Saturday, 17 July 2010

I won?

So Bloggers :) nice to see y'all again

Months and months ago ( well actually) like a few weeks ago I recieved a letter informing me that I had been entered in to the DesignED in Cornwall event at Falmouth University. I was pleased with this and just sort of brushed it aside as a "Completely Fair" type thing where people won either because A)no-one had ever thought of thier idea before, mainly because it was un-marketable and unreasonable OR B) The Child knew the judges and prizes were given out on an elite based system where you win because of who you know.

I arrived at the Bid event and it was packed full of kids and thier parents looking at outstanding work, all of which was amazing! Looking around I felt a rather sinking type feeling, another event which was so close yet so far, sigh.

I met up with some friends for the awards ceremony, lots of talking. Then the prizes :o I was stood next to my friend who literally was stood there fingers crossed almost red in the face begging God, Bhudda and anything else she could think of not to win? confused? she said that she didn't want to win as she would walk to the stage and trip or start crying, bless her.

And then they called my catergory "textiles and fashion" and my name was called! I stood there in shock.... and stood there .... and stood there. Until eventually I realised walking up to collect my prize would be a good idea. Bright red and feeling extremely shy I collected my prize. Photos were taken, I was interviewed and then looking at everything afterwards I still couldn't believe that out of all the projects in Cornwall I had won!

Anyway moving on....

Mozambique 5 days! I cannot wait. There is alot of stuff to fit in my suitcase and handluggae, 12 kg of stuff for the orphanage, roll mat, pillow, sleeping bag and all my things too. And I've done it almost :) If I'm honest I still cannot beleive we are going, it's not going to be real until we are on the plane. Night flights, both ways :( Night Flights are not my favourite thing because a) I always end up sitting by the person who should have really booked two seats rather than making me sleep pressed up against the window. b) the before mentioned person always snores very loudly c) I cant speak to ask for more seat space because, quiet is compulsory otherwise the grumpy person with the lazy eye gets angry and continues to give evils for the duration of the flight. d) sleep is difficult in a different bed, let alone above the cloud barrier of the earth, traveling extremely fast and sitting up wondering if I will live to see the end of the journey,

So more on Mozambique when I arrive home, If I make it through the flight, Joke, I hope.....

losh of luff
Tamsin xx

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

It's all over .... and beginning!

Hi all

I have finished school! last exam on tuesday how exciting. I was actually not that sad to go and only cried once in the leaving process, which actually resulted in hysterical laughter :)



So the summer begins...



In character, today i tidied my room and Pipkin's hutch etc. I thought a nice summer clean would be great for him as well as me who isn't too keen on the whole rabbit smell in my room. we then discorvered that i didn't like the noise of the hoover, it's a dyson but boy is it noisy. Midge then had great fun making me jump and pulling horrible faces to make me scared whilst hovering, such a lovely child she is....



I also recieved a package through the post, always an exciting experience for me, even if i have ordered it. But sadly I wasn't in so I had to go and pick it up. The same thing happened today, but I was in and they didn't even bother ringing the doorbell the cheek of it! so I will have to go and pick that up soon.

I finished watching the 3rd and 4th cycles of britain's next top model ♥ ! I did think Lucy looked like Danielle hope from somewhere over the rainbow and also sounded like her, so I looked up the surname of Lucy (Bennett). Turns out they're not related, as far as I could find, but stupid wikipedia ruined the end for me, so for the rest of the cycle i knew who won grrr. And I'm glad the person who won cycle 4 did, the deserved it. And 4th place runner up stuck up and fake even though she was a christian! Why are christians in T.V. shows always crazy and mental. I think god t.v. is the only one with sane ones on it!

Loving the sun :) moi et la midget gem sat in the garden today listening to music and talking great fun.

I have also been using a glycolic face peel and dermabrasion system to try and even out my skin tone, it's working really well, but it does look alot worse in the morning I think it might be the darker pigment coming to surface before being washed off in the day, maybe...

So to the new beginning part. I have begun a new diet, not the losey weight type but a get better type. I had some blood tests done, which hurt and bruised alot, and it came out that I had a high count of the milk antibodies in my blood, however apparently not severe enough to cause the reactions I have had to something. I am still staying off milk products and anything that includes dairy because my reaction might not have been an ige reaction and i would like to see if staying off dairy makes any difference.

Also and obviously college in september which I am very excited about.

