IT'S OK TO BE IN THE HOUSE DURING THE HOLIDAYS

Lately all I've been doing is apoligizing to you guys for the lack of updates, so today I'm going to cut the crap and get on with the post!
I hope you all had a fan-bloody-tastic christmas! I did! Although I had a wonderful day I'm kind of glad it's over because we all needed a well deserved break from the stress and the constant gallivanting. But if you, like me, have not really been...erm...exploring the horizons these holidays then don't feel bad its ok!
 There are evil people in the world, murderers, rapists, gangs, peadophiles, topshop staff members who give you the 'look' when your just browsing. It's much safer to stay at home. Sure there's the odd chance of robbery and crazy people coming into your house and killing you in your sleep but that happens a lot less than street crimes...I hope. So really your being responsible and safe. Just remember that.
 You have a lot more time to study for a upcoming test when you get back to school. Or if not study then you could learn a new hobby like darts or wallpapering. Always fun.
 Staying in does not cost you anything, its absolutely free. You don't need a pass or ticket or wristband to get in because you don't leave. Fabulous.
 There's always food, say you get a bit peckish...just walk or skate or however you travel through your house to the kitchen and BUH BAM, the world is your oyster.
YOU NEVER GET STUCK IN THE RAIN.
 There is no need to wear uncomfortable clothes, who cares if those new jeans make your ass look good even if you can't breathe? You don't need them, just walk around in your pj's, chav clothes, maybe even underwear!
 CONSTANT INTERNET ACTION. Check out the latest youtubers, update your status about how you're doing nothing at all, send a tweet, retweet a tweet, reblog a photo! So exciting.
  No make-up or need to do your hair!

 I hope these points have convinced you that its ok to be a hermit. I still love you:)  WHO NEEDS WHATEVER VITAMIN THE SUN GIVES YOU ANYWAY? Not me.

luv kt xo

YOU GUYS ARE FAB

 Ok I'm currently bored waiting for Sean to get ready so I can get a last minute present for my two brothers (I didn't think we were meant to get presents for each other this year) oooops, so anyway I thought I'd do a quick blog because I love nothing more than entertaining you amazing people. HOWEVER when I logged onto my blog I discovered I have over 300 VIEWS!!!!
*Celebration Dance Everybody*
 After having a blog for such a little amount of time and having readers in so many different countries is so so so incredible and it's all thanks to you!  I love you allll! You all deserve a huge katie hug and a fantastic christmas present so have an internet hug....*hug*


 On a different note is everyone enjoying their christmas holidays? I CAN'T WAIT FOR TOMORROW...ITS CHRISTMAS GOD DAMN!  Im so excited, I'll take some photo's and then you can expect a blog tomorrow night of my family's christmas, I'd love to hear about your christmas too so leave a comment or email me at ktupton98@gmail.com please!


 Also I have a vlog with my two friends so please check it out, I'll post one of the videos further down but we haven't made a proper channel for it but when we do keep an eye out. I'm also going to be doing my own vlogs for you soon so yeah be excited!

 Another thing, whoever sent me the email asking for advice I will do a blog about your 'dilemma' for you and will keep it anonymous! It may apply to others as well so be sure to look!


This was basically just a blog to catch up on a few things so yeah!

luv kt xo

I'm loving...the christmas season

 WOWOWOWOWOW! Am I having a heck of a time lately or what? I'm in love with December, well mostly because of christmas but whatever. I'm so so so 'merry' at the moment. Just little things to do with christmas makes me smile. Like tomorrow me and my friends are exchanging presents, I always feel nervous incase they don't like it but it's the thought that counts so just let loose!
 Also if you have friends like mine then they'll have been hinting about how much you're going to love your present and how great it is and then when they won't tell you, you get all grumpy and try to coax it out of them! Or is that just me?
 I love the shopping centres and all the houses right now. I like seeing little cottages or big apartment buildings dressed to the nines in flashy lights and santa stop here signs. It makes me smile and if you've read my previous post you know that we could all do with a smile. Me and my friends went to newcastle on Tuesday so I could get my mother dearest a present, and everywhere you turned there was big displays and I may have mentioned on an old post but FENWICKS WAS LOOKING GOOOOOOOOOOD! Me and my two best friends took a video so I'll post it further down!
  I really love giving presents at this time of the year so I'm going to post some things that you can snap up before its too late!

