teddylupin

NEWBIE ALERT! :)

Hello there. How are you today? My name is Jessy/Jess/Jessica and I:

• am nineteen.
• live in south London.
• study english literature.
• read books two at a time.
• appreciate alphabetisation. :)
• take photographs like nobody's business.
• am a proud member of the women's institute.
• like to watch films and travel and learn
• collect and record and make adventures/misadventures
• enjoy writing letters and lists and stories and journals.

I look forward to swapping with you soon. ♥

Here are some of the little things I love:

bookstores and coffee shops, letters and parcels, jumble sales, blogging, arts and crafts, birds, bunting, teacups, typewriters, crosswords, scrabble, war poets, checked shirts, old museums, fairgrounds, polaroids, floral patterns, line drawings, narwhals, teacakes, felt creatures, people-watching, postcards, make-believe, monsters and robots and dinosaurs, other people's stories, where the wild things are.

I am collecting postcards for my fridge. If you would like to send something from your hometown (plus a little bit about you/your day/the place you live) that would be lovely. Thank you. :)

♥

At the moment I am reading: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marques.

My favourite books include:

All Quiet on the Western Front, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Butterfly Lion, The Cider House Rules, A Clockwork Orange, the Great Gatsby, the Handmaid's Tale, Harry Potters, the Hobbit, Regeneration, the Time Traveller's Wife, To Kill a Mockingbird, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Wise Children.

♥

You will often find me in the cinema on a rainy day.

Adventureland, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Edward Scissorhands, Eternal Sunshine, Everything is Illuminated, Five Hundred Days of Summer, Good Bye Lenin, Little Miss Sunshine, The Lives of Others, The Pianist, The Royal Tenenbaums, Studio Ghibli, particularly Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away and Grave of Fireflies, Where the Wild Things Are.

♥

• Cutting up magazines
• Writing Letters
• Telling Tales
• Old Maps
• Small drawings
• Felt creations
• Photographs
• Scrapbooks
• Zines
• Shoeboxes
• Blank paper + biro
• Knitting a little
• Other :)