Lastly Mozambique this summer!!!! Can't wait :) lots more on that soon.

losh of luff

Tamsin xx

Quotes of the week:
"my belt is really itchy? dont be stupid thats like me saying my hat is itchy!!
"I hate people we know!"
"that mashmellow looks like a dog head!"

Thursday, 17 June 2010

Wow thats a long time....


So all on the blog-sphere, it's been a long time since I last wrote. Since then I have (in chronilogical order of course):


Had an operation to remove my Addernoids. Not androids which prompted my friends little brother to then make a monster out of pickle monster munch and try to convince me this is what I had up my nose.



Attended a Fundraising Ball for our trip to Mozambique, watch out for news on that.
moi in the blue >>>>>>>>>



Started my New years resolution and Lost a whole stone in weight and then gained it all back again :(
Attended my leavers ball! In a green dress, 2 ball dresses in 5 months wowie!
Re-arranged my room, twice, very exciting it looks alot bigger :)
And also left school, yay free entire summer :).
I am also starting to do more making of things and fashion illustration.
So thats what happened in my Tamsin's crazyverse, next time I will try and give you all a bit more detail and make it a bit quicker between blog updates.
much love to all
Tamsin xxx

Saturday, 2 January 2010

cupboards, lifts and What?

So 2010 already guys, its come around so quick, actually at a pretty average speed, but that doesn't sound quite so good. So, most of you spent your New year Partying avec ton amis, I spent most of the first hours of mine in pyjamas, in a cupboard, pressed against the door, I can explain....

Basically for Newyear, I went to a Party, as you do. I got there met with mon amis and got in to pjs, hence the pyjamas. Next we played some games such as twister, quote the hasbo "she doesn't know left and right but her flexibility does make up for it" and ate stuff, which involved a conversation of me not being able to cut my pizza so i decided to fork it instead, some people only heard the latter part and then the old saying "spooning leads to Forking" popped up. Moving swiftly on, I did meet a rather cool person called Helen who is an albino black woman from Jamaica and she wants to be a nun, so she said.

Karaoke followed with not to disasterous consequences, I wasn't allowed to sing, they said I might harm myself but me thinks otherwise, it was then New year, everyone managed to count in time which was a suprise as we all had at least a whole glass of shloer each, i know its not alcoholic, im not stupid. All the cool people ran on to the street to see the fireworks, they were amazing, if all of them were like the 1 I saw, the tree was blocking my view.

Back inside and our favourite game, Hide and seek, for the first round we hid by the lift and got found quite quickly, the second round however...

The cupboard was the perfect place to hide, and another team also thought so, we ended up 5 of us in a cupboard and to make it seem like the door was locked we all leant against it, see I told you I could explain.

The next round we were going to go back to the cupbaord as we hadn't got found but we got followed, so instead I hid down the back of a sofa, smushed against another team member. After this game we played sardines, more people crushing into small spaces, my favourite, the hiding places chosen were in the small room leading to the lift, this was a very sensible choice as all 30 ish of us could fit, at a squeeze, the second choice however was not. Just think of it like this 10 people under a grand piano is a squeeze, so 30, lets not even go there.

Find the chocolate bar was the last game of the night, the person who hid the chocolate bars was giving out false clues and about halfway through I sat on the stairs, when my buddy (team name, not something I made up) asked me why I told them I didn't even want chocolate and by the time I had finished playing not even a bar of choc would revive me, I carried on playing, I didn't even get the choc, gutted.

Film time!!! Night of the museum 2!! Nothing could spoil this not even wanting to sleep, although whilst looking for my cup so i could get a drink I tipped a cup upside down and it spilt orange juice all over moi and mon beanbag, to solve this problem I sat in my sleeping bag instead.

After the film, i decided it would be a good idea to take my make-up off and do my teeth, before the next film started. Whilst taking off my make-up one of the boys walked in and told me my eye was swollen. The swollen eye had two main causes, no. 1 being punched in the face, twice by my four year old cousin, it was by mistake, she slipped whilst playing a game. no.2 I walked into a wooden pole whilst looking for chocolate, in hunt the choc. But its always nice to be told -_-.

At roughly 5am I dragged myself and my sleepin bag to a corner of the room, curled up in to a ball and tried to fall asleep. Counted sheep, no, rolled over, no, thought of the most boring thing ever, no, cleared my mind, no, in the end I got about 10 minutes sleep, Fabulous.

