I stumbled on this cool infographic from LocateTV about the Oscars and of course it’s a perfect post for Oscar week!

Interesting links for February 16th through March 3rd:

• Final Fantasy Food Shop | ElectricSpectre – Lol, your guide to what to eat while you’re stuck playing Final Fantasy.
• Model-Morphosis – Cool series of posts showing before and after shots of models with makeup and styling.
• News: Taylor Lautner Fan Letter To Universal: Your Wolfman Ripped Off Twilight – Ridiculous letter from a girl complaining how The Wolfman was a ripoff from Twilight…

It’s Oscar Week on MissGeeky! I was planning to start this yesterday, but my trip to the Netherlands is taking up a lot of my time (lots of appointments with dentist, optician, doctor, etc etc) and I haven’t been behind my laptop nearly as much as I’ve wanted to.

This entire week will be devoted to the Oscars. I’ll (try to) write an Oscar related blog post every day leading up to the Oscars on Sunday night, including of course my predictions. And I’ll be live-tweeting my thoughts during the show. So are you excited yet for the Oscars?

Pwetty! I’m completely in love with vintage keys at the moment, and am still looking for something like this as a necklace:

It’s £8 on the V&A website.

I always like it when tights are livened up with some interesting graphics. These ones from Les Queuses de Sardines are pretty cool and a little bit on the weird side:

Check out all the designs on the Les Queuses de Sardines website.

Via Girlybubble

I stumbled on another store with cool decals for your laptop: Ivy Bee. There are a couple of pretty funny designs, really integrating the apple logo into them.

Take for instance this decal featuring Isaac Newton:

Or this one with Robin Hood:

Then there’s the obvious Eve and the Apple and the snake:

Lady Gaga:

But my favourite has to be My Little Pony:

The decals are made from durable high grade gloss finish vinyl. Decals are self adhesive making them easy to apply and remove, leaving no residue behind. This material is specifically made for this application and will last a very long time outdoors. The decals all cost $12.99 with shipping costs $1.00 for US and $5.00 for everywhere else. Check out Ivy Bee’s store for more information.

Today it’s my birthday! And the past week leading up to today has just been fantastic. For almost the entire week, I’ve been in such a good mood. Things have just been going so well and half the time I’ve had this silly grin just plastered to my face.

It started last Tuesday with a great turnout to the first Movie Geeks of London. I am so glad that event went well, and that people were just excited for it as I was. It’s always tricky launching a new event, so I’m happy it seems to be an event that actually fills a gap in the event space. I’m definitely going to do another one next month (end of March-ish?), so if you missed the previous one, keep an eye out on my Twitter for any announcements. Then I celebrated my birthday last Saturday with friends, feasting on pizzas, donuts, cookies and cocktails. I might have overdone it a bit (my stomach still hasn’t settled down), but it was awesome to spend that day with friends.

One thing that totally contributed to my good mood was the fantastic presents I got this year. First off, from my parents, brother and sister:

A PlayStation 3! Squeeeee! I kind of knew that I’d get that this year, but I thought later in the Netherlands while I was there. Instead my mum conspired together with Cristiano so that I unwrapped it on Saturday morning. Plus it came with 2 controllers, loading dock and 3 games:

I’ve already started Darksiders and Soul Soul Calibur IV and I’m loving both of them so far. I haven’t started Uncharted 2 yet, mainly because I haven’t had the time yet, but also cause I’m not sure whether or not I should play the first one first. Besides those 3 games though what really has me psyched:

It’s not been released yet, but I’ll be getting the Collectors edition of FFXIII on 9th of March. That includes the game, plus soundtrack cd, a special hardback book featuring artwork and designs, 3 artprints of the Eidolons, and a decal of l’Cie brand. Awesome!

From Cristiano I got my very own iPod Touch:

I’ve been wanting one for ages! Then I got some great gifts from friends:

I loved The Prestige (both the movie and the book), but I hadn’t taken the time to check out any of Priest’s other stuff. Priest seems to be brilliant though at building weird intricate stories which I adore.

