Hello.
School has started again .... yay :/ Going into year 11 wasn't nearly as scary as opening my maths GCSE result (i got an A*  :D), but then again, this is 'The Year It Gets Real!'.
or serious as sow said but its always been serious we just never took it seriously but this year is no joke.
Serious aside                                                                                             (haha get it) I've just come back from a house warming party, soooooo boring! im gonna make sure that all of my future house warming parties are fun and exciting (dont just involve talking to complete strangers) or I just won't have a house warming party and invite my closest friends and family....

wikipedia says: a house warming party is held within the first 90 days of a resident moving into a new house.
ahhh, the most important part of the party is the gifts given by guests to furnish the house :P

reading on you find that the origins of housewarming is quite literal. In the olddddd days, when a person moved house there would literally be a housewarming, in which friends and family would bring firewood and add it to the fireplace, this would not only warm the house but was believed to scare of evil spirits. awesome.

haha, wikipedia is hilarious! there's even a list for the variation of housewarming parties :P
but im not going to dwell into that, for in fact i am blogging for my new found love for baking! :D

I have always loved baking but today I have reached a new peak in my baking for i made something completely on my own :D Having been inspired by this weeks episode 'The Great British Bake off' i decided to make some meringues, sure they were sweet and simple but for someone who rarely bakes or has a skill for following recipes i think i did exceptionally well (especially with separating the white frrom the yellow when cracking the egg).
At first i was worried because having taken out the meringues and tasted one it wasnt that nice chewy consistency that i was after and so i concluded that i had burnt them (if thats possible) but then after adding whipped cream and leaving them to cool they became as chewy as well.... a meringue is meant to be :P

YUM!

I should be back with my next baking adventure.

TTFN

xxx

Hello again,
I haven't blogged since mothers day, I guess I've been realllly busy.
Anyway, this is my first year of GCSEs, in fact I have my Maths next Friday (I should probably be revising). I've always had an attachment and liking to DT, perhaps because of my primary school teacher ( I was kinda her fave :D), so it's not surprising that I've taken it for gcse. Having been inspired by a project I witnessed last year, I was determined from the start to do a Lamp Project.

So here I am, at the moment I am counting my questionnaire results, and if you would be so kind as to take the time to fill one out I would be Very grateful. If you feel uncomfortable giving your personal details, you don't have to fill them in, although age would help. If you wish to help me out just answer in the comments... copy this template and then delete the relevant answer:
1. Yes No
2. £5-10    £10-30     £30-50       £50-100    £100-150     £150+
3. Living Room       Bedroom     Study     Bathroom        Kitchen
4. Readymade Flatpack
5. High    Medium   Low    Dimmable
6. Wood    Plastic     Fabric    Metal
7. Greyscale     Blue/Red    Black/red    Blue    Green    Orange
8. Wall mounted    Hanging    Table   Floor
9. Yes No
10. Customisable 1234  Portable 1234    Flexible 1234   Durable 1234 (delete the numbers)
11. type the numbers of the pictures you prefer
12. comments :)

During the course of all my research for this project i have come across many interesting and dynamic products....

Made of Shades!

Floating balloons!

The further side says, 'Will be read'...

I believe this is upscaled from an old table

Well i hope these inspired you as they have inspired me in my project.

Thank You For reading

TTFN

xxxx

(And thank you for helping my project if you decide to do a questionairre :D)

Sunday 18th March 2012

 I'm not a big endorser of Mothers Day... its too commercialised and why should this be the only day of the year we let our mums feel special (actually I just never know what to get my mum ;) ). However, i don't ignore it... instead I put a little bit of effort into making a very special card and I'm sure most of you would have seen today's Google Doodle...

I thought it might be interesting to find out where the idea of mother's day came from in other countries:

Australia

In Australia the tradition of Mother's Day was established by a resident of Leichhardt Sydney, Mrs Janet Heyden in 1924. It all began when she went to visit a patient at the Newington State Home for Women, where she met many forgotten mothers. So, to cheer them up she asked local school children and businesses to donate and bring gifts to the women. Every year after that even more support has been raised by Mrs Heyden and since then the day has become commercialised. 

did you know?... the chrysanthemum is given to mothers as the flower naturally season in Autumn (equivalent to our spring i suppose) and it ends in 'mum' the australian slang for mother (although i think its slang everywhere these days)

China

In 1997 the day was established to help poor mothers and to remind people of the poor mothers in rural areas such as Western China. In the Chinese government's official newspaper 'People's Daily' an article explained that 'despite originating in the United States, people in China accept the holiday without hesitation because it is in line with the country's traditional ethics – respect for the elderly and filial piety towards parents.' In recent years a communist party member promoted the official adoption of mothers day in memory of Meng Mu (a chinese mother from early fourth century BC who was determined to provide her son with a good home - she is seen as the ideal mother figure); they also asked to replace the western gift of Carnations with lilies - these were planted by mothers when children left home in ancient times.

