After yesterday, I have learnt my lesson about going to work and making nil effort over my appearance, as shallow as this may sound.
I felt pretty rubbish when I woke up, so I didnt feel like doing much in the way of getting ready. I washed and blowdryed my hair and left it in its natural state (ie a colossal wavey mess), threw on a pair of jeans and a baggy top and some flats that i dont even like, and ventured into London.

Later that afternoon my boss and I recieved an email from the agent who looks after a number of our presenters/guests. He said he was coming in with our pundit for the evening, Martin Keown (total sweetheart!) and wanted to meet us both. I've liased with him on the phone before and he has a hot voice, so i nipped off to the dressing rooms to reapply my makeup just on the offchance that he might be as hot as he sounded on the phone.

Lets just say, I have fallen in love! Not only was he incredibly handsome, he was all suited up and I for one am a sucker for a man in a good suit. Absolutely kicking myself for not making an effort. It really is fascinating how much your appearance and the clothes you wear can have such an impact upon how you feel about yourself...

In other news, finally got hold of a pic of Willy Wonka from New Years Eve!

It's Burlesque

Last night I went to the cinema in Leicester Sq with my favourite makeup artist Carla (speaking of which, if anyone ever needs a makeup artist for anything, Carla's your girl!)
We saw Burlesque and it was fantastically cheesy, just like I hoped it would be. I love Christina's incredible, distinctive voice so i was excited when this film came out. It made me wish I could dance, and I wanted half of the outfits to manifest themselves in my wardrobe!

If your not expecting a total feel-good cheesefest, this movie is not for you. If you are, i recommend!

I recently treated myself to a new camera, as the one I was given for Christmas last year was dropped by a friend in a club and sadly gave up on life.
As I'm no budding photographer, I didnt necessarily go for a camera with an amazing spec...but I was drawn to the awesome front LCD screen on this badboy.

The aim is to be able to take better quality pics for my blog. Happy days.

I'll leave you with a little snapshot of my boyfriend on New Years day. We played 'Who am I?' with celebrity masks, took him a while to guess that he was 'Jedward'!

Nom

I went to a cosy restaurant with a log fire tonight with my friend La.
We had a night of deep chats about life and the future, and classic pub food, with brownies thrown in for good measure.
I wore...

Top/dress - Lipsy - It was originally a dress that I had taken up...but they took it up too short and now I have to wear it with leggings:(
Leggings - Topshop
Cardigan - New Look
Necklace - Accessorize

Soo tired after a busy week at work, glad its the weekend!

Had my nails done today with Biogel..love love love them! I recieved a DIY gel nail kit for Christmas so im very excited to try it out.

I was browsing the interweb & made a spontaneous purchase on the Jane Norman website. I'd been shopping with my friend & she'd tried an identical dress on in another store, and it had looked amazing. Sadly the same could not be said for the below:

Its totally different to anything I've ever bought before so it was worth a try, but sadly it is going right back to the shop. To Jane Norman's credit, it was packaged beautifully.

What other online stores are good for buying nice dresses?

It feels like only yesterday that the decorations were going up for Christmas, & today they all came down again. I hate it when the decs come down, it makes all the rooms look so bare!

I didnt get around to updating much before Christmas as I was in hospital & then back to work, so here's a few pics in the run up to Xmas day...

Our dining room on Christmas day

Mistletoe in the lounge

Lazy day with my cat Molly

Our garden when it snowed

Me with my workmates Sam & George Lineker (doesn't he look uncannily like his dad?!) at the staff party (so much fun! far too much wine was consumed!!)

Me & my boyf bought each other nearly identical cards !

Im looking forward to getting back to work properly tomorrow, and back into a routine!

We're gonna party like its...2011

Happy New Year!!

Hope 2010 treated you all well, & i hope 2011 does too :)
I saw in the new year surrounded by some of my very best friends at a Willy Wonka themed club night. I met Willy Wonka & partied til i could party no more (until my boyfriend had to physically lift me up and remove me from the dancefloor!)
What I wore...

A very old dress from New Look!
I scoured two different major shopping locations in the run up to NYE for a simple little black dress with straps, but alas, I found nothing that matched my very basic criteria so I settled for this.
This may come as a shock to some of you but I am looking forward to seeing the end of the January sales and shops returning to some form of normality, with full priced items clearly organised together on their rails and not masses of mismatched items bundled together on rails/the floor making it impossible to find anything.
Not to mention seeing the end of this craze for one shouldered dresses..that is not to say I havnt purchased one or two but I am looking forward to dresses with two straps regaining their popularity in 2011!