tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-747068914710669922024-03-05T11:11:38.965-08:00Lialikestobakelialikestobakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04845132396311215860noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74706891471066992.post-40571281394988409352016-07-03T17:34:00.003-07:002016-07-03T17:38:38.867-07:00ALPS 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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me to France. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12 days kayaking in the French Alps. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the trip was first offered late last year, I decided
that this year, it wasn’t for me. I didn’t feel my skill level would be
sufficient enough to cope with the alpine rivers and no other girls were up for
going on the trip either (12 days is a longggg time to spend alone with 10
guys!). The deadline for deposits came and went and I’d accepted the fact that
I’d have to wait until next year to go. In the meantime, I bought my own boat,
and training sessions in the pool improved my skills. I got much better than I
thought I would, which made me begin to regret my decision to pass on the
opportunity. Unfortunately, one of the
guys supposed to be going on the trip had an injury early this year, which
meant that he couldn’t go anymore and his space was open. I jumped at the
chance and there I was, going to the alps!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Preparation started about a week before we left. I could’ve
easily packed all my stuff in around an hour or two if I wasn’t the queen of
procrastinating, moaning, and just general dilly dallying! The living room was
cluttered with various kayaking and camping equipment. The weekend before I
left, my boyfriend, Joe, helped my put my tent up in the garden so I knew I could do
it and wasn’t gonna be sleeping under the stars. This was a really good idea,
because as we found out, putting a tent back into its bag is also very
challenging! If in doubt, fold it into thirds (-Top tip…). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were leaving for our flight to Geneva on the Monday, but
our kit had to be packed into the van which was driving out there on Sunday,
which meant I had to be packed by Saturday. Friday night was hectic. For me and
the witnesses of my many breakdowns through the tough decisions over which
onesie to take, how many airbeds, and do I take my pillow as hand luggage or
not? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another thing I discovered in my Alps preparation was “pack
light” is not in my vocabulary. When faced with the prospect of being away from
home, I feel need to take everything I could ever possibly want with me. It
turns out fairy lights are one of those needs… so in the bag they went! Along
with a pop up princess tent, a jar of Nutella and a dinosaur onesie (I
eventually decided on one!).</span></span><br />
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boats and the other bags slid into the remaining gaps like a precarious jigsaw
puzzle. The doors were closed and the van left for france!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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our trip t-shirts. The flight went smoothly and we landed in Geneva, where we
quickly stepped out the airport on the Swiss side, just so we could say we’d
stepped foot in Switzerland too before crossing to the French sector of the
airport where we picked up our hire car and drove to our first campsite, </span><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;">Saint-Pierre-de-Bœuf.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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we arrived on the Monday, we didn’t have time to try out the course that
evening, so we all eagerly anticipated 9am the next day when the course switched on. The course was so much fun and didn’t disappoint. It was excellent
for practicing skills and white water rolls. The course carried on down into a
lake which you can then paddle back up towards a ramp which brings you back to
the start of the course. We spent 3 days here, which allowed for a lot of
paddling, swimming and sunbathing. It was here I discovered that I really don’t
tan very well! Everybody else was going a lovely shade of brown or lobster, I
stayed very very white… that didn’t stop me from soaking up the sun though.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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food group with the 3 other freshers. It was quickly discovered that if we
wanted any hope of having edible meals, I needed to take charge. Our go to meal was steak hachet with a variety of
other acompliments. It’s amazing what you can do with a few burgers! On the
first night we had 10 minutes in the supermarket to decide what we were eating
and to find it. We ended up with burgers & hotdogs (minus the bread…) with
lettuce and chip sauce. Which surprisingly, when garnished with pringles, isn’t
all that bad! Our next meal was a lot better, I unleashed my chef potential and
made us spaghetti Bolognese, followed the next day with pork fajitas, then on
the final night, a barbecue. Breakfasts were croissants and lunches were
baguettes stuffed with sliced meat and cheese. We ate like kings.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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coach, <a href="http://www.chrisbraincoaching.com/" target="_blank">Chris Brain</a>. We discussed what we wanted to achieve out of our
trip and he let us know what kind of ideas he had for us as well. We unpacked
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roll tube effect*. Night times in St Pierre were comfortably warm, you could
sleep happily in shorts and your sleeping bag unzipped, so it was a shock at L’argentiere
when I woke up at 3am shivering. The warmest item of clothing I took with me
was a hoodie and a onesie. Big regrets. During my packing fiasco, I was talked
out of taking a blanket with me. Never have I wanted an extra blanket so much
in my life! I’ve been camping in February and I don’t remember being as cold as
I was at L’argentiere. The daytime temperature was glorious though, we couldn’t
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which is pretty daunting at first. The length of the river was a downside for
me as I’m currently recovering from a back injury, the motion of paddling is
quite painful so a long continuous paddle wasn’t the best. Which I’m really sad
about because if I’d have been fit and well I’d have really enjoyed all of the
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upper durance and the upper Guisane. I swam (kayaking terms for ‘falling in’) on
the upper durance and it was pretty scary! Nothing bad could’ve happened to me
because we had lots of people there to help get me and my kit, but the shock of
the cold water and the pace that the water moves at makes it feel like you’re
going to get washed away, and knowing that there’s a massive dam just around
the corner doesn’t help! It was only on the last section of the river that I swam,
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rescue course run by Chris. Bits of this were done on the river and others on
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out and wait for the others to make their way down the river, which was
lovely!! Everywhere was SO picturesque. (Everywhere also kinda looked a bit
like those yogurt adverts you see on the TV with kids playing and old dusty
buildings.) The days were split up in such a way that easier rivers were done
in the morning and harder rivers in the afternoon so there’d usually be quite a
few of us not paddling whilst the more advanced kayakers went off to do
something scary. This meant we usually had a few hours to kill every day… queue
