Finally done!

This is the longest amount of time i've ever spent making a single item, apart from maybe that scarf i made.
Anyway the pillow I've been making for my mum is finally done!

 The colour looks a bit funny in this photo, i tried to fix it but failed. Anyway this is the back.

 And this is the front. My parents names in the heart and a leaf for each of their children, and the dog!

I think it looks right at home sat on their bed. Now to wrap and hide it until Christmas. I'm way too ahead of myself.

This week i've been doing a lot of packing, you see i'm moving to Bedford on Tuesday! That's less than a week and i haven't even started sorting out my bedroom at all. Oops.

This is the cutest owl i've ever seen in my life. Don't even try and deny it, you know it's perfect!

Have i ever told you that i like VW camper vans? Well i do, a lot. Those and beetles! I don't know why but they're so adorable. The old beetles obviously. And i love that this camper van is on a cupcake. I just want to eat it up! nom nom nom.

 They had lots of old cars at the unfair ground at Glastonbury this year. Can you see the VW beetle on the left? They also had lots of things made out of old cars. It was pretty cool.
Anyway enough rambling from me. I will blog more i promise, once i've moved and unpacked.
Have a lovely week!

Games!

Is it weird that i like killing people and infecting everything! Don't worry this isn't in real life. It's addicting flash internet games. I am recently obsessed with Pandemic 2 I've found that the only way to win is if you start in Madagascar and aim to infect everyone before killing them.

Here's a snapshot from my game. You see everyone is infected, but no-one is dead yet. That just leaves me to buy lots of symptoms which will kill people. Is this worse than zombies taking over the world? Or as everyone IS the living dead can they be classed as zombies?

Another one of my favourite games in tentacle wars I don't know if I've told you about this game before so I'll keep it short. You're a virus that has to kill other viruses from taking over a human body. Easy right? Nope.

Now on to a more cheerful subject. Games that aren't about mass infection and death.
I love physics games, I really don't know why. But i just found a new one! It's called Mechanical Puzzles. Yum.

Speaking of more things that are yummy. Here's a selection of the things which have been baked in my house recently. Sadly i didn't get any pictures of the Victoria Sponge cake made from an adapted red velvet recipe so tasted kind of like a welsh cake. I didn't get any of the coconut buns either which my sister stole and took back to Southampton with her. RUDE.
But i did get these beauties.

These are my basic cupcakes with 2 types of frosting. The first is Betty Crocker chocolate fudge. And the second is peppermint Royal icing. I like those ones the best even though everyone else says they taste like toothpaste.

My brother made these chocolate mud cupcakes. They are so moist on the inside and crumbly on the outside. yum yum yum.

Finally these are the plum cakes we made together. Our plum tree is brimming with plums. Too many to eat. Will have to think of a lot more thing to do with them before they go off.

So that's what I've been baking this week. Next week I'll show you what I've been making!

Y U NO understand memes?

So i realized that i haven't had a post with memes in it for a while. So here are a few to entertain you. There's also i new one I've found.

This is the new one. That blue face with a mustache; liar face. Wish that happened in real life. Like Pinocchio but better!

Y U NO! Is one of my favourites. Hopefully the title of this blog post demonstrates that well enough.

So many faces all in one meme! I love it so much. And it includes Dr. Seuss. So a future primary school teacher that appeals to me immensely!

Oh the joys of windows. i wish i had a mac, because windows really is a bit sucky sometimes! But i don't want to give in to apple!

It's a hipster within a hipster! Everyone knows it cool t o be a hipster now, which must really piss off original hipsters!

Moving on to things which i just think are cool.

Yup, it's a smoke detector that looks like a bird. When there's only a small threat it chirps at you. But when there's a major threat it screams "dee dee dee" over and over at a very high decibel. Want.

And now some pictures of things from my life.

It was my birthday. I am now twenty. That rose on my slice of brownie is a rice paper rose which was given to me at the Chinese restaurant we had our meal it. I saved it. Then nomed it with chocolate!

And these are all my birthday cards! It's not obvious that i really like owls and cupcakes is it? Yeah thought not.

Somehow, and i really don't know how, we started to run out of cake at my house. I only just baked a lot of yummy treats! So i made this one. It's a red velvet cake decorated like a traditional Victoria sponge. It's so soft and moist and amazingly yummy. Which is something coming from me because i don't normally like sponge cakes!

This is a double rainbow. Just thought i'd show it to you. Because it's pretty and colourful!

