Computer Background | DIY♥

Hello my little loves! i hope everyone is having/has had a wonderful Easter weekend and doesn't feel too sick from all the chocolate!

now i have called this post a "DIY" although its really not, but i just think it is one of those simple things that you can do to make your day just a little brighter....

recently my parents have kindly allowed me to "have" one of there old laptops, because it seems to live in my room anyway, so i decided to change the background from one of those generic nature shots of some blurry leaves or spectacular mountains and replace it with something more meaningful to me: the problem was i didn't know which photo!!

that's when i came across picmonkey ( i found this because i realised that's how my sister was editing all her Facebook pictures :P) which was a perfect website not only for perking up dull photos, but great for creating photo collages! i think this is perfect to use as a computer desktop background because you don't have to decide on just one photo, and you can have millions of memories just hiding away whilst you browse the web until you go to log-off, where it just leaves a little smile on your face :)

i found the site really easy to use because it had such a simple website layout, the photos imported so easily, you could choose exactly the size you wanted the canvas to be and where and what size you wanted the photos: it was brilliant!!!

i would definitely recommend doing this just because it is so easy to do and it really adds a personal touch to your computer. (TIP: SADLY YOU CAN ONLY PUT AROUND 40 PICTURES ON EACH COLLAGE, SO I CHOSE TO MAKE 4 AND THEN MERGE ALL OF THEM TOGETHER BECAUSE THAT ADDED MY DESIRED AMOUNT OF PHOTOS!)

my attempt at a collage! what do you think?♥

so yeah! i hope this may have given you an idea for you own computer background, or it may even look good in a photo frame! anyone going to give this a go?

 

enjoy!♥

 

alice x

 

(ps. song of the day is "naïve" originally by the kooks, but this is a cover by Lily Allen which is just as amazing as the original!)

 

(pps. I have finally worked out how to add a follow button... yay!! please follow me on friend connect of bloglovin (or both!) ♥)

 

(ppps. i think there is a lovely photo of becca of colourful visions (which is an AMAZING BLOG! please go have a look♥) as the blue caterpillar from "alice in wonderland" on the bottom in the center there! hehe :P)

 

(pppps. i also have to mention that my absaloutely gorgeous friends Pip of "strawberrypipfashion", Alice of "Illustration Narration" and Scarlett of "optimisticbutneverquiteelegant" all have utterly wonderfull blogs which you should all go look at RIGHT NOW (even though this seems ridiculous because i only have myself as a follower, but even if you don't follow me please go follow them + becca too!))

 

(ppppps. if you are still reading to here then i love you♥ goodbye!)

creme egg brownies | baking♥

morning all! (or afternoon or evening or night, whenever it is)

a few days ago it was my friend Hebe's birthday and it was also the last day of school before the Easter holidays, yay! so to celebrate i made my version of crème egg brownies, mmm...

i based my recipe on one from "sweet harts cakes and bakes" however i did also sort of use one from a Cadburys recipe book, so here is what i did...


Ingredients:

180g milk chocolate

210g butter

80g self-raising flour

40g cocoa powder

3 eggs

250g caster sugar

6 Cadbury crème eggs

 

optional:

15 celebrations

100g lindt chocolate (i used the little easter eggs!)

 

Method:

1. Firstly preheat the oven to 180 and line a tin (i had a 20 by 30cm one) with greaseproof paper.

2. Melt the butter and chocolate together in the microwave in 30 second bursts.

3. Use an electric whisk to beat together the sugar and the eggs in a different bowl until they are light and fluffy and doubled in size!

4. Then, still using the whisk beat in the melted chocolate mixture until you end up with a chocolate mousse looking substance

5. Next sift the flour and coco powder into the bowl and fold it in to maintain the air in your mousse (a metal spoon is good to use!)

6. (optional step!) Unwrap all of your celebrations and little easter eggs and place each of them into the mixture and briefly fold them in again (this makes your brownies even more chocolatey and gooey!)

7. Pour your mixture into the tin and place in the oven for 20 mins (if you pour it from a low height then you reduce the risk of loosing all the air from your mixture!)

 

 

 

now would be a good time to do some of your washing up! :P

 

8. just before your timer goes off you need to cut each of your crème eggs into four pieces (this is easier if they have just come out of the fridge because the goo isn't as sticky and it will be easier to clean up!

9. briefly take your brownies out (they should still be quite wobbly which is perfect!) and randomly drop your crème eggs on top. Some should start to sink and others will stay on the surface

10. return to the oven for a further 10-20 mins  until the centre feels firm on the top but soft underneath

11. leave too cool in the tin for 5 mins before moving it to a cooling rack

12. cut your brownies up and for best results serve immediately

13. enjoy!

