A New and Motivated Me :-)

Merry meet, bloggers! :-)

How are you all? Enjoying your summer, I hope! Long time no see, hey?

I'd like to start off by apologising for my long-time absence, these past few months have been crazy, and I just haven't found the time or motivation to sit down and churn out some blog posts. However, this all changes today!

Recently, I was browsing through my Tumblr dashboard and I came across an image that was really, really powerful to me. As soon as I saw it everything just kind of, clicked. This is it:

Credit: Tumblr

This, for me, basically means that if I sit around my 'dream' life isn't going to come to me. I'm going to have to work hard to live the life I want, I'm going to have to take the decision to change and put plans into motion. For me, this simple image is so motivating and inspiring. I have quite a few goals I want to achieve in my life, and I'm going to start small and begin working towards them, powered by this image and a vision in my head. 

Of course, nobody can go walking around with rose-tinted vision, I know that I won't achieve everything, but as long as I'm happy with what I've achieved, that will be enough. Now that it is the Summer break, I can really work on areas of my life I think need improving. 

One particular place I feel needs some love and care is this blog. This summer, I plan to really kickstart my blog into action. With weeks of free time, hopefully my blog will come out of Summer a livelier, loved place! Oh, and have you seen my new theme? It's so bright and pretty! A fresh, new theme for a fresh, new start!

So, readers, hopefully this quote will motivate you to go out and work on achieving some goals. Some can be big, some can be small--one of my goals for this summer is simply to become more sociable! 

Until next time, bloggers, and be sure to watch this space, as I have a lot planned! :-)

Me, Myself and I

Welcome, lovely bloggers! :-)

So, due to my likeness for order and structure, I figured a great place to start my blogging journey would be to start at the center of it all--and introduction to me. I'll try to make this as un-awkward as I can, aha.

Okay, so, hello there! Emily is the name, hence emilyetc. ;-) I'm a schoolgal, and fifteen years young. I live in the good 'ole United Kingom, how spiffy, right?

Hm, what else? My hobbies include reading, writing (ooo!), dance, drama and musical theatre, and just like most teenage girls, I love fashion, music and well, socialisation, aha. I enjoy walking my gorgeous pirate-puppy (more on that at a later date, haha), going out shopping, and--actually, you know what? I think I'll stop this little section right here. I'm starting to start like an ad on a dating website, which isn't exactly the angle I'm aiming for here.

So, I guess if there is anyone reading this, you'll be wondering what this blog is going to be all about. Well . . . I think this is one of those things where we just have to go with the flow. They'll be some beauty, fashion, some rants, some lifestories, random thoughts, maybe even a dabble in photography, and probably a lot more bits and bobs as time flies by. I think that updates on this blog will fall on weekends, whether they'll be frequent or not remains a mystery. I'll try my best, I promise.

Hopefully this blog will turn out to be a success, and I'll look back at this post in a few years and internally cringe. 

Farewell, and until next time! :-)