This was my Santa ‘kit’! A sack, hat, wand, various toys and lots of candy to give out to.. civilians on the street.

There were three meeting points (East, South, and Central London) to start with that morning – these were only announced about 24 hours prior and so you gotta keep alert and follow the ‘Santanav’ on Twitter.

The East London troupe began at Shoreditch High Street. The pic above was taken by Jayna, when all the Santas had walked to and descended upon Liverpool Street station.. causing it to.. shut down. -_-
I joined the group at Farringdon (as I was late hehe), and everyone trotted along to St Paul’s.

The whole place was absolutely BUZZING with Christmassy energy! My favourite part was erm.. when I got the opportunity to toss a couple of brussels sprouts into a sea of Santas.. (we’re told not to but everyone was doing it and I simply couldn’t help it *naughty*).

I also met some interesting people!

I looooved this guy’s fur coat. According to him, he has one custom-made by a friend every year for Santacon.

He told me his name was: Bad Ass Santa Pimp Daddy, a.k.a. BASPD.

I followed BASPD around for a bit like a groupie. Later on when I bumped into him again, I noticed he wore a silver chain with a pendant that spelt out ‘I Love Pussy’. Naturally, I pointed it out and laughed.

He ran away and I never saw him again after that.

I contemplated being a Christmas tree when I was deciding on my costume!! But I couldn’t find one that I was convinced would keep me warm. So I opted for.. a Santa Kigurumi (onesie)!

With Reena (sunnies on) and Flo.

Reena’s sack had a whole load of vodka in it. Haha!!

The Santas proceeded to march across Millennium Bridge…

Roger (her new nickname), Flo, Me, Reena.

We had a bit of a Santa band going on.. me dinging my triangle and Reena + Roger a bit too vigorously shaking the maracas.. at one point we spotted some Mexican Santas (they had the hats), ran towards them and went crazy with the maracas! I wish there was a video of that so I can see how crazy we must’ve looked..

Whilst I applauded Flo’s ambitiousness to go all the way with her Santa costume and purchase an inflatable belly.. I have to say.. I mean. She looked like a deformed alien baby was bursting out of her!! LOL. You gotta hand it to her though.. she wore that thing for a number of hours..

Party Santas and their music! Everyone was loitering outside the Tate, dancing, jumping around, singing, handing out presents. Poor kids. I think every child that walked past was chased down by a few Santas each time because we were all over-eager to give out our candy :p

Tate Modern Takeover

Santa decided to visit the museum.

It was SO MAD!!! All of a sudden the whole concourse was FILLED with red and so much noise – to the bewilderment of tourists and visitors inside.

You know what’s freakin awesome?? Manon, a Belgian girl whom I’ve known through her blog for a couple of years now, took this photo above. She happened to be at the museum and was snapping photos of the sudden influx of Santas. She then went home and was editing pics for her blog when she noticed that *I* was in it!

The guy on the left was hilarious.. he brought an analog telephone receiver and I saw him speaking into it.. goodness knows what nonsense he was spouting but I wish I could’ve heard.

The Tate Modern part was one of my FAVOURITE parts. Everyone squeezed in till the floor was PACKED… and then.. everyone laid down on their backs simultaneously and spontaneously, forming a flat sea of crazy drunk Santas. It was so super funny I just laid there laughing while Roger tried to take a photo (but it ended up too blurry to share).

Teamed up with some strangers to form a Santa pyramid.. !!

Don’t know who the girl is at the bottom.. I think she was trying to have her photo taken with our awesome pyramid -_-

After a whole lot of dancing, blowing whistles, confetti-popping etc, the hoard moved along the Thames.. for some reason my memory of this section is a bit.. blurred. Hmm……

Oh god that Alien stomach was still around at this point..

I love my fleece Santa onesie <3

Apparently it’s quite common to catch a drunk/insane Santa climbing all sorts of inanimate objects around London.

We saw this dude and some people on the ground were chanting ‘Jump! Jump! Jump!’, whilst his mates were trying to change everyone’s chants to ‘SAFETY! SAFETY! SAFETY!’ . Aww so sweet!

My blurred memory tells me we crossed another bridge over to Embankment after this.. and I think I had a few dancing sessions with buskers along the way as well. You just couldn’t help it! Everyone was in such a happy bouncy mood.. in fact sometimes I was dancing to absolutely no music at all. Only the music in my MIND.

After making a pee-stop/drink-stop at some bar, we carried on to the most reliable restaurant ever – McDonalds. WE ATE LIKE THERE WAS NO TOMORROW.

Cos we needed the energy.. as the next event on the list was the big meet up at Trafalgar Square! This is when all groups from the three meeting points earlier congregate in one area and go berserk.

