Thursday, 25 December 2014

Poem: It's Christmas Day

It's Christmas Day So many people to see, so many things to say The tree is decorated Certain members of the family are tolerated The turkey is cooking The children are looking To see if Santa has been The veg is pealed all fresh and green Presents in the stocking Fairy lights are sparkling Carols being sung The mistletoe is hung Crackers on the table Children happy and playful Christmas pudding...

Christmas is Coming: Capturing December Photo Challenge Day 20

Tree Topper: We have a star on our main Christmas Tree which is new as we have a brand new Christmas Tree this year too! - Stacey xo Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.c...

Christmas is Coming: Capturing December Photo Challenge Day 18

Stockings: Here is our family stockings, we all have one including Toby and Tia... Santa seems to have visited us already but we'll have to wait until Christmas morning to see what has been brought for us! - Stacey xo Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.c...

Christmas is Coming: Capturing December Photo Challenge Day 17

Presents: Here are the presents under our Christmas tree already. Looks like we have all been spoilt this year! - Stacey xo Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.c...

Christmas is Coming: Capturing December Photo Challenge Day 15

Favourite Holiday Song: This was really hard to pick as I love all the Christmas songs! But this is the one that instantly makes me feel all festive and Christmassy - so I had to pick it! - Stacey xo Ps. Here's the video in case you want to hear it too! Christmas Countdowns...

Christmas is Coming: Capturing December Photo Challenge Day 13

Family: I have decided to use this picture of my family from Christmas last year (2013) for 'Family' as firstly it was taken on Christmas day, secondly it is one of the few photos of us all together and finally I won't be spending Christmas day with them this year for the first time as I will...

Christmas is Coming: 25 Day Photo Challenge Day 7

Snow: It's not often you see snow around Christmas time here in the UK so I have included a picture from about 2009 of my parents house when it had been snowing. - Stacey xo Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.c...

Santa: For todays topic of 'Santa' I have picked this photo of my Dad dressed up as Santa in an old Santa suit from when we were little. - Stacey xo Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.c...

Red: For todays topic of 'red' I have picked this cute picture of Toby and Tia after they had tried on their Christmas outfits. - Stacey xo Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.c...

Gifts: There are a lot of presents gathering under our tree! - Stacey xo Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.c...

Christmas is Coming: Vlogmas Day 7

Katie-Jo and I are vlogging everyday in the run upto Christmas here is day 2 of Vlogmas. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel (HERE) and come back tomorrow for day 3! - Stacey xo Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.c...

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Christmas is Coming: Vlogmas Day 2

Christmas is Coming: Vlogmas Day 1

Katie-Jo and I are vlogging everyday in the run upto Christmas here is day one of Vlogmas. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel (HERE) and come back tomorrow for day 2! - Stacey xo Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.c...

Christmas is Coming: 25 Day Photo Challenge Day 1

Lights: I love seeing all of the lights at Christmas time! They always look really pretty, here is our tree! - Stacey xo Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.c...

Decorations: Rather than including a picture of all of our decorations I thought I would include one of my favourite decorations. I have picked this Christmas tree decoration as I think it is quite funny. - Stacey xo Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.c...

Favourite Holiday Movie: How coud my favourite holiday movie be anything else other than.... Elf?! This part of the film particularly makes me laugh. - Stacey xo Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.c...

Vlog: 29th November 2014: Katie-Jo's Big Bad Mood

It's the start of vlogmas today, so in preparation for a month of vlogs thought I would spend the day editing some old footage! Come back tomorrow for the first instalment of vlogmas. - Stacey...

Christmas is Coming: Christmas Tree Poem

Christmas Tree: It's time to decorate the Christmas tree With all the festive things people love to see From the fairy lights Twinkling so bright To the star on the top Glittering in the window making people stop Baubles red, gold and green Shiny and bright so that they can be seen Ornaments hanging from the branches Catching the light as it twinkles and dances Tinsel twisted around the tree Framing...

Your View Today: I decided to use this picture as 'My View Today' as this is what I wake up to every morning and I can't wait for Christmas! - Stacey xo Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.c...

This Blog This Christmas

Christmas is fast approaching and it is by far my most favourite time of the year. So I have decided I will be blogging throughout December I'm going to attempt to blog several different things: 1. Vlogmas - After watching several other youtubers vlogmas series I have decided I want to join in this year. This means from the 1st December Katie-Jo and I will be vlogging over on our YouTube Channel...

Vlog: Hangover Day

Don't forget to subscribe to mine and Katie-Jo's YouTube channel (HERE)! We will also be joining in with Vlogmas so make sure you head over to our channel during December to see what we are up to in the run up to Christmas. - Stacey xo ...

