In Stitches || November 2013

    It's the middle of December, I'm extremely late on this but nevertheless here it is November's edition of 'In Stitches' hope you enjoy! I've also got some posts lined up for the week of Christmas so keep posted for them along with an update on what's been happening in my life recently!

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    So something I'm quite excited to read the reviews for is the release of the Twitter sensation 'Gus The Fox's book. If you don't already follow the quite crude and witty tweets of Gus I strongly recommend you go and do it, especially considering its the winter season and I'm sure he'll have some good things to say about the upcoming holiday. Like quite a few people, I found Gus through his interactions with Noel Fielding on Twitter and they've sparked a loving friendship, that loving that in fact Noel has agreed to write to foreword for the book featuring some of his own drawings which will be exciting to see! There is an interview up on TVO with Gus which you can see if you click right here, it's only short but it is an entertaining 10 minute read.

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    Talking about Noel Fielding, news has landed that some of his artwork will be featured in LA, as part of a new exhibition all about cats (internal squeal!) the location is still wrapped in mystery but it will start on the 23rd of January for 8 days with all the profits going towards the Stray Cat Alliance. As a fellow cat lover and art enthusiast I strongly encourage you to pop down (once we know the location) and have a nosey and definitely donate generously because it's going to a great cause and will be a wonderful day out! I will extremely jealous of you everybody there.

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    As a lot of people I'm a fan of Peep Show, secretly hoping for another series (although I don't think there will be) something else has fallen into our laps for Christmas and it's in the form of the radio. Six years ago, the Mitchell and Webb Sound graced the radio waves for 4 series but once again they've returned! In the new 4 part series you can listen to live on Tuesday's at 6.30pm on Radio 4, you can catch up any you've missed right here. Maybe we'll get news of a new series broadcast next year if all goes well with the reboot.

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    And finally this month, Chris O'Dowd and James Franco will be hitting broadway together next year in a rendition of John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice And Men', both will be playing the two main characters George and Lennie. For those of you who haven't heard or read the novel before it explores the lives of George and Lennie who is learning-impaired while they get work together on the fields but end up in huge trouble. It will be 47 years since the novel was put on broadway so there will be high expectations for success and to ultimately live up to the novel (which I studied for two years and its really entertaining). It's set to start production in April and will run through to the end of July, tickets are not yet on sale but keep a look out if your interested.

Leavers Do Collective Haul

    As  I mentioned in my post yesterday my leavers do, the last time I'll see everyone from my school year is tomorrow. Now I originally opted for a straight dress as it has become the fashionable, on trend thing right now. I made a post of this, showing you the dress and shoes I would wear, however I've made a decision to scrap that and go for the more traditional big puffy dress. 


    Now with people close to me who haven't seen the dress, I'm keeping it under wraps right now so I won't be presenting a photograph to you all, but on Sunday I will have a post up on the entire day/night which will include numerous photos of the dress so that is all to come. These following items are things I've picked up for the day and to help with the preparation. 

    The first item is something I've never tried before and it's Katy Perry's own brand on fake eyelashes, now there's 4 different varieties and I'd like to say they go more fuller and extreme between all 4. The ones I chose were 'Cool Kitty' personally I would say these are the number 2 on extreme and fullness almost like the ones she is wearing in the photo.

    I haven't worn these before and I've only bought one packet but after researching into the brand 'Eylure' and those who have tried out all three products these seem to be the favourite across the board. Adding the extra volume and length needed without over exaggerating the appearance of false lashes. These lashes are £5.95 each which is a decent price I'd like to think, but a review on whether they're worth it will be up soon.

    This product is just a general re-purchase as my current 'Peep Show' mascara is being quite clumped around the brush and considering this event only occurs once treating myself to a new mascara wouldn't harm anybody. I hardly own any products from '17' but I do intend on increasing my collection as their make up has never failed me at all.

    Giving a high standard of length of volume to your lashes, this mascara is something that everybody should buy. I have standard sized eyelashes so this helps to build on that and create a good effect, darkening them slightly helping to make them stand out more. I know a few people have quite short eye lashes so I'm not sure on its performance but I'd imagine it helps a lot, retailing at £6.29 its very reasonable for a good product.

    My last leavers do related product is this, now what I tell you next might be deemed as wrong and inappropriate for my age but I had thought about it for a long time. Due to everyone getting fake tanned for leavers, I wanted to avoid the orange look and sticky consistency that comes from that, so instead my mum hired a tanning bed to be placed in our house for 5 weeks, costing £90.

    We've had it going on 3 weeks now and I haven't used it for that entire time period as I would be very dark by now and look stupid for the day. This past week and half of last week I've been going on the bed for 6 minutes then leaving a day or so gap and repeating. To help prevent my skin from drying up dramatically I bought this. It's a wonderful product, it replenishes your skin wonderfully and sinks in, in seconds leaving your skin non sticky.

    I would use this on my entire body after I was dry from a shower and it works wonders, my skin is not dry in the slightest and it leaves a very nice subtle hint of mango on your skin. The smell isn't pungent and literally lasts an hour or so, if you have dry skin I'd recommend this, it only costs £2.99 for a 250 ml bottle and around £8.00 for a 500ml I believe.

    Fagan x