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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I hope all is good with you all! I whole-heartedly apologise for just how late this is! Life has been insane lately where education is concerned, what with Uni interviews and coursework deadlines slowly creeping up on me! Thankfully, today is quite an uneventful Friday right now, so I thought I would finally share my rather cosmetic-heavy favourites from last month!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So as I mentioned, last month was rather heavy on cosmetic loving, and here were those! First on the left there is a </span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Models Own nail polish</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, in the shade </span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">'Pink Veneer'</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. It was part of a four-piece set I received for Christmas, and I recently switched up my emerald nails to ones of this colour, so they're looking very pretty in pink right now! The quality is outstanding, I've had "are they your real nails?" recently, but it's just said polish that has a wonderful gel effect! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Next to that is the first Lush product I've ever owned! I actually won it through a blog competition, from the lovely Gill over at gillmcaughlin.blogspot.com, so I was thrilled to finally be able to try a Lush product, and for free at that! It was part of the cosmetic chain's Christmas range, the </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">'Santa's Lip Scrub'</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. It is cola flavoured and I happen to be a huge lover of the smell! The lip scrub works wonders on my lips, ironing over the parts that need it, whilst tasting lovely and looking cute, with little edible hearts in there too! Brilliant stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Next to that was a purchase I recently made as it was very much needed! This was a </span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Seventeen Brow Sculpting Pencil in Natural Brown</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, just </span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">£2.89</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">from </span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Boots</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">! I was rather apprehensive at first because this seemed WAY too cheap to be true, but it was a rather decent result! I was in dire need of a new brow pencil as the current one I use is too dark, so this one will definitely do, especially as it includes a brush too!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ooh so next to that is a Lush product I forked out for myself very recently! It is the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">'Celestial Facial Moisturiser'</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> that did NOT come cheap at </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">£12.50</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, but I was in desperate need for a new moisturiser so I thought I'd test it out! Anyway, it became another Lush product that I'm already loving, it provides an amazing result on my lacklustre skin! I am definitely getting the hype behind Lush.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lastly, my lipstick addiction is going absolutely nowhere as I managed to purchase ANOTHER one! This time back to trusty Rimmel again, my third purchase from them. This time it's the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">'Starry Eyed' shade (no.128)</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, just </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">£4.99</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> from </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Boots</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">! A wonderful brown/purple colour, definitely blowing the other recent lipstick purchases out the water. In LOVE with this colour and the quality!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So guys I really hope you enjoyed my favourites, and apologies this was so late! I have two more posts planned to come soon, so watch out for those! Be sure to link me your own favourites in the comments! Oh and brownie points if you realised that I've switched up the font a bit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Apologies for the delay in posting this week, mock week happened only to find out I had another one this week to revise for as well! Couple that with an erratic burst of motivation to get healthier and you have one busy individual. Apologies that this isn't the most spectacular blog post to come back with, but right now this is what I feel like talking about, so this will be a bit more of a discussion post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, MOVIES! I have never particular classed myself as a film lover, music is usually my forte. With films I get some that I absolutely love and some where I'm left feeling dissatisfied. Sometimes the thing about films is that I feel like they can be a bit too long, my attention span won't survive unless the movie is phenomenal. This weekend I saw a film I wasn't expecting to like but absolutely loved, and one I was expecting to adore but it turned out to be disappointing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The former film in question was 'The Theory of Everything', which I went to see in the cinema on Saturday. I actually adore the entire atmosphere of the cinema, complete with popcorn and all, so I really should go more often. Anyway, this was one of the rare times I did decide to go and all I knew about the film is that it