Brands That Make Me Want To Belong

I have been away again for a very long time... And I apologies for that, but I am now in uni in Cardiff studying an amazing course! One of our assignments is to write a blog (yippee for me as I really enjoy this) about 5 brands that mean something to us. So let get started shall we...

My first is Greenpeace. 

 Their logo is simple, but it does the job, the standard GREENPEACE logo is the one everyone recognises, and is green because it shows its environmentally friendly. The logo which is then second popular is the hand holding the world, which shows we are responsible for looking after it, and gently if possibly. Now I have been a member of Greenpeace for a while, and I love their website, mainly for one point... It's informative! It has everything that they are doing, where they are doing it, and what you can do to help; they have petitions people can sign, information about local groups in your area and much. The reason I'm so connected to this brand is what they do for the environment and how much good they've done so far! There 'motto' is...

We defend the natural world and promote peace by investigating, exposing and confronting environmental abuse, and championing environmentally responsible solution

They do so much from trying to stop climate change, defending the oceans, protecting the forest to eliminating toxic waste. I personally can't find any reason not to support them.

My next 'brand' is the Wildlife Trust, 

and again their logo is pretty simple, but its very effective as it draws people in with a cute picture. Their website is very easy to navigate, and you can quickly find what your looking for, it also has everything they are doing to help. What I love about the wildlife trust is it's very child friendly, it has lots of planned activities for children to take part in, in which there aim is to "create future generations that love wildlife." Which is actually one reason I'm connected to this 'brand' so much is because of its involvement of children. Also my dad used to work for them when I was younger which meant I took part in a few of there activities.

We want to inspire people about the natural world so that they value it, understand their relationship with it and take action to protect and restore it. 

They also have an excellent motto! I 100% agree that we need to show people how what they do can affect the world SO much.

This next brand is food related, and are called Nakd.

Once again this brand has a simple logo, but it says a lot. It's simply good food, 'Wholefood' taken straight from the fruit. Their website is a great place to shop for these fruity bars, and within the same company they sell trek bars, so you can also purchase them on the website. One thing I like about the website is that they have a recipe page, with some easy and tasty recipes that anyone can make. They also have information about health which is very 'eye-opening'...

      "Have you ever looked at the back of your cereal bar wrapper to see what's in it? Nearly all so'called 'healthy' snack bars undergo intense heat-processing, and are stuffed with sugary syrups and mysterious additives. Take a look at the below to see what we mean. 

"A typical cereal bar can contain as many as 30 ingredients, many of which are completly unrecognisable and several of which are actually just various types of sugar. Despite what it says on he pack we all know these heavily processed, syrup-laden and additive-filled cereal bars are not really'healthy' at all!""

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 So in my opinion they just seem like the better choice! (and they are really tasty)


Next is Vegan.com.

This logo shows so much.. To begin with its just looks like someone doing the peace sign, but the fingers are in fact the letter V, which shows that Veganism = Peace, plain and simple. Their website is all about making vegan easy and it accomplishes this with tips, guides, videos, recipes, reviews and just general information. Now if you couldn't tell already.. I'm a bit of a eco-fighting warrior... or in technical terms, I'm a Vegan, which is why I'm so connected to these 'brands'. Its something I wholeheartedly believe in; saving the environment and everything in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHkydRT3iNU


My last 'brand' is Youtube. I know this is going to be a very popular one...

Their logo is very clever as it represents that this 'brand' is all about you, the videos that pop up are decided by you. This is your stuff, your playlist, your likes, your video, your 'tube'! Youtube is an amazing website, I mean 300 hours of videos are uploaded every minute, and the hours of videos watched per month is 6 billion!! 6 billion, that's just incredible. Now the thing that attracts me the most to youtube (and its not just the funny cat videos) is the fact that you can share information, important information, and have people view it.. now amongst all the videos of people falling over and cute things there are videos that spread life changing information(such as the vegan message, or environmental statistics), and people who are doing their best to get there message out, and youtube lets them and gives them the audience they deserve, which I find is an amazing thing!

So that is it for my '5 favorite brands', I hope you enjoyed, and I'll talk to you later..

But for now I hope that you are having a wonderful day, and don't forget to Live The Life You Love, Love The Life You Live!

I'm Back, Baby.. But I'm Back In London!!!

Hellooooooo! I am Back!!!!!!!

So I have been away for a ridiculous amount of time and I apologise for this immensely, but I just moved to London!! Woo-Hoo! Arghhhhh! OMG! What?!

Yes, I now live in London... What I'm doing with the rest of my life I have no idea, BUT and its a hugely enormous 'but' that doesn't matter so much at the moment, because I am now living MY life, doing what I want to do, doing things how I want to do things, and organising MY time and money (we'll get to that later on)!

