Hey!
So im just letting you all know that im currently writing the post for my holiday, which I am still on.
I get home at 8am on Tuesday, so I will finish writing it then and post it christmas eve.
I hope you all have a wonderful christmas, and a happy new year!
Ciao!!!
(I wont leave links because im not on my computer and I dont know what I´m doing haha)
22/12/2014
28/09/2014
iPhone 6 Plus
Hi all! Just to let you know I’m still
getting used to college and all that jazz, but the work load isn’t that bad yet
and I’ve got some time for a post, so here you go! I was going to do an
Autumn/Winter Haul but I’m going to save that for the October break when I can
actually get some good photo opportunities for this, so I’m going to inform you
of my newest purchase, my iPhone 6 Plus.
Now I know loads of people are like, ‘why
did you get one? They’re huge and they bend!’ honestly, mine hasn’t done
anything yet, maybe it’s because I got a case too, but I’ve had no problems
with mine, and I’m so happy with it. So when you see someone with an iPhone 6,
or iPhone 6 Plus, don’t be like, ‘Oh my god you actually got it? Does it bend? That’s
huge it’s the size of my face.’ Just don’t… the only reason I got the 6 Plus is
because my eye sight is quite bad, and honestly, I had to hold my 4 next to my
face to see it.
So I’m a proud owner of an iPhone 6
Plus, and I see people buying them to try and bend them and its literally so
expensive to do that I wouldn’t bother if I were you. This became a bit of a
rant, I’m sorry.
But back to what I was going to talk
about and that’s my Haul! I am buying summer clothes still because I need new
stuff for my holiday in December, but I was so cold waiting for my bus I had my
coat on and a jumper. Some of the stuff that will be in my haul is things from
last winter, so they might not be available any more, but I’m sure you will be able
to find ones like them. Anyway this is about all I have time for as I have
photography work to do, so I will post again later in the half term, which is
about 5 weeks away :( sadness. Its nearly been four weeks in now at college and
I love it.
I will probably post before my haul
but I’ll have to plan it out and everything!
Catch you later!
02/09/2014
Back to School
So
it’s that time of the year again, all the autumn colours are coming into
fashion and if you are aged 3-17 then you’ll be going back to school or
college. I’m actually starting my first year of college this year and I’m super
excited to be moving away from my old school and into a new place with new
faces, and some old ones but it’s going to be the start of a new time for me! This
part of my life is going to get super hectic and posts on here will slow right
down to maybe 1 or 2 a month but I’m still here, I’ll be writing posts when I
can and planning things and hopefully, when I have time, I can kick start my
YouTube Channel, links are still below but im sure youre not even bothered
about that right now.
I’m
also going to Mexico in December so I will post some pictures from there when I’m
back, I get back just before Christmas day!
Anyway
I need to go to bed so I will post soon!
Ciao!
xxx
30/08/2014
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
So
yesterday I did the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, I would put a link but I’m too
lazy. I’m going to donate £5 because I really don’t have enough money to donate
any more than that.
I
thought I was going to die of shock. It was not very pleasant, but it’s all for
a good cause nonetheless, and if I can do it, so can you so I’m nominating all
of you who read my blog to take part in this to raise awareness for ALS and the
problems people who suffer from this have.
ALS
stands for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s
disease. It is a progressive neurodegenerative disease which affects the nerve
cells in the brain and spinal cord. It basically effects the motor neurones
which send electrical messages to every part of your body.
Also,
having the ice water dumped over your head is supposed to be how it feels to
have this awful disease, so get your ice ready, get your old clothes out and
get donating!
Thank
you if you actually do this from here, also make sure you let me know too! Comment
on this post if you take part or have taken part in this!
Sorry its short and sweet but my Uncle is home from Germany and we're all going out for a meal so, there should be a post sometime next week!
Ciao! xxx
17/08/2014
15 Facts About Me!
Well hello everyone! (I know there is
people I see you in my statistics)
So I was stuck for an idea for a blog
post and decided to tell you a bit more about me, because all you know is my
name, age and where I’m from.
Here are 15 facts about me for you all
to read and laugh at.
