dreams

Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. They're always so close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.

- Nicholas Sparks (Three Weeks With My Brother)

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. 

- George Edward Moore

5iver

(L-R) Zara, Lynne, Me, Lucy, Shelley

These are my girls. 

They are some of the most beautiful, funny, crazzzzy, silly, AMAZING people I know and I love spending time with them be that in this burgh or the other (Fraserburgh and Edinburgh respectively). They are my best friends and i love each dearly and differently.

Here's the 411..

Zaz: Zara Louise Tait. Born 5 days after me therefore technically the baby of the group. Resident fashionista, studies Fashion & Textiles and works as a visual merchandiser at TopShop. Engaged to Zander and getting married NEXT YEAR (finally we can say that ha!!). Fellow youth leader at oneeighty youth ministries. Known to (although not lately) pull moonies, usually seen with grande chai with extra chai tea latte in hand. 

Lynnie: Lynne Hepburn or Miss Hepburn if your at pupil at Forfar Academy - she's a music teacher. Also another September baby, lynnie is the oldest in our 5iver at 22years old. Also a chai tea lover but she prefers a tinderbox to a starbucks!! Lynnie also has the BLUEST eyes in the world, makes me 'well jell'!!

Lucy: Linda-Ruth Summers. Currently the most famous person i know. She's a dancer at Telford college in Edinburgh, an extra in the new Scarlett Johansson film, danced in Cher Lloyd's 'Swagger Jagger' music video, guest blogger on Cute Vintage (she also has her own blog by the way http://lr-summers.blogspot.com/?spref=fb) and has much more projects lined up. 

Shellz: Shelley-Lyn Tait. One of the sweetest people i know for sure. Shelley is getting married to Ally THIS YEAR, July 14th to be exact, not long now!! She's also in her last year of Primary Teaching at AU, graduating this summer. 2012 is definitely Shellz's year!! Also a total fitness fanatic i need her to whip we into shape for September for sure. 

That's our 5iver, we like each other lots. 

...DohMel

My silly, gorgeous, model-esque, crisp-fiend, blonde Mel. One of my dearest and oldest friends and cousin too, I can't remember not knowing her. We've shared some of my favourite childhood memories together and even now that we're in our TWENTIES (bleugh, i just threw up a little in my mouth at the thought of being this old...) we'll always just be 5years old playing barbies to one another. She's someone that i can pretend to be young again with, and be grumpy with especially when we sit with our drinks (that would be tea for me and diluted juice for her ha mel) reminisce about the days when kids were kids (grumpy young women) who played with barbies, we used to for hours and hours till we were like 12, not 13years olds who are more adult than we are. 

We would spend hours in our toy rooms, hide from our little sisters, eat salt and vinegar pringles with condensed milk and pretend we were rich ladies in a spa drinking champagne (in reality it was Mel's bathroom and juice...). 

We also used to have hair envy about one another - i wanted her thick curls and she wanted my straight hair. 

Love ya DohMel

...Just Jazmin

Our resident (Edinburgh-situated) drama queen and my older sister  (she's 362 days older than me) we've done both good and terribly good things when we were young. Such as dyeing Ratbag's hair green with things from the garden (mud, grass, worms, flower petals etc) mixed together in an old bath filled with murky rain water...good times!! Or that time we got 'lost' in Disney the day we were supposed to leave and Granda had to end up paying for all of us for an extra night oops!!! She's a pretty good actress and hysterically funny when she's in the mood to play and her accents are by far the best i've heard! Jaz also has her own blog, writes poetry, performs theatre and music.
We've also fought and argued like any sisters and like sisters we make up within seconds. Its just what we do and it works for us. We are very similar yet entirely different people with VERY different personalities. The best example i could use to describe us would be Mary-kate and Ashley Olsen's characters in New York Minute one twin is uptight and overachieving the other a laid-back rebel. I'll let you decide who's who... ha!!

“Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache" 

...The Zaz

This one i could write lots about ha! We met just over a DECADE ago (can't believe i can talk about friends from 10 years ago surreal!) at my aunty and uncle's wedding. We left the dance early and somehow landed up jumping on the bed in my mum and dad's hotel room. We then met again in 1st year of secondary school and have been pretty much inseparable ever since. She is definitely my most craziest, funniest friend who can always be counted on for mischievous good times! She is also stunning by the way  (see picture below) and has the BEST hair ever. We've done too much things together to write down and we've been to lots of places together including Spain and Southern California.
She is also the most creative person i know and has this great sense of personal style. I love her to bits and she means the world to me. I can also count on her to give me a straight no nonsense opinion which i need when i get too carried away. P.s. she also does the best silly faces but will probably kill me for posting any ha!!

<pretty lady

Contd....Lynne

Ahhh my darling Heps/Lynnie/L.Hepburn/Lovely Lynnie

I ADORE this one! She's special and lovely and down right cute as a button. I've known Lynne the shortest time out of all my bridesmaids (about 3/4 years i think) but me and her are like two peas in a pod. She's the one i go to when i need good and God advice. She knows everything about me...good and bad.
Lynnie loves the music, the rhythm, the beat, the sound. It's funny and its something i never realised till now but i've seemed to unconsciously surround myself with a lot of musically gifted people yet i have absolutely NO music talent myself...weird. Anyway, back to Heps she's one of my dearest friends and one of my biggest champions. She builds me up when i'm crumbling around the edges and i like to be goofy and silly with her because i don't feel stupid. My only regret with Lynnie is that i wish we met sooner.

Here's a wee pic of her, she's purdy!