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The Twin Towers
Remember, Remember… There are certain events that happen and everyone remembers where they were at that moment – when the first man landed on the moon, when Princess Diana died, when the planes hit the Twin Towers in New York… I remember that day well. I was 18 years old and living in Japan for the first time. I had only been there a couple of weeks and my host-mother came to wake me up. She showed me the images on the TV – the planes hitting the towers, fire, people panicking… I didn’t understand what was going on. My host-mother spoke not a word of English and I could…
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America Baby!
USA! USA! USA! Yup – we just got back from an epic trip to New York and New Orleans. It’s hard to decide on my favourite moments – every second was awesome!!! From literally growing a belly (OMG – it’s gross!) to seeing my lovely friend get married to Mardi Gras in New Orleans… seriously – amazing! So our next blog posts are going to be full of delicious and exciting things for you to put on your bucket list! And to start it all off, here is the cronut: I had cronut (half croissant – half doughnut) images all over my Facebook feed a while back and it was probably…
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Friday Links
You took the words right outta my mouth… 17 things that change forever when you moved abroad – great list!! Lovely video of one person’s Japan! Love how much I recognised in the clips 🙂 Crisps on sandwiches! YES – I used to eat tuna and mayo on black bread with salt n vinegar sandwiches at uni all the time! Yet another reason to go to Cologne! OMG Angela Merkel disappears! My new favourite website – all about RAMEN! Looking for love? Here’s what to do! It seems a Scottish woman was the mother of that delicious Japanese whisky! Everyone loves Mr Men! Here are the modern versions – hilarious!…
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Orange Coasters
When life gives you lemons, make orange coasters? I saw these Citrus Coasters on Pinterest on The Purl Bee Website a while back and wanted to give them a go. I have to say they were such a pain to make – took such a long time and such a lot of effort. In the original website, the pieces were all held together by pins, but all this did was hurt my fingers as I was constantly pricking them. I would recommend mini-pegs for this: I used the pattern provided and I think the coasters are a little small really, so I would make them bigger next time to hold the cup…
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Make your own Rittersport Chocolate
There is nothing better than a good friend… except a good friend with chocolate… I could not agree more with Linda Grayson’s quote about chocolate. BUT – how about improving it: There is nothing better than a good friend… except a good friend with HOMEMADE chocolate… Yes, I like that even more. If you are a fan of Rittersport read on (you already know I love the stuff – just see here) and it’s been a whole year since I promised this post, so here it finally is! Bunte Schokowelt is a whole shop dedicated to Rittersport. You can buy bags, clothing, tins, phone covers and so much chocolate in…
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New Year's Resolutions Update
Shine Like Neon Rays… So, a whole month of 2015 has passed and I have completed one of my New Year’s Resolutions already! It’s obviously food related – haha. We made marshmallows – vanilla flavour – and they were absolutely delicious, especially melted in hot chocolate – WOW! They are super easy to make and very quick too – highly recommend it! Going to be making lots more of these in the future – these ones were meant to be red/ pink, but the food colouring just didn’t happen… weird! I told my lovely Korean friend that I wanted to make kimchi and she literally said she would bring me…