I love movies, i love movies more than tv. There are nearly 300 movies in my collection and I am constantly adding to it, buying 6 or 7 new dvds every month. I like to cater to every eventuality and have movies from nearly every genre in my collection. My favourite being action movies of the 80s and 90s ( die hard, lethal weapon, terminator).
I have a large array of horror movies, ranging from some classics from the 60s and 70s to the teen slashers of the 90s and the mind fuck horror of the new millenium. I have cuddly christmas movies and hard face true life movie. Stupid comedies and genius criminal ploys.
My boyfriend and I always have heated discussions about movies and we generally have the same taste in them. We like to break them down and analyse them. And we are always introducing the other to new movies.
So, iv decided to watch an old movie ( a movie released before 2010/2011 ) everyday for at least a week and if i stick to that, maybe for a whole month. And review it, give my insight and analysis and discuss whether or not the movie made a splash (or a flop ), when it was released.
I have been watching a few movies today so i will review one of them and write it in tommorows blog.
For now
Nova
x
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Feeling all House Proud!!
As i mentioned in my first blog entry, im hoping to move into a new place pretty soon. And in preparation for this move, iv been buying up bits and pieces to make the house a home for my son and I.
I have lived on my own before but as a student and had only a plate and a cup to my name. So i had absolutely everything to buy... Everything you would ever possibly need for a kitchen, a bathroom, a living room and two bedrooms had to be bought. And i have nearly all the essentials purchased. I have been very conservative with my spending, only buying the things i really need. But in my travels, i have come across a few gems that i WILL OWN. Things that will have no use but will sit and look pretty and shiny.
These are fancy fairy lights i found on Amazon and i absolutely adore them...Im going to buy these and put them in my bedroom around my headboard. I love fairy lights, because they remind me of christmas and i love christmas.. Harsh celing lights and those energy saving lights do not go down well with me. I prefer soft lighting, sometimes in various bright colours... hence the love of fairy lights (and candles).
This is a really cute vintage sign, also from Amazon... i love these kind of things, makes me think of the 20s ( one of my favourite eras). Its also an Americana style sign.... and thats just a piece of american culture that everyone should have in their home.
Another awesome find from Amazon.. These are quirky fridge magnets designed to look like bits of a randsom note... I love this, iv made collages like this at school... I love the idea of people using words cut from a magazine in ransom notes... You know that so much more effort has gone into the kidnapping hehe!
Ok, one of my crazy vice's when it comes to home furnishings are ornate lanterns for tea lights. I own about 30 of them already, ranging from really plain white ones that resemble bird cages to beautiful copper ones that look almost arabian like. But i have found these beautiful ones with colourded glass panes.
I could own hundreds of these and never turn on my electricity. Just sit in the warm glow of candlelight.
I also found these awesome hanging tealight holders that hang from chains... I love these for gardens.
I also love hanging winchimes in the garden... This is a personal favourite.
I have a love of beautiful Asian inspired furniture, with lots of colour and patterns. I love teaming silk cushions and throws with bright colours with very dark furniture. I would say that black is my favourite colour and i guess you could say my taste in clothing and the like is very gothic. But when it comes to my surroundings, i love colour and texture... i love weird art and vintage movie and tv posters. I love candles, love love love them. And when it comes to a kitchen, i love vinatge colours and items... Like cute cupcakes stands and aprons and even muffin cases. When it comes to kitchen things there is no colour better than green and i am going to purchase a lime green toaster, kettle and microwave...I like continuity in appliance colours.
If i find any more treasures i will add them soon... Id love to hear any feedback on these items and if anyone knows any webistes that sells items like these, i'd love to know about them.
Love Nova
x
I have lived on my own before but as a student and had only a plate and a cup to my name. So i had absolutely everything to buy... Everything you would ever possibly need for a kitchen, a bathroom, a living room and two bedrooms had to be bought. And i have nearly all the essentials purchased. I have been very conservative with my spending, only buying the things i really need. But in my travels, i have come across a few gems that i WILL OWN. Things that will have no use but will sit and look pretty and shiny.
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Ok, one of my crazy vice's when it comes to home furnishings are ornate lanterns for tea lights. I own about 30 of them already, ranging from really plain white ones that resemble bird cages to beautiful copper ones that look almost arabian like. But i have found these beautiful ones with colourded glass panes.
