Baking some cupcakes.. yum

Well hey there :) Today, I had a whale of a time baking... I was going to do some yesterday but came across the small problem of there being no sugar *gasp in horror*... so anyway, I decided to do plain cupcakes.. then I had a better idea... I was going to spice it up a little ;) I then decorated them, now you may think they look terrible but my friends... this is the best I have ever made cupcakes and I personally impressed myself. Although mum wasn't impressed considering her kitchen looked like a bomb had hit a flour factory (everyone has to agree that stuff goes everywhere) Oh and also I have died red hands and also tints of blue, I look magical ^_^ This is the outcome! :)

The very first two decorated

Spicing it up with red and blue and two hearts...

The top 12 ;) 

Reserved for the boyf :') 

The not so good lot :( 

We had a breakage... Mr. Duck got a snapped neck...

My ingredients are a simple 4 things... 4 duck eggs (they are meant to be better for baking, so I might as well use them as I have egg laying ducks in the garden) 8oz of self raising flour, 8oz of butter and then 8oz of sugar :) Although today I did about 12 oz of everything to match how much the eggs weighed.. smush all that together my friends and the outcome are some pretty yummy treats :) add your own toppings, icing, sugar, sweets, sprinkles! You name it, whack it on :) 

I would do the complete recipe but I have already done it on a past post.. so if you want to know how to do it flick back on my blog to a couple of months ago :)

I haven't tried one yet... I probably should before I let others eat them. I could be murdered if they don't taste okay after all the mess I made haha :) I must defend myself and say that I did tidy it all a way myself, even if it did take about an hour and mum was having to shimmy around me to make tea. Happy baking readers :) thank you for your time ;) 

TTFN Micky xxxx

New bedroom! :)

Well this is going to be a little post me thinks again :) So recently my brother, Ben, moved out (whippieee)! This is kinda sad as I don't get to see him as much and I do really miss him (I hope he doesn't see that) although.... It also means that I get his old room! Now my friends this is very good news because I basically had a box of a room, no lighting really apart from my desk light and now I have a room so much bigger and lighter! We just finished it this weekend and I have to say it looks so much nicer than I expected :') Here it is.... 

Pillows and Teddies

Duvet Cover

Fold 

Curtains

Crafts Elephant

Pretty picture

Heart lights

Best Frame

Now I know you might all be thinking, why am I doing a post like this? Well truthfully it's because I am amazed at what I have managed to do, I did most of the painting in here, and also helped build everything (my dad did that hard parts) and I am pretty damn proud of myself :) I have never had anything so pretty and fun before and I intend to keep it all clean and lovely this time :) this is one thing that I have managed to cram in before my exams... (starting tomorrow eek) 

Well thank you for the read :) TTFN <3 

Micky xxxx

Exam time

Now as every other 17 year old in school we are coming up to exam times... YAY... I joke, not yay at all... All this means is about 2 months where we want to scream, cry and rip our hair out. This is not a fun time of the year. Every teacher believes that their subject is more important, no matter what order the actual exams go in... for example, this weekend I had a psychology revision session at school, fair enough, although the exam isn't until NEXT month and my history exam is TUESDAY this week.. so I missed a day of revision for my nearest exam, hmm, I do not see the logic in having the revision session so far away from the exam, but hey :) 

For now, I have decided I am going to get early nights in bed, relaxing with a candle on my bed side table and my pretty little lights... this will be my de-stress time as I will spend from 6:30am until 8pm stressing, crying and wanting to rip out my own hair, much like everyone else :) 

So for all you readers out there who may have exams near now, I wish you all luck and the very best :) remember, be calm, don't be too much of a moose and rip out hair etc... deep breathing and possibly eating too much chocolate is the way forward from now me thinks :) TTFN <3 

Micky xxxx

A return & the zoo

Well hey there my readers and fellow bloggers! :) I think it has been about 5 weeks since my last post! Although I have to say not much has really happened since then, I have been very boring... although this post is one I wanted to use to show my journey to the zoo :) So here goes... 

It was my 17th birthday on the 1st of May, so as a present mum and dad took me and my boyf, Chima, to the zoo! :) YAAY! Well I know many of you may be thinking that this is a bit of a silly present for a 17 year old, BUT my friends, the zoo is amazing no matter how old you are. Besides we mainly went for the photos, as you may have seen I love photography, and my parents much more so! :) ANYWAY, Saturday the 4th we went to Chester Zoo! It was about a 2 hour drive, but it was very very very worth it :) twas a sunny day too! I will share some photos with you :) 

The sun was reflecting off it's feathers.... 

OOOHH 

Blue Butterfly :) 

Close up of another Flutterby :) 

Yawning Cheetah 

Not the best image  of an elephant :( 

Lion :) 

Ickle Meerkat :) 

Two meerkats :) 

Pretty butterfly!

Tiger.... LOVE this one :') 

Zebra... omnomnoming :)

Licking it's nose? YUM.

