TAG: Get to know me!

Hey guys, just a quick 'get to know me' post - I saw this over on Jodie Winyan's blog and really enjoyed it, so thought I'd steal it :)

1. Are you named after anyone?

Nope, my mum liked traditional names :)

2. When was the last time you cried?

Last night - less said about it the better!

3. Do you have kids?

Nope :)

4. If you were another person, would you be a friend of yourself?

I'd hope so :)

5. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

I used to be really sarcastic, now I tend to say more punn's :D.

6. Will you ever Bungee Jump?

NEVER!

7. What's your favorite cereal?

That's easy, special k :D

8. What's the first thing you notice about people?

Now, I'd probably say their makeup (if it's a woman of course) :)  If it's a guy, then generally their smile/eyes

9. What is your eye colour?

I've always said blue, but they're more grey/blue :)

10. Scary movie or happy endings?

Happy endings :)  I like scary movies too, but if it's really scary I have to watch something funny after it before I go to bed :p

11. Favorite smells?

Honeysuckle and stargazer lilies :)

12. Summer or winter?

I love them both - but I'm going to be annoying and say Autumn :)

13. Computer or television?

Computer!  I can watch TV on it :p

14. What's the furthest you've ever been from home?

New York on our honeymoon :)  Best holiday ever.

15. Do you have any special talents?

I can paint/draw very well :)

16. Where were you born?

Reading, Berkshire, England.

17. What are your hobbies?

Blogging, Makeup, Art, Comedy, Music, Films

18. Do you have any pets?

Yep, I have a little cat called Matilda - she's so beautiful, and has the softest fur :)

19. Favorite movie?

Too many to list!  But here's a few!  Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Oceans Thirteen, My neighbour Toitoro, Spirited Away, Kiki's delivery service, Anchorman, Step Brothers, 13 Going on 30, Devil Wears Prada, Inglorious Basterds, Lord of the Rings, Juno, Up in the Air, Whip it, The Red Shoes, The King and I, Pineapple Express, Forrest Gump, Wedding Crashers, The Break Up and many many many many more :p

20. Do you have any siblings?

Yep, I've got a brother who's 12 years older than me, he lives in southern France :)

So there you go, some random stuff about me :)  Make sure you head over to visit Jodie's blog too - she's great :)

I'm tagging Tattooed Tea Lady, The Black Pearl Blog, A day in the life of a scottish lass, Natalie Roseanne's nails and beauty blog to do this :)

Pixi3 out

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Get to Know Me - Part 3

Hello everyone!  The lovely Artistik1979 has once again this week supplied me with some questions for me to answer :)  You can find her on twitter (linked above) with links to her blog on there too ;)  So, without further ado, I shall delve in and answer her questions, thanks Artistik :)

Q.  How many piercings do I have?
A.  Just one at the moment (lip) although I used to have more.  I started with getting my tongue pierced about 13 years ago, and about 6 months after that I had my lip done and my eyebrow (now and then you may notice a scar on my eyebrow, well, 2 scars).  The eyebrow grew out after about a year, and I had it done again a couple of years later, but it never really healed and was really sore so I had to take it out.  The tongue piercing I only took out about 6 months ago, my tongue got swollen, really swollen and wouldn't go down, it got really painful then as the tongue bar was shorter than my tongue was swollen, so I took it out.  2 days later my tongue was better and the hole left behind by the piercing was healed.  So now, it's just the lip ring, which I don't plan on getting rid of just yet - however, I don't want to be an 'old' person clinging on to their youth with their piercings, so I probably won't have it for too much longer ;)

Q.  How tall am I?
A.  5ft 6in  (don't know what that is in centimeters sorry!)

Q.  What is my favorite smell?
A.  This is a hard one to answer, there's a lot of smells I like, for different reasons, so I'll break it down.
Perfume - would have to be sweet scents, my fav perfumes are ones like Lacoste a Touch of Pink, Chanel Chance, Ralph Lauren Romance etc.  In Life/Nature is has to be the smell of freshly cut grass even though it usually makes me sneeze :)  I also love love love the smell of Honeysuckle, when I was a kid we had a honeysuckle bush at the side of the house and I always loved how it smelt, I still do :)  I also love the smell of the perfume my mum used to wear (Vanderbelt), just smelling it now brings a tear to my eye as it reminds me of my mum so much ;)

Q.  What is my favorite flower?
A.  I have a couple of favorite flowers, my absolute favorite is Lillies, specifically stargazer lillies, they're so pretty and they smell soooo good!  I love tulips too for their simplicity and elegance, you also can't go wrong with a daisy :)

I hope you enjoyed that - feel free to answer those questions yourself too and post them as a comment below or do your own blog post on it and link back to me with it ;)

I hope you're all having a lovely weekend, I've spent the weekend down in Pembrokeshire visiting my step-dad, here's a couple of pics of the weekend for you :)

New haircut just before leaving for the weekend - had about 6 inches cut off!  Yikes!

