The Blanks

I saw Ted from Scrubs band, The Blanks (the capella band) at the end of November. I finally got around to uploading the pictures in almost mid December! Ooops. The quality sucks since I was far away (we were behind the sound guy at the back, but higher up than anyone so we could actually see, [we'd got there late so there were lots of tall people in front of us], they were right in front of us, just far away..., and we had a back of a sofa to sit on, and no people jostling us = awesome!) but here are some of my favourites, I took videos too but not putting them up. They were really funny, and very good singers. If they gig near you, you should definitely see them, I was gutted I couldn't see them last time so made damn sure I got tickets this time!

A Christmassy Evening

I've had quite the Christmassy Evening as my title would suggest, doing Christmas things whilst watching a Christmas film, Love Actually. I actually love that film! Ha...ha, I'm so funny I know.... anyways! The above picture shows one of my favourite story lines from the film, its so sad, and sweet, but there are a fair few sad and sweet storylines in this film.

I've wrapped up my family's presents, photos to come another time, and written my work Christmas cards (Just under 40 of them!). I like writing cards, and I bought some cheapyish ones from Primark, but they are cute! I've also listed them in alphabetical order, hmm do I need help? For my family, boyfriend and close friends I'll be doing hand made cards which I've yet to do. I also need to wrap my friends presents, and my boyfriends, I have a different way of wrapping all set up for them! Just need a few bits and pieces, but I'm done with the big Christmas shopping. Oh yeah, I need to make gift tags, well I don't need to, but I saw an idea which I think is super cute. I also need to try my hand at a few handmade things, like dolls, bracelets, cookies and photoframes especially. Oh that reminds me! I need to print off some photos eeek, I have quite a list and its two weeks away! But I love Christmas!

P.s This is my 50th post! The most I've ever posted on a blog, I usually give up!

Glossy Box (#1)

My first glossy box arrived the other day! Glossy box is where you subscribe £10 each month plus p&p to get a box filled with five sample products of beauty products. I was sooo excited to get it. I bought the November one on the last day of November, and haven't been home for a few days so I don't know when it actually arrived lol. The cardboard box it came in was cute, I love packaging but thought taking a picture of that might be a bit too much crazy, you know? It's the same design as the inside of the box which you can just about see in the picture below. I really like the packaging of this product, simple, pretty, and the colours go well together. I also like collecting pretty boxes to put things in, so will definitely be reusing this box for makeup and such. 

I took this photo after I'd already opened it, so the ribbon was much better the first time around, and it has a sticker, stickers are always good in my book, oh and tissue paper. Bored of the packing now? Okay, onto the products!

From left to right, I had the Nail Rock Designer Nail Wraps in Polka dot. Illamasqua Freak Eau De Parfum, Arbonne Ultra Hydrating Hand Creme and Silderm Body Oil. I was missing one item, the Philip Kingsley Elasticizer Shampoo, but I tweeted GlossyBox and they told me to email them to sort it out, so fingers crossed.

I loved the nail wraps, but my nails a bit too short for them at the moment, unless I chop them in half! (I watched Dream House the other day and chewed them all off, darn scary films). The perfumes nice, but a bit too strong, I tend to like sweeter floral scents, but will be using this tonight as I'm going to a 1940's party. I love hand creme, and I LOVED this one. I only needed a small amount for my hands and its really soft and creamy and lasts longer than my usual, which okay is Tesco but I go through so much I can't afford normal priced hand cremes :P The last one is something I've never tried before but have wanted to, but never really wanted to buy it as its expensive and there's no real need, I just have a tiny few but I'll see if it works.

Overall, loved the box! I just had one complaint, the missing shampoo, but they replied to me straight away and hopefully it'll get sorted out soon. I am very excited about the Christmas one and can't wait to see what's in that!

Update! They are sending me one, yay!

