Self-portraits in May

Just thought I'd say hello :) and share a collage of my self-portraits from May (just incase you haven't had enough of my silly face yet).

This month has been a bit tough as we had a heatwave in the UK, which I am not a fan of. I find the heat very draining. :( Thankfully, it feels much cooler today.


Next month I'm going to try to get back into using Photoshop more frequently, as I've been pretty lazy with it this month. I'm determined to catch up on The Teleidoscope too. I miss joining in the fun. But, once you get behind on these things it gets increasingly harder to get back into them. I have a vague idea for a picture for this week's theme so I might give it a whirl tomorrow. :) 

Wordless Wednesday

Dandelions

I visited the Nottingham arboretum again yesterday. The beautiful blossoms there have been and gone, which makes me sad. Every time I go there I find something I want to photograph though. This time it was the dandelion clocks which caught my eye. :)

I noticed there wasn't a Flickr group for Nottingham Arboretum so I've created one here. 

From the archives

I thought it would be fun to occasionally post old pictures of mine in here. 


Here's a shot of my second budgie, Morrissey, taken on September 15th 2008 with my old compact camera, a Fujifilm Finepix A800. Poor Mozza didn't live for very long. She* was never a very healthy bird. I realised fairly soon after I got her that she had fleas/some kind of bugs on her, which she must have caught from other birds in the pet shop. Evidently, I did not choose a very good pet shop. I'd only had her for 6 months when she died of a nasty infection, I suspect related to the fleas. But, as you can see, she was a real cutie and kept me company. I'm glad I got her out of that awful pet shop anyway.


(*the pet shop told me she was probably male, hence why she ended up with a male name!)


I found a video of her chirping along to Sleater-Kinney. :) This video must have been taken when I'd only had her a month or two because I still hadn't got around to buying her a proper table to put her cage on.

Wordless Wednesday

A Day In Photos

Today I tried a little photo project idea - taking a photo every hour (well, roughly every hour) of the day. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy it as much as I expected to, but maybe that was because it was not a very exciting day. Here's a little collage of the photos I took anyway.

The photos are all in this Flickr set.

Recent Bakes

I've been baking like crazy lately. The novelty of finally having my own kitchen to work in must be inspiring me. 

I've made several things for my 100 Hummingbird Recipe Challenge, including

 Butterscotch Marshmallow Bars

Traditional Brownies

White Chocolate & Pecan Nut Cookies

Blueberry Muffins

Banana & Cinnamon Muffins

As well as Hummingbird recipes, I've made more shortbread

Some of which I coated in chocolate

and I made flapjacks for the first time, topped with milk chocolate

as well as the White Chocolate and Coconut flapjacks, which I posted the recipe for here earlier this week.

The things I can bake are limited at the moment because I only have one square tray for baking, and one muffin tray, and I no longer have access to my mum's food processor to mix things anymore, so it all has to be done by hand. Hopefully, in time I'll get more tins and gadgets so I can bake more of a variety of things. I wish I had more people to share my cakes with, that's the big downside of moving somewhere new and not knowing anyone. 

:(