Tea with the Queen

I went to Sandringham the other week to visit the Queen! Or the Queens estate in Norfolk anyway. I was hoping she would be there to have tea with us but she wasn't. Maybe next time! The rooms and furniture inside the Palace were SO beautiful, all gold and white and jade and rose quartz. I want to live there! There were clocks everywhere, and a gold sword encrusted with rubies.

I've been drawing in a lot of very very nice posh places recently to gather research for my book. I want to get as much detail as possible! Here are some of my sketches:You know what I've been watching lately, In preparation for Christmas? The Grinch! It's one of my absolute favourite films! I love the way that the Whos live inside a snowflake. But my all time best best bit is where Martha May Whovier stands outside her house and starts firing a gun at it. She's wearing this really cool sexy santa outfit and lines of fairylights shoot out of the gun and all over her house! Apparantly they sell fairylight guns in Cyberdog now but I don't think they're quite the same!What's your favourite Christmas film? Mine's a tie between The Hogfather, The Snowman and The Grinch!

Just Dance. It will be ok!

I actually LOVE Lady Gaga's style. I WANT one of these hood things. They're so cool! Maybe I will make one! She looks like a sexy version of Little Red Riding Hood here.

Christmas Photoshoot

Today Henrietta and Tamsin came over and we dressed up in our santa outfits and took photos of eachother covered in fairylights and baubles. It was really fun. Dave was meant to be there aswell and dress as Father Christmas because Erin said she had a santa suit he could wear but I was out walking the dog when he arrived (because he texted me saying he would be 40 minutes late) so he went home again!

ANYWAY these are some of the photos we took: They are not very professional or anything and I'm not a good photoshopper but hey ho... it was just a bit of fun...





It was really hard to keep the pictures in focus because we wern't using a flash. We had to set up a tripod in the end! Most of them came out fuzzy. Also we used a star filter so that all the lights looked spiky and cool :)
I wish this one had been in focus ^
... and this was our set ^ We did it right by the front door so everyone had to use the back door for a while. I think it would be really cool to do a photoshoot with just loads and loads and loads of fairylights... multicoloured ones! Yes I am going to plan to do this soon. First I need to mend my multicoloured fairylights though. They are broken :(.

Ony 4 days til Christmas!!! :D