Likes and Dislikes

Hello so i thought today i would give a little more about myself away so I'm going to tell you some likes and dislikes.

Likes:-
Tattoos, on me and are hot on men
Films and an array of tv series (to many to have just one favourite)
The colour purple
Make up
Nail varnish
Youtube
Winter
Family, friends and my pets (obvious i hope :)
Blogging
My bed
Handbags
Mums home made roast potatoes
Baking
Mario game (the original)
Norwich
Chilled out days at home with my dogs
A nice meal out with good friends
Smell of coffee

Stanley photo bombing lol

Dislikes:-
Spiders
Octopus ewe ewe ewe
Bad parking
Rude people, just say please and thank you!
English Summers
Fire works
Late night noises (people can be inconsiderate sometimes)
Long hair on men (sorry)
Taste of coffee

I could go on but these will often change on a daily basis like most people things will annoy me like someones great parking skills *sarcasm* or something will make me smile for instance one of my dogs just being silly and please don't take any of these personally its just my feelings and opinions.
I just wanted to share a little more about myself with you, whoever you may be reading this. You know now more about me then i know about you :D

See you soon
Jinny xx

My weekend

Hello all i just thought it would be nice to let you know what i have gotten up to this weekend. So towards the end of the week i started to watch the second series of Hannibal staring Mads Mikkelsen who you may have seen in Casino Royale (Bond, James Bond) and he plays Hannibal, Hugh Dancy who plays Will Graham and Laurence Fishburne. Its a very deep and twisted series but its very very good its been a while since i saw the first series but this second one well I'm on episode 6 and so far so good i won't give anything away but its definitely worth a watch in my eyes.

On Saturday i made another batch of those delicious chocolate cookies and went shopping to a couple of places in my home town with my mum. Saturday evening i had the place to myself so i sat and watched a movie with Stanley and Humphrey snuggled up on the sofa, i watch the film Julie and Julia which is about a cooking blog so i felt drawn to it for maybe obvious reasons ;)

And we now come to today (Sunday) i decided i wanted to treat myself to a lovely Kitchenaid Mixer to aid in any future baking needs. It wasn't an easy job i went to one place hoping they had it in stock but they didn't :( so whilst out i went into boots and stocked up and a few essentials.

I love Boots and at the moment it has some great offers on like 3 for 2 on all hair care products and a the minute I'm growing my hair and I'm all the time in need of new hair bobbles.
So after not being able to get what i wanted i went home thinking i will order one online and wait for it to be delivered, i wasn't 100% happy with this as when you have something in your mind and you want it there and then its so annoying to have to wait, but i would rather wait then settle for something i didn't won't. Ahhh but not all hope was lost i found out there was some in stock at John Lewis  so off i went and tah da

Here we go my new toy all new and shiny waiting to be used. Unfortunately i had nothing to bake with and had a long day travelling around so wasn't in the mood so it goes unused until my next day off when i will hopefully be making some bread and when i do i will keep you all informed as to how it went.
Well not the most exciting or adventurous of weekends but i enjoyed it.  And i hope you all had a lovely weekend what ever you got up to.

See you soon
Jinny xx

Distractions

Hello all, so whilst i was making those yummy cookies yesterday i had a couple of distractions and i just wanted to share with you what i have to put up with.

oh looking so sweet and innocent. But i know better ;)

Draw me like one of your french girls.

So from my first post you may know these two but if not then here we have Stanley and Humphrey. I love baking and learning new ways to do things and I'm very much enjoying doing my blog but when i see these two just laying here like that all i want to do is get a dvd on and snuggle up on the sofa all day with these 2 sat with me. But alas i have things to do so they had to entertain themselves and this is what i find myself looking at. You got to love these 2.

