Christmas Present haul

2014 was another year of receiving such an amazing bunch of awesome presents - so spoilt (I have the nicest family and boyfriend!) Today I get to share my haul, including all those presents above from my beautiful cousin heather and her family. I do this thing with blind boxes where I pick which figurine I'd love to get and which would be my worst pick and this year I got all my favs!!! Skeleton Hello Kitty and Dr. Finkelstein from Nightmare Before Christmas!! I also got a awesome Sailor Moon keychain (eep!) and some bubblegum-licious scatch and sniff stickers :)

They also got me this red riding hood themed tea set. Isn't she the cutest with her little basket that holds your tea bags!!

My family, although I'm sure Mum was behind all the awesome choosing, got me a bunch of radness including the latest Katy Perry perfume. I have the original bottle but this set came in cute roll on tubes, which are now scattered all over the joint in case I need emergency perfume (the scent is super pretty too for those wondering and the bag is glittery amazing-ness). Hello kitty appears again and this time I get to brush my teeth with her :) I also got some pastel sticks designed to work directly onto fabric and a cat book which I fear my leave me crying my eyes out #pleasehaveahappyending

I also got this super pretty and colourful beach towel and this super hero cat. Mum was a bit worried I had outgrown my plush phase but to be honest I'm still a kid at heart :) I love her, she's kick arse!

And last but not least a vintage musical Christmas bell. Mum had the same version growing up and as someone who is super sentimental I appreciate that I've got my own version now :) The box was stellar and vintagey too!

(just pull the plastic acorn to get the music happening!)

Lucky last is my stash from Ben, he got me cute figurines and the comic Topo in hopes I'll become a comic book nerd like himself :)

I also got to add to my jibibuts collection which Ben started me off on last year. I really wanted the noferin, puppy design and I got it - hurrah!

My super awesome main present from Ben was this amazing Mr Clement limited edition bunny, with a cute red scarf you can model to make it look like it's blowing in the wind (un-shockingly also the name of the design!)

His head comes off to reveal a skull underneath - such perfection and fits in with my love of all things creepy but cute :)

Unfortunately I'm a super weirdo and things made out of velvet (just to even look at) send shivers down my spine. Ben knows of my weird ways but he didn't know, flocked = super extreme velvet. So now awesome mister bunny lives in Ben's room. I'm such a bad girlfriend but I can appreciate from afar!

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Yarn Bombing at Kenilworth

I have a few photos lying on my computer from when Ben and I visited a nearby town called Kenilworth. Every year the area has a scarecrow festival but as I found out they also do yarn bombing! You can see some photos I took of last years scarecrows here (lazily only posted a few months ago) but for now, some bright cheery yarn to fill your screens and the cutest chalk koala I ever did see!

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Lollipop Land

I'm not sure where to start or how to explain lollipop land but when my cousin, Heather told me about it and said, she didn't know much either, except that there'd be icecream chairs, fairy lights and prettiness I was sold :) Turns out it's a display filled with the creations of doll maker Chris Boston with Jule Barten responsible for all those glittery sets - did I also mention this it was inside a pastel-painted church !

I'm literally going to let the photos do the talking for this one (there is a lot - you've be warned!) Thanks to my lovely Heather for the invite as well :)xoxo

 Yes that's me on a unicorn seat! he he

 Oh my goodness - extreme magicalness :)

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Woodford Folk Festival 2013-2014

A few days after Christmas, Ben and I headed to Woodford where a festival happens once a year, starting on Boxing Day and going through to New Year's Day. Our friends always make a big trip out of it, stay for the week long camp. Ben and I just went for the day and I pretty much spent the entire time melting! Oh my goodness it was so hot, it would of been close to 40 degrees that day (just happened to pick the hottest day of the festival) and since there was not a lot of shade I kind of went crazy! I'm always the first to proclaim I love the heat and summer and being hot but it was that belting down kind of sun that made me feel crazy and dizzy and I think I got mad at Ben for buying me a poster...sorry Ben!

The festival itself contains lots of different tents and inside - bands and workshops, talks and other random creative things - we made ourselves an itinerary before we let but that kind of got abandoned in the heat :p

It's sort of hard to see in this photos but the few places that did have trees, people flocked to like crazy!

I loved her butterfly wings above!

We were meant to stay for the night parade but Ben knew I was in trouble when I stopped taking photos (a sign that something isn't right with fee). Ben kept pointing out photographic things but I was in another World :p Maybe next year I'll give Woodford another chance but make sure check the weather forecast beforehand :P

On the plus side I did get to watch Darren Hanlon perform and he was awesome as ever!

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