I have been in London now for a couple of days, and even though I haven't exactly done much I am loving it! I love just wondering around aimlessly, finding all the small, back roads and sitting outside a cafe somewhere and watching the busy street hustle go by... I don't know why, its just intriguing to me to watch people living there life, not knowing I exist at all. Am I weird?! Maybe... 

Another thing I've noticed (which probably won't help convincing you I'm not weird), is I can spend a ridiculous amount of time thinking about doing something, and then not have time do it... And since moving to London this and almost intensified! I could spend a good morning or so planning activities I could go out and do, and then have so many ideas, never get round to doing any of them... Oh well, I am quite happy just going for a wonder around Richmond park (Which I will usually end up doing most days)!

London, I have come to realise, is expensive! Now I knew this before, if it wasn't my own common sense telling me, it was my mother telling me every other day!! But, Yes, London you are expensive! And to anyone who wants to move down here, Do!!! Do it now, But be prepared, have money saved up, know that when you move down you have a job so you can start work almost immediately. And don't be scared to spend money. I'm not saying go out every night and spend ££££'s, but I also don't want you to sit at home and be too worried about money to go and have a good time! Just balance things out, for example; walk/cycle more to save money on fuel/trains/buses, by food in bulk and from local (if possible) green grocers, or from places like lidl(!), don't by fixated on clothing/shoe/makeup brands and save your self a fortune!! 

I will probably go into more detail on some of these subjects if you'd like me too!

But for now I hope this you are having a wonderfully day, and don't forget to Live The Life You Love, Love The Live You Live!

Love

Hazel

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Photography

Yo!

So I have just got back from work, and am about to go to sleep, and I thought, seeing as I have a college deadline tomorrow, instead of doing the actual work I'd should you some of my pictures. If you guys don't mine :)

I love macro mode on my camera.. and I mean LOVE. So most of my pictures will be macro.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

This is a great example of medium depth of field, see how the foreground and background are out of focus and middle ground is in focus.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

This is also an example of medium depth of field. I don't know why but I really, REALLY like this photo.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

I love this macro shot, I feel there is some great composition.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus| 

This photo is a very good example of leading lines. See how the lines in this picture draws your eyes from right to left.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

With these next few photos, we got a chance to do semi-professional photos with giant chess pieces and random objects.... 

Using macro again, I love this piece.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

I loved the idea of using bits and bobs for this photo shoot, so I found an old bit of metal piping and I believe it worked quite well.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

Another awesome shot of the chess pieces, again in macro (I seriously can't get enough)
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

Okay, so I hope this wasn't too boring for you guys, but I love showing you my photos and getting your feedback.

So until tomorrow (hopefully :))

Live the Life you Love, Love the Life you Live

Love

Hazel

xx

Zombie Apocalypse

Hello Lovely people,

So I am feeling SO much better than this morning (lets hope it lasts)!!! 

Anyway, I wanna talk about the "next" zombie apocalypse and how I don't think it's gonna happen. Yes Ebola is a massive killer, and a terrible disease, but I do not see it taking over the world and killer everyone. And I especially don't see it turning everyone into Zombies and have them running around the places biting others.

Now I know how people read into things so much, its almost TOO much, so I can see how this 'rumor' has became so engraved into peoples heads already, but seriously! Zombie Apocalypses?! I think the world has been playing too much COD, because Zombies only exist in games and stories (which are amazing btw, but thats another time).

But yeah, anyway, I am so sorry to anyone who has lost people to it, or have got it them selves. It is an awful disease, and I can only imagine what it must be like to have it, and to suffer in such a way.

So please

Live the Life you Love, Love the Life you Live

Love

Hazel

xx

P.S. Apologies for such a short blog, but I am still recovering from my pathetic cold and need rest        

Powering through hard times

I apologies for being so, almost, negative with lots of my posts, but tonight's one is more up beat. 

I'm watching Gavin and Stacy and I find it hilarious!!! Being welsh I can relate to it SO much. Like the thing with the welsh and curry sauce!! Yes! Lol.

But yeah, I'm feeling very ill so watching this makes me feel better. But thats also why I haven't posted much this last couple of days, as I have been dying with this god danm cold, Which I am still dying of but I have mustered up the energy to get out of bed and turn on my laptop, and write this blog. 

I am being optimistic about it and pushing through as I really can't afford to be ill, so I'm stocking up on the soothers and lemons and honey and I'm going to get over this cold if it kills me (literally). 

