Yummy Winter Drinks

Well, Winters definately approacing. Its freezing and i have a cold. So i have come up with some nice cures for both, in the form of yummy hot drinks.

1. Hot Chocolate
Ok, so this isn't really my idea, but its my..recipe.
Heat up some milk (in 45 sec bursts) for about a 1 1/2 mins.
Then stir in a couple of teaspoons of honey.
Put back in the microwave and watch carefully until it begins to boil.
Put in a heaped teaspoon of cocoa powder, stir and then add 1-3 teaspoons of sugar according to taste. (remember you've already put in some honey which makes it sweeter)
Then I added a dash of ginger and cinnamon powder.

Voila, lovely hot chocolate to soothe your throat.

2. Spicy Honey Milk
Heat up some milk as in Hot Chocolate Recipe.
Again stir in a couple of teaspoons of honey.
Heat up in the microwave (This does not nessecarily need to boil but is nice quite hot)
Add in some sugar (as there is no bitter cocoa powder you will need very little sugar)
Add a dash of ginger (cinnamon if you like), and enjoy :)

Lovely, tasty and a cure for a sore throat (although that may just be my wishful thinking)

I've also decided to start posting recipes for cooking as i thought it'd be a good idea to start cooking something new every week for my family, to get my cooking skills up to scratch and prepare myself for uni!! Exciting stuff. And i have a lovely new chocolate cake recipe, but i'll post these later. I'm thinking about starting a new blog where i have more control over my layout.

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Plans for the weekend

This weekend is going to be a busy one i hope. I have lots to do.

1. I have to decide what i am going to do with my life! I must look through uni's and courses and pick our my faveourites, its really scary but my application will have to be in soon so this must be done!

2. I need to tidy my room, it is a state at the moment! I need to get it clear so that i can decorate it and make it all lovely, there were some really cute things in dunelm mill that inspired me so i need to get moving.

3. Before it gets too cold outside i'd love to go on a long walk in the evening, the fields where i live looked really pretty as i went past them today, i really should go and walk in them.

4. Watch Merlin - well that one is easily done. It may be un peu sad to watch a program in which a maginc boy fights witches and dragons...but i dont care! He fights witches and dragons!! (Plus arthur is pretty easy on the eye)

5. BAKE! I have an excuse to bake this weekend, my school is having a big picnic!! (A BBQ was planned, but my teacher lost it...) This is very exciting, any excuse to bake will do, and this means i can bake my faveourite cupcakes :) and i found a lovely looking recepie for gingerbread from the gorgeous Gizzi Erskine http://www.gizzierskine.com/recipes_black_sticky_ginger_bread.asp looks pretty yummy doesn't it?

Well that is my weekend, and that doesn't include my mini physics essay, english essay, and lots of maths hwk! Good luck Emily! x

Worlds worst blogger?

I really am! I will have to become a better blogger if i ever want to write for a living.

So i had a really nice day today, it didn't start out amazing, but then my mum, sister and I went out to dunelm mill. The drive there was so beautiful, the sun was going down and the sky was all pink and orange, the sun glowing behind the trees. It reall was lovely driving along, listening to dubussy, Paolo Nutini and an all time faveourite, Moon River, this version...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwBjRnK5m5I (It freaks me out a little watching her sing, she's so little how is she making such a beautiful sound?!) passing lovely sunlit fields and driving underneath arches of trees. It made me thing about how excited i am about autumn, its probably my faveourite time of year, the gorgeous rusty reds, burnt oranges, browns and yellows, i'm looking foreward to sunggling up in jumpers and blankets and sipping hot chocolate while its cold outside.

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Overcast

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Jeffrey Campbell mention

I thought that i would just post this, i really should have weeks ago but was just looking at the blog and remembered that i was on there :)
http://www.jeffreycampbellshoes.com/blog/news-events/photo-of-the-day/
It made me smile :D x

May 31st

As the title suggests these were actually taken back in may, but i haven't got round to uploading them yet. Credit to my sister for taking these, (i will find her deviant art and post it soonish) We actually took a billion other photos and only took these when we stumbled on this field on our way home. I love my grannies, she lives in a lovely old cottage in norfolk and theres so many pretty places to see.

I'm going up to london later today to see my sister in a show in the west end! exciting!! I will be taking my camera and wearing as little as possible as it is supposed to be 30degrees!!

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Kitty

I am so busy at the moment, i'm afraid i dont have time for a proper post, but my kitty was just looking so cute i had to take some pictures of him relaxing in the warm sun.
Bless his cotton socks x

Summers Day

It was so beautiful today, really really hot too. Unfortunatley i have 4 exams this week (1 down three to go) so i can't go wondering in the sun :(
When i do have a little more time i will post some pictures up that i took yesterday. They're already on my flickr

What i'm wearing: Grey lace top, Topshop; Blue skirt, H&M; Grey Studded Wedges, Jeffrey Campbell; Leather and Elastic Belt, Vintage.

Waddesdon

Waddesdon, May 2nd 2010.

Today i went to a very pretty house. Its a french style chateau, (i have decided i want to get married in it, everythings so big and beautiful!)

As we went round my faveourite room was probably one which was full of collectibles, there were eighteenth century fans, which were so delicate, and a big collection of buttons, some were so pretty, they had gold writing on in old french which said different things, you couldn't really read them as they were teeny, but two were written out; 'Je nen donne qua vous', which means, 'I only give to you' and, 'Je pleure vostre absence', which means, 'your absence makes me weep', i thought these were adorable. There were also very pretty hat pins, some lovely eighteenth century lace, and in the corner of the room was a little glass cabinet with my faveourite thing inside...old corsets and costume. There was a little boys jacket which was lovely, and two beautiful corsets which were both so beautifully detailed! Oh if only i had the money to buy such things.

Adorable little videos

Well i haven't posted anythign for ages and i should be busy doing my english coursework! However, i just saw a link to the song from this video so i thought i would share it with you. I love it, great song and wonderful dancing! Pretty self explanitary, enjoy
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtVh8kVZ_XM&feature=related

This other little one is so nice too, i love it all, and am just in awe of alison in this, she is so stunning and i love her hair too. I love stop motion videos so this ticks all the bozes for me!
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwX7uEiEWx4

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