La Merde Chaude!

Clémence Poésy is seriously cool. I'd never really taken mass interest to her before and knew very little about her up until recently apart from the obvious - her par-take in the Chloe fragrance adverts and her roles in two of my all time faves 'In Bruges' and 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' (please, if you are yet to see In Bruges, make it a priority in your life! You will not be disappointed) - It was not until my recent second viewing of In Bruges and her minor appearances within the current season of Gossip Girl that I started taking more of an interest to this actress. French born in a southwestern suburb of the fashion capital, Paris, the girl oozes style so effortlessly. She has a very chill, GAP girl vibe about her, establishing outfits out of basics such as cute blouses and nude shirts, large pashmina's and blazers - however sometimes contradicting her style with large vintage tees over leggings, trilby's and the very MK Olsen straggly, long blonde middle parting, everyone is entitled to change! Plus the chica' got to 'lock lips' (I sound like a 16 year old American plastic) with none other than God of all Gods, Chuck Bass!
...ah, jealousy can be such a fickle thing.

Please someone, remove these boxes of After Eight's from my life?

I don't think I've ever been the owner of SO MANY chocolates in my life! It's the wrath of the Christmas holidays, the left over chocolates. I'm eager to stash them all away for others to have in the 'sharing cupboard' at my student house in Cheltenham but until I head over there for NYE, for the time being, they are all just sat here, in my living room, in my home, staring at me. The first of the two packets of After Eights has pretty much already been completely and utterly dismissed, and I feel ill as of consequence, you'd have thought I would have learnt my lesson due to this sickly bleurgh feeling but it's only a matter of time before I reach for the next. After Eights are my guilty pleasure.
And so's this...

...Umm have/take me now? Top Wax Sheepskin Short Coat I want you to be ON ME.

Also is anyone else mad ready for spring/summer 2011? With all the autumn and winter clothes looking all sad stuffed in the sale racks, immediately loosing their shine, I'm all for the out with the old, in with the new collection. This is the awkward time of year where the majority of your wardrobe is also displayed within the sales racks and yet there is not enough money in the pot due to Christmas presents over - expenditure and not quite enough items in the 'new in' collection to create a brand new, shiny wardrobe. Jog on snow 'coz I'm a sucker for cute spring tea party dresses, bare legs and clogs. brrrr.

"OK! So THIS Year I Am Defo Gonna..."

...OK! but stop before you say anything because you probably won't act upon any of this at all, right? There must be some sort of statistic somewhere proving that gyms are far more busy in January than they are in December. Why? New.Years.Resolutions. Tha's why. I applaud anyone who sticks out their resolution the entire year through, it's usually weight related, or needing to apply more 'me' time, working harder, less sleep ins, more early nights, saving money (ouch, the last is like cutting a student with a very sharp knife). I'm all for goals, striving to achieve, here here. However, when it comes to new years resolutions they've just become this worn out fashion, the whole idea of the 'new years resolution' makes you feel good about having the resolution in the first place before you've even acted upon it. Why? Because you've thought up of a traditional yearly goal therefore it justifies circumstances? AKA 'I can eat more chocolate than usual for the last week of this year because I WILL be giving it up within the new year.' And if the goal isn't attained? 'Oh well, at least the thought was there. At least I had goals.' Indeed at least you had some sort of desire for improvement rather than staying cynical, but from going through the motions of - 1. being under pressure to think up new years resolutions because the current year is nigh 2. narrowing down which nyr's (newyearsresolutions) would be more plausible 3. spending a good week or so being fully aware of what these nyr's of yours actually are therefore building up a vast amount of pressure from contemplating these fast approaching resolutions in your final week of freedom - you are going to be dreading/hating them by the time it actually comes to act upon them, so much so you'll no doubt, within a few days of try outs, admit defeat and cry 'fuck it. gimmie my walkers, not my nikes.' ...And fair play to you, no one blames you, because we'll all be doing/saying the same.
IF you want to change something about yourself, and I'm talking mass determination, do it now, don't wait for the nyr trend and excuse, 'cos the curse of the no follow through will probs catch you up.

I WANT TO LICK YOUR FACE...

...or I at least want the dress I'm modeling for NYE to look divine so someone wants to lick MINE.
NYE is always tricky business, you're never guaranteed to get the venue or the midnight kiss just right but the one thing you can get correct is the outfit - "The venue was shit, the midnight kiss didn't happen but at least I know I looked F.I.T. in my 3.1. Phillip Lim sequined silk chiffon jumpsuit, capiche?". NYE outfits are a personal fave of mine, it's one of the only opportunities within the year where you can go total overboard with the sequins and glitter and it isn't too much of a crime, sequins are a complete guilty pleasure of mine so any excuse to go over board I'm there. Despite the a/w trends leading up to the new year I've never seen the choice of your NYE outfit over powered by what's on trend, instead I've always believed it's more about the 'traditional' and 'classy' looks entwined with the 'wild' and the 'party'.