was a Stephen Hawking biopic. I scraped a C at GCSE Science, and that's pretty much all my knowledge on the matter. I knew Stephen Hawking was a bit of a legend in his field, but nothing about him being a cosmologist or having such adoration for space and time. In a way that was educational, but my goodness the equations he was scribbling on the board didn't half look difficult! Anyway, this film completely blew my mind in terms of expectation. Eddie Redmayne whom I knew from Les Mis absolutely knocks his role out of the park, almost like he actually IS the young Stephen, from the mannerisms to the speech impediments deteriorating. His female co-star also played a fascinating role as Stephen's wife Jane, and watching her put up with all the difficulties was so admirable. The fact that this is actually a true story had me really thinking about how insane it all was. I would honestly recommend it so much though, a truly gripping tale and Redmayne needs to absolutely sweep the Oscars. However, when it got to a poignant, emotional scene in the film, some boys ran in and shouted! Thanks lads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The latter film in question was 'Saturday Night Fever'. Last Saturday was quite the film day it seems, me and my brother decided to scour Sky Movies for something to watch and this film has ALWAYS been on my to-watch list. 'Grease' is my favourite musical of all time and I generally love musical films, so a fellow film once again featuring John Travolta was something I was definitely interested in. However, this film was SO oddly paced, one minute you'd have a car smashing into a window, then a romantic interaction, then a fight, then more romance, it was just plain confusing! There was no proper narrative structure. There was also a bit too much profanity which really took away the substance of the dialogue, I felt like I simply didn't care for these characters. However, Travolta does shine on the dance floor as Tony Romero, that was a real highlight seeing the dance battles go on, even if there were so many of them! The explosive legendary disco soundtrack predominantly featuring the BeeGees is absolutely iconic though, so I suggest the soundtrack rather than the movie, honestly it's quite bizarre. The scene near the end which I won't spoil was quite a moment though, and when I finally felt SOMETHING for the characters, there was only about a five minute duration left. I guess Tony Romero's message of properly following his dreams though was something to take out of it. The plot of Grease may be thin but at least it was reasonably paced and the two leads had fizzling chemistry and the cliques were interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So yes I have found myself getting more into movies as of late! Are any of you guys a bit of a film buff? If so what have you seen recently, I'd love to know any recommendations. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144031022922077915noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749632088072484961.post-69007916551682899612015-01-19T04:52:00.005-08:002015-01-19T04:53:32.134-08:00Birthday Celebrations in Kettering<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I hope all is good. I'm currently off school for the week to revise for my mock exams that take place later on in the week (so much studying going on right now...!), so before I get to that, I thought I might as well write my blogpost for the week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My mum turned 48 on Friday! She got so much cool stuff, including a Michael Korr's watch from my dad! Lucky for me too as I get her old watch! We celebrated in (greasy) style as we got a gorgeous Chinese takeaway. It's safe to say all New Years healthy eating resolutions are already out the window!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anyway, on the Saturday I had the annoying dilemma of two parties clashing! There was my colleague Becca's 18th birthday house party or my mum's friend's 40th. We opted for the latter as it doubled up as celebrating my mum's own birthday and we could make a weekend of it as it was in Kettering, so hotel was booked too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">All in all it was such a fantastic night! Some of the DJ's selections were a bit dodgy but we were all having so much fun! Me and my brother even busted out a 'Gangnam Style' routine despite knowing about 5% of the attendees there! I guess you just don't care when you're that hyper. Of course there was a Harvester pre-party and probably a far too loud round of Heads Up! too. It's a pleasure getting to spend time with loved ones. There are some great pictures that were taken, including my dad with insanely large beer jug! So expect some cool present pics, hotel pics and of course, food ones too!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This weekend was one of the best in ages! On Saturday I went to a friend Xena's house party, followed by one of my best friends Christian's 18th party on the Sunday at Laserforce! They were both so much fun, the former was full of hilarious dancing, and for the latter I unleashed my inner ten year old boy and ran around to play a real life laser game with my best friends! You also got free ice cream and cake, result! I got a few moments captured, two from the party on Saturday with Eleanor, Lauren and Kyla and a selfie prior to the one on Sunday. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">These are the more musical items I've been loving this month! Firstly I purchased the </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">black shirt</span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> with the </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Oasis logo</span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> for around </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">£5.45</span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> on </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">eBay</span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">! It may have been a mens shirt... Oh well, who cares when you love the band on the top! Another item to add to my hideously monochrome wardrobe as it is, gotta love it! Speaking of Oasis, I received their debut album 'Definitely Maybe' on vinyl for Christmas and it's such a top record, featuring my favourite ever song by them, 'Live Forever'. Also as a Christmas present, I received also debut album 'Aquarius' by Tinashe, and her voice is HEAVENLY, probably my favourite R&B girl right now. Lastly I love geeky music trivia and the NOW! series, so I purchased the </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Now That's What I Call Music book</span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> for </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">£5.00</span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> in </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sainsbury's</span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> which is brilliant value for a hardback! The detail is a bit minimal but still full of so much nostalgia and trivia!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I hope you guys have had a brilliant Christmas and sent off the New Year in style. Last year I was off to a party for New Years Eve but this year my plans are absolutely zilch so a family night in with trivial pursuit was definitely on the cards! Plus I worked 9am-5.30pm today so an early night was needed (this did not happen).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My very first entry into the jar was 'Sam's New Years Party (31.12.13/01.01.14)'. One of my best friends Sam decided to step up and host a new years house party, and to date that was the best new years ever! I remember the soundtrack mostly being Beyonce - her album had only just been dropped on us a few weeks prior! It was so cute when the night ended with everybody there hugging and wishing each other a happy new year. The month of January mainly consisted of family birthdays, what with my mum's 47th on the 16th and great grandma's 92nd on the 24th, both celebrated by lovely meals out I would think! I also see an entry that simply states BUDDIES for January too, which I believe was due to always hating the restaurant but having a turnaround for it this year! I fell in love with the retro decor and music. When you serve mac and cheese and play the Beatles, it was hard to hate it. The only other entries were school related (fun!) - firstly 'Sixth form volunteering with Deborah' which was meant to be a boring old volunteering session, only made fun by then new friend Deborah being fantastic company and thus resulting in a very fun time. Then, it was 'study leave', I must have been SO sick of school by that point that study leave for mocks was practically a godsend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February started off with a really insightful trip with my media class to the British Film Institute. Since our exam prep was all about British film, what better place to visit? Going to London was a brilliant substitute for dull schoolwork, and getting to watch artistic films and learn about the history was really interesting as a media student. The next piece of paper is so cute haha, it simply says 'Reunited with Emma!!' My best friend had decided to swap to college instead of going to sixth form, and this was the first time she came back in to visit us I believe! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ooh the next thing in there was one of the most defining events of my year - NCS! The residential phase came first in Shropshire, and we left on valentines day. The aim of National Citizen Service is to partake in a volunteering programme in the community that you come up with yourself in a team, but firstly you had to spend time bonding with your team. This residential phase was so out of my comfort zone - there were activities such as archery and assault courses but doing activities involving heights such as rock climbing or caving which I was worried about due to claustrophobia really made me push myself and I felt so accomplished afterwards, as well as making tons of new friends in my team. The residential went so quickly it was unreal, and it was soon onto the college phase a few days later, where we'd have to come up with the actual idea. This involved visits from various organisations and more logical team building activities, as well as pitching. It was clear to see that others were more passionate about other things, so our idea was to split into two sub-groups, one would create a video raising awareness for autism, and my sub-group would be helping out in a care home to tackle the issue of isolation with the elderly. Next month would see us make our ideas a reality. After all these NCS events finished this month, one of my best friends Kyla turned 17 and to celebrate this we went to T.G.I Friday's and since I'd only been surrounded by my NCS group for two weeks, it was lovely getting to see my own friendship group again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">May was the month when it was exam central and when I was particularly obsessed with the British YouTubers! Firstly however the memory put in was 'Family BBQ' - so it's clear to see my family get into the summer spirit far too early, that or it reflects how sporadic British weather is. A few days later, it was time for another special family birthday as my grandma turned 75! I believe we celebrated this in the form of a Harvester, which is always fab. Oh gosh, the day after I counted a memory as 'Fab purchase at Shoezone'!! Woooow, this was probably during my 'obsessed with DMs' stage, when