31/05/10

Since I'm very, veery lazy with anything that doesn't say GCSE on it at the mo, this blog's probably just going to degenerate into me posting photos and random bits I find on the web; maybe just for now, maybe permanently.
who knows, it'll probably be an improvement from my shoddy writing skills :P

See ya later alligators :P

08.05.10 / 09.05.10

You ever had a box where you just keep pretty things? this is my glitter box.

This is currently my entire make up set, honest.

Good times on Sunday night with the girlies xx

06.05.10

Oosh, really had a lot happening over the last week. First of all, my school's GCSE art exhibition on wednesday-

How cute, eh? basically, we put up two years worth of art work, there's the open evening/exhibition where parents and the mayoress or something can look round and say 'how lovely' and 'well, you can see they put a lot of work into it...' (which means 'god that's terrible, better say something good about it..'), then the art stays up for weeks and weeks and weeks until we get to take it all home :)
Also, I've been diagnosed with a chronic longing for summer- I've got to take two smarties a day and wait until the exams finish :P
Until then, I've been stuffing my gob with fruit and salads and other summery food and wearing shorts whenever the thermometer goes past 10 degrees :P my most recent escapade was making my own yoghurt- surprisingly easy, and MUCH nicer than the stuff you get in stores- it's not quite as sour (although I left mine a bit too long and it sort of started becoming cheese...)
This dish did look really nice with the peaches sitting just on top of the yoghurt and sprinkled in icing sugar, but I started eating before I thought of taking a picture :P

If you want to make your own (and I highly reccomend you do- it's great fun!)-

Yoghurt
heat a litre of whole milk on the hob until little bubbles appear around the surface. Pour into a large bowl to cool until you can hold your pinky finger in it for 20 seconds (45 degrees celsius on a thermometer).
Put a few teaspoons of yoghurt starter formula or natural yoghurt with active bacteria in it in a small bowl. Add some of the heated milk and stir in until completely blended. Add the small bowl mixture to the large bowl a bit at a time, making sure to blend well each time.
Wrap the large bowl in a heavy towel and leave somewhere warm (like near a heater or in an airing cupboard) overnight until set. Finally, cover and leave in the fridge for 8 hours :)

So, how are you lot preparing for summer?

30.04.10

Since primary school, I always had this sort of ultimately unrealistic dream of being a fashion designer. Now I'm older, I've decided that I am nowhere near creative enough to produce desirable, original clothes over and over again- I might be able to conjure up one collection, but it wouldn't exactly be ground-breaking and magical! haha, we'll leave that to the professionals!
That said, here's three designs I came up with in a dull, d u l l science lesson :P
The middle one's my plan to customise my prom dress, haha :P
The main reason I'm posting these (apart from shameless self-promotion) is because for a long time I haven't had my own way to draw fashion and have been stealing Gemma from FadeToBlack's fantastic style- hate doing that, it always makes me feel like a naughty child...
Anyway, I'm quite proud of these soooo look at them.. or just scroll past them to look at my pretty necklace, or go to a slightly better written, better photographed blog :P

27.04.10

I told you I'd give y'all an outfit post, this time to show off a lovely necklace I got in the post today-
Won in a free giveaway from jewellerybyvanya.com, and I'm so chuffed with it!! to be honest (and absolutely no insult meant at all to vanya- quite the opposite!) I thought it was just a home business, where everything was stuck together on the kitchen table based solely on spending too much time on etsy. When I got the necklace today, it made me immediately happy- firstly because I had mail (I know, sad), secondly because it was in an evelope with bubble wrap inside to pop :D and finally because of the actual packaging- Vanya's said on her blog how much time she's spent designing the packaging, ang it's really paid off;
If you can see there, the necklace is mounted on a card with her logo on it, put in a natural cardboard box, tied with grosgrain ribbon and put in a handmade bag with a thank-you card and a business card. I go absolutely gaga over good packaging, so I was in heaven here :D
In other news, the sister's in New Zealand now- took her flight last night :) her blog's absolutely brilliant, I highly reccomend you go read it (and I'm not just saying that because of the whole relation thing!)

26.04.10 [2]

Before I go, this is the most amazing thing i've seen all week!!!

26.04.10

Although it seems that this blog seems to be turning into more of a foodie blog than a fashion blog (i believe i've created the fashood/fooshion genre), i'm gonna do another food (ish) post and i promise the next post will be an outfit (i finally got my gorillapod :D)
The dadders recently introduced me to this lovely stuff called eve (momma green and i only remember the name by imitating wall-e :P), which tastes like white wine but without the underlying taste of boooze (that makes it taste gross!!).
Yumm :) it's like shloer, but without being so sweet and it's got much better bubbles!
that's all i think, although i need some sillyness in this post methinks;