I also found these awesome hanging tealight holders that hang from chains... I love these for gardens.
I also love hanging winchimes in the garden... This is a personal favourite.
I have a love of beautiful Asian inspired furniture, with lots of colour and patterns. I love teaming silk cushions and throws with bright colours with very dark furniture. I would say that black is my favourite colour and i guess you could say my taste in clothing and the like is very gothic. But when it comes to my surroundings, i love colour and texture... i love weird art and vintage movie and tv posters. I love candles, love love love them. And when it comes to a kitchen, i love vinatge colours and items... Like cute cupcakes stands and aprons and even muffin cases. When it comes to kitchen things there is no colour better than green and i am going to purchase a lime green toaster, kettle and microwave...I like continuity in appliance colours.
If i find any more treasures i will add them soon... Id love to hear any feedback on these items and if anyone knows any webistes that sells items like these, i'd love to know about them.
Love Nova
x
Friday, July 15, 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 review thingy
I'm not usually a fan of going to see movies the first day of release because i find it very hard to enjoy it with 200 other people chewing popcorn, laughing like injured hyenas and generally being assholes. But, being the avid Harry Potter fan that i am, i decided this was the time to just grin and bear it.
My first thought about the movie was that it is most certainly made to cater to the people who have not read the series of books at all or as closely as other HP fans. There were a lot of tiny details missing from the movie, most of these small snippets of dialouge from the book that gave better background information and a deeper backstory.. Not exactly relevant to the overall story, which is what most people seeing the movie are only interested in, but I feel it is definetly missed by fans of the books. For example, the deaths of a few central characters were not actually shown in the movie and all we see is the aftermath... that being their dead bodies lying on the floor. These were pivitol moments in the book and its sad to see that they were left out of the movie.
The special effects are mind blowing, as usual with the harry potter movies and areas of the story that need a real life visual representation to truely understand the importance of it ( the journey to the vault in gringotts for example ) are brought to life through amazing CGI, amazing costuming and set design and in the case of the journey to the vault in gringotts,the flight on the dragon and certain parts of the final battle, amazing attention to the detail JK Rowling has given us in the book.
Fun thing....as, a girl i am aloud to appreciate that all the male actors are so damn hot when their all sweaty and bloody... And believe me, their is a lot of blood and sweat...and dirt...and glass... and rock and brick and stone... I think their may only be about a 20 minute period in the movie when harry, ron and hermione are actually clean...after that, its all dirt and blood... Again, this is all down to the awesome jobs of the special effects and make up guys... They really know how to make someone look like they've actually been in an avalanche.
As i am a huge fan of the books, more so than the movies, i do wish that they could have spent a tiny bit more time on certain aspects of the story because it seems like we've been waiting to see the finale on the screens for years. But i guess after 8 movies and 10 years, they have to cater to everyone. I mean, looking around the cinema today it seemed that most of the children there were under the age of 12 and being accompanied by their parents... children who would have only been babies or not even born when the first book was published.
Overall though, i am immensely happy that i went to see it today. The amount of hype that it has built up is definetly deserved. I am happy that i got to experience the world of Harry Potter, both through the books and the movies... I read the books as i grew up and as the story changed and got older, i and so many others grew with it, still reaching for the books or watching the movies as we passed our teens and into adulthood. The story and the characters that JK Rowling has created have been like a friend to so many and when they see it come to an end not only on paper but on the screen then they can say goodbye to that old friend and hope that a whole new generation can appreciate it in the same way we did.
My first thought about the movie was that it is most certainly made to cater to the people who have not read the series of books at all or as closely as other HP fans. There were a lot of tiny details missing from the movie, most of these small snippets of dialouge from the book that gave better background information and a deeper backstory.. Not exactly relevant to the overall story, which is what most people seeing the movie are only interested in, but I feel it is definetly missed by fans of the books. For example, the deaths of a few central characters were not actually shown in the movie and all we see is the aftermath... that being their dead bodies lying on the floor. These were pivitol moments in the book and its sad to see that they were left out of the movie.