1. My
full name is Emily Wheelhouse. I don’t really know the origins of my name but I
know I’m named after my parents grandparents but I’m not entirely sure…
2. I
was born 5th December 1997, so I’m 16 years old.
3. My
best friends name is Hannah and I love her to pieces and we became best friends
by sharing crayons or something stupid in nursery and we’ve been best friends
since.
4. I
can play various musical instruments such as clarinet to grade 6 standard,
guitar, drums and I sing a lot too (even though I can’t sing doesn’t mean I won’t
sing)
5. I’m
getting bored of talking about myself already…. I’m so boring!
6. I’m
waiting on my GCSE results which are coming in on Thursday and I’m super
nervous…
7. I
want to be a music teacher, musician or a YouTuber I haven’t decided.
8. My
music collection needs a huge update.
9. I
have no siblings, only child me!
10.
My phone is breaking.
11.
My favourite place to be is
either the garden or walking in country parks, I just feel so relaxed.
12.
I have pyjama days on a
weekly/daily basis.
13.
My favourite food is pizza.
14. My nickname is Mycroft.
15.
I get really tired really
quickly and then I get angry…
So I hope you feel like you know me
better after this, I hope that you like this little filler post kind of thing…
I don’t know whats going on with the
numbers from 10 onwards…
Anyway I will post again later this
month with an update on my GCSE grades… probably… if I do well…
Ciao!
11/08/2014
Summer Favourites 2014
So
this is something a little different…
Here
are some of my summer favourites! This is literally everything that I’ve liked
and bought this summer! This isn’t just make up or beauty items, mainly because
I don’t own much or even use it unless I have to, so this will include clothes,
books, and TV and movies
Clothing
and Beauty
Barry
M Gelly Hi Shine Nail Polish
I’ve used
Barry M nail polish before but I’ve only recently fell in love with this! I don’t
have many, but the shades I have are lovely and I plan on buying so many more
so I can have a complete collection. My nails right now are white, done with
the Barry M Gelly Hi Shine Coconut. They look fab and when they look better
(meaning I don’t have polish on my hands and fingers) I’ll take a photo for the
post! I was so sure I had more than four of these but obviously not! I have GNP
8 ‘Grapefruit’, GNP 15 ‘Guava’ GNP 11 ‘Dragon’ and GNP 23 ‘Coconut’. I know
there are many different shades as I’ve borrowed a family friends, who had a
blue one but I’m not sure on the colour name.
Using
my computer as a backdrop might not work…
Yours Clothing
This
shop. Oh my god I love it so much! Its sizes 14 – 32 so it’s mainly plus sized
clothes, and that’s perfect as in my area there is nothing for the ‘bigger
teenager’ like me. I recently fell in love with a kimono in our store, which
was £30, and I couldn’t afford it, so when I saw it in my size and in the sale
I was not leaving it on the shelf. And if my outfit applies, I wear it
constantly. I tend to wear it with a black vest top from Asda, just a plain
one, and some grey leggings which I don’t know where they are from. I don’t really
have shoes to go with this outfit as it’s usually a stay in day outfit but I do
wear my vans with this, which are denim look, so they don’t really fit in with
it but they’re comfy and cute so I wear them anyway. 
I have many
clothes from here, including a really cute dress which I wore for a wedding in
June just before prom, (like the weekend before) the only problem I had with it
was how low cut it was, but I managed for the day in Warwick Castle… what I
really liked about this dress was the length, it was short but not overly
short, and the pockets, yes, the pockets. They were hidden pockets so there was
always somewhere to hide my phone! (That’s not me in the photo. I will have to
post a full length picture of me at some point.) I wore this
with navy heels from next, which I wore for prom, and a navy bag from eBay, which
I also used for prom. 
Another
item I’ve bought from here is a black top with red pansies on, the collar tops,
if you know what I mean by that. Again not me in the photo. I tend to wear this
with black ripped jeans (I’ll come onto those later) and a pair of Converse,
depending on the occasion. If it’s a party or reception I’d wear leggings and
black wedges, but for day to day wear its ripped jeans all the way.
