Monday 30 May 2011

Mini New Yorker and her own mocktail: The Mini New Yorker

So obviously being the next Carrie Bradshaw you need to have a few basics under your hat, the ability to write witty and funny stuff, have a a huge wardrobe full of designer clothes and enjoy a few cocktails....now for me this was an issue because I don't have a lot of designer clothes (I am working on that to) and I am certainly working on the witty writing-well I think my mishaps are quite amusing so that's a start. I don't drink, I haven't had any since I turned 18. It was a very wise decision as I was either bouncing off the walls or in a heap on the floor....yes I was a light weight. After being in the police and seeing ladies sitting in their own sick with the skirt hoisted round their waists just confirmed my decision-I have to say it wasn't very classy. A lot of my friends don't drink a huge amount because we all drive and live out in the sticks. So I need to find some mocktails instead. An way I had never had a mocktail until I went to a rather funky bar in Reading....it had Buddha and Geisha cocktail pitchers....!!! If owned a bar I would have decorated very similar I think as I have a strong influences from Cambodia (after doing my trek.) It was actually my fiances brothers birthday celebrations as it was his 30th.....I ended up talking to my fiance brother about his fish....as the bar actually had fish behind all the drinks bottles..... I don't think he had any of the feet nibbling fish though....that would be pretty cool!!
It felt like it could of been in Chelsea or somewhere just as glamorousit had a great feeling about it- exotic but very cosmopolitan too although I did feel about over dressed.....in my full length black sequined dress ooooh and my mouse ring which I have to say has been a very popular purchase of mine- people always comment on it.

They did do great mocktails they made some special mocktails for me....I picked to have strawberry and coconut.....I think I am going to call it mini new yorker, because its striking, vibrant and sexy chic which sums up New York and me??? ha ha!! Well I am trying to be chic and sexy!!Oh.....and then I had a mocktail Cosmo ...which was cherry flavoured....... Yummy!! Which is why I have added cocktail glasses to our wedding lists for our mocktail/cocktail nights.....!!! This will be fun to do when we have guest too....after our honeymoon as I think we have to may have a few things to do before the wedding.....!!! lol!! Although it seems to be getting there.....

So with a few busy weeks ahead I am going to dash so toodles xxx

Tuesday 10 May 2011

Mini New Yorker and her glass slipper.....

Now if I remember rightly Cinderella ....she was always the ugly duckling and never went to any of the balls or parties. Well at school I was very much the Cinderella in that I never went to the big parties.....and no "princes" at school ever placed a glass slipper on my foot but........ a classmate did break my shoe when I was walking up the stairs to an art class. To be honest I'm not even sure how he managed to stand on my foot as I have size 3-not exactly getting in the way. I then decided it would be best to wear backless shoes....and as it was summer it was a good choice. I seemed to remember that my style caught on and loads of people had them on the week after..... this seemed to happen a few times and more at college...

I was a bit disorganised to say the least and not the prettiest either but now I think my glass slipper moment will be at our wedding and  it will fit perfectly. School was one of those places where the pretty girls wore makeup with perfect hair, the high heels from somewhere fashionable and skirts they would role up to make even shorter....

Me, I was just not that girl.....I had braces, I always had bags and bags of stuff in a disorganised manner. I normally had a hockey stick which would often be dragged along the floor because I had too much stuff, art folders that were bigger that me and my bulky clarinet that I actually never practised and was quite terrible at it..... (it was a good job we lived in the country side) I should have definitely stuck to what I know...being a bit of an art geek.... I was constantly dropping stuff or losing my bus pass which was always at the bottom of my bag along with my house keys. I would then go into a panic and start emptying my marry Poppins bags out on to my friend on the bus to find the lost items-this was an every day occurrence.  I often would leave my art folder on the coach by accident, once  it was the day before my art GCSE exam- such a doughnut!!! Luckily the bus driver knew it was mine and brought it back the next day as I was for ever doing this and at college I seemed to forget it quite often.....

I also always seem to have unfortunate mishaps with a lot of my personal items which have ended up in various sad state of affairs from being lost or dropped down the toilet or fallen into the sea ... !!! Oh yes I had dropped my phone in the sea when I had been on art trip at college and one of my friends look like she had fallen into the sea so I scrabbled over the rocks and then me and my phone went flying at which point I heard her burst out laughing from the friend who seem to have pulled her head out of the rock pool... at which she fell about laughing because of my rather haphazard rescue attempt.!!! That night we tried to dry it out and then it started to vibrate loudly in the middle of night and the same friend who had looked like she may have been drowning told us half a sleep that it was her lunch box vibrating and it must be the sandwiches her mum had made!!! So  funny!! Least to say the salt water killed my phone and since then not much has improoved- my last victim was my Iphone after having it for a few weeks it slipped out of my trouser pocket as I was getting out of my car and the screen cracked-Nightmare!!! This is not an isolated incident, I fell into a river on a geography trip and as I went slidding down the bank I grabbed the nearest thing which happened to be a friend and we both ended in the river drenched from head to toe........... I remember having to change into some spare trousers as I had rather soggy trousers and pants......before doing the walk of shame and getting back on the bus....and I wonder why I hated school with such embarrassing memories such as this....

I have lost count of the cameras that I have been through but I think it was a good idea to have put an under water camera on our wedding list-GENIUS just in case lol!!! Any way my Cinderella moment is not long now!! I am getting so excited and more relaxed now everything is organised!!! I am just keeping an eye on our wedding list...It's actually a very odd concept a wedding list, having been brought up not to ask for gifts....any way I am off to organise a few last minute things and to find a dress for my hen do...... so toodles xxx