This was a group of sweet, innocent carollers trying to sing a few Christmas tunes at the Square.. until:

HAHA! I’m in there somewhere!!

If you’re a Londoner you’ll know that the Christmas tree erected at Trafalgar Square each year since 1947 is a gift from the city Oslo as a token of thanks for British help during the second world war. It’s rather a tall tree.

So it was much to my amazement when a topless Santa climbed all the way to the TOP and left his hat there! Everyone was cheering him on. The story is that when he got down, the security guards pounced on him immediately, but all the Santas nearby tackled the guards so that Tree Climbing Santa managed to run away ;p

We partied on through Covent Garden, to Leicester Square, to Piccadilly Circus..
Harrassed a few people on the way.. and belly-bumped other Santas when we saw them!

We were sitting on the steps outside some theatre to rest our feet when I thought of a great game, i.e. Yell Out Random Boys’ Names and See Who Answers. We made a friend called David. See, it’s a good game!

Wasted Santa became a photo opportunity for some 😉

With a couple of new friends (thanks Jeremy for the photo)!

Some guy made a super cool video of Santacon – found it on YouTube.. wow!

SO that summarises my 12 hours at London Santacon 2012. Yeah, I was at it for about 12 hours! My Santa duties didn’t stop until I had gone INTO my building. When I was walking home from my tube station, I got stopped for photos and people asking for presents. Aww. It was soooo much fun!  😉

If you haven’t participated in Santacon before, you must! Check out www.santacon.co.uk for more info.

*special thanks to Jayna for a few of the pics. all photos except jeremy’s taken with the iphone (4/5)*

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First here’s what I wore:

Dress H&M Garden Collection
[overused] Yellow cardi H&M
Belt vintage
Sandals H&M
Goddamn I’m an H&M whore

These photos were taking just downstairs of Carryn’s apartment
Imagine having this view from your home *jealous*

My cream rose ring which is SO overworn
You’ll see it in heaps more pics to come :S
Nails are pastel pink and purple by Barry M

Port Soller

From the town of Soller – which is like a dead place – you can take a tram to Port Soller (they’re two different things)
Umm we just drove all the way there

Had such a relaxing day
There weren’t that many people around
But the air felt so good
I love being close to the water
And food..

Some houses by the port

The beach
This was actually the worst beach COMPARED TO all the other beaches we visited during the week there – yes just IMAGINE how beautiful all the others must look!
I’ll share pics of that soon hopefully *thinks of when I have time…*

We sat at an outdoors cafe by the water
Where I had what could be the best most refreshing drink I’ve ever had!
It’s fresh orange juice mixed with orange sorbet, topped with whipped cream and vanilla ice cream

(Had to pixelate my face cos I was doing something gross)

Forgot to take a photo of the meal when it came
So here’s all I got

ahh.. Spanish olives *drool*
I ate so many olives there I think my pee started smelling like olives!!

After lunch I took some bread and stood by the edge and fed the ducks and fish
The waters around Mallorca seems to always be abundant with fish
Some kids came up to me and I shared my bread with them and we fed the animals together 🙂

Orange Juice on the Mountain

Leaving Port Soller, we drove up the mountain and found a little shack perched on a little cliff
There was a viewing point
And in the shack there was a woman using a juicer, selling fresh orange juice

I just like this photo, that’s all

It was 1.50 euros per glass
SO GOOD
Very worth it! Ha ha
Felt so happy cos I LOVE orange juice and this was certainly one of the best I’ve had

Top of the Mountain

The roads around Soller thread through mountains and are full of sharp twists and turns
There are alternative straight roads/tunnels you can use for a small fee
But naturally we opted for the windy roads so we could explore the mountains

Plus I can hang more than half my body out the window and pretend I’m flying as the car ascends/descends
Cheap thrills!

Stopped at an area at the top/close to the top
It was breathtaking
The weather was perfect!

One of the narrow ‘tunnels’ we had to drive through
Very exciting!!

Thought this was funny!
Spent ages just prancing about, taking in the air and the views
And listening to the tinkling of bells from mountain goats grazing in the distance

If you just stand there
Close your eyes
It’s so incredibly peaceful
You can just listen to nature
Nothing but the slight breeze and the sound of sweet NOTHING

Makes me happy to be alive 🙂

Kinda felt like Heidi :p

Ok seriously
Does my bum look like a big piece of Babybel cheese or what!!

Inca

En-route to Palma we passed through another small town called Inca
A tiny town actually
Saw lots of farms and orchards

I noticed all the little towns around the island look like this
Everyone seems to have green shutters and doors etc etc

Some of the many sheep we saw trotting about
They’re actually really vocal, going ‘baa baaa baaaa’ along the way

Ok.. THIS HORSE.
Is a freaking HORNY motherfucka
Stopped the car and I ran down to pet him cos I thought he looked so elegant
A few rubs later, he’s got a full-blown ERECTION!!

