Knilly Frickers

I know I said I wasn't going to post everyday and I'm fairly certain I won't but my lovely dad found the mini cake cases I was searching for and I decided to post up my second Quirkmas post!  I also thought about calling it bakemas - I'm just winging it now.  Someone I know took this recipe from pinterest and I messed It's a totally customisable recipe and there are plenty of variations online if you don't fancy the ingredients in this one. Homemade Ferrero Rocher I'll get straight to the ingredients because it really annoys me when I have to scroll through endless paragraphs to get to the ingredients...... 1 Bar of Cooking Chocolate (Melted) - I opted for dark chocolate because it contained no dairy, use any kind you fancy. You could also use chocolate spread. 2 Bars of Weetabix (Crushed) Blanched Hazelnuts (Dipped in Chocolate) - If you cannot have nuts, the hazelnuts aren't essential, I just added them for experimentation.  My ingredients are also ess...

So, a few years ago on my old blog I decided to attempt blogmas and I totally sucked. If you can be bothered going back far enough in my archive I think I still have the posts live and you can see for yourself just how terrible they were. I was in a creative rut and trying to make myself do something creative every day by putting up a post. I was also trying too hard to do the same types of posts I was reading and the vlogmas videos I was watching.   That was counterproductive as forcing creativity conditioned my brain to be unimaginative and my post were all crap!  This year I'm going to attempt my own little Quirkmas. I doubt it will be every day and it certainly won't be groundbreaking but it will hopefully be fun or interesting to read. My December has some quirky elements to it, as does my Christmas Day so I should be able to come up with something to write about! I quite often end up chasing my tail at this time of year, as do most people I guess, so it is quite nice to ...

The first time I typed the title of this blog I typed Summer 2017, I'm off to a great start! I love Autumn. Nature starts charging it's batteries and takes a bit of time out to rejuvinate before bursting to life again in Spring. That's a really healthy reminder sometimes, to take some time to recharge and not to burn out. I'm probably rubbish as favourites posts, I think I've made two lacklustre attempts but I thought I'd give it another go, maybe seasonally. Which would work well, as I'm also terrible at having an upload schedule. Here's some of my quirky faves this Autumn. I'm not sponsored by any companies, authors or locations I have mentioned below. Books    Yes, I am a 29 year old woman and yes there are two unicorn books in this section. I've said it before, I'll say it again, I dig unicorns. This Summer/Autumn some of my favourite reads have been Be More Unicorn: How to Find Your Inner Sparkle by Joanna Gray When The Curtain Falls by ...

Having recently been made redundant and finding myself back in the routine of job searching, I've experienced a dip in my internal and external sparkle. Be More Unicorn: How To Find Your Inner Sparkle by Joanna Gray was just what I needed to remind myself that the best way to find magic is to believe in myself and create it. When my mother handed me the book, she knew it didn't need a hard sell. I dig unicorns. Maybe it's because I'm Scottish and the unicorn is our national animal? Some parts of the book were a useful reminder embrace opportunities to be magical, fabulous and playful but other parts taught me the importance of digging a bit deeper into who I am both on the inside and the outside to become more graceful, enigmatic, fierce and fulfilled. I'm a firm believer in following the advice of my Unicorn Decision Making Pen which quite often encourages me to Chase a Rainbow but often I fail to spot the rainbow or even look for it because I think I know better. ...

Hello! I've been pretty silent on my blog for a while. My batteries have been charging. I forget sometimes when I'm charging my devices throughout the day that my brain is the most frequently used device I own and needs the same care an attention to work at full capacity. I'm keen to get a bit fitter than I currently am, not in an I must be skinny, I will now document my trip to the gym every day, but I do spent alot of my day sitting and I'd like to be a bit more active, and climb a few flights of stairs or a hill without needing a good 5-10 minutes to recover. I'm going to combine my shoe diary with my attempts to get out and do some exploring on foot.    According to the internet - and who am I to argue with the internet? - there are 2000 steps in a mile, I initially set my target at 3000 but found that I was exceeding it so I moved it to 4500.  A few days ago I managed over 18,000 but I did an uncharacterisitic amount of walking that day so I won't get too c...

I believe Lorelai Gilmore - my resident go to guru for anything in life really - said it best when she said:  ‘My Brain is a wild jungle full of scary gibberish’   I can relate! I often end up with a foggy burned out brain because I’m trying to make it do or remember too much at once. Here are a few things I’ve been doing recently to ‘Mentally Declutter’ that I’ve found really helpful.  Colour Coordinated Apps I changed my phone background from a brightly coloured picture of Beaker from The Muppets (sorry Beaker, I love you) to a photo of a rainbow above a loch that I took on a recent trip. It’s much calmer and makes for a great backdrop. I’ve colour coordinated all of the apps on the phone so that all the same or similar colours are grouped together and everything sits on two screens rather than four or five. Colours that don’t match anything else are grouped together in folders. It sounds silly but it makes looking at my phone less distracting and I’m less likely to get...

*This is not a sponsored post, I just really enjoyed the tea and wanted to write about it* I've always been a bit picky when it comes to hot drinks although I've recently discovered that I'm quite into quirky tea! I was doing a bit of shopping on my way to meet a friend on a freezing cold day - to give her a two month late birthday present, I digress - and wandered into T2 .  I'd been in before about year or so before, bought some fruity tea that didn't really float my boat and never really ventured back in, but on this freezing cold day I wandered in and the friendly staff member encouraged me to have a small cuppa while I browsed - I poured myself some Green Rose and began to look around, I knew there were a lot of flavours but I'd never realised just how many! I spotted the explorer flasks and after a chat with another friendly member of staff I decided to go for one - I've since bought a teamaker too and both are amazing. I bought a few flavours to go wi...