London

Yay!!! So finally blogger has permitted me to upload pictures!!! I have been trying for like the past 4 days and for the past 4 days nada, zip, big fat zero!!! I was incredibly cross I tell you! But hurrah it's now working!!! So here's a post showing my fave things from the London trip!!!

First stop of the day was eating at Aji noodle bar!!! They do the most yummy Miso soup with chicken and literally the bowl is huuuuuuuge I mean literally massive and it's only £7!!! Such good value for money!!!!

Then we went to Fortnum Masons, I bought these yummy little sugar fondant things that were absolutely delish!!! I got one in pink, one in white and one in yellow!!! They certainly appealed to my sweet tooth!!! I also purchased two very special items which will be revealed at my party and that I'm sure everyone would think was awesome!!!

And then after that I went to my ABSOLUTE favourite place in London and nothing will ever change that! It's the Natural History Museum!!! It is the most gorgeous place in the whole of London, well in my opinion anyway! And every time I go there are certain things I must see!!! I always view these things in reverse favourite order.

So I start with Great Auk the Great Auk is an extinct flightless bird that was killed off by Victorian specimen collectors. Although it lived waaaay up North where it was cold near penguins, however they were more closely related to Puffins actually which you can kinda see when you look at their bill!!! But yeah it's a cute little birdie!!!!

Next up is the Humming Bird Cabinet! This is from a Victorian Curiosity type museum, there must be well over 300 hummingbirds in it, covering like a tonne of different species!!! Here's a picture of the whole case! Unfortunately it's blurry cause I had to snap the pic really quickly before someone walked past in front of it!!! It's about 2/2 and a half metres across and is beautifully stunning!

Here's a shot that shows the case in more detail although from a side angle! Here you can really see the scope of the hummingbirds they have!

Here's probably a shot that I supposes emphasises the more cruel aspect of this specimen, here you can see a tiny little toy nest almost and iinside it, although it's very difficult to make out because of their size, there are some baby hummingbirds. It is quite awful to think someone's killed and collected all these baby hummingbirds just for some rich Victorian. But then at the same it is a truly beautiful and breathtaking display!

My final shot of the humming bird case is one of my favourite hummingbirds inside it. It's one of the more brightly coloured hummingbirds as many have faded over the years unlike this one!!! The way it changes from that purplish blue to that bright green is just gorgeous!!!! If I find something even remotely similar to this in an antiques shop I am buying it because it is truly gorgeous!!!!

Now after that more serious note here's something highly amusing! This little bundle of fluff and bones below it the Lesser Egyptian Jerboa, or as I like to call it, The Giraffe Mouse!!! It lives in burrows in the desert and is just one of the oddest little animals I have ever seen!!!! It's rather amusing indeed!!!

And here is Isabel's absolute favourite exhibit in the whole of the museum - THE DINOSAURS!!! Anyone who knew me when I was about 7 knew I was OBSESSED with dinosaurs!!! I even wanted to be a paleantologist, well although that dream has subsided I am still a major dinosaur geek although keep it slightly quieter now, but I still have 5 big heavy old school dinosaur books, the entire Walking With Dinosaurs collection, plus dinosaur models, and dinosaur board games because they are COOL!!!

Unfortunately this exhibit does not have a model of my favourite dinosaur which is the Koolasuchus, simply because it is cool! It's like a giant engorged killer tadpole!!! I know!!! A giant engorged killer tadpole!!!! But yes I suppose there's no point going on about something you guys can't see! So on with pics!

Below we see the cannibalistic Coelophysus! You can see a baby coelophysus in it's tummy - well I say that. You're SUPPOSED to see a baby coelophysus in its tummy, but all you see are some smaller bones, but I promise you that is a baby one, these dinosaurs are commonly thought of as some of the first swift moving predators as they date back from the Triassic (the first of the three dinosaur eras)

Here's an iguanadon, These are actually quite ugly daft animals that really don't hold any appeal to me other than the name which I rather like, I also don't really like them cause they're herbivores, I much prefer carnivores, and not like scavenger carnivores I mean proper predators!

So here is a REAL dinosaur!!! Allosaurus!!!! This is an awesome predator, smaller than a T-Red but super agile and very clever!!! This would seriously be one scary animal to meet in a dark alley way!!!! I also really loved the Walking With Dinosaurs program based on Big Al (the name of one particular skeleton of a complete juvenile male allosaurus)'s life and early death! It's quite sad in the end.

And another dangerous preditor, now these are raptors, however I think the particular ones the Natural History Museum modelled these animatronic dinos on were a pair of less known Oviraptor skeletons as opposed to the more commonly know Velociraptor, or even the Utaraptor. But they still look darn awesome!!!

