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1. An awesome lighting concept.
2. Tree-spotting in the suburbs.
3. I thought we were having cocktails?!
4. My new favourite mug.
5. Cloud spotting.
6. Think before you ink.
7. Gorgeous dragon design at my nearest Chinese take-away joint.
8. Now that’s my kinda teacup and teapot. (iPhone placed to show size)
9. I love me some fortune cookies!
With Christmas being just a few sleeps away, I thought this post should be themed around it…
1. The hand-painted present I gave to my boss for Christmas
2. I had to use my bed to wrap this super large present (and a very large piece of wrapping paper)
3. Some Christmas cheer earrings spotted during our year end tea at the Westcliff
4. Using my creativity with leftover wrapping paper (see here for the post)
Last Thursday night we got to enjoy some scrumptious eggnog while visiting Gary’s sister and brother-in-law. The eggnog was delicious and was very easy to make… So I am sharing the recipe with you so that you can get into the Festive mood considering Christmas is this weekend! (Eeeeek!!)
To serve a maximum of 2 people:
1 egg (whisked)
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Whiskey
Add all the ingredients together and whisk. Then add enough whiskey to taste. It’s best to serve the eggnog chilled.
Enjoy!!
Hugs & Kisses
Jessica Giggles
Ever wondered what to do with extra bits of Christmas wrapping paper?! Well today I discovered a creative way of using the itty-bitty leftovers…
Step One:
Source the leftover wrapping paper.
Step Two:
Grab a pair of scissors and cut out the characters or designs that aren’t half cut off.
Step Three:
Stick the wrapping paper cut-outs on your present.
If you’re going the route of a gift voucher, simply find a plain envelope and stick the cut-out on the envelope to jazz it up. If you’ve got a too-big-to-fit-in-an-envelope sized gift, and if you’ve got plain wrapping paper, then stick the cut-outs on the wrapped gift to add some Christmasy excitement.
If you try it out, please let me know!
Hugs & Kisses
Jessica Giggles
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I recently got hooked on Instagram. And after viewing other people’s pics, I came to realise that they had an app which allowed them to have two, three or more pics side-by-side in one pic. I had to have this app so I asked Twitter yesterday what it was called. Diptic. But Diptic was too expensive for my liking (at 99c) so the cheapskate that I am downloaded Frametastic which is free (for the time being I think). And I am loving it! I played with it a bit last night and today and have since suggested it to a few of my friends/followers and they’re loving it too. If you’re looking for a new app, see what you can create below and decide for yourself if you’ll be downloading it.
There are 18 unlocked frame options available which means countless ways to make your photos come alive. You can then choose one of five different themes to add a little something more to your pics.
Once you’ve chosen your frame, you then select a pic per section. I prefer to have taken all my pics so that I can choose from my Library, but you are able to take a pic on the spot too. Once you have chosen your pics the fun begins! If you touch a specific pic and select Apply Effects, you are taken to a menu allowing you to choose from a multiple of filter effects.
Once you are happy with the pics chosen and their filter effects, the last two things on your to-do list before saving is to choose the colour of your frame (A) and how rounded you want the edges of the frame to be (B).
The final steps include 1. select Save to Phone as this app does not save automatically to your Camera Roll, and 2. select Twitter, Facebook or Instagram to post directly to these applications.
So pic 1 is a singular “frame” with the edges rounded, pic 2 is two “frames” with the Museum theme, and pic 3 is three “frames”.
My creative side is super keen to try out every frame option, each filter effect, each frame colour… If your creativity is yearning for a fun new app, download this one and let me know what you think!
Hugs & Kisses
Jessica Giggles
I’m taking a page out of Hayley’s book and posting my favourite photos taken with Instagram so far…
1. The “fire” tree
2. Camouflaged squished froggy
3. Love the hearts on these pegs
4. Captured this giraffe while at an event last weekend near Warmbaths
5. An artistic dead tree
6. Have I mentioned how I love wrapping gifts?!
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