Please do go over to mine and Katie-Jo's YouTube channel (HERE) and subscribe to keep upto date with what we are up to. Especially as we will be participating in Vlogmas which will mean a new video everyday in the run up to Christmas (1st to 24th December). - Stacey xo ...

Poem: 21

Now that I am turning 21 In some ways my life has just begun Born on 9th November 1993 Who thought I would become the woman I've turned out to be Fought a battle since I was six years old Only just found the courage to tell a story I never thought would be told I have a loving family forever supporting...

Video: The Girlfriend Tag

- Stacey xo You can contact me by E-mail: staceyjhubbardblog@hotmail.co.uk Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stazzyhubbs Be a fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/staceyjhubbard Follow me on Tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com/blog/stazzyhubbs Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/katiejostacey Follow...

Video: A Night in with Kopparberg

Go to our YouTube channel and check out the other videos too: https://www.youtube.com/user/katiejostacey There will be lots more videos coming over the next few days, weeks, months, so please keep checking back! - Stacey xo You can contact me by E-mail: staceyjhubbardblog@hotmail.co.uk Follow...

Poem: I Want To Live My Life As I Should

I write how I feel down Afraid that the words will come alive if I say them out loud Some days I feel so alone But how do I feel alone when my secret is now known To the outside world it looked like you cared But really all you did was make a little girl so very scared Taking away the...

Life: Attempt 2 at being a Student

When we moved to Cardiff I wasn't sure if I was going to pass my foundation degree as I was having to resit some of my exams due to missing them in May. I ended up having to do one exam and two assignments, apparently I have passed my course - although I'm not sure what percentage/ grade I have...

Life: Job Hunting

So I have spent the last week job hunting, what can I say it is a very stressful process! Not only is it stressful but it is also very time consuming and can be very demotivating at times. How can you get experience when no one will give you experience? What's the point in public transport if you need to have a driving licence to get to work? I've tried everything over the past few days to attempt...

Life: Welcome to Cardiff

Since we moved into our new house its been very hectic. We've done very grown up things like go to B&Q and buy things to make our television aerial work. It's very different having our own home compared to house sharing with other students. For the first time in my life I've also felt homesick....

life: Sheep, Dragons and 5p Carrier Bags

What a busy few days! It's crazy to think that I now live in Wales - although I havent seen a single sheep yet, but that might have something to do with being in Cardiff rather than somewhere more open. Saturday and Sunday were very busy. We got our keys bang on the dot at 10am on Saturday and managed to have all the boxes out of the van by 10.40am - not bad! Especially considering we thought it...

Life: Our Engagement Party

On the 6th June 2014 Clare (Katie-Jo's Mum) organised an engagement party for us in Cardiff. My Mum, Dad, brother and sister came up from Cambridge. It was such a wicked night. The video above is some of the video from the night. - Stacey ...

Life: Bye Bournemouth

Tomorrow we move to Cardiff! It feels like it has taken ages to get to this point as packing has been a long a drawn out process! But it is all finally done, everything is in boxes. It's weird seeing everything packed up like that. I'm not sure I like it, it's weird not having everything around the...

Life: My Little Love Story

I've mentioned Katie-Jo quite a bit on my blog now so I thought it was about time I introduced her properly. We met on the 16th September 2013 in our first year of university. Her room was opposite mine in our own little corridor in our shared house. I remember her standing in my door way looking incredible...

Poem: I Look Upto You

I have been given something not everyone gets the chance of The who don't are angels in the sky looking down on us from the sky above People we wish were here with us, people we will never forget People we weren't ready to say goodbye to yet Because of them I can't give up when things get too hard Because of them I put a smile on my face even though my mind might be scarred When I don't know what...

Poem: Sometimes I Might

I'm gonna put a smile on my face Otherwise I'll look like I'm in a distant place Experiencing things I'll never forget Related to someone I wish I never met But deep inside something tells me to keep going Deep inside something tells me to keep growing Sometimes I might seem like a closed book Sometimes when you talk I might not be able to look I might feel uncomfortable in a room full of people I...

CSA: Imagine Your House On Fire

I remember after my abuser had committed suicide it was so hard going and seeing family knowing that they now knew about it. I really struggled with this, because it was as though my abuser had taken something else out of my hands, by committing suicide. I wanted people to know, but I wasn't ready...