Remember i said my brother bought me a kawaii ice-cube tray. Well this is it. There's a bear, panda, cat, chick, dog, and monkey. They're so squee!

He's in my baileys right now. Melting away. I love his little curly tail!

That's all for today. Hope you've had a lovely past week!

This blog post is in dedication to Jiraiya, The cutest white tree frog i knew. RIP

*nom nom* Cricket!

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Magical shapes and noms

When i lived in Spain my favourite fruit was "chiwimoya" Well that's how i used to say it anyway. And i've been sad ever since as i can't seem to find it anywhere in this country. The other day i was wandering around the internet when i came across a post called "20 fruit i bet you've never tried" Or something like that. Sadly i didn't save the URL if so i would link it. But alas i didn't. So i appologise for that.
The major problem i had was spelling it wrong to start with!

Yeah it's a cherymoya also known as a custard apple. Because apparently it has a slight taste of custard. Maybe it's just me but i don't remember it tasting like that at all! It's the texture of a ripe pear. Well softness anyway. The flesh is delicious and amazing. I want one right now! As for the taste, it's hard to describe. Try describing what an apple tastes like without comparing it to an apple. Difficult isn't it!

This fruit was also on the list. Yes, it was number one. Apparently the most amazing thing in the world. As my image states it is miraculin, a sugar substitute which makes it miraculous. But the fruit being sweet isn't a miracle. The fact that the sweetness somehow sticks to your tongue and your sour receptors think you're tasting something sweet for a good while after eating it. Apparently there are tasting parties in the US where people eat the miracle fruit then a variety of other food to see how it effects their flavour. I want to eat a lemon after one of these. Imagine a sweet lemon!
The best contribution of this fruit that i can think of is as a diet aid. Fat people love sweet foods right? Just get them to eat some of these before i nice tasty fruit or vegetable salad. Yum.

Now on to the less exciting but equally pleasing non-edible things i've found.

It's an umbrella shaped like a heart! I've wanted one of these for a while but never known where to get one. Apparently (according to google) there's loads of places which sell them on the internet, in a variety of colours too. I want a baby pink one please!

These are keys, in weird shapes. I like the gun one best. There were a lot of other ones but these were the coolest as the actual key part is included in the design of the key. Some were like mickey mouse with a key jutting out of his head. Not as cool.

I'm just throwing this in because i like it. Fairy lights are awesome!

Now moving on to another topic. Bento! I've shown you bento boxes before, but what can truely make a bento box is the accessories.

These picks are some of my favourites. You can turn food into a balloon, flower, umbrella, ring or chicken drumstick. Turn a cherry tomato into an apple or a couple into cherries. If anything is going to make your kids eat healthy foods it's these!

How adorable are those hats! Now i want to give all of my food faces just so i can give them hats!
You really do need to wander over to all things for sale, it's an American site but all of their products are so cheap. If i ever get kids i'm going to buy their stock in bulk!
They have everything from bento boxes, cups and hard boiled egg molds (they're amazing!) to sandwich cutters, stamps and nori cutters.

Anyway have fun getting lost in all the kawaii bento items they have. Before i go i have to mention that my brother bought me a kawaii ice cube tray which makes animal shaped ice-cubes! I'll take a picture one day and show you. I love it!

Baking week and random creativity

This week i have made a ridiculous amount of cakes. I can't show you a picture of one of them right now because it's in the oven as we speak. That one is my birthday cake, because i turn twenty tomorrow. And by birthday cake i mean tray of brownies. There will be plenty of pictures taken of it soon.
Right so the first thing i made was pie.

It was going to say I ♥ apples. But ran out of space for the s. As you can probably guess it was an apple pie. And it was so yummy. I kind of want some more. This was for my mum. She loves tart pies.
The same day i decided we also needed more cake. As i loved the cake-cones (cupcakes baked in icecream cones) so much i decided to make some more.

As you can see this time i added flakes. I also did a dollop of frosting instead of swirls. Yes it's less realistic, but there was far too much frosting last time. The ratio was off. i also used chocolate sauce this time so it remains nice and sticky instead of melted chocolate. And one more variation was adding sprinkles to the cake mix. They are so good!
The same day i made more cakes. Well Rice crispy cakes. they are one of the very few things one of my brothers is not allergic to. So they contain no dairy, nuts or egg.

I made them using toffee and marshmallow. They were the stickiest thing i've ever had to work with. But definitely worth it.
After all of that baking i took i day off. But we had lots of pastry left over so today i made a few more things. Firstly i thought we needed something savoury so i made a quiche.

