I craft therefore I am

I am ill. I dont like being ill. I cant even keep soup down. Blegh. But on the bright side, at least its this week and not next week. Hopefully I`ll be freshfaced and rosy by next week

I will finish this Xmas wrap this week. Mainly because I want to start one for me...

Have had some time online today which is unusual, so checked out a few websites that are new to me.

Am loving www.forever21.com, wish it didnt cost so much to deliver to UK! The dresses and shoes are absolutely beautiful, and the price of items is amazing. So if you can buy from there with cheap delivery (I think Americans and Canadians), I strongly recommend it!

Also checking out www.awear.com which is a UK based website I think. Nice clothing but think its for a slimmer figure then I am. Then again a mini skirt for £3 is pretty good!

Also discovered another new website www.chictopia.com. Not quite got the hang of it yet, but is great for discovering stylish bloggers and much inspiration!

As usual I`m in love with Gossip Girl so am a great fan of www.gossipgirlfashion.com. I`m sure there are a lot of gossip girl fansites out there but I try not to look at them in case of spoilers! Once the series is over I will be all over the fansites.

These are only a few of my recent finds. There are quite a few websites I visit regularly, ranging from costume sites (www.costumersguide.com), social networks (www.facebook.com) and blogs (www.galadarling.com and www.healthytippingpoint.com)

What sites do other peeps visit?

Saw this last night and thought it was definately an improvement on the first. Dont worry I wont give any spoilers away, but Taylor as Jacob was amazing (and I am rather fond of werewolves now ;-) ) and I felt that all the actors felt more comfortable in their roles.
I`m not a mad fan on the series, I wont go into why, but this was worth seeing.

Cannot wait till tomorrow with the next episodes of Gossip Girl and True Blood! Is it wrong to not plan anything for Wednesday evenings because of these shows?

Hi peeps, just a quick message. If you go on the link below you will contribute to the blogger`s charity drive to help Africards and Project Pillows. Any posts you click into within her blog, will also add to the money raised.

So please go onto her site, and ramble around for a bit! You may find a new blog to visit and at the very least, you`ll be helping people!

http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2009/11/02/operation-chocolate-covered-kindness/

Decided to dedicate this afternoon to updating all my photographs up to Facebook, Flickr and Photobucket. But none of these programs can find my photographs which are saved in the exact same place they have always been! Stupid computer thing

Whatever you think, whatever people say...

You are beautiful. Inside and out.

Don`t forget who you are.


www.operationbeautiful.com

Back from Poland and my amazing holiday. Am feeling ready to take on the world a bit more (have had an awful few months) so will be uploading pictures from Worcester with comments, pics from my holiday, anything else I havent uploaded and getting back into my crafting.

Am now in Krakow,expecting heavy snow tonight!!

I`m off tomorrow!! *squeeee*

I have a serious addiction to Gossip Girl. Its addictive! Finished watching second series last night, ready for the third series starting on Wednesday. Except when it starts, I will be in Berlin...thank the stars for Sky Plus! So I am now Sky Plus-ing Gossip Girl, House, X Factor and maybe True Blood. Not sure on True Blood, never watched it before but its just starting next week. Oh and I can`t Sky Plus the new BBC Emma due to being on the same time as House, huh. So will have to buy that when I come back.

Check out www.austenblog.com for updates on Emma, does look promising. Despite BBC announcing it is cutting down on period dramas. Thats right, according to the Radio Times (cant think of the link but google it if interested) the BBC are going to focus on modern dramas. To those not used to the BBC think Pride & Prejudice, Bleak House, think Little Dorrit. Think Pride & Prejudice!!

Well as mentioned above, I am going to be away next week, leaving on Tuesday for just over a fortnight. Berlin, Dresden, Wroclaw then Krakow. Or Germany and Poland for quick. Very excited but as title suggests, busy!

Have fun peeps

Was anyone else disappointed by the season finale? Didnt think it seemed like a finale, especially compared to the first two series. I guess it was kind of hard to work out what was dramatic enough.

On holiday a week tomorrow!

Just in case anyone was wondering why I still have not uploaded the photos from the Worcester exhibit, real life hit pretty dramatically last week. My Grandad went into intensive care last Monday and on Friday he passed away. He was absolutely healthy a few weeks ago, came down with a chest infection and very quickly deteriorated.

He will be greatly missed by all who knew him and obviously hes in my mind a lot at the moment. So for last week, and probably this week, other things will be on the backburner.

Sorry to cloud people`s days, just giving an update. I am still hoping I will be posting a lot more to this blog, but clearly that is now delayed.

