Concert Review (My new obsessions)

Heya guys,

It's Thursday once again so here I am to inform you on how my week has been since I last wrote to you.

As many of you may already know by now, Monday night I went to see Sam Bailey in concert with Belle and Lollie. It was absolutely INCREDIBLE. She has one of the most spectacular voices and she is incredibly talented. I love her voice so much, and it instantly improves my voice. 

So yeah, it was an amazing show and I would definitely recommend and be buying tickets next time she's touring in my local area.

And following this, supporting Sam Bailey were an incredibly talented and beautiful duo named Daughters of Davis. Fern and Adrienne Davis are a sister duo who play music with an acoustic soul/folk vibe. 

I had researched them a bit before arriving after the concert (and by I I mean Lollie did on my behalf) and when I heard them on stage I was blown away. It's safe to say I have a new obsession, and their album British Soul (available on iTunes or Amazon) has been on repeat ever since Monday night. Following this, I'm now saving up for their other album, To The Water. Not only this, I think they're both incredibly beautiful and talented and would highly recommended you checking them out and following them on Twitter and Instagram. 

For me personally I find that their music is great for when I'm feeling a bit down and need a bit of inspiration and a "pick me up", but also just because their music makes me happy and smile.   

And on another brief musical-based note, I thought I would share with you all my current musical playlist for this week, with all the tunes I have been loving!

1. Footprints ~Daughters of Davis

2. Heartbeat Song ~Kelly Clarkson

3. From this moment on ~Sam Bailey

4. Up ~Olly Murs ft Demi Lovato

5. Love me like you do ~Ellie Goulding

6. My love is like a star ~Demi Lovato

7. Take me to church ~Hozier

8. Cool kids ~Echosmith

9. Catch me if you can ~Daughters of Davis

10. FourFiveSeconds ~Kanye West, Rihanna & Paul McCartney

That's all from me this week, Have a lovely week and I'll see y'all next week,

Maya♡

Well this wasn't as planned... - Lollie

Hi It's me again! (Lollie... Incase you didn't know)

And as the title says - it's that time of week again. You should be lucky I named it that, it was going to be 'Crime-fighting, inter-species lesbian couple' or 'Sontaran Conversion'.

Why you ask? Well, ladies and gentleman, fellow Whovians everywhere - I have converted my sister to a who-loving, strax-adoring Whovian. All it took was one watch of 'Deep Breath' and 'Crimson Horror' and suddenly she was quoting The Doctor and particularly Strax, laughing and the funny bits and also drawing Madame Vastra! (This is the drawing she did for me, she's only 11 bless her)

Then she ask me to draw Madame Vastra:

Which then led to the download of multiple Vastra and Jenny pictures because come on - how can you not ship crime-fighting, inter-species, lesbian spouses consisting of a lizard women fro the dawn of time and a Victorian chamber maid from London with their pet potato who also happens to be an ex-leader of an iter-galactic Sontaran battle fleet who gets over excited at the use of weapons?

Anyway, I would pay a good amount of money to watch The Paternoster gang's spin-off tv show. I would love it! MOFFAT you need to do this.

They also need to come back in Series 9 of not, I will be very disappointed as I feel they should be in more episodes than they have been already.

Overall I just wanted to let you all know about this development and I hope you all had a good week and I hope you have an amazing week ahead I'll see you next Friday!

Until next time, Allons-y! 

Lollie xoxo

"It's just a bad day, not a bad life" -Love Maya♡

Heya guys!

Well, first things first, where has this last week gone?! Honestly, it feels like it was only yesterday I was writing a blog post for you guys. This week has gone pretty quick, with starting school back on a full timetable, catching up with old friends etc. So it's safe to say it's been a prettyhectic but okay week for me. 

Today I thought I would just (try) to inspire some of you. I'm not the most inspirational of people, and sometimes I don't really know what to say in situations to help people, but I like to try.

I'm the sort of person that loves quotes of all kinds. I swear and live by quotes, whether it's to remind me to be happy and love myself, guide me in tough situations (personally or for helping others) or just because I find them so accurate and true. Like Augustus Waters' Mum (from the fault in our stars) calls them, "encouragements".  I feel like there are some quotes that do give me a little bit of encouragement when I'm having a bad day. So I thought I'd share with you my 5 top quotes to brighten your day!

1. Nothing is impossible, even the word it's self says "I'm possible" ~Audrey Hepburn

2. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean your going to fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in your self, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie. ~Marilyn Monroe 

3. Success usually comes to those who are to busy to be looking for it. ~Henry David Thoreau

4. For what it's worth: it's never too late, or in my case, too early to be whoever you want. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same,there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope that you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life your proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. ~unknown 

5. Beauty is what you feel about yourself, not about what you see in the mirror. ~unknown 

Well, I could go on forever, but I think these are definitely some of my favourites, even though there are plenty more I have stored. But that's all for this week, and remember -smile, because happiness looks gorgeous on you!

Love, Maya♡