And then here's the bit everyone queues for - THE T-REX - well as I've said before this is not my fave dinosaur (Koolasuchus and Allosaurus are) but this is still pretty darn cool. Unfortunately however I did not get a pic or video of the T-Rex model because, I'm embarrassed to admit, I have to kinda run past its head! I know that sounds silly but honestly I just have visions of it suddenly becoming alive and then who's right in it's scent like and lookig rather eat-able, me, so yeah the vid is from the side! But you can still see how cool it is!!!





After that I nipped into the gift shop and bought these cute dinosaur cookie cutters in preparation for my birthday party!!! They're very adorabubble!!! There's stegosaurus (top left), triceratops (middle left), diplodochus (bottom left) and unidentifiable dinosaur in top right!!! But yeah they're so brilliant!!!!

Then the next day we went off to Oxford I didn't really get many pics except this one of the Bodleian library!!! Omg inside it is liek reading heaven!!! THERE WERE JUST SOOOO MANY BOOKS! It was like my heaven ha!!!! But yes here's the outside of part of it!

Then we went to this shop called Pylones and we got a cat nail scrubber, a squid whisk, and Des got me this iPod ear phone splitter! I have needed one of these for ages and so am glad to finally have one at last! And such a pretty one as well!!!

So yes that was my trip to London last week and a half ago now blogger has FINALLY let me update it!!! This was a slightly geeky, less looks orientated wise, but I hope you still enjoyed it just as much!!!

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Day Trip with Haz and AS level results day!!!

Hello everyone! Due to a missing laptop cable I was unable to update on time and then I went to London with parents so couldn't do it then but here am I!!! So before AS level results me and Haz decided what we needed was to take our minds off everything and so we went out on a night out!!! Ha unfortunately we enjoyed each other SOOOO much we forgot to take any pics before we went and so unfortunately the only pics of me I'm all sleepy looking and mussed up!!!! But you shall just have to deal!!! Here's a close up of my hair and make for the night!!!

Here's the picture I based my hairstyle on below!!!! I have to say even after a night out it ooks similar although slightly more dishevelled!!! But I have to say Pom Pom will vouch for the fact that it did look like the picture before I went out and it was all done up purty!!! I have to tell anyway who wishes to attempt this style - DO NOT ENTER INTO IT LIGHTLY!!!! It took 2 hours!!! Literally 2 hours cause I timed myself!!! But I have to say it was worth it!!! It was so big and voluminous and curly! Although I wish my hair was longer cause I think this style will look better with longer hair!!!

You know this because for a lot of styles in Ageha magazine (for those of you who can't guess from the bejewelled look this is from the Ageha magazine) it tells you how long in centimetres a model's hair is - most of the models in ageha have over 60cm! This is with extensions but still, mine's only 54cm, and I now can't find any cheap extensions long enough to wear so I shall just have to wait for this extra 6 cms to grow!!!

So here's my full outfit, although ha it's not really an outfit but oh well! Not much to say apart from god I love my Achilles Killers!!!!!!!! Ooooh and also look how tanned I look and - IT'S ALL NATURAL!!!!!

So here is my own personalised necklace, I got it done when there was this market in the Corn Exchange in Leeds by a company that does names on perspex necklaces. I asked if as well as letters they could do asterisks and it turns out they could!!! So of course what did I ask for, *kiss kiss* of course! I love this necklace so much!!! Like seriously it's just brilliant!!!

Also for the night I had revolver nails, according to Pom Pom these are semi-automatic Colt 45s!!!! Hee hee I feel very clever saying that!!!! But yeah I love these! I've done them before and they were better before, but I still think these are pretty darn good!!!!

The next day then Haz and I went on a shopping trip into Manchester!!! Well all I can say is what a palava we had with the trains!!!!! Right well we were supposed to be getting the 11:32 from bradford, this train comes from New Pudsey to Bradford!!! However at New Pudsey somebody had fallen ill and needed an ambulance!!!! We were there waiting on the platform for TWO HOURSE!!!!! We were saying god we hope if we fell ill on a train it wouldn't take 2 hours to get an ambulance to us! But anyway we finally got on the train and trotted off to Manchester quite happily where we had a great day and Harriet again met the lovely lady from Afflecks who does my phone case!!! Hee hee she said apparently we look similar although we don't think so!!!!

I've also ordered a brand new phone case from her!!! Problem is I have no idea what it's gonna look like!!!! She was like "what do you want on it?" So I was like "I have no clue!!!" I just told her she knows what I like and she's done plenty of my cases before so I reckon she'll come up with something fabulous, hopefully with some Hello Kitty on it maybe!!!!

