an outfit, a bag and a lot of pictures of a cake.

Happy Thursday guys! Almost the weekend...yes! What are your plans? Who's going to be at LFW? And who (like me) is going to be utterly lazy?

Feeling a bit fragile today, having been sent home from work yesterday with horrible nausea and general feeling crap,
I do feel better today but not 100% so I'm indulging in a day of doing my favourite things.

Wearing: another old favourite





Loving: My new Nica bag, which was my treat to myself for passing Media law. I ordered from MyBag.com on Tuesday evening, and first thing this morning it was here!



I am not one of those people who can cope with little bags! This has so much space around for all my junk/really important stuff.

Baking: Chocolate sponge with malteasers inside and a chocolate icing drizzle. Just a basic sponge mix with cocoa and a couple of small bags of malteasers added in. It might look dense but it's as light as a feather. Sadly I don't get to taste it (yet) as it is for the doctors at work who have an inspection type deal this week + stress levels are high. They are chocaholics so I'm taking this in tomorrow to celebrate the end of the week.



pre-bake



post-bake



drizzled



close-up!

Malteasers work really well in cake for adding texture. The cupcakes I made a couple of weeks ago were such a hit most of the staff now have the recipe and have been making their own!

Have you baked lately?

xxx

Accessories Haulage and Whats in My Bag

Hello Monday, how did you creep round so fast? I hope everyone manages a decent day! I'm not working but do have blood tests to go for...so it's not all sunshine and fairy tales here!
Hopefully going to see Black Swan tonight, I can't remember the last film I saw at the cinema...it was at least two years ago though!

Just thought I'd show some of the accessories I bought on Saturday, I'll do clothes etc separately as I wear them, though in the end I only ended up with two dresses. I hate when you see so much stuff online only to find your local store doesn't carry it, or it's not as nice in real life.



Tights, of course! £1 for the pale pink ones! The little sheer ankle socks were reduced to 50p a pair so I thought I'd get a couple to experiment with socks/sandals when the weather becomes nicer!
I could have gone mad in the jewellery section of Primark, SO MUCH goodness, but I either lose, or forget I have jewellery so I just got the earrings and necklace because they were too cute to leave behind. I was hoping to find an animal ring of some kind, but nada.



How hard is it to photograph belts? I fell in love with this bow buckle one.



Bag, £8, sold. I've needed a new bag to fit all my crap in, and although this is by no means the bag I had in mind, it's cool and it'll do until I am somewhat richer (seriously, I cannot afford over £40 on a bag which was what all the ones I loved cost!)

Which kind of leads me on to a what do I carry round post...again having seen them crop up on blogs lately, I thought I'd jump on board (whilst my bag is somewhat organised!)



Cath Kidston diary (a.k.a. my brain), cigs (because I am BAD), work rota, Cath Kidston coin purse which holds receipts and crap, Card Holder for loyalty cards etc, Notebook which instructs me on what to do at work (most pages read "ask ***") and pen, artfully pinched from the hospital over the summer...I have about 20 of them!



Lighter and lipbalm, throat sweets left over from laryngitis, handcream, purse which is looking decidedly empty, ginger chews (for random attacks of nausea + I'm addicted), tissues and keys.



Gingerbread Nakd bar (best bars ever! I always carry one with me, and it's always ginger or cocoa mint), vaseline and mac tinted lip conditioner because my lips are beyond redemption, nail files and mini perfume.



Phone which has pretty much given up the ghost. Glasses that no-one knows I wear, little bag where the stuff in the above photo lives, apart from the bar which I ate shortly after the photo!

Yeah. I really do carry a LOT. If you've done a whats in your bag post, link me, I'm nosy!

xxx