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It's that time again - Nail Art Time!

What I used: -

* Models Own Nail Art Pen in Black
* Models Own Blooboo
* Models Own 3-in-1 Base Coat / Top Coat / Gloss
* Models Own Lemon Meringue
* Models Own Nail Art Pen in White
* Dotting Tools I bought off eBay

My inspiration for the daisies was GemFatale's blog post, she makes it look so easy, I couldn't not try it out!

I'm completely in love with the light blue colour / polka dot combo after buying some wrapping paper to wrap my friends birthday presents!

And the smiley face, I spotted in the new Wah Nails book:

It's a really great little book, with lots of information, pictures, and free stickers! You can't go wrong with free stickers! There's also 25 step-by-step nail art projects - which I will definately be attempting, so watch this space!

I also bought these, from Topshop

Which I can't wait to try out!

Pip
xox

Easter Catchup - Money, Money, Money

So I spent a lot of money over the Easter holidays.

First off, I booked a holiday! To Florida! We're going in June for 2 weeks, and I'm so excited!

The main draw to Florida is The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - like I said in my last couple of posts, I'm a huge Harry Potter fan - as soon as I saw they were building a theme park dedicated to him, I knew I had to go!

Unfortunately, the boyf doesn't like roller-coasters, at all, so it's not going to be a non-stop roller-coaster riding holiday, boo. Fortunately though, we had a car thrown in with the package, so we'll get to do lots of Florida exploration.

Naturally, with a holiday booked, I ran straight out to the shops to buy holiday clothes!

Here's what I got:

River Island

Top l-r Black Beaded Ankle Boots; Metal Hematite Stone Ring; Cream Love Print Vest

Bottom l-r Cream Lace Hem Crop Tank Top; Light Brown Crochet Shoes; Dark Green Skinny Trousers

Topshop

l-r Basic Thin Strap Cream Vest; White Woven Front Vest; Basic Scoop Neck BlackVest

ASOS

l-r ASOS T-Shirt With Sold Out Print; ASOS Contrast Tie Stripe Bikini; Converse All Star Light Ox Trainers

So all in all, quite a good haul! And I managed to knock three items off my Most Wanted list!

Pip

xox

Easter Catchup - Wizards Rock

So over the Easter weekend I went to Watford and to the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter

Major Harry Potter geek here.

I love anything to do with Harry Potter - so absolutely jumped at the chance to go visit the place the films were actually filmed! See the sets, walk in the Great Hall...... Heaven!

The tickets were released for sale last October, and I booked mine the release date, and went for all added extras possible. These included the Digital Guide, narrated by Tom Felton, and the Souvenir Guidebook.

The Digital Guide was really interesting - in the past I have Google'd Harry Potter to death, I have seen almost every backstage behind the scenes video, interview, footage possible, so it was quite refreshing to see and hear lots of new information, made available especially for this guide.

The Souvenir Guidebook was OK. I'm glad I waiting until we were leaving before collecting it. If I'd have got it before hand, I would have read through it in the queue, and spoiled the whole tour for myself. It's basically the tour, in book-form. It'll be nice to look back on over time though.

The whole tour has had a lot of negative press. 'It's too expensive'; 'there's nothing for children to do'; 'it spoils the magic'. Admittedly, I don't think it's the place to take young children. But it's never been 'sold' as a theme park, it's a museum.

We spent just over 4 hours on the tour - including taking a break to drink Butter Beer and browsing the Gift Shop! And I managed to take over 250 photos! So I definitely think it was worth the £28 ticket price.

I've added a small selection of my own photographs below - look away now If you don't want to spoil it for yourself!

Collage © Photovisi

Pip

xox

Easter Catchup - Busy Beetee....

Gosh, considering I had nothing really planned for my two weeks off work, I didn't half get a lot done!

I will be doing separate posts, in the not too distant future about what I got up too. Hopefully with lots of pictures, once I've sifted out my favourites!

One of the main things that took over my life over Easter was The Hunger Games!

I had bought the first book a couple of months ago, with the intention of 'trying it out'. I am a huge Harry Potter fan, and was looking for something to fill the dark empty void left behind now it's all over.

After searching around on the internet 'The Hunger Games' kept popping up. Reviewers were telling me it was 'the new Harry Potter or Twilight' but I wasn't at all convinced by the synopsis:

" Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before-and survival, for her, is second nature. The Hunger Games is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.

Welcome to the deadliest reality TV show ever... "

© of Amazon

Where are the wands? The magic? The sparkly Vampires?

So, like I said, I bought the first book to try out - and then did nothing with it!

A few weeks ago, in work, a 'book club' type catalogue was passed around, in it was The Hunger Games Trilogy, for £4.99! I couldn't not have them! For that price!? Again though, I did nothing about reading them.

Then, I went to see the film - and fell in love, instantly. As soon as I got back from the cinema, ignoring the fact it was almost midnight, I made a start on the first book... then the second... then the third. The next three days I read all three books.... two days later I was back in the cinema watching the film again, two days after that I had started on the books again!

So yeah, in 12 days I had seen the film twice and read all three books twice.

I think I'm now officially a fan girl!

Yay, go me!

Pip
xox

April Fools Day

Happy April!

So I spent my morning locked away from all the April Fool-ishness going on in the world. I hate April Fools day - I'm so gullible, and then I get quite disappointed when I find out what I've just been told, isn't true! So I cracked on with my Nail Art!

  What I used: -

 * Models Own Kaleidoscope Collection
(l-r Sun Kissed; Blooming Pink; Dream Stream; Zest A Peal; Purple Imperial; 3 in 1 Base Coat / Top Coat / Gloss)
* Models Own Nail Art Pen in White
* The Striping Tape I bought off eBay in White
* A bent out of shape Bobby Pin
* A make up sponge cut up to the size of my thumb nails (plus extra to hold on to when picking up)

The sponged gradient didn't quite turn out how I wanted it to - I think I took too long in applying the nail varnish to the sponge, because it seemed very pale when I was 'dabbing it' onto my thumb nails, so I had to go back and fill it in using the nail varnish brush - it's now more stripes, than gradient.

But, over all, I'm happy with 'the look'. It definitely adds some extra colour to what has now turned out to be a really nice sunny day.

Hopefully it stays like this.

I'm off work now until the 12th, which is a nice, well deserved, break. I've only had one day off work since Christmas, and that turned into a sick day.

I've not got much planned. I'm off to Liverpool shopping with the girlies one day. Then going down to London to the new Harry Potter Studio Tour with the boyf over Easter weekend. I'll carry on reading my Hunger Games books. But that's it really. Apart from lots of mooching around with the cats, of course.

The Cats

Pip

xox