So there you go :) these are the photos I took, not all obviously, I think I took about 300 :) As you do... these are the best I think that I can show :) I particularly  love the tiger and the cheetah :) although they are my favorites, I don't know about you :) I hope you enjoy them all too... 
Anyway :) the actual day was lovely! We got there about 11 after a 2 hour journey, although dad was moaning so much that he was hungry we had to eat before we got to look at any of the animals, sadly, the giraffes were being cleaned out when we wanted to see them, so mum was a little miffed because they were what she wanted to get a photo of the MOST! Sad times.... Other than that the day was great :) it was fun and the sun was shining on us! Yaay :) 

So I think that's enough blabbering for now :) I hope you enjoy the photos again, just to say... GO TO THE ZOO PEOPLE, IT'S SO MUCH FUN. TTFN :) hope to do another post soon.... :) BYE! <3 

Micky xxx

Revision.

Well... hey again, it has been a week now of holiday! A week already... woah. Although I am meant to have done so much revision, yet I seem to do some, then forget it all or lose it all in my head somewhere... How? I do not know. I have always been useless with revision, but this year it is really annoying me because I need to do so much more than I have ever done. There are people at school who have got folders and folders of revision.. and then there is me, with a page or so! I just can't seem to write it all down in a way that I remember. So I get pressured by my parents and teachers at school.. mind maps, essays, fact sheets... I have done some of these, but nothing seems to work for me. 

My history is what I need to revise the most, although amazingly the school email isn't working for me, which is a great time! I joke. It has made me so angry because I have no way of emailing my work to my teachers for marking. It's infuriating... as well as my revision that is taking up so much time I have over 20 pieces of course work to do.. Urgh. Wish me luck. 

If you have any comments or advice to give on revision techniques, feel free to comment..! Thanks xxx

Holiday plans..

SO! Now we are on the Easter holiday's I have decided to do something more with my time than revise, sleep & watch TV. I am going to lose weight. For those who are reading this and know me then you will know I am a whale, well I am going to put everything I have into losing weight this holiday. I have two weeks to show myself that I can do it and by summer I hope to look better. I have always tried to lose weight but failed, I may have been able to keep up a diet for about a week... if that... but this time I am more determined than ever! Having friends that are skinny little poles, it's made me see how different I am compared to them... so I am doing it this time! I will take it seriously! :)

I have started today by not having the sweet delights that I would normally fill myself with, I also had a blast on the Wii... I haven't been on for a while... It was great fun! Although.. short story: I started it by doing the BMI test... weight n'all... then it asked me to complete two balance tests, I did,,, BUT my dad was standing on the back of the board... which messed it all up, I hadn't noticed, I just thought my balance was shocking. Anyway, I completed it all oblivious of what he was doing, it then told me that my age was 34 I was like WTF!? Dad laughs at me, along with my brother... then blabs he was pushing on the back of it! He did get beats... he left the room injured >:) I then re did my tests and got the age of 17! I was very proud considering in just under a month that's the age I will be :)

Continuing... so I have 2 weeks off school, my aim is to at least knock off a few pounds... I WILL do it... I will continue to tell you of my progress over my time, although I won't tell you my weight because that is just embarrassing... :) So hey, hope you all have a great week or two if you off school... and also hope you have had a great Easter :) Peace out.... xxx

Happy Easter!

Howdy Doo all! Happy 1st April :) Easter Sunday was yesterday! I don't have much to say really this time.. other than I hope you all got a reasonable number of chocolate eggs, big and small :) I managed to get a few, I think about 4 in total :) I am a happy bunny! Although previously I have seen chocolate and demolished it... Although this year I have not... yes it's only the day after but trust me when I admit that normally my eggs would not have lasted 12 hours. I am a beast.

Anyway I hope you have all got many eggs yourselves! Don't eat them too fast... we don't want ill bunnies! Yes right now you are all bunnies. If you haven't got at least 3 then I demand you go to friends and family and inquire as to where their eggs for you are. No one should be egg less at this time of the year... OH OH OH! Did anyone have a Easter egg hunt?! Or prepare one... I sadly did not :( apparently nearly 17 years old is a time where hunts stop :( (my parents like punishing me). The hunt is the best part, you get to hunt for about an hour finding all these chocolatty treats! ARGHGH how mad I am that I didn't get to do it this year! I may have to try and arrange something later this week with my brother... just to have a whale of a time when parents are at work... although he is 21 I am sure he will be up for it >:)

 Also a congratulations to those out there who managed to survive whatever they gave up over lent! I hope you all pigged out as soon as it was over? Haha... I personally have never been able to have the determination to give up something... I tried chocolate once, but then they started having special offers on mini eggs at my local shop... I had to abandon lent and eat as many as I could... I am a bad person. Clearly. ANYWAY, I hope your all happy out there with your chocolate eggs :)

Thanks for reading... Micky xxx