LONDON!!

I'm so bad at posting in regular patterns and all i can do about that is apologise so sorry! But any how on with the post. Last weekend was very fun and eventful because i visited London with my class! I had a great time although it was very tiring as we crammed a lot into two short days. I wish i could have stayed longer and done more things, but i'm hopefully going back soon so its not too bad. There is quite a lot of writing in this post but theres photo's after :)   

First let me start with the weird train journey. The train was pretty full and my teacher didn't reserve seats so we had to find un-reserved seats and this was really hard because there was so many people. In the end me and my friend Glenn got some seats next to an oldish couple and the journey was going fine until we were almost at London. First of all they started to analyse our teacher asking us 'what is she behind that image?' :S. When we got about three quarters of the way there the couple started having an argument about clearing out the garage and then it took a turn for the worst and the lady started asking her husband what would she do if he dies and she is left with all of his possessions. He didn't answer, then she proceeded to tell us that we could die right now and no one would know what to do because we hadn't planned out deaths. She also decided to tell us all of the possible ways that we could die throughout the weekend. So that was ... lovely. I think it was fair to say that we both wanted to go home after that speech  :(

Never mind though we had a great time once we got there. The weather was lovely and we did lots of quirky unique things that i wouldn't have probably done if id went to London alone. We stayed in Shoreditch and explored artsy streets and book shops (there was so much art everywhere). The first day we visited a little art gallery/shop called the illustration cupboard, i really enjoyed it there because i love looking at different illustrations. We then went to the London transport museum and originally i wasn't looking forward to this much but I really enjoyed it and for a museum it wasn't boring at all, although its pretty small so for the money to get in there wasn't much :/. We then went to Foyles book shop a HUGE book shop, i loved it and could have quite happily have bought all of the books but i restrained myself. The last stop of the day was a comic book sighing in an amazing comic book shop. It was so cool to go to a night signing it made me feel important, plus there was free alcohol thats always good!

The next day we got invited to tour the Nobrow (a beautiful book publisher) offices and it was amazing to see where it all started, it was so inspiring and all of their books are wonderful and such high quality. I bought a lovely space book! We then explored Columbia road and a few other streets around Shoreditch and it was great i really loved the second day as it was so chilled and fun, plus the gorgeous weather helped a lot and made the whole day feel like i was inside an Instagram photo :') .    

It was great anyways as they say pictures speak 1000 words so here are a few of the pictures that i took throughout the trip! 

My class chummies and I at the train station
Left to right: Zade, Me, Sophie, Glenn and Arron

Escalator selfie with Arron and Devon :)

Me pulling a face at Covent Garden :) 

Me in an old train carriage at the London transport museum 

Nobrow office :) 

Some of the class and one of my teachers chilling out in the sun

Sophie and I in the Nobrow shop with our books

I hope you enjoyed this fun post i had a great time in London and cant wait to go back in a couple of months! :) I think this blog is going to become more of a scrap book of little adventures that i go on, as well as reviews and other things. I hope that's okay with everyone :) 

Thanks a lot 

Mel xx 

P.s i have a uni blog with my drawings and inspirations on if your interested its: melsdailydraws.blogspot.co.uk 

Week off and back to Uni

This is just a little random life up date post for a bit of a change. :) I’ve been on a mini break from uni, just for a week :( but its been a lovely little rest after a pretty stressful hand in day. The week off was supposed to be a reading week, and to be fair I did do quite bit of reading and research but I also got up to some fun things with friends! I thought id write about some of them and post some pictures.

As we broke up on the Thursday I had a nice long weekend to relax and chill out. Work free! (It felt strange to have no uni work for the weekend) I decided to go round to my friend Zade's house after spending the afternoon with her in town. It was really nice to meet her family and put faces to all of the lovely, funny stories that i get told most days over lunch. Her dad was hilarious he comes out with some right corkers, plus he makes a mean burger. So anyways we chatted, laughed, watched you tube and A LOT of adventure time. I had a really nice time. (I was going to put a nice photo of us up on here but I realised that we're rubbish and the only photo that I have of us together is from Halloween... we look mental.) Oh well ill put it up anyways! By the way I was just a grey person don't ask :')

Me and Zade looking mental at halloween.. 

Later in the week I went to Newcastle with my friend Glenn for a Cultural artsy day as recommended by out teachers. Although I’m pretty sure they didn't recommend getting lost a lot and eating at a world buffet for about two hours but those were the funniest parts. Before we got into Newcastle we stopped off at the Baltic art gallery. There were actually some pretty cool exhibitions on so they were nice to have a gander at. After that we decided to find free or super cheap parking, as were poor students. This resulted in us driving around and accidentally stumbling across a Tesco car park over the river. Slightly problematic as there was a rather large body of water in between us and Newcastle. In the end we gave up and drove into the city and spent a lot on parking. The first port of call was a comic shop; on the way we saw a china town sign and couldn't resist it so we took a detour to be nosey. Here is a photo of the Chinese arch thing

Arch in china town Newcastle

So off to the comic shop we went, we got told it was good for zines and Nobrow publications and so it was! I would have bought all of the pretty books if I could. Anyways there was a girl in there that got a bit too exited about the anime it was quite amusing, she even apologised for herself. :') After looking in the comic shop we went to look for somewhere to eat so we found a world food buffet and spent a bit too long in there but it was AMAZING! I do recommend it if your stuck for something to eat in Newcastle :) we were too stuffed and it was getting a bit late to do much more after that, so we got back in the car and headed off home. We stopped off at the biscuit factory, a cute little artsy shop thing, on the way and it was lovely to look at all of the paintings and sculptures, I even got an illustrated children's book. It’s so cute!

A bit of a blurry photo of me in the comic shop :) 

The amazing Buffet with food from all over the world

So yeah at the end of the week I went to see my friend Candice in Washington I had a nice little shopping afternoon with her, a well needed catch up and a chilled night with good old Saturday night TV. 

And that was my week off over :(. Back to my little messy desk or as some people call it the Mel cave :') Here are some photos, say hello to my desk it will probably feature a lot in my blog its my home away from home.

My desk is a mess but i love it and wouldn't have it any other way

Close up of some cute things that i see right in front of me.

My working mess :) 

So yeah I hope you liked this post sorry its a bit long I always get carried away and write WAY too much... oh well. I hope you enjoyed it anyways 

Thanks a lot

 Mel xx