I grew up with a Father who was a huge DIY man and renovated/decorated almost every room in our house multiple times. I went from having a Disney Princess bedroom when I was a young girl to having a bright yellow bedroom in my early teens to becoming obsessed with Purple and Pinks when I was sixteen, all the while my Dad was eager to help me paint and redecorate my room.

Since moving to Vancouver in the last 3 years I've always been hesitant to make my bedroom and my apartments "mine" per say. For every year that I have been here, I have moved to another location once my year lease is over, and then on to another apartment, it's just something that I do! I don't like staying in the same place for too long and I'm sure that won't change until I find a location or an apartment that I want to call my own, I welcome change and it welcomes me!

Due to constantly changing houses/apartments I have barely had a chance to decorate my rooms before I'm tearing everything down again and boxing them up to move. Since relocating to Downtown Vancouver in Summer 2014 I decided that enough was enough and it's time I made my bedroom my own and to give it a personal touch.

I've always had some DIY skills running through my veins and decided to hit Pinterest for ideas. I am a lover of Instagram and I take the most ridiculous and pointless photos but each one specifically reminds me of a person or a place and I believe they deserve a place on my wall! London Drugs (very similar to Boots in the UK) prints out photos for super cheap, around $5-10 for 20 and they also can print your images in a polaroid style which I love! I picked out my favourite photos, gathered together my ideas from Pinterest and decided to buy some standard laundry pegs from the dollar store, paint supplies and string all for less than $10 and set out my little DIY task.

I painted the pegs 3 separate colours, mint green, silver and gold (mostly to go with my other wall) and once they were dry I strung up the pictures on my wall. The whole DIY evening took around 2 hours in total and it really makes use of such a blank white space on my wall. The photos have been up there for a few months now and I love that its one of the things that I walk past every day when entering/leaving my bedroom.

Has anyone out there done anything similar to this? If you want to add a personal touch but don't want to spend a lot of money on photo frames, then this idea is great on a budget and isn't a time waster for those with busy lives!

- JR

Becoming a blip on the Internet

Hello lovelies and welcome to my blog!

My name is Jessica-Rachel and as of this moment I am trying to eat 3-day-old pasta that is far too hot from being reheated straight from the microwave, but alas I cannot restrain myself from eating it right now. Why am I sharing this pointless information with you? Because if you are interested in getting to know me, as I am you, then this will be a usual occurrence.

Blogging has always been an interest of mine, back when I was in my mid to late teens I constantly updated my Tumblr with pictures of my favourite TV shows and quotes, not to mention an endless stream of Nina Dobrev and how I wished I could have her sense of style or her flawless hair. 5 years on from that, I ended up giving up on my Tumblr blog and my hair goals of celebrities and moved across the ocean to Vancouver, BC from my hometown in England. I should have probably taken up blogging at that point in my life considering it was a whirlwind of events, but being 21 and being brand new to a city the last thing I wanted to do was to sit down and write about the events that I had done that day. Naturally I ended up doing just that, but watching Netflix instead.

I had been talking to one of my close friends for a while about setting up a YouTube Channel to which she agreed was a great idea. My only downfall was that I am far too lazy to do my hair and make up for work each day, let alone for a camera and making videos on my 4 year old macbook which usually crashes every time I open iMovie. So I thought I'd spare myself the effort of filming as of now and create this blog instead.

I am turning 25 this year, it hurts even typing that because I don't feel a day over 17, it also hurts typing that too because I now sound like my mother when she used to tell me she never felt a day past 30... the fact that I'm turning 30 in 5 years is also another frightening subject that I would like to keep locked in a very dark corner, behind bars until I must accept my fate of no longer being in my twenties. For those of you who are interested in learning a little about myself then here is a summary of the past few years of my life.

I graduated University at the age of 21 and moved back to my hometown, which is a very small town that most people have never heard of in England. I then ultimately became fascinated with TV and Film, which had nothing to do with what I just earned my degree in but I guess that happens to the best of us. I decided a few months later to move to Canada, as my original and first choice was America but unfortunately the visa system wasn't in my favour back then. I ended up moving to Vancouver in Spring 2012 to pursue a career within the Film/TV Industry. I was a young and naive woman but a few months after I ended up landing my first TV gig and the rest is history. As of right now I am currently awaiting my Permanent Residency and it's been so long now since I submitted my application that I am going a little insane... but "be patient" is what they all keep telling me and "good things come to those who wait". A little quote that I'm not a huge fan of as I believe that good things come to those who work very hard for them but when a situation is completely out of your hands and your control, then wait I shall!

I hope you all enjoy this blog as much as I will enjoy writing on it, and as much as this is for myself my ultimate goal is to hopefully get to know some of you too!

- JR