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We parked up on the carpark and a few of us decided to go and run up the first patch of ice we could see. In the excitement of it all, we left everything in the minibus, coats, water, food, everything. The 'adults' left us on the ice and started the walk towards the glacier, so we climbed down as quickly as we could and followed them. The walk up the mountain was not what i expected for a rest day. I use the term walk <i>very </i>lightly. It was a trek. The adults were already pretty far up the mountain so the pressure was on for the rest of us to catch up. Now i am not an intrepid explorer. I'm also not the fastest walker, nor am i the fittest. There was no way on earth i could catch up to them! On the way up we walked past multiple groups of french school children, i had to wonder how their teachers were going to get 30 children up the mountain when i could barely string a sentence together after 15 minutes, but they stayed pretty close to the bottom... lucky them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That night, i planned to put my tent down. The rain had caused a massive puddle to form in my tent because i couldn't peg it out properly and the inner was touching the outer and it all dribbled in and it was just a straight out disaster. I moved all of my sleeping stuff into my Joes tent and moved the rest of my stuff into the middle of my tent, so that it didn't mater when the inevitable moat formed around the edge of the bedroom. The airbed that i lent to joe for his trip had gone flat on his first night, so we both had to squeeze onto a single airbed. Now i know how Rose felt in the titanic... it's a lot easier to just be a little bit of a bitch and kick your guy onto the floor (or icy cold water in the case of the titanic). We did attempt to stay on the airbed together for as long as possible, credit where credits due, but when you're in a badly done makeshift double sleeping bag (2 singles halfed zipped together) and you have one leg at iminent risk of frostbite on the floor trying to keep the balance so you don't roll straight off the bed, you've just got to accept your inner princess and let him sleep on the floor. It's hard to feel bad when you're starfishing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The festive season is fast approaching and the air is getting that winter chill, which means there's no possible better time to make some spicy festive muffins!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made these muffins just before Halloween and they went down so well, I thought I'd share the recipe with you. Ideally i would have had this blog post up before Halloween, but with university work and other commitments, it's a bit later than planned! However these muffins aren't just for Halloween so there's still plenty of time to enjoy them throughout the festive season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I first came across using mayonnaise in a muffin recipe whilst searching how to get that moist texture that all shop bought muffins have, which is something i'd never been able to achieve until now. The mayonnaise is a normally substitute for eggs and fat (sometimes additional eggs may need to be used). If you use a low fat mayonnaise, it significantly reduces the fat content of the muffins which can only be a good thing because now you can eat 7 and not feel quite as bad!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The spices used in the muffins can be completely tailored to your preferences, so they're really really adaptable. The pumpkin purée can be made at home using cooking pumpkin and a bender, or bought in a can from most supermarkets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;">1½ cups of all purpose/plain flour </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">½ a cup of light brown sugar</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">½ tsp of salt</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">¼ tsp of ground cloves</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">¼ tsp nutmeg</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">¾ tsp of cinnamon</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;">1 tsp of baking soda</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;">½ tsp of baking powder</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;">1 cup of pumpkin puree (make sure this is NOT pumpkin pie filling)</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">½ a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">cup of mayonnaise</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I, like many others, am heading off university in the very near future. And also like many others, I have opted for university accommodation to be my new home for the year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I'm rather lucky, as the university of my choice is only a 20 minute drive away... which means </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) I don't have far to take my dirty washing (Thank you mum!).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And 2) if I feel homesick, its really not very far at all to go home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know for a lot of people this isn't the case and some of you are even travelling not only across the country, but across the world too (I really admire you.. you're a lot braver than i am!). But no matter where you're going, this is a daunting time in every-ones lives. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean, do you know how an iron works? I for one, certainly do not! i really probably should know by now, considering there's less than a week before i move in, but hey, i cant be the only one! (right?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm a creature of habit, I really don't like change. So to help calm my nerves and set my mind at ease, my mum and I took on a mission. A mission to make my new room absolutely perfect. So i have my own tranquil little space containing little things that are special to me. We've not quite finished yet, but we sure are on the right tracks! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first step was to chose a theme. I opted for a sparkly gold, black, and white theme for my bathroom (the bathrooms white already so I'm kind of stuck with that!), and a metallic theme for my bedroom... which is great as I can go as copper, gold, and rose gold crazy as I like!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm going to start this haul with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bits and pieces for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my bathroom (click the image to link to where you can buy them):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now i know that a toilet seat is already provided, but who doesn't want to feel like a princess whilst they're peeing... its certainly not me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This toilet seat was £20 from Asda and i'm in LOVE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These gold little beauties are also from Asda, George home are really excelling! it was actually the soap dispenser that started my raging love for a gold glitter themed bathroom... i bought the dispenser first, and of course everything had to match! The toothbrush holders were £5, the toilet brush holder was £9 and the soap dispenser was £8.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've decided that i want a fresh and fruity fragrance for my room for the warmer months, and then for winter i'll swap to the more floral scents. Both of these are deliciously scented, the pink soap smells like Fanta fruit twist and the yellow soap smells really fresh, and almost fruity too. They were both £3.99 from Homesense, they're in TK Maxx too for the same price.