Hooked!

Pinterest has got into my blood, I love the website and cant stay off it. Everyday I'm on there looking through all the cute and brilliant ideas. Here's a small portion of the ones I've liked. I'm still waiting to get my own page, then I will be let loose.

Christmassy idea's:

 I would love to have a big doorway like this, I don't think I'd decorate it quite like this there's a bit too much going on for me.  I have a few ideas of what I'd do though.

 I've never seen anything like this, and I love it, I would put a big letter in the middle too of my surname.

                                    How cute!!

My friend Amy is throwing a big Christmas night for a big group of us girls next week so I think I'm going to bake some goodies to take, I'm stuck between these two idea's.

I would love a photo wall like this in my house, and I think going up the stairs is a perfect place too.

 How cute is this hair style, I'm defiantly going to give this one a try. There are so many other good hairstyles on the website.

 This made me laugh so hard, and it's probably so true for me.

 I'm a sucker for a good cheesy quote, and think I would have a hard time trying to pick a few to maybe put up in the house . I also love funny ones, safe to say this made me giggle for a while .

 OH MY GOODNESS, these are beautiful. I've never been that keen on lace before but I think these are stunning! I blame Kate Middleton and her gorgeous wedding dress.

 I thought these were so different. I've seen plain letters before, but these yarn ones are lush. I don't know where I'd put them or what letters/word I would want. But who knows in the future.

Hahaha, how funny!

Flossy x

Mars Bar Cakes

Oh my goodness, I have found the yummiest cakes.

A few years ago I tried a mars bar cake in a local shop and completely forgot about it, until a few weeks ago when I saw one in a cute bakery in North Wales. They are the easiest thing to make too, no baking involved. But as your making them you realise just how much junk is going into them. It's all worth it when your eating them though.

You'll need:

3 Mars Bars
75g Margarine
3 tablespoons of Golden Syrup
225g Rice Krispies
1 large plain chocolate bar........ see told you they were healthy!

Preperation

Cut up the mars bars and then melt them, the syrup and the margarine in a large pan.
Add the rice krispies slowly, and mix thoroughly.
Pour the mixture into a fairly deep square baking tray, press the mixture flat then place in the firidge or 20 minutes.
Melt the large chocolate bar and cover the rice krispies, place back in the fridge for approximetly an hour or until the chocolate is hard.

You might want to leave it sit on the work surface for a while before attempting to cut it or you  might get a bent knife like I did.

Enjoy :)

Flossy x

Drip Drip Drop Little April Shower

Where did all this rain and wind come from!!

The UK has had a storm today, in some parts of Scotland the wind reached up to 165mph. Now that would give you a bad hair day!
This morning I woke up and it was raining and now I'm about to go to sleep and guess what it's still raining! The furthest I've gone out of the house today was to go to the garage . At least the heating in our house has fixed otherwise it would have been a very cold and miserable day. But just as one thing gets fixed another thing breaks right. Today our conservatory started to leak, and not just a little leak either, I had to mop up the floor there was a massive puddle . So I quickly scrambled a tonne of towels and bowls and did a little comedic style watch for the drips to place the bowls.

It got worse.

Seen as I have an exam on Monday I should have been hard revising, and even though I did do quite a lot today I still got distracted. Yesterday Mike told me about this website called Pinterest. I am in love!! It is so good, you should all check it out. Its full of crafty, cute, fashion, wedding, cooking and house ideas. People 'pin' all their ideas and share them with people . Its such a cute website. Yesterday I bookmarked about 20 pages. I've applied to get my own page so I can keep hold of idea's I love and defiantly will try. I would love to be more artsy and creative, but I guess the only way you'll learn is by trying.

Heres the website, have a look, BE WARNED... it is adictive!
                          http://pinterest.com/

Best thing about when it's raining is lying in bed and listening to it against your windows and making it even better is the fact I have freshly cleaned bed sheets.. Someone's going to sleep well tonight :)


Flossy x

Not a Happy Chappy

Today was the day of the year my cat(Alex) absolutely hates.. the dreaded vet check up.

The trip to the vets has become an top secret undercover mission that actually starts a day or two before the appointment. If Alex even hears the slightest movement of the basket or gets a slight indication of whats happening,  he will fly out of the cat-flap and we wont see him for days. So yesterday I sneaked the basket in and hid it in the downstairs toilet.
Stage 1 = complete!

