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I'm falling in love with some of the skin designs for laptops from schtickers. I may drop a hint or two to Santa this Christmas...
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La vida de una calabaza

... y aquí la crema de calabaza que hicimos (sin curry, pero con nuez moscada)

Tweed

Qué tal va el fin de semana?
El viernes fuimos al cine y vi los carteles que anunciaban la nueva peli de Sherlock Holmes. Ya quedaenos para que se estrene! Aquí van algunos detalles con tweed para este otono que me encantan...
How's the Halloween weekend going?
We went to the cinema on Friday and saw the ads for the new Sherlock movie, can't wait until its released! Here are some tweed details in fashion that I just love for this Autumn

Images via Marie Claire

Boo!

No os encanta Halloween?! Estoy acabando de decorar la casa y este ao el porche se llena de calabazas!!

Don't you just love Halloween?! I'm just finishing decorating the house and this year is all about pumpkins!

via southernliving

Images via Country Living

Así que estoy coleccionando recetas de calabaza para hacer esta semana. Alguna recomendación??

So I'm gathering lots of delicious pumpkins recipes to make this week, any ideas??

Muffins de chocolate con Oreo

250g harina
2 cucharas de café de levadura en polvo
Media cuchara de café de bicarbonato sódico
2 cucharadas de cacao
175g de azúcar
150g de chocolate en trocitos chips
1/2 galletas oreo
250ml leche
90ml aceite vegetal
1 cuchara de café de extracto de vainilla
1 huevo


Precalentar el horno mientras comienzas a hacer la receta y rellena la bandeja de las magdalenas con el papel (yo no tenia así que he puesto papel de hornear)
Prepara la mezcla seca: pon todos los elementos 'secos' en un bowl
Prepara la mezcla liquida: pon todos los elementos 'líquidos' en un bowl
Junta las dos mezclas y añade los trocitos de chocolate.
Mezcla todo bien y con una cuchara rellena los cacitos de la bandeja.
En un mortero tritura la galleta oreo (en trocitos no muy pequeños) y repártelos por encima de la masa de las muffins. Hornea unos 20 minutos.

Es una de las mejores recetas de muffins que he probado, sin mantequilla y súper rápida...
Salen unas 10 muffins, a mi me sobro un poco y puse la mezcla en un molde de tarta pequeño

El perro sin nombre / The dog with no name

Hace unos días llego a casa este alegre 'staffy', le encontraron merodeando en busca de atención y llamaron a la ONG con la que colaboramos normalmente.
No hemos tenido nunca un perro de esta raza en casa, y la verdad es que nos hemos llevado una sorpresa. Es, probablemente el perro más obediente que hemos tenido nunca. Sin dejar de mirar a tus ojos intentando averiguar como complacerte, no se separa de ti y guarda el paso como si de un perro policía se tratase. Buscando información de la raza por aquí le llaman 'perro-niñera' y está entre las 10 mejores razas de perros familiares, lo cual no nos extraña en absoluto
Sin nombre aun y muy asustado de movimientos bruscos, esperamos que muy pronto encuentre una casa digna de su atención!
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A few days ago a very happy 'staffy' arrived to our home. He was found in the streets looking for people's attention and he was brought to the NGO that we collaborate with.

We have never had this breed before and we were very surprised. This is probably the most obedient dog we’ve ever had.

Walking beside you with the same dedication as a K9 would, he seems to be trying to guess which move to make next to please you. Looking for more information on the breed, we’ve learnt that he’s called nanny dog and we are certainly not surprise of this.

45 things / 45 cosas

I received a ‘random things about you’ challenge recently here it goes…
Hace unos dias recibi un ‘desafio’ llamado ’45 cosas al azar de ti’ aqui va… creo que se entiende bastante bien en inglés?

