My Top 5 Favourite Disney Movies!

I was a big Disney child and if you grow up loving Disney, that love never goes away. So, today I thought I would share with you my top five favourite Disney movies!

Number 5!
Now, this was more difficult than I thought it would be as for my number five spot I was undecided between two movies, Peter Pan and Finding Nemo, but after thinking about which of the two movies I would watch right at this very moment it had to be Finding Nemo.
I remember the first time I watched Finding Nemo I actually got scared and cried… Bruce’s mouth full of sharp teeth was actually quite unsettling as a young child and it put me off watching the movie again for years. But once I was a little older and watched Finding Nemo with more grown up eyes I realised just how much I love the little fish with one ear smaller than the other. My particular favourite part of the movie is when Marlin and Dory ride the waves with the turtles, ‘Dude!’

Number 4!

Number 4 is Toy Story! I love toy story sooooooooooooo much! I’m not going to lie, I cried at the Toy Story 3 and when I say cry I mean literally sitting in the cinema balling my eyes out! I can’t quite explain the stress that gets lifted when you realise that the toys are going to end up in the burner of the rubbish dump!
Out of the 3 movies, Number 2 was my favourite purely because I love Jessie, I remember as a child I had a Jessie doll and I wrote my name of the bottom of her shoe. All the Toy Story movies are just fun and easy to watch, and I don’t understand how anyone can’t love the movies!

Number 3!

Ranking the last 3 movies was hard as I love them pretty much equally, however in the end I decided that Tangled was my third-place spot. I know every single word from the whole tangled movie and despite him being a cartoon I love Flynn! I have never wanted an animated couple to succeed more than I did with Flynn and Rapunzel.
One of my main reasons for loving this movie is the songs, my favourites include ‘Mother Knows Best’ and ‘I’ve Got a Dream,’ every time I hear these two songs I can’t help but flood into song!

Number 2!

Beauty and the Beast is my runner up, specifically the classic version (controversial I know, but I wasn’t actually much of a fan of the live action version that recently came out). Honestly, I think the reason that Beauty and the Beast is so high up in my list of favourites is because it is my dad’s favourite Disney movie, which meant as a child it was on all the time. Anytime it was a choice of what Disney movie to watch my dad would some how manage to make sure the movie was Beauty and the Beast.
My favourite character by far is Chip! Who would have known you could have so much love for a slightly broken cup? All I have ever wanted is my own little chip cup, but I have never found one that looks authentic enough.
Also, a little Beauty and the Beast related side note, Belle in Once Upon a Time (a fairy-tale themed TV show, it’s available on Netflix and you should definitely watch it if you are a sucker for Disney) was just my perfect Belle! I love the way Emilie de Raven plays her on the show.

My Favourite Disney Movie!

My all time favourite Disney movie has to be Mary Poppins (and Mr Banks as an extension of the movie… is it cheating to technically have two movies as my top movie? Aha).
I can’t really put into words how much I love Mary Poppins, it’s a movie I could watch a million times over and never get bored. The songs are amazing, Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke are just perfect and just everything about the movie is so loveable!
As for Saving Mr Banks, just because I feel like I NEED to add a little in about this movie, I found it to be a perfect addition to my love for Mary Poppins. It made me cry (understatement) and laugh and I absolutely loved Tom Hanks as Walt Disney! If you love Mary Poppins you must watch Saving Mr Banks, I guarantee you’ll love it. My favourite moment of the whole movie has always been when they go around Uncle Albert’s house and end up having tea on the ceiling, whilst singing ‘Love to Laugh!’

I hope you enjoyed my little list of favourite Disney movies!

Much Love, Holly x

Christmas Throughout the Years!

A couple of blog posts ago I talked about how I love to look back on old photos and as it is the Christmas season I have recently be looking back at old Christmas photos.

December as whole has always been one of my favourite times of the year, for me personally it is a very busy time of the year because as well as Christmas, I also have my birthday, my younger sister’s birthday and now my nephew’s birthday also.

As soon as January 1^st roles around I am immediately on a count down for December 1^st again! I love everything about this time of years, the lights, the colours, the scents, the pyjamas, but particularly I love how it’s the time of year where you get together with everyone you care about and all the business of everyone’s day to day life just disappears for a little bit.