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know i've gone overboard here, but who wants a normal shower curtain when you could have a black sparkly one? With that ever needed anti fungal finish... does yours have an anti fungal finish? does it? no, i didn't think so.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was £30 from Next, it's quite pricey considering im provided with one, but i really liked it and i think it will change the whole feel of my bathroom into a more classy affair. (sorry fungus, you're not welcome)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These 2 boxes fit perfectly with my theme and look ever so stylish with their mirrored exterior, velvet interior, and gold glittery stripes (no anti fungal finish though... i'll have to complain). I bought the 2 as i didn't know which size would be best and they were the last 2 so i felt compelled to get them both (my mum got the last silver one too.. woops). These will be perfect for storing all my little bits and bobs, and whichever one i don't use in the bathroom can be used in my bedroom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These soap dispensers were on sale in asda for £1.25 each reduced from their normal price of £5, so i bought 2 with no real reasoning... Until i realised that i could turn them into cute little shampoo and conditioner dispensers. I just added the S and the C with some gold permanent marker and filled them with shampoo and conditioner. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really like this idea as it means everything is going to look a lot more organised and maybe even fool people into thinking that i have my life together </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"how does she do it" </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(okay thats not going to happen in real life, but that's what i envisage) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This large bag was £15 from Next. It's absolutely huge. So huge, I can fit into it (i'm really quite big). It's probably too big for weekly trips back and forth so i'll probably save it for holidays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keeping with the gold theme, i picked up this gold desk fan from tesco for £15. I have 2 temperature settings, too hot or too cold, so a fan is essential... along with a heated blanket.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a little bit of a story behind why i had to have this little canvas. It's caught my eye everytime i've seen it in store... but could i remember what store!? I was adamant it was in next, we had all the staff pondering over this canvas, searching old catalogues, looking at old display pictures and ringing countless other stores... only to find out it was actually from tesco (£6) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another absolute essential for feeling cosy is, in my opinion, fairy lights. They make any room feel just that little bit more homely. I've been searching for affordable fairy lights for a while now, the only ones i could find were battery powered, which i didn't want. Then i found these, £3.99 from home bargains. They plug into the wall and have a 5m long wire, i was so impressed i had to buy 2.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mum got it from Currys but im not sure on how much she paid as it was a birthday present but its £199 at the moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This bag was £16 from tesco. I think it'll be perfect for packing my things in when i come home for the weekends. It's a really good size and i love the pattern.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This little box might just be my favourite. I can imagine it open on my shelves with either a blanket in it, or a pile of books/magazines. It's covered in cute little sayings and has such a sophisticated vintage vibe. It was £9.99 from Homesense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think i bought this again for the sole purpose of making people believe i have my life together. i don't know how many letters i expect to be getting, but i suppose it could be a nice place to pile all of my scrap paper i can't be bothered to put in the bin! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These pen holders were on sale at £1.25 in Dunelm, so again i had to get 2 (are you sensing a pattern?).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't have a picture of this blanket as it's under lock and key so i don't get it dirty before i go (white dogs and dark blankets are a fatal combination).I saw it on the display bed in Debenhams and LOVED it. We couldn't find it on the shelves so we asked someone who worked there, and she said it was their only one and we could have it for 20% off. Originally it was £120 (ouch), but we got it for £96, which is still mega pricey for a blanket, but it's so gorgeously soft. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every student room needs a kettle, mine just so happens to be copper and i love it.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We got this for £15 from Asda. Perfect for midnight pot noodles!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think this is going to come in so useful for either flat parties or just to keep in my room for if i can't be bothered to go to the kitchen to get a drink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They're supposedly brass, but i think they're more of a rose gold/copper. They're still absolutely gorgeous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These chopping boards are a lot like the Joseph & Joseph ones, but these are less than half the price. at £10 from Wilkinsons, you'd be mad not to buy them! They're separated into 4 chopping boards, one for raw meat, cooked meat, fish, and fruit and veg. I think this will also give the impression that i have my life together... hopefully!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These utensils were found in Dunelm for £2.99 each. I had to have these, as the ends are soft silicone which means they wont scratch my pans. However with most soft silicon utentils, they're quite flexible. These on the other hand are quite rigid which is exactly what i was looking for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even still, they'll be really good for drying my hands. They're £9.50 from M&S.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plastic cutlery and paper plates are an amazing idea for university. Can't be bothered to wash up? that's okay! just recycle them. I'm a very lazy person, so this will save me a lot of effort! they're only cheap and you can get them from anywhere, i really think it's worth getting a few if you too are uni bound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So! there you have it, a run down of all the things i've bought for university so far!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still have quite a bit to get, such as stationery and paper, but i think i'm well on my way to making my room feel as homely and welcoming as possible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As always, thankyou for reading and i'll be back soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P.s. let me know what your room essentials are in the comments, i'd be really interested to know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently, i've been Pizza obsessed! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've made my own before, and since its so so easy, I thought i'd give it another go and share my tips and tricks with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first, most important thing about pizza is the base. Without a good base, your pizza isn't going to turn out how you imagine (trust me, i've failed more times than i've succeeded!). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pizza recipe i'm going to share with you works best as a thin and crispy New York style pizza, it bakes nice and crispy underneath too... so no soggy bottoms!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the Pizza base, you will need:</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">600 g of strong white flour.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">350ml of warm water</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(I used my stand mixer with the dough hook attachment to make my dough, if you have one of these, great! If not, get ready for a workout!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gradually pour the yeasty water into the dough and either stir with your hands, or mix on a slow speed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Once the mixture comes together into a dough kneed on a medium speed (or with your hands) for 10 minutes. The dough should become almost silky and elastic like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take the dough out of the mixer and form as many balls as you want pizzas and tuck the sides of the balls underneath to form a smooth top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dust balls of dough in flour and place on a floured plate and cover with an excess of cling film to allow the dough enough room to rise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Place in the fridge for 24 hours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day, take your dough out of the fridge and turn out onto a floured surface.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Press along the perimeter using your fingers to form a crust</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turn your dough over and start to stretch it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use these videos to help</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now it's time to channel your inner Italian... It's time to toss the dough!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can learn the art <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Qc3KR6XVQ" target="_blank">here</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once you've got your pizza base sorted, it's time for the best bit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made 3 pizzas from this recipe:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Breakfast Pizza</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chicken & Nacho Pizza</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Garlic Bread Pizza</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll run through each step by step .</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baked Beans</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sausage (Pre-cooked and sliced)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, preheat your oven to 180 degrees with a pizza stone (or upturned baking tray) in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, you're going to need to spread your pizza sauce onto your base. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Your sauce can be made at home by simmering some tinned chopped tomatoes with some garlic, Italian spice mix & oregano (along with salt and pepper).</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bake on greaseproof paper ontop of your pizza stone or upturned baking tray for around 17 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baking it in this peculiar manner ensures you get that perfect crispy base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(To make garlic butter i mixed butter and pre-chopped garlic, it's really that simple!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My 3 easy pizza recipes which are sure to amaze whoever gets the pleasure of eating them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p.s. If you try any of these recipes, please use the hashtag 'lialikestobake' & tag me in the comments</span></div>
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lialikestobakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04845132396311215860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74706891471066992.post-61852193693371186872015-07-19T09:27:00.003-07:002015-07-19T09:27:37.867-07:00My College Experience<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, so i recently finished my college education (College in the UK is for ages 16-19) (If you're not from the UK or not familiar with the British education system, i'm sure google can explain it better than i can!) and i thought i'd share some of the things i've learnt throughout the duration of my time in college. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before i started, i had a few assumptions/expectations about college life...</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There would be a lot of parties.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would continue to find my studies as easy as High School made them out to be.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd find and fit into a new group of friends.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would keep up to date with all revision, tests and homework assignments.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That i would stay close with my High School friends.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me tell you now... none of this came true</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now i can't speak for everybody, but for me, college was a very challenging experience. To go from being one of the High Achievers in High School, to barely maintaining an average grade higher than a D was a bit of a shock to the system! On top of that, as our local college is deemed to be inferior to many other colleges by my parents, I was sent to a college not only further away, but on my own too. leaving all my friends and boyfriend behind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the induction period had finished, I struggled to keep on top of work and the high intensity of lessons overpowered me and i was left feeling worthless and quite frankly down right stupid. Everyone else seemed to be coping just fine and i was left dragging behind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I kept quiet from my parents how much i was struggling as i didn't want them to get involved. i was scared that they'd think the reason i was doing so badly was down to not putting in enough effort. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a really bad idea as it just kept building and building until eventually i ended up in a really bad place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mum helped me a lot and spoke to the college. They offered me time to speak with college councillors and see if that helped. It didn't. They gave me the option of dropping out of the year and starting fresh the next year, but i turned that offer down (I was already hating college more than i ever thought was possible and exams were getting close so there was no point enduring an extra year than what's necessary!) so </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ended up having intensive revision sessions will all my tutors, trying to pull me back up to where i was supposed to be (I also started baking a bit more and went to a little class in my town, it really helped me relax and de-stress)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nearly everyone i spoke to after my first year told me that the second year is better and it all sinks in and fits together perfectly and becomes ten times easier and so on and so on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was true to an extent, i did feel better. I felt like the things i struggled with the year before now seemed to be coming as a second nature, but it was still incredibly difficult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't think anything can prepare you for the jump from High School to College. It is very underated! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>College is the hardest step. Nothing in the rest of your time in education will ever be as challenging or demanding as college. Once this is done, you'll be able to deal with anything you're asked to do. This is preparation for the real world.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really hope she's right! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm going to finish with my tips on surviving college with your sanity intact!:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>People change</b>, it's okay to grow out of friendships.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Don't try to be someone you're not to try and fit in.</b> If they're your friends, they'll love you as you are.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>START REVISING EARLY</b>... I can't stress this enough.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you're struggling with anything, tell someone.</b> It can change the outcome of your life.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Get involved with things and projects to help others</b> (i ended up painting a school in Africa!).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Don't forget to do things you enjoy in-between studying.</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It's not the end of the world</b>, there are always other options if college isn't your thing.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thankyou for reading and i hope you can gain something useful from my experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Studying!</span></div>
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lialikestobakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04845132396311215860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74706891471066992.post-56462870803139309802015-04-17T09:08:00.001-07:002015-10-27T12:33:50.172-07:00The BEST EVER cookies!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you ever get cravings for the fine combination of crunchy biscuit and the chewy centre of freshly bake cookies? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know i most definitely do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This recipe came about after a sudden craving for cookies at 2am, and in my desperate blurry eyed cookie wanting state, i trawled the internet for the perfect recipe... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found many, but none of them had that 'wow' factor that i was so desperately after, so i made one up using my previous cookie making memories and safe to say, they turned out AMAZING!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't bake these at 2am, I waited until early the next morning so me and my boyfriend could bake them together so they were fresh for a maths revision session we were going to later that day. We made around 20 and they all were gobbled up so quickly, I wish we had made a couple more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These cookies are a perfect quick snack to bake with family, friends, or on your own (i prefer baking on my own as demonstrated in one of my earlier blog posts <a href="http://lialikestobake.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/my-bakes-so-far.html" target="_blank">here</a>...).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dough will keep frozen in preprepared balls for up to a year, meaning there's no excuse not to have something quick and delicious to serve up to unexpected guests or take to last minute family events. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This cake was my first relatively large scale paid cake. I was asked to make this for one of my mums friends sons birthday (that was a bit of a mouthful!) , as he was going to be visiting the track soon after his birthday. After scouring the internet and pinterest for inspiration, i drafted up my cake. I knew i most definitely had to use the skittles as people in the stands, but all the other cakes i had seen had the cake carved in the middle to raise the stands up to a higher level. I didn't want to do that, as i haven't practised my carving skills! So i had to do a bit of thinking! in the end, i improvised quite a bit! but i don't think it turned out too shabby!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used my never failing simple vanilla sponge recipe. I used 350g of flour butter and sugar and 4 eggs for each cake (2 12" circle & 2 square). Each cake took around 45 minute to an hour to bake. My oven is so temperamental because the cakes were cooking so unevenly... i think i need to invest in some even bake strips. I managed to prevent the second batch of cakes browning too much by using a tin foil 'lid'. Once they'd baked and cooled, i trimmed off the over-browned bits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I knew the edges at the bottom were messy, but that didn't really matter, i already had planned on hiding that bit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After covering with fondant, i had to tackle the seating stands. Originally i had planned to sculpt it out of a thick cake pop style mixture (cake crumbs with buttercream) however it didn't look like it was going to work, so i aborted that idea and moved onto plan B! This worked a lot better! i rolled a long sausage type shape out of white fondant, i then covered it with black fondant and placed along the outer edge of the cake, securing it with cocktail sticks. I also rolled a thinner sausage out of black fondant and placed that about 2 inches into the centre of the cake (pictures explain this better!!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had hoped that this would give it a nice random 'busy' assortment.. I was wrong. I had to hand scoop out the skittles and place them in uniform order with no 2 of the same colours touching. I think it worked out for the better!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After that, I cut out a large oval. Out of that oval, I cut a smaller oval and placed the now donut looking shape onto the cake, this was now the track!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My next step was the grass! I bought the Wilton grass nozzle from hobby craft especially for this cake not really expecting it to work too well but hopeful it would look okay... I LOVE this thing! It's so so cool and I really want to experiment further with it. To do the grass, I made some grass green butter cream (obviously) and 2 thirds filled my piping bag with the nozzle preinserted. I did a few practice pipes on a sheet of acetate and then piped onto the cake. It works by gently pressing the nozzle to the cake whilst gently squeezing the bag, whilst still squeezing you lift up on off the cake leaving little grass like strands in its path! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can do as many layers as you like for that overgrown meadow effect, it also doesn't matter if you mess up, just wipe it of or go over it again! It's such an easy yet effective decoration method.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After filling in the centre oval, I went ahead and piped on the white markings on the road. For this I used a premixed royal icing mix in white and just piped little lines about a cm long and a cm apart to add to the effect of the road. I also added a black and white checkerboard to the start line. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After this, I cut out some squares using a paper template I'd created for my cakes dimensions. I cut them out and stuck them on in checkerboard effect. You can do as many rows as you choose, however I only did 2. I had some difficulty with the widths and heights at some points, however it all worked out okay in the end. When the checkerboard was done, I neatened up the bottom edges with some more grass! I love the effect this gave. Almost like the cake was rising out from the ground! I think it looked really cool whilst also hiding the messy bits I didn't want people to see! I think that's a crucial tip to making great cakes.. You're bound to make mistakes and things won't turn out perfect first time, but never ever stick precisely to your plan. Alter your ideas to cover those little imperfections! Everything can be fixed with a little bit of imagination and extra detail, just like my grass!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then moved onto my models. I made 3 race cars: red, blue and yellow. They were made very simply and you can easily see the components needed from the picture, however if you need more information, feel free to ask! I placed 2 cars onto the track and cut the front off of the yellow car and placed it in the middle of a fondant tyre pile (black fondant donut shapes).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Christmas, I completely overdosed in a delightful, little, sweet smelling store that delights all of your senses and brings an overwhelming feel of power and femininity to your life as soon as you leave the shop heavily laden with items galore. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Go hard or go home i told myself.. so I did. I went very hard indeed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ransacked the entire Christmas selection of bath and beauty products leaving very little behind in my path of bank balance destruction. Some where presents... most were self indulgent. I cant be to blame though, I mean.. have you ever been in there?! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love reading and watching other peoples lush purchases, I hope you do too!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know this is the stereo typical 'girl blogger' post that so many have done before and millions will do in the future, however i'm so pleased and excited with my products, i'm going to share them anyway! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of these products were bought in the '50% off' boxing day sales as I'm not rolling in cash and i'm very reluctant to pay full price for anything! However, a few were bought full price before Christmas as presents and some more i received as Christmas presents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first things i bought were before Christmas as presents for my mum, i don't know about you, but i think parents are the hardest people to buy for! My dad? He settles for chocolate 9 times out of 10 as it's not practical for me to buy him the canoe of his dreams, so.. a toblerone it is! If you're not from the UK, i'll put a link <a href="http://www.toblerone.co.uk/" target="_blank">here</a>.. Incase you're wondering what I'm chatting on about. As far as i'm aware, toblerones are the go to presents for fathers, nearly all of my friends purchased the golden triangular mountain range of chocolate for their dads this year, I'm not the only one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For my mum however, it's not so straight forward.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Lush makes it so much easier to please her Christmas</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> day! No longer do I have to listen for hints months in advance! I'm always certain to find something she likes there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought her 4 bath bombs and a soap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the best scented bath bomb lush do, in my opinion anyway! It's so so fresh and clean smelling. I think it smells like freshly cut apples, that's probably why it's a pun on Snow White? Maybe? I don't know, I don't really mind! I'm just glad they brought it out because it is absolutely lovely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The citrusy scent of this bath bomb and the hints of colour are the first thing that made me want to buy this bath bomb. Curiousity got the better of me and I bought it! I can't wait to see what colours this turns the bath! Me and my mum both got one of these for Christmas. My boyfriend bought one for me and I'm glad he did! This one is high up on my most anticipated bath. Exciting!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've seen pictures of how this bath bomb looks in the bath and let me tell you this.. If you've ever looked into space and wondered what it looks like so far up in the sky, drop this in your bath and it'll give you a rough idea. I'll definitely be treating myself to this for Christmas next year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mum is a lover of all things lemon, so the citrusy scent and bright colours of this soap are a perfect match to her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd wanted so many of these products in the run up to Christmas but I'm so glad I waited! All of the Christmas stock was on sale at half price, which on the whole can save quite a lot of money! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This smells amazing! So I bought two! It lasts for around 6 baths which is great for a lush product. You think it'll violently fizz up really quickly until there's nothing left, however quite the opposite happens. I wasn't even sure if it was working at first.. Until the bubbles appeared!! It's a little difficult to dry off though as it drips quite a bit and when I put it back into my lush bucket, the water dropping off it started reacting with the other bathbombs (probably not my greatest idea).. However it makes your skin really soft and sweet smelling. I'm not a fan of sweet scented things, I'm more of a fruity girl, but the snow fairy scent really mellows in the bath and is actually really nice! I'm glad I bought 2!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This bath bomb sends your bath into a beautiful purple/pink spa! It smells lovely too, I'm not sure what the actual scent is, possibly lavender? I'm not sure. I recently used this in the bath and to be completely honest, I expected a little more. It was slow to react and didn't really feel all that great, kind of slimy. I also resembled some sort of shrimp when I got out of the bath. It's definitely a very strong pink colour. It was alright on the grand scale of things but I won't be buying again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i LOVE this bath bomb. The water turns a bright green, almost radioactive looking colour and smells amazing. The citrus theme continues with this bath bomb, so fresh and invigorating. Definitely a favourite.</span><br />
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I love the scent of this cute little bear! It's super good for the skin and leaves it soft, silky and smelling of cake! What could be better?</div>
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I first made these cookies with my mum when i was around 3/4 and I've loved them ever since. I hadn't made any in a while and my friends were coming up to see us from Brighton so I decided to crack out the recipe and make them again. They loved them, from 40 cookies to 4 left in an hour, it's safe to say I think they enjoyed them!<br />
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<li style="text-align: left;">half a teaspoon of baking powder</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">half a teaspoon of salt</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">220g butter</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">2 egg yolks</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;">2 teaspoons of lemon extract</li>
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Just a quick(ish) little recipe to try over the Christmas holiday, </div>
