Green Mint Baileys

After yesterdays post i was left thinking about mint icecream. I love mint. And then i thought about Baileys.
It's my favourite drink in the entire world. I want some right now. I don't care what time it is. I would even have it on my cereal.

My favourite flavour of all is the mint chocolate one. Obviously.
My boyfriend's favourite dessert is cheesecake and i like making them. It's quick and easy. One day agess ago i stumbled across this recipe from BBC Food.

It's a Baileys cheesecake. I would have to adapt the recipe to use mint chocolate Baileys though i think and have mint chocolate chips in the cookie base. Mmm. I really want to make one now.

Oh also. After updating yesterday all about green tea i went onto The cupcake blog this morning and to my surprise they had so many tea and coffee cupcakes.

Green Tea and Kiwi.

Chai Latte.

Double Mocha.

Maybe it's just me but i found that really weird. Anyway carrying on with the green theme. I haven't had any baby animals on here recently, which is ridiculous. And i don't know how i've managed it. Did you know there are no green mammals in the world. Apart from a sloth. Yes i know sloths aren't naturally green. But algae grows on them which gives them a green hint seeing as they're so slow.

Just check out the baby sloth! so so squee!
Who doesn't like hugs! I love squee little animals and their babies. I want a baby animal!

Want more green things? Okay.

 

Memes can be green. The key two are philosoraptor and bachelor frog i think.

He is literally reading my mind!

I'm pretty sure that they do. I want to know the answer to this. And the answer to the first one. If anyone has any idea please let me know!

Now onto random things that i have seen and liked. They are not green, they are not baileys, they are not mint. They are not related to this post at all. Not in the slightest. Oh well :)

Apparently it's meant for sweets and things and that cake won't actually fit in it. I beg to differ. I will make one. And it will be for individual cake slices.

It keeps your hand from freezing when you have a really cold beverage. Thank you Mr. Shark. I guess you could make one with any animal you want really. Well they have to have a pretty big mouth. i wouldn't use a Bee. You can buy your own on Etsy from user handamade.

Oh he is so fancy! Owls are known for being wise, but i didn't know they were this posh.

Last but not least i found a website. It is called wordle. And i really want to make one, but for some reason it won't work for me. Let me know if you have any luck!

Green tea

When i think of green icecream the flavour that immediately comes to mind is mint. That may be just because my favourite icecream in the world is mint chocolate chip. And for some reason when the icecream is green it makes me even happier.
So imagine my surprise when i found a green icecream that was actually green tea flavour.

And this got me thinking. I know green tea is pretty popular, heck i even saw a green tea cupcake on The cupcake blog the other day.

When you think of tea you think of China. Well i do anyway. With their tea ceremonies and their fields of tea leaves. So it seems only natural that an icing fortune cookie would fit in nicely with the green tea cupcake.
I also found these cupcakes.

What else is green tea flavour? Well i know for a fact that Starbucks has a chai tea latte, so into Google i go and surely enough they also have a range of green tea beverages.

There's a green tea frappuccino, green tea latte, and green tea iced latte. I do quite like the fact that coffee chains aren't just about the coffee anymore. There's such a wide variety of flavours that could suit just about anyone's taste buds.

These creations are all cakes. The giant one at the back is one of those giant cupcakes i think. Decorated to look like it has lots of chocolate whipped creme on top. The two in cups at the side, i'm pretty sure are just normal cupcakes with frosting. And then you've got a lovely cookie. I used to work in a coffee shop, and i got all the free beverages i wanted. I'm so jealous of past me. Not so jealous of the working hours though.

On my wanderings around the internet i found an owl, a green owl. Which is aptly named Green Tea owl. It's made by Lori Marie and is featured on her website. Click here for her prettylittlethings website it's so cute!

The one on the far right is the green tea owl. I'm pretty sure it varies in belly and eyelid colour seeing as it's handmade. Too Kawaii!

I'll leave you with one more owl to end the day.

yummy cake! Not tea related at all. Just squee.

Paper crafts

I am in love with this cute little owl. He is just the most adorable thing ever. And the best thing about it is that a Wallpaper and note-paper with his gorgeous face on them is downloadable for free from  here.

 Paper and lights i guess don't really mix well. Well people don't tend to think they do. If you're paranoid it may be the intense fear that the paper will catch on fire. But i just adore these.

I'm pretty sure that i found these on My Owl Barn Blog that i've told you about before. But i'm not 100% certain. Anyway, i love the heart shaped doilies in a chain with cute fairy lights wrapped around them. Perfect for Christmas decos, christenings, weddings or just my bedroom!

I guess it's a paper theme today then. (I create my blog titles, and half of what's in each entry after the first few pictures. I search for a theme. apparently these two have paper in common. Go me!)

More doilies. Has anyone seen cupcake wrappers before. Or am i just totally cupcake obsessed and thus know about these things? Well you can make them with doilies! I can't believe i've never seen this idea before. It's actually genius.
Here are some real ones.

When i was thinking what else i could possibly add to this blog post one thing instantly came to mind. Origami. I love it. I even have origami crane chains hanging from my window. I love the shadows when the light shines through them. Truly gorgeous.
Anyway check out this origami cupcake!

I love the flower on top. so cute.
And how about these bad boys.

It's owls! I am in love with the bottom left one. Now i found these picture on Google. So don't know where i can find instructions on how to make them. But trust me i will. Fingers crossed my end result looks just as cute!



Now to go completely off topic, i found this amazing game. Well my boyfriend did. And i love him for it. Remember how i said that Nyan Cat and Robot Unicorn Attacks match so well. Because of the mythical creature, rainbows and squeeness. Well now they have merged to become one. Not in a creepy mutant animal way. But Nyan cat now features in a robot unicorn attack-like game. It can be found here nyanicorn. Yes the graphics aren't as good, and rainbows only show up when you dash. But you jump around collecting junk food, and dashing through leeks to destroy them! Yay.