Life: Results Confusion

So as a result of the investigation and my abusers suicide I didn't sit the final exams of my foundation degree and now have to do the resits in August (luckily I get to do them uncapped due to my mitigating circumstances). However this has caused so many problems for my Top Up course as the results...

CSA: Fundraising

As a part of moving on from my sexual abuse and raising awareness of it. I would like to, in the near future, do some fundraising for charities that help people who are going through and have been through sexual abuse. I'm not entirely sure what I will be doing but I'm hoping to do something with...

Life: One Step Closer

Time seems to be going by so quickly at the moment! The big move to Cardiff is getting so close and so many things are coming to an end. In some ways it is sad to see things coming to an end in Bournemouth and other ways it exciting as I am going to see new things, meet new people and get to start...

When I first thought about getting some sort of 'closure' from what has happened to me I didn't know what or how I wanted to go about it. Here are some of the things I have done and am wanting to do. My first step was to try and gain some kind of closure was to try and prosecute my abuser, this...

Quote: Let today...

"Let today be the day you love yourself enough to no longer just dream of a better life; let it be the day you act upon it." - Stacey ...

Life: Moving

I have spent a lot of time over the past week thinking in reality how lucky I actually am. I have an incredible fiancée who has given me a ridiculous amount of support over the last year, I have an amazing family and an incredible group of friends. There have been plenty of challenges and hurdles over the past year but I'm still here, and I have a new chapter in my life that is just about to start. Two...

"I admire people who choose to shine even after all the storms they have been through" - Stacey ...

Quote: Knocked Down

"Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than you have ever been to stand back up taller than you ever were" -Stacey ...

CSA: Forgiveness

I wrote this in one of my notebooks during the police investigation: Forgiveness isn't forgetting its acceptance of the things you can't change in the past to have the future you deserve. I forgive him everyday so that I could listen to people talk about him positively, be in the same room as him, have a conversation with him. But I'll never forget. - Stacey xo You can contact me by E-mail: staceyjhubbardblog@hotmail.co.uk Follow...

CSA: Nightmares and Flashbacks

Image from: http://whatittakestobeme.org Quite simply a flashback makes you feel as though you are experiencing a situation again. For me I flashbacks mean being sent back in time to anyone of the many times I was sexually abused. There are many things that trigger them, it can be a smell, a...

CSA: I'm Scared

This came from a notebook and was written very early on in my police investigation: I'm scared: of losing my family everyone thinking I'm lying people believing him over me him getting away with it losing the people I care about all of this making how I feel worse and not better. - Stacey xo You can contact me by E-mail: staceyjhubbardblog@hotmail.co.uk Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stazzyhubbs Be...

CSA: Keep Me Grounded

A quote from one of my notebooks "Keep me grounded" - Stacey xo You can contact me by E-mail: staceyjhubbardblog@hotmail.co.uk Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stazzyhubbs Be a fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/staceyjhubbard Follow me on Tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com/blog/stazzyhubbs Subscribe...

CSA: Receiving Support

One of the hardest parts about telling people that I had been through sexual abuse was thinking that no one would believe me. That I would face it alone. The reality was I wasn't alone from the moment I started confiding in people about what happened. Knowing people believed in me gave me the courage...

A quote from one of my notebooks: "I've cried too many tears to be able to show my true fears." - Stacey xo You can contact me by E-mail: staceyjhubbardblog@hotmail.co.uk Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stazzyhubbs Be a fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/staceyjhubbard Follow...

CSA: How Do They Know

A quote from one of my notebooks: "People don't understand but they say I'll be okay, How do they know?" - Stacey xo You can contact me by E-mail: staceyjhubbardblog@hotmail.co.uk Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stazzyhubbs Be a fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/staceyjhubbard Follow...

CSA: The Shocking Statistics

I am very aware that technically I am a statistic. I don't feel like one but that doesn't change the fact that I am one. Even as a victim of childhood sexual abuse I still find the statistics shocking - and I know alot of people do too. It is estimated that 1 in 6 males and 1 in 4 women have been sexually abused as children in the United Kingdom. We have to also consider how many victims/survivors...

A quote from one of my notebooks: "On the inside I'm so small, On the outside I'm so big" - Stacey xo You can contact me by E-mail: staceyjhubbardblog@hotmail.co.uk Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stazzyhubbs Be a fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/staceyjhubbard Follow...

CSA: It's Easy

A Quote from one of my notebooks: "It's easy to hide feelings people don't know you know how to feel" - Stacey xo You can contact me by E-mail: staceyjhubbardblog@hotmail.co.uk Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stazzyhubbs Be a fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/staceyjhubbard Follow...

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