It's that time of the year again - first Tuesday of March! This means Pancake day! I really love pancakes, and I've posted about them a few times before.. :) Today was actually a double pancake day in a way, hah.

This time I wanted to try something slightly different with the batter. Instead of going for my usual recipe, I decided to try the very simple '1 part flour, 1 part milk, 1 egg + sugar & salt' method. I did actually use a bit more milk, because the batter was just so thick that it would've made the American style pancakes instead of crepes. I also finally got around to trying them with wholemeal flour as well! I wanted to throw in some of my Vi-shape powder as well, but my other half wasn't too keen on the idea.

Even with a weird recipe and different flour, they were absolutely delicious! I topped mine with honey and strawberries, instead of my usual blueberries and maple syrup. There's so many different toppings I'd love to try eventually, and that'll naturally mean more pancake posts, eh. ;)


And for dinner we had a different kind of pancake - fajitas! My other half had been asking for fajitas for several days now, and me making them tonight was pure coincidence! It's nice how things work out sometimes, though. 


I'm finally starting to get to the stage, where our flat is starting to feel really homely. I'm in the process of designing a painting to hang on the lounge wall, but other than that I'm starting to be really happy with all the things I've found to put on the walls. Our little nerd cave is so incredibly cool right now, and once our sofas arrive our TV area will be perfect.


As the flat itself is quite bland with cream coloured walls, I really wanted to find something really colourful and detailed to go on the walls. The Big Bang Theory poster was an absolute find, I spotted it at work when we were clearing stock and knew instantly, that it belongs on our walls!


The incredibly beautiful Nebula- poster has been on my wishlist for probably over a year now, so it was such a no-brainer for me. Just the colours of it are breathtaking, couldn't of wished for a better poster to hang up.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein

I've been a huge fan of Banksy for absolutely ages now, and I wanted to get one of his pieces to go on our TV area wall. There's just something about his work that really speaks to me. The simplicity of them, the sarcasm, the hard hitting truth. The Balloon Girl has always been one of my favourites, and it'll just tie up with everything else I've got planned for that part of the lounge. Can't wait to have all the final pieces to complete it all.


All of these posters are available on Amazon: BBT, Nebula, Balloon Girl.

Oh my, what a weekend it's been! Friday at uni and Saturday + today at work.

I was going to go to the gym on Friday morning, but I figured that it's not the best idea to go and do a leg workout when I've got a really tough weekend at work. We are doing a stock take and I was put down for 8-18 today, so I thought that it's really not a good idea to do a long day at work with incredibly sore legs.. :D Thankfully we ended up finishing two hours early today, as we had some help from other shops. Most likely going to do my leg workout either tonight or tomorrow at home, depending on how tired I feel later tonight.

I've noticed how disciplined I actually am at gym compared to working out at home. I really push myself a lot harder, when I'm actually surrounded by people working out! It's probably mainly just me feeling far more motivated to push for the last reps when I think that people are looking. In reality 99% of the people going to my gym probably really don't care! :D

Friday.

I've been ordering a lot of things for our flat as well. We don't have a lot of cupboard space, so I really wanted to buy a spice rack that I can just leave on the counter. And the best thing about this one is that it spins! It also came with 16 glass jars I can put all my spices in, so they're all nicely visible and in matching jars. I got some white labels from work today to stick on the lids, so I can spot my spices instantly. I just can't wait to see all the jars full up, the colours will be absolutely amazing! Knowing me I will even arrange the jars based on colour, hah! Dried herbs in one, browns and yellows in one... :D


And as I was browsing Amazon for things I need, it really hit me that I'm missing a digital food scale. I had a look at John Lewis, Tesco and a few other places, and they're really asking ridiculous amounts of money for something so simple! I don't care how posh their scales are, I'm not paying £50 for one! This scale cost me roughly £12 and does exactly what I want it to, no extra features to complicate things. It's small, matches everything else in our kitchen and looks really nice. What more could you ask for?

I know it might sound very odd that I'm getting so excited over a food scale, but I haven't actually had a digital one until now. It'll be nice to get exact measures of ingredients when I'm baking and cooking.


It's really not a secret, that I'm not exactly a girly person. I'm more into all sorts of nerdy stuff and games, and I've had this amazing Big Bang Theory poster on top of our wardrobe for a few weeks now. I was going to buy a frame for it in Ikea, but either Ikea has very odd frame sizes or the poster size is weird. There was just no way I could make the poster look nice in the frames available, so I bought these cheap plastic holders you slide to the ends of the poster to straighten it up. Now all I need is a bit of fishing line and I can hang it in our new nerd cave at the flat. It's funny how the smallest things make me happy.. :D The poster will look glorious, though!

*knock knock knock* Penny!

And just because this post isn't full of materialism already, one more thing! I remember my mum having a little magnetic shopping list on our fridge door when I was little, and now that I finally have my very own fridge, I wanted one of my own! I really like the look fo chalk boards and when I saw this board I just knew I needed to have it. I got a bit bored last night and started scribbling on it, sketching one of our dogs in her element, haha! She is really protective of her bones and I feel like I captured her essence in that little sketch spot on! My father-in-law even said that I'm going to have to buy another one now, as I'm not allowed to wipe that off! And apparently I need to draw one of our other dog as well. Maybe this will be my calling, making silly sketches of dogs! :D


It's quite amazing how much time blogging actually takes up. I think I started writing this roughly 45 minutes ago and I'm only just finished! I can see why popular bloggers actually have it as a full time job, it took me so long to just write about my weekend, not to mention all the special posts I do every now and then.