tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57358718007908040722012-03-10T13:55:11.974Zthe life, times, and cupcakes of a princess and her pea...the princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01560657742551681522noreply@blogger.comBlogger1471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735871800790804072.post-69437427223630758362012-03-10T13:16:00.001Z2012-03-10T13:55:11.978Z

what an amazing day out you need at least one glimpse of the sun every two weeks in order to survive in london, otherwise it just doesn't feel right or maybe I was just over-exposed growing up as a child in the midwest with all the record breaking chicago heat waves where we spent the summers eating ice lollies and playing in park fountains...

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so i have been researching things that might help me sleepsome are realistic and others not so muchi dont really want to take any kind of pills if possiblei know codeine works fine, but it is not an actual answer to the problemand the same for other sleep aids, they are really only an addiction that doesnt need to be formed(at least in my opinion)the general consensus of most things i read was:

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this weekend james participated in a jiu jitsu tournament up in ipswichhere are some action shots from the day:

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at least when you are as busy as we are! we made cupcakes and sugar cookies for valentine's treats! yum!

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ok, maybe i am a few days early but it's only because i am so excited we celebrated our fifth anniversary this past december (for those of you not keeping track) so as a very special valentine's gift we have gotten the wedding bands we always wanted we've had lots of good times, and of course some bad times too but we have learned how to work through things and we have both grown a lot, both

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Not only is the weather nice, I am in great company Yesterday we were able to take a trip to the next town for a few hours to explore I spent the whole time wandering around a park, looking at fountains and taking pictures In the evening there was a bit of entertainment and then the majority of us went to watch the Barca VS Madrid game after dinner And of course there was a gorgeous sunset:

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Here at El Rancho there has been a lot of talking going on Australian, Indian, American, Canadian, and British make up our group of English speakers I have learned more about Spain and Spanish culture in 2 days than I ever could have found out by studying We have quite a small group of people altogether, so it has been quite easy to get a chance to talk to everyone This morning I had some

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Saturday and Sunday it was beautiful weather in Madrid, cold but sunny Arriving at El Rancho (about 1 and a half hours from the city) a huge fog descended and enveloped everything This is the view from my balcony this morning:

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It's back on the bubble tea (hot taro) and swimming with the fishes (baby sharks to be exact @London Aquarium).

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1. you can have a warm toilet seat. no really, you can. you can also have your bottom washed while on the warm toilet seat. how's that for multi-tasking?2. it's ok to eat raw egg. it even tastes okay.3. they really do make a hello kitty version of everything. my list is long.4. lionel messi is incredibly short. see attached photo.

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well, osaka was nicebut i prefer tokyowe spent our last day there in the worlds largest aquariumwhich was amazingthe tanks were so deep the fish had tons of space to swimjames loved the giant whale sharkand i liked the big school of sardines the bestwe tried to go to the suntory museum after that, which had been in our guidebookbut it turns out it was closed downso we just went back into town and

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the first stop when we got there was the peace memorial it was amazing to see the dome that was still standing after being hit from the atomic bomb there was also a museum (which was just closing so we didn't go in) and a few other memorial areas I really liked the flame that they have burning it is going to stay lit until all the nuclear weapons in the world are destroyed it was a beautiful park

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pink camera strap and new converse!

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it was a two hour ride on the shinkansen (bullet train) from tokyo to kyoto we did more shopping in the morning so we didn't arrive until evening, so we just checked into the ryokan and went to bed yesterday we went to nijo castle then over to the imperial park, where the old palace is located from when kyoto was the capitol of japan then we went to a manga museum, which literally had walls top

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the days are going fast so I thought I'd better do some writing! we arrived tuesday morning, and made our way to our hotel near minami-senju. james has a friend from london travelling over here the same time as us, so we met him at the hotel. I decided to take a nap so the guys went out to get some food and explore. my so called nap that began at noon lasted till 5.30am the next day, so I have

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i've had so many things to blog about lately and just haven't even spared a second to do itthe job hunt is oni am looking just about everywhere to try and find something that would suit working around my nanny jobbut not coming up with muchno matter as we leave for japan next week anywaysso i have just been doing a bunch of ad hoc stuff in the meantimefridays will and i have a library routine,

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can you believe this is baby arthur!?!when i moved to england i was taking care of him when he was 4 months oldand now he has just turned 5 this octoberand is in reception!it is hard to believe how fast time flieshenry will be 8 in february!(unfortunately i did not get a snap of him this time)i have so much to be thankful for since moving to englandand their family has played a huge part im my

