I AM FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL!!! ps. internet didn't fasten today fingers crossed for tomorrow thinking about doing an outfit post 

Love and luck

xxx

BEST BLOGS EVER!

I know this is getting slightly repetitive but I thought I needed to add a few blogs to my favourite blogging list. Tomorrow I finish the HSC and I think the internet will start working properly so I am very excited and will able to post more pictures!

http://www.grazedknees.com/

http://gh0stparties.com/

http://amilliondresses.blogspot.com/

http://www.daisybutter.com/

http://vivatramp.blogspot.com/

http://www.fromgemwithlove.com/

http://fernlaura.blogspot.com/

http://www.fatfrocks.com/

Hope you guys enjoy these blogs as much as (hopefully) you enjoy mine!

Love and luck

xxx

Suggested TV Shows

So anyone who knows me is aware that I am a big TV series fanatic. I would choose watching a TV series over watching a movie anyday, but unfortunately of course this is quiet an expensive hobby with buying the DVDs that are $20 - $40 each. The following list are my favourite and most enjoyable TV series, pretty much I have watched each of the seasons at least 3 times and know a lot about them .... my christmas wishlist is full of DVDs and the occasional iPhone. 

1. Friends: my all time favourite comedy along with millions of other people. This is probably my favourite TV series and I own all 10 seasons. Everytime I watch the last season it makes me sad that I have actually finished it all. Lots of people say that friends should have finished around season 8, which I kind of agree with but at the same time that last season tugs at the heart strings, especially when there is a circular movement of Monica's empty apartment. I would highly recommend watching all the seasons if you haven't already!
2. Weeds: first of all Mary Louise Parker makes this TV series. This series always has something new and fresh with lots of unexpected events around the corner. Personally behind Mary Louise Parker (Nancy Botwin) my favourite actor in the series is Hunter Parrish (Sylus Botwin). Its probably the great hotness that he develops throughout the series but he is a great actor and character. This series has 7 seasons and I have seen 6 of the seasons, so far its really enjoyable but some say it should have stopped. The first season is a bit slow but if you keep it out then it just gets better. 
3. Greys Anatomy and Desperate Housewives: both of these seasons are great with their release date being the same and both of them being at their 8th season. Desperate Housewives stars Felicity Huffman, Teri Hatcher, Eva Longoria and Marcia Cross with many reoccuring secondary characters. It is a great TV series but is coming to its end with its current season being its last unfortunately. Greys anatomy stars Ellen Pompeo and is a great TV series with something that always keeps you on your toes. There are rumours that Patrick Dempsey (Derek Shepard) is in his last season and does not want to renew his contract. Pompeo says (rumour) that she would be happy to stay on and I really hope she does as she makes the show what it is.
4. Ghost Whisperer: I love Jennifer Love Hewitt, she is a great actor in this series, I watched it on and off when it was on TV and have the season 5 DVD, I can't actually seem to find the first season but haven't been trying that hard. 
5. Love my Way: a good old Australian TV series that only had 3 seasons but could have gone to four in my opinion. This TV series is great and revolves around the life of one family, the complications with marriage, the birth and death of children. It stars Claudia Karvan who is also is in the new series Spirited. 
6. Parenthood: I only started watching this series a few months ago but am already hooked. I have seen season 1, most of season 2 and season 3 is now currently on TV. Its a great show which once again tells the stories of a family and all the complications that come with having a big family but also the happiness. 

Anyway, I would highly suggest all the TV series above, I also watch a bit of Sex and the City but not in consecutive seasons, just whenever its on TV. 

Love and luck 

xxx

Blogs I would suggest

http://www.katrinaleechambers.com/ - This is the blog of Katrina from 'The Block' 2011. I find that it is a really great blog with regular updates about fashion, motherhood etc. 

http://www.llymlrs.com/ - This is one of my all time favourite blogs. It is about fashion, there is also another blog called Etc Llymlrs which is related to it and about broader things such as make up and the bloggers recent purchases. It is updated daily about outfits she wore that day. 

http://danielleheartsbooks.blogspot.com/ - This blog is a relatively new. Danielle talks about current books she is reading and gives you the ease of buying the book she is reading by being linked to Amazon. 

http://themakeupbubble.blogspot.com/ - I am also a fan of this blog talking everything make up. 

http://wintagenetvoodle.blogspot.com/ - Personally I love vintage, antique style jewellery/clothes/furniture and this blog supports this obsession. I also LOVE the jewellery she talks about

Masterchef

About a year ago I subscribed to the Masterchef magazine which I thought would be really exciting as I would get to make a heap of different recipes I usually wouldn't. But having gotten it for a year and I have kept all the magazines I have found that I don't make many recipe's from the magazine's and I am not planning to renew my membership. This may just be my experience, I am not sure. Having said that one recipe I did make was a Chicken and Prawn Laksa. I love this dish and it is a great family meal. 

