30 Day Blogging Challenge - Day 7

Toys from my childhood

I think I was very lucky as a child. I got a lot of lovely toys and having two sisters also meant we could all share toys and spend time together.

One thing we loved doing was creating scenes and stories that would last days.  We'd set up houses, leaving some to our imagination, and leave them sitting in the exact same spots until we got bored of the story and wanted to start a new one.  We loved doing this with Bratz dolls, Schleich animals or Playmobil especially.  We would take over my whole bedroom with chairs and tables for Bratz houses, the whole sitting room with 'caves' and 'lakes' for animals.  I have so many fond memories of these games.

We also loved our stuffed toys.  We would have names for every single one of them (as most kids do) and since I'm the oldest, I would create voices and personalities for each of them.  I would make them talk to my sisters and each other and create games with them.  God I was a good sister ;)

I had one stuffed bear that I named Uvu that I would make clothes for.  He had his own section in my wardrobe on baby coat hangers and his own suitcase.  I think this was a point where I discovered I loves textiles without even realising it.  I would constantly be making things as well, from cardboard 'locks' for my bedroom door, paper jewellery to try and sell to my family to cereal box CD racks that i actually still use!  I was a very creative child.

When I got older I started loving video games on the computer and my gameboy.  I stopped playing them when I was about 13 but recently really got back into them as my boyfriend I'm pretty sure has every single game.  Yes it is a perk.


Song of the day: A song that reminds me of a certain event

It has to be a concert.  For every concert I've seen there's at least one song that whenever I hear it, I'm brought back to that night.  I'm going to go for The Apple Tree by Nina Nesbitt