Dreaming of Seasides

and because it make's me laugh...SELF TIMER ACCIDENTAL HAIR SWISHING

Also, go and read Freedom by Jonathon Franzen. I haven;t even finished it yet but I already know it's the best book I've read in a long long time.

Fairy Hair

Part of The Massive Dissertation Avoidance Project (TMDAP) involved daydreaming about what the hair would look like of a lovechild between Kurt Cobain turned ballerina..

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and some kind of magical mermaid lady...

Anyway I got my box of hair dyes out and had a play and ended up with...

FAIRY HAIR :D
I think this is gonna look great when the turquoise fades out a bit...


Sources as far as I'm aware:
1: no idea- if anyone does please let me know
2: degas
3:http://firejay.deviantart.com

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More Books What I Have Read

My dissertation is not going as swimmingly as I had hoped, so I'm reckoning that if I practice doing a bit of writing in blogland first, the diss-writing will start to flow a bit better.
Here's what words I have looked at and understood.

I'm not following this, but it's got some alright recipes and good workout plans in it.

A bit blah 

I like reading things that talk about vintage clothes...

Goes well with leftover birthday cake.

<3

That last one was actually research for my dissertation so that is a GOOD THING in my life!

Now I'm going to go downstairs, replace my empty cafetiere with a pot full of green tea, stare at the washing up, think about doing it, walk into the living room, attempt not to get sucked into to the Gilmore Girls (How did it take me this long to realise it was amazing? How?), hang my wet laundry up to dry, sit down at the computer, stare at my pile of books that I actually HAVE to read, write some words, realise they are awful, delete the words, repeat ad nauseum.

Toodlepip

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Through a glass, sparkly...

That was an awful pun.
Through a glass, darkly is an EXCELLENT book by Jostein Gaarder with many insights into religion, and childhood, and terminal illness and stuff. It's sad. But excellent.
And if i take pictures of myself with a shitty webcam through a sparkly fairy wand it looks like that up there ^^^.

Also, I have decided to keep track of the books I read this year to a) feel good about myself being a geeky bookworm, b) make myself read some of the books I keep meaning to read but dont and c) try and stop myself endlessly re-reading the harry potter books and the princess diaries (though I <3 them more than a nearly 22 year old should).

Anyhow so far this year:

Default 'home for holidays no-more-stress-please' reading

angsty russian literature for looking cool on buses

long descriptions of pretty dresses, with love stories and holocaust stories woven in.

M'off to watch Big Bang Theory.
Night
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Tears Of Milk

TEARS OF MILK

A.K.A boredom + Eyedrops = Bathroom photoshoot.

Also

Why does the sun shine?

We FINALLY got some sunshine in Yorkshire! And I've been working through most of it.

In exceedingly boring black clothes.

Which means as soon as I get home...

I go rainbow :D

And I'm off to brighton tomorrow! To see my big brother but also, y'know, SEASIDE! And the lanes, even though, despite this job I am FAR from rich.

I'm sure i'll be able to find something shiny...

Stalk Of Wheat

An outfit I wore when I thought I was going to be going out drinking but ended up staying in and watching french lesbian coming of age films and debating baby names all evening.

Hello

I Am

distinctly overdressed

for this sofa.

But I don't really mind.



Cardigan: New Look(promptly stolen by my mum)
Dress: Primark
Belt: Zara
Tights: Dorothy Perkins
Shoes: Office

Maastricht

I'm currently in Maastricht, in The Netherlands, on a 6 week project at the Toneelacademie working with Peter Misotten and some of the students there. It's really really hard work, but there's still been time for some shiny adventure times!

Double-Decker Trains!

  

Carousels!

The Scariest Swing-Chairs Known To Mankind!

They are taller than trees.

Even taller than this one.

Which I think is a wisteria? It's beautiful and smells heavenly anyway.

And it's very very purple and makes me think of Jeff Buckley's 'Lilac Wine'.

 I Don;t know what this means, but I like how the metal sign is less shiny than the non-metal door!

And now...

A couple of limericks written for my silly friends.

There was a young wenchface named Annabel
who became a quite horrible cannibal
she ate people up
and drank blood from a cup
so her presence from restaurants is bannable.

There was a young lady from Luddenden
who splashed in the puddles of mud and then
got soaking wet socks
and her shoes full of rocks
so she emptied them out to have fun again!

I shall have to go now, for I have many unwritten essays and not enough time for anything.

Til we meet again!

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The official introduction.

So my names Florrie, and I'm a shinyholic.

And a brightaholic.

And a colouraholic.

And a fancydressaholic.

I'm not very skinny.

I'm not very pretty.

I do the best with what I've got.

I'm permanently skint, but a total shopaholic, so pretty much everything I wear is bought in a sale, a charity shop, some kind of jumble sale, or made by me.

And I like it that way.

I like 50's swing dresses. I like big petticoats. I like dying my hair different colours. I like face and bodypaint. I like unusually cut things. I like well cut things.

Quick sample of everydayness:

Guyonmycourse:(on seeing me wear a big frilly tutu-ish skirt on assessment day) Hey Florrie is that your costume?

Florrie:(yes I like 3rd person) No I'm just doing lights today...

It started with a girl.

And the girl was called Florrie.

And Florrie was a shinyholic.

She liked Awesome things.

And.

She liked Bright things.

And.

She liked Cute things.

And.

She liked Delicate things.

And.

She liked Exciting things.

And.

She liked Floaty things.

And.

She liked Gigantic things.

And.

She liked Handsome things.

And.

She liked Incandescent things.

And.

She liked Jellied things.

And.

She liked Kitsch things.

And.

She liked Lovely things.

And.

She liked Magnificent things.

And.

She liked Nice things.

And.

She liked Ostentatious things.

And.

She liked Pretty things.

And.

She liked Questionable things.

And.

She liked Retro things.

And.

She liked Sparkly things.

And.

She liked Twinkly things.

And.

She liked Unusual things.

And.

She liked Vintage things.

And.

She liked Wistful things.

And.

She liked X-Rated things.

And.

She liked Yummy things.

And.

She liked....*consults dictionary*  Zoomorphic things.

But that was a lot of things for one person to have.

So Florrie decided to share them all in blog-form with the Whole Wide World , and that means you.

So without any further delay, she presents to you:

THEY

MIGHT

BE

SHINY

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