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Wednesday, 9 May 2012
There is a FREE Sheffield music scene out there y'know...
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Pretty As A Picture: 'Washi Tape' Latest Hype
Popular now as ever, Washi Tape seems to becoming the new craze, or at latest uplifting your Mac is. Either way, these two combined creates a fresh look to your plain look of a MacBook. Design Milk posted about the idea which got me searching for a similar thing. The idea has also been spotted on minifanfan on Making It Lovely, a blogsite about 'doing up' and transforming the standard, or so-so...
I bought my Japanese Washi tape from Le Box Boutique on Etsy. There are loads and loads of Washi tape sellers on Etsy, I chose Le Box Boutique because they allow you to buy the tape by the foot rather than having to purchase the entire roll, allowing you to get a lot more patterns.
Washi tape is similar to masking tape in that it is easy to stick and restick in case you didn't do it right first time. This also makes it easier for once you've got bored with the design and want to make it over again.
This project was quite tedious but then again quite simple, and now I have a pretty laptop.
Shweet.
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[Photos: Owned by Grace Casson]
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Monday, 23 April 2012
Oui, j'adore macarons
A macaron, not to be confused with the coconut biscuit type, is a type of Parisian sweet meringue-based cookie, sandwiched together with a variety of cream fillings. It's definitely no typo, these are entirely two different things.>
I don't think I'll ever meet anyone who is so obsessed by these beautiful French sweet treats. The smell sets off light bulbs in my head. Different décor, different flavourings that could work, different concepts and different ideas. For the past few years I have been memorized by these confectioneries, trying to taste every different flavour there is to offer. It first started Christmas 2 years ago. I was stuck at Charles De Gualle Airport in Paris. After wondering around for a good 3 days, I seemed to find myself stood beside a food cart. A very special mouthwatering, enticing food cart. So many beautiful colours and flavours appealing to me. I was amazed. Laduree, my favourite patisserie specialise in these treats, another huge attraction. Lines are long, but be patient. Once you have tried these you have entered an entirely different world.
The many attempts of perfecting the perfect Macaron is proving difficult. They demand a precision in the mixing, baking and cooling.
I'm not quite there yet, but nevertheless, if you have never tried a Macaron you definitely are missing out. These treats are becoming ever more popular by the day, now stocking in a variety of supermarket chains. Beware, you can never just have one. A macaron teases. These dainty treats leave you wanting more than to begin with. Once I have a French patisserie of my own, I'll make sure you'll have fallen in love with these treats as much as I have.
Saturday, 21 April 2012
#UKFestivals NOT trending this year?
A few years back, many festivals including Latitude, Reading and Leeds, and Bestival, were all sellout festivals, actually selling out way before the tickets were even printed. It was the moment just before the credit crunch struck and its taken a while, but maybe it's finally took a hit. It is estimated that last year overall, around 30 festivals went bankrupt. This year has seen Big Chill festival, which begun 18 years ago, being cancelled. Could this be the start of the end for our UK festivals?
It seems everyone is a lot more conservative in terms of their spending. I would agree that that's not the only reason however. For a while, there has been an increasingly cool trend of going to a festival. You need the ‘look’, the clothes, and the haircut. The original idea of going to a festival seemed to offer an alternative reality. Now, it's an industry. Festivals seem fashionable over recent years, high street chains have reveled in this notion of festival clothing, what to wear, what not to wear, in order to look cool and stand out of the crowd.
You find more and more people, despite there being a recession amongst our mitts, buying tickets to festivals without even seeing the lineup or having interest in the lineup. The idea of just going to a festival is seemingly worth it apparently. However when you look at it, is 200 quid for camping in a busy park really worth it? You could get it a lot cheaper and just take a speaker with you.
Festivals abroad are becoming increasingly popular nowadays. It seems that there are many accessible budget airlines offering cheap flights, as well as an experience that's part-holiday, part-festival. Many of these festivals are now being promoted throughout the UK, costing as much, if not a little more than the UK scene, so why not?
The concept that the UK festival scene is ending I don’t believe is correct. People find the money somewhere. It’s more the question of whether who the headline acts are matter anymore...
Tesco Takeover Trouble
FINANCIAL; RETAIL;
The past few years has seen a huge growth from Tesco. No city or town is without one, even village if they had it their way. Tesco have been given a profit warning following poor Christmas sales just gone. It is believed that Tesco will have to invest millions of pounds, around 400 actually, hiring and refurbishing staff and stores, in order to get their customers back where they want them. Tesco cut thousands of jobs of independent stores, this seemingly being their karma, but what are they proposing to do? Their plan to get anywhere and everywhere, lost the idea of being a brand people can trust to go to. It’s got too powerful, to the point where I don’t believe chief executive Philip Clarke, knows what to do with the power.
“Every Little Helps” is still one of the best taglines going, I reckon Tesco just need to incorporate it’s idea a little better. Tesco maybe in it’s warning stage, but I’m sure they’ll think of something, the man always gets what he wants…
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