RANDOMNESS: I haven't forgotten you!!!

Okay, so the last time i wrote a post it was me kissing ass saying i promise to be back here writing more ... so what do i do- I don't do another post for 807 million years! Well what happened was that i have turned into a grown up and got a real actual persons job and i have been working a squillion hours a week. Please don't think that i've forgotten about you all cos I really haven't and i'll definitely get on here properly soon and tell you all in full whats been going on and whatnot.... also please keep commenting- i always read the comments and genuinely LOVE you guys keeping in touch!!!
mwwwwwwwah! xxxx

COOKING: Whats been keeping me busy...

So yes, I've been away for 96 hundred years but i'm back now and to justify my far-away-ness I thought i would show you some pics of whats been keeping me busy...The uni bit is not very interesting and would just be pictures of me reading Wuthering Heights and imagining I was Kathy and I was humping Heathcliff in a barn....too much? anywhoo...

So I figured i would show you some cakey pics- far more exciting.....

See! I've been a busy little pickle! Theres a few more but you get the gist. Cooking has literally taken over my life at the moment and i've always just thought of it as my hobby but the more and more I do it i'm starting to think of it as a career!! How exciting and grown up...'sept i'd be titting about with buns for a living- excellent! I went out the other day and spent nearly £100 on cookbooks...it's what Jesus would want I reckon?!? When most people are reading novels, Im reading cookbooks- very cool of me I know! Oh except I have been drawn into the whole 50 Shades of Grey business... I know its a little old news now but I haven't been here so do we like it??!! Have to say, or should say as a Lit student that the writing is pretty bad BUT it's just so un-put-downable! It's like Cheese Squares or Simply Red...you know its not right but sometimes you just have to!!

Randomness: THANKS FOR STICKING WITH ME

Just cos ..... <3 

x

Randomness: Return to the Mac....

Well this feels a little strange... I can't believe that my last post was in April! It feels like I have been away from you guys foooorever. Sooo where to start then and explain my reasons for been a dirty great stay-away! Well first of all, I had the end of uni getting ontop of me so obv that was a priority. Then I was poorly with what I think was the plague for about a month! Seriously it was ridiculous I thought i may loose a limb or my sanity- luckily i still have them both! Well, the sanity is questionable, never sure i had it in the forst place....and thirdly I discovered internet bitches and how fecking evil some people can be...not going into details can't be flapped and were all about the peace and love here kids!!

I was just going to stop the blog but then I keep seeing your comments rolling in here and there and I'm getting the itch again and most of all I've missed you all, especially you lovelies that I talk to on a regular basis....so here I am if you want me??!!

Exciting things have happened too while I've been away, I've gotten a new job and I'm playing with cakes and baking alot more and I'm thinking of changing my uni course, giving up the dizzying heights of Literature to study Patisserie...as one does... I've re done my house, Im a red head again.. the hubs has been in Nigeria 8 weeks! gah! I miss him! and Dolly is still hopelessly cute and fat!

I think thats it all!? More importanly, how are all of you?? I'm desperate to know and check that you haven't all been stolen by pirates!! Get in touch, muuuchas love, Bea xx

Randomness: bllllleuuurghhhh!!!!

Hello lovelies!!!
Not a big post!! I just wanted to drop in and say a quick "'Ello" and that I'm still here its just that I have been infected with some kind of air-born Rickets or Scurvy I can't tell which, maybe the Plague- who knows!!! Anywhoo I am ill and gross and I just don't have the energy at the minute to put together a post that is vaguely informative or more importantly coherent! 


So aside from my Lurgey a few exciting things have happened.... The Beau is home but we can't go out and do anything nice because of my riddled-ness but still it's nice to have him back even if it's just to look after the dogs so I can sit and feel sorry for myself AND we are looking- just looking, he keeps reiterating this part; at buying a new house. What fun!! I swear there is some gypsy in me somewhere I just never settle and I've been itching to move for the last 4 years; we've only been here 5 years now. This would be my 23rd house in 25 years!! Cripes!! 


So yeah...I will be back over the weekend me reckons but for now I shall leave you with this very accurate visual interpretation of how i feel at la mo!!

