The holidays are coming....

The start of december, when it is sociably acceptable to sing out of tune to chirstmas songs, wear novelty jumpers and eat lots of chocolate! Also most running events are usually a blur of red due to the santa dash! This past sunday myself, miss wiltshire galaxy and miss swindon took part in the Wiltshire Air Ambulance's first Santa Dash at Lydiard Park. The event, which raised over £5000 was the first in it's history and was helped by the Swindon Rotary Club. Everyone received a santa outfit and had a warm up of Zumba! With a little gangnam style thrown in! It was icy and cold but over 200 turned up! We had a press shoot with Santa (I wished for a PERFECT Christmas) and Whisky Bear, the WAA's official mascot. Werent these ponies cute with their antlers on! Then the mayor opened up the race and we were off!! Georgia had her little Henry in his pram enjoying the ride whilst we jogged and dodged the icy puddles! It was a great chance for a sunday morning exercise with some pageant gossip thrown in! The support was great also!

We crossed the line singing christmas songs, out of breath but they still count, and was handed our cute little medals and a snapshot with the mayor who congratulated us. But the real heroes are the ones still keeping Wiltshire Air Ambulance running and saving lifes! I am so happy to be a part of something that makes a difference in the community! We even got our santa picture in the paper the next day, and they just used our names for once! No titles! :O Now we will be opening the Santa Dash at Coate Water in aid of Prospect Hospice, a charity us Wiltshire beauty queens help alot at. We will be doing something different from the Santa Sash though so look out for a christmas tree and a snowwoman, and whatever Ela will be! See you there people, remember go PERFECT or go HOME! For it's christmas!!!

A busy time away....

I decided to stay away from social networking for a while to see how long I would last without modern technology, 2 weeks was the most! How long have you guys tried to go without facebook or twitter (I must admit I still had twitter otherwise I would of felt cut off from the world!). Before I decided to deactivate facebook, I made a couple of appearances with my England's Perfect Miss sash, a very glamorous weekend.

Me and the other Wiltshire Beauty Queens (hashtagging on twitter) were special guests at the Kick4Life masquerade ball at Menzies Hotel in Swindon. There was an auction, live music and a huge raffle! Sadly I did not win the holiday to Turkey, but I had a great time helping raise funds! The charity do amazing work out in Africa and I am happy to say we will be doing alot more for the charity, starting with 24hour football, this Saturday, 24 hours non stop of football to raise funds! Get the football kit out!

 

Next stop was the Bowood Wedding Fayre, ran by Hazelwood Boutique. Me, Miss Wiltshire Galaxy and Miss Swindon were asked to model for the show. I LOVE modelling these beautiful dresses, image here by Kevin Belson. Also as a treat we had our makeup done for us by the amazing Katy Pheiffer who made us look like goddesses!! I had the vintage look and everyone said how amazing I looked (will take as a compliment as they wouldn't say I looked like I needed makeup before :s). There were two shows and we modelled two dresses each, I seriously loved them both and wish I could snap them up! Especially Ela's bridesmaid dress, pretty in pink!!

And we do like to mess around, here is the classic Bridesmaid envy, love this shot! It was such fun and an impulse thing and that's what I love about being a titleholder. You met such amazing people and get to do something different each week. Before competing in pageants I was shy and found it hard to make friends, now I have friends all over the country! I have more self-confidence to try new things and I thank my lucky stars that I have been blessed with such good fortunes! love my sister queens! Now there is a busy weekend ahead as there is the Kick4Life 24hr football, the MECA Fight Night where us wiltshire beauty queens will be helping hand out the raffle tickets, and then Sunday we will be off to Lydiard for the Santa Dash in aid of Wiltshire Air Ambulance! I am so excited to be starting the race off and can't wait to see all the Santa outfits, it's beginning to look alot like Christmas! Let's hope I can get over this fever!! I shall leave you with one of my fab images from CMG Photography which I received all my images from, showing the lighter side of modelling. We are here to have fun :) Happy Thursday guys!

Spooky for Halloween

I was going to have a weekend off appearances but I just can't help myself!! It was halloween weekend so everyone was dressed up in their scary costumes and carving pumpkins! I was invited to watch the 4FW https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.244254929028063.55669.244138555706367&type=1#!/Official4FW?fref=ts Halloween Wrestling special in Swindon where I got to go backstage! I met a few wrestlers including Junior Heavyweight Champion "The Sheik" Behnam Ali and Heavyweight Champion "English Lion" Eddie Ryan and got to hold one of the belts, PERFECT accessory right!!

