Swiftly, briefly, nothing

Just a swift something - I don't have photoshop at the moment, so have to go the long way round to see what I'd look like with different hair...


*Edit: I was going to post the 'finished' picture here, but it's just too darn creepy - using polyvore instead of photoshop means it looks a little like I've ripped off my face & slapped it on someone else's. Hannibal Lecter-stylee. 


So enjoy the mental image instead! :)   


**Edit number two (the scary picture I made just popped up on Polyvore & I realised it's just too funny not to share (I hope, anyways :) ))

I can't really be blamed - who wouldn't want hair like that, right? 
And *skills* like that too, perhaps? Ha. 


Hunting for a hairdressers at home to go & visit at the weekend, so fingers crossed all goes to plan :}

Dreaming of a space to count sheep...

The time to move out of my Gran's (actually really lovely) house & into a flat of my own, with my BFF Sj is drawing ever nearer - & I couldn't be more excited!


The contract on her current flat (in Southampton) is up at the end of June, so we've got May & June to flat hunt! Which is going to hopefully be super fun! :) 

In the mean time, it means I can have bit of a think about how I'm going to decorate my room. This is really rather exciting because it means buying new bed linin, throwing away a whole bunch of rubbish & having a lovely new sanctuary - which I guess is pretty standard with a new house! 


The bedding-thing especially excites me because I've been putting off buying anything that could be classed as 'decoration' or 'furnishings' since I've been in London as I was staying with my Gran, & really didn't want to make it feel permanent. But now...! 


This all leads to looking at dreamy pictures of bedrooms, and other people's houses in general, mostly on Elledecor.com, Sweethomestyle.tumblr.com & the 'interiors' sets on Polyvore.com; 

Quite liking the general simplicity of this picture...I guess as more of a 'mood board' than anything else, but it's cute.

 (http://imgspark.com/image/view/all/1615306/)

Love the fuzzy chair! Is it just a rug that's been put on a regular chair? If so, I know what I'm going to be getting at Ikea!

(Both above, from ElleDecor)

I selected 'bedroom' & 'beach' & these were just a couple of what they came up with! Uhmazing. 

The idea of having a balcony coming off the bedroom is just dreamy <3 

Soft white bedding will always look irresistible! Plus, I think I just really quite like this picture - it reminds me a lot of a picture my friend Oli took (he did photog at Uni & it was part of a project) of my bed when we lived in the same house a couple of years ago. I swear his pictures just make everyday objects look like something amazing. Super talented person, really. 

I think I really just want somewhere I can paint white, have super soft bedding with just the right amount of far too many pillows, minimal clutter and the biggest bed the space can take :) 

All of the above, in London, on a budget...easy, right? 

xo

Online Shopping

Is pretty much making my life right now - I don't get paid until next week (and might just wet myself with excitement!), so right now browsing online is like window shopping, but from the comfort of bed...ideal <3

Catching my attention right now is a lot of stuff from Topshop - usually I'd be loving the dresses, but not so much at the moment. It seems to be the week for cute sweatshirts & bikinis - a slightly odd combo, but when you're 'shopping' from bed, anything goes;

YES RAGLAN BY ILLUSTATED PEOPLE

VOUS ET MOI LOVE HEART TANK

TRUE LOVE RAGLAN BY ILLUSTRATED PEOPLE

RED ROPE PRINT BANDEAU BIKINI

BLUE ANCHOR STRIPE BIKINI

A little visit to Westfields after work on Thursday might be in order...(!)

A quick catch up.

So I now have a macbook! And am fully loving it like a child ♥ 

The other (slightly more major) news is that I have a job!(!!!)
Not just any job either, but Marketing Assistant at Tomas Lyte.

 

It's pretty awesome so far - I've been to a sample sale, lunches, drinks, and seen  pretty much how the whole business works, which has been really interesting! So much so, I feel that I could probably bore anyone who would let me to death with how trophies are made, how to gift wrap something properly and all about SEO & affiliate marketing...Laaavely.

Other things that I've been up to recently...

It was Bracey's birthday at the weekend! Which obviously meant:
Slough + Local Pub + Engagement parties + cocktails + shots + 90% of people vomming & lots of fun in the sun :) (not quite in that order though!)

