It's been a busy few weeks but I've finally finished my exams meaning second year is over! In true celebratory style, I headed off to Paris for a long weekend which was absolutely fantastic. I've been a little bit obsessed with Paris for years and the city didn't disappoint - I could have done with triple the amount of time though, as there was so much I wanted to see. We did see most of the main tourist attractions though..

 

Check out my Instagram (Jadey_face) for a few more Parisian pictures. Aside from visiting Paris, the last 12 months have been pretty eventful. I made this post on a vision board just over a year ago and I actually achieved a lot of what I set out to do!

 

 

I didn't quite get a summer body (attempt number two starts today!) but I did take up YouTube yoga and managed to keep it up for these last 12 months. I also went to Paris (finally!), I got back into creative writing and choreographed my own ballet solo. So all in all I think the vision board was pretty successful, which is why I'm spending the rest of the day making myself a new one.

 

Also, I noticed I reached a massive 70 followers on GFC! I never thought anyone would want to read anything I wrote so an enormous thank you to anyone who has ever taken the time to do so :) I know I'm usually a bit of a sarcastic self-deprecator but I really do appreciate people reading and repsonding to what I do. Really, really.

 

Happy summer everyone,

 

Jade :)

 

 

It's no Les Mis but a fitting title it certainly is. Today, I caved and made my first ever vision board. Stealing the idea from 2 Broke Girls (which you should definitely check out - my absolute favourite new American show and perfect to plug my Big Bang Theory shaped gap), I found myself eagerly researching the concept of vision boards and quickly became obsessed with making one of my own.

The point of a vision board, I've gathered, is to help pinpoint what it is you really want to achieve and in it being visually available every day, something of a prompt to ensure you achieve as much as possible. In short, it's a pretty way to keep you focused on what you want to do in the next year/month/whatever time span you want. As a self-confessed magazine hoarder, finding material to cut and stick and tear and rip wasn't much of an issue but figuring out what I really wanted to gain from it turned out to be a whole other problem.

And as can be seen from the finished product, apparently I want a lot.
 

 

Only time will tell whether the whole vision board concept works but I will say that making it perfectly fills a lazy Sunday afternoon.