Tagged and tulle

Tagged by Sofia, with a little tulle by Sofia.

What is your current obsession?
Coffee and Learning how to take better pictures, I just one my first ebay auction, an old camera, fingers crossed that it will work.

What is your weirdest obsession?
Mr Hearne.

What are you wearing today?
Black juicy joggers and a vest.

What's for dinner?
tofu and stir fried vegetables. Healthy after a heavy weekend.

What would you eat for your last meal?
everything.

What's the last thing you bought?
a huge slice yummy spicy ginger cake.

What are you listening to right now?
my friend Emma-li.

What is your favorite ice-cream flavour?
Rocky road.

What do you think of the person who tagged you?
I am silly happy that the talented, clever, perceptive, Sofia and I have become friends. I love to read the snippets of her life and learn how many similar things we like.

If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
somewhere in the west village, New York City.

If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
The great wall of China.

Which language do you want to learn?
French.

What's your favorite quote (for now)?
It's choice, not chance, that determines your destiny. Jean Nidetch.

What is your favorite colour?
Chartreuse at the moment, shades of grey forever.

What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own wardrobe?
Can I have two? An old cream cardigan with beaded cuffs and a sparkly vintage scarf I found in the dressing up box at my granny's when I was a teenager.

What is your dream job?
I would love to own a pretty cake shop or Luxury B&B.

What's your favourite magazine?
Just discovered-Apartmento.

If you had £100 now, what would you spend it on?
I would pay someone else to paint my living room.

Favorite designer?
John Galliano.

Do you admire any one's style?
Chloe Sevigny.

Describe your personal style?
Casually Lady like.

What are you going to do after this?
Eat that slice of cake I bought.

What are your favourite movies?
Top Hat, Lost in translation, Benny and Joon.

What's your favourite fruit?
Cherries.

What inspires you?
Old world things, Feelings, Experiences.

What is on the walls in your bedroom?
jewelry and a spider : (

Your favorite book ?
The secret garden.

Do you collect something ?
Vintage lace and stamps with pictures of fruit on them.


The rules :
1. Respond and rework; answer the questions on your blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your invention, add one more question of your own.
2. Tag eight other people.

No pressure but if any of you or anyone else would like to take part please do!

Francesca
Bradford
Tamzin
Katherine
Sam
Melissa
Jo
Sarah

Necklace featured above from Sofia Barao's Etsy Boutique

Mrs Flax, tights and okra

Beautiful gift tags above from 3 girls and a goat over at Etsy.

I think I have been tagged by four or five different people. But I have been a bad blogger and lost track of who and when. Please speak up if it was you? I'm not rude just a bit forgetful. and obviously I have been doing very important stuff like dressing up etc!

So seven things?

When I was much younger I used to watch The film Labyrinth, every day. I had a huge crush on David Bowie. Only now do I see the wrong in this. Those tights! What was he and I thinking?! But boy oh boy did I want that crystal Barbie style dress that Jennifer Connelly wore to the Masquerade Ball. I still love the song that plays in that scene now.

I consider myself to be a well behaved dinner guest. I will eat most things unless you serve me mussels, okra or mushrooms.

I used to go to ballet classes and loved it until my teacher insisted I sing "Happy talkin, talkin, happy talk" alone on stage for the local music festival. I refused and that was my last day. A singer I am most definitely not.

I'm not so good at time keeping. I hate being chained down. Don't wear a watch. Don't care if my mobile is charged. I like to be free. In my own little world.

Due to the happenings in my previous post we are having fried breakfast for dinner today. I am normally quite a healthy eater and like to cook epic dinners, but the novelty still hasn't worn off that I can choose anything at all to put in our shopping basket! Although Dean does not get enthused at the thought of cereal or just a bowl of mashed potatoes and peas for an evening meal, I do! When he is away I sometimes just eat marshmallows or citrus fruits for supper. Today I have eaten an advent calendar's worth of chocolate.

It seems as though I am making out the husband to be a bit of a grump. But he is lots of fun, wouldn't have married him otherwise!. He is however quite a realist so living with someone not unlike a combination of a christmas elf and Cher's kooky character Mrs Flax from the film Mermaids (who doesn't love a star shaped sandwich in their packed lunch?). Maybe it's hard for him sometimes. : )

I hate zombies. They really turn my stomach. I couldn't even watch that silly film "Shaun of the dead" because zombies really make me feel sick. I find the undead so chilling. Maybe it has to do with all the moaning, arms outstretched and shuffling feet. Yuck. Makes me shiver just to write about it!

Its hard to know who to tag I have met so many wonderful people just lately , sorry if you have already been asked, but I'd love to learn more about you. . . . . . . Theresa and Eva-Maria, Michiko, Brittany, Manon, Lynn, Kelly, and Jane plus anyone else who wants to chime in?!

