Welcome to.... me!

Hello,

I thought I’d introduce myself by sharing a letter I wrote.

Following on from an article I read in one of the magazines a few months ago, where readers wrote letters to their teenage-self. I found it quite interesting. Like, if you could tell yourself some valuable information, warn yourself not to make a certain mistake, encourage yourself to do something you wish you had done. I quite liked that idea.

Then I started going a little stir-crazy trying to answer questions that can never be answered, like: what if I had done this/that, what would my life be like now? What if I hadn’t gone to that place, would I ever have met so-and-so? It’s not a wise idea to think too much into things like that!

Anyway, here’s my letter….

"To my teenage Pippy-self,

First of all I just want to ask something of you – in fact, I may do a bit of begging…. Get braces, please! I know you’re thinking you’d look awful, and no one else has them, but trust me; you’ll regret it otherwise. Please, do it!

I want you to leave the group of friends you have at the moment, the ones in and out of school. They are not very nice people. So get out whilst you can!

Don't worry, you'll meet new friends, well, old/new friends. They're brilliant. Completely perfect for you. You’ll remain friends for at least 10 years (since you are now 26 when writing this letter!), and you still think they are amazing! Other people have come and gone into your life, but briefly, very briefly. But those three? Always there!

You meet an amazing boy!  He loves you so much. Like, literally, ‘to the moon and back’ – so he tells you, often. He’s a real good ‘un!

You are so brave and so strong. Much more so than you probably realise. Don't ever change - well, except for the whole braces bit!

Life will turn out pretty good!

xox"

So, that's me in a nutshell.... like, a really, really small nutshell! Hopefully this blog will show me off a bit more!

I must warn you though, i'm not very interesting, at all really.

I love to cook, I love painting my nails, I love shopping. So basically anything about cooking, nails or shopping, I'm going to tell you about, along with anything else I find interesting or amusing.

Enjoy!

Pip
xox