Cozy Bedroom Ideas

November 7, 2016November 6, 2016Leave a comment

As winter approaches we will be spending more and more time in our beds, whether we go to bed earlier, sleep late or just stay under the covers while watching television or reading a book.

During the season when the skies are grey and gloomy, it might be a great idea to choose warmer colours for your interiors. Here are a few lovely ideas for your bedroom this winter.

Orange, cold blue

Give your rooms some colour with deep blues, bright oranges and gold.

Spring colours

Adding some spring pink, gold, and warm creamy colours may also help you forget that its cold and grey outside

Hope these ideas help you stay warm during the cold winter months

Plant inspired cupcakes

November 4, 2016October 30, 20169 Comments

As you know I love flowers and flower arrangements. Since it’s Summer in some countries a lot of ladies will be having garden tea parties.

Therefore I have collected a few flower/plant inspired cupcakes to make your tea party more flowery, along with a great chilled garden tea I always use in summer when I have guests over.

Cupcakes

Chilled Garden Tea

MAKES 8

7 cups water
6 tea bags
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 1/2 cups peach nectar
1 cup vodka

1. Bring 4 cups of water to a boil then remove from heat and add tea bags. Let tea steep for about 5 minutes.

2. Remove tea bags and add sugar to the hot water. Stir until dissolved. Add remaining 3 cups water and stir to combine.

3. Pour tea mixture into large pitcher and stir in peach nectar, lemon juice and vodka. Chill thoroughly. Add fresh peach and lemon slices and serve over ice with peach garnish.

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The Infiltrator – Review

November 4, 2016November 3, 2016Leave a comment

Sometimes, being in Korea, I feel like we miss out on a lot of movies. Only the big blockbusters make it to our big screens and the other movies take up to 8 months to come to the cinema’s or they don’t even come at all. The infiltrator is one of those movies. The first time I saw anything mentioned about this movie is about a month ago when they advertised it on Korean TV as a DVD release.

It looked pretty good and since we were huge fans of Breaking Bad, we decided to watch the movie in support of Bryan Cranston.

Its a movie about a US official (Cranson) infiltrating the mafia, in the time of Pablo Escobar, as a wealthy business man in order to help them launder their money into the United States.

It was really interesting and had some suspenseful moments. If you like true-life stories this is definitely one to watch.

I have watched some other “based on true life event” movies this year and to be honest some of them should never even have been made.

Spoiler alert

I sometimes think that while being an undercover agent/infiltrator is a dangerous job there are other aspects that people never really think about. When you become engaged with the people you are investigating, as a person, it is impossible not to make some kind of an emotional connection with those people. You become friends and you might even get along better with these ‘criminals’ than you might with people in your everyday life. I just think it must be hard to both do your job and betray people that has become your friends.

All in all if your looking for an interesting movie on a Saturday afternoon, keep this one in mind.

I give it an 8/10

Picnic Wedding Ideas

November 2, 2016October 30, 20162 Comments

I remember when my husband and I were looking for wedding venues that one of the venues offered a Picnic Wedding setup. The pictures they showed us reminded me of a fairy garden with red, pink and orange pillows strewn over a rich green lawn, with lush gum trees overhead. It was just magical. But at that time the venue was really expensive and I rather wanted a different type of outside wedding.

In honour of that memory, here are some great ideas for a Picnic wedding.

There are various option for a picnic wedding, you can do it in the morning or at night. You could choose to keep it traditional with pillows and blankets on the ground or with tables and chairs, or even picnic benches. It all depends on your personal style and how comfortable your guests will be.

Basic Pillow and blanket Picnic

Using tables for your Picnic

Picnic benches

Picnic foods

Great food ideas includes homemade pies, cheese and cracker platters, sandwiches, fresh fruits and fruit salads. Furthermore a cute picnic basket for each table would make it extra special but having a central table with all the food displayed on it will work equally well

Your dress

If you choose to do the picnic wedding your dress should be comfortable enough to sit on the floor with. This does not mean that if you want an elegant wedding dress that you would not be able to wear it. It only means that you can now possibly get 2 dresses instead of one. One for the wedding ceremony and one for the reception.

When choosing a picnic wedding and the type of reception setup always consider the age of your guests, no use letting senior citizen with bad knees sit on the ground if they are expected to get up and down the whole time. If you have older family members maybe consider giving them tables and chairs while allowing the younger guests to sit on the ground.

Also be sure to inform them beforehand to wear clothing that will allow them to sit on the ground comfortably.

I Duttits- Making a Rainbow Cake

November 1, 2016October 22, 2016Leave a comment

A few weeks ago I posted about not being able to make a proper cake… Well this time I’ve done it. Last week was my husband’s birthday and he requested a rainbow cake.

OK I have to admit, I kind of cheated… I used ‘box’ cake but the colouring I did all by myself :p

I mixed the cake mix as indicated on the box. I used Betty Crocker cake mix and then divided into four bowls and added colouring.

My plant was to decorate the cake with an icing bag, but my husband doesn’t like buttery icing so the icing was too stiff to push through a bag. Unfortunately I forgot my camera on and I couldn’t take a picture when I finished icing the cake. Therefore I only took a picture after we started eating the cake but here it is