Weekly Wishlist #14

Well I'm back from the Expo and am going straight into this post! I will have on here things that I saw but didn't buy, or things that I wanted to get hold of but couldn't find/had run out! I feel as I had quite a book-themed post last week, I'll get rid of anything book-related this week! Do make sure to click the pictures and links included in this post if you want to know more!

1) 'Pocket Full Of Monsters' Tee Shirt, by teeturtle. So this was one of the stalls I found later in my visit but my goodness, it was what I needed.There were so many tee shirt stalls but this one really caught my eye, so many witty and fun designs! And original too! I actually did order this shirt from them then and there but I was unsure about whether to order the design pictured or this one. I really do have a soft spot for the Pokémon Eevee and all of it's evolutions so I think this is my preferred of the two! Only just though, maybe I'll get both!



2) 'Loki' Pop! Vinyl Figure. I saw so many stalls that sold these little figures and in so many designs. superheroes, Harry Potter characters, Disney princesses, the lot! Loki is a character that I think is awesome, one of the best villains in the Marvel Universe and I was desperate to find one of him. Unfortunately, they all sold out yesterday. So I want one please.

3) 'Sometsuke Bowl Set' by Doki Japanese Tableware. I've always been a fan of Japanese culture as a whole and this particular stall really caught my eye because it sold Japanese tableware! Tea sets, Bowl sets, Sake ware, Plates, Sauce dishes, everything. This particular set I thought was beautiful but I ended up only buying one bowl as a new breakfast bowl (my current one has a dangerous crack running down it). I would love to revisit this shop again though!


4) 'Beetle Necklace' by Urban Faerie Oddities. Anyone who knows me will know I'm a bit of a fan of the weird and the wonderful. There were so many lovely pieces on this stall but this particular one really caught my eye. The colours of this necklace were just beautiful! I didn't buy it in the end and it is something I sort of regret. The necklace itself is made of the shells of South East-Asian Beetle (which I suppose is a little odd and distasteful for some). If you're a fan of Steampunk however then really, check this site out. There are some lovely pieces!

5) 'Moon Gazing Hare' Necklace by Coucou Heart. This stall captured my attention and my heart almost instantly. There were so many lovely pieces and I bought myself a little book-shaped locket from there. More than that, I saw a little Wish Bone necklace on the stall! Daughter Of Smoke and Bone anyone? I really regret not buying that one because I can't find it on the main website, but I have found this instead! What a gorgeous pendant, I would love to be the proud owner of this one.


Some lovely items, I really would love to get hold of them. I've had a really nice day but I'm completely knackered now! 

Daily Shenanigans, 10/04/2014: My body clock is on strike!

Okay, it's official. My body clock is completely out of whack! I wasn't in bed until coming up to 2 o'clock this morning, so it's no wonder really. I was up only a few hours later, and have since spent the rest of the day falling in and out of sleep with frequent naps! I actually spent most of the day with Mat, having not seen him for a few days, and I feel pretty terrible that I slept so much to be honest. But it did make me feel better! Between my numerous sleepy moments, we played some games (particularly Pokémon) and I managed to get a bit more reading done! Oh! And before I saw Mat, I wrote my 'Life Of A Blogger' post. This week's topic was food, which naturally made me very hungry after I'd finished! I've had serious food cravings all day!

Other than that, I've generally just had a relaxing day with not an awful lot to tell! 'The Birds That Never Flew' by Margot McCuaig, a book that I won on Goodreads, arrived today. I'll have to find time to read it at some point soon! I don't have to be up for anything special tomorrow, so I'll be doing a lot more reading (and hopefully finishing my current book) and some blog post planning! I really want to get into the habit of scheduling more posts so that I don't have to worry too much about them! I'm writing this post a little earlier than usual because I really need to get to sleep a bit more than I have been recently.

Oh, also: I now have over 50 followers on Bloglovin', which to me, is nothing short of amazing! This fact makes me so happy, so thank you all for liking my blog and reading it!

Daily Shenanigans, 04/04/2014: The Postman has impressed me!

So today has been one of the nicest I've had in quite a while. That feeling of not actually having anything to do that day is a rare one that I don't encounter often! I ended up having a rather nice lay-in this morning, and spent the rest of the day relaxing a lot. I replied to some comments on my blog, read a few posts, read some more of 'The Invention Of Wings' (I adore this book so far, by the way), and generally chilled out. Mat and I played quite a lot of games, and even watched a movie on TV, 'Beautiful Creatures'. I have to say I did enjoy the film, but I would love to read the book. I think I would enjoy that a whole lot more.

