A Brand New Year!

 

Hello 2014!

 

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Happy New Year from
 

 
 

Wow, can you believe it? As with every year, doesn't it sound futuristic? ;) I hope you all have a lovely evening tonight and imagine you'll all be very busy making resolutions. I'm not making any resolutions as such this year, but I'm looking forward to trying lots of new things.

 

Amongst others:

 

Practising my new found skill of ice skating
Seeing new places with my Beloved
More girls weekends with my best friend
Doing more crafts (and maybe selling them at a fair...)
Continuing my language studies

In a way I'm going to try finishing my 21 Before 22 list, but not necessarily all before I'm 22 (I've only got till March!) Where craft is concerned, I'm getting quite into crochet at the moment. I have enjoyed crochet on and off over the years and I'm brimming with ideas now for New Year projects, so watch out for a few tutorials :)

So, before we bid farewell to this old year, here's a quick recap of some of my favourite outfits from 2013:

 

 

 

 

 

What are you looking forward to this year?

 



Merry Christmas!

 

 

Hello There.

 

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I'm afraid I haven't had the chance to plan and write out a very elaborate Christmas post this year, so I'm going to keep this short and just wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for sticking with Box Of Various throughout this first year, let's see what 2014 brings!

 

 

 

 



Notes From The (Witch's) Kitchen- Spooky Butternut Sqaush Soup And Roasted Seeds

 

Hey Ho.

 

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Happy Halloween!!!

 

*Cackle cackle!* Who goes there? Ah it be my beloved friends from beyond the grave! Come in, do come in and taste the fiendish delights on offer tonight :)

 

So I spent Halloween evening with my parents and I decided to cook up a little surprise for them. I remember my  mum making pumpkin soup one year and, it being really lovely and quite an easy thing to do, I settled on that.

When I got to the shop there were only butternut squashes left in the pumpkin section, but let me tell you, it was still, if not more, yummy and it made a brilliant Jack'o Lantern too!

 

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Spooky Butternut Squash Soup and Roasted Seeds

Serves two to three

 

Ingredients

1 small/medium squash

salt and pepper to taste

1 tablespoon single cream

 

Method

Peel and dice the squash (unless you want to lake a Jack O' Lantern too,

 in which case cut his 'lid' off and hollow him out).

 

With about two cups (here I mean drinking cups, like you'd have tea in!) 

of water, add the squash to a saucepan and simmer until softened.

This may take around 30 minutes, and you may need to add a little more water.

 

Season during the cooking and when done, blend to a smooth consistency.

Add the cream and serve :)

 

So easy!

 

And for the seeds...

 

Pumpkin/squash seeds can be eaten too. Boil them up in salted water and simmer for 10 minutes, then roast on a baking tray with a shallow covering of olive oil, until golden- delish!

 

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I hope you like my quickly thrown together costume, and if you're wondering about my nail varnish, it's the shade Sunday Funday by Essie.

 

 

And don't forget to enter My First Giveaway, for your chance to win some lovely eyeshadow from Kiko Cosmetics, you have until Monday ladies!