… I have baked…
… and baked…
… and baked.
I’ve also done a fair bit of reading…
… and have completed one of my New Year’s Resolutions already! I’ve been on a bit of a book-buying spree recently, so have plenty more books from the list to get through.
Oh, and I went to live in Spain…
… but that didn’t really work out. I was in a beautiful city and I didn’t take a single picture. What a fail.
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Just before Christmas, as a pre-Granada warm-up, I visited Barcelona, to see a friend doing her first Erasmus semester in the city. I really liked the city, and the weather was beautiful (albeit rather breezy!). Instead of writing out a very longwinded account of everything we did over the weekend, I thought I’d create a Google Map, showing some of my favourite spots in Barcelona. There’s more notes and info about each place on the map 
1. Platja de la Barceloneta, 2. Arc de Triomf, 3. Hot chocolate
Particular favourites were Gelaaati, with their incredible gelati and ice creams, and the Museu de la Xocolata with their divine cups of real hot chocolate. Non-food related favourites would have to be Parc Güell and Sagrada Família – both designed by Gaudí and both rather incredible. The museum underneath the Sagrada Família was fascinating, and well worth the trouble.
Anyway, I’d highly recommend a weekend in Barcelona – I managed to get return flights (Ryanair/Easyjet) for £50, and travel in the city itself is cheap – €8.25 for a 10 journey metro/bus/tram ticket, which is more than sufficient if you are prepared to walk; we must have walked 5-10 miles every day (although with all the churros we ate, this was no bad thing!)
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Cross-posted at SmurfPop Travels
Happy New Year! Did you have a good night?
2011′s not been quite as up and down as 2010; there’s still been a few shitty moments that I shan’t be sad to say goodbye to, but we did have a beautiful new addition to the family, so I shouldn’t complain too much.
I really didn’t manage to fulfill any of my resolutions for 2011, which was a bit of a downer. I have set myself just a few for 2012, but I think (I hope!) they are a bit more attainable (and less vague than “Be happier”)
I know they sound daft, but I find it quite important to have something to aim for Have you got any resolutions for 2012?
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Two whole months since my last post. But I swear I’ve been busy(ish)…
… Lots of knitting (just a small selection)…
… A bit of playing with my camera and some Christmas lights…
… And a quick pre-Christmas trip to Barcelona (more on that later).
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Tags: barcelona
I’ve been asked to make 100 mini cupcakes for a party next month, so I thought I had better make a practice batch… I normally make giant cupcakes, more akin to muffins, but I think the smaller versions are actually a bit better – much less sickly. These cupcakes were supposed to have pillarbox red icing, but no matter how much colouring I put in, I couldn’t get it redder than this – is it possible?! And don’t even get me started on the green icing I tried – it was supposed to be a nice festive moss green, but ended up a neon lime green (plus it tasted foul). Very disappointing.
I also baked an apple cake (recipe here), which was absolutely delicious. I don’t have the sweetest tooth, but this was lush. My sister gave us a bag of apples she had been given, that must have weighed 5 or 6lbs – I think there are lots of apple crumbles and cakes coming up…
And I’ve also been doing some knitting…
Not the best picture, but hey. I managed to knit this in a day and I’m really pleased with it (despite the whole thing nearly unravelling; there was a knot in the yarn which was actually tying two ends together… Until it came undone. Not happy.) Anyway, I hope the recipient likes it
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Well my last post was post 150. And what a distinctly underwhelming post it was. Today I have not much better, but I do have sparkly cupcakes.
Pink and sparkly, for a baby shower (let’s hope it doesn’t turn out to be a boy…)
In other stuff, I’ve made some scary realisations…
My yarn stash was previously housed in this – a roughly 16-20l box (that and a couple of plastic bags). After a bit of reorganising, it’s grown.
That’s a 55 litre box, as well as the old one. And it only just fits. I was scared by this point. I also updated my Ravelry stash page. I managed to mark 4 skeins as used. I added twenty two “new” skeins (to be fair, I had already had most of them for years, they had just evaded my last stash-checking). But still. That takes my stash up to eighty skeins of yarn. And that’s just the whole skeins, not the half-skeins or odd left over bits.
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH IT ALL?
Seriously. I even went to the library and picked up a couple of books in the desperate hope that I’d find some inspiration and get knitting. Instead I just got all intimidated and indecisive.
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I’m not quite sure why I blog any more (which I suppose is evident in my lack of posts). I’m just not sure I see the point.
Anyway, this is all I have to show for the last couple of months, craft-wise.
This was a nice little pattern to knit – quick and easy, plus I think they look very sweet
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