatever chatter is needed! One thing I am hoping to get out of this blog is that I am the type of person that always gives advice to my friends, so I hope that if people ever actually end up reading this, I'll be able to help them out too!!

Anyways! I know this wasn't a very long post but it is ... 2am now (wasn't expecting that time to pop up when I looked at the clock!). So I think sleep is probably needed :)

Shall write again soon :)

Toodles!:) ♥