Then we went to the corset shop Strawberri Peach! I tried on a lovely little waspie I've fallen quite in love with, and also I saw a dress she got in that morning on a manequin. She saw me looking and asked if I wanted to try it on and of course I simply couldn't refuse!!!! And then once I'd tried it one, well I'd fallen in love with it!!! So I put down a deposit on it immdeiately and hopefully will be going back to collect it in a couple of weeks!!!! I'll make sure to show you it then! But until then I ain't giving anything anyway!!!

Anyway here's what I was wearing that day!!! I got to wear my new baby pink wool stirrup socks which I have been looking forward to wearing for forever!!! And I have officially decided that I LOVE stirrup socks!!! Because I have smaller feet than average if I wear normal socks or tights in a size 3 without a strap my feet will slip out! But in stirrup socks my feet have the same grip they would have barefoot but with the pretty-ness of wearing over the knee socks!!! Good ne!!! And that day as well I was doing something shocking!!! WEARING BLUE!!! Everyone who knows me knows I rarely ever suit blue! And yet this time for some reason this top really works!!! Maybe it's because of the pink roses on it??? But anyway yeah, the Hello Kitty handbag, with the blue and pink rose top, then my New Look lacy shorts which are also blue with pink roses on and then obviously my adorable stirrup socks and pink bow wedges!!!

Here's a shot of Haz I took which kind of shows off her outfit although I didn;t get a full body shop!!! Unfortunately I have no idea where any of her clothes are from so I can't tell you but oh well! She still looks pretty!

Here's a head shot of us two looking sweet together! I was hoping this pic would show my uber cute hair band, however I was out of luck and it was on the other side darn it! It's gorgeous though!!! All blinged up and pink and multi layered! I'm sure you would have all loved it!!!

And here are my purchases for the day!!!!

Hello Kitty wrapping paper (if your birthday is soon you know what wrapping paper you're getting)

A gorgeous little black lacey hello kitty nightie with a sweet white lace neckline and everything!!!!

AND LOOK!!!! SWAROVSKI HELLO KITTY ON THE BOTTOM!!! HOW AMAZING!!!!

And my fave purchase of the my new little notebook for school! I was originally gonna go for one that was more pink, but they had less stuff on them and I'd just fallen for this one so green it was!!! Sorry it's upside down but I didn't realise until it had been uploaded and then by that point it was too late so you shall have to deal! I hope you can still appreciate the pretty-ness!!!!

Then it was AS level results day!!! I'm pleased to say I passed everything, although we're queerying history cause even though I passed I did amazing in one unit, and yet in the other one I got the lowest i've ever got even compared to how I was in September so something ain't right but oh well!!! So as a treat I went out and purchased this dress from Primark! Teamed with a brown waist cincher belt it's gonna be PERFECT!!!! It was only £6 as well!!! Mom also bought me another pink and black zebra print dress as a treat, but I'm keeping that as a secret cause I think I'm wearing it for Owl City 2011!!!!

So here's what I wore for results day!!! I was going for positive realism by which I mean "I can't possibly fail looking this good, but at least if I do fail I fail in style"!!!! Good ne!!! So I was going for a 40s look!!! So I teamed this lovely oranges and lemons dress with a cardi and orange ribbon!!!

Also to give it the proper touch all 40s outfits deserve the seamed stockings and black patent heels are required!!! These as you may note are the new school shoes woop woop!

And then finally here's two shots of my make up! I'm not really sure which showed the orange themed eye shadow best so I put both on!!! Here they are and I hope you approve!!!

Well I hope you enjoyed that!!! I'll be writing about my London trip tomorrow morning so you'll have that to look forward to too!!!!

*kiss kiss*

Shopping with Yan Yan Chan in Leeds and Rise of the Planet of the Apes!!!

So on Friday me and Yan Yan decided to go off on a much needed shopping trip!!! We hadn't seen each other since our Greek Language Paper 2 (WHICH WAS SOOOOOO EVILLLLLLL! Had no idea who was killing who with what and for how long!!!) Mainly because I had been on holiday for two weeks and then only a few days after I came back she popped off so yeah! This has been one of the first oppertunities we've had to meet up!!!

Well we decided my outfit for the day could be summarised by the phrase "Minnie Mouse rapes Alice in Wonderland and Dorothy" Which I think sums the whole look up rather accurately!!!! I did actually have little white finger-less lace gloves with bows on! However I took them off and then forgot them for the photos ooops!!! But yeah I hope everyone likes the outfit! And the black lacey under skirts!!!!

