Week in photographs #17

1. vegetarian pasta. 2. Chocolate Cheese cake. 3. Lucky Streak. 4. Sun. 5. Magazine freebie nail polish. 6. Uni work. 7. Primark nail wraps. 8. Marc Jacobs Coke. 

My week has consisted of: cooking, winning lots of competitions, sun, uni work and occasional window shopping. 

Firstly, uni, my dissertation is due in on the 1st May (nervous) so I have lots of work to do! 6000 words done, 2000 words to go! I received a booking form for graduation tickets a couple of days ago which made me even more nervous than I already am about graduation - Prof Brian Cox and Sir Patrick Stewart might be there...

Now, cooking, I have been cooking lots of vegetarian pasta and noodles this week (drools) - the pics about show my homemade pesto and samphire pasta. Myself and my sister also made a chocolate cheesecake yesterday - recipe coming soon as I was asked quite a few months ago to post a chocolate cheese cake recipe...oops

I have also been on a really lucky streak for the past couple of weeks. First, two of the horses I picked came 2nd and 3rd in the grand national, then myself and my sister won a £50 free bet from William Hill, then I won three separate hair sets from John Frieda (facebook comp), then I won two online magazine subscriptions and I won a blog competition for an organic face cream...I hope my lucky streak lasts long enough for my uni results!

And look out for a giveaway soon! 

I hope everyone had a great week x

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A Final Festive Week in Photographs!

Sorry this post is a couple of days late but I have been really busy with friends, family, new years eve and of course...shopping!

Christmas tree preparations // Christmas tree finished // Tangled lights!

Presents! // Chocolate cheesecake // More chocolate cheesecake...

Big Ben //  Chinese Lanterns // Floating to the moon!

My week has consisted of cake, cheese cake, cupcakes, noodles and presents - so overall, not a bad week! My sister made a chocolate cheese cake which was really nice and it was very easy to make apparently - I may have to try and make it then write a blog post with the recipe! I also made my cupcake christmas tree and other cupcakes for friends and family. I cannot believe that christmas is over, myself and my sister have been looking back at photographs over the past four weeks from putting up the christmas tree, wrapping presents (well 99% of mine were already wrapped in october/november!). 

New years eve yesterday was a bit chaotic and we went to out friends/neighbours house which we do every year and I created a quiz which is always funny and we also played game such as the box game (which myself and my sister won!), the chocolate game, the card game (very funny!) and others. We also had some large chinese lanterns which you light and they float off into the sky - they look very pretty and magical in a way but they do have to land somewhere - hopefully not in a field or near animals! 

I hope everyone had a good 2012 and happy new year!!! x

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