Handwriting Meme

I've seen this meme around a few times over a long time, I can't remember where, but I saved the questions and decided to do the handwriting meme today, since I'm still ill, tired, and I haven't got anything else for the moment. I will be dragging myself out to the pub quiz in a bit, I haven't gone in weeks (I would much rather put my jim jams on and watch Harry Potter in bed though!). I love seeing other peoples handwriting and I'm always jealous, I wish I had the big girly handwriting, or the pretty loopy handwriting but I don't. I hold the pen really weirdly, grip to tight, and right super fast so it always ends up messy. When I take the time it turns out okay-ish, but I still don't like it, but I wanted to do this anyway. So without further ado, here are the questions, or tasks rather.

Name/Blog URL.

Lefty/Righty/Ambidextrous.

Letters you enjoy writing.
Letters you dislike writing.

Write “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

Write CRAB, HUMOUR, KALEIDOSCOPE, 

PAJAMAS, and GAZILLION in caps.

Write one of your favourite song lyrics.

Write who should do this.

Any last blurb/note.

 Apologies for the terrible photo!

I like underlining headings or names on cards like that, and I'm about 50/50 on stars for bullet points or normal bullet points. I can't write in a straight line, the lines go up at the end, I don't really write in joined up handwriting but the odd one or two turn up every now and then. I like writing capital "R's" but they never look like them, whereas I hate writing the letter "K" since it never looks like it. Some letters are spaced too closely together, so its harder to make out the words in the photo, that especially happens when I'm running out of space. Instead of just starting a new line, I try to cram it all in. I was also distracted whilst writing the song lyrics hence the mistake and I did the alphabet on the bottom just to show how I write every letter.

I'm sure everyone was absolutely fascinated by this little handwriting meme, but if anyone does decide to do it if they're bored and make a post, tell me about it and I'll check it out, since I am weird like that! ^_^

What the heck?

One of the presents I'd ordered for my boyfriend turned up in an unexpectedly state today. I'd ordered him a Darth Vader Lego keyring torch from Play. He loves Star Wars, and Lego, and doesn't have a torch so yay for a mini present (I hope he doesn't read this, he knows I blog, but hasn't seen the blog). When I came home today, I asked if anything had arrived for me, nope, nothing. However my mum asked me if I'd lost anything recently, like dropped something in the garden. This is what she found.

She'd spotted it the day before, upside down and thought it was rubbish, and today she picked it up. It had been lying face down in the garden for two days whilst its been raining, and its not exactly waterproof! I am SO annoyed! It obviously came in a package to be delivered to my house for the address, and play always have sturdy (not really waterproof) packaging, and it would have been small enough to fit into my letter box.  Luckily it still works, but it kinda sucks for giving as a present, I'll just have to explain. I can only think of one reason really, maybe two if I give them the benefit of the doubt.

It's soaking wet, really flimsy, the cardboard is spotty in places and half falling off on the front

The other day I woke up to someone knocking, but I was in bed ill, and hadn't been sleeping lately so like hell I was going to get up. I did look out and see my neighbour walk away after awhile. Now this makes me think it'd been delievered to her house, and they'd opened it, for some bizarre reason, and came to drop it off. However, why just leave it unopened on the floor, not exactly easy to be seen, in winter weather when it could have easily gone through my letter box is completely beyond me! Unless, they'd opened it, put it back in the package, left it and the wind blew it out? There was nothing near it, and I don't like my neighbours (They moved in when I was living on campus, and I moved back after a year and tried saying hello to them and be friendly and nice and introduce myself and they ignored me! Well, she looked at me, and the ignored me, >.<) so I think its the first one, might be a bis biased.

I can't complain about the postman giving it to them if they had because apparently now they can leave it with the neighbours if you're not in, and I can't complain to my neighbours because I have no proof they did it, plus I've never really spoken to them and my mum doesn't like the idea of accusing them, gah! At least it wasn't broken or something super expensive, but I am a bit worried about future things being delivered. Guess this "mystery" will go unsolved for now.


UPDATE! My neighbour came up to my mother the other day and said an odd thing happened a few days beforehand, a label with my name and address had turned up in their garden and nothing else. She brought it up herself, so was she covering her tracks before anything was said, or is this situation getting even more weird and I'm getting more and more paranoid about my neighbours?