Recipe: Cereal bars for all

The other day I realised we had too much crispy rice cereal left and no cereal bars so I decided to make some. Everytime I try to follow a recipe I end up following 3 and in the end I make it so the recipe I ended up using is based on what I basically had in my pantry. So here it goes:

Ingredients:

-1 cup of porridge oats
-1 cup of chocolate crispy rice cereal (or more depending how chewy you want them)
- a handful of walnuts crushed
- 1/2 cup of honey or maple syrup or golden syrup (I used golden syrup and honey)
- 1/2 cup of tahini or peanut butter (i used tahini)
- mixed dried fruit

Method:

- Heat the golden syrup together with the tahini until it bubbles
- Mix the rest of the ingredients together and place in a tin
- Flatten it down until it is even. Place pan in fridge to let the bars chill/set. 
- After about 30 minutes in the fridge, cut them into bars, then wrap them up in foil and store back in the fridge for easy grabbing! These bars make great gifts, too.

Enjoy!!

My art: poppies

That was a present for my mum... Poppies from her Poppy.

Favourite tunes... planet caravan

One of my favourite tunes... Planet Caravan by Black Sabbath.
Just perfect for a Sunday night. Enjoy ...

My art: the imaginary Poppy World

Final work

 This is one of my artworks. This was the final product of a long process that was composed of loads of little steps. See below. My intention was to show the imaginary poppy world full of my memories, fears, delusions a bit like a snapshot to my subconscious.

Attempt before the final

Taking and manipulating photos

Weaving a blanket of memories (1)

Weaving a blanket of memories (2)

Weaving a blanket of memories (3)

Weaving a blanket of memories (4)

Weaving a blanket of memories (5)

Weaving a blanket of memories (6)

My art: Holiday in Cambodia

Some of my artwork inspired from my trip to Cambodia in 2007. The purpose of the project was to show places/people as they were carved in my memory as opposed to how they looked on the photos. Through this project I wanted to show my feelings when being in certain places as I later recalled them.  Sometimes photos strip the emotion out of them by showing reality as it is/was as opposed to how it felt.  

New book on the block...

I am super excited as this amazing book came through the post today : Tiny homes: simple shelter (by Lloyd Kahn)
This book is full of permanent and temporary tiny homes and ideas on how to downsize. It is a recent edition and it is full of cozy areas and inspirational people. If you are into this movement this is a book for you. You will have seen some of the images in the book going viral on Pinterest. Here's a few ...

(Images taken from Tiny Homes, by Lloyd Kahn)

Wooden kitchens

A couple of years ago we decided to move our kitchen and redo the whole room up. We already had some wooden units and some favourite furniture and didn't want a clinical environment. I like bohemian interiors and items with character and I am not big on box standard items so these are some of the dream wooden kitchens I found for inspiration.

(all photos are from Pinterest)