I have totally decided I need more underskirts in a variety of colours!!! Namely Red, White, Baby Pink and Hot Pink!!!! And then after that I'm totally gonna breach out into other colours starting with Lemon Yellow and Neon Green and then layer them over the Hot Pink one squee!!! Anyway enough of that! Onto the actual shopping trip!!!!


So our plan was to go looking for school clothes for next year!!! Namely matching dresses but omg!!! This season's fashion is simply atrocious! Literally atrocious!!!! I have no idea what all these high street shops are thinking!!! It was so annoying!!! Literally there was barely nothing we liked and then when we did find it they either didn't have it in our sizes, 2 of the right size in thee same colour!!! And then if they finally did have that usually the dress wouldn't suit one of us so we were super irritated!!!!! In the end we had to give up and agreed we'd try Bradford instead for clothes namely because I know it better and I know Bradford Market has some gorgeous dresses in at the moment!!!!

So yes when we'd given up on the dress front we went to go get our feet eaten at Appy Feet!!! This is now like my 6th time of having it done so i'm pretty much okay with it now and I didn't squeal once!!! Yan Yan on the other hand is INCREDIBLY tickleish and has never had her feet eaten before and so she spent ages wriggling around at first!!! It was certainly rather ammusing I must say!!!! But at least our feet felt baby soft afterwards!!!!

After that we trotted around town for a bit just peering into shops on the off chnace they had anything nice but more often than not we were disappointed!!! The only time we were not was when we went into CEX and saw Sims 3 expansion packs for £12!!! After that I think we were thoroughly put out by the whole thing and so decided to get some food - namely Burger King!!! Which was of course lovely!!! Anyone who knows me knows I have that particular table that I like to sit on in the upstairs part of Burger King and so we went to sit up there and observe the male population passing below whilst generally be-moaning the upcoming results days and men, and the boy Yan Yan met on her cruise!!!! Ha it was certainly a good bitching session!!!

After that we decided our day would be much more productive if we merely went home and watched Sucker Punch - which is an awesome film and I want Baby Doll's finishing sailor costume it is gorgeous!!!

But anyway during the day I did pick up one item of clothing - this dress!!!! I really like it cause of the pencil fit and the beige top part suits my skin tone!!! I waited to take the pic until I could try it on with my new school shoes which are actually for once in my size!!! So happy! Everyone will note they are without supportive strap because thankfully they are a size 2!!! So I hope you all like my new school dress!!!!

But yes like I said we went home and watched Sucker Punch - well I say watch what I really mean is tried to watch because my DVD player at my dad's is really messed up so even when a DVD is perfectly clean and scratch free it still glitches like 24/7 which mega upsets me, but i suppose at least I have lots of good videos I can watch at Dad's instead! So because we couldn't watch Sucker Punch we decided to cam whore instead which as always was immensly fun as everyone knows how much I love a good cam whore!!!! So here's me sat on a buffet with this gorgeous little china tea cup I found!!!

After Yan Yan saw me in Rose and Co she knows what a nightmare it is for me to decide what tea set to buy before I leave home!!! I think Lina Bear massively understands this tea set problem as well!!! As much as I love Hello Kitty I think a tea set is the only thing I wnat non-Hello Kitty, I want a proper little cute vintage looking one! But anyway I digress!!!!

So here's Yan Yan sat outside in the purple top that I am so jealous of! I think the thing that really draws me to it is like the sleeves and neckline. I personally think tops that are very fitted around the back of the neck and almost come out like a trapeze shape like a little jacket are amazingly gorgeous!!!! I love doing that when I have a shawl and making it to do that so yes I very much approve!!!!

Here's us two together pretending to be very interested in my stone steps!!!!

And finally us two actually looking up at the camera to finish it off!!! Well we had a great day and it was well annoying when Yan Yan had to go home so we had big huggles on the train station!!! It always seems to be as well that whenever I walk Yan Yan down to the train station it starts raining when I have to walk up by myself *huff* very annoying but worth it still to have those last 20mins or so if gossip time!!!!! I can't wait to do it again!!!!

After she was gone I just sat at home and caught up on all my soaps until it was time to go to the cinema with Daddy where we went to go see Rise of the Planet of the Apes which OMG really good, ha dad certainly claims it was better than the ones in his days which was just men in monkey suits!!!!!!! But yeah really good! And there was this really cute stupid (but it was actually fairly clever) looking orangutan which I just wanted to have as a giant teddy in my bedroom!!! Oh and as well it had Draco Malfoy in it who is yummy so that was a definite bonus! But yes I cannot recommend it enough!!! You should all go see!!!!

Hope you enjoyed this post! And guess what I actually stuck to my own self inflicted deadline!!! How good am I!!!! The next post should beexpected for Wednesday night/Thursday morning pre-results!!!

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