It is spinach, pepper, onion and cheese flavour. I can't tell you how it tastes yet as it's my dinner for tonight but it sure does look good.
Even after this there was still pastry scraps left over so i made some mini red current tarts.

The three at the bottom of the first picture are actually jam tarts. Not red current. They are made with my little brothers home made crab apple jam. It's so tasty!
So that's all my baking. I just took my birthday brownie out of the oven and it smells good i'm telling you! Can't wait to eat a giant slice tomorrow.

Right, as i said i took a day off of baking but that day off actually involved crafts of a different type. A non-edible type. This week I did lots of painting. And a bit of gluing and cutting.
Painting first.
Firstly my mum said she wanted a new door sign for the front door.

 This side is for when we are at home, in the house, somewhere. Our house is pretty big and the knocker is sometimes hard to hear so it's just to let the postman or builders or whoever that we are actually in.

The second side if for when we're at home but in the garden. Obviously. Just to let everyone know where we are.
And because i liked the flower design so much i also added it to these frames i was re-painting. They looked all knackered and old before.

Aren't they so cute! Now i just need a couple of pictures of me and my boyfriend. Perfect.
The last thing i painted was owls. I love them. Every post must include owls!

They are supposed to be a tawny, barn, eagle and snowy owl. probably can't really tell. But i like them anyway. I want to make an army of them!
I actually stole this idea from somewhere, from someone. But i don't remember who. I think it was featured on My owl barn. I'll go have a look for you now. Bear with me.....

The last thing i made this week, well more like decorated is a pair of shoes which i want to wear to my university graduation next Wednesday.

The main issue i had with them before i that my feet would slide to the bottom, squash my toes and my make heels slip out when i walked. Annoying! So i just added giant ribbons to them. Now i love them even more than when i first bought them; they were just so boring!

Hope you've been having a nice week. See you next week!

Lemonade and hedgehogs

Firstly i have to start by apologizing for not posting in a while. I've been super busy with finishing university and moving all my stuff back home, going to Glastonbury, finding a flat for next year and sorting out student finance. Crazy i know.
Anyway i have lots of lovely things for you to look at. Hope you enjoy.

I thought i'd start with one thing which combines my three favourite things, Owls, cupcakes and Kawaii! These woodland cupcakes by Sugar Che are just too adorable not to share with the world.

Now i always knew that owls were smart but i'd never thought that an owl could Marry me before. I want an owl at my wedding. If anyone tells me it's impossible i won't believe them because now i've seen a picture of it, it must be true...... Right?
Anyway i want to try mango lemonade, it nearly sounds as good as pink lemonade.

This is just something i found after googling lemonade and owls. I really hope that those owls are lolly pops. Would make it just that much sweeter!

She's got the right idea, well maybe not. Eating just a lemon doesn't sound like the tastiest thing in the world. Make it into lemonade my dear!

This is the picture which started my quest for pictures incorporating owls and lemonade today. There is both pink and traditional lemonade. But the thing i love most about this photo is the things the lemonade is in! It's a hug glass pitcher (best way to describe it i think?) that has a tap on the bottom! Genius. If anyone knows where i can find one of these let me know!

I think you can buy just the tap from the website noted in the photo above. So i'm assuming they've filled the empty watermelon with yummy juice. It's a brilliant idea. If that is what they've done. I don't actually know.... i'm just guessing.


Right now to switch the topic onto hedgehogs. It had to happen eventually.

Maybe it's just me. But i don't think a hedgehog icecream would be the best idea in the world.

Don't listen to him, don't do the dare, please. I don't want anyone getting hurt.

Silly bunny. Don't lick hedgehogs! I guess this blog post was a tad too late for you.

Speaking of icecreams i thought this cake was genius. i'm not sure if it's chocolate icecream or frosting or a combination of the both but i think it's so cute! Especially because the cake is pink!

Right. Now onto the random pictures of things that have caught my eye. Couldn't help myself.

I want to make some of these. I'm assuming that they're just in used matchstick boxes. They look pretty easy to make yourself too i think. I say that now but i bet these would actually take forever. Meh i still want to make a few. Would be a great birthday present for someone, so personal. Or favours at a wedding which is why they were featured on rock'n'roll bride to begin with.

Last but not least. These mustache shaped rubbers (erasers for all you americans) would be perfect for my little brother. He has a slight obsession with mustaches.

Anyway i hope you enjoyed this post. Will write another one in a moment, don't i just spoil you!