15 minutes before I had to leave this morning I managed to lock his cat-flap without him noticing..or so I thought no no the little ninja heard me.. queue meowing and a mammoth game of hide and seek around the house . After 10 minutes of trying to outwit each other I came out on top and managed to corner him..Yes I outsmarted a cat! Wrestling with him to get him in the basket is the last little bit of fun.
Stage 2 = complete!

I love trips to the vets purely for the fun and games that go on in the waiting area. All the dogs are happy and friendly walking around until the vet calls them in the room. Suddenly their brakes go on and that dog is going no where! You see their owners start to blush and nervous laugh whilst in their head they are cursing and pleading with their dog to comply. One dog today got dragged in and he had to get unhooked from anything he had managed to cling onto on his way into the room.

When it was Alex's turn to go in it took two of us to get him out of his basket, normally he's not very compliant  but today he was really well behaved. I think he's learnt if he stands there nicely then it will be over quickly. I don't even have to lift the basket up to table height for him to get back in it he jumps straight in.
Stage 3 = complete!

Alex is 14 years old so he's getting old now, but the vet said he is healthy and in good shape for a cat of his age . She said he had bit of a fast heart rate so I might have a little play and see if I can take his heart rate one day, I don't think he'll be as well behaved for me though somehow.

He hasnt talked to me or come and sat on my lap all day, I think he's still in a mood with me . Oh well only another 365 days until we have to do it all again.

Look at those evil eyes, if looks could kill!

I now sound like a crazy cat lady.. I promise I'm not!


Flossy x

Walking in a Winter Wonderland.

The night before Mike left I took him to Winter Wonderland in Cardiff . Winter Wonderland is only there from mid November to a week or two after Christmas. They set up an ice rink, a few children's fair ground rides and a massive ferris wheel. Winter Wonderland has become a very couply thing to do, every year I see my friends go with their boyfriends and girlfriends, so this year I seized my opportunity.

He seemed a bit nervous at first, but he picked it up really quick, I'm still trying to find something that I'm better than him at. I've always enjoyed ice skating and used to go every now and then when I was younger. In no means am I any good, the only way I can stop is by banging into the wall and just hope that I don't go flying head over heels over it.

The only problem is I always always get blisters, no matter how many pairs of socks I wear or what size skates I get. Plus after 45 minutes of skating round in circles I either start to feel sick or just cant feel my feet anymore.

It was still a lovely night out and something which I have wanted to do for ages, so I can finally cross that one off my list.

Flossy x

Tis the season to be jolly.

Its getting darker earlier, freezing cold and the winter clothes are out.. It can only mean one thing...Christmas is coming!

I love seeing the decorations slowly going up in the houses every night on my drive home from University. I cant decide whether I like coloured lights or plain white ones better. I think white ones are more classic and sophisticated but coloured ones are more fun and exciting.

We still don't have decorations up in our house yet, I'll be putting them up on the weekend but last weekend Dad and I went shopping for Christmas tree's. Who knew trees were so expensive!! Every year we have one outside the front of the house, one in our conservatory then a artificial one in our lounge. The best bit about buying tree's is trying to get them in the car to get them home . It's probably the only day of the year when you wish you had a van or truck . Luckily dad's car is bigger than mine so it was his car that got the pines and sap everywhere instead of mine.

Flossy x

If All Else Fails. . . Bake

I love cooking and baking, all be it I'm not the best actually no where near to be honest, but at least I'm enthusiastic. Thing is I'm limited, I only enjoy cooking chocolate and things and I know I like . My number one favourite thing to cook with is chocolate . After that is's sweet things and things that aren't really the best for you. When Mike's over I find that I cook a lot more things, we've tried quite a few things.
When he was over this time he discovered shortbread biscuits and really liked them. So I decided to make some of my own. They are so easy to make.

All you need to make them is:

Before you start put your oven onto 190C
Then beat the butter and sugar together, you might need a whisk, unless you have massive biceps!
Stir the four into the mixture to make a paste.
Then on a work surface sprinkle some plain flour, this will stop the paste from sticking to it.
Gently roll out the mixture until it is about 1cm thick.
This is part where you get to have some fun, now you can cut the mixture into whatever shapes you want. I normally go for boring traditional rectangle shapes.
Place them onto a baking tray and sprinkle them with icing sugar and chill them in the fridge for 20 minutes.
After the 20 minutes bake them in the oven for around 15-20 minutes or until they slightly turn golden brown.
Set the aside to cool, then after that dig in and enjoy!

