#100happydays: day 49 ( It's My Birthday :D )

ITS MY BIRTHDAY !!!! :D

Cutest pressie EVER :D
Too personal to talk about
 properly but I wanted
 to give it a mention
 because I'm so so grateful
 for this <3 I cant describe
 what it means to me :) 

Sorry I'm in a very good mood ... have I mentioned it's my birthday because it's my birthday and I'm just really happy because ITS MY BIRTHDAY :D * Deep Breath * okay its safe to come out ... I'm calm now ;) I know you probably wouldn't guess this from the massive overload of excitement you just experienced ( yeah sorry bout that ) But I actually don't like birthdays usually but this one was a bit different I guess I'm just generally a happier person this year and that makes all occasions seem better... and everything else actually :) Well what can I say ? I've always told you that smiling is good ;) So today .. what happened today ? urm well I woke up at 7 ( I know waayyy too early ) so I went to wake my boyfriend up and fell back asleep with him <3 Then about an hour later when he woke me up we went downstairs and I ate some crumpets ( I eat them cut into quarters because that makes me happy.. I'm weird like that :) ) We watched Adventure Time while we ate because why the hell not aha ;) We'd arranged to meet my friends in town just to go shopping at eleven thirty ish so I had to get ready I mean it might only take him twenty minutes including showering ... but I was struggling with the two hour limit ;) Anyways, while we were waiting for the hot water to heat up; I opened my presents off my boyfriends family which were AMAZING :) They must know me a lot better than I knew because they bought me two of my favourite things... Socks and Pyjamas , I mean Just look how awesome these socks are !!! :D After my shower I realised that I needed to straighten my hair and oh my gosh I cannot tell you how relived I was to know that I had brand new straighteners off my mum that would mean my hair would actually stay straight for more than just the entirety of half an hour when I'm lucky :)

I seriously would recommend these to ANYONE <3

How awesome are the chairs in hobbycraft !! :D 

Once we finally got ready we went to meet my friends in town and I just want quickly go off subject for a second ... have you been to McDonald's recently ? If not why not ? I went in today and made the most amazing discovery of my vegetarian life! :D Currently McDonald's have these GORGEOUS cheese bites in and oh my gosh they're like a taste sensation exploding in your mouth and just mmmmmm * mouth waters*  The reason I think I love them so much is the coating on the cheese bites , as a vegetarian I've found that the one thing I miss more than chicken ... is the actual breadcrumb coating with all the flavours and spices that just taste awesome :) Please go and try them, it will make your life better aha ;) Anyways, about two million calories later ( worth every one of them ) we went off to look round the shops and I bought some feathers in Hobbycraft because ... okay because they looked fluffy ... I'm sure I'll have a purpose  for them something , right?  ;) 

Then came presents :) wooo ! aha :D I'm so lucky to have such cute and thoughtful friends who know me well enough to get me such adorable ( and funny ) pressies :) I think I'm just going to show you pictures off the things off my friends bellow because it would take forever to thank all of them individually but I am so so grateful to have people like them in my life :) Also There's one I can't have a picture of because my best friend got me the amazingly fantastically wonderful :D give me a second I'm getting too excited * Deep breaths* tickets to see Cats the Musical :D You couldn't understand how thrilled I am by this gift and I can't wait for September 23 rd to go see it :) However as I am me she doesn't trust me not to lose the tickets hence why there's no picture but yayyyy :) 

Made me giggle :) One of my closest friends who is a boy has a joke with me that were married ... I expect he got some weird looks whilst buying this :) 

Meet MShadows the bear :) My friend who loves Avenged Sevenfold got me this addorable bear and as Buildabear workshop isn't really his scene he panicked and named the bear after the lead singer in Avenged Sevenfold aha :) 

LOVED this necklace <3 My friend and me have a thing about butterflies because they're a symbol of staying strong to us :) I don't have many necklaces and am really trying to build up my collection and this is just perfect :) 

I have a minor ( massive ) obsession with Wonder Woman :) A friend who I have become very close to in the past few months got me this awesome mug with socks ( you know how much I love socks aha ) and oh my gosh they're so awesome :) I'n my blog a few days ago where I spoke about the nicely wrapped present that was driving me crazy because I wasn't allowed to open it ... well that's this one and it was so worth the wait :D This girl is always there for me and an absolute angel <3 She makes me proud everyday and I will enjoy many a hot chocolate from this amazing gift :) 