Got back from work in totally grump mood, nothing in particular but just ready to fight with anything. The main thing is I`m worried about money for my holiday next month and there is no where for money to come from except £30 my sister owes me!

So went online checked my usual sites to cheer me up then enjoyed feasting on pics from Gossip Girl, my new fashion crush. Have only watched the first series (though have watched that twice) and I cant afford to spend money on second series but desperately, desperately want it.

OK deep breaths...have Tudors series 3 to watch. Finished watching series 2 last night, cried over Anne Boleyn and cursed Henry. Now have couple of episodes of series 3 which I`ve sky-plussed.

Feeling a lot calmer now, going for meal with friend tonight which will cheer me up.

And I will start looking at prices for accom. and travel for holiday. Am hostelling round Germany and Poland for two weeks with a friend next month, which I`m very much looking forward to.

Well its been a long time since I`ve been on here!
The problem was that LJ is so expansive and there are so many different blogs/communities that I adored, that if I was not online every day, it would take ages to catch up.
So I just stopped trying.
Well I`ve come back to see if I can thin it down slightly and use it to keep on top of the main blogs and communities for me.

I hope to get a lot more links, posts, images etc on here inspired by the many different wonderful bloggers out there. It wont happen overnight and real life is always getting in the way of what I think is more important but I can but try.

At the moment I`m trying to organise my photos from the Worcester Starstruck costume exhibit which I attended 2 weeks ago. It is absolutely incredible and if you can make it, definately worth a go.

Just a quick note to say that I ran Race for Life today and i did 5km in 40minutes!! i am extremely pleased with myself, and of course susie who i ran it with, since this was my first event of this kind.so yea me!

I know a lot of people on my friends list are a great fan of Marie Antoinette and costumes so I thought this might be of interest to some of you. I recently read Caroline Weber`s `Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution` and can strongly recommend it to anyone remotely curious about MA or fashion of that era. This book was incidentally, strongly quoted in the Vogue article which appeared with the MA photoshoot (as in the film).
Particularly interesting, especially for anyone looking forward to the film`The Duchess`, starring Keira Knightley which is to come out soon, is the fact that these two women were friends. According to Weber, MA actually gave Georgiana a dress as a gift (page 150).Doubtful this will feature in the new film but interesting nonetheless.
But anyways, if anyone is wanting to know more about MA as a fashion icon and how her clothes reflected her life, do check out this book.

just letting you all know im still here.havent been online recently very much due to real life interference (how rude!) but on the plus side, the real life looks like its improving...
I have got a new job! I am very very excited about this, it took a lot of work to get and a lot of confidence i didnt realise i had left in me. I am now unemployed temporarily since i thought a break between jobs would be pleasant.fortunately im in a position where im not desperate for money so i can afford it.
therefore this week i hope to get some stuff sorted out, a spring clean of sorts.next week we go to prague for a few days so i want to get ready for that as well.i havent been told when my job starts exactly, roughly a month from the beginning of last week perhaps?
I am still in semi training for Race for Life, which I am now officially taking part in. kinda frightening cos i am still unhealthy and I`ve never done anything like this before. p.e. was not my thing.
oh and i strongly recommend seeing Iron Man, great film, better then I expected and Robert Downey Jnr is yummy!

i havent posted for ages but theres nothing really to say!i never joined livejournal to post,more to read everyone elses posts which i do regularly.
but i thought id better say something.i bought some new dvds yesterday-only age of innocence was costume-y the other 2 were 10 things i hate about you and the notebook-both films i love.i havent seen the age of innocence but have always wanted to.
was glad to see elizabeth the golden age won the costume oscar-though i havent seen it the costumes are highly impressive.then again, so are sweeney todd`s (though i havent seen that either) so would have been just as glad for that to win.oh well.

just thought id pop in and say hello.
the sense and sensibility series improved considerably in the last episode and surprised me.i am now considering buying it.unfortunately the region 2 dvd is poor on its extras but i have heard the region 1 will have deleted scenes so i am waiting to hear on austenblog.com if its worth getting. at the moment, i dont have a region 1 compatible player but it is something i have been considering so this might help me do it.
am enjoying lark rise to cranford at the moment.its perfect sunday evening watching and i highly recommend it.
just wanted to comment as well on the sad death of heath ledger.so much has been said already so i wont say anymore except that i feel very sorry for his friends and family at this terrible time.
im just starting to get out of my january blues, next month i am visiting my uni town for the first time since graduation and i am so very excited about that.theres also a few birthdays next month so i need to start thinking of what to get for people.busy busy busy!