Hope you had a lovely long weekend (in the UK anyway. Monday was a bank holiday!)

uni, it's pretty awesome.

One of the best things i love about university is the pranks. Light hearted humor is amazing. Well, as long as it's not directed at me!
That's why i love the website college humor so much. It's full of things like these.

Yes, that is a room full of cups of, well, whatever you want really. It would take a long time to set this prank up. And unluckily for the recipient, just as long to dismantle. Try walking through a room full of cups of liquid... impossible.

Another i like, that i've semi-tried is this one.

Wrapping someones entire room in whatever you have available really. Me and my housemates used free university newspapers and magazines for our prank. We covered everything. Each pencil, penny and pillows inside the pillow cases. Lets just say getting dressed turned into a chore. Trying to find matching socks must of taken a while.
You get to unwrap all of your stuff. But it's not exciting like Christmas, because well, you already own it.

Another big part of university is the work, and where there's work there is procrastination. I'm pretty sure most of you out there must of played angrybirds at some point in your life on a smart phone. Well it's now available on-line. No word of a lie. Here it is Angry birds online. Go ahead, love me. I know you do.

And here's your dose of funny pictures. Enjoy. I hope you all have amazing weekends.

Got to love Mario paint composer :)

And just because i love owls. Maybe a little too much.

Bento and creative meals

There is one way to make your kids eat more healthy food. And that is by making it look cute and fun. One lady who does this perfectly is Jill Dubien. I recently discovered her blog Meet the Dubiens and i love it. She's got a page for crafts, one for general recipes and another for fun food. Which i have to admit is my favourite.

Another thing i love about her blog is that she has some recipes that are owls. Here's a glimpse at a few of my favourites.

They're rice crispy treats! Anything chocolate does it for me.

And a savoury sandwich, it's so simple to make it and because you use the entire slice of bread there's no waste.

Her's one of her creative projects that i liked.

It's one of those IKEA tables. She just took of the legs, stapled on some Owl fabric, then just screwed the legs back on. Perfect for her little daughters tea parties.

Cute food also includes characters like this guy i told you about a few days ago.

I would eat those cookies right up. Well if you can remember i also said that he features in a lot of Bentos. When i was little if all food came in bento form i would have no trouble eating it. And because it's supposed to look nice that means a lot of colours. For lots of colours you need a lot of fresh vegetables. So so healthy and kawaii!

I found both of these images on Flickr. The diversity of bento boxes is amazing. Like the first one you can have a base of food, like a sandwich, rice, pasta, salad. You name it anything. Then just place an adorable character on top and a cute side. Simple.
For those who are more creative you can shape rice and eggs even! These are some of my favourites!

One of my favourite bento makers on Flickr has to be Sheree She makes the most adorable bento boxes ever.

The sun is an egg with a cheese ring around it. The rainbow is peppers and the clouds are white cheese with apple skin cheeks. I love the way she uses food picks too. Just look at the cherry tomato in the back transformed into an apple.

She can also form rice, like these cute bears and chick. They're characters from a show i think. Don't remember which one though. Using stamps also helps decorate your food, like the ham stars. The pink circles are Japanese fish cake (Kamaboko). It always seems to be pink. Yay.

I want one of these piggy bentos! very very badly, they're just so squee!

Looking at all of this creative food makes me want to get creative. And one of the things i think i'll be good at is puddings. I found one that i'm pretty sure i could copy without messing it up too badly.

It a mini banana split! How kawaii is that! Whoever thought of it is a genius. The only thing it's missing is icecream but it makes up for that with the squirty cream on top.

Now off i go to have lunch. And feel like my food is totally inadequate in comparison.

Gifts, make the world go round

 Everyone likes getting a gift, if you try to deny it you're a liar. It's always awesome to know that someone cares about you enough to think of something to buy you. That they think you're like. In a way a gift that matches your personality. One way of adding to that is through the gift wrap and if i get any presents soon i want them to be wrapped in this.

It's Owl wrapping paper. One is just owls, and the other is owls with antlers. Perfect for hunters, or Christmas or whatever else includes deer.
Both of them are downloadable courtesy of My owl barn, the links to the downloadable print are below :)
download owl giftwrap here
download owl with antlers giftwrap here

When wrapping presents you need a number of things including tape and scissors. And just check out these adorable scissors which look like the eyes of an owl!

Or how about this tape dispenser!

And for the OCD gift wrapper, this measuring tape.

Change of topic, i do quite like doing that. But just look at how amazingly cute these cupcakes are!

 They're chocolate cupcakes, in terracotta pots, with some frosting leaves on them. Perfect for your budding gardener friend.
The Garden is so lovely, especially at this time of year with all the flowers out and the nice weather (fingers crossed!)
It's lovely just to sit outside and take in the view, on an easy to move around/store away chair.

And this is the best light-weight/outdoor chair ever. When folded closed it looks as if the owl is sitting on a perch! So Kawaii.

As you know i change my mind on what is my favourite thing every so often. Recently i found this website, well it's a newspaper. A fake newspaper. Best fake newspaper ever: the onion. It reports on news in a deadly serious way and it's so easy to trick your friends with it. If they're slightly slow that is. I love trolling! :)

Hahaha, Americans are pretty hilarious anyway. I know that this is fake but i recon they should actually make one. Making abortion more efficient, cheaper, and safer. Who wouldn't want that?

Speaking of trolling. Next time i access secret information i really want to do this:

Trololololololo

i appologise for adding that video, i actually hate that guy so much. It gets in your head and is really annoying. But it just fitted in so well!