125g/4oz butter
55g/2oz caster sugar
180g/6oz plain flour

This normally makes 20-24 rectangle fingers.

These are the ones I made, as you can see I'm not the best at cutting straight lines, still they went down nicely.

Flossy x

Do blonde's really have more fun?

I finally did it. I finally got the confidence to dye my hair. I had been talking about doing it for quite a while so one day I just decided to get it done . I let Mike choose the colour. I knew I wanted to go a shade of brown, maybe chestnut, mahogany or a lighter brown. In the end Mike choose a medium brown. I let him dye it for me too, neither of us knew what we were doing really so it was bit of an experiment. He did a really good job with it, he put all the dye in, massaged it in and then washed it out for me too. I only got nervous when it came to drying it and seeing just how it looked. When it was wet I felt like crying it was SO dark. I was prepared for it to look dark but not black! Luckily it got lighter when it was dry and after styling it I got to see it properly. I wasn't so sure at first, it just didn't seem like me. I thought I looked bland and boring, now that its been 6 weeks I've got used to it. I'm still not sure if I prefer being blonde, maybe I'll try find a colour in between the two. At least now I'm saving myself £90 trips to the hairdressers :o

The result.

Flossy x

Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder.

Whoops, I havent blogged for so long! And in that time so much has happened, Mike has gone :( He was here for 2 months and it was literally the best feeling having him back. Its just so nice not having to rely on Facebook or Skype to talk. Also it makes me realise how much I actually miss him when he's not here . So now he's gone again its a massive blow. I'm not the best person at goodbye's anyway I become this big crying blubbering mess, not the best image for Mike to leave with haha, its a miracle he comes back! So getting used to being on my own again will take a bit of time, having to only cook for one and not having to constatnly worry if he's bored or trying to think of things to do. But at least I wont have to go around picking up dirty washing :)

So basically my next few blogs are going to be catch ups of the things we did, places we went and general bits and pieces that happened in that time.

Flossy x

Caves, Dinosaurs and Monkeys

Today I took Mike to Dan-Yr-Ogof Caves. I haven't been there since I was around 5, so I couldn't remember it at all. Safe to say if I had I would have thought twice about taking him. The caves were interesting and kinda cool, but the fact that we had to pay £27 pound to go in to see them kinda ruined it. We both thought £27 was a bit too expensive .

When we arrived Mike actually thought I had taken him to the wrong place because all we could see were giant dinosaur figures. It looked like we had driven into a Jurassic Park remake . But nono we were at the right place . After getting over the shock of the giant dinosaurs towering over our heads we got hit with the bombshell of the ticket prices. I already had my bank card out ready to pay otherwise I don't think I would have paid for them.

There were 3 caves there in total, the first one was real scary, I'm scared of the dark anyway so walking through a dimly lit cave put me on edge. I've seen way too many scary films so my brain just goes off on a tangent and I end up scaring myself. I also shouldn't have bothered straightening my hair because them caves have lots of leaks!

In the first cave there was a lot of stalagmites and stalactites which are formed over years and years and made up of a whole bunch of different minerals. The stalagmites grow up from the flour and the stalactites hang down from the ceiling. Sometimes they can join and form columns and pillars. There was one famous column in the first cave called the angel formation. Because it had the appearance of wings and the bottom half of an angel. I tried taking pictures in there but because of the light none of them came out very good, which was a shame.

The second cave was my favourite, it was called the Cathedral Cave. It was a lot more open and you could appreciate the size and just how fascinating the caves actually are. Towards the middle of the cave which was the furthest we could go there was 2 big waterfalls and so you had to walk over a bridge which ran through the middle. After crossing the bridge we got to a fairly big open space. One thing I was not expecting to see in there was a wedding arch. It turned out that people can get married there. How cool is that! Not that I fancy it myself but imagine if  people start boasting about their weddings and how amazing they were you can just play the ultimate trump card and say ' I got married in a cave' That's got to win every time right?!?