We Then went to the park for a little while and I spent about twenty five minutes on the swings because I was that feeling that you're flying :) My ideal date would actually be going for a proper picnic with the cute little triangle cut sandwiches and strawberries and chocolate Yazoo milkshake and then spending the rest of the day on the swings or just drawing and reading in a nice field someone ... yeah if I go on a date like that I'm guessing I'm probably taking myself aha :) Oh well I'm okay with that ;) 

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Finally around six o'clock we went home and I got ready to go to my dads when he called and asked if my boyfriend wanted to come over with me for some cake and for some unknown reason that actually made my day :) So I put on my favourite summer dress and the butterfly necklace that I showed you a few pictures ago and we went for cake :) My boyfriend left the cutest thing on my notice board and a drawing of a tiger that was completely unrecognisable as a tiger but it made me laugh :) Then we went down stair and ate birthday cake ( Aldi's finest at £1.49 aha ;) ) and everybody sang which made me happy :) Then there were even more presents off my dad and sister which I'll show you : 

CHOCOLATE !!! <3 

I can't express how much I love all the songs from wicked :) 

My parents will probably never take me on another car journey again aha :) Sing-song Time ! :D

Also I got a UKULELE ! :D I've wanted one for so so long :) What could make this better ? well I'll tell you :) The book if Disney songs on ukulele that I got with it :) YAYYYYYYYY

I think that's all I have to say for now :) There's another present off my dad which is totally awesome and like the best thing ever but I kind of want to do a whole post about it so COMING SOON ;) Before I go I just wanted to show you my two favourite cards :) One I thought was funny and the other I thought was just cute mainly because of what was on the inside but I also liked the outside cause it was such a pretty design :) 

ITS CALLED A CARD !!!! ;)

P.s. " Don't ever leave " :')  Love you <3 

On that note I better be off,

Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :) 

I love you ... Really I do <3 you're worth while 

Much Love, Love much-ly 

DontBurstMyBubble xxx

P.s. As it's my birthday a lovely girl on the hopeful forum messaged me saying that as she didn't know me she couldn't get me a present but she knew I liked quotes so she sent me a load of birthday related quotes :) Which ones your favourite ? Or do you know any others ? Feel free to comment them below :) 

'Each year on your birthday you get the chance to start anew' 
'Don't just count your years, make your years count'
'Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come'
'The more you celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate'
'A birthday is a time to reflect on the year gone by, and set your goals for the coming year'
'You don't stop having fun when you grow old, you grow old when you stop having fun'
'Live every day like it's your birthday' 

I've mentioned this before but the girl who sent me these quotes has her own blog very similar to mine please check it out it really is wonderful :) You can find it here :)

#100happydays:day 47 ( Jumping to my feet :) )

Helloo :)

 

I don't know about you but I am in a way better mood today :) I feel like ... you know when your sat on the floor and then it's time to go but you can't bothered to get up so you put your hands out and one of your friends pull you up so fast that you kind of jump up and suddenly feel energised and like you want to find all the good things and just smile about them ... well yeah I feel like that aha :)

 



Yesterday I was feeling a bit/a lot rubbish and that's okay ( I talked about this in my previous blog which you can find here :) ) But it's important to know when it's time to pick yourself up and jump into action, all positivity guns blazing :D Actually I feel like guns isn't really the right word to go after positivity aha .... so maybe ermm more like party poppers or something ;) As a result, today I started to spot loads of good things that made me happy and to be honest it was lovely :)

 

Firstly I was in a rush to get to work experience because I over slept so unfortunately I had to grab any socks as fast as I could and obviously they wouldn't be black because that would just be too good wouldn't it aha :) Nope they were bright blue with white roses on but i soon cheered up the moment my mum told me that these socks were actually made of bamboo ! :) Wow. Bamboo socks. Life has got better ;) I don't know how they made them but I'm impressed aha :)



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Then still baffled from this amazing discovery , I was told that the school I was doing work experience in was having kind of an activity day. So I was sent to help out in paper crafting :) First I made a decoupage card with a really cute bear on ( awww ) and then we were taught how to do very basic tea bag folding which I thought was really awesome and made really cute patterns and shapes . If you look it up on google there's loads of things teaching you how to do it and all the more advanced ones :) I stuck mine to my card which I have now written to give to my best friend when I next see her because she's amazing <3  

 

 

When I came home from work I found my cat sat in the window looking like a lion ( A black extremely fluffy lion ) and it made me giggle but he's really not very good for taking photos of .. but I'll show you anyway :) I can only assume the poor thing must of been exhausted from a long day of sleeping and getting fur all over my bed aha ;)