The special effects are mind blowing, as usual with the harry potter movies and areas of the story that need a real life visual representation to truely understand the importance of it ( the journey to the vault in gringotts for example ) are brought to life through amazing CGI, amazing costuming and set design and in the case of the journey to the vault in gringotts,the flight on the dragon and certain parts of the final battle, amazing attention to the detail JK Rowling has given us in the book.
Fun thing....as, a girl i am aloud to appreciate that all the male actors are so damn hot when their all sweaty and bloody... And believe me, their is a lot of blood and sweat...and dirt...and glass... and rock and brick and stone... I think their may only be about a 20 minute period in the movie when harry, ron and hermione are actually clean...after that, its all dirt and blood... Again, this is all down to the awesome jobs of the special effects and make up guys... They really know how to make someone look like they've actually been in an avalanche.
As i am a huge fan of the books, more so than the movies, i do wish that they could have spent a tiny bit more time on certain aspects of the story because it seems like we've been waiting to see the finale on the screens for years. But i guess after 8 movies and 10 years, they have to cater to everyone. I mean, looking around the cinema today it seemed that most of the children there were under the age of 12 and being accompanied by their parents... children who would have only been babies or not even born when the first book was published.
Overall though, i am immensely happy that i went to see it today. The amount of hype that it has built up is definetly deserved. I am happy that i got to experience the world of Harry Potter, both through the books and the movies... I read the books as i grew up and as the story changed and got older, i and so many others grew with it, still reaching for the books or watching the movies as we passed our teens and into adulthood. The story and the characters that JK Rowling has created have been like a friend to so many and when they see it come to an end not only on paper but on the screen then they can say goodbye to that old friend and hope that a whole new generation can appreciate it in the same way we did.
I'm Completely in Love - Sugarpill Cosmetics review.
So, shortly after my last entry, the postman arrived with a very small white box for me... I couldn't believe my luck, it seems like iv been waiting a decade for this package when in reality its only been a week.
I opened the box to find the prettiest pink crepe paper wrapped around the package's treasures... It was my order from Sugarpill Cosmetics (http://www.sugarpillshop.com/).
So now im going to review this fantastic company. ( i did not receive any of the products for free, i don't have those kind of connections yet haha ).
I ordered the two eyeshadows ( Love + and Poison Plum ) on Tuesday the 5th of July around mid-day... It cost $32, shipping included which worked out at about €23 for me. That was the first awesome thing... To get two top notch eyeshadows delivered from the states for only €23 is astonishing.
I received an email the next day saying the order had been dispatched. It states on the website that you can expect and international delivery to take between 2 and 6 weeks. But my order arrived in just one week.
I open the package and the first thing i see is the invoice, which in itself was an awesome thing. The owner of the company had signed it, saying thanks. I think this is a kick ass personal touch and i really appreciated it.
Then i got down to the brilliant task of opening and trying the eyeshadows out. They are fantastically pigmented and extremely hard wearing. The red colour of Love + is just amazing. But in addition to the two eyeshadows i ordered i also received a sample size of one of their Loose Shadows in the colour Goldilux which is a lovely shimmery gold colour...Iv only ever seen a loose pigment as bright and shinning as this before and it was an edible glitter that i bought for posh cupcakes. I used to think how amazing that stuff would be if you could use it as an eyeshadow and Sugarpill have done that with this loose eyeshadow. Another personal touch that was greatly appreciated.
And on top of these eyeshadows, i also received a Sugarpill sticker which has found pride of place on my laptop.. Its added a touch of sparkle to an otherwise depressing piece of garbage...haha!
I can safely say that Sugarpill has a customer for life and my next order will be a lot larger ( im going to buy all their pressed eyeshadows and a few of the loose ).
Its a fanastic company and i think every makeup lover should own one of their shadows.
Until next time
Nova
x
I opened the box to find the prettiest pink crepe paper wrapped around the package's treasures... It was my order from Sugarpill Cosmetics (http://www.sugarpillshop.com/).
So now im going to review this fantastic company. ( i did not receive any of the products for free, i don't have those kind of connections yet haha ).
I ordered the two eyeshadows ( Love + and Poison Plum ) on Tuesday the 5th of July around mid-day... It cost $32, shipping included which worked out at about €23 for me. That was the first awesome thing... To get two top notch eyeshadows delivered from the states for only €23 is astonishing.