This cute little christmas bath set from LUSH is a bargain for £8.95. Treating your friends to this would certainly be a winner!

I really love this studded cuff from Topshop for £8.50. I like how it would look cool with any outfit and you could just wear it to add a hint of rock.

I got one of the christmas cards today and I thought they were the best ones I've got! For £3.50 it's a good deal and being handmade adds a little more sincerity. 

Food is always a winner! These are from Yankee Doodle Candy. Real american candy in England, what more could anyone want?

IF YOU ARE A HARRY POTTER NERD LIKE ME YOU NEED THIS OK, IT'S ONLY £20 GO BUY IT NOW, IT CAN BE A CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO YOURSELF!

Or if you want to make something personal and do what I've done and make a homemade card. I stuck two a4 pieces of card together and stuck some photos on according to what my friends like. It's always something people would appreciate!  

Hope these help you!

And btw have a merry christmas!

luv kt xo

25 Reasons....To Smile:)

 This is going to a regular post of mine and it's called '25 reasons...'. I'm basically going to give some reasons why to do stuff once in a while ok! Now I don't like seeing people upset and it annoys me when people go grumpy so SMILE BIATCHES. Here goes:
1-There is a weekend in a couple of days!
2-Christmas is coming
3-You can put all your new troubles behind you for new years
4-There'll be somebody thinking about you right now
5-You have your health
6-There is always someone in a worse position than you are, be thankful.
7-We have chocolate on earth
8-Smiling uses a lot less muscles than frowning
9-You're beautiful
10-You're unique
11-Someone loves you
12- YOU'VE GOT KICK ASS FRIENDS
13-Food.
14-January sales will be starting soon
15-Ben and Jerry's was invented
16-A new hunger games movie comes out next year
17-The world's probably not going to end (I hope)
18-You'll be breaking up from school soon
19-Smiling makes everyone look better
20-One of the most attractive things in the world is a happy person with a big ol' smile
21-Smiling is infectious
22-I love you
23-Smiling reduces stress and can make you look and feel more confident
24-Show off your pearly whites
25-A smile can make another smile


As well as reasons I've also found a few quotes to encourage you even more,

 So I hope this has made you think 'I need to smile more often' and I would really appreciate if all of you did me a huge favour. I want all of you to wake up tomorrow for school/college/work and get ready and look at yourself and smile because you are truly perfect. I want you to smile at someone whose having a tough day. I want you to smile at a complete stranger. I want you to keep on smiling.
  Remember...you're never fully dressed without a smile!

luv kt xo

Twitter-@ktupton98

Apoligies

Right my fave people, I'm so sorry I haven't done a really good blogpost in a while but with christmas right around the corner I'm finding it hard to update! I promise that after christmas I will do daily blogs and I'm even going to start vlogging. I'm also starting a joint vlog with Ro-Ro-Fashion.blogspot.com. So you will be able to check that out as well!
 I'll try to do a good ol' post for you'se this week but if I don't then please forgive me! Just to cheer you up though...have this,

 luv kt xo

Christmas Tag

 I am full of the christmas spirit today! I've been christmas shopping for my friends or '5 mimes' as we call ourselves and then wrapping presents all day! Going round the shopping centre and seeing children be so happy from meeting 'santa' just made me smile so much. So to carry on with this cheeriness I have decided to follow the route of many bloggers and answer some questions for you!

 1) When do you start getting excited for christmas?

  Well personally I start to get excited when I've finished christmas shopping or when I've broke up from school, it just seems a lot more christmass-y to me at those times!

2). What is your favourite Christmas colour?

