My Favorite YouTube Channels

Hi all,

Today I wanted to talk a little about YouTube. I spend a decent amount of time browsing through YouTube, when I'm not feeling great and I just want to relax for a while, but my head hurts too much to read and my attention span won't allow me to dive into one of the shows I'm watching, which you can check out here. I'll most likely be watching YouTube videos. I'm always flitting about from recommended video to recommended video, but I definitely have some channels that I watch consistently and enjoy, so I wanted to share those with you.

• There She Goes

I love thrifting, both going out and doing it myself and watching other people's videos and this channel puts up some of my favorite ones. While the items aren't always my style, I do love the editing and being brought along to the stores, rather than simply an at home haul. 

If you're into thrift or fashion videos, I would definitely recommend this channel.

• Shine on Media

I found this channel through her weekly recaps of Riverdale episodes and I became a quick fan. I love the recaps and opinions, with the inclusion of clips from the show and theories. She also has other content besides TV show recaps, which I also enjoy.

• KKandbabyJ

I watch a few different family vlog channels, but KKandbabyJ is definitely my favorite. Karen and Khoa make such entertaining daily vlogs with their two kids Jackson and Landon, and it's through them that I've found a lot of my other favorite YouTubers.

• Jelian Mercado

Another family channel. I found this one through KKandbabyJ and I love Jelian's channel. She vlogs regularly with her son Mateo and I always enjoy watching.

• Refinery29

This channel has such a range of different content and it's all well made and enjoyable. My personal favorite series of theirs right now is the sweet digs videos.

• Safiya Nygaard

Safiya is one of the few YouTuber's I watch that I instantly click as soon as I see her video posted. She has such a great personality and does a range of different videos, including beauty, fashion and buying things the internet recommends for her. Always a little off beat and doing something strange, I love watching her videos.

• Blogilates

This is my go-to workout channel on YouTube. Cassey posts new videos regularly and they vary in intensity and difficulty level, and since there are so many, I can change up my workout whenever I want and mix and match playlists. 

So, those are the top channels that I've been watching recently. Let me know if you like any of these channels, and comment below with which channels you love. Please share and subscribe if you like this post.

Until next time,

Hannah.

2017 | What I Was Watching

Hi all,

I am a huge fan of TV shows. I can easily spend hours upon hours binge-watching a show, whilst I can't seem to sit down and watch a movie. I'll always pick a good show over a movie because I like seeing the story unfold over seasons and seasons and really get that character development in. 

Because I like shows so much, I'm always on the lookout for something new to watch and so I wind up with a lot of shows on the go at once. 

I wanted to share a little bit of what I was watching in 2017. Not all of these will be 2017 releases, it's just what I've been the most interested in this year.

• Riverdale

I started this show right around when it first came out, but I only made it three episodes into the story before I gave up. It wasn't until months later, after my sister had been watching it, that I decided to give it another shot. I started from the beginning and as soon as I made it past episode three, I regretted never finishing it before. Riverdale quickly became one of my favorite shows and it's definitely my current obsession show.

While season two hasn't been as great as season one, I have high hopes for the second half of the season in January and it's still the show I eagerly wait for each week.

• Pretty Little Liars

2017 saw the final episode of PLL airing and it was bittersweet for me. This is a show that I've been watching for years, I was invested in it and it's never fun to see a show you love ending, but it also just felt like time. For a show that I absolutely loved when it first came out, I started to feel as if it was falling apart the longer it went on. While I did enjoy the show as a whole and I've definitely rewatched it a lot and probably will watch some episodes again in the future. I do think the show ran possibly too long and I was disappointed in the ending. 

I'm including it on this list, simply because for a very long time it was one of my favorite shows, even if ultimately, it ended up frustrating me.

• The Good Place

Similar to Riverdale, this is a show I started watching this year and I loved the first season. It was so funny, with a great cast and interesting storyline. I've been a fan of Kristen Bell for a long time and this show is excellent. But, like Riverdale, the second season has been a little lackluster compared to the first, but it's definitely a show I'm going to keep up with.

• Stranger Things

Season two premiered recently and I finished it in about two days. Who needs sleep, right? The first season was incredible. I loved the characters, the world, the story, everything about it. Now, whilst season two had it's moments and had me rooting for characters who I previously hadn't thought much of. It also felt like a letdown. I was so excited for its return, but like so many other shows, season two was not as good as the first season. 