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I came up (it's probably out there officially somewhere) with this recipe late last Friday night, whilst home alone with nothing to do except bake and watch Elf. My parents were out so I had the kitchen (and all its ingredients) to myself! So I went just a little bit wild on the lemon... </div>
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These cupcakes have a soft lemon sponge cake and a tarty lemon icing. They're perfect with just about anything! They proved a hit with family and friends so I thought I'd share the recipe!<br />
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<li>250g Self raising Flour </li>
<li>250g Butter </li>
<li>4 eggs </li>
<li>The find of 1 lemon </li>
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Display however you fancy, I opted for this pretty little glass cake stand, but a plate works just fine! </div>
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I've never actually made these biscuits before, I'd describe them as very festive tasting and also very fun to make as well as eat! They take around an hour to make ( including chilling, cooking, cooling and decoration) but are super super simple!<br />
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lialikestobakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04845132396311215860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74706891471066992.post-5112936509269928312014-11-18T13:46:00.002-08:002015-01-23T16:02:19.030-08:00Ideal Home Show Haul Manchester 16-11-14<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Sunday, I ventured to the Ideal Home show In Manchester, and let me tell you, it was amazing! Never have I been surrounded by so many bargains!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mum bought me last seasons suitcase and it was the best gift i've ever received, it's changed the way i do my nails forever! I'v always been very passionate at nail art but have never been all that good at it. This kit changed that, not a day goes by anymore where i dont get complimented on my nails, honestly, it's amazing... So i bought another one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This case contains many new features which i just couldn't resist! The case is rather pricey, verging on £200... But you know me.. i never pay more than i have to! In the show promotion this case was £165, a little bit of bargaining & bartering and the use of my NUS card later, the price dropped to £135. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">silver and gold nail foil to create show stopping designs, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what I can only describe as sparkly nail sellotape to create intricate patterns and lines,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 more Special MoYou nail varnishes (the other case contains 15, I also got to choose my colours but when bout from the website it contains one of each)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A dotting tool & brush along with the nail file, buffer and cuticle tool </span></li>
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lialikestobakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04845132396311215860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74706891471066992.post-6254212815642595512014-11-08T12:30:00.000-08:002014-11-08T12:30:00.595-08:00Christmas Ginger Biscuits!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I LOVE these cookies! They taste lovely and are perfect with a hot drink in front of the fire on a cold day. They're super easy to make and even easier to eat. The orange gives them a mild citrus flavour which is followed by the warmth of the ginger. I really like them and I hope other people do too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This recipe makes around 30 small cookies or 16 larger ones. The large ones spread significantly in the oven, the small ones not so much, I prefer the smaller ones.<strike> You don't have to go through as much pain sharing a small one </strike></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">125g/4.5oz - Unsalted Butter (plus extra for greasing)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">350g/12oz - Self Raising Flour (Sieved)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">200g/7oz - Caster Sugar (granulated works fine too)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 table spoon - Ground Ginger</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 tea spoon - Bicarbonate of Soda</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">75g/2.5 oz - Golden Syrup</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Preheat the oven to 160<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">°</span>c/325<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">°</span>f /gas mark 3. </span><div>
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lialikestobakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04845132396311215860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74706891471066992.post-71459860825287114622014-10-28T02:15:00.003-07:002014-11-11T14:17:50.011-08:00My Bakes So FarI'm not starting this post with the intention of finishing it today, but if i do that's a bonus!<br />
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Im currently getting ready to go to an awards ceremony for my undercover work that i do with the police but i'm waiting for my curls to set so i thought I'd take some time to show you my previous bakes.<br />
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<b>Cake No. 1</b><br />
i made this cake at a decorating class i attended back in April. I have made many cakes prior to this, but these are the ones worthy of photography!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bit shabby, but for my first attempt at piping... I'm pretty proud!</td></tr>
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It's a vanilla sponge, covered in fondant then decorations piped with royal icing and to say the least, it was tricky!<br />
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<b>Cake No.2</b></div>
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This cake was a complete disaster which shall only be known as "The collapse of the castle". </div>
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I don't know if I'm the only one, but when I bake with somebody else, any skill I ever had flies straight out of the window and becomes little more than a handicap. That's what happened with that cake. I had great intentions for this cake to be the best cake I've ever made... it wasn't. It wasn't even worthy of being called a cake. We used a castle mould and baked for far too short a time. When it emerged from the oven all looked well... the top was springy and a cake tester came out clean... from the centre. After turning it out onto the counter we saw what could only be described as a self formed moat form around the cake due to the corners of the cake still being liquid. I don't know what went wrong, all I can put it down to is that baking should not be done in pairs!. #<strike>Antisocialbakersunite</strike>. Then to top off the 'cake', and simply to accentuate the natural disaster that had occurred, we covered it in bright yellow icing and made a 'sea' from chocolate butter cream that had been turned a funny shade of Algae with the excesses amounts of food colouring used to try and get rid of the brown. </div>
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<b>Cake No.3</b><br />
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No sooner had my accomplice in disaster cake gone home, I started preparation for my next cake. 5pm, and already downhearted from the previous disaster, I didn't have high hopes for this cake. My boyfriend had been away for 2 weeks so i wanted to welcome him home with a cake. </div>