I found fake ones that looked nice dead cheap. Okay then the YouTuber thing was definitely evident, as this month both 'Alfie Deyes followed me on twitter!!' and 'Tanya Burr tweeted me!!' both score a memory, but to be honest they were rather exciting at the time! As per usual there are more meal-related memories such as 'Fun Bella Italia/McDonalds trip' as well as more fun trips with friends, such as 'fun catch-up with Emma at the park' where I saw her amazing blue hair in person for the first time, and then 'cinema trip - seeing 'Bad Neighbours' with Christian & Kyla'. I remember this being the day before I had a media exam, oops priorities. It was a rather crude film with some cringe moments, but balanced out with a lot of humorous bits too! Speaking of exams though, on the 23rd there is 'END OF EXAMS!!!' so this was quite the highlight this month, as I had completed my AS Level exams which were hugely stressful at the time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So the month starts off in true me fashion, with the first memory as 'Spontaneous McDonalds trip!', wow this really highlights how often and how much I love eating out! This is soon followed by 'fun day with Christian' which I believe was us walking around our estate just chatting for hours, those kind of days are so lovely. June of course marks father's day and this was celebrated by Frankie & Benny's! Oh dear more examples of meals, but at least there was an excuse this time!! Next up it says 'Uni trip!!' which on paper sounds SO boring but following the Uni trip in question, I left feeling so motivated for my future and it felt so fantastic at the time, like I finally knew that I would enjoy my course and what the future would hold. School-wise, apparently I loved the 'ICT + media day' where we were put in groups and got to make our own trailer and I don't remember enjoying it that much at the time but hey, I must have been on a high from the Uni trip. I also apparently had the 'BEST sociology lesson EVER with Sam!!' which leaves me with mixed emotions as in year 13 our classes changed so me and Sam no longer have these epic lessons anymore! Finally, there was 'Going to London to visit family' which was particularly special because a) London and b) because we hardly ever get to visit them (my great nan and her son) so it was wonderful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So July was a fairly packed month! The first day of the month was rather emotional but fun as me and my best friend Emma went to the cinema to see <i>The Fault In Our Stars</i>! Upon this initial viewing I adored the film, but I luckily managed to restrain myself from crying, even if I was dying inside! This was closely followed by the far more productive work experience over the next two days, where I spent my days learning all about what goes on in the media departments at the Argos and Homebase head office. This was so rewarding and fun, and in fact inspired me to create this very blog after one of the girls who I spoke to there was a blogger herself! The memory for the third is SO cute - 'Started my blog and loads of positive feedback!' - thanks to you guys! Two days later was followed by 'First proper Nandos' haha - by proper I mean that I went two years prior but all I ate was garlic bread! So I delved right into their butterfly chicken and was glad that Nandos lived up to how much everyone bigs it up! Later on that day was a local event called Walk In the Park with my friends Christian, Emma and Kyla where you listen to live bands and eat and it was an all night thing, it was such a great catch-up and we all had a brilliant time. Oh my gosh haha, a few days later I had 'Business day with Sam, Hayden & Sam' which also on paper sounds like the most boring thing ever, but I guess I liked it so much at the time because we basically just had a laugh the whole time instead! I also wrote down 'Social Sciences fair' oh gosh haha, me and my friend Christian had a laugh though all day, and it was when my friends were obsessed with the Kim Kardashian app! Lastly, there was a festival that my school hosted with acts currently there or alumni performing for us, and it was surprising just how talented people were! Ooh the best moment came on the 18th, the 'SUMMER HOLS!!'. Need I even explain? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Next up was supporting my brother in his futsal tournament! It was actually quite fun, and amusing to see how much the boys in one of the other teams kept showing off! Apparently an all-nighter with my brother was also worth a mention too. A couple more family days followed, what with 'YUM curry at the Grange Inn' and 'Fun in Kettering - the wimpy and bowling!' being written down. As I said before, we do love our meals out my family! Especially with bowling chucked into the equation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">God knows WHY I put this in there, but it was back to school on the 3rd for my first day of year 13. I guess we must have been eased in gently! It was back at school working hard, including analysing the Fault In Our Stars in media, so how fitting that I went to go and see the film again in the cinema a couple of days later! I wasn't as impressed the second time round as now I knew what happened, I began picking faults in it. Oh well, something far more enjoyable was a couple of days later. It was my dad's 40th on the 15th of September so a couple of days prior, we all went to my hometown Watford and spent a huge family day there having a barbecue and everything. My dad also received a thrill drive as a present, so at the end of the month we had quite the lads day out, with my dad doing his thrill drive at Silverstone, followed by the QPR match in the same day! Finally, blogging-wise I wrote down 'Sent free stuff for blogging!!' so yes that was unashamedly the first time I had