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  It has been another fun and alcohol filled weekend, this time celebrating the marriage of 2 dear friends. We had lots of fun - meeting new people, catching up with those we haven't seen for a while, eating loads, drinking plenty, and laughing lots! It was by far and away the funniest wedding I've been to, but what do you expect when the bride and groom are both a little bit nuts?!

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It's an ant farm Japanese Flag! It has been a month since the devastating earthquake in Japan. My various feeds have seen posts about buying this product to help the Japanese, go to this gig to raise money. Buying a certain product will contribute money to an organisation sending volunteers etc. I haven't bought anything raising money for Japan. I haven't donated any money as yet. I donated

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The Mr and I have just had a fab, but tiring weekend. We've been up in Yorkshire celebrating my best friend's birthday, with glorious sunshine, ice cream in Sainsbury's, drinking and dancing, and a massive kebab! I have no pictures, because like an idiot I forgot to take my camera. I do have an achey neck and am still shattered from the 4am bedtime on Sunday morning, with a 10am wake up, then all

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I have a lot of make up brushes. One of my least favourite activities is cleaning them all, it takes so long!! Keeping them clean is really really important though, so I just have to suck it up! I do tend to wash them as I go along, as washing 5/6 brushes takes a lot less time than washing 30!! Good make up brushes are important and it is worth paying money for good brushes. They don't have to

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For a little bit anyway!! I handed in the last assignment for my current modules last night. As long as I pass it, I won't have another assignment to write for about 3 months. I do have exams next month but I've got a couple of weeks off work beforehand to use for revision. I feel a lot lighter today!! I'll be back later with some product reviews!

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This week's green stars: The £50 Debenhams voucher that O2 are giving me for signing up for a 12 month Simplicty contract. I've saved myself £15 a month on my phone bill as well! The bargainous MAC order from Debenhams - making use of the 10% off when you bought 2 products online plus the free delivery option for Beauty Card holders made for a bit of a bargain on my new foundation and concealer

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Apologies for the lack of posting - I've been a busy bee trying to prepare for the hideous 3000 word essay I have due in on Wednesday. I've finally finished my first draft, so I've taken a break to say hi! Truth be told, I've started a few posts and not finished them, because although ideas keep popping into my head, I haven't really had the time or energy to do them justice! Today I have

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I'm supposed to be studying but I just wanted to share my love for this!Tall Dresses - Tiered Body Con Dress At Long Tall Sally

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I was catching up on a bit of Pixiwoo last night and started watching a video where they were talking about their best and worst beauty products. They started off talking about their worst MAC eyeshadow, which is apparently Electra, a colour I happen to love. So today my make up involved Electra. Maybe it is because I'm so pale that it works, or maybe its because although I love dark dramatic

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Is the name of the Queen exhibition currently on at the Truman Brewery off Brick Lane in London. I first heard about this when I recieved an email from queenonline.com. As a massive Queen fan I immediately started plotting how to get there, where to stay etc. Fortunately my boyfriend's sister lives in London and we were long overdue a visit, so it enabled us to do everything. The exhibition

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I'm coming a little bit late to this in the blogging world, as it is now 48 hours since the Red Carpet, but hey, I've been mulling it over, looking at different photos to get a good idea from different angles what the dresses look like. So here are my favourites (pictures borrowed from the Independent). Michelle Williams in Chanel Gwyneth Paltrow in Calvin Klein  Cate Blanchett in

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This is a post about the film "Beastly", starring Vanessa Hudgens and Alex Pettyfer. Due for release this summer, it is a loose re-imagining of the tale of Beauty and Beast. I stumbled across this film through the blog Haute Macabre, who were understandably a little bit miffed about it. Watch the trailer. It got me thinking about what the mainstream (and to an extent the alternative) media

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It is almost the end of February and another month has flown by so quickly. Here are my current best and worst of things! The Best:Skirts - skirts absolutely rock and nothing rocks more than a skirt you have made yourself.  My boyfriend, who is warm and fuzzy (in more ways than one!) and keeps me going when I feel like everything is too much.  Stone Sour - oh god I love this band.