Asda
Clothing
I don’t generally
shop in supermarkets for clothes but this is a place I can rely on. I bought a
maxi dress earlier this year, I don’t think it was during the summer but I’m
including it anyway. And it was so comfy. You could wear it with heels or
sandals and was perfect for day or night wear. I wore it to a wedding reception
of a band member of mine, who I’ve known since I was small so he had to invite
me. I wore it with nude heels and my hair in natural waves. I don’t have a
picture of it, nor can I find one on the internet, but it was, I say fluorescent,
but I was slightly paler than fluorescent pink with white patterning. And sadly
I can’t find it anywhere, so I can’t take a picture of it for you to see. 
I
also love their summer range this year. I’ve got so much stuff from that, from
family members thinking I’d like them. And I always do. So my next thing from
asda are these vest tops. While writing this I am wearing the elephant one. I
love these because you can really dress them up, or dress
them down. My grandma bought these thinking I wouldn’t like them and that she
could have them but HA! I wear them all the time and they’re fab. They can be
worn with leggings, a kimono and heels, or jeans and converse or vans. I know
not many summer favourites are from supermarkets but this is where most of my
clothing comes from and I do love their stuff. The only problem with George is
sizing. You need to have a size bigger when buying clothes from here.
Entertainment
TV
My
current favourite TV shows are Sherlock
and Game of Thrones. I don’t really
watch much TV because I’m either planning YouTube videos for when they channel
is up, writing blog posts or playing Sims, so I don’t get much chance to watch
shows, also because I don’t get left alone often enough to watch things like Supernatural or Teen Wolf.
For
those of you who don’t know, which I would be very upset if you didn’t, Sherlock is a modern take on the Arthur
Conan Doyle series, The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes. The main characters of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson
take on the crimes around London with Sherlock being the centre of attention
most of the time. It was in Sherlock where
I first fell in love with the one and only Benedict Cumberbatch.
Game of
Thrones is
a complete contrast. It is a fantasy show, taken from the George R. R. Martin
series A Song Of Ice and Fire, which
I most definitely want to read but haven’t got round to buying it. It follows
the story of the seven kingdoms of Westeros, and the many families living
there. The Starks, Lannisters, Baratheons, Tulleys, Martells, Tyrells and
plenty more. I bet people who watch this are going ‘WHAT ABOUT DAENAREYS?’ I’m
coming to her now. It also follows the Targareans, who were once the kings and
queens of the seven kingdoms. (I’m explaining this more than Sherlock because there is more in this
than Sherlock.) They had dragons, and
lots of them.
I’m
not going to give away too much of this I definitely think you all should go
and watch both shows because they’re fab and I love them!
Movies
My
favourite movies right now, and there are more here than TV shows so I’m just
going to list them for now, and I’ll do a Movies blog post.
- · The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey and The Desolation of Smaug.
- · About Time
- · Guardians of the Galaxy
- · Wreck It Ralph
- · Monsters University
- · The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (I cried and no one warned me I would cry)
- · Lilo and Stitch
- · The Croods
- · Star Trek – both of them
- · Turbo (I don’t even know why I just liked it)
- · Grease
- · Percy Jackson – Lightning Thief and Sea Of Monsters
- · Were The Millers
- · Love Actually
And
I’m going to leave that there.
Books
Well.
I’m currently reading nothing, but I’ve started the Hobbit and can’t get past
the first few pages because I tend to read in bed and fall asleep on my book. But
I do read teen fiction, such as The Hunger Games and Divergent. I cant really
give many books as I cant remember what I have and haven’t read, but I can talk
about John Green.
As
some of you may know, John Green wrote, and almost starred in, The Fault in Our Stars. A book which
tells the story of Hazel Grace Lancaster, a teenage cancer sufferer who meets
Augustus Waters at a cancer group. They go on many adventures together before
the end of the book, this is a huge spoiler alert so skip to the end of the
brackets if you don’t want to know (Where Gus eventually gets his cancer back
and it kills him)
I
cried for nearly an hour after the end of that book.
I
think this is about it for today, my summer favourites has come to a close. I
chose to do this now because I know I’d probably forget to do it at the end of
August and its nearly the end of summer here anyway. I dont know whats going on with the bullet points, theres nothing I can do to change them so, sorry.
Speak
soon! xxx
29/07/2014
Photography Essentials and Techniques
Hi
again!
