Pinterest non-fails

Sometimes great things happen when Pinterest and I collide - aside from procrastination, daydreaming and 'oh look, another impressive skylight'

I decided to take my Pin dreams to make them into a reality, and what a productive time that it has been!
Until this point, the only things that I have tried are all food creations and an abundance of makeup looks, but today we are just sticking to food.

First up:



The Veggi fingers- I'd like to point out that mine looked basically nothing like this, the crisp - oh the unattinable crisp



The mashed potato stuffed bell peppers - These were pretty good, but my goodness so filling, it's surprising hoe much potato can fit into one little pepper. I also added two cloves of garlic all crushed up to the mash to kind of give it a little 'zing' I served with roasted carrots cut into little match sticks.


Pasta with fresh tomato sauce, courtesy of Martha Stewart.
 This dish and I were onto a loss at the start really, as I accidentally bought tinned plum tomatoes as opposed to fresh, so the fresh element of this dish falls out the window at about that point. However, I put it in the food processor with a lot of basil, 3 cloves of garlic and heated it over a stove, slowly adding cornflour to thicken it up a little. A few twists of pepper, and this and I were a match made in heaven.


Sweet and Sour chicken - At no point do I pretend that this is good for you, but my goodness, it tastes really good. The tangy vinegar, the sugar. It's a mountain of flavour- I skip out battering the chicken just because it's an extra fiddly and adds more grease and more time. This is one of those twice or three times a year dishes. Mostly I just like the sauce and would pour it over a vegetable stir fry to give it a kick.

So there you have it, Pinterest pins that really do work.
Keep in mind that I have had plenty of Pinterest fails too.
For more fun visit www.pinterestfail.com One of my favourite procrastination destinations (aside from Pinterest)

Wanting what you can't find!

I love Pinterest and it's the perfect way to procrastinate when I should be doing more constructive things, but I still want to brighten your day up with beautiful finds so here is my most recent 'Isn't this awesome?!' List:

I stumbled across these beautiful tank tops, I love the way the picture stretches across the vest, I love how these kind of Disney designs is not just limited to kiddy clothes!

The saddest part is that these are another on the beautiful but forever lost pins that have no link to where I can get them! But I can still look at them and dream I own them, which is a much more purse friendly way to view them.

The next are these super fun Catigans - get it? Instead of cardigans!

But it's another one on the no link list!

This perfect striped bow blouse, I even already own the jeans to match, but the blouse is nowhere to be found so it just has to live in my imaginary wardrobe.

And finally...

This adorable trouser and top combination. The trousers are especially beautiful, but I'd need the whole hippy chic look going on for it to work on me! But I will never know how they look on me!

At least I have a permanent reminder of all these beautiful clothes so they will not get lost forever!

Italia shopping-a

This summer I'm heading off to Italy- Yippee!
I am so so so excited to go abroad, I haven't been on a plane in two years and I got my passport renewed last year so I'm glad to finally be exercising it!

I've begun the shopping process which is strongly fueled by Pinterest since I've been pinning outfits I'm dreaming of wearing while walking along the street with an Italian sunset... -sigh-
Unfortunately I don't have nearly the budget to fulfill my Pinterest fantasy so I thought that a charity shop or 'thrift store' if you're fancy,  would be a good place to start building a dreamy Italian wardrobe.
Within 5 minutes of walking into a charity shop I found two gems:
A skirt still with the tags, that was £9 that I got for £3
I love the ruffle at the bottom, it's so pretty and girly!

A floaty white blouse that would look so pretty as a way to cover my arms in the evening and would look striking with bright, maybe even neon shorts and a (fake) tan.

This concludes the beginning of building up a cheap summer wardrobe, because I feel confident that the weather in England will never be warm enough to wear any of this again- It's approaching Easter and we have fresh snow on the ground, it's driving me loopy loo

Pinterest fail

I'm sure you're probably bored to tears of me yapping on about 'Pinterest' especially if you're not a pinner and you really just have no clue what I'm rambling on about. I especially hope that the more I ramble on about Pinterest doesn't put you further off ever venturing over to Pinterest.com
Well today's post is about Pinterest but it's also comical whether you like Pinterest or even know what it is.
Among many other things, Pinterest is known to have a lot, lot, lot of seemingly 'magical', 'super easy' and 'best ever' recipe's and craft projects that really do seem too good to be true. It is true what they say, if it seems too good to be true then it probably is.
If you've had a Pinterest catastrophe first hand or just like a good giggle then Pinterestfail.com is a hilarious compilation of peoples creative feats that have just not gone quite right at all!

Take this for example, beautiful rainbow jar cake, all happy and fun ...la la la la la... then...

The reality when a normal person tries to recreate it:

Infinity friend symbol... Pinterest and reality!


 Glass cutting - super modern home technique!
 

Swirly cookies!



Makes me think that it would be better to stick to the fashion section rather than the craft section in the future!
For sooo many more visit www.pinterestfail.com

Pinterest infecting my brain!

If ever there was a better way to waste away a lazy Sunday than on Pinterest please let me know, 1 hour feels like 1 minute and I'm just pinning even more furiously than before, I've collected my Summer wardrobe, my dream wedding, my dream holiday, my dream life I think!!!

Pinning long into the night!!!

Pinterest Spamterest

Pinterest is a great ol' hub of creativity mixing together, if you are a bride to be then you need to make your way over to Pinterest.com for every creative, beautiful, money saving, romance making, awe inducing creations, themes, colour schemes, locations and dresses from the most stylish and savvy brides of the world!

I have created seperate virtual pin boards for clothes from my dreams, places I thought were only in fantasy lands, foods that are so pretty I want to coat them in a clear preserve to look at them forever and other boards just to collect all the crazy and outlandish world statistics that I never knew about and others are there to gather the craft projects of my dreams, I wish we didn't need to always be in the real world and going to the places that we have to go to like work and school and instead we could have months of empty time just to make and stick and stitch and paint.

Just lately though my boards have been corrupted by spam, I don't even know how it could have happened but my account has just given birth to brand new boards all by itself titled completely lame things like 'The best paid jobs in the US' ... i don't even live in the US- that's not something that I would put on my lovely array of pin boards! And the more I delete it, more boards seem to spring up that I didn't even create!
I just hope if i keep reporting it, it will go away but I won't let it plague my oasis of favourite things on my pin boards.
Here are some of my favourites!

www.pinterest.com/alexiaesque