I even made an halloween outfit, that's a fake spider in my hair by the way ;) The show itself was amazing, there was alot of entertainment and talent, these guys train hard to be able to put on such a show! If you ever watched wrestling as a kid, which my family used to all the time with the great legends like The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin, then you know what sort of show to expect! The crowd were really into it, interacting with the stars and booing and cheering! You can't help but join in! Sadly I left before the Fancy Dress prize was given out, sigh, but overall had a fab night! So I think you should all come to the next event and see what  English Wrestling is about! And if you were expecting scary, well here is a picture of me and Miss Swindon Ela at my personal trainer's Halloween party, never worn so much make up in my life!! haha Hope you have a PERFECT halloween! Trick or treat!!!

A Swishing Weekend!

Being a bit naughty here and negelecting coursework to update my blog, as I hvaent been with internet access for what seems like years!! But I will write about my swishing weekend, swish swish swish!!

Friday night was the best night for both my purse and wardrobe as it was Swindon Swishing! Bring old clothes for new clothes in aid of CALM. Great stuff! New clothes, plus getting rid of old ones, equals eco shopping at its best! I went with my work collegue tasha and my fellow queens Ruth and Ela and we were ready for clothes war! You had 20 monuties browsing (where i picked my besties then hid them somewhere) then you had to go whilst they rearranged them (they were all sorted in size order) then they open the doors and whoosh! You may never see so many grown women run so fast, someone actually got elbowed in the face! Women scrambling for the rails like this was the first time they had seen clothes! Naturally i grabbed a ton of clothes and got everything i wanted plus more! (had to give ela the sparkly jacket tho, sob! :( im too nice haha). The raffle was also drawn (didnt win, suprise!!) and overall everyone addicted to swishing!!

Then onto Rachel's Wedding shop opening in the morning! The shop was looking amazing though I brought some mud in on my heels (awkward moment, always happens to me!). The mayor of Farrigndon was there as well as lots of supporters! A photographer took a picture of my shoes??!! Aha but we got to do what we do best, try on dresses!!! Yey!

 

Here is me and Ruth in our matching dresses that i couldnt get off in the end, sooo wanted it! matches my sash! But hey, have to save those pennies, unless someone wants to buy it for me! hint hint!! Rachel also stocks Mia Solono Bridal wear which is my PERFECT Dress sponsors so check them out, they are made to last and are just too gorgeous!!

 

 

Then for the nightime, its swish oclock! The Swish ball, held at the MECA for Prospect Hospice and had some amazing live music acts!! We were V.I.P guests (never get to say that!) and we had our own table with champers and the like! We were given our Propsect buckets to collect pennies, which turned to notes! And got to dance the night away! We were also filmed by Swindon TV and i'm pretty sure you will see some of my ammmazing moves on camera :S

 

 

Sunday was a PERFECT rest day! And actually have a weekend where I don't have any appearances, oh my gosh!

 

4 appearances in 4 days

Most people on a 4 day weekend have a relaxing, chilled time, or go somewhere exciting like a city break. Not that I had 4 days off, I was working still and everything else like uni and college work but instead of resting in between I had a very busy Friday to Monday!!

Day 1- Friday and I was asked to help coach the models of the Fashion show in aid of Prospect Hospice, one of the charities I support. Alongside Miss Swindon we helped show the models how to walk and to enjoy the moment, also to meet and greet the public coming in and do the raffle (amazing prizes which once again I didn't win, such bad luck with raffles). It was a great event and worth rushing home from work to change quickly! This event raised over two thousand pounds, here we are pictured with the organiser. Only just found out after we gopt there that we could of been in the show itself modelling, there were some fab outfits, but til the next year! Was so strange being on the other side but a new experience!

 Day 2- Saturday! And me and the new Miss Swindon Galaxy Gemma Drew were helping raise funds for the Stand Up For Cancer week as part of an ongoing fundraiser for Cancer Research UK. We were in M&S and although people were more interested in the free xmas pub samples and wine (in the middle of the day!), we raised a fair bit which will go towards helping find a cure for cancer! If you weren't there to put some change in our pots, pop along to the charity shop in Swindon and donate there, and check out the official merchandise!!

Day 3- Sunday! Day of rest, but wait no, bright and early after a night dancing to celebrate my friend's engagement (love you chloe), i was dressed as supergirl and hoped on my bike (the strangest looks but hey!) to the Swindon half marathon fun run!

 I was running with Miss Wiltshire Galaxy and after starting the race i realised just how unfit i was! I did the half marathon last year, but taking part in the fun run just made me miss it and will defo be training next year!! Straight after we finished we had an interview with BBC Wiltshire about all the charity work we were doing and what we thought about the race, surprised we could even speak but we still managed it!!

Then off to my England's Perfect photo shoot with CMG Photography. We worked through the night til midnight!! But got some great images and different concepts! It's great to have different shots to my normal pageant smile! We worked on makeup and looks inspired by Chery, Rhianna and my fav LMFAO. Here is a behind the scenes shot and you will see the results very soon!!