So
I’m going to be giving you the low down on things you will need to take
incredible photos. I’m not really a great photographer but I know enough to be
able to give you pointers on what you need and different techniques.
Equipment
Also
depending on the type of photography you are wanting to do, you should have a
dark room or studio. My school literally had a deep cupboard with a table and a
couple of chairs and lights. If you want to do portraiture, then a room like
this would be useful. Make sure it’s an area with nothing on the walls, as that
is picked up in the picture when using the lights in the room or even torch
lights or other things like that.
You
may also need a light box. This allows you to take still life images like this
one, (I didn’t want to use my own photo here because they’re not great but I’m
going to have to.) This wasn’t a great light box, you can actually make your
own, and the best thing to do to find a tutorial is Google ‘Light box tutorial’
because they can be expensive.
If
you plan on doing portraiture, you will need a white background for them,
especially for low light photos. Something for low light photos you will need
is a light, you can use a lamp, but the best thing would be one of these, I’m
not sure what they are called but I’m sure if you search ‘photographer lights
for sale’ you should see some on amazon or something. We used these at school, but now I just use a lamp, it’s cheaper
and easier. 
One
absolute essential no matter what type of photography you are doing is a
tripod. It’s a must have for a photographer. It basically keeps your camera
still and you can level out a landscape by using one. If you’re stood on a hill
you can make two legs of the tripod longer and level out the camera to make it
easier to take the photo. Tripods are a godsend, make sure you have one. That’s all the equipment I've ever used.
Techniques
Rule Of Thirds
The rule of thirds is literally a three by three
grid on your camera which allows you to position your photo to m
Another
way of using the rule of thirds is to get a good sky/land ratio in your photo.
If you have a photograph with an interesting sky, you want to use the top third
and the centre third of your photo on sky and the bottom on land, but if the
landscape is more interesting than the sky, then you need the top third sky and
the centre and bottom thirds land.
You
can find a rule of thirds grid on most cameras, there should be settings for
them and it’s all about positioning, to get a really good quality photo. The landscape
is one of my photos which uses the rule both ways, as the path is slightly positioned
to one side, and there is more land that sky. If you imagine a grid on my photo
like the one on the bee photograph, then everything becomes a bit clearer.
This
is a really easy rule that many photographers rely on and it allows you to take
some brilliant photos.
Macro
If
you get too close to the object you want to photograph your camera may not take the picture so be careful.
Shutter Speeds
Shutter speeds
are one of the most diverse things on your DSLR camera. A shutter speed
literally changes the time you have your cameras shutter open, and it allows
more light into the lens. You can do so much. I’ll put some examples and
explain them. For any of the shutter speed photos you will absolutely need a
tripod, or it won’t work at all.
This
was taken by photography teacher while I held a small torch covered by pink
tissue paper, and walked around my subject pointing it at the floor. The camera
takes in all the light it receives, so you get this effect of the light
around the subject. This is actually called light painting because you can draw
with the light and although it will be gone to your eyes, it’s still in a
camera and looks like a painting.
The possibilities are endless with light painting, you can do
things with a subject or free hand like the infinity sign. You can write words,
you just need to make sure you have a good positioning in your camera and as
much space as you can get.
The best shutter speeds to use are between 5-8 seconds for
light painting.
I’m sure you’ve all seen the photos of the car headlights on
the roads? This also uses shutter speeds! The best place for these is motorways. You need a tripod and a sturdy
surface and for it to not be too windy, because if it’s windy you will get
shaky lines. Its best if you don’t do this during rush hour as the headlights wont match up and it will have breaks and look weird. Rule of
thirds comes into play here, you definitely need more land that sky, or equal
if the sky looks great.
The more twisting the road are the more interesting the
image, but this was the best I could do in the time I had.
This is also what happens when it goes wrong and the camera
moves. I turned to talk to my mum with the camera strap around my neck and it
spun, but it was very funny. You need about a 13-15 second shutter for these,
or you wont get the effect right and the lights wont meet up.
Steel wool is very dangerous and you need to make sure you
have water near by.
For this I will do a separate blog post for but here is the outlines of
this because it uses shutter speeds and its my favourite thing ever.
