New Year, New Wreck This Journal

It's a brand new year! I thought it was only fitting to start my second wreck this journal that has been just sitting in my shelf for a couple months waiting for me to begin wrecking again.
This time I decided I would make some wreck with me videos as well, so if you'd like to see those, head over to my youtube channel. I'll try to keep updated and do at least 2 videos every month.

My cover! I love collages and wolves, if you can't tell. I did a similar cover on my previous wreck this journal.
There's a tutorial on my youtube channel how I did this.
Basically i printed off some images from tumblr on regular copy paper and stuck them on with some gold washi tape around the edges. 

Instructions page! Inspired by Alice in Wonderland 

Pour, spill, drip, spit, fling your coffee here page. Also inspired by Alice in Wonderland (can you see a trend?)

Colour this entire page. Inspired by the New york skyline. I used chalk pastels and a black marker pen.

Tie a string to the spine of the book and swing wildy page. Inspired by The Hunger Games.

Hope you're having a great week! x

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

Rainbow Mandala Cake

I am a little bit obsessed with anything to do with henna patterns and the flower design, I never knew what it was called until now, a Mandala. I've seen them in both simple black and full color, I love the vibrancy of the coloured ones so I thought it would make an awesome pattern on top of a cake!

Using Royal icing, some rainbow food colours and my already butter creamed pink vanilla cake.
You can change up the colours and customise it exactly the way you like.
If you'd like to know how I did this cake, watch the video below.
Infite x's and o's

Stained glass dragonfly cake (for my Mum's Birthday)

Hello Hello!

It was my Mums Birthday over the weekend and I wanted to make her a cake (I mean how can one celebrate a birthday without cake... it's just not possible.). Leading up to her Birthday I asked her what kind of cake she wanted. At first she told me to do anything, then changed her mind to a traditional black forest cake, which is her favourite. A few days later she gave me the specific instructions of "Blue, green, bit of purple. A dragonfly in there somewhere and sparkly."  Under my orders, I came up with this design.

She was pretty happy with the cake and enjoyed her day! Underneath all that colourful icing and sparkles is a moist vanilla cake.  Mainly so I could say the word "moist" when describing the cake. 

Hope you're all having a spectacular week,

Infinite x's and o's,

Elena 

Wreck This Journal Everywhere!

Well Hi there!
After completing my previous wreck this journal, I figured it was time to get another one, right?
I was tossing up between Kerri Smith's "Wreck this journal everywhere" or "this is not a book" but decided to get this one, slowly working my way through all of Kerri Smith's book series.

What I'm really loving and what I loved in my previous journal is that I'm provided with a tiny bit of inspiration. That's perfect for me, I don't know how many times I've wanted to draw or paint something and i've just sat infront of a blank canvas for an hour trying to decide what I should do.

With this is so much easier, even if it's just a little phrase like "float this page" immediately water,  mermaids and all sorts of things come to my mind. So if you struggle a little with the inspiration side of things, these books are perfect.

The first thing I did to my journal was cover it in washi tapes (glitter was kind of a crucial element here)

I will be posting regular updates on my journal so stay tuned! :)
Hope you're all having a lovely week,  until next time

Infinite x's and o's,

Elena 

Cakes I've made this month!

Hello hello!
I though i would  make a post dedicated to the cakes i've made this month since i've been kind of slack with posting anything remotely cooking or dessert related. The month of May is my second favourite for baking cakes (the first is Christmas, is it sad that i'm already watching Christmas movies during May in preparation? Don't answer that) because it is not only Mother's day but both my brothers have their birthdays and i'm able to unleash my creative thoughts about what kind of cake to make them.

 My Brother Chris is a lil bit of a Lord of the Rings and The hobbit nerd, (i think there's a bit of that in all of us)  I decided to create bilbos house, complete with a garden of tomatoes.

 Usually the eldest of my two brothers will request a cake, last year he wanted a glock gun cake (don't ask) which i did, this year he wanted Bad cop from the lego movie. 

And finally for Mother's day I made my Mum a white and dark chocolate layer cake.

Hope you're all having an awesomesauce week,

Infinite x's and o's,

Elena 

Completed Wreck This Journal!!

Yea I did! I finally finished my Wreck This Journal!
It's been so fun over the past few months creating (and destroying) all the pages of the book and I definitely recommend everyone going out and buying yourself your very own wreck this journal.
I haven't posted a photo for every single page I did, but I thought of something better than that, a video... So without any delay, below is the final video of my wreck this journal and all the pages.
Hopefully my posts and the video I made will inspire your creative side,
infinite x's and o's,
Elena