The Biggest Moon for 20 years

Would you believe it, biggest moon for 20 years. It was a big moon. Saturday 19th March 2011. Lunacy.

Pixar eat your heart out!

This weeks oil painting efforts...

Giant Couscous with Aubergine, Mint and Chilli

Giant Couscous is great. Really great and especially great with aubergine, tomatos, mint and chilli. Lip smacking Monday night tea. Yum.

Another confectionary post!

Blue raspberry lollipop at work, a gift from my boss after a trip to the USA. I was delighted. Easily pleased I know. It looked great! Tasted foul.

Eggis

I know this isn't much of a blog post really, I just wanted to share the absolute joy I take in Cadbury's Creme Eggs. I bloomin' love 'em.

London at Sundown - Fiery Skys & Magical Lights

You got the love...

I just asked Jon if it was ok to blog about this, he said yes, so here I go!

17th March Redchurch Gallery - The School of Communication Arts 2.0 had a party!

The premise was to reignite the spark between advertising agencies and advertising students as it seems recently graduates have fallen out of their favour. The SCA 2.0 wanted to show them they are the hottest new talent in town and have made it their mission to bring the lost love back! SCA 2.0 showcased some of their best work and I hear the audience of top creatives were suitably impressed.

This sign in the window is 250,000 calories worth of Galaxy chocolate! Pretty fantastic. Check out how they made it here...


http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sca+quarter+calorie&aq=f

Last Wednesday my beautiful sister and I went to see a watercolour exhibition. The place was packed full of interesting landscapes and quirky animal painting.... I have to confess to being a bit of a pompous paint snob and loving the kudos that comes with oils. I love the smell and texture and association with the old masters but tonight I was very impressed with the watercolours... Check these artists out they were my faves! * just realised not all of these are watercolours but enjoy all the same...

Phil Greenwood

Diana Armfield

Denis Ryan

...and then it was time for a dinner/business meeting! and obligatory mint tea! :)

A good old fashioned seaside weekend

Two jaded Londoner's needed a break, a bracing weekend in Norfolk was just the ticket! Unfortunately it was a bit to early for Cromer Crab but a great time was had no the less!

A lovely cafe in Balham

My lovely lovely friend Liz who lives in Balham told me about this place!

It's called Bertie & Boo and I can highly recommend the bacon butties!

I need glasses.

Wish I was brave enough to get some like these!

The best breakfasts!

Chai latte, marmite bagel and a new Moleskin notebook - bliss!

CRUMPETS AND TEA! YUM!

Caramel Macchiato, Carroty Breakfast muffin and Cox&Cox magazine - deep joy!

Tea, fruit & oat biscuits and Abraham Cowley's 'A Country Mouse'- Heaven

The Honey Bee Bakery!

My sister and I have a little side line, check it out I hope you like it! Here is the 21st cake we made recently! It was huge and took longer than expected but really fun to make!

www.thehoneybeebakery.co.uk

Here we are shaping the sponge!

Et Voila! A pink sparkly monster of a cake! Victoria sponge with strawberry jam and vanilla buttercream - yum even if i do say so myself!

and add some candles!

www.thehoneybeebakery.co.uk

Monday night scran!

For the past week I have not been able to get a sniff of the mac as boy as been working incredibly hard organising an event to launch his fellow creative colleagues to advertising stardom... but more of that later!

So tonight I am going to blog my heart out starting with my creative cooking adventure on Monday night - Jerk Chicken and Rice and Beans! Brilliantly spicy with sweet cinnamon rice and coriander and lime yogurt. DElishous!

A little birdy...

It's my father's birthday on the 26th so I thought I would make him a card. I already have his present, how organised is that?! I bought him a sculpture of a bat that hangs upside down. If you know my dad, you will know this present is perfect.

A Spring Saturday...

It's been a beautiful spring day today here in London, it seems like a universe away from the devastation in Japan after a huge earthquake and tsunami and the unrest in Lybia. The scenes on the news are unbelievable, I can't comprehend it.

Making colourful teaspoons and watching Wales win the rubgy seems trivial in the light of these events.

No that's cheating...

Well I'm a bit tired and a wee bit boozed after drinks with the girls in soho, so when I asked Jon's to help me write my blog he replied 'No that's cheating' hence the title of day 5's creative adventure. So here is my creative effort for tonight. Inspired by exciting London's fabulous soho night life.

Day 4

Here be a truth - blogging takes commitment.
As the evening seemed none existent by the time I got home from work and now its bedtime, I didn't have any time for creating so here is something creative I did at work. Not sure if this really counts, actually no it does count because this is my creative journey and there are no rules.

Ou sont les blaireaux?

Today's creative challenge pushed me to my creative limits... origami badger. It went a bit like this...

After some badger talk at work with my colleagues (as you do) and being pointed in the direction of paper by my 365 creative book, I settled on a paper badger as my next creative journey. It's surprisingly easy to find instructions on the internet so it was all going rather well until the tube ride home. One of my learnings from today is trying to do origami on the tube makes you feel sick. So I had to stop for a bit and have a snooze. After a dinner of breaded plaice (burger fish. copyright Jon) and sweet potatoes with cabbage, (I always like to know what people have for dinner so I thought you might be interested too) I set to task. Step 1-11 easy, then they must have missed a step because how you get from 11 to 12 foxed me completely. A long time passed and I still couldn't figure it out so I went off road and went my own way... I think you will agree the results are... terrible. BUT I did find some fantastic you tube clips - see below links, they are brilliant so some good came out of my failed badger.

Check these out. You will laugh.

Badger Badger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nD29coEWqI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Foldy Foldy Badger Badger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nD29coEWqI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

So I did a dog. I doed it in Oils and am quite pleased with the results. I hope you like it too.

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