One Little Word

I've blogged about one little word before, so here's what I've decided.

More.


More dedicated. More effort. More thought.
It's my last year of uni and I don't want to get complacent with my essays, I want to throw myself into my placement, I want to work as hard as I can and be proud of what I accomplish. 2012 is a big year for me, and I want it to be what I want it to be, and it can only be that way if I push myself and demand more. So to enforce this, I'm going to make it part of my doodles. I doodle a lot and usually end up looking at them when I'm browsing my notes so this way, I'll either consciously or subconsciously be telling myself to give more.

I'd like to know your words too if you're joining in?

Marble Cake

On New Years Eve, it was my friend birthday as well. He doesn't live with his parents and I wasn't sure if he was going to get a cake with candles to blow out, so I wanted to make sure he did. 21 is a big birthday after all!

Here's the recipe I used. I followed it to a T because I'm not a very good baker. It took agesssssss to fully cook and I think the outside was a bit too brown but oh well. I think it was because the tin was too deep.

Tin I had to borrow from my nans, nicely lined already! What a babe <3

Our Old fashioned scales

Measure everything out

Mix butter and sugar together 

Mix butter and sugar with flour together

Add in the eggs

Lots of mixed batter

Split the mixture, add cocoa to one

Alternate dollops of each mixture into the cake tin until there's none left

Goopey mixture, get a skewer and mix it around a bit, not too much though,

I wish I had a photo of the end product but I don't! And, I didn't even get to try it, so I can't really review it. Apologies :(

There are too many things I want to blog about, so this may be a long post!

Janel at Run with Scissors shared her word of the year from this site, and I think it's a really positive thing to do and I'm certainly going to give it a lot of thought so I can participate too.

This is my new jumper, my great aunt knitted it for me for Christmas and my sister at Home Bird Economics wanted to see what it was like on, so here it goes;

Here is also what I wore for new years. Dad caught me papping a few photos of my new dress (Topshop sale, £10) and I suggested he joined in! I decided to curl my hair, not only cause it was a special occassion, but after doing all these outifit posts I've noticed I always seem to have straight hair!

This post is quite long now so I'm gona save the rest for another day!

Hope you all had a lovely new years? Did you get up to anything fantastic? Let me know! xx