My favourite part of this time of year, is present giving! I absolutely love buying people gifts, wrapping them and watching them open them and hoping that they like what I have got. This year I have gone quite simple with all my loved one’s gifts (maybe I will do a blog post on the presents I have brought this year) but I think it’s the best I have done in terms of gift ever. I can’t wait to give out my gifts… can Christmas day just come quicker already!

To go alongside this small little blog post about Christmas time, I decided to get out some old photos of myself at Christmas time throughout the years!

I hope you are having fun this festive season no matter how you are spending it,

Much Love, Holly x

Christmas 2010!

Christmas 2011!

Christmas 2013!

Christmas 2016!

Christmas 2017 (So Far!)

A Few Christmas Questions

It’s officially December! That means it is time for all things Christmas! I thought I would kick of the festive season with a little set of questions that I have seen some people answer in their blogs. 

What is your favourite Christmas movie?

Definitely Elf, it never quite feels like Christmas until I have watched Elf. As a child, I used to sit with my dad and roll over in fits of laughter when Buddy runs into the toilet stall door, or when he calls Myles Finch a “angry elf.”

Do you open your presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning?

Both! We are allowed to open one present on Christmas Eve, this present is normally either pyjamas or a dressing gown (the reason being, so that we would have nice fresh sleep wear for when my mum took pictures in the morning).

Do you have a favourite Christmas memory?

We would always have Christmas parties at our house when I was younger, and although I can’t remember anything too specific, it was a party tradition to bust out sing-star and guitar hero and watch in hysterics as family members with tone deaf voices sang like their lives depended on it.

Favourite festive food?

Am I going to be judged if I say brussel sprouts? Yes, I really love the brussel sprouts and they always taste best a Christmas! 

Favourite Christmas gift?

I was around 13 years old and I got a remote control Darlek, I was a big Doctor Who nerd and it was probably one of the times I have been most excited about opening a present – I also got a sonic screwdriver that year, so it was a pretty good one on the nerd front.

Favourite Christmas scent?

Cinnamon! Everything around Christmas time smells like Cinnamon! Ahhh it’s just the best!

Do you have any Christmas traditions?

Nothing in particular, other than the present on Christmas Eve. Despite all of me and my siblings probably being too old to believe in Father Christmas, we still continue to put out chocolate (Father Christmas doesn’t like mince pies in my house), milk and carrots, me and my mum will normally sit up a wrap presents and then she will cover the whole house and garden in glitter.

What tops your tree?

Sometimes an angel, sometimes a star, it depends what will match the colour scheme of the baubles best aha!

As a kid what was the one (crazy, wild, extravagant) gift you asked for but never got?

I don’t think I ever asked for something and didn’t get it, I would like to think that even when younger I didn’t ask for anything too extravagant.

What’s the best part about Christmas for you?

The run up to Christmas in the best part. Buying and wrapping presents, blaring out Christmas music, decorating the tree, even the food shopping! With working in a nursery, the lead up to Christmas is made double as fun, with the Christmas party and dinner and play, secret Santa at work and the variety of different Christmas activities. Christmas day itself goes far too quickly!

No matter how you choose to spend your Holidays this year, I hope they are filled with excitement and happiness and everybody gets a well-deserved break.

Much

Love, Holly x

The Importance of Pictures

Do you ever love to take a trip down memory lane? I do, all the time. I keep every picture I can possibly find from my past and I feel like it is something I will forever continue to do. It baffles me how we are able to capture a single moment, literally stop time and have it as something you can always look back on. At times I find it hard to look back on pictures, especially of myself, knowing that I will never be the person I was in those pictures again can sometimes be oddly upsetting. Growing and changing is a part of life and although we may not be the same person we were yesterday, that doesn’t take away from the people we are today.

Out of all the photos I have, looking at ones where it’s me and my family are my favourites to see. In the same way that I have changed a lot from being the young girl in these photos, so have all of the other people in them, I often find a lot of comfort in reminiscing about the all the different versions of themselves that my families have been as well.  

Taking photos is something that I will always value and is a value that runs throughout my family, especially the females. One thing I will always be thankful for is that my parents took photos! I like to think that when I am older, and my memory starts to fade all I will have to do is reach for different scrapbooks and albums (not that I have actually made any of them yet, I keep telling myself that I am getting around to it aha!) and I will be transported back to my younger years.

My advice to anyone and everyone will always be to take pictures, take lots of pictures and treasure them like they have the value of gold!

Lots of Love, Holly x