(lot of links here too so if I've mixed up the names just let me know.)

Really, I am going now to polish off the last of those macaroons.

Four things

Todays post is the result of a tagging from Mirka over at Oprikka. Hello Mirka!



4 JOBS I'VE HAD:

Cleaning chalets at a holiday camp - very young earning extra cash for college.


Hand making cards by the hundred for a local company - I lived breathed and dreamed cards and sequins and rhinestones at this time.


Barmaid at a local bar - this was a real laugh though as all my girlfriends worked there too and we ruled the roost!


Lighting retail - learnt loads about interior decor and made some great friends.



4 MOVIES I LOVE:


Top hat Fred and Ginger at their best.


The Godfather trilogy Scary, sad and bloody but fantastic.


Cinéma Paradiso Moving memories.


Desperately seeking Susan If only I could store all my belongings in just one suit case.



4 PLACES I'VE BEEN:


Silves My first time on a plane was a holiday to Portugal.


Salisbury Love that cathedral.


Paris Tres bon.


St Augustine Just beautiful, and the oldest port in the continental united states



4 PLACES I'VE LIVED:


I am pretty content and have lived in the same town all my life. I love to travel but like to come home again, if the occasion arose I would like to experience of living somewhere else.


4 TV PROGRAMS I WATCH:


CSI I have a secret (no more!) crush on Gil Grissom!


Jamie at home Tasty cooking.


Location, location, location Always on the lookout for a new home!


Sex and the city I'm sure you know why!! Hurry up with that movie already.



4 RADIO PROGRAMMES:


- Radio 1 in the mornings



4 PREFERRED FOOD ITEMS:


Cheese - All kinds but blue.


chocolate - My only vice!


Citrus fruits - I love the scent they leave on your hands after peeling.


Marshmallow - pretty and yummy.



4 placed I´d rather be:


Soho - New York on my honeymoon.


Day at the seaside in Whitstable Such a lovely town.


Visiting the Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product Exhibition Thought I would miss this but as I'm off to NYC in a few weeks I am going to catch it horray!


Digging through the archives of sold lotsOn this fabulous site.

Play along too, if you are in a revealing mood!

7 things

Bradford over at the Bedlam of Beefy has tagged me, so here goes!

I feel that this is the year I am going to change my life and steer it in the direction I should have been going in, but somehow wasn't. Reading all these inspiring blogs over the past year and meeting all these lovely people, all who run their own businesses and are doing things that really make them happy has helped. That combined with me turning 30 in nine days time, I think my mind has finally found some clarity. I think my precious Dean will have to help me a little as I've only been computer literate for a year!

From the age of 17-25 I collected Barbie dolls. Had a real habit, which cost me a lot. Loved her, all those different outfit options, hairstyles, shoes. A visit to FAO Schwarz the first time I went to New York, only made this worse. I think the problem may have stemmed from my mum insisting I played with Sindy as a child, this doll with an oversized head did not cut it. She drove a Range Rover, whilst Barbie had a Ferrari! So when I got my one and only Crystal Barbie I treasured her greatly. I have a photo somewhere of me aged about 6 clutching her as if my life depended on it. No way was I gonna let my baby sister get her sticky mitts on crystal. They are soon to be in someone else's collection via ebay. Blogging has really helped me express myself verbally and visually. I am sometimes painfully shy, hate compliments, and generally down talk my successes. But weirdly I am quite confident in myself? sounds odd but I guess I am quietly confident, I know what I like and know what suits me. For instance I will step out in a great dress, this pleases me until people pull me aside and say I look nice, then I go to pieces. Writing this makes me blush.

I am allergic to feathers, fur, pollen, dust, so no pets for me. Found this out after my mum forced me to wear a very fluffy angora sweater, my protestations fell on deaf ears until my eyes were so red and swollen she had to concede that I was in fact correct. They still made me live with two cats and a dog! But hey my home now is pet and fur free and I love that. Always a head strong independent girl even when I was little. As first born grand daughter I was Granny's favorite girl, the spoiling came up against some opposition from mum. Little notice was taken and when I look back I guess me and granny were as thick as thieves, but I was like seven and didn't take to the shadow that followed me around in the form of my younger sister. So one time I just phoned Granny and told her mum said I could go visit. She came and got me and off I went no cares for the family that was left wondering where I was!

Me and said shadow are now the best of friends and have been since she was 14 and I was 18.

It may seem mother is getting a bit of stick here but she was not really that mean! I love my entire family very much and feel so lucky that we all get on so well. So heres to the best family in the world Mum, Dad, Tamzin, Leah and Granny love you all x x x

Thanks bradford.