For my birthday, Tom gave ma a gift voucher for MAC, where I got to go along and have a makeover and then get the products they used.

It took an hour and a half to do but the makeup artist was really nice. She let me pick out all the colours I wanted. I felt very dolled up for 12pm but I had my sunglasses to hide behind.

After that we headed to Bust Magazine’s Craftacular in Bethnal Green, where they had a vintage tearoom selling ice cream cone cupcakes. The place was very very busy.

I have a problem at craft fairs of not buying anything, because I know I could make it all, but I did buy some charms from Tatty Devine. They  had a table set up and were trying to break the world record for most charms on a bracelet.

I wish I had bought loads more, but I love the three I went for.

After that it was party time, so we stocked up on snacks and supplies and headed home to blow up balloons. Everyone started arriving.

Lynsey made us an awesome percy pig cake, it was super chocolatey and delicious!

She also made us a photo frame (tutorial here). Sean and Catherine brought a DiS tote bag filled with goodies including a mouse cheese grater, wine, a Bright Eyes record, a book about New Media Art, and an awesome guitar-shaped ice cube mould (see below). Tony brought super cute hugging salt and pepper shakers. Alex brought a bag of crafty goodies, silly string, candy and games, and Ash and Morgan had made us super cute bunting to decorate with.

The guitar ice cubes looked awesome the next day.

There was lots of beer, karaoke, cake and playing buzz. I stole this cute photo of Emma, Raven and Tony from Raven’s Facebook.

There were also party hats, but maybe a bit too much alcohol for a kid’s party.

And Tom made Cat Morley badges and Raven decided to pierce her one into her nose.

Today, I haven’t felt too great and looking at our recycling, it’s easy to see why. We got subs to make us feel better and then Tom had a very long chat on the phone with Ben Kweller.

I think being 24 is going to be fun!

Today was awesome because we got to hang out with Ben Kweller in Brighton. We bumped in to him at the train station and shared a cab down to the shore.

BK treated us to milkshakes and fried food in an America diner – I had gingerbread flavor and he had marshmallow, but my one won the taste test! We chatted about root beer, music, our favorite iPhone apps, London / America, temporary tattoos, webdesign and he took a bunch of CO+K Moo cards to give to his wife, Lizzie. He thinks Tom looks like Adam Green.

We got to hang out during his soundcheck and then we all headed to a secret gig in a park, where he played lots of requests and dedicated Penny On The Train Tracks to us. After that, we nipped away to send postcards and catch a few songs of Catherine AD’s performance.

In the evening we went to BK’s show, which was really good, and said goodbye to him (he wants T to email and “chat web”) and then headed off to see Idlewild on the DiS stage. I ♥ Brighton, I think we’re going to come down in a few weeks, when the weather is really nice, and spend the day exploring and hanging out on the beach.