Pixi3 out
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Get to Know Me - Part 2

Hey everyone, hope you've all had a fantastic weekend?

Well, I was planning on doing this yesterday, but about 1 hour before I was about to write it, hubby and I had a game of Age of Mythology on the computers, and low and behold, his computer exploded!  It was quite dramatic, a big bang and his PC just was instantly off... if you know anything about computers, read on, otherwise feel free to skip to my Q&A :D  So, what had happened was one of the massive capacitors in the PSU had exploded, which really shouldn't happen, especially as the PSU is only 1 year old, and the wattage is higher than needed... ah well, it had a 2 year warranty so we'll swap it out today :)

So, the question was kindly provided by the lovely Artistik1979, you can find her on Twitter here, and her blog here - she also has a lovely etsy shop making all nice bow things :D

Q: When is your birthday? How old are you? Why did you start youtube chanel? What's your hobbies? Fav foods? Fav restaurant?

A:  Well, that's a lot of questions!  I'll tackle them one by one :)

(When is your Birthday?)  My birthday is April 17th, so you've just missed it :)  

(How old are you?)  I was the grand old age of 33!

(Why did you start youtube channel?) Well, I'd been watching lots of beauty videos from people like beachbum06, emilynoel, sprinkleofglitter, missglamorazzi etc and really enjoyed watching them.  Making videos and putting myself on youtube scared the heck out of me, and it was really something I wanted to do.  So, I decided to hell with the scaredness (is that even a word?) and I just jumped in and started making them :)  I think for anyone that's been following my videos for any length of time will definitely see an improvement in them, not just in my confidence, but also where I film them, the fact I now look at the camera and not the screen.  I really enjoy making them, and love responding to people's comments on there too.  I also don't have anyone really in my life that I can geek-out about Makeup with, so this is a really nice way for me to do that :)

(What's my hobbies?)  Well, other than makeup, Gaming is a big one.  I play Minecraft a lot right now, Age of Mythology, World of Warcraft (Horde!), Halo, Sims 3... the list goes on :)  I also love painting and drawing, watching films, cuddling my cat :)  In fact, I did a TAG video recently on my hobbies, I'll pop that below as it does include a tiny bit of game footage :)

(Favourite Foods?) This has changed a lot in the last year as I'm now vegetarian.  Being typical to my Irish background, I love potatoes!  I literally have them every day :)  I also love fruits like mango, blueberries and melon.  I do make a mean Feta and Black Olive Tart, nom!

(Favourte Restaurant?) I have to pick these by location :)  In Reading, where I used to live, it has to be Mya Lacarte, this is where I had my wedding reception, amazing food and service, love it!  Here in Cardiff is has to be Jamie's Italian, much the same in amazing service and food.

Thanks to Artistik for those questions, more coming next week!  Don't forget to post questions below, or on my twitter.

Pixi3out

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Get to Know Me

Hello everyone!  As inspired by http://www.beautyfiends.net/ - I actually thought this was a lovely idea, to answer a couple of questions each week to 'get to know me'.  So, what I'm going to do is..... either, leave your questions as a comment below and/or tweet them to me, my twitter handle is @twinklinpixi3.

I'll start you off with 1 random question - for this I'm going to choose... umm.... ok, the question I'm asking myself (strange I know), is "What's your favourite kind of music"?

Ah, great question me!  I shall answer!

Answer
There's a LOT of different music I like, and I mean, a LOT!  My true love will always be Heavy Metal, primarily Slipknot, Slayer, KoRn, Disturbed, Foo's, RHCP (Red Hot Chilli Peppers), QOTSA (Queens of the Stone Age) and a zillion more.  As well as really loving Ska and Reggae.  But, I also cultivate a love for more... lets say, different music.  For example, the soundtrack to the film Juno, it's so quirky and happy I love it!  So... I'll try to list some random bands/singer/songwriters I like that aren't heavy metal too...

The Shins
Zero 7
Colin Hay
Nick Drake
Frou Frou
Luke Conard
Kimya Dawson
Air
Captain Accident
Aqualung
Daft Punk
Lemon Jelly
Morcheeba

to name but a few!  And, it goes without saying that I love Metallica, Bob Marley, Toots and the Maytals, Led Zepplin, Jimmy Hendrix etc etc.  Then we go into another side of music I love, Swing!  So, Frank Sinatra, Rat Pack, then into Motown like Stevie Wonder etc - which then moves into Vietnam era music like Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones.  I'm also quite partial to classical music - well, piano classical.  Chopin's Prelude in D Flat Major (Raindrops) is one of my favourite pieces, then the popular Clair du Lune etc (excuse any spelling mistakes)!

So, I think it's fair to say my taste is, eclectic (hope I don't sound too ponsy!)

Hope that answered my question! :)

Pixi3 out
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