 This is going to sound really really wierd but at the moment I quite like brown. Not for clothes or anything but I just find it really comforting at christmas. Either that or plum.

3). What is your favourite Christmas movie?

 ELF! Words cannot describe how much I love that movie, I quote it so often! I get so excited over it, oh god I get excited writing about it. I also like Santa Clause 1 2 and 3 as well.

4). Do you have any Christmas traditions?

 Well, on christmas eve me and my brothers will watch a film before going to bed at 11 or something like that. And then on christmas morning we'll wake my mam up and she makes us bacon sandwiches and then we'll all open our presents together. 

5). What are your favourite Christmas songs?

I love the classics. The ones that everybody knows.

-Rocking around the christmas tree

-Jingle Bells

-Last Christmas

-Let It Snow

-Mistletoe and Wine

 But I also have a slight obsession for JB's christmas album...oops.

6). Do you stay in your PJ's or dress up for Christmas?

 I stay in PJ's till I've finished opening gifts and  then if I've got some new clothes then I'll put them on!

7). If you could only buy a present for one person this year, who would it be?

   My mam. She deserves it, she's had a really bad year and she should get some credit for getting through it.

8). What do you do on your Winter break?

  Go to christmas displays, have meals with friends, make cookies, spend time with my family! 

9). What is your favourite Christmas smell?

   Old spices and cinnamon!

10). What's your festive make-up look?

 I don't really wear make-up that often!

11). Do you prefer giving or receiving presents?

 Receiving, there's nothing better than seeing someone's face light up from the present you got them.

12) Handmade or shop-bought cards?

 Shop-bought, I can't make cards to save my life. I have no art skills what-so-ever.

13). What's your favourite Christmas food?

 YORKSHIRE PUDDINGS!

 So these were my answers, and I'd love to hear yours!  So go ahead and answer these questions for yourself. MERRY CHRISTMAS,

luv kt xo

Quick Note

Oh also, I  thought I'd take some photos on Saturday just so you can get to know me a little better. I feel like I'm writing as if you know me, when you probably don't. Not cool guys. 
But yeah, I'll be taking photos of my christmas sleepover and stuff, it will probably include Rebecca and Olivia, ro-ro-fashion.blogspot.com! Mwah, 
luv kt xo

Perfect Night In

Right lasses, I have decided being the wonderful host I am...to have a christmas sleepover. Much like the one I decided to have on valentines day, you won't know what I'm talking about but it was very eventful. Too much food, a walk late at night, waking up at 6 in the morning to go to asda to get pancakes and some TWATFACE breaking one of my bestfriends heart made a very action-packed night. What fun. 

 Anyway I am now having a christmas sleepover and this one shall be more FUN but less heartbreaking for some, you know whatever. But erm, yes I've decided in honour of my fantastic girl nights in, to make a list of what you need for the perfect night in.

  SO YOU WILL NEED:

* RomComs- Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, The Notebook, High School Musical and so on.

*Ben and Jerry's-WE ALL LOVE SOME GOOD B+J's

*Chocolate-Galaxy Cookie Crumble, Oreo Dairy milk, pretty good pretty good.

*Blindfolded Makeovers- Is there anything better than looking like an idiot in front of your friends? Especially when you'se all look like it.

*Photos-You have to take photos for a wonderful night, don't you?

*Onesies- the animal themed/christmas/disney/patterned pyjamas sweeping the nation. 

*Prank Phone Calls- BEST. THING. EVER

*Bitching-Us girls are ones to bitch about other girls, so that girl has went out with 2 guys in the same week, not a big deal to guys, 3 hours worth of conversation to girls. And we all have to find out the latest gossip. 

*Blogging-I love to blog, nuff said.

*Fluffy Socks-They're fluffy ok.

*Scary movie- WHATS MORE FUN THAT POOING YOURSELF?

*Walking round the streets- Fab. Fab. Fab.