The story of Meng Mu is really sweet, i recommend you read it... http://chinesestoryonline.com/component/content/article/111-meng-mu-san-qian.html

Well that was all interesting... here are a few cards i found from previous mother's days. 

I believe i was 10 or 11

13 now... it says inside :S

Last Year... began to get blank cards from Paperchase and use my craft box to bring them to life :D

This Year.... made yesterday and opened this morning. TAPE :P

I dont think anyone reads my posts anymore... but I'd just like to say Happy Mother's Day.

TTFN 

xxx

 

What a puzzle...

"Bored"...

The most frequently said word during the holidays (for most people).

But, this holiday I was preoccupied with a big puzzle :D 

1000 pieces... mostly blue and white... filled with snow and iceeeee....

snow...

Snow is a form of precipitation (stuff falling from the sky) on the Earth's atmosphere in the form of crystalline water ice i.e. pretty snowflakes that fall from clouds (probably not white, but grey by the time it snows, but we'll never know because dunno if you've noticed but you can't seeeeeeee the clouds when it snows, it's like they disappear.). Snow is a granular material because it is composed of small ice particles (as in frozen water), with an open and soft structure; unless packed by external pressure (like for snowballs :P). snowflakes come in a variety of shapes and sizes (but not in the shape of animals, vehicles or people. They are also symmetrical :D) when a snowflake falls in the form of a ball due to melting and refreezing, it is known as a graupel, ice pellets or snowgrains (or one could identify them as happy puffs of flake ;)).

Basically, snow is frozen water falling out of the sky in pretty shapes :)

Here are some of my own snowy pictures... taken just a few minutes ago

Everyone believes that there can never be two identical snowflakes, well they're WRONG. Someone found 2 indentitwined (made up word)  snowflakes, this person would have missed out on the fun of the snow looking for two identical snowflakes :S

DID YOU KNOW: for it to snow the top of a fluffy cloud (haven't decided if it's white yet) has to be 0˚C or 32˚F... i wonder why???

You can get blind because of snow, its called Snow Blindness :O because fresh snow reflect 90% of the sun's UV radiation...

Snowfall can also act as a thermal insulator in subfreezing temperatures and provides water for crop growth.(keeping plants warm in freezing conditions and giving them water)

But we mostly associate snow with recreational use.... SNOWFIGHTS, SNOWANGELS, SNOWMEN (snowomen as the case may be), SNOWBOARDING, SNOWSHOEING :D

so people, enjoy the snow while it lasts :D

The Blue Lagoon Iceland... te he 

I wanna go there :D

TTFN

xx

snow and cakes...

Hello who ever still reads my blog :P
Last night I came out of the shower after agonisingly untangling my hair without my detangler (wasnt too pleased about that)... and i saw one of the most beautiful sights ever.... it was SNOWING :D
Then this morning i happened to wake up at 3:45 (no idea why) and i see a sheet of white puffy snow covering the world outside my window : )

Later i find little footsteps running through the deep snow.

Further examination shows they are the footsteps of the eversleepy but equally adorable, Keyla : nextdoor neighbour's cat :P

I also made some yummyliscious cupcakes while repeatedly listening to 1D (they're songs are awsome :p)

As yummy as they look, i would probably only be able to eat half, theyre really big and there's LOADS of icing :S. I was experimenting with icing techniques, so i bought an icer thing with the bag and the different nozzles, dunno what its called ;)

Have a fun time in the snow... I wonder what bushy park is like, must be amazing. My riding lesson was cancelled because of the snow :( so i didn't see.

TTFN

xxx

LETS HOPE ITLL SNOW TONIGHT= NO SCHOOL TOMOZ

Is that an apple... i seaaaaaaaaa???