He even followed me along the fence as I walked away
Arggh.. I turned on a HORSE!!

ANYWAY

As we exited the town, the streets were actually lined with orange trees
The Mr, being ever so clever (sarcastic, obviously), thought ‘Oh hey you know what, I’m gonna pluck one and EAT IT! It’ll be great!!‘

So he steps out and shamelessly nicks one off the tree
And proudly hands it over to me to peel
I peel it
And when he’s not looking I have a little nibble and realised it was SOUR AS HELL!

“Here, I’ve peeled it for you, have a piece it really IS good!”

Ohhh my god the look on his face as all the super SOUR juices hit him
I nearly died laughing!!!!!!

Lesson: do NOT eat oranges that are meant to be street deco

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Dress New Look
Tights eBay
Shoes + bag vintage
Fur collar thrifted

God.. I’m so obsessed with tights!

Dull old brick wall

Kinda matched my nail colour(s) to the dress.. not on purpose!

Wasn’t gonna share this last pic initially cos there’s just too much of me in this post
But I really like my hair in it so here it is ha haha

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This was just behind our accommodation
We got a homestay room with a lovely Danish woman and her son in the Christianshavn area – a 15 min walk to the city centre. Which is where the popular shopping street, Stroget, is.. in terms of actual shopping though it’s no match for Oxford St. No match at all. Nope.

An abundance of bikes
All sorts of bikes filled the city
I like the ones that look like wheelbarrows
They use it to kart children around 😀

SEE!
Already two interesting variations of BIKE in this photo!

View of the canal

Me! And a ..bike

Tivoli Gardens

Situated right in the city, an amazing amusement park that opened in 1843

Magic carriage of FUN!

And now I present to you..
The most AMAZING, MAGICAL RIDE

MAGICAL is all I can say
Sitting up there looking at the city whirl around me.. it felt so much like flying!
Even more so than when I went paragliding in Austria
You could see just about the WHOLE city from up there.. and it is WAY up
Wind in my hair
The most exhilirating, blissful feeling ever

FOOD

There’s this thing called the ‘traditional brunch’
Basically it’s a giant plate of all sorts of food you typically have on a weekend?
Brekkie stuff, omelettes, bacon, ham, chips, salmon, bread, fruits, yoghurt, etc etc etc

Just LOOK at it!!

We got ours from Luna Cafe – a local’s recommendation.

A lighter version of brunch, had at a different restaurant from the first

Danish pastry shop that sold GIANT STRAWBERRY/BERRY TARTS for about £10 each

An assortment of herring
Apparently a very Danish thing to have
Too bad I hate fishy things

Smorrebrod (open sandwich thingy) of hmm, was it lamb slices or something.. I can’t remember
All I recall is that this tasted DELISH.. the portion just needs to be umm x10 more

Christiania

As you can see, no photos allowed
So these are a couple that I snuck!!

Christiania is this little world of its own
It’s got its own rules, shops, radio, tv, bikes.. I dunno, even their own currency!
It’s really cool and laid back
I loved it

It’s a real pity photos weren’t allowed
Because it’s such a unique little (well it’s 85 acres big but anyway) place
So COLOURFUL and.. it’s hard to describe.. it’s got a special vibe

Sat here and had a drink as the sun set
This was also a sneakily taken photo :s

Canal Tour

Took an hour-long boat ride through the canals of Copenhagen

Some kind of boat ride, cruising through what felt like FROZEN air
Still enjoyed it though
Except for the parts where the guide went on about some historical stuff

Love these photos I took from the boat
The sky looks so whimsical

To end this post here’s a pic I took from the plane on the way back to London

A thick blanket of cloud
I feel like I could nearly lay on it

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When asked how I’d like my hair cut I usually say ‘Anything you like!’
Or ‘Anything except an army shave and don’t let my ears stick out too much’ if I’m feeling a bit chicken

As for the colour, it was result of
“What colour would you like?”
“Umm surprise me..”

Turned out not to be such a huge shock
I had been prepared for blue hair

Chiffon top Primark
Shorts Topshop
Tights New Look
Shoes H&M
Bag vintage

In bright light, I have no eyebrows 🙁

I love these tights

🙂

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Beautiful blue and so inviting
But don’t be fooled
It’s cold as ice!

Late afternoon shot

I miss it so

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I’m in the process of getting some fun prints and posters to decorate my walls with
And more toys and colourful things and lights.. and new curtains!
Well I’m just starting now anyway, ever since I moved in to my new house I’ve hardly had time to do anything (besides work and umm holidays..)