Kuala Lumpur Chicken and Prawn Laksa

Serves: 4

Prep Time: 40mins

Cooking: 20mins

(+30mins to soak chillies)

•        80mL (1/3 cup) vegetable oil, plus extra for frying
•        250grams green prawns, peeled and cleaned heads and shells reserved
•        400mL coconut milk
•        2 tablespoons fish sauce
•        1 tablespoon palm sugar
•        160grams poached chicken breast, cut into 1cm slices
•        400grams fresh egg noodles
•        100grams bean sprouts
•        100grams green beans, boiled
•       3 spring onions, trimmed, thinly sliced

  Laksa Spice Paste

o   4 dried red chillies, soaked for 30mins and drained

o   20grams cashew nuts

o   2 stalks lemongrass, chopped

o   3 gloves garlic, roughly chopped

o   20grams ginger, roughly chopped

o   2 teaspoons curry powder

o   3 red eschalots, roughly chopped

o   2 teaspoon shrimp paste

o   ½ teaspoon salt

o   1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Method

•        To make Laksa spice paste, process all ingredients in a food processor to a smooth paste
•        To make stock, heat 1-tablespoon oil in a wok or large frying pan. Add reserved prawn heads and shells and cook for 2mins or until golden brown. Add 1L water, bring to the boil and simmer for 4minutes. Strain, reserving liquid and pan
•       Use 60mL of oil to reserved pan and heat over medium heat. Add Laksa spice paste and cook for 2mins or until fragrant. Add stock, coconut milk, fish sauce, sugar and 1-teaspoon salt. Simmer for 3minutes. Add prawns and chicken to the soup and simmer for 5minutes until prawns are just cooked through
•        Meanwhile, cook noodles in a pan of boiling water until tender, then drain
•        Divide noodles among bowls. Top with sprouts and beans. Spoon over soup. Top with spring onions and hers. 

Happy Cooking!!

Love and Luck

xxx

Cutest Story!!

I love this story, and when I am of age (as in like 10 - 15years) aspire to be like this!!

Story from news.com.au:

An elderly couple, married for 72 years, died holding hands in hospital within 70 minutes of each other.

Gordon and Norma Yeager died in an Iowa hospital after a car accident last week that also injured another couple.

"They're very old-fashioned. They believed in marriage 'til death do you part," their son Dennis Yeager. 

The Yeagers' children said that their parents never liked being apart ever since marrying in 1939.

The family said they were relieved their parents were able to spend their last moments together in the intensive care unit of the hospital.

"They brought them in the same room in intensive care and put them together - and they were holding hands in ICU. They were not really responsive," Dennis Yeager said.

Gordon died at 3.38pm surrounded by their family and holding hands with Norma. His wife died at 4.48pm. 

"It was really strange, they were holding hands, and dad stopped breathing but I couldn't figure out what was going on because the heart monitor was still going," said Dennis Yeager.

"But we were like, he isn't breathing. How does he still have a heart beat? The nurse checked and said that's because they were holding hands and it's going through them. Her heart was beating through him and picking it up."

"Neither one of them would've wanted to be without each other. I couldn't figure out how it was going to work," the Yeagers' daughter Donna Sheets has said "We were very blessed, honestly, that they went this way."

The couple were holding hands at their funeral in their casket. Their family said the plan was to cremate them together and mix their ashes.

This story brought a tear to my eye

Love and luck 

xxxx

Nicholas Sparks

Sorry about the lack of blogging this week, I finish my HSC next Wednesday so hopefully I will start blogging more and have more to talk about as I am going to see movies etc.

 As all my friends know I am not a big reader, if a reader at all, but I am trying to turn that around. I recently bought two books off the Book Depository by Nicholas Sparks, Remember Me and Dear John. I also bought The Help, not sure who its by. I have seen all the movies and loved them and hopefully the books will be the same ... I am very excited by this delivery as I love to get things in the post!! I recently bought another Nicholas Sparks book on my mums Kindle, trying it out to see if I like it and if I want for Christmas. I have decided that its a great way to read books but I prefer to read from a book. The book was called "The Best of Me". I am only up to chapter five but so far it is really good, I would highly suggest it! 

Love and luck

xxx