COMING SOON.... Jewellery for sale...

Hi everyone from OWOH...pretty soon, I'll be posting photos of the jewellery you can purchase from me. Some of it will have been put together by myself, but mainly done by my mum.

And I'll probably be putting up photos of some other stuff you can buy if you'd like to (Balinese incense and bath products and possibly other things).

Anyway...watch this space! :)

Fail for today

hehehe....an Australian fail!!! :)


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I'm now a Deviant Art-ist :)

I've always been fascinated with the artists on deviantART, especially the ones who do photomanipulations... there's some amazing work out there!!

Well, I always thought I wouldn't be good enough to give it a go...then the other day I thought...what the hey, why don't I give it a go?!?

So I joined dA, and I've done my very first photomanipulation...it's nothing too fancy, but it's alright.

I'm not posting it on here...coz I'd love someone to go & have a look at it on dA! :) I've had hardly any page hits...mainly because I've only just joined...but most of my page hits are from me! LOL

Anyway...you can go to my deviantART page by clicking back there <--- 

I'd love to know what you all think...especially the 'real' artists! :)
Thank you!! :)

FAIL of the Day...

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I baked Cupcakes!!! (sorta)

I baked myself some cupcakes a couple of weeks back...didn't really want to show anyone the results, but, hey - I've got nothing else to post at the moment!! :)
I adapted the recipe from here.

Basically, our household doesn't use butter, so I used oil instead...anyway, here's the recipe I used (with my alterations):

½ cup oil
100g good-quality white cooking chocolate, chopped
½ cup milk
A little vanilla essence (or imitation vanilla...which is what we had in the pantry!)
1 egg, lightly whisked
¾ cup plain flour
½ cup self-raising flour

Preheat oven to 160°C. Line twelve muffin pans with paper cases.

Melt white chocolate. Combine the oil, melted chocolate, sugar, milk and vanilla in medium heatproof bowl and set aside for 5 minutes to cool slightly.

Gently whisk in the egg. Sift the combined flours over the chocolate mixture and gently whisk until just combined. Pour mixture evenly among prepared muffin pans. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centres comes out clean. Turn onto a wire rack and set aside for 1 hour to cool completely.

For the icing, I wanted to make a cream cheese ‘frosting’...but then I found out that my mum ate the last of the cream cheese...so, I went with:

200g white chocolate
enough icing (powdered) sugar to make it look and feel right :)  (Great recipe, huh?!?)

Melt the chocolate, add the powdered sugar. Spread on cupcakes and let it set (yep, it goes hard!!)

Now, this recipe said it would make 12 cupcakes – well, I guess my muffin pan was smaller than what they used...I got 12 ‘normal-sized’ and 20 mini cupcakes!!

Also, my cupcakes weren’t really cake-y...the consistency was half-way between a cake and a biscuit (cookie for you North Americans).

My dad liked them, my sister didn’t want to taste them, my mum said they were too sweet, and me...well, I couldn’t figure out whether I liked them or not.

I think it might’ve been my baking skills (or lack-thereof) that let me down. I really can’t bake, or cook, to save myself! I really need to learn!!

I have come to the conclusion that I need lessons from CakeSpy, Bakerella, Rosa from Rosa's Yummy Yums or the Daring Bakers!

FAIL for today - April 14th

I'm going to start posting one of these every now & then....like the quizzes (which I haven't done lately...oh well...I'll put one up soon, I guess! LOL)

Here's the FAIL for today...

Got bored...drew a picture...

I am NOT an artist in the drawing/painting/scultping etc sense!! Not at all!! :)

BUT...I got bored while I was waiting for my internet to connect...and this is what I came up with.
Sorta looks like he borrowed his hair from an anime character...not sure why I drew him - but that's what appeared when I put pen to paper! :)

I name him...Cheeky Big-Haired Boy!!! :P
Nice, huh?? Yep...pretty good!! :)

I apologise for not posting anything the past few days. Haven't really had anything to post about! Does anyone have any ideas on what I can post about?!? If so, leave a comment! :)

Anyway, I'm off to bed...it's 11pm here, and I'm exhausted for some reason...I haven't really done anything much today!! :)

Til next time...
--Liv--