The King's Speech

So I went and saw The King's Speech last night (again! this time with the fam; am visiting home for a week), and then (accidentally) stayed up until five am watching the Oscars. I knew I should have just gone to bed at a normal time and watched a nice montage of the winners this morning like everyone else, but once I'd found myself reaching three am... well, you know, in for a penny and all that.

Anyway, as you all know (probably. sorry if you don't! just stop reading now. stop.) King's Speech came up well deserving trumps; Best Picture, Actor in Leading Role, Directing and Writing. Hurrah!

The rest of the awards went to very well deserving recipients, too... Natalie Portman, Leading Actress; Inception, Visual Effects; Costume Design, Alice in Wonderland... also, go Toy Story 3! Best animated feature film ever.

The King's Speech definitely stole the show, though; a very deserving winner.

 Aaaaw, Colin!

   

Charity Find: Carpet Bag

So it's been just over two weeks since my last post!

I don't even know how it happened; I just seemed to suddenly lose my blogging drive, all of it! I'm sorry. In my defence, I have been pretty busy these past couple of weeks... In fact, I've been so busy I'm going to do a little list to prove to you just how busy I've been.

And to make myself feel better.

I helped cover Whistles in Bluewater (got put up in a hotel and everything... on valentines; single room, meal for one... tragic), had my friend Kirsty come up and stay, had a brilliant night out in Shoreditch, felt sorry for myself the day after said night in Shoreditch, saw Black Swan, read the rest of Stephen Fry's "Moab is my Washpot", gutted out my entire room, did a ridiculous chocolate binge with my housemate Tom (chocolate cake, nutella, galaxy and fox's chocolate fudge creams...), did some excellent charity shopping and started watching The OC, in its entirety, from the beginning.

And on top of all that, I also managed to fit work in! How do I do it?!

Ok, so I know I could have slipped in a post here and there but, really, haven't felt too bloggy recently. I will get back into the swing of things soon though! Honestly. I can change.

Let me show you my latest charity shop find!

Carpet Bag (£3.50)! He's pretty big, so I'm thinking he'll be my new suitcase-cum-travel bag for when I visit home... I can maybe even wear Carpet Cardi whilst using it!

Or not.

I also found Stephen Fry's "The Liar" for £1 (love that man) and the film "Goodbye Charlie Bright", which we (we being nadia and i) are just about to watch with reduced £2 chocolate cake. Lovely!

Tottenham charity shops, you're alright!

Oh, you'll never be a cover girl.

(Just facing facts: your face isn't right.)

So a couple of days ago I received a very pretty package in the post!






This pretty little thing was from lovely beauty blogger Lauren at laurenstephaniedoll as I'd won her Christmas competition. I'd almost completely forgotten about winning, so it was a lovely surprise to open up the box and find proper make-up and pink smarties (pink!).

Now Lauren is queen of all things make-up, whilst I'm pretty rubbish at anything other than eyeliner (oh yes, i'm a pro at the cat flicks, but don't ask me to do anything else) I'm hoping this lot should get me started on trying out a few new techniques.