About
As you perhaps may have gathered from the url of my website, my name is Lolita Jayne Scarlet, but you can call me Lola. I was going to make some remark there about my superiority, and how you could refer to me as some form of royalty, but I figured that may be pushing things a little too far, so just Lola is fine. I was born twenty-two years ago, here in the great and mighty upside-down land of Australia (we are definitely on top of the globe, I’m sorry). I’ve spent all my life in Melbourne, and have never left the east coast of mainland Australia – although I intend on correcting that one day.
What I love most about summer is the six week break I get from work, spent camping with my friends and hitting the beaches, other than that, I am really not a fan of summer. What I love most about Autumn is the fact that summer is over so it is rarely too hot, yet the colours I’m surrounded by are warm. What I love most about Winter is everything. I love the cold, I love dark dreary skies. I seem to find my happy space here, and feel calm, and it seems to be the time of year when my mind is most active and I love it. What I love most about spring is all the beautiful flowers that I’m surrounded by, just begging me to take photos of them.
The question is often asked “Why did you start blogging?” so I thought that perhaps I should answer it for you, right here, right now. I started blogging a few years ago on this site known as LiveJournal. It quickly became a friends only journal, as I tended to post my thoughts and dreams and decided I only wanted select people knowing. I still have a friends locked LiveJournal, but as it so happens – I don’t post there a great deal – you’re probably more likely to get information out of me here at my public blog these days. The reason I decided to get a wordpress though, and buy my own hosting etc. is because I wanted to. Really, it’s as simple as that. I wanted to. I had seen a few blogs about that I thought were lovely, and they inspired me. So I decided that that was what I wanted to do: have my own blog where I could post my art, and photography, and writing, and inspiration. Although at first I found it challenging as I had been writing to a (semi) secure group for so long, I was apprehensive about writing to a more public forum. Here I am though, knowing now that the best way to reach people, is by just being myself. That being said, I hope that people like me.
I’m a classroom assistant at a school specifically for children who have Autism. I love the challenge of the job, and the children are adorable and lovely. This being said, it isn’t where I would like to be in terms of work. What I would dearly love to be doing, is working in the Art/Graphic Design industry, and I intend on working toward it where it is at all possible. It is my hope and my goal to start studying it at university next year, and so I am constructing an art folio ready for submissions, and that art folio is titled “Reality Escapes Her”. I initially started using this as my MSN name when I was listening to Shimmer, by Fuel one day. A friend suggested though that it would be a great name for a blog for me as it was very appropriate (so rude!! But also true), and thus it began.
For more mundane interests, I love cherry blossoms, and black roses. My favourite scents are vanilla, apple, strawberry and cinnamon. My favourite foods are ice cream, strawberries, pasta, and I’m relatively certain that there are more. My favourite colour is pink, closely followed by purple. Yes, I adore lolita fashion, but being only a few inches off six foot tall, there is never anything that fits me. I’ve always hated being tall, it’s only recently that I’ve managed to convince myself that being leggy is a good thing. Naturally I’m a blonde, but I cut all my long locks off and dyed them blue-black about three years ago now. I’m slowly struggling to get some length in my hair again, and I’m now a delightful red-brown. There have been many occasions where I seriously considered cutting all my hair off again, but I’ve stayed strong. I like anything pretty, beautiful, and ethereal, yet still have a soft spot for classic goth, it still makes me smile. I have a strong faith, and it has gotten me through many struggles in my life and brought me to where I am now. Which by the way, is typing insanely on a grossly over-crowded train. I hate peak-hour.