1. Oreo milkshakes and chocolate mcsundaes make me happy
2. Piles of stuff around the house drive me crazy
3. I adore my 18 year old cat, he’s been the constant of my life since my early teens and makes me feel like nothing has changed at home when I come back
4. I achieved independence when I was 18
5. I have rented 6 apartments in the past and bought my first house when I was 22
6. I am an only child
7. I love barbaques at home
8. I love peonies, hydrangeas and plumerias, especially the white ones
9. I discovered fostering pets when I was unable to have a pet at home and I love it
10. I can’t understand people that act irresponsibly with children and animals
11. I keep my distances from: spiders, clowns and mimes
12. When I have time, I love cooking new recipes, especially desserts
13. I’m a Libra with Libra ascendant, and although I don’t read horoscopes that description of my full horoscope has me to a T
14. I've always thought that one of my main purposes in life is being a mum
15. I have been postponing the driving lessons for over 5 years now; I really don’t want to do it…
16. I love, love, loooove Saturday mornings in bed
17. I can read it and understand most of it, but I can’t speak French very well since my first year living in Dublin
18. The only thing I would change about my body is my height, 5 more cms would be nice!
19. I love (and try) to be a good friend, and have a handful of girlfriends that I consider sisters
20. Love chocolate in cakes and drinks but hate the stuff in chocolate sweets, bonbons etc…
21. The person that I admire the most is my mum
22. The person that inspire me the most is my husband
23. Photography fascinates me and I hope to be good at it one day
24. I met my husband in a queue. Things hadn't work out as planned in Dublin the first 6 months and I remember thinking: ‘How strange life is, you never know what’s going to happen…I could even end up marrying this guy’ Talk about fate…(!...!)
25. I have visited 22 countries and love traveling
26. I have been told I’m too diplomatic and I think I’m becoming more direct as I get older
27. I believe that 90% of the time when there’s a relationship problem, its down to a communication issue and lack of information on the other party's actions and thoughts. I value people that tell you what they think before something becomes a problem and people that don’t feel that saying sorry is the most terrible thing that can happen to them.
28. My favorite subjects in college were Art History and Psychology and had the most amazing teachers teaching them
29. You’ll rarely see me wearing jeans or skirts and most people will never remember having seen me on those if asked, but I’m converting!!
30. I find envy and bitterness very sad indeed.
31. In a man the first things I notice are the voice, the eyes and the hands
32. I’m not a ‘girly girl’
33. I love spending sunday mornings looking around antique shops, but I very rarely get to do it
34. I like attention to detail in projects and if I can’t get/find exactly what I had in mind I usually don’t get it until I find exactly what I’m looking for.
35. I’ve been told that I have a great intuition and I’m learning to follow it more often.
36. I can be very indecisive, and in important events in the past rather than following my gut I’ve tried to accomplice other people wishes, knowing they would not work… and I have regretted afterwards.
37. I find politic debates funny and like to watch them especially before lunch or on Sunday mornings (I call it fix-the-world-before-getting-up-Sundays)
38. I hate going to the dentist or the hairdresser
39. I don’t have much time for Shopping and NEVER try anything on
40. I dream about being a great violin player, I got one 5 years ago but have never taken any classes
41. You can loose me completely if I’m sitting beside a window, listening to a song I like or the sound of water, especially in the sea.
42. I have many fav animals but the number one has to be the otter.
43. Like most Spanish people living in an English speaking country my vocabulary is full of spanglish terms that are perfectly understood by other Spanish people abroad but when I go back home people look at me sometimes as if I was crazy or they had reprogrammed my brain in an unknown planet that has its own language.
44. My favourite moment of going skiing is having a hot soup/chocolate beside the fire
45. I want to go back home one day soon

Pfiiiuuuu, which are your ones? Cuales son las vuestras??

Scones!

Hoy ha venido a casa Vania a tomar cafe y he hecho scones. Ya se que los scones no son lo mas 'excitante' del mundo pero en estas lluviosas tardes de Dublin es lo que apetece... aqui os dejo la receta de la bbc ( en ingles porque no tengo tiempo para traducirla ahora pero si la quereis en espanol, decidmelo y os la envio) que acabo de hacer y las fotos del resultado, muy buenos :)

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1729/ultimate-scones

She's a Lady

Introducing Lady, the beautiful colli/golden retreiever x that we are fostering since a few days ago.
Lady was wandering the streets of Blanchardstown when she was taken to the pound. A family looking for a new dog took her home the night before she was going to be put down and realised the following week she was pregnant when they took her to the vet.
She had the puppies but unfortunately the family couldn't keep her so had to let her go. We will be fostering her until she finds a new home so if you know of anybody looking for a dog, she is very obedient, she loves company and would be great with old people and kids.
If you are interested please contact us

Panckake Tuesday - Martes de Carnaval

Y es que ya sabéis que aquí el Carnaval no se celebra desgraciadamente, lo que si celebran es el 'Martes del crepe'... Hoy me he enterado de que los británicos e irlandeses comen esto el martes de Carnaval porque es el día previo a la cuaresma y los crepes están hechos de alimentos que no estaban permitidos durante ese periodo (huevos y mantequilla).
Cada año he hecho los crepes con una receta española (que supongo que será francesa) y no me han salido como los comen aquí, así que este ano me he decidido por una receta británica y la verdad es que salieron buenísimos, aquí va la receta para quien quiera probar:
Mezclar:
180 gr de harina
200 ml de leche (yo he usado soja)
75 ml de agua
2 huevos
30 gr de mantequilla
Un poco de sal
1 cucharada (de café) de azúcar
... Et voila