Ho Ho Ho.

Ahhh, no one is psyched for Christmas! I am, and I love that everything is holiday themed right now, even Google. I went to Guildford yesterday and it was dead, but I've returned feeling holly jolly, even though all I bought was things for myself, but hey, I'm done with Christmas shopping, and I'm quite content with my bank balance hating me.

Tonight I'm meeting up with my best friend, Lucy for Christmas Eve drinks. I was a bit panicky about what to buy her, but on the subject of Christmas gifts, I snapped up one of Lyzi from BeingLittle's fabric kittens as a potential gift for someone but forgot, and was very pleased when I remembered what I'd done, Internet shopping is so great that way.

(via BeingLittle)

They're adorable, and so reasonably priced, I might pick up a few more and even one for myself when I finally get to my someday home.
You can pick them up and have a look at some of the other cute things Lyzi sells on her shop.

Tatty Devine have posted some great tutorials for things to make with Christmas cracker prizes. Will definitely have to give them a go, and hope that I get something decent, I'm nearly always hoping for the mini-screwdrivers though. You can see the tutorial above and others on the Tatty Devine website.

(via Feature Shoot)

This portrait series of disabled pets by animal carer/trainer turned photographer, Carli Davidson, is adorable. She also did a great series called 'Shake' which can be seen, along with the above, on her website.

Nail Art Pen, Topshop, £6.50.

This is definitely a nail-art pen you can trust, after reading Gem Fatale's mini review of them, I was still a bit skeptical. However, after testing them out in real life, they really are literally like using a felt-tip pen and are just great, I can't wait to purchase one for my own as my trusty WAH pen has died and they don't seem to make them in a larger size anymore. :(

(via Nailside)

So envious of these Christmas nail-art ideas right now, I've been very indecisive and my nails are so short at the moment, boo!

(via Interior Porn)

(via The Third Reel)

I've seen this film twice in four days, it's perfection. It's everything I love about a gritty drama and the cinematography is brilliant, along with the soundtrack and the beautiful Tilda ♥. I picked up the book yesterday which promises to go more in-depth, once I've finished fangirling over 127 Hours' novel, 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place', I'll get on it.

(via LazyOaf)

Due to Nigel Slater's recent Christmas special, I was reminded of this video I put together when Moon and I were watching him one evening. It may not show Moon in a great light, but I like it and it's funny.

If you haven't been overexposed to Michael Bublé yet, where have you been? It's so difficult to not love him though when he's willing to parody himself on SNL.

Link love!

The Dainty Squid FF #136

Google Web Fonts — Free open-source fonts for websites.

Kim Jong-Il Dropping The Bass — It's always nice to see some harmless mocking of a recently deceased dictator.

Getty's Year in Focus — I was waiting for this to turn up, so many powerful images set within a great Youtube mix.

Coverjunkie's Best Cover of 2011 — Be sure to vote for Little White Lies because they're great but there are some great other magazine covers to look at too. Such nice visuals.

Modcloth's sale — Add the code 'SALEAWAY' for an extra 25% off up to 28th December. So many nice things!

CHRISTMAS EVE! Yeah!

Facebook - Timeline.

Before I get underway with the mammoth load of planned posts that I have, I thought I'd share my excitement over the forthcoming F8 from Facebook. Because I'm such a nerd, I've already pushed forward my chance to use it and switched to using Timeline. After being so annoyed with the New Facebook that they updated with last week - although I've since got over it and normality has resumed - I think all can be forgiven when the sheer awesomeness of Timeline is taken into account, even 'Lists' (which I still don't use and have since deleted, but I'm sure it will come in useful at some time, probably).

So yeah, because I've been away for the weekend and haven't really wanted to/had the time to blog, I thought I'd share both a screen-cap of my current Facebook profile because it pleases me. And tell you to get on it, because it's fun to know what you were doing in 2007, I don't know how but they've actually added to amount you can procrastinate on Facebook and given my current situation, I think it's brilliant.

It's pretty easy to do if you have instructions, so follow this link and you can start embracing Timeline as the future of your social networking, Google what?

Haven't heard of SBTV?

You soon will; SBTV's founder, Jamal Edwards is a star on the rise.

You may notice that the up and coming Ed Sheeran owes a lot to SBTV, a simple search on Youtube can't deny the facts. SBTV is currently one of the youngest new media companies on the scene, letting other young people know about new music and what's going on. During the riots earlier this month, SBTV was at the forefront of informing it's audience of the issues in an accessible way. However, SBTV are putting no limits on what they want to achieve and how they're going to achieve it.

Earlier this year SBTV was the subject of the T4 documentary 'Inside SBTV: From Bedroom to Boardroom' and despite being around for four years previously, their popularity then soared.

Edwards is a gent and if I'd had the time, I would have been happy to have taken up the offer to blog some news articles for SBTV. But, due to my current situation, I'm happy to admire Edwards' achievements from afar and be quite pleased to have been aware of SBTV for a few months prior to 'Bedroom to Boardroom'; it's always great to feel as though you've grown with something.


Currently featuring on the Youtube homepage, earlier this evening Edwards' Google Chrome advert appeared in X-Factor's prime advertising slot and the SBTV website went down! Jamal Edwards is an inspirational young man in these times of arguable uncertainty and I'm looking forward to seeing what he's got coming up next.

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