Weeks Fifty One and Fifty Two

This is it - the last photo a day post! I really can't believe it's been a whole year since I started. Even more, bar September, I can't believe I managed it. I'm really thankful to everyone who has taken the time to look at the posts (so many of you!) and especially to those of you who commented or got in touch about it.

So for the last time, here are the photos of the last week and a bit, the last gasp of 2014!

Monday - Christmas Cake finished

Tuesday - I got my fringe cut back in! And I pulled a sickening pose-y face - hurrah for the selfie. 

Wednesday - Gingerbread making on Christmas Eve

Thursday - Christmas Day!! Extra presents under the tree this year because Ben joined my family for Christmas.

Friday - A blurry picture of the snow outside my front door - I live in Narnia you know?

Saturday - Two cuties keeping us company on the long drive to the Alps.

 Sunday - Ski time

Monday - The amazing view from our chalet. 

Tuesday - I mean, I like skiing, but skiing would be nothing without the apres would it?

Wednesday - It wouldn't be right if the last photo of the year wasn't of a cake, would it? The mousse cake I picked up from a patisserie for us to enjoy on New Years Eve.

Week Fifty

It's now so close to the end of this project, I really can't believe it. I'm working on a few ideas a weekly project for next year. I think it's going to be a bit more baking related, but I don't want to commit until I've made up my mind, so more on that later. Do you have any blogging projects planned for 2015?

Monday - This breakfast is pretending to be healthy.

Tuesday - I like to call this the Christmas Twig.

 Wednesday - Writing card and wrapping presents and generally getting covered in glitter.

Thursday - I'm trying to make as many meals as possible really healthy to make up for the copious amounts of bad stuff I seem to graze on throughout the day. I'm already scared to go to the gym in January.

Friday - Last year I posted a recipe for Terry's Chocolate Orange Cheesecake just before Christmas. It slipped quietly by, drew very little attention. Since about October however, I've noticed the page views on it have gone through the roof. It is by far and away the best performing post I've ever made. I know everyone loves chocolate orange, but it really is remarkable. Especially considering the state of the photographs. So, I re-shot (and re-ate) the cheesecake this week. Pop over and see what the fuss is about! 

Saturday - Christmas came early! I was moaning about whipping cream by hand, because my small electric hand whisk was up in Edinburgh, and TA-DAH, enter Christmas. I am so beyond grateful. (P.S. Does anyone else think this picture looks like a Dalek eyestalk?).

Sunday - One week after getting the tree stood up in the dining room, it actually got decorated. It makes me so happy!

Week Forty Nine

You know, when I typed the title of this post, I was thinking, there's no way it's only week forty nine, because there's only two and a bit weeks until New Year, and there's fifty four weeks in a year, so I've obviously messed up somewhere (probably within the lost month of September).

It's okay though, because I do actually know there's only fifty two weeks in a year. I promise. I'm just having a slow day. Oh dear.

On with the photographs!

Monday - My bedroom door got seasonal with a couple of Pinterest printables.

Tuesday - I am a pro wrapper - I'm so proud of this present, I think it looks adorable!

Wednesday - I squeezed 14 people into my tiny flat for Christmas dinner. It was COSY.

Thursday - Snowy scenes on the train back home.

Friday - My Dads's birthday cake was seasonal, and the recipe will be with you later this week. 

Saturday - Delicious Italian tapas style dinner to celebrate my Dad's birthday.

Sunday - Naked tree! Aren't lights difficult to get on Christmas trees? Hopefully by this time tomorrow it will be beautiful.

Week Forty Eight

This week the photographs are distinctly Christmas themed - only appropriate for the first week of December don't you think? Are you getting into the spirit of things, or are you still pretending it isn't happening yet?

 Monday - I did some baking to celebrate the start of advent. You can read more about what I got up to here.

Tuesday - Christmas arrived in my flat!

Wednesday - This monstrosity is at the centre of Edinburgh Christmas Market. It terrifies me, but some of my friends went on it and loved it!

Thursday - Ben's house is inexplicably filled with butterflies all year round. I found this guy chilling on the window in the hall.

Friday - Boiler Shop Steamer is a monthly street food event in Newcastle, and it is amazing! 

Saturday - HOGWARTS oh my gosh I was so excited by this, I can't even tell you. The best evening.

Sunday - Christmas has landed in Ben's house too.

Week Forty Seven

Lots of phone pictures this week, and a pretty mundane week it's been too. Plenty of time staring blankly at Word documents trying to get words on a page for the last few pieces of coursework. I can't wait to get into the Christmas spirit this week and get my decorations up, once that last piece is written! 

Monday - Healthy dinner of sesame cod with kale and mushrooms. 

Tuesday - Brownies with chocolate chips and dried cranberries. It's the same as the brownie recipe I've posted about before, just with the plain chocolate, cranberries and chocolate chips in. Next time I think I'll go for fresh cranberries, to make the brownies a bit juicier.

 Wednesday - I picked up some extra juicy oranges from the supermarket, and they've been my go to snack all week because they're so amazingly juicy! (This post is really juice heavy isn't it!?) 

 Thursday - I Capture the Castle is one of my favourite books, and when I couldn't sleep it was the obvious thing to turn to.

Friday - Brightening up the flat with big bunches of flowers.

Saturday - Coursework almost over, there was no excuse not to celebrate a friends birthday.

Sunday - The perfect way to end the week.

Week Forty Five and Forty Six

Welllll it's two weeks for the price of one. It's so nearly the end of the year, I can't believe it! 

Monday - Remember when I showed you my mouldering bananas? They became nutella swirl banana bread muffins.

Tuesday - I finally got my notice board up on the wall (thanks Dad) so I finally finally got to put my Anthropologie Arctic Animal push-pins in! I got them for Christmas last year and I've been waiting to use them since then.

Wednesday - Have you tried these Cadbury Snow Bites? They're balls of chocolate with a crispy shell and then covered in icing sugar. I think they've been around for a couple of years now, and I love them. Having said that, the M&S version are much better in my opinion, but they are not easy access, so on Wednesday I went with what I could get,

 

Thursday - A last minute dash down to Newcastle for the weekend.

Friday - Starting the Christmas baking planning. I AM SO EXCITED please tell me you are too?

Saturday - Ben and I went to Corbridge with his Mum, a really lovely village filled with poke around shops and amazing food. I fell in love with these tea towels (and the whole place! I took so many photos, I might pop an entire post up).

Sunday - Zooming back to the train station to head back up to Edinburgh.

Monday - I really need some bigger pans that actually have lids. 

 Tuesday - Two of my friends from Aberdeen came to visit for a couple of days, and they brought me a beautiful Poinsettia for the flat.

Wednesday - A proverb I really liked on the side of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood. 

 

Thursday - We finally finished our placement (and associated 13,000 word report) and we definitely earned this celebration.

Friday - I finally managed to get some bits and pieces hung up on my bedroom wall.

Saturday - Sometimes there's no better way to spend Saturday than snuggled up with TV and fairy lights. It's one of the things I really love about this season - cosy nights in.

Sunday - Slippers getting seasonal.