In the morning, most of the comments were wow you look tired, thanks guys, ITS COS I AM TIRED!! Got home 8:30 ish, put trackies and a hoodie on, grabbed a hot water bottle, straight to sleep. Get in :)

so i think you guys have had enuff of me rambling on, except I have made new years resolutions, get me and i'm going to try really hard to keep them and everything. Nuff now

Tamsin xx

Saturday, 14 November 2009

Ditsy, moi? type casting? i think not!

I know i haven't written for a while but its been pretty average couple of days nothing too exciting happened, well not anything you'd find excited anyway, unless you found Night of the museum 2 coming out exciting, which i did! 'Well whats happened over the last few days?' Quote Night of the museum 'it's rhetorical', i do love that film by the way, incase you hadn't guessed. also ' we need to simplify, theres just too much going on, you're evil, you're asthmatic.....' he's saying it to Darth vader, and hes got lisp, acctually just watch the film, do it or i kill you, not really, but seriously it's great!

we have had the usual 3-d week talk in the car these last few mornings, which has now started by the way, and is apparently awesome, i fell asleep whilst watching the secret life of pippa lee, another one not to watch with your parents, along with the duchess.

on Saturday i had work as per usual, the family, bar dad and i, went up to Devon (thats across the border :0) for Hatherleigh, they roll burning tar barrels down the hill, as you do. Saturday evening the father and i went out for a meal at pizza express where i bumped into the Harris and Laura Jane. I then went home had waffles, syrup and Ben and jerry's for pudding whilst watching the duchess avec mon pere, i repeat DO NOT watch with your parents, it's only a 12 but seriously! Awkward ......

sunday work again, and after ben and jerry's and waffles and syrup for breakfast i was ready for anything, except maybe the scales. it was a really busy day as two of our staff members were off sick but i managed to make a huge sale, i was sooooo proud of me, she was such a lovely customer too and i have to say she has great taste in fabric mmmhmmm.

I was supposed to be picked up at 4:30 by my vatty but he forgot and ended picking me up at 4:45, and i was out on time and everything. Then down to church for kev, i had said to the dunn-wilson that i would help out in a sketch, so i did, i was the Ditsy air hostess, i don't think she was type casting? it went well and afterwards people, mainly beth and em said i did well and was quite funny, the strange thing is i was improvising and not trying to be funny, oh well.

Monday morning, and i think i agree with garfield on this on, i hate mondays, not only did i think it was a sleep in day i had two exams, english and R.E. but i got through it and afterwards in P.E. we had a relaxation lesson, which was not as described, when someone says relaxing time you generally think sleep, maybe yoga, but no, we had to stretch and think about angles, relaxing i think not!

Today i had to get up, again, its not fair, I Hate tuesdays, and i had two french exams, not one two! i also worked through my lunch on ICT, stupid failing! i got home and finished the promise auction letters to give to steph and now i'm blogging and that pretty much brings you up to date, im going to stop now because the rest of it would go something like, tv, drink, shower, make-up off, sleep zzzzz.
so i'm off.......
love from
Tamsin xx

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

I really got to get me some sugar......

This morning much to my dismay, i had to get up, sigh, another day at school. I had textiles and art all day today, luckily or i wouldn't have got up at all. we had the usual random car conversation, todays topics were sainsbury's grand opening and channel 4'S 3-d week, i'm so excited, 3-d T.V :0!

when i walked in to tutor today tim was sat in my chair! how rude! but i forgave him as he gave me my prefect badge and then offered half a chair. then off to Textiles, exam prep, groan, where mrs cartmill informed us we are all doing foundation paper, the cheek. during textiles we were discussing soul survivor, oh how i miss it, and niki was listing everyone that went, she was forgetting one person, Jake, but i didn't tell her, and ten minutes after the conversation she screamed it out rather loudly, awkward.........

At break Harriet was telling me about her sister trying to convince her that salami was an animal, the coversation apparently went like this "salami comes from a salami, just like beef come from a beef, duh" then her sister photoshopped an image to make it look like a 'salami'. I told my midget later, and she said she could imagine if salami was a animal it would be a dog, like a sausage dog! I was starting to feel rather awful at the end of break so I 'stole' ibuprofen from georgia because she wouldn't give it to me her words were "i can't give it to you, because if you react to it your parents can sue me, however if i leave the packet here and you happen to take it..." there then came a rather dramatic fake scene, acted out by alice mainly, of me stealing the ibuprofen. the slight downside to the ibuprofen was one got stuck in my throat and when i coughed, the powder came back up, it was scrummy.

