Evening citizens of Middle Earth!
Gi Suilon!
Guilty pleasures! Everyone has them but finding out what they are can be hard for some. I can tell you now that I am not one of those people. In fact I have so many that I've decided to make a mini series out of it. I'm not sure yet how many posts it will consist off yet but I'm going to try and do one at least once every two months.
So my title as usual is related to an obsession of mine. This one being a song lyric from Cliff Richard's Summer Holiday which brings me onto my guilty pleasure for this post. I was first introduced to Cliff Richard musicals around two years ago when my auntie gave me a box set for Christmas after I told her I'd never seen Summer Holiday before. I watched it with my mum and my dad shortly afterwards and although it really is extremely cringe-worthy I discovered that I really enjoyed it! This led to a downward spiral of learning all the songs off by heart by repeatedly watching the sing-along version however there was a point where I became slightly bored. That's when I decided to watch the young ones which was another of the movies my auntie had given me. If it was possible, I loved it more than Summer Holiday. I'm not sure if it was down to the plot or the songs but I became even more obsessed than I'd been before.
After a while the novelty died down and even though I still loved the movies, I no longer watched them at every opportunity; well that was until recently. When I came back from my holiday this summer I still had a few weeks left of school break and being the lazy person I am, I spent that time binge watching my DVD collection. This is when I stumbled upon Summer Holiday once again and re-watched it. It wasn't as great as I remembered it to be, perhaps because I'm a bit older now but I still enjoyed it and preceded to watch the young ones as well. This is when came to the realisation that I'd never watched the third film that had been in the box set which was " jjjj and the shadows".
This going to be my task for this month (that is if I can find the time) because I plan to set myself a challenge with each of the posts in my GP series which will help me to love what I'm writing about even more than I already do. Goodbye for now and I will see you next week with another blog entry.
That's all until I next post so...
Tenna enta lúmë - May we meet again!
Friday 11 September 2015
Thursday 3 September 2015
SitC favourites August 2015
Evening citizens of Middle Earth.
Gi Suilon!
Although I'm not a beauty blogger, I do enjoy watching or reading 'monthly favourite' posts. I thought that seeing as I recently went to summer in the city (the biggest YouTube convention in the UK) I would combine an August favourites with my convention hall. Hopefully this will give you an insight into how this particular convention works along with what to expect if you're planning on going in the years to come.
1) Merchandise:
Although I've been wanting a llama hat for years and finally managed to get one at SitC, it surprisingly wasn't my favourite purchase. That title would have to go down to my stuffed mine turtle which has a voice recording from the asdf movies inside it. I also managed to get it signed - BONUS!
2) Guest
Tomska; without a doubt. He was the only creator I met due to lucking out in the ballot system and I most likely wouldn't have been able to if he hadn't given up his spare time to do an impromptu meet up at his merch stand. Tom was one of the first people I watched on YouTube and quoting the asdf movies has become a common pastime for my dad and me. He has made me laugh so hard when I've secretly been watching his videos at 3 in the morning, sometimes too hard resulting in my antics being discovered by an annoyed mum. I think he's extremely talented and I'm so privileged to have met him!
3) New person
I met a lot of cool people on that Sunday - people who I believe I will keep in contact with for a long time. Although I came with my friend Katie, meeting new friends just made the whole experience more enjoyable.
The first people we met were called Karly and Caitlin and they had come all the way from Dublin! We watched the Mario Kart competition in the screening room with them then lost them, only to meet up with them again later in the day at Tomska's meet up.
In the queue for the meet & greet Katie and I had met this girl called Izzy who was really awesome. She'd met loads of creators over the weekend and had gotten them all to sign a card for her birthday which was the following Friday. We were right at the very front of the line when Izzy fainted! She was ok after half an hour or so which was good and Tom kept coming over to check on her which was sweet. Once Izzy had recovered she got a massive hug from Tom who then proceeded to write "Stop falling over!" in her card.
Whilst we'd looked after Izzy, her friend Georgia had joined us (she has a YouTube channel which I will link at the end of this post). That pretty much completed the SitC friendship group of 2015!
I think all four of the girls I met were really cool and if they ever read this I want to thank them for completing my convention experience! :-)
4) Moment
As I've already mentioned, I had the chance to meet Tomska! Now you may be thinking that my favourite moment is going to be the hug but no - it's not... There was this girl near to the end of the line who just ran and jumped on Tom! It was so funny and so cute at the same time; in other words, a perfect way to sum up the day.
5) Event
The best vent had to be YouTuber honesty hour simply because of Emma Blackery's witty, opinionated comments. They were hilarious and I agreed with a lot of her views. Even though I'm not a massive fan of her or her content I do think she's funny and she definitely made that panel the best for me.
If you head over to my travel blog, there is a similar post (favourites/hall crossover) related to my summer holiday to Italy.
That's all until I next post so...
Tenna enta lúmë - May we meet again!
Gi Suilon!
Although I'm not a beauty blogger, I do enjoy watching or reading 'monthly favourite' posts. I thought that seeing as I recently went to summer in the city (the biggest YouTube convention in the UK) I would combine an August favourites with my convention hall. Hopefully this will give you an insight into how this particular convention works along with what to expect if you're planning on going in the years to come.
1) Merchandise:
Although I've been wanting a llama hat for years and finally managed to get one at SitC, it surprisingly wasn't my favourite purchase. That title would have to go down to my stuffed mine turtle which has a voice recording from the asdf movies inside it. I also managed to get it signed - BONUS!
2) GuestTomska; without a doubt. He was the only creator I met due to lucking out in the ballot system and I most likely wouldn't have been able to if he hadn't given up his spare time to do an impromptu meet up at his merch stand. Tom was one of the first people I watched on YouTube and quoting the asdf movies has become a common pastime for my dad and me. He has made me laugh so hard when I've secretly been watching his videos at 3 in the morning, sometimes too hard resulting in my antics being discovered by an annoyed mum. I think he's extremely talented and I'm so privileged to have met him!
3) New person
I met a lot of cool people on that Sunday - people who I believe I will keep in contact with for a long time. Although I came with my friend Katie, meeting new friends just made the whole experience more enjoyable.
The first people we met were called Karly and Caitlin and they had come all the way from Dublin! We watched the Mario Kart competition in the screening room with them then lost them, only to meet up with them again later in the day at Tomska's meet up.
Whilst we'd looked after Izzy, her friend Georgia had joined us (she has a YouTube channel which I will link at the end of this post). That pretty much completed the SitC friendship group of 2015!
I think all four of the girls I met were really cool and if they ever read this I want to thank them for completing my convention experience! :-)4) Moment
As I've already mentioned, I had the chance to meet Tomska! Now you may be thinking that my favourite moment is going to be the hug but no - it's not... There was this girl near to the end of the line who just ran and jumped on Tom! It was so funny and so cute at the same time; in other words, a perfect way to sum up the day.
5) Event
The best vent had to be YouTuber honesty hour simply because of Emma Blackery's witty, opinionated comments. They were hilarious and I agreed with a lot of her views. Even though I'm not a massive fan of her or her content I do think she's funny and she definitely made that panel the best for me.
If you head over to my travel blog, there is a similar post (favourites/hall crossover) related to my summer holiday to Italy.
That's all until I next post so...
Tenna enta lúmë - May we meet again!
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