Snippets of my room

This past week I have spent a lot of time sitting on my bedroom floor sorting out everything in my bedroom. I seemed to have gathered so much stuff so it was definitely time for a sort out! I have tried to go for a more minimal and clean look, as I love floral things but it was starting to look a bit busy with all the different patterns and print.

So here are some little snippets so far, I will upload more photos once I have finished sorting the rest.

What are your top tips for organising?

Raspberry cake recipe

I recently saw this recipe on Olivia's blog and it looked so yummy that I had to make it myself, but it was too pretty not too blog about so I hope she doesn't mind me stealing her lovely recipe!

Ingredients:

- 250g caster sugar
- 250g unsalted butter
- 4 eggs, lightly beaten
- 250g self raising flour
- 75g ground almonds
- 225g fresh raspberries

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Combine the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl.

Gradually add in the eggs 1 at a time and before you add the last one add a tablespoon of your flour to stop the mixture from curdling.

Sift in the rest of the flour and mix well, add the ground almonds and then almost all of the raspberries (but saving a few to place on the top)

Then pour you mixture into a greased and lined cake tin,  and place your leftover raspberries on the top. 

To stop the top of it burning in the oven place a piece of greaseproof paper over the top of the mixture with a circular hole cut out.

Bake it in the oven for around 1 hour, untill a skewer comes out clean if you poke it inside.

My updated vintage room tour

 I have finally got around to doing my finished room tour post, this deserves an award me thinks! I spent all of yesterday tidying my room and adding little finishing touches. I hung up more bunting and fairy lights, and lots of flower crowns everywhere to add little details.You might notice that I no longer have the little shelves on my wall, I decided I really wanted a big mirror there instead because the little shelves didn't fit anything on them very well.

I had been looking for a pretty mirror for ages and then I saw this big long white one on gumtree for £40, it is originally from Ikea but it would normally cost £70. I got it delivered by Parcelforce because it is one big mirror that I'm not sure would have fitted in the car, so this worked out really well! I also got a new billy book case from Ikea instead of the cubes as they took up a lot of space and didn't hold very much, but my Brother now has those instead so they haven't gone to waste!

I put up my own handmade bunting over my mirror but I really want to buy a proper one, a ditsy floral print would be nice. I had a look and found this one which I think I might buy. I love the pretty flower prints!

I'm sorry I haven't posted much recently but I haven't really had anytime as I now have a job which I love, and I still do my voluntary work two days a week so I don't have as much free time and any free time I do have I like to go out with my friends because I don't get to see them all as often anymore.

My room so far...

 I thought I would make a blog post of some photos of my new room. It's nowhere near finished yet, I still have a lot of Sam's stuff in here and a lot of my furniture is still in the spare room, but I thought perhaps you would like to see a half-way there set of photos and then the finished ones at a later date!
It's still quite messy so these are just close ups of some of my favourite parts (that don't show the messy bits) In the first photo you can see a letter A, well I also have a B and a K, but no E. I got them from the charity shop I work out but the person who donated them didn't give us the E (I assume they are meant to spell 'Bake' but I really loved them so I had to buy them, especially as they were only 99p each.

I also wanted to say thankyou so much for 400 followers! I never thought I would have this many when I first started blogging, it's nice to know that people want to read my rambly blog posts and look at the photos :)

What I've been up to recently...

Cream eggs were on offer for 8 for £1... so I bought 16! ( I considered buying more to stash but I was embarrassed enough taking this many to the checkout)

I went shopping with my Mum to the Trafford Centre and we got a Starbucks, strawberry cream frappucino for me.

My Mum and Dad built a new chicken coop from scratch, designed by my Mum, for our chickens (including the new ex-battery hens we rescued. A trip to the Garden center wearing my Welly-bobs from Joules!

I went to Styal with my Friend Amy to take some photos for my photography project

The well earned hot chocolate, with obligatory whipped cream and a slice of chocolate cake after we got soaked in the rain at Styal. Getting the job of untangling this mass of Jewellery at work! You jell?

Seeing these funny magnetic finger puppets stuck to the fridge at work, Ghandi and Charles Dickens! don't lie you wish you had a finger puppet of Charles Dickens ;P Goodbye old room! Swapping bedrooms with my brother before he goes off to college after summer. (It's messy because I had already started putting stuff in boxes etc)

My new room, that still has some of Sam's stuff in, like the curtains, and the mess that I have to now tidy up. Would you like a room tour type of post when it's done? Let me know!

Went for a sleepover at my friends house and took a selfie in her mirror. My hair seems to have grown all of a sudden.

A lovely well deserved bubble bath after I thoroughly cleaned the bathroom for my Mum.

My new Joules Welly Bobs

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Good afternoon lovelies! I have been umming and arring for a while now whether or not to buy some Joules Welly bobs. I have spent many hours looking at their website trying to decide whether I would get my wear out of them or not and today I caved and bought some.

After spending about 20 minutes walking around the shop trying to decide which pattern to get (it was a close call between these, the blue stripey ones or the pink stripey ones, I also liked the Bird print ones but they didn't have those ones in) I finally decided on these navy blue floral ones as I think they go well with dark denim Jeans and from far away also look slightly boot-like. I bought a size 6, the 5's fitted me perfectly with normal socks on, but with welly socks were too tight across the toes so I just went for the size 6 as I think I'm likely to be wearing them with big socks.

Most importantly they are very comfy and soft, especially around the calf's because you don't want anything that would rub or dig in. They were £36.99 and I am very glad I saved up for them now, I laarrvvvesss them!

If you're a bird, I'm a bird

 Good afternoon lovelies! I have been wanting to make a blog post for a few days now, but have been completely pooped for ideas. Since a lot of my time recently has been spent on doing my photography coursework I thought perhaps I could show you all some of my photo's for my recent topic, 'the theme of self'. I have chosen to do a vintage theme for mine as that is what I like and that is also the style of my bedroom so it ties in nicely. I arranged all of the flowers and ribbons and feathers I could find on top of my birdcage and hoped for the best really, my favourite edit is the top photo.

I now need to go and do some more of my coursework (I thought if I put that I would feel more inclined to have to do some.) and I am also planning on baking some Macaroons from the recipe I saw on Olivia's blog, they look so delicious so I really want to try them! Also let me know if you would be interested in a cake pop recipe as I have been making them a lot recently.

I really do want to do a post on my Ombre hair, I jut haven't got around to doing my hair nicely and taking the photo, and the only semi-nice photo I have showing it is taken on my phone so it isn't the best quality really. But I will get around to it I promise!

My trip to York

Good evening lovelies, sorry for the lack of posts this week but I have been so busy getting ready for my handamde jewellery sale, photography coursework and just everything in general! 

Yesterday I went on a trip to York with my Mum, I had been pestering to go ever since our last trip about a year ago! It is one of my favourite places, it had bubble glass windows, cute little shops that sell bunting and metal hearts decorations, a Cath Kidston, a Joules and just hundreds of tiny adorable shops. I made sure I took my camera with me this time so I could take some photos for my blog. I was going to split this into two posts as there are so many photo's but I like posts with lots of photo's so here you go. 

I had the best time, we went to  little cafe to eat when we got there and I had a tuna and cheese focaccia with salad and a hot chocolate. It was absolutley freezing (infact according to my phone when we got up in the morning it was -3c and it never reached over 0c all day!) and it even snowed for us which just made the trip even more special!