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

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

What to do... or what not to do... that is the question?

I would just like to say, this title has inspired by MS (Mummy Sow).
So, it's the start of the EASTER HOLIDAYS... i smell PASTA.
As I was saying, before the smell of PASTA filled the room, IT'S EASTER and we have Holidays now !!!
Exciting, thrilling and..... BORING!!
I have nothing to do, ok COMPLETELY UNTRUE... even a LIE. I have quite a bit to do:

1. Reading - 4 books to get through this holiday. nope, 5 my dad added an extra to my list!
2. Revising - I cant be bothered to count the number of subjects i have to get through
3. Photographing - I hope to be out and about taking snaps (te he, snaps is a funny word for a photo!) of LOADS of different things, animals, places, people, objects, Scenery... that's more for art homework.

Which reminds me, for our last lesson of the term, our art lesson was very suitable seeing as we got to go OUTSIDE in the SUN to.... PAINT??? but it was a lot of fun, we were doing Impressionism. We had to paint this....

There was a lot more sun when we did it.

Unfortunately, well fortunately really, I cannot bring myself to scan in my attempts even though they have been put in the printer and are ready to be scanned (actually, I can't be bothered) However, I will encourage people to go out and PAINT, it looks even cooler if you line it with black pen, like we did in the lesson!

Where was I...

1. EURGH i can't start from 4!!!!!!!!!!!
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4. That's better. I also need to attempt some of my portfolio for Croatia because there is a lot that needs doing!
5. Writing letters and blogs! I have to reply to Rach's letter and I will update my blog as soon as I can, but I am afraid that if I post too often then people won't have a chance to read. Oh well.
6. SHOPPING. I have major shopping to do, not just for Croatia or clothes I <3 but for STATIONERY. As some people may know from some conversations, the contents of my pencil case has been going missing lately, and I think the holidays would be a brilliant time to top up and keep STOCK of pens and other equipment in case the contents of my pencil case decides that it wants to go on an adventure again!
7. RELAX - I don't think I can do that. I have to be doing SOMETHING otherwise it's just BORING. My relaxing is either sleeping or doing something that doesn't involve WORK, such as blogging (fun), going outside (fun), reading (...fun), writing letters (fun), shopping (fun but can get tiring if one doesn't have a break and snack), watching TV and Movies (entertaining and fun... don't worry this will come up in my list), talking to friends (in sighting), doodling (fun and creative)..... ok, the list will go on so i think I'll stop there. I hope you see, I CAN't relax PROPERLY, unless that's your definition of relaxing!
8. Doodling - I have a whole collection to draw up, scan and post on my 'Letters-Animals' page. Look out for it.
9. Watching stuff - I'm not gonna take too long on this because my parents might read this. Yh, i have Valentines Day to watch, which I got it for my birthday : ) !!!
10. SLEEP - I need to do a lot of this to make up for the hours i spent on my RE and HISTORY, when i stayed up till around 2 or so. (suggested for others (MS)... you know who you are!)

I think 10 is a good number of things that I need to do, although a MAJOR obejctive would be to tidy up, my room has become cluttered with bags and books. Acutally, I'd like to call it organised chaos, because my books are all in a pile and my bags are in a line, but I just need to sort them out and put them away!

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I would now like to take this opportunity in saying how EXCITED I AM. I have shown signs of excitement before, but this is very special because I am getting the skirt i have wanted from Hollister. Previously, I had also been after a skirt, but I am sooooo glad I couldn't get it. This one is way better.... and I'm getting it for half price... well I only have to pay for Half of it. It's a present, I'm not meant to know what it is... but i do... but I'm gonna act surprised!!!! :OOOOOO. 

I think it is very cute and have been looking for a navy skirt since forevaaaaaaaaa!

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What further news do I have to tell... well there is the fun time my friends and I (4 of us) had in pizza express talking about peanut butter, but Lechar has ALREADY taken that topic from me! or I could talk about how we both have the same dress but in different colours. or I could blog about my adventure today.

Yep, that's right, i felt like a SPY... influence from the book I'm reading. I sort of got locked out of my house, I forgot/lost my keys so I couldn't get into my house. BUT, i figured out a way. It was quite satisfying because in the end I got inside. However, there was the mystery as to where my keys went. I'd looked everywhere in the house.. okay not everywhere, just where they could have been. i.e. on the shoe rack place, the stairs or kitchen. Can you guess where they were...             ......                .... okay I'm gonna tell you. It's really annoying because as soon as I reached the front step I'd checked my bag and had taken everything out but didn't find the keys. Then my dad comes home and tells me to empty out my bag, so I Tipped out my bag and..... the KEYS fell out. So I went through everything for NOTHING.... but it was LOADS OF FUN!!!

Sorry, I feel like I rambled on a bit there.

anyway

Keep Following and HAVE A GOOD HOLIDAY!!!!

xx.