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banana bourbon layer cakeso hands down, this is the yummiest cake i have made to dateit is a belated birthday cake, as james picked it out(but did not know i had already ordered one for his surprise trip to cornwall)so we are just now having it!the recipe is from the martha stewart website, and i will post if for you here:ingredients8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus

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not that i saw them a lot when i lived in the states anyways, but i still miss themmy uncle dwayne has just joined facebookwhich i find quite funnyso i have uploaded these pics for himi dont have a scanner, so they arent the best qualitybut it makes me happy to look at them

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Ingredients2 egg whites100g caster sugar160g desiccated coconutPrepPreheat the oven to 180CUsing a spatula mix the egg whites, sugar, and coconut in a bowl until they lightly come togetherWatch technique1:02 minsPress the mixture into a flat, square shape on a cutting board or similar apparatusUse a small glass to cut out little circles (or like me use a heart shaped cookie cutter to make it cute

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well this week was my first full week of working after 5 weeks off :)!what a week!i forgot how hard it is to get up early & get going in the morningi have dedicated myself to making sure i have breakfast each morningwhich i never do, but i think it will be the only way to get through the day!on tuesdays and thursdays i will be taking care of henry and georgehere are a couple of snaps of them from

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were not meant to be from the start!i spent ages looking through my books to find a recipethen finally found a frosting to go with itstarted measuring, when after mixing all the dry ingredients togetherrealised i had been reading the wrong line of my ingredients cups!so i had to go back and adjust everything, in turn meaning i was making 30 cupcakeswhich no one needs in their house, it's only an

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i am done with work!my new nannying job does not start till the first week of septemberi don't think i have ever had this much free timeat least not since i was in about 8th gradei have so many things to do in the next few weekspeople to visitboxes to unpackthings to get rid ofa sewing project to use up all the fabric scraps i have accumulated since moving hereit is unbelievable how much stuff we

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a pic my niece phoebe took using my camera last weekend:said niece:

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last weekend we decided we would make our own pizza'swhat a messbut funand tastyand we made dough balls as wellhooray!

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when i was little my parents used to take me for mini-holidays at the weekend and we would stay at the holiday innwe basically hung out, swam, and ordered room serviceit was greathence, james and i taking a little break toono pool, but a great view of norwich fc :)

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the top photo is my grandma deutsch in 1953 after my father was born,the bottom one is of me today!

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there is nothing i like more than a quiet housei actually like exercisingi miss my husband

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i'm thankful for:my wicked housemates who make me laughmy violet roommy sweet jobmy serious baking addictionand my brother & sisterall these things make me happy.

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i keep hearing reports from back home that they are getting snowed on again!i hope we don't get anymore here!here are pics from the 2 times we have had snow this winter. xx

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Digital greeting personalized with Smilebox

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Stout, Lindsay E.October 14, 2010Lindsay Ellis Stout 26, passed away October 10, 2010. Lindsay was born on May 7, 1984 to Missy and Brad Stout. Originally from the Indianapolis area, Lindsay had been residing in Chicago for the past six years. She attended Park Tudor School through the fifth grade, then moved into the Carmel, IN school system, graduating from Carmel High School in 2002. She then

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for months i have had feelings of anxiety and dreadworrying about the prospect of a divorcei have spent a lot of time talking to my familyand even more time talking to my friendsfocusing on this one thing in my lifelast night it was made finaland today as i call my friends to talk about it and start to try to regain some sense of normalcysomething even more tragic takes placei find out a friend

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thames festival @ night.

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if you haven't heard of it you are missing outits frozen yoghurt made with agave syrup instead of sugarand you can put all kinds of crazy toppings on it!all the stores have a cool set up with multi coloured lights and giantwall decals of things like rabbits and mushrooms and giant grassthe soho one is my favourite location so far thoughcheck them out here: ifancyasnog

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here are pics from when i got to visit with tekura and the boys!

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the princess and the peaare getting along finallyso yippee!

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is not something that i am being graced with at the moment.it's not even remotely in the picture.i have fallen off the face off the earthand am currently suspended in spacehanging by a single thread.one threadtying me to this universe.

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in the city...it's hot here. really hot. i hate hot.i like sun, but not hot.heat with a breeze is good.no humidity.we don't really have humidity anyways, but i just thought i would mention it.in case it decided to come visit us.an outdoor lido would be good as well.not indoor, like the one near my house.air conditioning, would be good.this fan isn't cutting it.

