The Simple Life

I have to confess, I am in love. With this house 

It's just lovely, simple, clean design. Our flat is cluttered, messy, and a little damp design.

The house is designed and lived in by Kathryn Tyler and appeared on Grand Designs. Her work ethic was phenomenal! When we are growed up and have some money to have our own house, I'd like it to be this kind of house.

Thinking about it, our flat reflects very much the state of our lives at the moment, rushed, half organised and a little crumpled. 

I am finding myself increasingly drained and I am starting to wonder why I am doing this to myself...but then I look at this house and think one day I will have a full time job, and we can save money, and live here and this will all be worth it.

For now I shall just lust after it.

(I of course do not think of low wages, high unemployment and lots of competition for jobs, so sssshh don't shatter the illusion).

Happy Halloween!

Whilst I would not like to live opposite this house because I would be blinded, I think this is amazing, and definitely deserves it's million views. It must have taken ages to arrange, pure genius!

Happy halloween mwahahahahahaha 

-  Yes. yes, I know it's not halloween yet, but the Christmas post should have hinted at how excitable I am about festivities. Just wait for Guy Fawkes night I will be unstoppable (November 5th for all the non UK readers).

Hollywood Glamour the Makeup

So if I had loads of money and lots of swanky places to go I would go for Hollywood glamour everytime particularly the makeup which would involve matt red lips, perfect shiny nails and a sweet kitten eye.


A great how to for matt lips can be found here:
 

She also has a great video for those who like the Audrey Hepburn look. For me it's the perfect eye makeup for a glamour look

Modern Hollywood Glamour

Christmas

OK, so it's like October and you're thinking what the hell?! But I can't help it I am stupidly excited about Christmas. I do this every year. I see the cards and sweets and gift wrap in the shop and I just want to put my classic Christmas CD in the stereo and bake some mince pies.

Generally Christmas has not been as exciting as I hope for since I was above the age of about 13 but for me now it's all about the food. The moist turkey, pigs in blankets, crispy roast potatoes, sprouts and chestnuts *drool*...

So here are some Christmas recipes to get people salivating as much as me!

Unbelieveaby easy mince pies, guaranteed to be awesome:

Easy Christmas pud, I don't normally like Christmas pud but this was delicious when I made it 

Good, tastey, not over done sprouts

I will also be posting some great homemade Christmas pressie ideas, at some point. Well you know me I say these things then disappear!

Merry Almost Christmas!

Grey Days

Grey Days by clogginton featuring skinny leg jeans

 

Eating myself better

Hello, well I should explain the reason I can blog at the moment is that I am laid on the sofa poorly sick, feeling a little sorry for myself as the boy is in Italy, it's just me and Gaga.

So I have been trying to think of easy things to cook to make me feel better, feed a cold and all that and quite fancy one of my favourite Chinese soups Crab and sweetcorn.

I also want my other favourite French onion soup 

Followed by this cake from this months Sainsburys food magazine 

If any of you want to just nip to Sheffield and make me these things that would be awesome, could you just grab a loaf of bread on the way too?  :)

Vienna Part two

Well once we left the museum we were able to see alot in a couple of hours. We went to a market that was mahoooosive, with plenty of my favourite things, antiques, food and vintage clothes. Why oh why did I not pack lightly!

 It was pretty busy, this was at 9am!

 Not quite the vintage clothing I had hoped for...

 I think I just walked into cheese heaven

 The big wheel at Prater  

People were having candle lit dinners in cabins on here as it went round at night. It struck me as probably one of the most romantic ways to propose. Other than how the Boy proposed to me, a story for another time.

  A water ride at prater, this was the best night we had. The fair was amazing, like a theme park of tacky, whacky fun.

On the way to the airport we went for a little walk and a coffee in one of the many cafes. We didn't realise that everything except cafes closed on a Sunday. Whilst it was a little annoying that none of the museums were open I was really happy to see there was a day where people had to spend time relaxing and hang out with their families.

This was the parliament building which at the time had a circus outside. Finally we popped into an old church that was being renovated. It was so lovely inside but there was a service on so I restrained myself from taking too may pics, all tourist stylie 

It also had a vending machine of church material which made us laugh, oh the 21st century!

If you ever get the chance to go to Vienna do it. It was so lovely. The people were nice, the city was lovely with art and public spaces everywhere, and the food was surprisingly cheap this cost 10 euros which was pretty awesome for a massive steak, it literally was the size of the plate and cooked to perfection! Sorry it's a little blurry, I see it as the haze of yumminess!

Vienna Baby! Part One

Well, long time no words. It's me not you. It's life to be more precise. I work two jobs, I am involved with several other projects as well as doing my studies and the blog is my rare moment of sanity. 

I know I said I would post about the allotment but the allotment is currently a unhappy subject and something we have had to give up for various reasons. So there may not be the allotment posts, but just pretend this is the kind of thing you would have seen and read about:

Taken from here 

In reality our allotment probably would never look like this!

So I have decided in my attempt to quell this disappointment I will tell you about my recent trip to Vienna. 

It was for a conference on pottery held at the natural history museum which sadly was the only museum I managed to squeeze in, despite it being the long night of the museums where they all open to 1am. It was also Oktoberfest so there were lots of these

 

So here are a few shots of what is an amazing city, one which I can not wait to go back to when I have time to explore it properly!

Starting with the natural history museum - I work with geology so am a little mineral obsessed

 

This is salt, can you believe how pretty it is?!

This is gold!

This is some very old art 

And now to my favourites, the ANIMALS!

You lookin at me?!

It was a lovely traditional museum, you can imagine grand ladies and gents back in the day strolling quietly around, the swish of long dresses and the squeak of mens shoes.

Part two still to come, you lucky people!