 

 

These were so fun to make and of course to eat! they were so chocolately (and brimming with calories!) and everyone struggled to eat more than 1! i would definitely recommend trying this one because it was so delicious and perfect for easter!

 

so i hope everyone has a fantabulous Easter however they are celebrating it and i will see you soon! (and happy belated birthday Hebe!)

 

enjoy!

 

alice x

 

(ps. song of the day is "little lion man" by Munford and sons because it just seems a nice happy song for easter! have fun :P)

 

no braces! | life♥

hello and welcome back! hope you are all well :)

sorry again but today is another little post about me again, apologies! however this is one of those things that will hopefully only happen once in my life and that is getting my braces removed! (little round of applause!)

so i first got my braces on a couple of days before (or it may have been after I'm not too sure!) my 13th birthday, all because i have a couple of teeth that are slightly too small so the rest of my teeth weren't in the right places. anyway i wont go into too much detail but the actually whole process probably started when i was 11, because my first orthodontist said that i could have it done on the NHS but i would have to go on a long waiting list. so i waited and waited and after around 18months i finally got them on.

before i was quite excited to have them, not because i thought my teeth were that bad but because i always looked really young for my age and i thought braces would make me look older. BIG NO NO. this was not the case and i just remember sitting in the car after just having them on and almost crying on my way to school because they looked so bad! however i soon got used to them and although i never liked them, i knew that it would be worth it in the end...

and they so were! im so glad i got them done and because i only got them off a few days ago i cant stop smiling! they really helped me improve my smile and i love my new teeth! i think they look so much better than they did, see for yourself...

(me on the left with my friend Nat♥)Before my braces, gosh i look bad, please do excuse
me, i was in year 8 and we were on a ski trip! :)

the last photo with my braces off♥

without my braces! SMILE♥

 

So there you have it folks! My long and painful journey to getting the perfect smile (but i have to say i do think it was worth it!) see you soon...

 

alice x

 

(ps. song of the day is "smile" by lily allen, because i think it is quite appropriate and we were discussing old songs that we used to sing when we were kids today)

 

and i will leave you with this simply fabulous photo of me just... i don't even know what im doing! bye♥)

 

 

my glasses | life♥

bonjourno! how ya'll doing? this here is a little chat about glasses...

 i have needed glasses for quite a while now and i got my first pair about 8months ago. at the time i just wanted the ground to swallow me up and i couldn't believe i was actually choosing myself REAL glasses! i mean sure as a kid i used to love going into the opticians to try on all the glasses to make my mum laugh, but it just didn't seem real.

anyhow, once i got my glasses it was just amazing. it was like having HD vision or looking through a really fancy camera lense! i used to wear them around the house all the time and i didn't think they looked too bad on me, but i never really wanted to wear them to school. i told myself i didn't really need them and i had been seeing the way i had for years, why did it matter if i didn't wear them now... but really i did need them and deep down i knew it was because i didn't know what people would say. see, i have always liked clothes and fashion, but i don't really like getting things that are exactly bang on trend at the moment. i prefer to get things that are a little quirky or fun but still not too out there, so when i found that the only glasses that really suited me where the "nerd chic" kinda black square frames, i thought people would just thing i was desperately trying to fit in, and that i didn't really need glasses, so i hardly wore them. now this was fine for a while because i would normally sit next to friends and they would happily tell me what was on the board, and if i really couldn't see i would just discretely put them and take them off before the end of the lesson, but this wasn't ideal.

about 2 weeks ago i had to go back to the opticians because i had been straining my eyes a lot trying to see, and i needed a stronger prescription. again came the time where i had to pick my new frames, but this time i kind of embraced it. i tried on lots of glasses but still the only ones that really suited me were the big square frames, but instead of really dreading having new glasses, i just said to myself that it didn't really matter what other people thought, and if i needed glasses and it wasn't just me trying to fit in with the "cool crowd" then i should where them with pride!

and that's what i did....



me wearing my new glasses♥

my glasses are bench BCH-180  in a brown/tortoise shell colour♥

alice x

(ps. song of the day is "primadonna girl" by marina and the diamonds, because its just fab!)

 

enjoy!

(pps. sorry there has not been much else on my blog apart from my life stuff! however i have some plans coming up which will hopefully lead to some more interesting blogposts! please hang on in there!♥)

my bedroom wall | life♥

hello! I hope you are all doing well! today I decided to do a post about the wall in my bedroom...

now to most people that would be a really weird topic to talk about, however I would like to think of my room more like a blank canvas that i can fill with little piece of art rather than just a cage in which I sleep in, so here goes!