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like in this trashy jodi picoult novel i am reading right now:"Like we forget about everything else. Because when you don't admit out loud that something awful has happened, who is to say it ever did?""I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.""She was being groomed to be an exemplary wife, something she has known all along, but now the

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1. i love love love living in london2. i am so glad to be home3. i have the best brother and sister ever4. i'm really looking forward to organising my grandparents photos that i got from my dad5. i'm grateful my mobile bill wasn't as high as i thought it was going to be6. i had the best plate of chips ever for my lunch this afternoon7. i'm really liking borrowing my sisters grey carry all bag8.

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last sunday i went for some much needed family therapyi went for a walk, raced my niece on her bike, baked cookies and kicked the football aroundhere are some pics:

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i have woken up early every day for the past weekno trouble going to sleepjust waking up at the crack of dawneven on days i dont have to be anywherelike today for instance, is the latest i have slept all weekand i woke up at eightwhat is wrong with me?i woke up at six thirty yesterday, and was at work for a quarter to ninebecause i couldnt think of anything better to do!i have to be quiet in the

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hearing is something i generally take for grantedi use my ears occasionallybut i try not to listen to most thingsin london you are assaulted by everythingpolice sirens, crying children, rude commuters, etc etc.which is why i generally tune outi put my head phones on and turn up the volumeor stick my nose in a book and get lostnever, do i sit and listen.my husband has the opposite opinionhe always

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my two favourite pics from glasgow botanical gardens:

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okay, so maybe 3 is a little harshbut that's what it feels like!lets see if i can name them off in alphabetical order:asparagusavocadobroccolicarrot (raw only)cauliflower (in small doses)corncourgettecucumbergreen beanlettuce (plain jane, no curly stuff here)pea podpotatoit's like cooking for a 5 year old!(no offense)occasionally things can be snuck inor hiddenbut they don't go unnoticed for very

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we celebrated by taking a walk across greenwich park and over to blackheath for the afternoonnothing like a little sunshine to brighten your day :)

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CHOC-A-DOODLE-DOFree Easter Sing-a-Long!Pop along for a 1940's Easter Sing-a-long with'Three Little Maids'Saturday March 27th 4-5 pm andFriday April 2nd 4-5pmHope and Greenwood, 20 North Cross RoadLondon SE22 9EU

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3 years later we finally make it to a football game!being in england i feel like it is something everyone should do at least onceme, i would buy season tickets if i could afford it!

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i was meant to return to the states this summer, as most of you knowas i was going to a family weddingbut instead the wedding has already happenedand they are very happily expecting a baby :)so since that is already in motioni have cancelled my plans to go backinstead, my step-mom and brother and sister are coming here to visitmy mom will be attending a conference at a uni for part of the timebut

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made with the biggest apples i have ever seen...

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(mmm... special treats for me)when do i ever blog?i cant even find time to get the laundry done!i have a pile of fabric on my desk waiting to be turned into something marvellousbits of paper and scraps everywhere wanting to be used for somethinga pile of books i am slowly but surely getting read throughclosets to clean out and organise and loads of tat that keep appearing at my house that need to

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here in london.it is grey.i went to the park anyway.

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we went to the O2 last week and lo and behold it started snowing like crazy! so unlike london.

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finally, 6 months after moving we finally set my desk up!now i have room for all my crafty stuff!

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december 1st was our 3rd anniversary :)

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a few weeks ago james and i went to the robot zooi thought it was pretty cool, even though it was aimed at kids :)

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so i did my charity walk last monthand i am finally posting the one pic i took of the medal i got for crossing the finish lineit was a great atmosphere therelots of families there to support the causei am very glad i did itand very thankful to all my friends and family that sponsored me!i did make my goal of £400!

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my lovely friend becky has an allotment that she grows all sorts of things in, this week she brought in some veggies for us at work :) i brought some squashes home and had a nice dish of roasted veg for tea one night this week!

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that turned out very tasty!

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it's autumn finally!and you know what that means, more cooking!nothing like nice toasty food to warm you up.i have been making a nice stew/chili mix latelyand baking toolast week i made a 2 layer chocolate sour cream cake for workand i also made a batch of double chocolate chip muffins for hometoday i am making some cinnamon apple muffinsbut i want to share the recipe for the banana chocolate

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petey pretending to be a baby on his quiltpetey having a snuggleand quilting is a bit harder than i thought it would bei did the beginners route and just tied it offsince i am not very familiar with the sewing machine i am borrowingxox

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so there has been a lot going on lately!and i have started about a million projects, so here is the beginning of the first one:

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for those of you who were wondering where all the pics were from alicante, there were none. my hard drive crashed literally minutes after i downloaded them to my mac. but, when cleaning up my old mobile, i found 2 that i took of our dessert one night, so here they are!