See you soon
Jinny xx

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Yummy Cookies nom nom nom

Hello all hope your having a nice week what ever your up to.
Today i would like to show you a recipe for yummy chocolate cookies.
I got the original recipe from Tanya Burr. She also has further links on her video to where she originally got the recipe from.
I would like to tell you as we go along some things i have learnt on the way that may help you with you cookie making needs.
Im not a massive sweet tooth person but i love to bake for others and get there feedback. For me its all about giving and seeing others enjoy the fruits of your labour. I love t see there faces when you make something they just love you can tell within seconds they are enjoying it.
Ive been making these oh so very chocolatey cookies for a while now and all my friends and family love them and it has been said that they are better then the ones you can buy from a certain cookie place, so hopefully you will all love them too.
So lets get started.

You will need:-
200g unsalted butter
300g caster sugar
1 large egg
275 of self-raising flour
75g cocoa powder
and 2 large bars of chocolate (one white and one milk chocolate)
also if needed a small splash of milk.
Makes 15 rather large and oh so gooey cookies.

Preheat your oven to 210/220 degrees or 200 degrees for non-fan. Every oven is different, we got a new fan oven the other day and previous to this i was ok baking on a temp of 220 degrees but i have now had to adjust this to 210/200 degrees just keep an eye on them whilst in the oven.
Your butter needs to be at room temp so its easy to work with, i recommend leaving it out over night or a few hours before your ready to bake, i wouldn't suggest putting it in the microwave as this can make the mixture to sticky to work with. Put your sugar and butter in a bowl and mix together either by hand or if your lucky enough with some kind of electrical whist until they mixture is creamy. Then crack your egg into the mixture and mix a little more once all mixed together you can now add you flour and cocoa powder and mix throughly, you may want to get your hands dirty at this point and make sure all you dry ingredients are well mixed in. If you feel at this point it feels a little dry you can add a very small amount of milk. (most times i bake these i don't need to)
Now I'm a little ocd and have tried it a couple of ways, most people put the chocolate pieces into the mixture with the dry ingredients and mix together but i feel that not every cookie gets a good amount of chocolate this way and i don't want anyone going without! So, what i tend to do is divide my chocolate in 15 piles you tend to get 3 whole sized milk pieces and 2 half size white pieces in each pile, but its up to you and you could also add more of other things like nuts, M&Ms etc it also depends on how much you eat during the whole process.
Now your going to need a tray with some baking paper on top, you may have to bake these in 2 goes as not all 15 cookies will go on one tray. So i now divide my mixture into 15 roughly same sized balls, i get my 5 pieces of chocolate and the mixture together making another ball so you can hardly see any pieces of chocolate on the outside, i flatten it slightly and place it on the baking tray ready to go, do this 7 more times and then but your first batch into the oven for 10 minutes only. Once the time is up take them out the oven and leave them on the tray for maybe 10 more minutes before moving them into a cooling rack as they may be to hot and soft to move off the backing tray too early. Repeat this process with you second batch. Once cooled to a nice temperature you can eat and enjoy the chocolatey richness of your own homemade cookies.

start to finish

I really hope you enjoyed todays post.

See you soon
Jinny xx

Winter nail varnish selection

Hello all, so its getting to my favourite time of year winter! yay and that means getting out your autumn/winter nail varnish from the back of your collection.
Today i would like to show you some of my favourite nail varnishes from my collection, some of which I'm sorry to say may not be available to buy anymore but still look lovely to wear in the autumn/winter seasons. so i hope you don't mind if i share these with you.

Some of my favourite nail varnishes have to be Essie, 2 coats is all you need and it lasts for days! I get all my Essie varnishes from Boots always good when they are on offer, I love a good deal like 3 for 2.

Essie top left to bottom right :-
miss fancy pants
cocktail bling
recessionista
sand tropez
eternal optimist
its genius
not just pretty face
hide & go chic
smokin hot
midnight cami
merino cool
chinchilly
angora cardi
over the edge
fall in line
shearling darling
parka perfect
toggle to the top

These are butter London nail varnishes i have got these online from there website and some from Boots. They are little more on the expensive side but again you get a good finish.

butter London from top left to bottom right:-
come to bed red
toff
dahling
all hale the queen
tart with a heart
saucy jack
artful dodger
dodgy barnett
no more waity, Katie

Here we have Models Own which I'm afraid to say these may have been discontinued but just look so autumn/winter don't you think? And once again good coverage.

