Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 May 2015

Life Updates, again!

Life is a time consuming bitch.

Every time I start thinking things will settle down and I'll feel less stressed, and have some more time to do stuff, the opposite happens.

After 9 weeks with crappy internet, and having to step away from raiding with my guild in WoW, we finally decided to switch providers.
And dear god, I can play!
Without lag!
And at night!

Have I had much time to do so? Well, no, but still, I can!

Sadly the install was supposed to be a Friday install but because of Murphy's law with the Optus tech's that day, it got pushed to Saturday.
I had to cancel a bunch of my plans Saturday (upside was I finished my friend's birthday gift) to wait for the tech.
A 7.30 am to 12 noon window for them to show up, and just my luck, they showed right near 12.
The install itself didn't take long.
The tech said 20 minutes until we could set it up and be internet filled.
An hour and a half on the phone later, get told it won't be up until late Sunday.
Then get told it won't be until Monday.

This totally messed up my Sunday plans of sitting and doing a bunch of my TAFE assessments.

But in the end it didn't matter, because I got a damned cold.
Spent all of Sunday and a good chunk of Monday in bed, with hankies and a bucket.
Missed my Monday class too.

The TAFE assessment was a group project, and it didn't come together until the very last minute because life!

TAFE itself is going pretty well.
A couple weeks in, already have assessments all over the place. 
Next week I have a presentation to give, but that will be on cross stitching, so easy enough. But to satisfy the visual component of the marking scheme, I'm making up some little kits for the people in the class. 
So I need to make up 30 little cross stitch kits. 
Trip to Spotlight this weekend I think!

Apart from that I finally got a new phone.
My little HTC Desire HD has been a great phone for the last 5-6 years, but the touch screen doesn't respond as well, the apps I use are starting to not work on the outdated Android platform it runs and the speakers were going.
And the battery, 5 hours until it was almost drained.

I'm still waiting for my number to be ported over, but the battery on my new phone is amazing!
I went with a Samsung Galaxy s5.
My biggest happy about it? 
Hearthstone on mobile works, and I can get the cat selfie app.
So be prepared for cat selfies!

Apart from that, I'm still in a reading slump.
I'm days behind in Stitch Maynia (until tomorrow anyway)
I haven't done much stitching at all (though being able to stitch in class will be a godsend)

But now photos!

Only in Australia can we have a storm when it's mostly sunny, with rainbows and lightning crashing over the top of it....

Finished Birthday gift, I didn't take many photos of this before we left.
We only just made it in time for the party after all the mucking around with internet.






Cupcakes I made for my friends party, with  pink and purple icing!








I want to cross stitch this Spiderman art xD






And now I can selfie!

Friday, 3 April 2015

Life Updates!

I've been absent again.

It has been one of those time periods where a whole bunch is going on, a whole bunch needs to be done and my stitchy bug takes a break.

So I spent most of my time this month sleeping/attempting to sleep after having run around shopping, doing other crafty stuff, fighting with my ISP to get my internet fixed (never mess with a gamer's internet!) and trying to work out what to do with myself.

So I saw a career advisor with my local TAFE to chat about options for wheelchair friendly professions. I already had a few ideas in mind, some of which I doubted would be wheelchair friendly.
So I came to the decision and I will be returning to TAFE to study full time.
I will be starting off with a Certificate 4 in Youth Work and then I'm going to see if I can do a dual discipline in both Mental Health and in Disabilities. 
I really hope I can get both at the same time. 
It will be a bigger workload, yes, but overall will be quicker than doing 2 different courses after each other.

So have some photos, and I will be filming some cross stitch updates in the next few days :)


Check out the hot chocolate porn!



Made my first ever pulled Pork. It didn't last long.


Strawberries and Cream cupcakes before icing, and choc mint muffins :)
Didn't get pictures of the sugar cookies before they went. I made them in bat and cat shapes :p


That's an Air Con, not a bed. 


One of our awesome Flosstubers was in hospital for a little while, so I surprised her with a card :)
I bought a card making kit off ebay, put all the pieces together, found a kitty picture which I printed out and then coloured with watercolour paints :)





And this little butterfly pendant was the little gift I sent along as well :)
I stitched it with 2 Fiberlicious hand dyed flosses, and one Dinky Dyes hand dyed floss :)




I spent most of the month stitching on my St Patricks day SAL. I didn't finish it. 
But I'm not going to rant about it here, I'm going to wait for the video :p


Made a friend of mine a Star Trek Communication Badge :)
Made the little pattern based off an image off Google.
I should mention I know nothing of Star Trek. At all :p
The pattern for this is on my Etsy as well


Andrew getting his hacksaw on at Bunnings :)


And what I made with those hacksawed pieces of PVC pipe :)


Still learning to two hand stitch, but it's so good to not have to hold it :p
I'm very quickly becoming a Qsnap convert!


Tie Dying some shirts. Some turned out, others didn't. And then my washing machine screwed them all up.


Pizza scrolls and some trial Nutella and Coconut scrolls :)


Stitching!


Little lacewing I rescued from my room before Illidan got ahold of him.


Friday, 6 February 2015

Little world of baking

I like food, I really do.
And it's quite a new thing.
I used to have a really bad relationship with food, and that's something I've been improving on.
People can be cruel when it comes to fat people and food. 
As part of my recovery from my eating disorder, and to repair my relationship with food I started cooking. I started cooking my dinners and desserts. I bake savoury and sweet items.
And here are some pictures :)
I will get some recipes going soon as well :)

Multicoloured Icing from one piping bag

Butterfly Cupcakes

Rainbow Cupcakes

Rainbow Cake

Rainbow cake with Raspberry icing and Oreos


Rainbow Cupcakes

Cookie in a cup

Iced Red Velvet cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcakes

My old kitchen was great for cooking, so much space

Bacon and Cheese pullapart

Rainbow Cupcakes

Choc Coconut, Choc Mint and Mars Bars cupcakes

Gnocchi Bake

Bacon and Egg Breakfast muffins

Double Choc Coconut Muffins

Double Choc Coconut Muffins

Home made pizza, base from scratch, sauce as well

Jam Drop cookies

Burrito Leftover Pies

Cheese and Bacon Rolls

Butterfly cupcakes, mine vs the cookbooks

Pizza!

Cheese and Bacon Pullapart, with extra bacon

Strawberry and Cream cake

Stuffed Pizza Rolls

Chorizo and Sun-dried Tomato Risotto

Cookie Cups, 

Pancakes with my 2 favourite toppings Jam and Cream and Vegemite, Sprinkles and Cream

Iced Rainbow Cupcakes

Cooking my some cupcakes

Pine nut and Spinach pullapart

Cookies and Cream fudge

Pizza Scrolls

Pizza Scrolls

Pizza Scrolls


Pizza Scrolls

Pancakes

Pizza Scrolls