I think I'm going to have to reawaken this blog as I believe I'm posting far too often on my facebook page and irritating EVERYONE :D So stay tuned ;)

technology is wonderful

It seems there is an app for blogging! Curious!

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and....

for years i've wanted a tattoo and finally settled on something quite ornate like the ones i've posted previously... but...good typography is hot!

a friend of mine stumbled on this website 300&65 Ampersands and i'm hooked! Its an online calender that displays an ampersand for each day of the year in a new font.

and this one has to be my all time favourite!



Stay tuned for more tattoo fun! (and some hot typography!)

Gluten free Yorkshire Puddings....

Hey kids,

Well, as I mentioned in my blog description, i'm a full-time intolerant. Discovered it about 2 years ago, and I have to say... Ignorance is BLISS. I could buy a sandwich for lunch, pizza for dinner and enjoy my favourite donuts till my heart was content! Of course I had the gluten backlash but I grew up with it, I was used to it, and thought I'd just over indulged.

That said, i've been trying my hardest to find a GF alternative to all my favourites... but with the flours being so expensive, its rather costly and time consuming... BUT... i've found I can replicate my mums yorkie puds with just store bought GF flours... so i thought I'd share :)

1/4 cup Plain GF Flour
1/4 cup Self Raising Flour
Good pinch of salt
Good pinch of Xantham Gum
Good pinch of Baking Powder

Mix together... then add...

1/4 cup Milk
1/4 cup Water
1/2 an Egg (give the rest to your dog)

And mix the wet ingredients in with the dry with a spoon... once its mixed enough for the dry ingredients to be moist (so the flour doesnt explode in your face) break out the electric mixer and crank it to high speed for a minute to get a bit of air in it.

Now i dont know enough about food to know if letting it sit for 10 minutes does it any good, but I usually do because my man gets huffy if my yorkies arent ready to go into the oven when he needs them to go in ;)

Put one of those really shallowy rounded muffin like tins in the over with a bit of olive oil or dripping in each hole and heat it up till its bubbling.

Just before putting the batter in the moulds, mix in some more water to make it like a pancake batter consistency (not the think kind) then pour it on in.

Cook until brown and fluffy and drown them in gravy :) :)

tattoo love

it will not come as a shock when i say that I love flowers... so much so that my boyfriend dare not buy me any for valentines day because i have too many favourites that he cant identify and also i'll know exactly how much he bought them for, how much they would have cost at the market and i'd over analyse the colours and intentions ;) so i excuse him from this tradition :)

i've been searching for years for the perfect tattoo that reflects my love of flowers... but also the fractal nature of foliage... i've googled and googled and just the other night i stumbled upon Shannon Archuleta's
website. Based in San Fran, I now have an even more compelling reason to visit.

Check out some examples of her very fine work below!

tee hee ^^

i feel like a rock star! thanks to That Unreliable Girl for publishing my guest post ^^ For anyone who's followed the link from her page, please stay tuned for more awesome (because i'm only new at blogging :))

^^

forrester wedding...

I've been waiting nervously since october for photos of the forrester wedding and after a long day struggling at work, i find a compact disc sitting in my mailbox (which for the record, until yesterday, was home to a very large and jumpy huntsman)

standard, david austin, peony and spray roses. silver dollar gum and dusty miller (which suffered in the heat sadly)

"...thank you SO much for the beautiful flowers, they were absolutely perfect!!... Everyone commented on how pretty they were..."