 

 this is my bedroom wall! it has been a work in progress for the last couple of years and i am constantly adding stuff to it or updating it! my goal is to completely cover all the walls in my room with something or other to make it a bit more exciting!



the picture of the little girl in the pink hat is really old and used to hang in my
mums room when she was little + the butterflies are made out of old records from charity
shops that have been cut out into that shape ♥



the two photo frames were my dads, but i painted them silver to match
my mirror and put photos of me and my friend in them so i can
always look at them and the good memories we had ♥

i painted this clock myself at school in year 8 and tried to make it match
my wallpaper.... slight fail but its still going strong ♥



i got this sign for £4 at a little shop on the sea front near Christ church ♥

 

i had always wanted to do the crayon melty artwork thing for ages,
so when i finally decided to do it i wished i hadn't waited so long!
i love it♥
 

im not sure exactly why i chose these lyrics to go with this picture
but i do quite like it if i say so myself ♥

im not too sure where this drawing of winnie the pooh came from, but it
has always been on the top floor even before my bedroom was put up here!♥

again, i made this myself because i absolutely jadore  this song (even
though you cant buy it in the uk!) and i really wanted to try the idea♥



these pictures were both inspired by things i had seen in shops but
they seemed so expensive, so i gave them a go myself♥
 

 

So there you have it! my bedroom wall... maybe i will do a whole room post, what do you think! anyways, song of the day is "love song" by Sara Bareilles because i used to love that song and it brings back so many great memories! enjoy...

 

alice x

 

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi7Yh16dA0w)

10 facts about me | life♥

well hello there (again!)

i thought that seen as i only have 1 blog post so far, i should probably get some more up there so people can get a better idea about who i am, so i am going to tell you 10 facts about myself. here goes!:


1. i won a christmas card competition when i was younger (5 to be exact!) that meant that people could buy my design in a big shopping center called bluewater near where i lived! there was an article about it in the local newspaper next to a photo of me with my head in my hands because i was so bored in the assembly! i got £60 worth of vouchers for a little shop called daisy and tom (which i still have somewhere because the shop closed down) and i have a framed photo of the card on my bedroom wall which i was given when i won!

my friends and i all having a good o'l giggle at my birthday party ♥

2. although im not that into reading, my favourite book (ironically) is alice in wonderland! i just love the idea of traveliing to a magical land and meeting lots of wierd, strange friends. i even held an alice in wonderland party for my 14th birthday and got all my friends to dress up :P

3. my grandad owns some sheep and we called one of the lambs lady baa baa!

4. i am completely and utterly addicted to diet coke and pepsi, and i always have at least one can a day, often two or three!

my sister and i ♥

5. i think my sister is the absoloute funniest person in the world! she never fails to make me giggle with her silly photos and witty remarks, but she is so so beautiful and perfect and i hope she never changes (and you can quote me on that!)

6. i had only been on a plane twice before last year and i hated it! however during the summer holidays i had to go on a plane 5 times! it was torture :(

7. at the moment i own 6 pairs of high heels (in a size 3-4, yes i have tiny feet!) but i have never gone out anywhere wearing any of them.

8. my sister and i both have pigs named after us :)

9. for my gcse's i have chosen to take spanish, modern history, textiles and art,

and 10. i have no idea what i want to do when im older, other than i want to really enjoy getting out of bed every morning to go to work!


so there you go! i hope you have learnt a bit more about me and want to possibly see more of what im all about :)

alice x

 

(ps. song of the day is "When i was your man" by bruno mars because its amazing! http://youtu.be/ekzHIouo8Q4)

Introductions | life♥

well hello there! how are you doing today? oh... you havent seen me before? well.... they call me alice ♥

sorry, let me introduce myself properly:

hello, my name is alice and i am 15 years old. i am a little british girl who loves all things cutsie and girly and almost anything with bows on it :P i am very into arty things and i love to do little doodles when im out and about, but i also L<3VE music and own a little acoustic guitar!



me, myself and i ♥

i must admit i have tried having tumblr blogs, instagram accounts and even had a try at twitter and every single one of those attempts has failed, but i am really going to try and be persistant with my blog! im not totally sure exactly how this is going to work or exactly what im going to post, but i would love it if anyone wanted to come along for the ride! i imagine my blog will be mostly about stuff happening in my life, cute little crafty things and maybe some inspiring stuff thrown into the mix too if this works!

so why dont you join me on this little adventure and see where it takes us, eh?

alice x

(ps. i have always wanted to try something like this, but what i would like to do is every time i post something, i am also going to add a link to a song that i am loving at the moment, or that is relative to what i am nattering on about. So todays song is little bird by sir ed sheeran, because i just like it ♥)

http://youtu.be/qkscjEBaEPc

 

enjoy! ♥