been sent something by a PR company, which felt so rewarding in terms of progress at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Oh good old festive December, I miss you already. Of course I spent the entire month capturing the run up Christmas through Blogmas! However, there were a few certain days I did write down. Firstly, Christmas jumper day! Yes I am a sad person who got excited at the thought of wearing my Christmas jumper! However, it wasn't just that, the day on the whole was so cute with my friends. Around a week later, the Christmas holidays arrived and I was delighted to finally be getting some well deserved lie-ins after being at school every week day and then working all weekend! Of course lets not forget CHRISTMAS itself! What an incredible day as it always is, sharing the magic with my closest ones. Boxing day was also good too, as we went down to the pub and it was karaoke night, always a guaranteed laugh! The year was toasted off spectacularly last night as a family, with a huge match of trivial pursuit and a kebab! Not the best idea at work today, but luckily I managed to recover from the kebab and lack of sleep!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We woke up early of course and got straight into the usual present opening ritual with the Christmas music channels in the background. I got a range of wonderful gifts, from headphones to vinyl to cosmetics, photos to come in a bit! Even the cat joined in, bless her with her kicking around her little treat ball! We actually tried to get through all the presents at more of a slow pace, yet no matter how slow you go, it's always over in a heartbeat! So yes I was spoilt rotten and very much enjoyed all my wonderful gifts!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Now was time to get ready to go to my grandma's for lunch! My 'Ho Ho Ho' Christmas jumper was whipped out, with New Look dogtooth leggings and brand new converse and 'Jade' necklace to accompany it, sorted. It was of course the usual stuff you'd expect at Christmas dinner, turkey, pigs in blankets... the whole lot! The food was lovely. Next was straight to the front room for one of my annual festive faves - Top of the Pops! There were some fab performances from the likes of Ed Sheeran, George Ezra and Take That, with the closure of Ben Haenow's Christmas number one. The usual Queen's speech was put on next, but I found myself actually being quite engaged with it this year?! Obvs becoming a granny before my years. But yes a wonderful lunch with grandma and great grandma!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">YES okay this isn't actually a Christmas film per se, but like a whole number of loosely-tied tracks counted as Christmas songs, I count this due to it's festive scenes woven in amongst the madness! Some people will absolutely cringe at the entire concept and will find the accompanying soundtrack barely audible, but for me it's a total guilty pleasure! The Christmas song they sing ('Christmas Don't Be Late' I believe it's called) is utterly infectious and charming, and the other Christmas related scenes are so joyous as well, I love watching this at Christmas time! Sadly the sequels lacked the same magic as this first one.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I can remember the first time I ever watched this, at my nan and granddad's house with them quite a few years ago. I remember being completely blown away at the time by how magical it all felt! A really poignant part of the film was the bell and how only those who truly believed in the whole North Pole/Santa/Elves would hear it. I remember my nan and grandad giving me and my brother real-life versions of this bell and thinking it was the best thing ever! Once again, so much Christmas magic that really gets me in the spirit!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144031022922077915noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749632088072484961.post-50220733343292433342014-12-19T07:57:00.003-08:002014-12-19T07:57:56.338-08:00Blogmas Day #19: Christmas Holidays!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I hope you're all good! I'm feeling absolutely fantastic now as it's the Christmas holidays, meaning it's two weeks off school! It's so weird that it was my last Christmas at school though, as next year I'll be at Uni! Speaking of Uni, one great thing today was finding out that I'd got a Uni offer, meaning I've got an offer and four interviews for my other ones, as it's a journalism course. So yes that was a brilliant thing to find out!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Of course, the last day of school is a bit of a doss. It was lovely and Christmassy though, the usual bog standard Friday assembly was enhanced a bit by Christmas music. Sociology was then spent with unhealthy snacks and MULTIPLE games of the APP Heads Up! and it was so much fun, I of course had to do the music one each time, although the Christmas category was thrown in too!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A double free next was a godsend, and this is usually our weekly road trip to McDonalds which is always fab. Then extended project was spent watching Tracy Beaker, such a productive day! The last part of the day was a Christmas quiz between all the forms in year thirteen, and I seemed to know that Bob the Builder was Christmas number one in 2000, yet didn't know the names of the reindeer, oops. It was a lovely end to the day, especially when accompanied by so much Christmas chocolate!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Right now it's lovely just being able to chill-out watching the Christmas music channels and blogging, whilst of course donning my Christmas jumper again! I definitely feel like spending my wages on a takeaway tonight (yes, they already are going on food, oops) and then relaxing in front of the likes of Gogglebox and Eastenders. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Unfortunately tomorrow will not be a lie-in as the weekend is just work work work right now, but with two weeks off, I will be reunited with lie-ins again thank goodness, it's been too long! My grandma and great grandma come home from Spain tomorrow though which is so exciting, and we're going out for a Christmassy meal with my nan and grandad on Monday so the next few days will be very family orientated! Work usually features Christmas music on repeat and Christmas in retail is of course a NIGHTMARE so I will be swept off my feet! So excited for next Thursday, though and in the meantime I'll be catching up on my sleep!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Today I thought I'd set myself the challenge of finding some rather Christmassy items/gift-sets that were appropriate to give to someone you care for on the big day. However, I thought I'd go one step further and instead find ten items that all came to no more than £10!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. <i>John Lewis Monty & Mabel: Monty's Christmas Book</i> - £8.99 (John Lewis)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144031022922077915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749632088072484961.post-10637942673968597142014-12-14T13:29:00.002-08:002014-12-14T13:42:03.615-08:00Blogmas Day #14: Christmas Traditions <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, today I've been at work, thus not had much time to prep a thorough post for Blogmas. Therefore, I thought I'd write one that's short but sweet about my annual Christmas traditions including the countdown to Christmas too of course!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. The <b>X Factor UK</b> usually signals the countdown until Christmas as it begins in late August and takes us all the way up to December. It's never too early to start counting down! The final is tonight, and it's been a yearly tradition ever since I began watching in 2005 as a lil' eight year old, and Shayne Ward won. Still the day when you'd see the excitement of the winners single being produced onto CD!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2. Getting an <b>advent calendar</b> of course! This is an easy way to countdown the days until Christmas. Daily chocolate? Count me in!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3. Blasting out <b>Christmas tunes</b>. Whether this be on the NOW Christmas compilation, music channels or on the radio. Working in retail as of this year has made them even more omnipresent than usual!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">4. Getting out the <b>Christmas jumpers</b>. Yes, it was Christmas jumper day a mere two days ago, but of course it will be worn again on Christmas day!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">5. <b>Family time</b>. Not only with the ones I live with, but with other family members that come up especially. Such a wonderful day! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">6. <b>THE TV.</b> The annual programmes I look forward to are the yearly Eastenders episode which pulls the dramatic storylines out of the bag. The yearly return of Top of the Pops is also very much appreciated by this music lover! The Queen's speech is also a must for my grandma, haha!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">7. The <b>FOOD</b>. I'm one of the most fussy eaters known to man, but even I can't resist a bit of pigs in blankets. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">8. The <b>pulling of crackers</b>! I love how we all wear the crowns, strangely anticipate what they will contain (although usually tweezers!) and cringe at the corny jokes! Only at Christmas!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">9. The <b>thought that counts</b>. Opening all of our gifts that we've bought for each other is so wonderful, and seeing how much thought has been put in by everyone in the attempt to bring happiness is incredible.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">10. Rounding it off with a <b>Christmas film</b>. No doubt I'll finally get to see Frozen this year!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Firstly, this is very early for one of my Blogmas posts! Usually I am working on the weekends, but I got up at the usual time of 8am and felt SO ill and definitely not up to the job today, so it was straight back to bed for some well-needed rest. I'm feeling slightly better now so it's a case of eating some soup whilst getting this post ready for you guys, then back to work all recuperated tomorrow! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So as you may know it was Christmas jumper day across the world yesterday in aid of Save the Children. We were encouraged as a sixth form yesterday to donate a £1 and wear a Christmas jumper to school, so of course I got involved, especially as I actually quite like my Christmas jumper! Yesterday was full of fun snaps with my friends so I will share those with you guys of course!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, in the past I have seen these challenges that people set themselves, like finding 'x' items for a certain budget for example. I decided because I haven't actually decorated my room Christmassy (unlike the rest of the house, more on that to come!), that I'd set myself the mini challenge of finding five Christmas items in my room. So, without further ado...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The first thing I came across was of course my advent calendar! You are never too old for advent calendars okay. This one features the cute Boofle toys and it's always a wonderful tradition to be able to count down until the big day in two special ways - blogging, and chocolate! Quite the combination.