Anyhow here are some pics of stuff that are on/around my desk

This is a lunchbox that I bought when I was still in Melbourne (2005?)
It contains lots of things I love
Namely my collection of stickers, a goldfish-shaped bubble bath thing that smells so goood, and a few postcards that I like
Every time I open up the box it’s like magic
All the colours and shapes and of course, the smell from the bubble bath 🙂

Now this little thing.. I can’t remember who gave it to me
It must’ve been part of a Christmas present.. from.. someone.. oops!!!

My ball lights! They light up! 😀

These sit on the shelf of my desk
Left: Holga 120CFN
Right: Konica C35EFP
Centre: £2.99 H&M sunnies, haha!

Here’s my ukulele making it’s debut at last..
It’s a beginner’s one.. as you can see it has a dolphin on it – suits me I think 😀
Sadly I haven’t played with it much recently.. but I’m getting there
It’s so much fun.. I love music and I love playing all sorts of instruments!

The book I’m currently reading
Got it for 75p from a charity shop in Minehead last weekend when I was there for the ATP Festival

This is something that’s very, very dear to me
It’s normally kept in its tattered envelope along with a well-read letter on cheap paper that came with it

It’s a birthday card I received from my father when I turned 5
He was away on service (he was in the army) a lot when I was little and could only afford this card

In the letter he tells me of how he had gotten me one of those big pencil sharpeners that was shaped like a house (a real treat back then), and that my mom would give it to me when my actual birthday arrived

Two new nail colours I bought today
Strawberry IceCream & Berry IceCream 🙂

And lastly

Beach toys I bought today to take on my holiday *happy*
I even got a Winnie the Pooh (actually I don’t like him too much, he’s such a wuss) kite

Was doing some research on things to do/see in Majorca..
And found the most amazing, BEAUTIFUL beach that’s about a 45-minute drive from the city.
Along with a few more other things I’m really excited about..
It’s gonna be so great since we’ve hired a car for the week!

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“Out of Print celebrates the world’s great stories through fashion. Our shirts feature iconic and often out of print book covers. Some are classics, some are just curious enough to make great t-shirts, but all are striking works of art.”

Last week I was sent a sample of my choice
I picked ‘Tales of the Jazz Age’
Which was a book published in 1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald containing a number of short stories which included – now made popular by a movie of the same name – ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’

I took the tee to Copenhagen with me
Managed a very casual outfit

Shorts H&M
Cashmere cardi Next
Shoes vintage
Striped scarf Gina Tricot
I love how the background looks like a painting in this pic (above)Gotta say the tee is really soft and comfy!
Definitely will be wearing it more often over the summer, if summer ever arrives.. >.<

Good for swinging too!
Unfortunately occluded by my scarf in the photo..

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The good news is I got sent not one, but TWO 

Even the tags are neat – modelled after old library cards 😀

To win this tee you just have to leave a comment with your email address
And I’ll pick someone randomly when I’m back next week(Speaking of which, I’m off on a Spanish cruise tomorrow!)Closing date end of Tuesday 4 May GMT

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I’m spending 5 days in Copenhagen
It’s quite tragic for a sun-lover like me..
As it seems to be colder and wetter there than it is here!

But who cares
It’s a holiday 😉

Anyway here’s my quick What-I-Wore post

This ring is just fab
Simply because it’s adjustable! 😀

A couple of overexposed shots

Can you spot my crappy chalk smiley-face, ha ha

Btw I love London-based blogs so if any of you write one please leave me your link!!

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But first here’s what I wore
I believe it’s the first time my legs have seen the outside world since ..last year
It’s like coming out of a cave
Luckily I had a quick wax before going out, ha ha!

Dress New Look
Belt vintage
Cropped cardi River Island
Bag River Island
Socks/Shoes Topshop

Nail colour by Barry M!

My neighbours car hehe. I wrote ‘Welcome to YOUR CAR!’ in front of the door 😉
And a puff of smoke at the back

Lots of people by the river bank

I miss painting!
I must get my paints and brushes out .. umm someday..

At times I felt like I had just come out of school -_-

Looking at this photo is making me so thirsty!
Pimms.. I love it

It was a weird day because I had just dreamt the night before that I had this huge addiction to beer (when in fact I don’t like it much) and was drawing myself a beer bath and everything. So the Mr bought a strawberry beer for us and it was yum! I also later weirdly craved and had seafood pasta – I don’t like seafood normally.
I LIKE THIS!

Didn’t manage to have any ice cream >.<

Richmond is so beautiful

Thought the bottom pics were goofy
Kinda look like a cartoon!

Does anyone remember what this flower’s called
Something HEART
Heart drops or heart ..something..

Bumped into this neighbourhood cat on the way home
It was sitting quietly on the window sill
I called out to it
And it RAN towards me and rolled around demanding attention!

Had half a mind to kidnap it for a day 😉

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