I returned home pretty late this evening, and found that I had two parcels waiting for me. The first was 'Good Kings, Bad Kings', which was one of my Giveaway wins that I knew would arrive soon. The second was a bit of a shock. I hadn't expected it to arrive so quickly, seeing as I only emailed my Mailing address out yesterday. It was the book that the lovely Betsy Cook Speerg had asked me to review, 'Demolition Queen: Champagne, Murder & Chaos'. In light of the fact that someone has specifically requested me to review it, I've bumped it up the TBR list accordingly, and I shall be reading it after I've finished my current read. I can't wait to get into it! It shouldn't affect my reading schedule too much, and I want to review it ASAP.

Tomorrow is my Mum's birthday, and I'm seeing Mat in the afternoon after he finishes work. It promises to be pretty relaxing again though, there is nothing planned as far as I am aware, but we'll see! Oh, I also found out today that as well as Benedict Cumberbatch playing Hamlet next year (I heard this last week), Martin Freeman will be playing Richard III fairly soon. These are both in the West End and I am desperate to go and see them, I love these actors! So there is some more exciting news from today!

Daily Shenanigans, 29/03/2014: 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'

So briefly, my day was mostly spent reading and Internet browsing. What can I say? I'm a slob. I had to go collect a parcel this morning which ended up being the two DVDs I ordered ('Thor: The Dark World' and 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire') and two of the three books I've been waiting for! 'Midwinterblood' by Marcus Sedgewick and 'Fearless' by Tim Lott are now in my possession! Hooray! I am very much looking forward to getting into them (if I ever get through 'The Telling Error', why is this book taking me so long?) Mat came round mid-afternoon and we spent a nice afternoon playing some Pokémon and chilling out, before heading off to the cinema to see the latest Captain America movie!

Wow, wow, wow! What a film! I loved it so, so much. The plot was great, the humour was actually hilarious and I loved some of the characters, old and new. Scarlet Johansson, Cobie Smulders and Samuel L Jackson were great in this movie, they took a bit of a back seat in the Avengers but really came into their own here! I wish Hawkeye had been in it, they really need to do more with his character. Chris Evans was wonderful to watch and I think this is his best portrayal of Steve Rogers/Captain America yet! Next, the villian. The Winter Soldier. He was a great twist in the story, I loved his development and for me, he was easily the best Marvel has produced after Loki (who will always be the villian for me, Hiddleston is just marvelous). But I cannot wait for more! Anthony Mackie was great as Sam Wilson/Falcon and I really hope we get to see more of him. Though 'The Avengers', 'Thor: The Dark World' and 'Iron Man 3' are still, I think, my top 3 Marvel movies, this came pretty close to knocking one off the pedestal, so well done for that!

Another day of pretty much nothing tomorrow, I must finish this book and post the review, as well as another Weekly wishlist, so that will take a lot of time. Also, it's Mother's Day here in the UK tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to a relaxing day with the family!

Daily Shenanigans, 16/03/2014: Someone de-stress me?

I've had an emotional rollercoaster of a day today. It started off well, I had a lovely day at Mat's and it was nice to spend a whole day with him, which I haven't done in a while. At the same time though, I felt a bit emotional because I'm a bit frightened about tomorrow. It's show day. Now I know everything is going to go okay, yet I still feel like something is going to go terribly wrong. We played a lot of Pokémon and spent the day just trying to relax.

I left mid-afternoon and had dinner at my house before my Dad dropped me at the station to getto Uni for a Tech Slot tonight! Again, it wasn't stressful as such but I honestly felt so stressed that I was still a bit emotional. I will be so glad when this week is over. I think I'm going to throw a party. The Tech Slot ended pretty quickly and I hung around a bit to help with some tidying up before leaving to go to stay with my friends. I'm there now and they are doing everything in their power to cheer me up which I very much appreciate.

I have to get up quite early tomorrow so this is a short post. I did manage to get a lot of reading done today on the train to Canterbury. I was told off a lot by my boyfriend for switching between books so I'm focusing on 'The Snow Child' and am seeing if that speeds up progress a bit. Hopefully when I post tomorrow I'll be a lot happier.

Daily Shenanigans, 08/03/2014: Creme Egg Brownies!

Well I think it's safe to say that I've been feeling the pressure today. I feel like I have so much to do and so little time to do it, even though when I map it out in my head, everything can still be done on time and I shouldn't be worrying as much as I am. I didn't read any of 'The Snow Child' last night or today because I ended up having no time to. It's staring at me now and begging to be read tomorrow but I simply can't until I've done everything that needs doing for Monday. So, my day. Firstly, last night's review of 'The Hotel Fakir' went up early this morning so I had a quick look over that. Then I joined Book Blogging and put the widget for it on my blog, though I'm not sure about the layout so that needs to be changed when I have time. Feel free to give my blog a like if you have an account too! 