The last cave was called the Bone Cave. I was expecting big things from this one. The cave itself didn't exactly live up to my expectation but the journey in and out of the cave more than made up for it. As we were walking up to it, there was a hard hat sign and a big box full of them which we had to put on before entering the cave. There was a few signs around saying low canopy and low roof but I wasn't expecting it to be that low. I only had to duck at certain times. Mike however he had to fold himself in half. It was so funny. he was so relieved to get into the cave and be able to stand upright. Inside the cave it was very small but inside they had put models and replica scenes of what would have been living and using the caves. there was a loud audio tape playing and then spotlights would come on in time with what they were talking about. A little way through the tape a spotlight came on behind us to show a 9 foot brown bear. It frightened the life out of me!
Walking out Mike kept banging his head on the canopy, I had to stop to have a little giggle half way. It was perfect that he was talking about how it was a good thing we were wearing hard hats and then SMACK.

After walking around some more crazy dinosaur figures we left the park and drove to a Monkey and Ape Sanctuary that I had seen signs for on my way to the caves. It was so random it was in the middle of nowhere. They had all different types of monkeys there from Baboon's to Lemur's to Chimpanzee's. They also had Wolves and Porcupines. I love monkeys I think they are so much fun to watch, they're so human like with their facial expressions and movements. One of the Chimps there liked to wear blankets and clocks so she was sat there with a blanket up over her head eating banana's. Their hands are so human like its scary. She started walking around at one point I cracked up she looked like E.T walking around. I could sit and watch them for hours.

Here's the website for the sanctuary check it out http://www.cefn-yr-erw.co.uk/

It was a lovely day all in all. I've got to keep thinking of places to take Mike too so that he doesn't go stir crazy.

Here are some of the pictures from our day, sorry the cave ones aren't the best.

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The wedding flowers and arch.

                           Creepy man figure

                           Waterfalls.

                                                                                                                       Wall murals

                        Safety first.
                                                         

                            Haha, bless him.


                        Here are the crazy dinosaurs.

Flossy x

Girly weekend away with Mum.

A few weeks ago I went away with my mum for the weekend to my Grandad's caravan in Aberaeron in West Wales. I think I over-packed for just a weekend though.. Whoops!

 It only took around 2 hours to get there so when we got there we set up the caravan a little.  Then drove to Newquay which was only a little drive away, had a little walk around the harbour and then went to the Fish and Chip shop for food. It was soo good. They went down nicely and very quickly!

 On the way home we stopped off to buy some girly essentials = magazines and sweets then went back to the caravn and tucked up for the night in front of the tv. On Saturday I woke up to the best smell of bacon sandwiches. 

So after a very healthy breakfast, we drove to a little town called Aberporth parked up then went for a walk along the cliffs to Tresaith. It was a cute little bay with only around 20 houses there. They had a few boats there and canoes, so I'm guessing in the summer its a real busy fun beach to go to.

There was some crazy guy swimming in the sea. It must of been freezing. Unsurprisingly he wasn't in there for very long. 

Thankfully the weather held up for us so we sat on the beach, ate our hearty lunch of sausage rolls and apples. I would have said it was peaceful and relaxing if it wasn't for a baby seagull that was about 2 meters away from us, keeping his beady little eyes out for any food scraps. He was crying out and sqwarking the whole time!! It was driving us crazy so in the end I threw the rest of my apple to try and please it and shush it up. Didn't work though, it squawked even when it was eating.. HOW!

The beach has a waterfall coming down one of the sides of the cliffs which was pretty cool, shame we couldn't get close to it cause the tide was in 

After our walk back most of which was uphill : ( we drove back to the caravan and relaxed for a few hours. I did a few hours of studying while Mum relaxed and finished reading the magazines.
That night we went to get takeaway from Aberaeron, I had a lovely chicken burger and Mum got a kebab. Ive never known anyone eat a kebab unless they are drunk. But mum seemed to love it. Yuck! We stopped off for some more magazines and sweeties on the way back for another night in front on the T.V.

On the Sunday morning we had a early wake up call to watch Wales play Samoa in the Rugby World Cup. The 5 o'clock alarm wasn't fun but in the game was worth it. The boys played well. When that finished we both fell back to sleep for a while. Once we woke up we had some more bacon sandwiches before leaving to go home.

It was a lovely weekend I think I came home about half a stone heavier but it was real nice to spend some time with my Mum.

Flossy x