 

 

 

Afterwards I went to my youth group and crept up quietly behind my friend and raw-erd at her and she jumped out her skin aha :) It was literally the funniest thing I had ever seen :') Despite me scaring the life out of her she still handed me a beautifully wrapped birthday present with instructions not to open it until Saturday ( my birthday ) I really hate waiting aha :) The anticipation is killing me and its practically a form of torture to have to watch it sat across my room practically begging to be opened ;) I'm actually getting kind of excited for my birthday even though I'm not doing anything in particular for it but I find people tend to be happier on peoples birthdays and I just love being around people who are smiley :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The same friend who gave me this wonderfully wrapped present , told me earlier this week that her mum was feeling down. That made me sad because everyone deserves to be happy so I made her a lemon drizzle cake ( click here :)    to find out how I made it <3 ) and I wrote her a letter , telling her five good things about her because I've never met this woman but I'm sure she's lovely and I want her to be happy no matter what <3 My friend text me when she had given her mum the cake and the letter and said that her mum had tears in her eyes when she was reading the letter and that she hadn't seen her mum so happy in ages and this coincidentally made me cry just a lil bit because it meant the world to me :)

 

Following this, things just kept getting better and my mum bought chocolate Yazoo milkshakes which are practically my favourite drink ever :) They even had cute little straws attached to them :o <3  

So I can't deny that today things got better so today's quote is :

" Be strong because things will get better. It may be stormy now, but it never rains forever "

Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :)
Your storm will pass soon , just keep going <3
Much Love, Love Much-ly
DontBurstMyBubble xxx

#100happydays: day 25 ( Sheepish Socks and Lemony Lemons... Recipe time ;) )

Hellooooo :) 

My new socks being modelled by me and
my best friends feet :) Aren't they just simply
fabulous ;) 

I hope your all feeling good :) Following the events of yesterday ( you can read about that here ) I'm still in a very good mood :)  I can feel this blog post is destined to be a bit on the long side so I better get started if that's all good with you ? Well I hope it is because I'm going to start anyway because you are in the future in accordance to when I'm writing this which is in my present therefore you couldn't of given me an answer in the time space I had ... Actually in the time I just spent waffling I probably could've composed a reasonable introduction aha :) Anyway's firstly, I just want to get the important thing out of the way so I can move on to what I actually planned to do this blog about :) My awesome dad bought me some sheep socks as a kind of well done present for getting to be a prefect at school ! I love socks so much :D So today my #100happydays photo is a picture of my new socks :) When I got home I found my new socks had sparked a thought in my brain .. That life long, burning question that I was certain no one knew the answer to; where did socks come from ? So being me I decided science coursework could wait, I was determined to find out  the answer so that I could make all your lives better because that's what you wanted to know when you clicked on this blog right ? ... right ? guys come on admit it ;) no ? oh okay then ... I'm going to tell you anyway because it made me smile so it might make you smile and as I always say ; Smiling's good :)  I found the answer to our prayers when I came across a website dedicated to socks where you can read the entire history of socks .. You probably don't want to which is fair enough because well it's about socks and you probably have a social life or something but for the rest of us ( so probably just me aha ) you can find the website called Lonely Sock here :) 

Right now on to what I wanted to talk about :) The other day after some very unfortunate events my best friends nan was feeling very rightly sad so I decided that I wanted to give her at least a small smile so I've bought her a bouquet of flowers and made her a Lemon Drizzle cake :) Mmm lemon drizzle cake is probably my favourite just the sweet sugar and the sour lemony goodness colliding into one gorgeous taste sensation in your mouth and .. seriously how that cake is still whole I actually don't know aha ;) So especially for you, I present without no further a do ... Lemon drizzle a la bubble ;) 

Recipe : Lemon Drizzle a la bubble 

Ingredient's 

• 2 eggs  
• 4oz (110g) of caster sugar
• 4oz (110g) of margarine 
• 4oz (110g) of self raising flour
• 1 table spoon of milk 
• 2-3 un-waxed lemons
• a lil bit of extra sugar for sprinkling :)
• and now some more sugar for stuff .. about 2 table spoons probably aha 

Equitment

• Mixing bowl 
• Two mugs 
• A Spoon ( I don't really know if that counts as equitment .. but you need it aha :) )
• A loaf tin 
• A loaf tin liner ( if you don't have one don't worry just rub some margarine around the tin to grease it up )
• A Whisk
• A fork 
• Zester/ cheese grater 

