My Bucket List

The other day I sat down and wrote a list of things I wanted to achieve, places I wanted to go and adventures I wanted to take. Below is a list of things that I am going to do. My "bucket list" of sorts.
I'm not putting any pressure on myself to complete all these within a certain amount of time, but I think having goals and things you would like to achieve is important in life.
I hope by reading this it may inspire you to write a list of adventures you want to achieve!

- Santorini, Greece

- Spain (Barcelona and Madrid)
- Japan
- Rome, Italy

- Marrakech, Morocco
-Istanbul, Turkey
-Switzerland - Paris, France

-Budapest, Hungary
-Dubai
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-London, England

- Thailand. For the floating lantern festival

-Northern Lights

-America, New orleans, L.A, Florida, N.Y
-Ireland

-Alaska

-Germany
-Prague, Czech Republic

-Egypt
-Fiji
-Hawaii

- Go to comicon In America (also go to supernova in Australia)

-Visit Disney world

-Be apart of a tv show audience

-Buy my first home

- Stay at a 5 star hotel

-Learn another language

-Ride a jet ski
-try every lush bath bomb

-drink at an ice bar

-ride an elephant

-spend new years eve in Times square, N.Y

-have a white Christmas one year

-Own my own bakery

-Go stargazing

-Graduate University

-throw a costume party

-Attend a fashion show as an audience member

-Live abroad for a little while

-Ride a motorbike

-Attend Coachella 

-Get a tattoo (or two) that means something to be

- Drive a Lamborghini

-ride in a limo

Decorated Cakes I've made this year

This year was quite a year for decorated cakes. I usually love to make someone a cake as their birthday present instead of an actual gift. I'm still planning on doing a Christmasy themed one closer to the middle of December, maybe a christmas present box (ideas?). I thought I would share my cakes of 2014  with you all for inspiration and to just keep you up to date.

I made this cake for my brother's birthday. As you can see, he's a Lord of the rings fan. The base is a dark chocolate mud cake, covered in fondant and the piping is buttercream (if I were to do it again I would use royal icing as it is too thick)

This cake is in the shape of a monster hat which I made for a friend who constantly wears this identical hat. It is a white chocolate base, everything else is fondant except the white piping which is royal icing.

 This cake is my birthday cake, I had a neon lights birthday party, So i thought it suited the theme. Is it sad to make your own birthday cake? Pfffft no. The base is a dark chocolate mud cake, covered in black fondant and drizzled over the top is  royal icing coloured with neon food colours.

For my second brother's birthday this year I made him a glock cake, since he is a police officer. He thought it was pretty funny. The base is a chocolate mud cake and the icing is chocolate ganache coloured black (except for the white, which is white chocolate) 

 For a friend who is a Stargate fanatic I made him a Stargate cake. The base is a chocolate mud. The grey icing is butter cream and the details are fondant and royal icing.

This cake is a simple chocolate mud cake and I have just piped on a henna style pattern with royal icing.

Hopefully this inspired you! I hope you're all having a lovely week and good luck in your own cake decorating endeavours! 

Infinite x's and o's

Elena 

My week in photos

Sometimes what you really need to do in certain points in your life is take a step back.
Take some time to explore a beautiful place, clear everything bad from your heart and head.
That has been my focus this week. 

Spent a day exploring a friends property.

Sometimes when you stop and look around, beautiful things are found

Found a friend

Aslan does this when you point at him. "away with you peasant."

 Aslan - "FOR NARNIA!"

Such a charmer.  Almost looks as if he's holding an imaginary weapon or about to start a jazz dance.

So that is my week in photos. I encourage you to take the time to look around and notice the small beautiful things.

Infinite x's and o's

Elena

30 day drawing challenge

The last few months I have been pretty slack with drawing and art, which is something I love doing but when I get stressed, the last thing I want to do is draw.
I don't know about you but I have to be "in the mood" to draw, hence why I haven't drawn in a quiet a while.

Although, after months of not drawing or creating anything, I've felt pretty bad and my creative side was screaming.  So, I have decided to do a 30 day drawing challenge.

I searched for quiet some time on pinterest, tumblr and all other places where one would find such a challenge. I found that on some I only liked a few challenges, some were eh and others I didn't like at all, so I decided to make my own and combine all the challenges I liked.

Tomorrow I start with my "self portrait" and I shall be posting more updates as I go through the challenge.
Let me know if you will also be doing this challenge, I would love to see your results! :)

Infinite x's and o's,

Elena 

1 minute Nutella brownie

Nutella.

Loved by many, hated by few. If you are one of those very few, then well... I don't really know what to say to you.

My Nutella obsession pretty much stems back from childhood. I used to look forward to the days when I would get a treat in my lunchbox in the form of a nutella white bread, with the crusts cut off sandwich, ahhhh those were the days. It was either that or rainbow sprinkles.

I made this quick and easy nutella brownie in a mug, which literally only takes one minute in the microwave and tastes AMAZEBALLS.

If you want to know how to make it, watch my tutorial below and prepare for a party in your mouth.

Hope you're all having an excellent day,

Infinite x's and o's,

Elena

My week in photos #3

Workers boots

Sunset on the bridge

Our house that we are currently renovating has amazing detailing on the roof. 

A hidden gem between all the rubble 

The wallpaper in the hallway

Tried being artsy with my reflection in the window (before I had to clean it) 

Path to a park next door

Aslan

Hope you're all having an excellent week!

Infinite x's and o's,

Elena 

My month in photos

I haven't done a "my week in photos" post in quiet a while because I honestly haven't had the time to take a lot of photos, either that or my week was really boring and I figured no one really wanted to see photos of what I ate for dinner every day! So, to make things a little more interesting I decided to do a "my month in photos" from a combination of my posts on instagram and other modes of photography (is that the right expression) Here we go!:

For a few days the moon was full and absolutely stunning.

I got a little Arty...

Decided to wear my motorbike jacket out (the fact that I don't have a motorbike yet is irrelevant) 

Things got a little weird when I decided to comic-book myself with makeup one night. Which was the result of boredom, procrastination and running on energy drinks.

Finishing an 18 page assignment with very little sleep, Ps: don't try this at home kids.

Gorgeous sunset, (ps: no I wasn't driving, you can calm) 

Something about these jellybeans brings back a flood of childhood memories. I still remember the day my doctor didn't offer my a jellybean after I'd gone to see him, it was a very sad day, my childhood was over.

I got a little too excited and over-estimated how many brownies I actually needed to make one day, but honestly, can one have too many brownies? I think not!

Found a weirdo in my mirror

For whatever reason, my best friend Lisa and I couldn't breathe laughing at her impression of a hillbilly playing a guitar while we were waiting in my car, which resulted in foggy windows and drawing. We had a little too much sugar that night.... 

The same night we went to watch Lucy (very odd movie) and the cinema was empty! (we had fun ;) )



Pizza night! 

After the sad death of Robin Williams, my friends and I decided to watch Aladdin as a tribute. (the beginning of any disney movie always makes me a little nostalgic) 

Sunday drinks with a friend! Not just Smirnoff...

Got a little arty once again.. With new watercolour pencils.

So there it is, my month in photos!

Hope you're having a great week and month so far,

Infinite x's and o's,

Elena