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The next find was this! I'm always convinced that I own just the one candle, but I totally forgot about this festive one! I may not actually LIKE Christmas pudding, but in cartoon form it is very aesthetically pleasing, thus makes quite a funky candle for this time of year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lastly, I came across this on my desk. I am a HUGE love hearts fiend, and received this tube full of them. Obviously I haven't quite managed the task of preserving them for a year, in fact quite the opposite as I'm pretty sure I scoffed them all on Christmas day last year! No, I thought the tube was so pretty that I kept it as storage for small items such as nail polishes. Gorgeous colour palette, I love baby blue! You go Love Hearts tube designer team.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So yes, this was a lot of fun to put together! A little short but sweet Blogmas idea. I really hope you guys are enjoying this, do you have quite a lot of festive items in your own rooms?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>So yes Argos is great for jewellery, gadgets, make-up, games... and pretty much everything! It was so much fun re-capturing my old Christmas tradition.</i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144031022922077915noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749632088072484961.post-56527990550795615232014-12-08T08:12:00.004-08:002014-12-08T08:12:31.569-08:00Blogmas Day #8: Underneath the Tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, the reason BEHIND this title is because I came home from school as usual, and noticed THESE underneath the tree! No matter how old I get, it's always so exciting seeing presents appear underneath the tree! Right now it has got me into such a Christmassy mood, in fact Mariah's 'All I Want For Christmas' has just got a spin, and the lights on the tree have been switched right on!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What a coincidence that my nails manage to coincide with the wrapping paper and sparkly tag! But yes the appearance of the presents means that the big day is edging ever closer, and has reminded me that I totally need to finish off my Christmas shopping, oops! Despite being the world's worst present wrapper, I can't wait to wrap and tag all my gifts for others and be able to put them under the tree, knowing that in a couple of weeks I'll get to see their reactions!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Apologies that this Blogmas post has been uploaded so late today, I was working from 10-7, then got home, had dinner, watched X Factor and then the I'm a Celeb final so I've only just got a chance to sit down and do it uninterrupted! But yes, as a music lover, how could I NOT feature a Christmas songs post as part of Blogmas? Despite working in retail meaning that Christmas songs are even more omnipresent this time of year, the magic of them still hasn't waned on me at all! So, here are my top 5 Christmas songs (along with some honourable mentions)...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Quite predictably for me, John Lennon has stormed to number one as my favourite ever Christmas song! As a HUGE fan of The Beatles, and him in particular, I am a tad bit biased I guess, but this is a truly wonderful song. His vocals are gripping here, and Yoko's take on the chorus, backed by the choir, is rather beautiful. Lyrically this is stunning and so real as they are conveying their message of peace in song, as well as adding the element of New Year as well. The track just makes you stop and think, and is full of so much hope.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This track, and it's accompanying video in particular, is absolutely unforgettable. The song by the man with the big white hair, sax and kids is always a sonic and visual treat. Okay the economy would be corrupt and the magic would be gone if it actually WAS Christmas everyday, but the pure ENERGY of this song is so euphoric and infectious, and gets me right into the Christmas spirit year after year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Back to more beautiful efforts again, now. In the past I have had spells of getting sick of this, as it's definitely one of the most hammered tracks at this time of year, but right now our relationship is good. The entire effort is so charming, what with both points of view being told and the accompanying instrumentation. Truly magical.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Whilst not the most uplifting tale ("this year, to save me from tears"), I think any Wham! output will always be heralded for their contribution to British music. I truly love George Michael's vocals, and he of course knocks it out of the park with this too. A track that's a mid-tempo tale with very festive production, thus a perfect chill out Christmas track.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Noddy Holder's charismatic vocals are unmistakable, and elevate this track into all kinds of levels of fun. This track emulates the joys and warmth of Christmas, particularly reflected in the line "So here it is merry Christmas, everybody's having fun". Therefore, it's always a treat to listen to, and instantly lifts the mood.</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas is You</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Elton John - Step Into Christmas</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Boney M - Mary's Boy Child</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jona Lewrie - Stop the Cavalry </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">East 17 - Stay Another Day</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Leona Lewis - One More Sleep</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree</span></li>
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