Playlist: Music for my Youth

I've had a bit of a shitty week and for some reason unbeknownst to me; whenever I'm feeling low, I get really nostalgic and wish for times when I was all young and care free and disco dancing with a Jack and Coke in one hand and a cigarette in the other.... I was young- I didn't understand that it's not a win! I just wanted to do some disco dancing and kiss a boy. Now I'm married, the cigarettes are gone and yoga is in. I have replaced disco dancing with baking and a Jack Daniels for a Gin and Tonic. But for today I am 18 again and I am dancing around my kitchen to these treats; partying like its 2006...

(This is me circa 2006, the only picture I have from then really I think... I can't remember who I was talking to and I forgot my boobies were ever that brilliant...ahhh youth)

Hey Scenesters- The Cribs

Hounds of Love- The Futureheads

Beating Hearts Baby- Head Automatica

An Honest Mistake- The Bravery

Date with the Night- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Daft Punk is Playing in My House- LCD Soundsystem

Club Foot- Kasabian

Fake Tales of San Francisco- Arctic Monkeys

Last Night- The Strokes

Naive- The Kooks

Craft: The easy peasy T Shirt shopper!

Eeeexciting! Today is my first ever craft post and I was trying to think about which thing to do first so it seemed a little obvious to use the one that I use the most. These bags are just the handiest thing. They are great for prezzies for people and a fab way of doing a bit of recycling and general do-goodery. Biggest bonus they are pretty much a piece of piddle to make!

You will need:

An old tee, something with a good design

Pair of pretty sharp Scissors

A Stapler

 Gaffa/Rhino Tape

a Tape Measure

A Pen

Little tip: if you have a dark t shirt, get black gaffa; a light one get the white. Just looks better....

The first thing that you need to do is to turn the t shirt inside out and cut off the sleeves.

Lay your T Shirt out as flat as you can and then starting at the bottom lay strips of Gaffa across the fabric. You want to smooth out any creases in the fabric as you go, it just makes life easier later on. Keep working up the fabric right the way to the top! Once you have gone right to the top, flip the t shirt and do the same on the back. Having a Cat assistant is optional.....

So when you are done taping you will have sort of sealed the t shirt shut. You now need to trim it up. Cut an inch off the bottom so that it in now open again and cut out the neck hole.  Down the sides cut away any excess tape but being ridiculously careful not to cut through the fabric.  

You now need to trim the sleeves. You want to make them a little exaggerated as these bits are going to form your handles. Once you have a shape your happy with, fold your t shirt in half so that you can create the mirror image down the other side of your t shirt and your handles will match and trim away! 


You then need to fold your t shirt so that the two side seems are on top of each other. So instead of the seems running down the sides they are in the middle.

Making sure your hems are matching, half and inch up from the bottom staple right across the bottom. You want the staples as straight and as close to each other as possible.

Run a strip of Gaffa over the staples so that you don't end up catching your fingers on them.

So you need to move back up to the top of the bag now to sort out the handles. In the neck hole, you need to make that shape more exaggerated so that you can get all of your crap in the bag! Im limited by the print on mine as I didn't want to cut through Darth's Lightsaber; I don't think he could handle that- so I had to cut my hole slightly smaller. You want to do it to around the pink line that I drew on the t shirt if you can; if you can't it just means you have a smaller hole but it's not a big problem! 


Right now comes the tricky bit. Stick with me and hopefully the pictures help to make things a little clearer... You need to make this shape out of the t shirt....

To do it, you pick up the bag by one of it's bottom corners and it should naturally bend in the middle. You then need to grab the opposite corner and nip them together. Then lay them down flat on the floor or table and it should make the shape above.

From that bottom point you want to measure 5 inches up the bag and draw a straight line across. No, I'm not really sure why my tape measure says 3 inches, Im such a dumbass sometimes but it is definitely 5 inches from that bottom point.

Now trim off that extra little point that you don't need and like you did on the bottom; staple right across the line and then cover it with a strip of gaffa again. Then flip the bag over and do the same with the other point. All you need to do then is just turn the bag inside out! I hope i've made the instructions as clear as I can. It's not the easiest thing to describe but it really is the easiest thing to make!

What do we think?? Im pretty pleased with this one really and i've been using it to store all my knitting in. You could make a whole fleet of them for re-usable shopping bags and you would look the dandiest kid in Morrisons! Hurrrah!