But this is a nice way to slide in this; No matter what it is whether you feeling ill, upset, down, stressed what ever, you can power through and things will get better, I promise and it may take a bit of energy and hard work, and you might feel worst to begin with, but it WILL get better, and YOU WILL get better! Promise x

So....

Live the Life you Love, Love the Life you Live.

Love

Hazel

xx 

6 Reasons to eat Less Meat...

Evening all, so I have just posted my blog on, http://7girlsblogging.blogspot.co.uk/, and it would be awesome if you guys could go check it out, I will be posting on there every Friday.

Umm... So I'm not sure what I'm going to write about tonight, I have something I want to say, but I feel like the subjects needs more time, so I will leave that for another day, but I will touch on it.. So as some of you guys know I am a Vegan, and I have been doing a lot of research recently, A LOT. Now I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about my actual opinions today (as that would take too much time) but I will get into why you should eat less meat. here are 6 reasons - 

"1) Limit the animal-fare and you'll be reducing your likelihood for heart disease, the number-one killer of women. "Fatty red meats and many processed meats are high in saturated fat, which raises LDL (bad) cholesterol and increases risk of coronary heart disease," says Dr. Rachel K. Johnson, a spokesperson for the American Heart Association and professor of Nutrition and Medicine at the University of Vermont. Studies, including one of more than 500,000 people published in theArchives of Internal Medicine, have shown that eating high quantities of these meats (e.g. a small steak every day) also increases the risk of death from cardiovascular disease."

"2)Right up there on the list of scary diseases is cancer, and it's becoming increasingly clear that a meat-cancer connection exists. In one study of more than 35,000 women published in the British Journal of Cancer, those who ate the most red and processed meat were found to have the highest risk of breast cancer. Other research has linked meat consumption to colon, prostate, pancreatic, and gastric cancers as well. One theory, according to non-profit group The Cancer Project, is that foods with high levels of fat artificially boost the hormones that promote cancer."

"3)Raising cattle for beef and milk spews more greenhouse gases into the air than all of the cars currently on the road. That stat came from a 2006 U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization report, which also found that the livestock industry wreaks havoc on our land and water—taking up vast amounts of scarce resources, and polluting the waterways more than probably any other industry.

Eating a plant-based meal for lunch instead of a burger saves 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, 133 gallons of water, and 24 square feet of land, according to the people over at the PB&J Campaign. They've calculated that in just three lunches, you'll have saved more water than you'll save by switching to a low-flow showerhead."

"4)Sure, subbing a veggie burger for a hamburger is a no-brainer way to save a lot of calories. But the meat-weight relationship goes beyond calorie math. A large-scale 2010 study from Imperial College London found that those who ate about 250 grams a day (the size of one half-pound steak) of red meat, poultry, or processed meat gained more weight over five years than those who ate less meat, even if they consumed the same amount of calories overall."

"5)If you're even the smallest of animal lovers, it's tough to think about how your steak or pork chop was made. According to the USDA, 9.1 billion cows, chickens, turkeys, ducks, pigs, and sheep were slaughtered for food in 2011. And these animals often suffer greatly in tiny cages, crates, and pens, before enduring frequently cruel slaughter practices. The Humane Society of the United States estimates that if every American cut out meat just once a week, about 1.4 billion animals could be spared each year." (I'll probably talk more about this at a later date)

"6)For just about every meat item on the market, there's a meat-free version that's surprisingly good. From veggie burgers to chick'n nuggets and even corn dogs, you can still indulge in junk meats without going for the real thing—and brands like Dr. Praeger's, Amy's, Morningstar Farms, and Quorn are usually sitting right there in your local Stop & Shop next to the real thing. Just remember, even with fake meats, to eat them sparingly—they are often still loaded with sodium."

Okay, I know this isn't for everyone, but I get so passionate about this stuff, and these 6 reasons aren't even scraping the horrible things that happen in the meat/dairy industry.

I apologies to guys who aren't vegan/veggie and find this 'offensive' but this is my opinion and I'm entitled to it.

Live the life you Love, Love the Life you Live

Love

Hazel xx

I'm SO sorry x

Hello,
I am SO sorry I didn't post anything yesterday.. I had work until late and when I got in I literally passed out!

I don't have any rants to write down today (yesterday) as as I'm writing this I am in a massive rush to upload my vlog, do the washing and leave for college in 10 mins!!!!! I'm not going to get anything done.

So once again I am sorry, about yesterday, but I should still post tonight, and myself and a few friends have started a blog and I'm posting in that today as well. So please go check that out!!! :)

Live the Life you Love, Love the Life you Live
Love
Hazel xx

Link my other blog - http://7girlsblogging.blogspot.co.uk/