Also this morning, I spent a bit of quality time with my sister and we baked some Creme Egg Brownies! Delicious! I saw some when a friend of mine posted a picture of her making them and instantly wanted to try some. As it happened, Bev also wanted to and we made a pact to try out baking them ourselves this weekend! They were a success, and tasted great. I'm so glad I took the time out to help make some, I certainly needed them! I know Bev plans to write a post on the recipe etc. on her blog, Tutus and Ballet Shoes so keep checking that if you want to know more about that little venture!

Not long after that, Mat came round with terrible news. Phoebe the Fiat is not very well! He took her to get her tyres checked out because they look a little like they're balding. The tread depths and pressures all checked out okay, but one tyre has a nail embedded in it. Poor Phoebe! My Dad and I are taking it back to the place tomorrow to get it removed, it's a pretty simple job (though I'm ashamed to say I was a little emotionally distraught about it, stress does that to you) so it shouldn't take long. Hopefully it won't break up my day too much. Other than that, I did some more Uni work and sent it to my Multimedia Project artist, before chilling with Mat to play some more Pokémon (I've so nearly caught up with him)!

I've really felt the stress today, tomorrow (aside from sorting Phoebe out) I plan to just be ridiculously productive and make myself feel a bit better. I ended up being a bit grumpy and I really don't want that bad mood to stick around! I've written out my 'Weekly Wishlist' post and scheduled it so that will go up tomorrow as usual. I'm really excited about this week's picks!

Daily Shenanigans, 07/03/2014: I'm not tired.

I've had quite a nice day today, though it's been a long one! I drove into Uni this morning (no reading on the train for me) and managed to avoid a lot of traffic which set my morning off on a good start. I only had to go in for a 20 minute tutorial, which was a bit irritating, but nevertheless it went well and I feel fairly calm about the rapidly approaching show week as a result of it. When I got back home, I read a bit more of 'The Hotel Fakir' almost finishing it, as well as fiddling with a few things for Uni.

Finally, the time that I'd been waiting for all day came. I picked Mat up from the station and we went to his house. Honestly, it was so good to see him again, I've really missed him a lot this week and it has felt like such a slow six day wait! I played and caught up with a lot of Pokémon which made me very happy because poor Mat can actually start advancing on the game again soon  (he's been waiting for me, bless him). I'm seeing him again tomorrow, and the plan is to possibly go to the cinema, but that isn't set in stone because we haven't really decided on a film. I would quite like to see 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' though.

Upon returning home, I finished reading the 70 page short story at last! Hooray! I'll be posting a review up tomorrow (though some of my thoughts are already on Goodreads). I didn't really enjoy it all that much, but I'll explain my reasoning in the review. I'm starting 'The Snow Child' tonight before I go to bed and I'm so excited, I literally can't wait to get into this book! It's sat on my bookshelf begging to be read for so long! Even though I'm home and ought to think about bed, I'm actually not that tired and really feel like watching a film or something. I probably won't though, I know I'll regret it.

Daily Shenanigans, 25/02/2014: Another one bites the dust!

I've been doing a lot of catching up today readers. I caught up on quite a lot of work for Uni, which I was very pleased about and made me breathe a sigh of relief. I then spent the rest of the day catching up with Mat on Pokémon, and catching up on my reading. I have finished Andrew Miller's 'Pure'. The review is all written (I've just done it) and is scheduled to go up early tomorrow morning, to break things up a bit. I'm so excited to share my thoughts on this book with you, I really enjoyed it and you'll see why when the review is up!

I've been a bit blog happy today, I also did my 'Top Ten Tuesday' post. I absolutely loved this week's topic, which was in essence, whichever topic we want! There was a list of topics that have previously been up and seeing as I only started three weeks ago, I had complete free reign on what to pick! In the end I chose to write about the top ten villains that I have read about, and it was a whole lot of fun. Next week's topic is 'Top Ten Popular Authors That I Have Never Read'. I've already planned exactly which ones I'll put and there may be quite a few that will surprise a lot of you! I read a lot of other bloggers topic choices and I find reading what others have put to be just as fun as writing my own! It's dangerous for my bookshelves though, I have so many books I want to read and so little space for them!

In other news, I joined Book Blogs (I'm waiting for a confirmation email before adding the badge to my side bar) but hopefully this means I'll be able to read lots of new blogs and meet lots of new people. Exciting! Two of the books that I ordered from Amazon arrived today: Maria V Snyder's 'Poison Study' and 'A Certain Slant Of Light' by Laura Whitcomb. I remember reading these books a rather long time ago, and loving them! I never finished either series though and I would love to! But in order to do so, I need to reread these. It might take me a while to get round to them, especially as I'm fitting them in with challenges!

