First Bridal Boutique Feature!

Exciting news!!

Very soon I shall be publishing my first feature post on a very beautiful local bridal boutique - Gibson Bespoke!

Gibson Bespoke offer the most incredible, delicate, intricate AMAZING bridal accessories you have ever seen! With a vintage vibe and the best of materials including fresh water pearls and the finest silk; the collection includes everything from, Hollywood glam sequin gown, to 20's inspired beaded head pieces to 40's inspired, hand stitched birdcage veils - seriously, the stuff is unbelievable!

So look forward to some gorge pics of things you're going to lust after!

Lindzi x

Ring ring!

We got our rings!

So we went to view wedding rings on Saturday ( yes I know it's Thursday now, it's been a busy week  -  broken toe/ collapsed ceiling/ broken shower... long story, sorry lol) and we got them!

I had spotted a palladium and yellow gold ring online that immediately I thought that Ross would love, it was matt palladium (white metal) on the outer edges of the band with a polished 9 carat gold middle stripe, Unusual but not too modern. So we booked an appointment to view it in the same local jewellers where my engagement ring is from, and I was right (of course!) Ross LOVED it!

I still wasn’t sure whether I wanted a plain, traditional, yellow gold wedding band... or something a bit more sparkly J But after trying a few lots on, I ended up loving the look and feel of a slim, plain 18 carat yellow gold band.

So we ordered them!

It’s still 17 months before our wedding but the price of gold is just going up and up, so we decided to order them early and be guaranteed the frozen current price, it’s also one of the major expenses and having paid a 50% deposit when we ordered them, we feel like it’s a big thing out of the way!

That’s all for now, but I’m going to post soon about the different shapes and styles of rings, as it’s something I knew nothing about but had to make decisions on – so I want to share what I’ve learnt.

Have a great day, L x

Wedding ring shopping

This Saturday afternoon we are going wedding ring shopping again, more seriously this time.

I saw a couple of really nice rings in the well known shop in Belfast where my engagement ring is from and made some enquiries. I got the specifications of the rings along with a quote so we are going to go and look at them on Sat.

While we’re there I’m going to ask the jewellers a few questions about looking for wedding bands, so please if you have anything you'd like me to ask just let me know, post a comment here and i'll see what I can find out!

Happy Humpday! L x

Hot Cinnamon rolls in a freezy house

 Our heating has been off for a week now... And it's cold, we thought there was something wrong with the boiler but... We are just out of oil :'(

We've got a delivery of warmth coming on Friday but until then it's open fire and hot water bottles every night! But tonight Ross is at college and I don't see the point in lighting the fire just for me, so I decided to warm up by baking some mini cinnamon rolls!



They are sooo easy, here's how;

Get some ready rolled puff pastry - this is like one of my favourite inventions, it's so quick and versatile! You'll also need some butter, sugar and cinnamon. Preheat your oven to around 180C

Open out the pastry and butter a couple of inches of it like this - my butter was really hard (cold house) soft butter would be much easier!

 


Then sprinkle on around a handful of sugar over about a quarter of the pastry and cover it with cinnamon. I also used this cinnamon sugar grinder which is really cool, but just a little because its chunky!

Then gently roll the pastry up from the sugar cinnamon side, keeping the roll quite tight but not squooshing the pastry.

 

Roll it halfway across the cut off from the flat pastry. Repeat the process for the rest if the pastry - or freeze it for another time, but trust me, you'll wish you made more of these little guys!!

Then, using a chopping board and a good knife, cut the roll into spirals about 2cm thick.

Place your little spirals on a lined baking tray, well spaced, don't let them touch - remember it's PUFF pastry! Sprinkle more sugar and cinnamon on the top of the rolls - you will prob have some on your chopping board that fell out when you were cutting them.

Bake the rolls in the oven for 10 - 15 mins - but keep an eye on them, all ovens are different!

They are ready when they are a nice golden brown (and smelling fantastic).

Eat them warm with whipped cream or cold later on, I'm planning to take some to work tomorrow, if they last that long..... L x


 

Valentines Weekend

So this Valentines day was our 11th together. ELEVENTH!

But it was actually the first time we hadn't spent the whole day together (yes, even when we should have been in school!) But we were both off at the weekend so we celebrated more then - lots of yummy food and watching movies in front of the fire :)

I baked this cake to bring into work,

and this smaller one ust for Ross, they were chocolate with a cream cheese frosting and I hand cut the hearts from red icing.

And I put this banana in his lunch

have you ever done this to a banana? You ust score into its skin slightly with a blunt pin or pen and whatever you write will turn brown during the day without effecting the banana inside! I've been doing this to all his bananas for a couple of weeks now, it's funny :)

I also made Ross these key charms out of Shrinkles (remember those?! - so fun!)

And Ross bought me these gorgeous tulips and made me this beautiful card :)

We had our traditional steak dinner on Valentines night then made pizza's for dinner on Saturday night and an Indian on Sunday, can you tell we love food??

Hope you all had a great Valentines and weekend too! Lx

Flippin' pancakes

Last Tuesday was pancake day and I had pancakes for breakfast... and dinner...

I had a pancake with fresh strawberries, whipped cream and maple syrup (mmmmmmmmm) in the canteen in work, then that evening I made crepes at home and we had them with Nutella and marshmallows or lemon and sugar :)

Snowy day!

Not wedding related but I love the snow! We woke up on Tuesday morning and were suprized by a thick white blanket of snow, we NEVER get snow like that in Bangor!

I got to wear my new wellies walking to the train and crunch along on all the new untouched snow - isn't that the best? Being the first person to step on snow?!

Then home from work to a roaring fire thanks to Ross and a nice hot Thai red curry thanks to my mum-in-law-to-be :)