Regular readers will know how addicted I am to Lush! I got a bunch of lovely Lush stuff, including the tasty Sweet Lips in the picture above. It’s one of Lush’s new products and is so far the best lip scrub I’ve found (mainly because you can lick your lips clean and just eat the sugar once you’re done).

Besides these presents, I got some yummy chocolates, Body Shop giftbag, book vouchers and a chocolate recipe book. My friends are awesome…

To top it off, I’ve gotten screening tickets to Kick-Ass tonight! I’ve been wanting to watch this movie for ages and being able to see it a full month before it actually comes out? Sweet. I won’t be able to write about it though (there’s an embargo until sometime March), but you might guess my mood from my tweets later tonight.

This is a little bit weird and creepy, but at the same time I love how this looks. OctopusME is an Etsy seller who specializes in sterling silver cast octopus parts… made from actual sushi grade octopus. I think it’s gorgeous, but at the same I’m a bit creeped out by it.

Here are a couple of her designs:

Check out all her designs in the OctopusME etsy store.

Via Girlybubble

I almost forgot about it, but last Wednesday the 17th of February was my 3rd blog birthday. Or anniversary. Whatever you’re supposed to call it. So today I’ve been blogging now for exactly 3 years and 3 days. Yay!

It’s not the actual MissGeeky.com birthday; I started this site months later that year in September (and moved all existing blog posts from the old site to here). For me though this date is the more important of the two, cause this is when I started realizing how much I love writing about the stuff I like and sharing it with you all!

It seemed kind of apt to celebrate it today, cause in real life I’m having my birthday party today. Which weirdly enough is in 3 days time. So this 1 day falls exactly in between my blog birthday and my real birthday (3 days after and 3 days before).

So to celebrate both my blog birthday and my real birthday, I thought I’d hold a giveaway for my dear readers. The winner will receive a copy of the Yoko Tsuno comic “On The Edge of Life” (below is an image of the French version, but don’t worry the giveaway here is for the English one).

All you have to do is leave a comment behind with what your favourite blog post on MissGeeky.com has been in the past 3 years. The competition ends on March 6th 17:00.

If you haven’t been around the full 3 years, take a look at the archives to see some older post (although honestly looking back, I have to admit some of my writing was pretty bad)). Here are a couple of my favourite ones (at least the ones that were fun to write):

5 Geeky Last Minute Halloween Costumes For Girls
Book Review: Agent To The Stars by John Scalzi
The Definition of Geekiness
20 Cartoons You Might Have Forgotten
Game Review: Carcassonne
The Dark Knight “It’s All Part Of The Plan” London Report
Disney Fairy Tale Wedding Dresses
Musical Review: Spring Awakening
My Favourite Geeky Web Comics
Tokyoflash Watch Tibida

I’m still amazed that it’s already been 3 years! In that time I’ve written 820 posts with around 1500 comments, and have slowly gained 25000 visitors per month. Thanks to all you readers out there! I’m glad you’re all enjoying what I write about.

Regular MissGeeky readers will know how addicted I am to the Final Fantasy games. I haven’t played that many games the past two years, but FF is something that will always get me hooked. The latest edition to this epic series will be coming out on March 9th, after a 4 year gap of no FF games. Like I said in previous posts this game is what will finally convince me to get a PS3 or an Xbox360.

So I was excited to see that there’s a special UK launch event happening on the 9th at the HMV on Oxford Street! Both Yoshinori Kitase, the producer of the game, and Isamu Kamikokuryo, the game’s art director, will be there to sign games and answer any questions. Also the first 50 people to show up dressed in Final Fantasy costumes will be treated to the soundtrack cd of FFXIII. Plus anyone who attends will have the chance to win special goodies.

Date: 9th March 2010
Time: 5.30pm – 7:30pm
Address: HMV, 150 Oxford Street, London, W1D1DJ

Awesome! I wish I could make it, but I’m flying in that day from the Netherlands, so regrettably won’t be able to join.