Tomorrow looks to be a long and busy day, I'm in Uni early morning until late evening doing all sorts. It will give me a chance to get on with a few bits and bobs, but nothing blog related I don't think. I will however (between jobs) have a good crack at reading my final planned read for February which I'm starting tonight before sleeping. 'The Perks Of Being A Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky. I am really looking forward to this read, I've seen the film and it was both emotionally touching and heart-warming to watch. I can't wait to see what more the book has to offer! It's a short one too, only 232 pages!

Daily Shenanigans, 22/02/2014: My head is pounding!

This is going to be a short one because I've got a splitting headache! I woke up this morning, checked my emails and found that I'd won my third Goodreads 'First Reads' book, 'The Telling Error' by Sophie Hannah. It looks like a really good one, and I'm super excited about getting to read it! As well as that, I was nominated by my lovely sister at Tutus And Ballet Shoes for a Liebster Blog Award, so I'll be posting about that tomorrow and nominating a few blogs I follow in the process! It's just a bit of fun that gets smaller blogs some recognition and you get to find out a bit more about the people behind them in the process! Tomorrow, I'll also be posting my first 'Weekly Wishlist' to get the process, going out. That's something else I've been planning today.

Other than that, the rest of my day was very Mat filled! He had work this morning, but rolled up at my house about 4ish with a present! The game every Pokémon fan already has and we are way behind on! Pokémon X and Y for the 3DS. Needless to say, we spent our evening playing on that! Also this evening, after Mat had gone, I have been watching Markiplier's Charity Livestream. It's on for another good five or six hours if you're interested. Markiplier is a pretty well known Youtube gamer, whose videos I love watching and he does a lot of things for charity! Check him out if you're into that!

I really hope this headache is gone by tomorrow morning, I have a lot to do!

Daily Shenanigans, 16/02/2014: Chilling with the boyfriend!

I'm not really sure how to describe today. It was definitely a 'lazy' day and I did an awful lot of sitting around. But at the same time, it was oddly productive because I was sitting around doing something. I woke up quite late this morning, I didn't sleep all that well last night and so I grabbed a couple of extra hours in the morning. After that, Mat and I quickly got up, dressed and ready for our day of relaxation. We spent a fair portion of the morning on the DS playing Pokémon Black/White 2 (Victory Road at last, hooray)!

After a late lunch Mat decided he would continue with 'Assassin's Creed 4' while I got on with some actual work. Let me just say that I am getting on like a house on fire with that Multimedia Script at the moment! I think I might post a snippet on here so that you get a better idea of what it's all about! I did a fair bit and let Mat read it for his approval. Afterwards, I took a 'break' (meaning I stopped for the evening) and spent the rest of my time entering Goodreads giveaways (I am hooked), blog post planning, eyeing up Mat's vast collection of books and watching him play his game. No, I did not get round to sorting out my reviews on here. Yes, I am a bad person. Yes, I do feel guilty. But I think I can be allowed this one, it was meant to be a weekend with the boyfriend after all. I hope you can forgive me, if it helps I read a massive chunk of 'If On A Winter's Night A Traveler' before bed last night, so I have been sort of good!

I have to be up early tomorrow, it's back to reality for me! I have a lecture at Uni, followed by work! I anticipate a busy shift as it's half term now so I will most likely be knackered afterwards! 

Daily Shenanigans, 08/02/2014: Victory is mine!

I've finally done it! I've got all the way through Stephen King's 'It'! It has been a long journey, but I have succeeded in my goal of finishing it today, and now I am up to date on my 2014 Book Challenge. Hooray! The review I have already posted earlier this afternoon, so go and check that out if you want to know what I thought of the epic novel. I have already started working on my next read which, as promised, will be Andrew Miller's 'Pure'. Looking forward to this one, what I've read so far is intriguing to say the least. Also it's much shorter (a whole 1000 pages or so), which I think I need  while I recover from the last book before I dive into 'Inheritance' and 'The Wise Man's Fear' which are both long books too.

As for what else I've been doing all day, the short answer is not a huge amount. I woke up fairly late this morning (well, late for me) and managed to send out an email that has been bugging me for a while and took a great deal of weight off my mind. After that, I switched between browsing the internet, reading, updating my Goodreads account and just general procrastination. I've had a horrible headache that despite copious amounts of painkillers, has refused to go away all day and I've generally felt a bit drained today. My mood was much better when I woke up though!

This evening I've spent with Mat, who bought his 3DS round and we played some Pokémon (I was devastated, he didn't bring the Yu-Gi-Oh cards!) We were originally going to watch 'Robocop' at the cinema but decided against it because we were both tired and my head was still hurting. To be honest, it was just nice to relax this weekend and not have to go out anywhere. The weather is still absolutely terrible and it looks like it won't stop being rainy and windy for a while. I'm definitely looking forward to when the sun decides to come out, I miss walking and actually wanting to venture outside. I'm off to spend the rest of the evening reading with a cup of tea before bed, so I'm posting this a little early.