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it was hard to get any good pics hereit was dim, there was glass everywherebut i still tried!

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so i have been very bad at updating at alli do have more pics to postbut work has been keeping me busyand company as welljames mum is here visiting at the momentand she and james are getting ready to go to whales for a few daysthen we are off to glasgow for a short visit together as wellafter that, i promise to catch up!xxoo

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well there hasn't been much updating since we movedwe didnt have internet for the first 2 weeksbut now we are up and runningjames is really enjoying the areahe has played footie every weekend since we got herei like it as wellthe library is just around the corner from our houselast week i got to visit with henry and arthur for 2 days, which was greathenry and i built a giant train track, as

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so i am taking an ice cream breaki have decided it is the only way to save my sanityor, what little of it is left somewhere along the line i decided it was ok to pay £4.39 for a small tub of ice cream by small, i mean a pintwhen you think of it like that, it is cheaper to buy guinnessbut that is besides the pointi have been buying ice cream at least once a weekand that is not counting the single

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we got to spend the day together yesterdaywe started at trafalgar squarethen went to the zoo for the afternooneven though it was raining on and offthen went to soho to las iguanas for dinnerthen to valerie's for desserta perfect day :)

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it's that time of year again!our lease expires and we have found a new place in greenwich!three weeks till we go!

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james and i had the weekend off togetherso we decided to go to the movies since the weather was being finickywe walked to wandsworth to go to the cinema therewhich is...just over a 3 mile walk, one way. so 6 miles totaland saw star trekwhich was the best movie i have seen since.....watchmen came outbut it was awesomeand we got our excercise! 

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so here it is:a dark chocolate cake with cherry jam in the middle with white chocolate cream cheese frosting and a cherry with cocoa sprinkles on top!

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was last weekend, i am just lazy and didnt blog it yetso this time, the cupcakes turned out really wellbut the frosting was just....strange!i decided to do a marshmallow based frosting, and the consistency was interestingit looked amazing, glossy and smooth but it was really chewy, and when you took a bite, all you could think about was chewingand not the cupcakeso back to the drawing board!!

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so we all know i am crazy about cupcakesand i am very excited that iron cupcake has come to london!if you dont know about it: www.ironcupcake.co.ukor for the original: www.ironcupcakemilwaukee.comlast night i tried out my first recipewhich turned out to be not exactly what i wantedbut i was pleased with the creative effort that i put into itwhat i came up with was a chocolate chip marble swirl

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more like hello owl! this made like a million owl cupcakes!i got the idea from the book melissa gave me for my birthday!

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so we were down to crunch time here in londonwednesday i woke up with a pulled muscle in my neckwhich slowed our plans downbut eventually we made it to the natural history museum and got to do the really cool butterfly junglethen we had a yummy frozen yoghurt at a place called snog(www.ifancyasnog.com)and came home for dinnerthursday we got up and went to buckingham palace to see the changing of

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sunday was a lazy day!i went to work and mom & james stayed homejames played some footie and mom just walked down to the shopsi made jacket potatoes with chili and cheese for dinner :)monday was a bank holiday so we were all off togetherwe slept in then went up to the knightsbridge areahad brunch at a cafe near south kens and then toured the v&a museumafter that we headed down to harrod's so mom

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so friday we had fab weathersunshine allllll day long!we slept in and then ran a few errandsthen headed south to hampton court palacewhere we saw lots of history about king henry the viiiand gardens!then today i had to work in chiswickso james took mom up to portobello rd market so she could do some browsingand of course, the weather was brill!

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mom got here yesterday safe and soundher flight even got in earlytoday we did the west end and covent garden areawe toured through soho and had lunch at fresh and wild(whole foods over there in the states)then we breezed through china town and went to the national gallerythen we decided to go over to waterloo area to see big ben and parliamentwe went up on the eye, and had a great view of the

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my mother is coming to visit!she will be arriving april 29th and going back may 8th!finally, someone is coming over to england!x

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i finally got my passport back, and i can stay!!!!!!

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yummy carrot cupcakes i made last week in anticipation of easter :)

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for all of you wondering what is going on with my visa applicationit has now been posted back in for the third time!!!there is something going on with my bank, and the payment not going throughso we have done a bankers draft this time to hopefully solve the problemfingers crossed my application will be acceptedand i will be granted indefinite leave to remain!

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