(L-R) Sarah, Holly, Adam, Bracey, Liam, Fran & Megan.

Totally better than candy necklaces!

More or less how the evening went...classy ;)

Wish I'd taken a picture of the massive fry up I had the following morning. Deeelish. 

And The Boy's gone off on tour! Cheeky devil. 
The new band he's joined are pretty awesome & have supported people like Zebrahead & Less Than Jake & I'd seen the old lineup play a few times over the years spent in Southampton, so I knew they were pretty awesome :)

They're called Kids Can't Fly - check 'em out if you like happy, upbeat ska! (shameless promo, but I honestly would recommend them!)

It's generally been quite a lovely couple of weeks, just seeing friends & learning a mind-boggling amount at work! 

Therefore I'm off to hop into bed and watch the rest of Katie - my beautiful friends. Really makes me not only feel so grateful that I don't have any serious medical conditions, or have been the victim of any horrific attacks, but also really inspiring from an entrepreneurial point of view - here's a girl who's only...25(ish?) & she's set up a charity, made these programs and helping so many other people. What a winner <3

Nighty night xo

Hello, new technologly!

Not having my laptop is killing me.

On the bright side, I have the most wonderful Mother in the world, so fingers (& toes) crossed, my next blog post could be coming from one of these beauties!

Cannot wait. <3

Twitter's Birthday!

Did you know Twitter has been going for five years already?! I certainly didn't, until I came across this tweet by @madebymany;

Whoa! Happy 5th birthday Twitter - check out what they're doing to celebrate http://discover.twitter.com/

The link directs you to a really cute video with 'famous' people talking about why they use twitter, who they follow, what they're interested in, and so on.

It's a real range of people too, from @SnoopDogg to @RichardBranson and @sfzoo (San Francisco Zoo).

However, one of the 'recommended' people I'm now following with great interest is Paolo Nespoli - @astro_paolo. His Twitter bio describes him as "European Space Agency Astronaut, Flight Engineer of ISS Expedition 26/27 (Dec 2010 - May 2011)". On the video, he comes across as a really nice guy, too!

And his Twitter stream is stuffed full of amazing pictures, such as the recent 'Super Moon' -

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/magisstra/5546395094/sizes/z/in/photostream/)

Definitely worth a look!

An online snap-shot of my skills...

I've been spending the past couple of weeks applying for jobs (some look really interesting - so fingers & toes crossed on that front!), and something that occured to me is that it would probably be a good idea to pop an example of something I did whilst at my recent internship, so this is a press release I put together, (with the photo I took and edited, then compiled the list of contacts, and sent out...) 

Assembly Studios Appoints New Account Director for London Studio

"Assembly Studios has announced the appointment of Benedicte van Boxel as Account Director for its London studio.


Van Boxel has over 15 years’ experience in the new media and creative industries, having worked previously at RDF Media / Contact, Pictures Production Company, Red Bee Media (formerly known as BBC Broadcast) and Razorfish. Her new position will see her heading up the client services teams across the UK and UAE regions and maximising global development opportunities.


“I’m delighted to be joining Assembly Studios at such an exciting time’ said Van Boxel yesterday. ‘They’re a great bunch of people, lots of energy and fresh ideas; I’m really looking forward to the new challenge.”


Van Boxel will work closely with Managing Director, Richard Conner, and CEO, Matt Fairman.


Conner says: “We are always looking for ways to improve service delivery and ensure that our client partnerships are long term relationships, rather than flings. We’re delighted to have Benedicte on board – we know she’s exactly the right person to ensure we continue to achieve this.”


Van Boxel, the recipient of a number of industry accolades, including both an IMAA and Promax US Gold award for her work at BBC Broadcast, joined Assembly Studios this week."

As a result, is was posted on the Creative Boom website! Exciting stuff, eh?
 
A lot of the other things I did were more internal/confidential, so I can't really show any examples here...
 
However, I did set up a few different social media channels for Assembly Studios which you can check out if you fancy:
 
Assembly Tumblr.com
 
Assembly Behance.net
 
As well as managing the Assembly Twitter, Facebook (wich got shut down! Grumble.) and the Assembly Blog.
 
To be fair - quite a lot of fun for online 'geeking out', as it's sometimes refered to by The Boy. I wouldn't have it any other way!