Reboot & Refresh (The Friend Treatment)

I'm pretty sure that the only decent way to reboot and refresh yourself is to: spend time with your favourit-est people, eat good food with them, spend time playing scrabble with them wander around bookshops excitedly with them and visit the theatre for murder with them.  

I'm really lucky to have friends who love to partake in this sort of activity with me, and make me laugh so hard I think my stomach is going to explode.  Also, as much as it annoys them, they let me photograph every waking second (and only moan a little bit).  They're perfect xoxo 

Yummy Cute

How lovely (and yummy looking) are these?!  I think it's such a cute idea!  Mmm, I'm hungry now though...!

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My favourite is the pink one!  Which is yours? xoxo

Weekend of Colour

I've only just realised that this post didn't actually publish.  Last weekend, I wanted to make buttermilk pancakes.  I usually go for the old favourite, blueberry.  But, I didn't have any blueberries, and had some coconut in my baking sash so I thought I'd give that a go.  Coconut is one of my favourites, I adore it!  As I was feeling experimental, I made the pancakes a pastel lilac colour, just for the hell of it.  To be honest, you can't really see the colour from the photos below, but you can see in the top one that I put a decent amount of colouring in.  Ah well!  They were kinda yummy, not sure I'd use desiccated coconut again, but would maybe try creamed coconut instead for a slightly more intense flavour.

I just love pancakes!  :) 

Add some colour to your day! xoxo

Neglect

My oh my.  This past week and a half I started my new job, and it's kept me so crazy busy I can't believe it.  I've literally been at work, then home purely to crash!  Craziness!  So yes, sorry for the neglect.  I'm rubbish.

Anyway, to relax, I've been looking around the internet for a little inspiration for when I have some real me time to create away...!

Love my friend Heledd's amazing upcycled product, and these cwtchins(!) are so lovely!  Her self-made businesses really inspire me to explore being creative and just going for it!

cwtchins

Ok, so this amazing chocolate amaretto crepe cake is actually all my sugar dreams in one beautifully fattening dessert.  I'm still processing how incredible it actually is, and will HAVE to attempt making it.  Just love love love it!

chocolate-amaretto-crepe-cake

I really want to start using lots and lots of washi tape, and this selection is insaaaaane.  Now, how to pick....thinking of projects already!  Scrapbooking, decorating, just for fun, putting tape on everything in sight!

Washi Tape

Now I just need some of that me time...

love, gwynypie xoxo

Blurring the Edges

I spent Friday night in the lovely company of one of my good friends, celebrating the end of a particularly difficult last few weeks.

The evening included gooood food, refreshing cocktails and freezing weather.  I snapped a few shots of how pretty the area's lighting looked in the dark, bouncing off the buildings.

I think all the reflections I captured make the shots look a bit like double exposures actually.

Yes, he was that fast a cyclist!

I love photos with reflections.

I love how the WMC's illuminated words are reflected in the metallic water feature opposite.  Even better, I was able to capture it (from indoors!)

I wore an obnoxious hair bow for the occaison.

 

This little critter was in my Christmas cracker...

xoxo

gwynypie

Sometimes...

...a girl just needs cake.

Oldies

I'm not one for modern things.  I love antiques and second-hand goodies.  As a history geek (my degree is in history) I love the thought of someone else having loved something before it became mine.  I like to imagine there's a story behind everything.  We live in such a consumerist world, where the focus is on buying new and throwing away.  I think this is such a shame.  There aren't that many places where I live to buy antiques or to source some inexpensive second-hand lovelies, and I tend to hunt online for things.  There is one place I love, and spent a day hunting for treasures there with my friend not so long ago.  Here are some photos of the afternoon.

Please excuse some of the wonky photography.  The place was particularly quiet and my DSLR kinda loud, and I felt a bit embarrassed to be snapping away!

The only natural way to end the afternoon (according to my friend and I anyhow) was with some yummy drinks and nachos.  Nom nom.