This should make one Lemon Drizzle Loaf cake :) I actually got confused when writing down the ingredient's because I made two earlier and apparently dividing by two at midnight is very difficult for someone like me aha ;) 

Before you start you should probably set your oven to preheat to 180 degrees because your smart so probably would like to do that bit before you actually start transferring the mixture into tins and realise baking requires an oven .. its been a long day okay aha ;)

1. Cream your sugar and margarine until the mixture has a white sheen to it :) If you want to make it extra fluffy then spend an extra few minutes after you get the white sheen hand whisking the mixture ... I always do this because it gives me more time to eat the mixture aha ;)
2. Carefully break both your eggs into a mug so that if you do accidentally get some shell in it then you've not ruined your mixture :) I find this helpful when not trying to poison my family because I'm actually quite fond of them .. sometimes ;) Then whisk the eggs with a fork until they're light and fluffy ( that's what my mum always used to tell me ... I don't really see how an egg can be light and fluffy but she's a wise woman so I'll take her word for it ) 
3. Add your egg a lil bit at a time to your mixture and whisk thoroughly to insure the mixture doesn't curdle :) 
4. Sift in the self raising flour and stir it into the mixture then whisk until it's fully combined and smooth ( it tastes really good at this point ;) ) 
5. Use your cheese graters zesting side to take the zest off 2 lemons and then add it two the cake mixture and stir :)
6. Line or grease your loaf tin and add in the cake mixture then put your loaf tin filled with cake mixture into the oven ... smells so good :)
7. Lick the bowl out ( this is the best part ... probably the only reason I make cakes ;) )
8. Whilst the cake is cooking juice the lemons with a fork or a citrus juicer if you have more common sense that me :) sift the lemon juice to remove pips and pour into a microwavable mug ... you can do this in a pan over the hob but I find this is just quicker and easier :) add around 1 and a half to 2 table spoons of caster sugar to the lemon juice and microwave so that the sugar dissolves making a warm sweet-ish but still slightly sour lemon mixture :) If you think it's to sour just add more sugar because that's what I do :) If I'm honest I actually have no idea how much I used aha :)
9. Take the cakes out of the oven when they are golden brown and springy to the touch. To see if they're cooked poke a clean knife through the middle if it comes out clean then the cakes cooked .. if not give it five more minutes and check again. 
10. When your cake is cooked and out of the oven poke lots of holes in your cake with a fork whilst it's still warm and then pour your hot lemon-sugar mixture over the cake . To finish it off sprinkle with a lil bit of sugar so it looks like a fairy's but magic dust on it and leave to cool. 

ENJOY! :D

I served a slice of my cake ( I made a second cake for my mum as well as the one for my friends nan) with a glass of cloudy lemonade which I decorated with a slice of lemon and a yellow straw to in keep with the theme of lovely lemons and all there lemony goodness :)

                                  

So I hope you enjoy this recipe and let me know if you try it and how it goes :) because I was feeling lemony I thought I'd just finish this blog off with five facts about lemon's so that you can leave this pointless blog as entirely confuzzeld as you were when you clicked on it and found me talking about socks aha :) 

•  During the European Renaissance, fashionable ladies used lemon juice as a way to redden their lips.
• The average lemon holds about three tablespoons of juice.
•  Now I've got a surprise for you because it shocked me : lemons are technically berries (as are oranges, watermelons and tomatoes).
• The average lemon has about eight seeds
• There is a lemon festival in Mentone which is in France, that takes place in the spring. It’s been celebrating the yellow citrus fruit, so commonly found in the French Riviera, for close to a century.

Thank you for sticking around and reading about sheepish socks and lemony lemon recipe's I hope I made you smile once or twice and keeping In with today's theme we might as well have a lemon themed quote as well :) 

" If Life gives you lemons, make grape juice and surprise the world " 

I best be off then because it's nearly 1 am and neither of us have learnt anything significant .. apart from some random acts of kindness mean you get to eat cake mixture .. that's actually a pretty good incentive to do random acts of kindness aha :) But seriously if you see someone who's life isn't going particularly great right now , surprise them with a random act of kindness to lend them a smile just to keep them going ... It doesn't have to be big even just leave a nice note for them :) They will definitely appreciate kindness when they are in dark times <3 

Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :) 

You're going to do great if you ever get a pop quiz on lemons ;)

Much love, Love much-ly 

DontBurstMyBubble xxx

P.s. told you it was going to be a long one ;) thank's for sticking around , I appreciate it <3