Then off to art, more exam prep, there seems to be a theme going on in my lessons at the moment, i felt rather ill and had a little nap when mr brett was explaining what we had to do for our exam. When i woke up i then said "i need to get me some sugar", everyone laughed before i explained that i meant the icing sugar type not the other one. i then had to do some work and i listened to rochelle talk about her eygpt holiday, which sounded amazing!

At lunch jay was trying to find a new name for his account and basically the test was put it after you have just been killed by, some of the suggestions were "chicks with dick", "jesus", "some black guys"and "death" and there were some others which i think are too inappropriate to repeat. I then went off with Adam white to catch up with ict. We went in the first entrance but there was a meeting in there, so we went in the other door. i managed to finish my flash, for anybody who didn't read my earlier blog the computer type not show my boobs type.

Then off to assembly, sigh, during the duration of assembly i had swallowed my chewing gum, ask for a new bit, and Jake said i didn't deserve a new bit cos i swalllowed it, Millie told me it would take me until i'm 23 for it to get rid of it from my stomach and then she informed me that a boy was picking his nose. Aparently it turns her on, she was joking at least i hope so.

Back to textiles for another hour, i didn't really do much, i did a rather appaling portrait of beth u, which made her look rather big, which she is not. On the way out of Textiles Becky informed me it was "cold outside" which i heard as "pole dancing" you know col- pole and doutside- dancing, well it was a long day, OK? On the way down the hill, it was raining and about half way down i remembered i had my umbrella! it was rather cosy under there for three mmmhmm! Beth and i explained the pole dancing incident to jake, who got the completely wrong end of the stick, and somehow thought that i went to school in my own clothes, by mistake.

By the time i got to the cafe i was sodden, i ended up putting my tights and socks and shoes on the radiator to dry, which they didn't. Em then explained to me that she woke up screaming, really high pitchedly, last night and that she can't remember why! strange child, she cant even scream high pitched when shes awake so i don't know how she managed to do it unconcious? Rather dramatically the lights went out and there were various comments about not being afraid of the dark, which i am 'so not', not for like a week anyway! there were various theories behind the darkness, mine was that martin had finally had enough of 'us youth' and had flicked a switch and then run away laughing, it turns out the sandwich maker was faulty, so no conspirices on martins behalf, how boring, to prove this point steph switched the sandwich maker on everytime the light came back and laughed about it. The hair colour debate happened again and everybody reckons natural, i'm still not convinced. The dunn-wilson (beth) and will went out to subway and came back drenched. i told beth she looked like she looked like she had just had a shower, with clothes on, as you do, she didn't really apreciate this, i don't know why?But she did,TBF!

The midget gem and i then had coffee, although mine was more like milk with a drop coffee in it, and discussed the ups and downs of life, the universe and everything whilst eating even numbers of penny sweets, its not OCD they just have to be even or equal numbers, ok? By the end of our convo Naomi had about 3 billion shrimps in her coffee and i had a freddo in mine, i usually dip a freddo in, but this one decided he wanted to go for a swim!

The 3-d glasses, which i have to say are rather fetching, were on the table when we got home. So being the posers we are, we took picys of us in them and then tryed out middle partings which are hot and make us look like 1950's school boys, scrummy. There was also a warning on the Glasses so i'm you before you hurt yourselves, it says "choking hazard" well i don't know how you could swallow them but ok and "not for perfoming physical activity" mmmhmm, oh right, thats how you swallow them

thats all for now chums so toodaloo (no, i'm not going to the loo, i'm saying good bye, fool!)
lots of luff
Tamsin xx

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

In somebody else's bed this morning....

This morning nothing exciting like dead badgers or packing for the wrong week happened, although i did awake this morning thinking i was in somebody else’s bedroom as i could see the floor, normally hidden under a mountain of clothes and i haven't quite got used to having new wardrobes yet, but it still was a bit of a shock. I also thought i was blind but that was because i couldn't open my eyes properly but after quick wash with a flannel i could see again what a miracle!

Channel 4 is having a 3-d week next week! not a 4-d week as was discussed in the car, which then made my gran go off on one about the good old days in London, when they had huge cinema screens and also about when she went to school they never had more than 1 hour of a lesson at a time, she thinks the new school system is pants! Speaking of which my gran used to do p.e in her knickers, knitted of course and she once locked a teacher in cupboard cos she thought it was her friend, turns out my dearest grandmamma was quite the naughty one at her school.

