Let's Go Here, and Here, and Here...

From a couple of weekends ago; Taking in my favourite place in East London, Old Spitalfields. ♥
It was all about: sweet dogs on the tube, new street art, alfresco dining at Patisserie Valerie, checking out InSpitalfields, performers singing Elbow, Judy's Vintage Fair and clever cupcakes.


This dog was so well-behaved, and loved being petted, what a sweetheart. ♥





Flat White.



Valerie Club.



Go meet your anchor.


Inspitalfields.








'Pimm's My Ride' from Flavourtown Bakery – a fancy cupcake with mint & orange icing, lime sponge and Pimm's jelly in the middle, so clever!



Crazy-ridiculous hipster specs.



Beef stew is one of my all time faves, but they need to get serious.



A lovely first half to an afternoon hanging out with my sister, part two coming up real soon.

Oaty Muffin Obsession!

After having a bit of a sort-out last weekend, I ended up finding one of the notebooks that I'd filled with recipes. It got me a little inspired and this recipe is actually a twist on a recipe card for 'Mini Oaty Banana Muffins' from Sainsburys - I tried those first and they were so good that I thought I'd use up the last few frozen raspberries I had left over from my go at the weekly bake off we do at work.


I kind of like that these could kind of work as something for breakfast because they have oats in, plus there's fruit so they feel healthy. They're probably totally not, but they sure are tasty, and thanks to taking in Innocent's tip from their 'Hungry?' cookbook to whisk each egg one by one, they're really light, I'd definitely say that's my number one baking tip ♥.

I wanted to share this little adapted recipe because it's been a little while and I feel like I've been doing a lot of baking lately.

Ingredients:

• 250g Plain Flour
• 2 tsp Baking Powder
• 75g Scottish Porridge Oats / & a small handful for topping
• 3 Eggs
• 175g Caster Sugar
• 250ml Sunflower Oil
• Pinch of Salt
• 1-2 Cups of Defrosted Frozen Raspberries
• Icing Sugar for Dusting

Directions:
1. Pre-heat your oven to 180°C/Gas 4 and line your muffin tin.
2. Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl and stir in the porridge oats.
3. In a separate bowl beat together the eggs, caster sugar, sunflower oil and salt.
4. Once your egg/sugar mixture is blended well together fold in the flour, add in the raspberries and mix.
5. Spoon your mixture into you muffin cases, sprinkle the remaining oats over the top and bake for 15-20 minutes until golden.
6. Dust with icing sugar and serve.

'This one's for you', 'No it's not'.

Yesterday was lovely, Moon and I spent most of the afternoon in our favourite city, Brighton. Everything about Brighton is lovely, it's like it's got completely different laws, not sure if that makes sense or just sounds incredibly pretentious, I don't mean it to be pretentious.
I love Brighton, it's so laid back, and it just feels like there's more to see, and it's by the sea, so that's a plus. I'd love to get the chance to move there one day.

The day began with opening Moon's birthday presents, I bought him a couple of cute books, some Oreos, Moustache Elixir (it's a drink) and a pair of wicked-cool Vans, a bit different from what he usually wears but I think he likes them.




Doll was super impressed with the wrapping paper, apparently it was really tasty, as well as being a great place to hunt.
It got to half 11 pretty quickly and we zoomed off down to Brighton, stopping just outside for Harvester. We had planned to go to this cute vegetarian place that we've been saying we'd go to forever, but we've promised to go next time and hopefully Harvester won't call again. It did hit the spot though.


This must have been the biggest cucumber.



The second shop we came across, the first being AHA, where I picked up my cat-print canvas bag, was Porta, everything in there is amazing, the jewellery, the bags, the scarves. It's got a slightly vintage feel and the displays are beautiful, even incorporating a dolls house. I'm excited to head back down there once I've got some cash, just so I can buy everything. They had the most adorable tiny people necklaces and pins, which I wish I could show you!

Just looking at Porta's window display has me drooling, each necklace is great. Surprisingly I spotted Modcloth's famous What's the Story, Winston?' pug necklace, and they had a few variations including a bear and even a bunny, kicking myself that I didn't jot down designers.



Even walking down The Lanes provides a visual feast, so I was pretty happy window shopping really.



Pleased to see this sign in Get Cutie, it's nice that they are happy to warn people, but also pretty funny that they have to.


Boy Parker


The entrance to Snooper's Paradise.


Snooper's Paradise was looking particularly great yesterday. They've clearly done it up a little and there's now a lot of light coming in so it's much less dingy. I mean, that was undoubtedly part of the appeal but it's nice to have a bit more room to move. I'm not sure how allowed I am to take photos, but I only took a few anyway. There was so much interesting stuff, I couldn't resist.





I'm seeing a lot of doll house furniture around at the moment. Some of it is so intricate, it could almost be literally miniaturised versions.




They've really done up the upstairs of Snooper's Paradise, which now stocks vintage clothes, shoes and accessories and is probably one of the most beautiful rooms I've seen in ages. Didn't snap it, but take my word.


This is the collection of Studio Ghibli books stocked in Dave's Comics, so great.



As I mentioned, there was a lot of window shopping involved yesterday, while passing this barbers, we spotted this ultimate lad, how comfy and cute does he look?



It was such a shame that it was such a gloomy day yesterday as by comparison the day before and today were brilliant, at least it wasn't absolutely freezing though.



Rounding up our day in Brighton and attempting to get back to the car park before the price rolled up to £18, we took a stroll along the seafront, which is full of lovely places to look at and take photos of.



Here I am sitting in a boat.
Jacket: New Look
Dress: New Look
Necklaces: Primark, Accessorize
Bag: River Island
Tights: Dorothy Perkins
Shoes: Primark

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When we got back to Moon's we had more Chinese food - we had it again for tea tonight! - and cake. I picked up these cupcakes from the Cloud 9 bakery in Brighton, it's where I got my birthday cupcakes from when I was in Brighton for my 21st birthday, they're a pretty great bakery, even making cupcakes on request. I just picked up two banana, a white and chocolate and a belgian chocolate, I had the banana and it was delicious.


I've had a really nice couple of days, I wish we could do more things like this without it needing to be a special occasion, hopefully I won't have to wait much longer, it was pretty great to just hang out.