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Macaroons

Here's a long awaited photo of the macaroons I made for my Birthday Lunch :) 

PB Cookies revision

The cookies I made yesterday, I realised today, had 6 tablespoons of flour too little! Although they were tasty super tasty like that I decided to cook them again today with the correct 8 tablespoons of flour. 

Just as good ! If not better, as they came out slightly more crunchy. I was afraid that the added flour would dry the cookies out so I melted down some chocolate and dipped the bottoms in to stop them from sticking to the ro of my mouth. 

Crunchy Peanut Butter Cookies... Yum !

I got up at 9 this morning and baked some cookies before going off to clean for my Great Aunt which I do once a week. The cookies are so tasty ! Here's the (super simple) recipe and some photos to accompany !

I took four round to my Great Aunts and she described them as "melt in the mouth" A fantastic compliment I think. Happy Days.

Also, the note book the recipe is written in was a belated birthday present from Big Sis (http://darwindarwinsblog.blogspot.com) It's like a diary but with no dates. I's hard to explain but it's lush. 

Anyway here is song to go with the cookies. I recommend you make them. It's so simple and easy to do, and they're melt in the mouth ;) 

CALLING ALL BANDS AND FRIENDS OF BANDS

As you may or may not know I am doing a foundation in Graphic Design at College at the moment. It is the end of the year and like every one I have a final major project.

I've set myself the task of creating a new magazine. The idea behind my magazine is that it's sort of a 'word of mouth' publication, in that readers will provide ideas of what they wish to spread the word about so the idea would be that they'd write in and recommend something to be investigated, or they would send in pieces to be published etc.

Bands - This us where you come in ! Instead of boring adverts throughout the pages of my  publication, I would have flyers from bands, charities, events, things that would be of interest and use to my readers, independent record shops and boutiques, what ever you can think of. (A donation would be made or even sponsorship would become established if this were a real project to keep it afloat obviously) 

ANYWAY I need your band flyers to put in my pages, as all the content is live I need flyers for real shows/ releases. Think you can help? Send me a link to your flyer or post them in my comments. If your friends bands are playing shows send me theirs !  I would love to see them all and also you'd all be helping me out loads ! 

Thanks Peace and Love xo

I wish I was French

Last night while Babysitting I started to flick through the French Women Don't Get Fat Cook Book. And oh my goodness I  fell in love. I find Mireille and the French's ethos to eating similar to mine and I can't wait to get my hands on a copy of the book to reform my day to day eating habits. After all, for someone who loves food I seem to eat a lot of sicky junk. 

So in the spirit of a hearty breakfast I made myself this morning, a poached egg on seeded bread with rocket and pepper. It was delicious ! 

Work Load Over Load

Oh my days !  I've been re-inspired by the discovery of Sketchbook magazine (http://www.sketchbookmagazine.com/)  I've got stuck in a bit of mental rut with my creation of a new magazine but this magazine has really boosted my idea generations that I've created a whole list of things I want to do for my final show but I only five weeks ! I need to get my bum in gear eek! 

Also finally put my birthday money in the bank so as soon as elf's facebook page hits 42,000 fans that mineral foundation and blush is mine. When they reach a round number of fans the send out codes for free postage, and rumour has it you get freebies as well) Check out their website (www.eyeslipsface.co.uk or .com if you're in the U.S.A) None of their products are tested on animals and they are working towards having all their products vegan friendly (apart from their animal hair brushes) And at £1.50 ($1) an item you can't feel guilty.  

New Days Resoltution

To spend more time networking and finding followers so I can connect with more like minded people to share ideas and thoughts to make the most of the internet.

Peace and Love 

Magic Cave of Amzing Finds strikes again !

There's this charity shop in a secret location that I refuse to share with anyone because all I find in there is pure gold. Behold the Cowboy Boot Clog. Throw away your Chanel clogs I'v found something better and about two grand cheaper.