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I have never thought of myself as a shopaholic. I don't fit the profile - I mean, I HATE shopping. I don't have an addictive personality, and I do know when to stop. But as I walked out of the cobblers at lunchtime having just handed over £42 of my hard earned pennies to pay for the repairs to the well worn boots and shoes I wear to work everyday (still cheaper than new pairs) I felt this urge

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At the beginning of the year I said one of my aims for 2011 was to make time to put myself together every single day, rather than the usual norm of roll out of bed, shower, clothes, out that had become habitual. Today whilst catching up with my favourite blogs in a brief break from the Forest Sector Reforms of northern India, I read a post about another blog (kind of like a blog within a blog)

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The Best things at the moment: Sweet potato, lentil and spinach curry. It was a bit spicy due to store cupboard russian roulette, but it was ultimately delicious served with brown rice. Yum.  CSI:NY box sets - a great way to spend an evening on my own.  Plymouth Gin. If you have never drunk this, you must get a bottle. It was the original gin of choice of James Bond apparently and to me

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Well, not me! We're going to a wedding in April, so I need a frock obviously!! Being a rather unconventional shape, I find custom made dresses better than shop bought ones. Thankfully I am a bit handy with a sewing machine and am quite adept at adapting patterns to what I want. I absolutely adore Alexander Miller fabrics, and there is a whole new collection. I have chosen this one to make the

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Apologies for the lack of posting - January has not been much to write home about. What with the usual post Christmas empty wallet syndrome (combined with it being a looooong month), quitting smoking and the ever present feeling that my body does not really meet current modern standards, I haven't really felt like posting anything, let alone about make up or clothes. But, January is nearly over,

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I had forgotten how hard this is. Quitting smoking that is. I didn't start smoking properly until I was nearly 20, although I'd dabbled a bit on and off from my 16th birthday (I hadn't ever smoked until the Hamlet Mild at my birthday party) but the real thing started on July 4th 2002. I remember the date because I was quite drunk at my ex mother in law's 60th birthday party. I told my (now ex)

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I bought a couple of nail polishes in Sally's on Monday. A bit naughty but sometimes you need a treat right? Anyway, one of them was a China Glaze Christmas colour, so was in the sale for a bargainous £2.40. Little Drummer Boy: I took it against my dress so you could see the blue - it came up looking quite black in a lot of shots. It is a weird grey/blue/black colour but I absolutely love it,

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I realised I haven't blogged about music lately. Ever really. Time to change that, seeing as music is so key to my life and emotions. I was inspired to write having been transported to a different time whilst listening to Within Temptation's The Silent Force album. I first discovered WT when I used to go clubbing in Plymouth. The club I used to go to had a big projector screen above the

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It's that time of year when people all over the world resolve to be better people, making statements of intent to do drastic things and make dramatic changes, most of which will be out of the window before the end of January. Apparently January 24th is the most depressing day of the year, because it marks the point where our resolutions made with such enthusiasm have fallen well and truly by the

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Finally, I have some time to quickly write about the make over my friend and I had at Plymouth MAC way back at the beginning of December!! It was incredibly busy when we went in, Plymouth was having some kind of Christmas shopping festival so the whole place was packed. Unfortunately for us, one of the staff at MAC had called in sick, so we weren't going to be able to have our makeovers done

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I hope you all celebrated in style last night - I certainly did!! We held a cocktail party at our house, with the OH doing his star turn as mixologist. We saw the New Year in with a glass of bubbly and a play of Auld Lang Syne as performed by Die Toten Hosen. As you can see from the photo, I have a new hair cut! I took the bold decision when I went to my wonderful hairdresser on Wednesday. I

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I know, I know, I still haven't posted the reviews and things I said I was going to. My excuse is that 2 x 1000 word essays got in my way. I should have time this week to sort things out - I'd quite like to get up to date before the beginning of the new year! In sad news, I lost my skull ring in the snow last weekend. It was a little bit too big and my hands shrink when they are cold, and

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