Cobblestone dream

And she steals him with every street. Every leaf and cobblestone is true beauty, hard as she is. I do not compete. 

And my empty heart aches for the shell. If I were as hard, an anchor or rock. Instead, his support is metres underground, further still. 

I had his heart, I did. 

Poisonous, eternal living and speechless, 

she wins. 

RE-VAMP

Hi bloggers! I have totally re-vamped my blog. I have a mild obsession for baroque patterns and colours and this background was the closest I could get whilst still being able to change fonts/colours etc. (I also love the word VAMP)

My favourite colours of all time are red/black/white so it's great to incorporate them into my blog. I have added links to all my active sites to the right. Including eBay! I am a mild eBay seller at present, however I wish to change that over the next few months. Once I finish college and take a gap year, I hope to get into selling more so watch this space. If you do have an eBay account, make sure to check my items and add me to your favourite sellers!

Also follow me on Instagram as this is probably my more active accounts out of them all. I adore Instagram, I often post ootd's and general snaps from my day to day life. Follow if you're interested!

Thanks for reading and have a lovely day!

OH MY...

I really think you all should check out a little brand called Oh My Love. I first found out about them at the Clothes Show Live last year. I stumbled upon a small stand and completely fell for this dipped hem aubergine coloured dress, the brand being OML. Check them out and you're sure to find some interesting items on there. 

This is all I need to say

http://www.asos.com/search/primark?hrd=1&q=primark

BAKING AND GAMING COMBINED

I feel I have share this with the world. I MADE MINECRAFT CUPCAKES! 

I made these for Valentines day as a less cliche/cheesy and more imaginative gift for the other half. According to more experienced bakers' recipes, these creatures are very hard to make but thanks to eBay i was able to achieve it more reasonably using Minecraft Cake Toppers! 

FIRST STEP: Purchase Minecraft cake toppers (and any other ingredients) 

Next step, pre-heat oven to 180/gas4 and put cake cases in your cake/muffin tin

I used a basic recipe for the plain cakes (for the piggies and creepers)

110g/4oz butter of softened margarine 

110g/40z caster sugar

110g/4oz self raising flour

2 medium eggs

1tsp vanilla extract

2tbsp milk

I used an all in one method to mix all of the ingredients then used a hand mixer to make sure the mixture was free of lumps. I spooned the ingredients into the cases and baked for 20-24 minuted until the tops were springy. I took them out and left them to cool on a rack.

I then re-made the mixture, but substituted 1oz of flour for 1oz of cocoa, making the mixture chocolate. I repeated the steps until I had chocolate and vanilla cupcakes. 

Now the fun begins!

I used butter cream for the frosting. I followed the recipe on the back of the icing sugar box to create the butter cream but I added cocoa for the chocolate cakes (cows). Before adding the butter cream to the cakes, I smeared a small amount of strawberry jam to the top of the cakes, then layered on the butter cream, sticking the cut-out rice toppers whilst still wet.

For the creepers I made a new batch of butter cream, instead adding green food-colouring  and following the same as before.

And you can guess, for the piggies, I used pink colouring in a new batch. 

They are time consuming but totally worth it and they went down a TREAT! 

And the finished result!

Enjoy!

Poem: Paths

3rd Aug '12

We take the route we know once more but it feels different to before.

I hold you on my shoulder although we are not much older I just feel like I have grown with you.

I stroke you hair, look in your eyes for the hundredth million time you tell me how to love you without words.

Wordless love is oblivious, to what I hold in my heart. When I want you.

You begged for what I begged to do, your patience rewarded you but still,

you wait.