My favourite place to spend New Years is at the drive-in So here I lay with my feet in the air and the remains of Christmas scattered across the floor and wonder, where did the year go? One second it was August and suddenly only hours remain of 2015.  ...

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So Christmas is just waiting around the corner, and like every year, I have waited till the very last minute to come up with a cute handmade gift I can make for everyone. I was proud of myself this year. I started earlier than usual (usually I begin on Christmas eve or better still Christmas morning!) I decided this year to make cake...

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So, as I said previously, I had gotten bored with our families decorations because for most, if not all the years of my life the decorations have not changed. The same baubles and trinkets go on the tree every year. Maybe it was because there was no theme or pattern to our tree, but whatever the reason I had had enough. ...

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While I haven't been very good at sharing it with you the past few weeks, I have seriously been enjoying the approach of Christmas. There is something so exciting and different about this year that I can't place.  ...

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I am a library lover. I take great pleasure in knowing that if I completely hate a book that I don't even need to finish it I can just return it and hopefully never see it again. I also love that I can browse for anything and easily change my mind once I get home. If I get the feeling for action but...

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I wasn't actually going to share this seeing it ended up a little more of a disaster than I had hoped, but if it makes at least on person laugh today then I'll be satisfied. I still, hopefully have a Christmassy crafty project to come (with some of the littler ones) which will hopefully work out better but here is the first. ...

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Didn't the end of November come around so quickly! It feels like only yesterday that it was the first day of November and there was lots to do and now here we are at the very end and there are still so many more things to do!  Because I enjoyed writing about my favourite things last month (here) I thought I'd share them...

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I'm going to be honest with you (not that I'm not usually). I'm not really one of those bakers who measures out everything first in pretty bowls and cups so that everything can be added nicely. Heck, I don't even sift the flour first when it's required for most cakes (unless I'm entering a competition, which I haven't done since I was eight.)...

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I've been holding off doing this post until I actually have bought a handbag. (Shocked that I don't own a handbag? It's a long story...) When I say proper handbag I mean one that is an everyday handbag and then I wanted to wait to so that the clutter to begin to build up so that a post like this would be interesting....

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Tomorrow I am going to  buy a handbag. There is no doubt about it. Tomorrow I WILL be the owner of a new handbag. ...

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Since graduating last year I have been spending a lot more time at home. University timetables just don't run the same as school does so there would be some days where I'd be there all day and others where I wouldn't at all. Also, summer holidays are SUPER long! (already on break now... don't go back till March...) So yeah, a lot more...

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As a child being given gifts was one of the greatest things to happen. There was such an excitement surrounding the event and you knew that it was going to be totally awesome. Why can't I find overalls like these anymore!?! Unfortunately, there comes a time where the gifts you were given as a child are no longer practical to keep around. That...

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Spring has sprung in this part of the world! Although we have probably had more rainy days than actual sunny nice ones. That being said it is still technically spring regardless of the weather so I though I'd share with you some of my favourites so far this season. Spring has sprung in this part of the world! Although we have probably had...

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I thought today I'd share with you my latest crafty feat. My friends and I are planning a murder mystery party which, may I say when it came to adapting a small party so that it would work for 30+ people is not an easy task. I have to confess I didn't have a lot to do with character creation or evidence development...

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I had an exam this morning... ew Then I spent the rest of the morning and the hot afternoon walking around the city looking for a place that sold nice cardstock and pretty craft supplies for some invitations I'm making. About halfway through my trek, I realised the exact store I was looking for, a Paperchase! I tried to remember the last place...

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When it comes to afternoon teas with friends or family I will never turn one down. It's a chance to get together and talk and most of the time, a chance for me to bake some sweet treats! Today I made these delicious Gingerbread cupcakes with lemon icing which could be one of my all-time favourite recipes. I know that there are people out there that...

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So my birthday is coming up soon, (actually now I think about it, really soon!) which means that it's time for the annoying 'what do you want for your birthday?' questions, from everyone you hold dear. Gone are the days where your birthday came and you were surprise with the lovely collection of gifts. Now days, you have to come up with your...

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Recently I when I had a spare day and nothing to do I went to the zoo. Even though I'm not a major animal nut the zoo still seems to be one of my favourite places to go and I always find myself wanting to visit every couple of year. Personally, the zoo is one of the most fascinating places in the world....

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Sitting at my desk today I found myself struggling to stick to the task at hand. My focus must have been averaging at the grand total of 5 minutes and I began to wonder why?.. ...

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Who wouldn't say YES to a muffin they could eat for breakfast without feeling naughty? A dear friend of mine gave me this recipe when she decided to cut down on her sugar consumption. She was super excited saying they were the greatest muffins in the world! At the time I wasn't entirely convinced as muffins tend to be a bit boring when...

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Have you ever dreamed of having a pen pall? I know I have. Some lovely person on the other side of the world that I could share my day, my thoughts, my exciting adventures with and in return here things from them. Imagine then if some random account sent you an email then and you replied saying that you thought that email wasn't...

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The sun was too hot... The lecture room too cold... And the lectures far too long... I mean, I have the attention span of at best 50 minutes so two, two hour lectures back to back at lunch time is asking for trouble. The day had become a massive list of things I had to do first before I could get home. ...

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Sorry it's been a while between posts. My aim originally was to try and write something every couple of days, and I realise it's been longer than that but I had some things I wanted to achieve first aspects of that took longer than expected. I came to the realisation recently that I've done this blog entirely the wrong way around. I'm pretty...

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I left my phone at home today, and my headphones - although I don't know what I was planning to plug them into! Now I think about it, I left my key at home too... I'm not doing very well this morning! I suppose I could have gone back for them. I had a little time to spare and I realised before I...

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So here I am, sitting on my deck at 7pm no cares in the world... The sun hasn't set yet and looks as though it has hours left to go... And I'm struck with how strange a concept daylight saving is... ...

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Friends, help me! I have a conundrum! Seriously though, regardless of when you are reading this, this is a serious issue and I am in dire need of your advice. Some basic facts: When driving in Australia or the UK you drive on the left hand side of the road. In America and Europe you drive on the right.  Road rules, weird huh?...

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Who knew that starting a blog could be this complex and completely time consuming! It has taken so much fiddling and Googling just to get this far... This was probably because I was so determined I was going to get this right the first time and also partly because originally I had decided that I would wait until the New Year to begin...

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