i've been presented the 'stylish blogger award' by both emma (when she used to be 'two sugars please') and rebecca. so here are seven things about me, and it took me far, far too long to think of that many.

ps, a few people have asked, and you're welcome to add me as a friend on facebook, if you'd like (there's a link on the left)

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Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough briar,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire,
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the fairy queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.

one hundred posts...

may this post be as unconnected and nonsensical as my day (which involved waking up late, almost bursting into tears in the apple store, and trying not to laugh when reading "a midsummer night's dream" in starbucks until it shut)

and in relation to that middle point, i've no idea whether they're going to have to take my laptop away. you'll find my delusional thoughts on twitter, if you care to look.

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so drink, drink, drink and be ill tonight

1. selena and me

2. the three things that keep me alive

3. innocence

4. ignore my face, look at debbie. (and i left this tee at home, cry)

all these photos are from my birthday weekend last year, i've just been a bit... crap at getting films developed.

i've been back in liverpool since 14.21 on thursday and absolutely nothing has gone right.

well, apart from the train being on time.

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bowie was a ballerina

cardigan; urban outfitters. skirt; american apparel. tights; topshop. boots; topshop. necklaces; topshop and accessorise.

david bowie turned sixty-four today, so i wore electric blue eye-liner which i found serendipitously in my bathroom at three in the morning. when i emerged from my room with a waft of hairspray my mum couldn't help but ask whether i was off to a ballet class. instead it was just a trip to town to return a pair of beautiful shoes because regardless of being very skilled in keeping high heels on all night, those toe crunchers wouldn't have lasted more than an hour. damn.

here's what luella has to say about the man who sold the world:

But the master of British androgyny is really David Bowie, or Ziggy Stardust, or the Thin White Duke or Aladdin Sane - call him what you will according to your favourite period, he nailed it in all of them. Devilishly handsome, he was the boy who first made English girls fancy men in make-up. Bowie can make anything cool and sexy and credible and sophisticated and render it with an intellectual depth. No matter how weird and wonderful, you can trust Bowie - not even age can harm his seductive powers. Bowie is the ultimate creator of British characters and he goes deep into the psyche of each of his personas. One simply marvels at the Thin White Duke singing 'Stay' and partaking in what looks like a Charleston dance for one of his live performances. It's the coolest, most effortless thing one could ever witness, but his lengthened, heightened poses were obviously constructed with time and obsession in front of the mirror, resulting in a perfect masquerade.

oh, and amy and i made cupcakes yesterday (the amount i've consumed in the past couple of days probably goes some way to explaining why half the photos i took today were unusable)

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MMX(I)

i saw in 2010 at the 5HED, but 2011 sees the return of the hallowed danes house party.

midnight's barrier is just that little bit more tangible between years, but the fog has lifted and i have sparkly thigh-high socks.

happy new year (:

ps, if you fancy a sort of 2010 breakdown type thing (why you would, i've no clue) you can find it on my tumblr, which i created as a side-effect of my boredom when i couldn't sleep until four in the morning.

photos 2+4 gratuitously stolen from SS' facebook. These photos clearly need more circulation.

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wasted wrapping paper

my christmas decorations!; desire; peter rabbit; luella; my diary; luella's guide to english style; bigmouth strikes again; viv westwood; rabbit

my russell and bromley's, sorry jessie; state of confusion; boosh; pens 'n' pencils; chanel (birthday present from mum); wilde, austen, burton, capote... i lick my cheese

big, cosy jumper, thick tights, and a dress with... paper chains printed on it?

merry christmas, internet at large.

by the way, none of these are actually christmas presents, just things i really, really like.

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term one

1. carnage with pritchard and chanel lipstick

2. we spend too much time in coffee shops

3. a ha ha. a ha ha ha

4. i spy lambananas

5. with selena on my birthday

i've spent today in my room, eating heroes (do not check my bin for evidence of wrappers), listening to radio one's chart show, and putting fairy lights in my window.

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and the winner is...:

ellie jane!

(i'm just about to leave a comment on your blog/twitter - well done!)

thanks to all my wonderful followers, some of the answers were actually amazing. and, as some of you said, i'm drinking a cup of tea right now. although i don't tend to reserve that just for winter...

as i have no lectures for the rest of the year (yay!) tonight will be an evening of taking advantage of the university's fast internet connection and catching up on blogs.

lovelove.

xo

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all the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey

title lyrics: california dreamin - the mamas and the papas, but the john mayer version is so good! tam has definitely brainwashed me...

i weirdly like doing diary posts, even if it means sitting there for ages on photoshop with the blur tool.

i'm oddly willing to show the vast majority of these pages with strangers from foreign lands, considering i find it difficult to tell my friends how i feel on a day to day basis.

strange.

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a loaded gun won't set you free, so you say

title lyrics: new dawn fades - joy division

i've been so, so bad in terms of blogging recently, but here are some photos from when i went home last month. i'll catch up with replying to comments, i promise!

i turned nineteen on monday, had a horrific hangover on tuesday, and now i feel normal. it's been a shocker of a few weeks, to say the least.

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