• Chesapeake Shores

It's cheesy. Oh, so cheesy, but it's also just a really sweet show surrounding a large family full of great characters. It's the kind of show you can just chill out with, and it doesn't have me screaming at the screen or throwing things like other shows have this past year. Also, it's set in an incredibly beautiful town, and who doesn't love to see beautiful small towns?

• Anne with an E

I grew up watching Anne of Green Gables, the version with Megan Follows. I've seen it so many times, so when I found out about this new version, two things crossed my mind. The first was that I was definitely going to watch it. The second, I wondered if it would be able to live up to a version which I loved.

I was pleasantly surprised, that by the second episode I already loved it more. The characters are so well thought out and I'm really enjoying the darker side that they're showing. It's a show that I'm already fully invested in and I just want it to come back already!

• When Calls The Heart

Just like Chesapeake, this show is full of cheesy moments but it's also just a really sweet, romantic story. Set in a small mining town in the early 1900s, this story has some characters who you'll fall in love with and definitely root for. It's not the greatest show in the world, but it's definitely something I've been enjoying watching this past year.

• Iron Fist

I'm a Marvel fan. A big one and I've been watching all of the shows released on Netflix, so of course, when Iron Fist came out, I had to watch it. But, unlike Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. I didn't love this one. 

It has some good moments and even some characters that I liked and rooted for, but Danny wasn't one of them. Honestly, it took me so long to even get around to watching the final two episodes, because by that point I was so underwhelmed by the show. 

• The Defenders

Of all the Marvel shows, this is the one that I was the most excited for. I love a good team-up and having these characters all working together, seemed like it was going to be great. I went in expecting it to be my favorite show but wound up disappointed. The pacing felt really slow and the story lacking. I'm hoping for more in the future from the Marvel shows because they started out so well and with this one and Iron Fist, I've been left disappointed.

• Grey's Anatomy

I'm a bit late to the crowd on this one. I hadn't seen a single episode until 2017 and now I'm playing catch up. I'm currently in season 4 and I'm enjoying it. It's kind of my go-to show when I want to binge right now. Character driven and full of drama, it definitely has me rooting for certain characters... Just not Meredith, who actually annoys me more often than she doesn't.

And that's it... it's not everything I've been watching, but it's a snapshot of the shows that I've either watched all the current episodes of, finished, or am actively watching.

All of these shows I've been watching on streaming services. Either Netflix or NowTV.

Let me know what shows you've been watching in 2017 in the comments, and please share and subscribe if you liked this post.

Until next time,

Hannah.

2017 | Music Stats and Musical Obsessions

Hi all,

I wanted to share with you some of my stats from Spotify this past year, but not only that because although I love a good info-graphic. It doesn't give a full picture of my musical obsessions for the year, because there have been a lot of songs that I've loved, which I found much later in the year, so I didn't get as many plays on them for it to reach the top of the lists.

Stats

Tracks I Love 

(which didn't make it onto teh grahic above)

• Praying by Kesha
• Blackbird Song by Lee DeWyze
• The Revival by The Dear Hunter
• Lost on You by LP
• What About Us by Pink
• Wolves by Selena Gomez
• Bayou by Mountains of the Moon
• Body by Sleeping at Last
• If Only by James Arthur

Not all of these were 2017 releases, but they're some of the tracks I was obsessing over this past year

Let me know in the comments what songs you've been loving in 2017 and please share and subscribe if you like this post.

Hannah

I'm Back!

Wow, so it's been a while. I've kind of been off track will all of my blogs recently and I wanted to get restarted. So, I came on here, completely redesigned the site and then clicked over to posts and noticed that the last thing I wrote, was in 2015! How did that even happen? I knew it had been a while, but it didn't seem like so long ago.

I'm planning on getting back into the swing of things and posting regularly. I've got a few ideas already and I'm going to schedule some posts over the next few days. 

For right now, I don't think I'm going to stick to any specific upload schedule, other than trying to post at least twice a week.

I want this site to be a mix of a lot of different things, like before. I'll be writing about beauty, film, tv, music, fashion and also sharing my eBay listings because over the past few months I've started selling on eBay.

If anyone has specific posts they'd like to see, let me know. The only things I won't be covering here are books and writing because that will be over on my book-related blog The Book Tower. I also won't be discussing my diet and fitness journey because everything related to that will be on my blog A Skinny Fit. 

Everything else will be right here.

I'm working on a post about my favorite tracks of 2017 right now, so keep an eye out for that and please comment, share and subscribe if you like what you see.

Hannah