Birthday Menu

Afternoon Tea

Sandwiches; 

Egg&Cress

Cheese

Cucumber

Ham

Tea;

Green Tea

Assam

Earl Grey

Every Day

Cheese Straws

Macaroons

Scones

And Birthday Cake

(All made from scratch)

Dinner

Starter;

Goats Cheese on toasted Tiger Bread with hot onion chutney

Main;

Penne with minted pea cream sauce

Parma Ham and Salami

Crusty Bread

Dessert;

Eton Mess with Strawberries and Blueberries

Rhubarb&Custard Cake

We are all now roly-poly puddings! I cooked lunch and dinner for 13 people and I am exhausted now but quite proud of myself. Not much time for taking photos but I took a couple on film so those will come soon.

Love and Peace

p.s I turn 20 tomorrow.. grown uppppp

Urban

Please enjoy my two new favourite videos while reading my make up review. My hunt for the perfect eye brow pencil is over. Finally !

O.K So today I went on the hunt for 3 things:

1. Lip/ Cheek Tint

2. Grey nail varnish

3. Bronzer

And low and be hold SuperDrug are doing a 3 for £5 offer !! Now normally I am a snob. But a girl must make compromises when she hasn't had a job for almost 8 months. So I gave it a go. The brand is called 2True (Classy, I know) So I bought a bronzer (Shade 2) Rose Tinted Stain for lips and cheeks but they didn't have any nice shades of nail varnish. THEN I spotted the eyebrow pencils. I have been searching high and low for the perfect budget eye brow pencil. I think I've bloody found it !!! It's a really nice natural colour (Shade No. 1) and it's not cakey at all. I'm so happy. 

So the bronzer was a whim as I have never bought bronzer before so I thought I'm useless on going on recommendations, you have to go on what works for you. I bought Shade 2 by accident but it's quite a versatile little number. I'm quite pale so it's quite dark for me, but used in moderation it gives a nice colour, and it blends really easily as well which is nice.It's also quite matte for a bronzer so I'll be able to use it to contour. Now I just need to get my hand on an Eelf Coffee and Cream duo as recommended by lillieloves on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvDCdnwvauc&feature=channel) 

The lip and cheek tint (mouthful!) is also laaavly. It's a very subtle flirty pink colour, it smells like cheap perfume but it's a lush colour.

This post is way too long ! Love yaz bye xo  

Can't

Effing WAIT to get to university. I feel as if I'll be free when I get there. In the mean time I have a new mantra "I can do what ever I want !"  It's working out great. I don't get stressed when people drive up my bum cos they think I'm going too slow, because I can do what I want. I don't have to unload the dishwasher if I don't want to because frankly I can do what I want. If I want to go to college I will, if I want to stay at home and do my work I will !! It's amazing, I don't feel like I have to please anyone any more. Obviously though my incessant niceness works well with this mantra because there's still plenty of things I want to do. Like make my boyfriend a cup of tea every morning he stays over. And I still want to cook all the meals at home, which is good because I'm not very good at being hungry. So all in all I'd recommend to everyone to tell them selves every day "I can do what I want"... although I'd advise minimal caution and reason. Key word being minimal.

I present to you ...

Chocolate Fudge Cake

With really little fat in it. So technically this is healthy chocolate cake.

Shame I don't really like chocolate !! Anyway it's not very tall as it's deliciously rich with a big thick chocolate fudgy icing ! Beautiful.

Click the picture to get an eyeful !

The belly rules the mind

I love cooking, and I love eating.Here are some things I'v made this week..

Lovely yummy spinach cannelloni with 4 cheese sauce. I had to improvise and use lasagne to wrap the meat in as I didn't have any cannelloni tubes. It was delicious all the same ! 

Thai Green Curry with king prawns and fragrant rice. The fragrant rice was easy peasy to make and so delicious ! I drank half a bottle of wine while making this and it was still super tasty, and so simple it might become a staple in my diet. I really liked this recipe as it's easy to play around with what vegetables to add etc. Yummy

Chocolate cake to come...

eBay win !

My new skirt :) (£6 from eBay, its super soft and not see through!!) In this photo its sitting over my bust as its very long, but in the summer I'll wear it as a strapless dress with a belt and cool tights. On the floor behind me is my 3 disc Stevie Wonder collection I recently acquired. 

Obsession

Home from home

From September this beautiful city will be my home.

Photo from here.