Halloween!

I love Halloween. Aside from the fact that it tends to be one of those great Autumn days where it's windy and fresh and the foliage has all gone a glorious colour, it gives me a brilliant excuse for dressing up. I really enjoy dressing up.

It's probably part of that 'you can take the student out of the theatre but you can't take the theatre out of the student' thing. I'm like the metaphorical stick of rock with 'luvvie' written all the way through it - pretending to be someone else for a while is damn good fun.
This year, Halloween will be without all those friends who are off at university, but, since there is still a party (one of the remaining friends has the house to herself that weekend) I still get to dress up.

Looking at the 'pictures of me' thing on facebook, it seems I'll don a costume at the slightest provocation, and I do like to think I make the effort with it. Previous halloweens have seen me as bat, witch, werewolf, devil and so on and so on, while other opportunities have produced one of the original Charlie's Angels (raided my mum's old clothes bag), Prince Charming, schoolgirls, princesses...

This year, I was considering going as roadkill - using the furry bits from last years wolf costume, makeup bruises and cuts and a tyretrack across my chest, but I think I'll save that one (because it is a great idea). Instead I'm thinking bad fairy - all fishnet, thorns and wilted petals, like a flower fairy gone wrong. I'll have to make it of course, but I'm pretty sure I can do that.
It should be good fun. I will post pictures as we go along I think.

p.s. a friend has just started a blog for his uni course, go say hi: http://martin-baxter.blogspot.com/

This would be the blog then?

I keep trying to do things like this, and here I am hoping that I'll keep it up this time. If I'm honest I've started this at a pretty stupid time, as I'm about to take my last exams for my A-Levels. However, I am a total div from time to time so there we go.

So, who am I, and what's this all about? I'm Leah, an almost-18, creatively minded, bright, procrastinating Drama student. I live with my parents and my two younger brothers, I'm nearly finished with school and I have no idea what I'm doing next year.
This blog... it should be about showing off my creative pursuits, which come in quite a wide variety, and for just burbling on about whatever happens to have got into my head that day.

So, Welcome along! I hope we'll enjoy ourselves