New Year Resolutions

Do any of you guys, believe in the new year bringing about the power within yourself to over come an old habit, or perhaps start new? For example quiting smoking or starting a new sport.
A lot of people take the new year as their chance, but often fail in there

endeavour, where as others believe that if you want to make a difference in your life you should start as soon as possible rather than wait for the new year to bring new tidings, and there are those who manage to stick by there new life and make the change last.

I never really bothered with resolutions before, but last year I did sit down and make a list and I managed to stick by a few, so this year I am taking them more seriously.

Here is the list I have this year:

• Live More Naturally
• Improve My Health
• Designs

To live more naturally and improve my health come hand in hand, and as for designs that is one of my hobbies and projects that you guys will possibly find out about. 

Last years list:

Last Years

• Knit
• Get fit
• Guitar
• Bass
• Camera
• Blog

As you can see last years list if much longer than this years! The only one I didn't try is knitting , but the others I did try and one I accomplished. 

The one I accomplished would be this blog, I say I accomplished it because i still write and plan for it even though I may not be the best writer and planner but i do try, and I enjoy it, now get fit, guitar  and bass are things I started but was never able to follow through, for the get fit i have the excuse of having a bad year and constantly giving up and restarting, where are for learning new instruments, I do not have the patience for learning them but I won't be giving up. Camera is also something that iI still learning as technology is always changing, this brings me to this years resolutions.

Of course these resolutions are not something that can be done at the click of your fingers so i will be doing them in steps and I will be keeping you guys posted at the steps I make.

If you have any thoughts on this topic feel free to comment, and follow me!

Thank you for taking the time to read this!

Thank You & Happy New Year

I would to say thank you to everybody that has been following  this blog

My first post went up in May this year, and has gone through a lot of changes since I started, and I'm happy that people all around the world have been reading and stuck by me throughout this year, even when Iv gone through bad times and spent time not posting.

I hope the next year goes better than last and my blogging gets better and you guys stick around to follow me throughout the process.

If you have any suggestion for any posts you would like feel free to comment!

I hope you guys have had an awesome christmas and have an even better new year.

Lets make 2015 our year!!

Here is a little run through of the things that have been posted this year:

Lets not forget the ugly shoes

First recipe of the year

Smoothie saturday

Once again thank you guys for sticking around and have a good new year!

Borrower

Follow Me On BlogLovin

I'd like to say thank you to everybody that takes their time to read my posts, and I have finally joined  bloglovin, and I also have twitter so please follow me if you like, the links are in the side>>>
If you like what you read please follow me!

Thank You Again

Candy Cane & White Chocolate Chip Cookies!

So Christmas day has passed and you've probably over eaten, especially all of the biscuits and chocolates which you weren't allowed to open until the big day had arrived!

But you still have food left and if your house is anything like in my house then candy canes are usually the last to go, so I have a recipe to help use them up. To make this easier I have kept the recipe similar to the christmas spice cookies.

Ingredients:

100g of butter

140g brown sugar

1 tbsp golden syrup

1 egg

200g plain flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 pinch of salt

1 tsp of vanilla extract

200g white chocolate chips
2 candy canes, any flavour you choose

Directions

First melt the butter, sugar and syrup, do this either in the microwave or in a pot over simmering water. Pre heat the oven to 175 degrees or gas mark 4

While the butter is melting, mix the flour, salt, baking powder and mixed spice together in a different bowl.

Next beat the egg into butter mixture, followed by the flour mixture.

Once the ingredients are mixed together put it in the fridge to cool down (it will stop the chocolate chips from melting)

Line 2 baking sheets with greaseproof paper.

Once the mix is cool, add half of the chocolate chips to the mix.

Put the  candy canes into a ziplock bag and crush them into smaller pieces

Next roll the mix into little balls and put them on the grease proof paper 

After press the remaining chips into the top, not to hard, just enough to hold them.

Next pop them in the oven, but not to high up because the chocolate will burn.

After the cookies have been in for about 8 minutes add the crushed candy to the top of the cookies and place them back into the oven for the remaining time

Bake for around 12-15 minutes, the cookies will darken in colour, but should still feel soft.

Once the cookies are finished out of the oven let them cool for a few minutes be for touching them, then transfer them to a cooling rack!

I hope you guys all had a good christmas!

Christmas Spice Cookies!

Christmas is stressful, do you guys think christmas is stressful? So sorry for the lack of posts but iv got all christmas stuff going on, as well as being piled over with college work and trying to get my university application finished.

Any way lets get started with the cookies, and just so you know the cookies will make you kitchen smell amazing!

Ingredients:
100g butter
140g brown sugar
1 table spoon of golden syrup
1 egg
200g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
1 pinch of salt
3 tsp of mix spices

Directions:

• First melt the butter, sugar and syrup, do this either in the microwave or in a pot over simmering water. Pre heat the oven to 175 degrees or gas mark 4
• While the butter is melting, mix the flour, salt, baking powder and mixed spice together in a different bowl.
• Next beat the egg into butter mixture, followed by the flour mixture.
• Line 2 baking sheets with greaseproof paper.
• Next roll the mix into little balls and put them on the grease proof paper and put them in the oven
• Bake for around 12-15 minutes, the cookies will darken in colour, but should still feel soft.
• Once the cookies are finished out of the oven let them cool for a few minutes be for touching them, then transfer them to a cooling rack!

I didn't decorate them, because I didn't have time but you can decorate them anyway you want!

So thats it for today! Thanks for reading guys, have a good christmas!!!

Christmas Decorations Wishlist: Next

For this week I will be showing off my favourite Christmas decorations from Next.

First off is this bunting banner simply because iv never seen one before and I think it is super cute! £8

Next are these baubles, the first are these plastic with bows and animal prints and tartan, what more do you need!
Also these golden glittery reindeer which are £6
And lastly I have chosen these simple snow flakes because it just isn't Christmas if there aren't snowflakes somewhere! these are also £6

So that's its for Next not much jumped out at me really, so that's it for today, feel free to comment, follow and follow me on twitter! Thank you

Etsy Love

This is a very random post which was defiantly not planned.


Iv been in the process of a new project, and iv had a bit of trouble finding the things I need, and I had completely forgotten about Etsy but then I stumbled back across it and fell back in love. You can find anything you need on that site and much more, so thank you to everyone on Etsy for making my life much easier!


I will be revealing my project soon so stick around to find out.


Thanks for reading, feel free to comment and follow!