Back in Easter I went to Spring Harvest UK (first 2 pictures) with my best friend and her family. It's a christian holiday/conference sorta thing which I thoroughly enjoyed and we're actually going back next year! It's such an amazing experience with great worship and great talks so I can't wait to go back again!

I performed DNA by Dennis Kelly on our local theatre's stage as part of the Royal and Derngate Young actors company in July (3rd picture). This was such an amazing experience as I didn't just get to perform on stage, but I made some great friends and I'm actually doing one of the monologues from it as one of my audition monologues this year.

I attended my first blogger meet up in London with the lovely Jess from Dougnuts and Dungarees. We did so many great activities and it was great to meet Kirsty Lo from Take me out and meet lots of new bloggers whos blogs I love today!

I did my last ever school production along with fellow budding actor Jak. I have to say it was quite sad to do our last ever show as I've been in them since yr 8, but I back helping teach drama to years 7-10 so it's not all doom and gloom!

It was also my 18th this year! This is the amazing cake my mum made for me! I didn't do anything massive but it's nice finally being 18 after all my friends have be 18 for months already. 

Instead of a big family holiday, we went for a few days in Brighton and a day out to London (bottom left picture). No, I didn't see any youtubers in Brighton, but we did go to the Brighton pier and met this really cool guy. He didn't talk much.

The 'main event' of my year was definitely being a leader at the camp I've been going to the past few year. It's like a second home and I don't know what I would do if I didn't have these amazing people in my life.

The last picture is what I wore to my 6th form leavers dinner. Finishing school and now being in my gap year, working most of the time is very strange but I'm slowly getting used to it. Most of my friends are now at uni, but now its christmas they're all coming back which is awesome!

What's happened in 2014 for you?

Thanking you,

Naomi

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1. Daughter - Youth (Single) Daughter was brought to my attention by a few of my friends who said here style is something I would listen to and maybe cover. I've loved this single this year and also her whole album is brilliant. Human is also another great single by Daughter.

2. Jamie T - Sheila (single) Another great recommendation from a friend (thank you mr Josh Hucklesby). He also release a long awaited new album this year which has the new single Zombie on it and has another great song on it - Love is only a heartbeat away.

3. James Vincent McMorrow - Higher love (single) Again thank you josh for another fantastic recommendation. This is a fairly old song but he released a new album this year which I've been enjoying. Another fave song of his is We don't eat.

4. Leo James Conroy - My dear (single) I found Mr Conroy on Facebook or soundcloud, not sure which one came first! He has release his first EP which you can buy here. He has such an amazing voice so it would be super duper if you could support this up-and-coming artist! (He is not on the spotify playlist)

5. James Bay - Let it go (single) Fearne Cotton has been raving about James Bay recently, and he also performed as Burberry's live music for their cat walk at London's fashion week. I've been particularly enjoying this song as it's on my work's playlist that they play throughout the theatre so I've been loving hearing this!

6. Charlie Simpson - Long way home (Album) I loved Charlies debut album and I have to say, I think I'm a bigger fan of this new one! If you love folk/indie/acoustic music, this is definitely the one for you. Very different from his Busted days!

7. George Ezra - Wanted on Voyage (Album) Ever since I heard his very fist single Cassy 'O' on BBC introducing I've loved him ever since. I did try and get ticket to see him next year but they sold out so quick *sad face* but this album is probably my top one of the year!

8. Ed Sheeran - X (Album) Everybody loves a bit of Ed Sheeran. I'm a HUGE fan of his with all his old EP's so I was extremely excited for this new album. It's a little different from his previous albums but I still love it all the same.

9. 5 seconds of summer (Album) I love this album. So. Much. It's just the right amount of rock and pop and I love that they write and play all of their own songs, and they're the same age as me! Love them to bits.


Hope you've enjoyed this little insight into my music picks! Make sure you check out the spotify playlist here.


What's been your music picks from 2014?

Thanking you,

Naomi

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1. Blog sale. I have so much stuff and I've been meaning to have a blog sal for a while. I've already started to take pictures so make sure you look out for that!