Chocolate coins for breakfast

I really like the days after Christmas.  I like that most people are off work, there are good films on tv and that it is ok to eat chocolate coins for breakfast.  I'm kind of sad that these days have come to an end now.

We took our tree down yesterday.  I wanted to keep it up for longer but Henry said it was bad luck.

^some of my new toys.  Pink flamingo, lindt bear, moomin clock, the christmas tree headband I wore on Christmas Eve when we went to Brunos house and did secret santa and went carol singing, new perfume, new hoop earrings from Henry's mum, glow sticks from Erin,  a mini chair from my sister...

Christmas this year was really nice.  I saw all my family (apart from my sister who is an air hostess and had to fly- we missed her) Christmas day was spent running round the house trying to do a treasure hunt that Henry had set me to find my presents. It was an incredibly hard treasure hunt and literally took me hours! Anyhow the prize was worth it.  It was the black and white shiny bag I had been wanting for ages and inside the bag was a silver box with a tiny grey seal in it that Henry had made himself!  (seals are one of my favourite animals by the way)

I just love it.

Hope Santa brought you everything you wanted this year!  What was your favourite present?

Rainbow Kitchen

This is one of the double page spreads (click to enlarge) for my book that I wrote and am in the process of illustrating.  All the research and drawing of cakes I did last term has most certainly come in useful for this. Though after this project I don't want to look at or draw another cake for at least a year! I've already given up eating them. You can have too much of a good thing!

can you spot: the castle cake, the the flamingo cupcakes, the squares of chocolate, the gingerbread man cutter?

 It's so weird to be coming to the end of being at uni.  Three years has gone so fast!  It feels funny to think that there's nothing to go back to after summer.  I still don't really know what I'm going to do next year.  I want to run away and live on the beach and live off the money from my paintings. Haha.

Tea Time

 

  

  

  

 

This menu was one of my project final pieces.  I used the research I did on cakes ect and put it all together to make this. It was a concertina book.  My favourite pages are the third and fourth.  What do you think?  Looking at it makes me hungry though, I could do with a frog king cupcake right now.

Dubai!

I came back from Dubai 3 days ago. It was awesome there, you can do anything! They even had a ski slope and an aquarium in the mall! I felt really sorry for the seals though, they were in a tiny tank :( Dubai was great but it is also (i realised) a city of exploitation.

Anyway this was my absolutely favourite thing I saw out there. It was a fountain in some mansion villa's front garden round the corner from us. In the night time it was all lit up and so so pretty. I want one in my garden!

Every time we drove back to our villa I asked my mum to slow the car down so I could take a photo of the fountain as we passed it. I did eventually get a picture but there was a man standing outside the house and he saw me take it so then my Dad thought they were following us to find out where we lived (because it's a bit dodgy to take photos of other peoples houses) and so he was like DRIVE DRIVE! And we drove right past our own house to 'put them off the scent' but of course there was no one following us and my mum did a u turn and we went home.

These are the eels that I saw in the aquarium. I absolutely LOVE them! They are so cute! They were all waving about in the sand really tranquilly. I want one as a pet. Eels are one of my favourite animals ever since I read a book about a boy who takes his pet eels to the beach and he buys them all little eel swimming costumes and they all go and have fun at the seaside. But then they get eaten by a shark :s
Below are pictures of the lovely green and orange colour combination kitchen, the hallway and one of the bathrooms. Everything seems to be so ornate in Dubai! There are a lot of patterns and shapes everywhere. I think I am going to do my next project on pattern in nature and how it corresponds to man made patterns.