I had triple ict today which i still happen to be failing and getting a mere 15/40 which equates to a u, oh dear. At break we had a rather delightful convo involving Freddie endeans moustache, *shudder* which we concluded should be shaved off and should most definitely no be touched, although Jay did apparently give it an electric shock in science, Michael made quite a humorous comment which was something along the lines of "i wouldn’t touch that with a barge pole, ewww it's so gross, actually i might whack it with a barge pole, i bet you can get quite a momentum on one of those" to which we all sniggered. the next topic was the ups and downs of Bassets and Haribo jelly babies, and which is, personally i like both but y'know, it involved eating the Haribo type so i was happy, mmm Haribo.

French was a waffle (Rofl Jonathan Ross stylie, not the real kind but that would be lush! mmm waffle) we had exam prep and practice my 2 favourite p's in French all the others hurt. After about 10 minute of the p's the Fox and i glazed over and did our nails instead and when we ran out of nails we did Ben Horner’s instead, he now has better nails than any guys in our year courtesy of Alice and I. During our 5 minute break, which we get in the 2 hours of French, all the boys went out to the toilets for a whiff of old Toby, a potion they concocted in yr 8 and mainly consisting of rubbish, leaves and some un-mentionable things. All of the boys came back joking that they had probably given Ben a too bigger whiff of old Toby, quote Morgs "that stuff's fatal". but when he didn't come back we all, Alice and i anyway, thought he had collapsed. he re-appeared 2 minutes later explaining that Barnaby wills had dropped his belt buckle down the toilet and had to fish it out, ewww, this lead to rather alot of poo stories, Steph would've loved it!

then back to Ict for another hour, Abi had managed, out of the three hours we had had of Ict today, to create a song or beat anyway with bits of our voices that she had recorded, c'est vraiment tres gut, jai ich parle le allemand (yes, i know half of it is in german). i had managed to flash this lesson, the movie thing on the computer not the lifting my top up type I’m not sure Mr merrick would apeachiate that, this was after hours of kicking it, praying at it, cursing it and then staring at the computer screen willing it to work, after the later didn't do the trick and i decided to ask for help instead. 1000000000000000 billion slides later it was home time :)

when at home, after a rather frustrating queing in the bank to put money in, go to co-op to top-up, card not working incident, i decided a nice chillax facebook and such like session was in order. My laptop and t'internet had other ideas, i kicked it, screamed at it, i plugged, i unplugged, i re plugged, then after giving up it worked and stopped, work---stopped, then stopped and finally worked again for a bit. I'm sure i positively repel technology or all technigilogical items have something against me or a pact.

Sadly it was tea and eating and typing is not a good look especially when its fajita. the tea conversation was riveting and went, oww,oww,oww salsa in ulcer, oh no i dropped my plate, Naomi, you complete plonker! don't worry you can have the rest of my chicken, oww oww oww ulcer, oh no, lack of cheese that means ill have to have just gravy, salsa and lettuce, oww for goodness sakes stupid ulcer. oh no left it in the microwave for too long now its all gooey, sigh.
as you can see we had the most amazing convo ever, and oww it did hurt. The ulcer was in relation to the one in my mouth and anything, yes, anything even slightly acidic sets it off, even mouthwash, sigh, the even worse thing is that every time this happens it feels like alot of very tiny, smaller then Emily which probably is the problem, angry people are having a lets smash stuff up sesh, in my mouth and yes, it hurts,

another revelation today was that if i push all my hair back from my face it looks my natural colour, which is scary cos it hasn't been that colour for quite a while, surprisingly though it is quite dark now and brown NOT ginger!!! in my head all day there has been a rather stupid debate Brown? or Blonde? I’m thinking brown.... no, wait blonde, actually i don't know. My personal advisor, who goes by many names mainly Midget gem, shrimp and Naomi, reckons blonde suits me as a i can say stupid things sometimes "the stupid'o'meter just went off the scale, actually Tamsin i think you broke it" this was in relation to the microwave incident when i mircowaved a yoghurt pot with the metallic lid still on and then it exploded, and she also reckons "you should have been born blonde", I don't know the reason for this? On the other hand my other Shrimp, Em reckons I should go natural cos then I wouldn't be 'fake' anymore, fake? moi?, she then started to speak in what she called an American accent so i glazed over and didn't really hear the rest.

well I’m off people so i guess I’ll see you around, maybe, sometime, well this is awkward......
love you really
Tamsin xxx