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'Cause I'd Rather Waste My Life Pretending
wastemylifepretending.onsugar.com
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Fun and quirky fashion and lifestyle blog featuring photography and original article and editorials
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Mon Décembre Français

As some of you may know on Thursday I got back from a lovely and refreshing mini break at my house in France. As usual, I have lots of lovely photos from the places I visited and of the lovely food I...

20 dec 10

Pilgrims Proverb

One rainy November afternoon I started to plan a little online business with my mother: Pilgrims Proverb, an online vintage and second hand bookstore. We launched it today, and to say that Im excited...

18 dec 10 1 person likes this

Weekly Love - Week 49

+ Spending time in France. + Rose flavored Macaroons from a chocolate shop in Rennes. + The first three seasons of Mad Men arriving on DVD. + Taylor Swift. + Watching Love Actually. Its not Christmas...

17 dec 10 1 person likes this

Whats In My Bag? (School Edition)

I know Ive done handbag posts and makeup bag posts, but another bag I carry with me practically every day is my lime green and navy polka dot Hollister school bag with all my school books, the stuff ...

15 dec 10

Vintage Convert

I have to admit, since raiding my mothers wardrobe and coming away with a massive haul Im a total vintage convert. Except for my boots, I was actually quite surprised with myself when I realised I ha...

13 dec 10

Weekly Love - Week 48

+ Lime Crimes Russian Royalty photo shoot. + Blake Lively is the new face of Chanel Handbags. This makes me very happy. + Sending my Mac Book Pro in for repair and it being returned as good as new an...

10 dec 10

Holiday Gift Guide: The Makeup Mistress

1. Lime Crime Magic Dust Eyeshadow in Troubadour, $14 - I absolutely love Lime Crime Magic Dust eyeshadows, the colours are so bright and they last so long! I am just the littlest bit in love with th...

08 dec 10

Holiday Gift Guide: The Fashion Blogger

1. Miss Dior Cherie Eau De Toilette, £48 - My new favorite perfume of the moment, grown up but sweet and girly all at the same time. And every fashion blogger should have the beautiful bottle on thei...

06 dec 10

Weekly Love - Week 47

+ Models Own Nail Polish. Why had I never tried this stuff before?!? + Mad dystopian social experiments. Gala Darling interviewing Josh Harris. You must read this. + Getting opinions on apartments  to...

03 dec 10

Holiday Gift Guide: The Literature Lover

So unless youve been living under a rock for the last month, or youve just been holed up in your house without turning on the TV, computer or venturing out to the shops you would have realized that t...

01 dec 10

Top Tip For Freelancers: Write About What You Love (Why Im No Longer A Fashion Journalist)

I have a confession to make. On the most part, I hate writing about fashion. Ive spent almost 3 years as a fashion journalist, and Im pretty sure I havent enjoyed a single moment of it over the last ...

29 nov 10

Weekly Love - Week 46

+ Refinery 29s brilliant flowchart on how to become a style blogger. + The most incredible brunch on Sunday morning with Jeet and Ed at Patisserie Valerie - scrambled eggs with half a side of smoked ...

26 nov 10

What Is The Point Of Outfit Posts?

A question I always seem to be asking myself while browsing other peoples blogs, and when Im flicking through websites like lookbook.nu, is What;s the point of outfit posts? So many bloggers seem to ...

22 nov 10

Weekly Love - Week 45

+ Hanging out, eating cake & painting my nails sparkly colours with one of my best friends Kathryn on her 18th birthday! + Spending the afternoon in Oxford going to an English tutorial at the uni...

19 nov 10

Product Review: Art Deco Illustration Nails

Do you remember the Art Deco Nail stamping system I raved about in my review of Britains Next Top Model Live that left a pretty little white bow stamped on top of my nail polish? After the lovely peo...

17 nov 10

What Do People Who Dont Blog Do Online?

Over lunch I was chatting with a friend about how our lives are increasingly becoming digi talized. Since I started a Times Online subscription I now read my daily newspaper online and thanks to diffe...

15 nov 10

Weekly Love - Week 44

+ Spending time at home with my Grandparents! + Doctor Faustus will be showing at Shakespeares Globe Theatre next year, so exciting, I cant wait to see it! + Belgium Chocolate & Banana Toasted Sa...

12 nov 10

Ten Articles Every Blogger Should Read

Every blogger wants to know how to make their blog better. From starting to turn a profit to taking better outfit photos there is something all of us could improve on. What we really need to do it le...

10 nov 10 1 person likes this

Whats In My Bag? (8/11/10)

As you can see I havent changed my handbag yet, I think Im going to try and eek it out for as long as possible then try and find a family member to buy me an Alexa for a birthday or something... For ...

08 nov 10

Red Velvet But Not Cupcakes

I was able to go home this weekend after my hockey game, and I got a chance to go home to my parents house, and to dress up in my lovely new vinatge red velvet jacket (again!, Ive been inseparable fr...

07 nov 10

Weekly Love - Week 43

+ The ultimate girly cake food porn. + I would actually wear the cat shoes. But the rest of these designs are just a little bit too odd for me... + Sitting in a orchard discussing literature with one...

05 nov 10

I Want To Start My Own Magazine

I know I created and ran Lipstick Royalty Magazine for two years, but every so often I find myself planning a blueprint for another new magazine. I dont think Id never work at the helm of my own maga...

03 nov 10

TV Obsession: The Vampire Diaries

Im pretty much a TV obsessive. I was watching Gossip Girl before any of my friends had ever heard of it, Ive seen every episode of House, M.D. ever made and I was hooked onto Pretty Little Liars from...

01 nov 10

Weekly Love - Week 42

+ Gala Darlings Style & Lifestyle Tips - I think her best edition yet! + Shopping around for decorations and trying out cupcake recipes for my Halloween party tomorrow - SO excited! + The really,...

29 oct 10

Up For Anything: The Flexisexual

My prime time for reading magazines is on the train journey back from London, and its usually my trusty issue of Nylon magazine that keeps me company, but when Ive already read the current issue its ...

27 oct 10

Product Review: Essie Nail Polish

Excusing the sloppy application (I seem to be having a very messy day today!), I have totally fallen in love with Essie nail polish, this being my first ever colour. Not only is the shade, Rock The C...

25 oct 10

Britains Next Top Model Live

Yesterday I hopped onto the train and headed to London for the first press day of the Britains Next Top Model Live event at the Excel centre. Something my friend Amy from Confessions Of A Fashion Edi...

23 oct 10

I Wish I Could Create My Own Nail Polish

Wouldnt you love it if you could create, design and name your own personalized shade of nail polish? What colour would it be? Would it be matte? Glittery? Metallic? Neon? Bright? Dark? And thats with...

20 oct 10

Ten Questions with Lauren aka Glossary Girl

There are not many blogs that I read on a regular, if not daily basis. During the summer I ran across the only South African blog in my blog feed; Glossary Girl. I havent written a Ten Questions post...

18 oct 10

The Tate Modern Gallery, London

Though Im not actually that big a fan of The Tate Modern in London, preferring The Saatchi for modern art, when I found myself there last Tuesday I was over the moon to fin out that photography is no...

16 oct 10

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