Christmas wishlist

I bullied my friend into updating her blog with one, and thought I’d do the same thing. Initially all I wanted was new underwear and tights, but I quickly found that I’m just as materialistic as always. Phew!

• Tivoli Audio Model One, a sweet little radio for when I’m in Dunedin.
• Flower head band. OOH.
• Dollflower eyes for my creepy BJD hobby.
• A job, so I can afford to buy stuff for above hobby. Also, sewing skills to make it somewhat cheaper.
• For 2012 to not suck.
• Wendy to turn up at my house with a poofy ribbon on her head saying “I AM YOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENT OH HEYY“, and then we can skip underneath rainbows with cheerful unicorns.
• New earrings. Possibly hypoallergenic, because my current ones have started making my ears itchy/painful. Also the green ooze that accompanies all this is a bit freaky.

• This minty cake mixer, although you can also get these in pink and they’re so irrestibly cute but I’m trying to be a grown-up today.
• A red VW Beetle (and a driver’s license, lololol).
• A4 hardcover notebook with plain pages. A nice one. So impossible to find.
• Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. Waiting for the PC version is killing me, and logically I should wait a year when it’ll be super cheap…
• Ponies! A shetland pony (fluffy mane!), a clydesdale (fluffy feet!), and a miniature horse (fat bellies and short legs!).

My baby sister had a birthday

I took photos.

(…What the feck are those furry green flowers? It’s like they have leaves instead of petals.)

Mum put flowers in my sister’s room to welcome her when she came back from uni. While I love obnoxiously bright daisies (take note!), I also like roses but had no idea you could get them in purple – my favourite colour! Combined with my weakness for flowers, it made for a jealous Becka.

Macro shots make me feel like a photography expert, and means I don’t have to remember to clear the background of Distracting Plastic Bags (see first photo).

Personally, it’s exciting being tough enough to celebrate someone’s birthday without wilting, eesh. For these cupcakes I daringly tried a new recipe that gave me a fluffy sponge cake and I’m ashamed to say that I ate more of these than Birthday Girl did! The icing had splashes of vanilla and lemon essence… I didn’t know what I was doing, no… making it a miracle that the end result was so tasty (phew!). Please note that I further honed my baking skillz by putting coconut in a plastic bag with green food dye that I shook around to make grass. I get more incredible every day. ;D

Macro! Forgive me.