You
definitely need more than one person for this. My dad took me down to his works yard to do these and they
make brilliant effects with the sparks flying off the wool as it is spun.As I said, I will do a separate post for this because it’s a little more complicated than the others.
There is only one more I can think of for shutter speeds, and
that’s using glow sticks.I was experimenting with the glow sticks and found that they don’t
actually come up on the photo unless they are directly in front of the camera
lens.
I thought I’d share this with you guys, holding the glow stick
to the lens gives this acid burn effect which hopefully got me some good grades
because it was abstract and ‘out of the box’.
This needs shutter speeds about about 5 seconds, because you’re
close to the camera and don’t want to over expose the photo.
I hope this helped! There are so many more techniques, and I
will keep doing more photography tutorials if you want them.
Until later, ciao!
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28/07/2014
Things To Do This Summer!
Hello again!
So!
Here’s a few things that you all could do this summer! This will mainly apply
to people living in England, but this also works for people on holiday here.
Camping
– If this is your thing then I definitely recommend the Shrewsbury Steam Fair, I
go almost every year with my family, and the only reason I can’t this year is
because of my enrolment to college.
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If
you get the right place to pitch your tent, you’re set. They allow campers to
stay on the site from Thursday until Tuesday, so we always make the most of the
time we can stay, but if camping isn’t your thing, on the Saturday and Sunday,
you can go onto the field for the day with many different things going on such
as a falconry show, a small market, and another field with ploughing horses,
tractors and cider testing.
It’s
a brilliant weekend with many different activities going on, there is definitely
something for everyone, and keeps people returning year after year. You might
not be able to get a camping space this year, but you can book up a year in
advance I think so the best thing to do is to contact them. This weekend always
falls on the August Bank Holiday weekend, which this year is the 24th
and 25th.
Theme
Parks – I can only really recommend theme parks I’ve been too, so there wont be
many here, only two, one is in the Midlands, the other is in Cornwall.
I’ll
start with Drayton Manor. The park itself is just off the A5 near Tamworth and
Burton on Trent. There are a few dates that you either won’t be able to book or
have to call to book, but the park itself is incredible. Rides include
Apocalypse, Shockwave and Stormforce 10. Apocalypse is a standing drop tower
with a drop of 48m, I haven’t personally been on this ride but it looks
awesome, it was also rated
The UK’s Scariest Ride by The Gadget Show.
Shockwave
is a big, blue, standing rollercoaster, the UK’s only stand up rollercoaster. I
haven’t been on this either but again it looks fab.
Stormforce
10 is the UK’s first reverse chute water coaster, which I have experienced. I
went on this ride with my mum, my dad, my uncle and his wife at the time and a
family friend. We had gone down the first chute and survived, gone down the
backwards drop and survived and then the whole thing stopped at the bottom and
the entire ride halted, and because our boat was the closest they had to move
ours to start the ride again. I turned around while the ride had stopped and
noticed that there was a boat on the edge of the backwards drop off, and I
suddenly felt awful that the ride had stopped but it was a funny experience for
us and I’m sure it was for the people in the other boats. You get extremely wet,
so make sure it’s the last one you go on, not the first.
There
is also another theme park on site called Thomas Land, so there’s plenty to do
with younger members of the family too! There’s a zoo on site too so I advise
you spend as much time there as you can. :)
You
can check out the website here!
Flambards
is a theme park in Helston, Cornwall. There’s plenty of child friendly activities
and rides, but one that I’ve experienced personally is The Hornet. Its capable
of 42.1 km an hour speeds and has many twists and turns, it’s a great ride and
comes with a height restriction.
Flambards
also has a Victorian village full of accurate representations of Victorian life,
including sweet shops and rooms decorated as houses. When I visited, there was
a complete section on the World Wars, there were fake air raids and a bombed
house that had moving flooring you had to walk over, a full sized air raid
shelter in a grass bank and so much more. If you are in Cornwall, you should
definitely pay a visit!
You can see their website here!
This
is really all I can think of for things to do this summer because half of its
gone. Other things could be BBQs, pool parties, holidays or family days out.
I
will definitely look into family days out at museums and other things!
Until
then, Caio!
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