 So go on, have a sleepover and be fun and live a little! Don't be a boring betty.

luv kt xo

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It's ok to miss something

 Lately, I've been missing my hometown. You probably won't know but I am from a place called Billingham, next to Middlesborough, and about a year and a half ago I moved to a place called Washington near Sunderland and Newcastle. I'm not saying I hate Washington and I wish I'd never moved but I do miss Billingham. It has things that link me there where I can't find anywhere else, I grew up there. I have my great-grandma there, who is literally my world. She misses us too, everytime we leave she cries and if you've ever had to go through that..it's heartbreaking. My nephew and niece are there who I've never really met properly, what kind of relationship is that?Barely knowing your auntie. I have my dad there, I love my dad to pieces. I really do and I only get to see him like what..once a month? What is that?! I have my bestfriend there, someone whose practically my sister. Someone whose stuck by me for ten years.
 In the town centre there's this bandstand thing and after school me and my little brother would go up the stairs and climb over the railing and stand on top of it and play tig. It was so funny. There's the forum where I spent many afternoons learning how to swim. My primary school, where I had fantastic childhood memories. I always imagined doing my work's experience there but its impossible now. There is also St Michaels RC school. This had some not-so-good memories but I still loved this place, yes the teachers and lessons were big piles of erm.... but anyway I made a really good friend there, we were so close and spent every weekend together. I moved and then she moved away so I guess it's good we had each other till the end! Someone who used to be in my class at this school recently got leukemia, we used to be good friends so I just thought I'd say get well soon wallsy!
  Although, I am glad I moved here. I've met two people who have became a nana and grandad to me. Some real family. I've made a group of friends who I would probably have lost my mind without. We're like one huge disfunctional family. I've learnt important life lessons. I've got a much better shopping range up here. I'm doing better in school, sometimes. My mam's a lot happier which is always a plus. And all together Im just having a really good time!
   It's ok to miss something, but just remember the good stuff and you'll be absolutely fine!

luv kt xo

You're not Santa Claus

 Today in my English I was having a huge debate with this girl because she said she hates the movie Elf. ARE YOU FRICKING KIDDING ME?!

 Elf is an absolute genius movie, everyone loves it. Except from her obviously, the christmas hating-child despising- fun killing tit. It's right up there in the league of Chrismas films, even higher than Home Alone. I mean who cares if a kids lost in New York or at home without his parents when you've got a real life fricking elf. Oh Lordy.

 You've got the comedy genius that is Will Ferrell, the beautiful american sweetheart that is Zoeey Deschanel and a whole lot of elves in one movie! How the hell can you hate it?  It's my favourite film, other than HP of course, it's so so so so good.  If you haven't watched it then go now, leave and watch it. Don't bother coming back until you've watched it. Some people.

luv kt xo

Being Happy

 This is one of my more serious posts and I don't normally like doing these but some things have to be said. I don't want to sound dramatic or anything but I've had the last couple of months from hell, almost as bad as you can get and that really screwed me up. I would cry myself to sleep, I would break down for no reason, I would look at a photo of people I love and feel so crap about myself because I wasn't in it so therefore they didn't love me. I was screwed up and that was all because I had too much on my plate at a time.
 I'm a teenage girl, I'm going to get annoyed/angry/upset at something everyday. But when it starts to happen every hour its not ok. At one point I lost my bestfriends because I could'nt get myself out of this mindset and thought everyone hated me and would be better off without me,  this wasn't good. And it wasn't ok.
 I've slowly got myself feeling better, sometimes I just stare into space and go in a mood and go quiet and thats when people know somethings bothering me. This really upsets one of my bestfriends, she hates when people are unhappy and I don't paticularly like it either but if you can help it then ok. So I've decided that I am going to get past all this and I'm almost there.
 So if you know someone like me or you actually know me and their having a rough day and they are starting to feel quite bad then just cheer them up, make them laugh, smile at them, tell them an inside joke or give them a hug. My friends do that for me and nothing makes me feel better than when they do that.

  I'll keep being happy if you do!