I received an email the next day saying the order had been dispatched. It states on the website that you can expect and international delivery to take between 2 and 6 weeks. But my order arrived in just one week.
I open the package and the first thing i see is the invoice, which in itself was an awesome thing. The owner of the company had signed it, saying thanks. I think this is a kick ass personal touch and i really appreciated it.
Then i got down to the brilliant task of opening and trying the eyeshadows out. They are fantastically pigmented and extremely hard wearing. The red colour of Love + is just amazing. But in addition to the two eyeshadows i ordered i also received a sample size of one of their Loose Shadows in the colour Goldilux which is a lovely shimmery gold colour...Iv only ever seen a loose pigment as bright and shinning as this before and it was an edible glitter that i bought for posh cupcakes. I used to think how amazing that stuff would be if you could use it as an eyeshadow and Sugarpill have done that with this loose eyeshadow. Another personal touch that was greatly appreciated.
And on top of these eyeshadows, i also received a Sugarpill sticker which has found pride of place on my laptop.. Its added a touch of sparkle to an otherwise depressing piece of garbage...haha!
I can safely say that Sugarpill has a customer for life and my next order will be a lot larger ( im going to buy all their pressed eyeshadows and a few of the loose ).
Its a fanastic company and i think every makeup lover should own one of their shadows.
Until next time
Nova
x
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Yo-Yo weather worse than yo - yo weight :)
The last few days were i live have been unusually sunny... its like an indian summer... its been well above 20 degrees, yesterday it reached an insane 26 degrees.... I was in the pool all day with my sister... it was mind boggling...I'd also like to mention at this point that i do not burn and have never been sunburned in my life... I tan very easily... I do not however enjoy this as i like being very pale and i wear factor 50+ sun cream, the same stuff i use on my baby boy... and yet i still tan.... Bad times!
But then, i wake up today too grey skies and cold icy winds... In Ireland i have come to terms with the fact that the weather has absolutely no consistency and its very likely that we can go days with beautiful sun and warmth too weeks of rain, wind and even hailstones....
I live in a small town and its surrounded by a very beautiful landscape which during the wintery times it looks miserable and depressing... and you would assume that during the insane warm and sunny times that it would be breathtaking and wonderous... But no,.. Instead we get hit with gorse and forest fires... which is quite scary as i live quite close to a very dry patch of land that has caught fire more than a dozen times in the time iv lived in my house (nearly 17 years).
But even with all this crazy weather, i enjoyed a lovely day out yesterday... My son is enjoying it too, loving the swimming pool and the freshly cut grass between his toes. I hope this bad weather doesn't hang around.
Nova
x
But then, i wake up today too grey skies and cold icy winds... In Ireland i have come to terms with the fact that the weather has absolutely no consistency and its very likely that we can go days with beautiful sun and warmth too weeks of rain, wind and even hailstones....
I live in a small town and its surrounded by a very beautiful landscape which during the wintery times it looks miserable and depressing... and you would assume that during the insane warm and sunny times that it would be breathtaking and wonderous... But no,.. Instead we get hit with gorse and forest fires... which is quite scary as i live quite close to a very dry patch of land that has caught fire more than a dozen times in the time iv lived in my house (nearly 17 years).
But even with all this crazy weather, i enjoyed a lovely day out yesterday... My son is enjoying it too, loving the swimming pool and the freshly cut grass between his toes. I hope this bad weather doesn't hang around.
Nova
x
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Im a virgin blogger... Please be gentle.
So, this is my very first blog... ever... and i think the best thing to start of with is telling you a little bit about whats going on in my life.
Peace, love and gummi bears
Nova
x
- My son just turned ten months a few days ago and is nearly walking. He's so strong and it makes me so proud.
- Im in the process of buying my first car... Just have to choose one of three... and of course pass my test (hehe).
- Im waiting hard on some cosmetics (SugarPill) to come from the states and im so excited i think i have the post men frazzled with all the questions about when it may arrive.
- Im hopefully going to move soon, into a new apartment... Its been a nightmare trying to find somewhere and being without a car makes it so much harder.
- And im about to start a new distance learning course on criminal profiling... Just another to add to my others... but more on that in another blog... i hope!
Peace, love and gummi bears
Nova
x
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