An Education

I love this film, not only has it been nominated for three Academy Awards it has a bunch of my favourite actors in too; Carey Mulligan of course, Dominic Cooper and Rosamund Pike. I realised when watching this film that a lot of my favourite actors cross over into all my favourite films, in An Education you’ve got Carey Mulligan and Rosamund pike who are both in Pride & Prejudice as Jane & Kitty Bennet. In Pride & Prejudice (my all time favourite film by the way) is Keira Knightly who stars in The Duchess alongside Dominic Cooper.

It is of course a love story – although it’s much more about a loss of innocence – but if you know me at all you’ll know that ‘love’ is a must have in any favourite film of mine.

I must say that I think Jenny goes for the wrong guy (clearly that turns out to be true) but even at the beginning I always had a soft spot for the embarrassingly awkward Graham. He is pretty cute don’t you think?

As most of my favourite films are, this not set in the present day but in the early 60’s – one of my favourite periods – this means of course that the costume is all gorgeous.Carey is a lucky girl and gets to wear some really lovely things.

One of my favourite scenes is where Jenny an Helen get ready. In a beautiful dressing room the ‘tres chic’ Helen gives Jenny un petite makeover while the boys struggle to understand what is taking them so long and end up playing badminton indoors.

I know that David ends up being an utter twat but before everything turns upside-down the love story between Jenny and David is quite sweet…

…and incredibly funny, ‘David! I don't want to lose my virginity to a piece of fruit’

Then of course there is the beautiful Paris, full of arty shots, French music and romance.

and as a picture says a thousand words, here is the rest of the film. I’ll stop my annoying commentary. You can listen to the velvety vocal tones of Beth Rowely.

Apart from this, does anyone else slightly wish at this point of the film that Danny and Jenny would get together? I do.

and this too – I love miss Stubbs house!

Some final pictures from deleted scenes.

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Never Let Me Go

I am super excited for this film to come out, I've been waiting for this for months so today when I checked to see if it was on in vue I was outraged! Months ago when I first saw trailers I was promised I’d get to see it on the fourteenth of January, now it isn’t out till February 14th!I am livid!

It does give me more time to read the book though.

As well as starring the beautiful Keira Knightly and Carey Mulligan its set in a sort of wartime 40’s/50’s style so all the clothes are pretty and the story is my favourite genre – love.

Here is the trailer – warning I well up every time!

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COLOURBLIND

I love these images, the popping colours, the heavy 60’s influences (especially the fringe - I’m pretty jealous of that fringe).

(Images courtesy of Fashion Served)

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Post #101

I didn’ t realise that I’d hit 99 posts so I've accidentally missed my 100th! So I thought I’d make a commemorative 101 post instead. It’s a much better number – it’s symmetrical.

I started this blog way back In 08 and made 1 post in the whole year!

In 2009 I didn’t do much better, I didn’t post until June and then I only posted four times.

My camera broke in July which made it harder to post…so I didn’t till December when I did my first Catwalk post and Also my first Recipe. .

2010 came but I still had bad blogging habits, I posted a little about what I was up to but it wasn’t until October this year that I started using Windows Live Writer.  That’s when I started blogging properly, I’ve always hated using Blogger to post, you can’t copy and paste, its really difficult to lay out text and pictures are a nightmare! This meant that I had loads more freedom and now am happy to post several times a day about insignificant things!

I still only have 29 followers on Blogger + 20 on Bloglovin’ so hopefully throughout 2011 I will reach the 100 mark and keep climbing. Thank you to anyone who does follow me and keeps reading my posts, it makes me happy to think that some people do find what I say interesting, thanks for sticking with me

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Project ReStyle

This year I will be taking part in Project ReStyle,

“Project Restyle is a just-for-fun creative group focused on ReStyling damaged, unwanted or unusable goods into fresh, beautiful pieces.”

I am super excited to get involved with this, I can’t wait to get home and raid my loft and cupboards for things to transform!

It’s real easy to get involved too, you just need to take a before and after pic and you can post it to flickr or on your own blog. If you’re one of the good ones that week you might get posted up on Elsie or Rachel’s blogs.

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Vanilla Kisses & White Chocolate and Orange Mini Cupcakes

For Christmas My Aunt gave me a set of silicone cake cases, I’ve been thinking about buying some for ages but wasn’t sure. She also gave me a lovely cupcake & cookies cooking book from Lakeland so of course I had to try it out.

I baked Vanilla Kisses and White Chocolate and Orange Mini Cupcakes. In my book, they were both disasters, the Vanilla kisses promised to be beautiful and when I piped the biscuits onto the baking sheets they looked more than perfect, however I didn’t realise how far they would flatten out when baking, and they looked far from perfect. I also apparently cannot read, the cupcake recipe was for 48 cakes, and as I had 12 cases I did 1/4s only, I didn’t realise that the recipe was for mini cupcakes and got confused when the recipe barely stretched to 10.

Better luck next time Emily.

apparently it all tasted delicious and my cousin suggested that I go on Celebrity Masterchef, not just (Masterchef, but Celebrity!)

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