Here are some of my wardrobe cravings for the 31st of December 2010...

O & O Mesh Overlay Maxi Dress by Urban Outfitters

Iconic Heavy Beaded Dress as seen on darling Whitney Port herself, by Topshop

Sequined Silk Dress by 3.1. Philip Lim

Luna washed silk blend dress by Elizabeth and James

Oh My! It's A Christmas Miracle!

You heard absolutely no complaints from mwah about Brandon going solo, so long the god send was kept on the music scene one way or another - solo or in a band - i didn't mind, but it's nice to hear 'em back altogether. It has to be said, Flowers is looking particularly beautiful in this latest vid, someone who you didn't think could possibly get more gorgeous just bloody well did, didn't he? Merry Christmas xxx

The Curse of the Christmas illness

*sniffles* oh my life, as if last Christmas I was blessed with the ranking top 10 most attractive diseases of them all, mumps, ten days bed bound, this Christmas as from Friday the 17th of December has also been spent in bed. The throat is red raw from coughing and I've been sneezing so much that you would question as to whether I am cursed with the plague (atishoo atishoo we all fall down etc). To top things off, Mother is spending her entire Wednesday in the hospital next week and Faaaather has started sneezing almost as much as I, although I am still reigning champion. I repeat...oh my life! The humour and commotion of my fam sincerely have kept me soldiering on, troopers. Earlier on I requested for some paracetamol from my father and he regretfully informed me that there was mass lack of in the medicine cabinet and instead offered me a dairy milk chocolate bar as a substitute pick me up to compensate. thankstimesheaps Father, ten + parenting points awarded to you.

Night Owl

It's 12:56am and there's absolutely no chance of me falling asleep anytime soon. However there are 57 people available on my facebook chat at this moment in time so I'm clearly not alone when it comes to suffering from insomnia. Soon enough I'll be beginning the third chapter to Russell Brands second autobiography (which, by the way, is absofreakinhilarious and I recommend the read hugely - yes only two chapters have been read, yet I have all the faith in the world that the rest will be just as fabulous as the first couple) to tire the eyes out.

This evening my wonderful friend and harry potter nut (we have the obsession in common) and I were discussing all things Isle of Wight festival. The head-liners they have gathered for 2010 are incred; Kasabian, Foo Fighters and Kings of Leon. Yes they may have stolen V festivals 2010 headline acts whom I enjoyed at the Chelmsford site (actually, shamefully, Kings of Leon were missed for David Guetta on the saturday night - having already seen the band perform four times previously, the fourth time at Hyde Park late June brought me to the decision to give Guetta a go, excitement) but KOL and Kasabian are acts worth seeing again and again. Besides, i was slightly too intoxicated to remember the entire Kasabian set so seeing them again will probably benefit my mind. I saw Dave Grohl perform with his other band Eagles of Death Metal at their secret gig they hosted at Reading 09 and let me tell you Grohl is nothing short of a hero, so foo fighters being a success is a given, right? I'll let you know...

p.s. MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Sound Crush

I first heard this beautiful masterpiece around a month ago and this week (rightly so) Fearne Cotton has chosen it as her record of the week on her radio 1 show. It's such a soothing, chilled record and I adore the simpleness of the chords entwined with the beat, being a bit of pianist myself I'm a sucker for any record that involves piano...

...talking of piano the music that accompanies the advert of this channel four production is simply dreaaaaamy:

Just a p.s.

I have displayed projects of work for my 'Music and Media management' degree at UOG through blogs. I highly encourage you to take a browse -

Diary entry of creativity

The class were set a task to create a diary based on an event we attended and the creative impact of this event. I based my diary entries on my recent trip to London...

http://creativediaryentry.blogspot.com/

Music Video Project

As a project for a particular module within our degree we were to create and film a music video. I kept up to date with the details and research via this blog...

http://bd-musicvideoproject.blogspot.com/

xoxo

Dear Santa...

...no gross uggs please. only THESE:

(nomnomnom MASSSS love for the images incl in this post) Despite the spring/summer 2011 trends already available for preview my love for the shearling boots, aviator jackets and fair isle jumpers is not quite dead. Infact the Burberry heeled shearling boots are at the top of my wish list, with the topshop £90 knock offs at the top of 'these will be acceptable alternatives' list. As for the aviator jacket, as darling as it is, as the owner of an already darling leather J i'd rather topo (topshop - get used to the abbreviations) sold a shearling shawl to wrap around the neckline and the aviator lovers who are already in possession of a perfectly decent leather jacket have their problems sold. suggestion.com?I've always had a massive grudge against uggs and I have always refused to slip a pair onto my size fives. Surely you want your feet to look FIT and not Fat, no? Yes the inside of them may be like a cosy teddy bear - but Burberry have managed to create a beauty with the inside just as cosy. And as for the stella heel - no pain no gain right?