Lichtenstein Style Painting


Here is a painting I did yesterday for our Lichtenstein project (ready for going to a Lichtenstein Exhibition later this week). The painting is based on an advert from a food magazine advertising a quality knife brand.

Lichtenstein Style Knife

Comment or like, and please feel free to ask any questions. Thanks :-)

Primal Family Nourishment


sweet potato latkes with poached egg

This post is to let you know that my mum, administrator of “Live Grow Nourish Create”, has started up a new paleo food blog, called Primal Family Nourishment (which you can check out here)

Viv, administrator of Primal Family Nourishment says here in her about page: “This blog is to document our progress as we transition towards a “primal” way of eating emphasising fresh meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, and minimal high fat dairy.”

Raspberry And Yoghurt Ice Cream


I got an ice cream maker earlier this month; A Magimix De Glacier, with a 1.1 litre freezer bowl. So far Ive made two ice creams with it. The first was made with coconut milk, and it was not as such ice cream… but a slab of ice… So this time we decided we’d make try and get a better consistency and texture, using yoghurt! Following a recipe that came in the box with my ice cream maker, we made a Raspberry and Yoghurt Ice Cream (Surely that’s a frozen yoghurt? :-) ) . Anyway, sweet, but taut, and actually looking and tasting very ice cream like, I was pretty pleased with it :-) Here’s the recipe:

Raspberry Ice Cream (2)

Raspberry Ice Cream (3)

Ingredients-

250g Raspberries

100g Caster Sugar

3ooml Yoghurt (We used St. Helen’s Goats Yoghurt, which has a thick and creamy texture; maybe this helped with the texture of the ice cream)

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We served it with chopped hazelnuts and chocolate chips. You could just as easily add these to the actual ice cream; just churn the ice cream for 10 minutes, add the chocolate chips/chopped hazelnuts, and churn for another 1o minutes.

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3 Versatile Bloggers Awards In A Week!!!!!!!


Hi, everyone! I’ve been nominated three times for the Versatile Blogger Award recently, and with help from my readers, I came to the decision of combining the three blogger awards into one post! Thanks for the advice everyone! :-)

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My first award, awarded to me on the 13th January, by blogger Charles Yallowitz! Please check out his blog here!

Versatile Blogger Award Graphic

My second award, awarded to me by rabbit at rabbitcancook.wordpress.com!

Versatile Blogger Award Graphic

And the third, awarded to me by Pish, who’s blog you can check out here!

Here are my nominees (Forgive me, I failed to nominate 15 bloggers, but nominated the blogs I think deserve a blog award nomination :-) )

  1. http://redstripeadventure.wordpress.com/
  2. http://photophilian.wordpress.com/
  3. http://mariodavalos.com/
  4. http://lightslant.wordpress.com/
  5. http://sweetpeaskitchen.com/
  6. http://soulkitchenblog.wordpress.com/

Thanks to Charles Yallowitz, Rabbit and Pish for my awards, and thanks to my followers for the advice! ;-)

Versatile Blogger Award


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I’ve been nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award! Thanks to Papizilla for nominating me! Please check out his blog here!

So, here are the rules:

Versatile Blogger Rules  (If you choose to obey them)

  • Display the Award Certificate on your website
  • Announce your win with a post and link to whoever presented your award
  • Present 15 awards to deserving bloggers
  • Drop them a comment to tip them off after you’ve linked them in the post
  • Post 7 interesting things about yourself.

As Usual, I’m Gonna Do The 7 Interesting Facts First.

So, here they are: (Sorry, running out of interesting facts :-) )

  • I will eat pretty much any food, but I don’t like pak-choi, or stuffing, and I don’t always like things made with flax-seed.
  • I do not mind Shakespeare at all. In fact, I love Shakespeare’s works!!! I find lots of people at my acting group groan when the teacher says we’re gonna do Shakespeare! Not me! :-)
  • When I come in after we’ve been out in the cold, bet any money that I’ll ask for a hot-chocolate! (If my little brother doesn’t beat me to it :D ) A similar thing happens in the summer: If the temperature exceeds about 20 Degrees, I’ll ask for a smoothie :D
  • I watched every episode of Strictly Come Dancing when it was on this year! My favourite couple was Kimberley and Pasha, but I knew Louis was gonna win when he did that amazing show dance!!
  • I love to play Civ! I have both Civ 4 and Civ 5, but only really play 5. I am currently playing on difficulty Warlord, on my own map scenario :-)
  • I used to go to Athletics Club. I stopped that a few years ago to focus more on my swimming. I am now in Pre – Competition Class. I still, though, can’t do a forward roll in the water. Apparently, I’m “getting there” though :-)
  • We got a Shakespeare knowledge game for christmas, and I’ve played it three times, and my little brother beat me twice. Hello, I’m the one who’s watched and acted Shakespeare plays. How can he beat me! How embarrassing :oops: lol :D

And here are my nominees:

  1. http://laurenzbaars.wordpress.com/
  2. http://legomosaic.wordpress.com/
  3. http://birdlightwind.com/
  4. http://planetsurprises.wordpress.com/
  5. http://susanwellssculpture.com/
  6. http://afterpancakes.com/
  7. http://alanpaulstevens.wordpress.com/
  8. http://justagurlspring.wordpress.com/
  9. http://life4arts.wordpress.com/

Blog Of The Year Award 2012- 4th Star


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I’ve been nominated for the Blog Of The Year Award 2012! Thanks to Tara Lee for nominating me! :D

And here are my nominations :

‘Please Pass The Recipe’

http://mumandleahcook.wordpress.com/

‘Daisy’s World’

http://daisysworld.net/

2012 favorite dishes

‘Creating Pictures’

http://cartoonrascals.wordpress.com/

Cottage

And to my nominees, here are the official rules of the award:

1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award

2 Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.

3 Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/ and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them

5 You can now also join our Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience

6 As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…

Yes – that’s right – there are stars to collect!

Unlike other awards which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different!

When you begin you will receive the ‘1 star’ award – and every time you are given the award by another blog – you can add another star!

There are a total of 6 stars to collect.

Which means that you can check out your favourite blogs – and even if they have already been given the award by someone else – you can still bestow it on them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!

For more information check the FAQ on The Thought Palette.