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I made the batter and set it off to bake. An hour later I had 2 perfectly formed cakes cooling their little socks off waiting for me to assemble what I can only describe as my best creation to date.</div>
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Covering the cake was eventful! After getting the fondant over the top, I discovered a huge tear up the side. 16 Carnations and 4 hours later, the rip is no more. Each flower takes around 10 minutes to perfect. If you're interested in how to make these, and anything else you see, let me know and I may make a tutorial post.<br />
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The scale model of my boyfriend.. okay not to scale.. but I am rather impressed with him, was my first attempt at a human figure and I think he turned out pretty well. </div>
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I threw this cake together pretty quickly, hence the lack of skill. Disaster cake accomplice was going through a bit a rough time so I thought I'd cheer her up with a cake.</div>
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Recently I made a cake for my dads friends daughters hen night. She didn't give me much of a briefing. So besides pink, purple and girly, I didn't have much to go off. I managed to put this together in between college and homework.</div>
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<b>Cake No. 6</b></div>
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This cake was supposed to be Oreo shaped, however the mould didn't work again... (see a bit of a pattern occurring here?) </div>
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I made it just for fun and ended up giving it to my friend for his birthday! The sand is coloured sugar <strike>skillfully</strike> made by my boyfriend. I don't quite know how it turned from an Oreo to an ocean but im glad it did. </div>
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<b>My first wedding peice!!!</b></div>
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My boyfriends sister got married in June and I was asked to make the Bride and Groom figures for the cake!! This was nerve wrecking as not only would it be other people seeing my figures, they'd be part of their wedding memories forever and I really did not want to mess this up!</div>
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I'm really proud how she turned out. Again i made her with minimal briefing. Having only met her once before (when she was blond) and most of her Facebook picture with her hair blond... I did her hair blond. On the day her hair wasn't blond... Woops. </div>
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I'm really pleased with them and how they looked on the cake. Even if the grooms arm fell off in the heat of the car. </div>
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Its now Tuesday morning.. nearly a week after i started this post and i've got a driving lesson to get ready for!I Hope you've enjoyed this little update on my baking so far! And I hope to keep you updated on my future baking endeavours</div>
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<b>Lia </b></div>
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<b>xoxoxox</b></div>
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<b>The awards evening went so so well! Here are a few pictures </b></div>
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lialikestobakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04845132396311215860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74706891471066992.post-60600720631753234592014-10-21T04:34:00.001-07:002014-10-21T04:40:33.681-07:00First Proper Big Girls Blog!Good Morning, Good Evening, Good Afternoon..<div><br><div>I'm saying that because I'm not too sure when this post is going to go out.</div><div>I'm in the middle of a rather hectic bedroom move around, I say hectic... If you count a kingsize bed arriving to your house at 7am when your half dressed and have to answer the door to two delivery guys who then promptly want to escort you up the stairs with a cardboard box the size of a wendy house only to find there's then nowhere for it to actually fit, then yes, this is all rather hectic! </div><div>This probably wasn't one of the greatest times to start a blog, with little time on my hands, I barely get my college work done, God knows how I'm going to keep this up! I can but try. </div><div>I've been on tumblr for nearly 3 years now, I don't see it as proper blogging.. More of a baby step into blogging. I think my time on there has run its course and it's now time to grow up and move onto<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> big girls blogging. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">I created this blog with the idea of moulding myself into a more productive and organised person, so here's some things I'd like to get sorted within the next week or so:</font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">-My UCAS form... Here in the uk we apply to university with a little badly organised website called ucas (I'm not too sure what it stands for). My college is the most pushy college in the existence of the planet and has set the deadline for 100% completion of the form and personal statement by the 4th of November and so far I've procrastinated my way through hoping it'll sort itself out. I'm coming to realise that it won't. </font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">-My bedroom... This, I think, is going to have to be a work in progress. Due to a significant lack of money and Christmas coming up, I don't have the means to create the bedroom I wish for. After splashing the majority of my money on a new bed, I've got next to nothing left. I'm not sure if I like the idea of a work in progress, I rarely ever finish anything so I'd hate for this to become one of the many forgotten projects. However It could also keep me focused on improving my surroundings and be my own little labour of love. I'm really excited!</font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div>-Driving... After starting my driving lessons 2 weeks ago, I've suddenly come to realise that driving takes a lot of effort and If I want to pass my test I really need to focus on revising for my theory. So that's what I'm going to do. I've downloaded<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> the official app so hopefully I can inspire myself to do just a bit more revision!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">That's it for now I think, I might add more later if anything else springs to mind but those are my main focuses for this week and half term. </font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">I'm not sure if anybody is going to read this but if you did, thank you. </font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">Lia xoxo</font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>lialikestobakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04845132396311215860noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74706891471066992.post-86376391473537305072014-10-19T10:13:00.001-07:002014-10-19T14:16:22.698-07:00Im new hereHi <div>
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I'm not really too sure what I want to do with this blog, I've been intending to create one for a while, I woke up this morning and decided today is the day. I've had tumblr for a while now and have a healthy amount of followers but I feel like its not really too personal. That's what I hope for this to be. Not only for you to get an insight into my life but for me to have something personal which I can look back over when I'm old and incontinent :')</div>
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