Here is one of the shots, very pin girl!!

No lie in for monday morning, day 4 as it was off to the Swindon 105.5 studios to talk to presenter Trevor Smith about the upcoming charity events of the week. It was a great show and i always feel welcome and love that i can come in anytime for a chat, no krispy Kreme donuts this time tho!! ;) So the charity events this weekend? Swindon swishing tonight, maddison hotel, £3 entry to go to CALM Charity. Bring your old clothes and swap them for new Guilt free shopping which is the best kind of shopping, then more swishin with the Swish Ball at the MECA Saturday night in aid of Prospect Hopsice. As well as opening Rachel's Wedding shop saturday morning, there is indeed no rest in this pageant gal's life! Sunday will indeed be pj and catching up on coursework/ xfactor!! What a PERFECT way to end the week!

Shake those tins!! oh wait that's illegal....

An early start to the day today! We were in asda whilst most people were just waking up, eating their breakfeast and shaking off the week's worth of work in order for the relaxing weekend!! Me, Georgia and Ela helped an amazing Swindon charity called Breaking Free who help woman who have been victims of sexual and other abuse, with our cute tops and name badges! It was great to help a charity close to my heart and to make the public aware of what the chairty does, and that they are avaliable to help woman in all walks of life become not a victim, but a proud survior!!

We were there for hours! Giving out balloons (gosh tying them is an art in itself!), stickers and sweets as well as bagpacking for the public, some were kind, others not! But at least no one's eggs broke in the packing process!! Saw some familiar faces and overall hope alot of money was raised as every little counts for these small charities. They recieve no help from the goverenment like other charities so every penny donated goes to helping woman attend therapy and the retreats as well as provide a lifeline to these women. For more info, check them out on facebook by adding "Breaking Free". They are also doing challenges like the half marathon and (gulp)a skydive! Brave woman!! Check it out!!

After the bucket collection it was onto the next charity event, a charity calender for CLIC Sergent!! Now this is a picture after shooting finished, what is that in our hair you say? Fake snow (not dandruff!!)!! We had great fun shooting for the calender which will be out soon so make sure you do not buy any other calender!! We shot a snow scene for January and a bikini scene for August so watch out! You won't see any pictures apart from these behind the scenes as we want to keep it a surprise!!! So make a note in your diarys to buy the only PERFECT calender for 2013, with the Wiltshire beauty queens in!!

What a day for a white wedding...

Picture this scene, all the girls backstage dressed in beautiful Mia Solano gowns trying to get signal on their phones so they can try and tweet/fb/text about the gorgeous gowns and the show we were wearing them for! Great image by CMGPhotography (look her up!) showing a lighter side of the backstage manic! We were at Lydiard House, modelling for Rachel's Wedding's, a new bridal shop opening in Wiltshire and she held a wedding fayre complete with hairdressers, cakes (tasted amazing), chocolate fountain (also tasted amazing) and enough dresses to fill a shop (which they will on the 20th October where I will be one of the guests opening the shop!!). So we got to try on our dresses, I picked 3 (hey when you're a pageant queen you learn to quickly change from gown to gown down to an artform) and after getting our hair done by JJ's Hairgroup we were ready to rumble!

I loved wearing all three of my gowns (4 eventually as i "borrowed" one of ruths dresses she had already modelled hehe) although one was slightly big for me but luckly no janet jackson scenes here!! Although the first dress i modelled was simply stunning, jewelled bodice, it was so big i had to bring out the PERFECT swish to move the train with me! The other dresses were body hugging dresses, lacy and all the things you want from a wedding dress!! More pictures to come on my page once CMG photography has edited them (after all, this photographer knows how to make things PERFECT). But for now i shall use the last picture of my blog to show that even at the most serious events, we can still be a bit different to the stereotype beauty queen!

We had great feedback, especially from the supplier who tweeted what lovely girls we were, which I was proud of as she told us that she thought that we would all be divas, futher than the truth! Annnnd some amazing news is that we are exclusively allowed to borrow any dress from her collections to model for our pageant finals! How amazing is that! Pagaent dresses can be so expensive so to save on this sponsorship is simply fab! I already have my eye on a couple of amazing gowns, so when you see me at PERFECT finals, yes that is a wedding dress i'm wearing but I wont be wearing it to the big day, I'll be rocking it at an even bigger day at PERFECTS finals. Love what being a national titleholder can do for you!

Early night should be in order (oh why facebook and twitter do you keep me up!) as I am helping Breaking Free collect money for their great cause all day then a charity photoshoot at night with the other beauty queens, look out for us as we will be your Miss January and Miss June!!

Love England's PERFECT Miss
x <3 x