Models Own left to right:-
purple grey
purple ash
grey day
nude beige

Again to some more "high end" nail varnish i love the Estee Lauder one such good coverage and a slight 2 tone effect to it, the Chanel ones are lovely colours but i do think they need a coat or 2 more than the rest.

Chanel and Estee Lauder left to right:-
coup de coeur 609
steel orchid
blue boy 555

And last but no means least we have No7 the beloved Boots brand, i have had some not so good colours but these ones i love they have good coverage and again look at the colour of them.

No7 top left to bottom right:-
winter tale
night silver
totally teal
grey matter
glitter bomb

Sorry there are no photos of them on my hands, but my nails are not in a great condition to be showing off on here at this exact moment.
I tend to wear the same colour on all nails but occasionally i will do an accent nail, so i will paint my ring finger nail either a different colour or maybe add a little glitter to that one nail and it can make a massive difference.
Lets be honest though you can wear what ever colour you want at any time these are just the colours i like to wear this time of year and yes sometimes in the spring and summer as well i know I'm a rebel ;)

Hope you liked todays post.
ps I'm back to work as of today (had a week off lucky me) so my posts may not be as often as they have been, but i am enjoying the whole process so I'm not going to stop.

See you soon
Jinny xx

Dreaming of the Big Apple

Hello again and good afternoon hope you are all doing well.
Today I wanted to get things sorted for my blog, get myself organised like dusting off my old camera so I could have some nice pictures on here to go with what I put up.
Once it had charged I found myself looking through an old memory card that had been left in there for years and i found myself smiling and reminiscing about a trip i took many years ago now to New York.

Arriving in New York 

It had been my dream since i can remember to go to the Big Apple I'm not sure if it had come from my love of the TV Series FRIENDS or SEX AND THE CITY but when i had the opportunity to go i grabbed it with both hands.
I went back in 2007 when i was ohh let me think in my early 20's, but because i was so keen to go i didn't care who it was with so thinking back i wish i had gone with some of my friends or at least someone my own age to have more of the experiences i wish i had whilst there. Don't get me wrong i had a wonderful time and experienced some wonderful things but the company you travel with can make a huge difference.
Anyway i do hope one day to go back but when i did go i was able to take time off work to go near Christmas so every corner you turned you saw huge and over the top decorations, i loved it!

A small selection of Christmas decorations going on at the time

I was also able to see the New Years ball in Macy's.

If i remember correctly we stayed in the Wellington Hotel which was near Time Square and Central Park so prime position for all those tourist's need's.

M and M shop

I didn't get the chance to go up the Empire State building as it was too foggy, also at the time i visited New York there were strikes going on at Broadway so i was unable to see a show and i could only see the green lady from a far ahh well that's why i hope to go back again.

On my way home :(

Anyway i just wanted to share some memories with you and maybe one day i can update this to some new one. Fingers crossed.

See you all soon
Jinny xx

A small introduction

Hello :) so where do I begin, I suppose with a little about this blog. First things first I'm not a professional blogger I just started this as a bit of a hobby and will be learning things as i go. As to what content will be on here well anything and everything from baking, animals,home stuff, movies, tattoos, random updates to makeup and skincare.

Now let me introduce to of my favourite things, on the left we have Stanley and on the right we have Humphrey. Stanley is a Yorkshire terrier and Humphrey is a cross between a Yorkshire terrier and a white Westie.

Stanley and Humphrey enjoying some sunshine.

These 2 boys can be very random and make me laugh and pick me up when I'm having a down moment, don't get me wrong they can be little buggers at times but i wouldn't change them for anything. 

Well i know this was a short and sweet one but i just wanted to say hi and get the ball rolling so to speak.

See you all soon

Jinny xx