I won the Great British Bake off! (kind of)

I finally finished my essay today!! Although i still have a report to write :(. But anyways i thought id give myself the night off and thought it would be good to do a little life update post as i haven't posted anything in a while! (sorry about that)

So last week was just an average week at uni although it was quite chilled out compared to most weeks. I got some nice things done with my illustrations involving a pony and pink fluffyness! Here is a little peek at that :)

awhh poor pony :(

So yeah as the week was just going on as 'normal' and it got to Wednesday and because my teacher is a little bit crazy he had set up something called the 'Great Illustration Bake off.' This was where my class went and baked cakes and decorated them to match the illustrations that we are currently working on, It was so fun!! Our team made vanilla cup cakes and it was very messy to say the least. There was cake mix and icing sugar EVERYWHERE!! so yeah we all got on with decorating our cakes. I decided to make an ice cream cone unicorn horn because there is one in the story that i am illustrating! i was basing it off the little sketch that i had done below :) 

I used pink icing that i had made for the ice cream, and put an ice cream cone on top of it. Okay so it wasn't the most complicated of designs but I WON!!!  I think it was because i had thought a but more outside of the box instead of just drawing a design onto the top of the cake. Everyones designs were really good and it was a lovely fun little afternoon. So yeah i didn't win anything physically but it was nice anyway. Here are some pictures of the finished cake and some other photos from the day.

The winning cake! :')

Me with my cake YUM!!

Here is my lovely class with all of our cup cakes!

I recorded all of the shenanigans on my phone because i thought it would be fun to keep the memories from it. Who knows maybe one day i will edit it into a proper video and show it to the world :O 

Hope you enjoyed that little fun light hearted post i love posts like these and might start doing them more often. Let me know what you think about that in the comments. 

Thanks a lot 

Mel xx 

Week off and back to Uni

This is just a little random life up date post for a bit of a change. :) I’ve been on a mini break from uni, just for a week :( but its been a lovely little rest after a pretty stressful hand in day. The week off was supposed to be a reading week, and to be fair I did do quite bit of reading and research but I also got up to some fun things with friends! I thought id write about some of them and post some pictures.

As we broke up on the Thursday I had a nice long weekend to relax and chill out. Work free! (It felt strange to have no uni work for the weekend) I decided to go round to my friend Zade's house after spending the afternoon with her in town. It was really nice to meet her family and put faces to all of the lovely, funny stories that i get told most days over lunch. Her dad was hilarious he comes out with some right corkers, plus he makes a mean burger. So anyways we chatted, laughed, watched you tube and A LOT of adventure time. I had a really nice time. (I was going to put a nice photo of us up on here but I realised that we're rubbish and the only photo that I have of us together is from Halloween... we look mental.) Oh well ill put it up anyways! By the way I was just a grey person don't ask :')

Me and Zade looking mental at halloween.. 

Later in the week I went to Newcastle with my friend Glenn for a Cultural artsy day as recommended by out teachers. Although I’m pretty sure they didn't recommend getting lost a lot and eating at a world buffet for about two hours but those were the funniest parts. Before we got into Newcastle we stopped off at the Baltic art gallery. There were actually some pretty cool exhibitions on so they were nice to have a gander at. After that we decided to find free or super cheap parking, as were poor students. This resulted in us driving around and accidentally stumbling across a Tesco car park over the river. Slightly problematic as there was a rather large body of water in between us and Newcastle. In the end we gave up and drove into the city and spent a lot on parking. The first port of call was a comic shop; on the way we saw a china town sign and couldn't resist it so we took a detour to be nosey. Here is a photo of the Chinese arch thing

Arch in china town Newcastle

So off to the comic shop we went, we got told it was good for zines and Nobrow publications and so it was! I would have bought all of the pretty books if I could. Anyways there was a girl in there that got a bit too exited about the anime it was quite amusing, she even apologised for herself. :') After looking in the comic shop we went to look for somewhere to eat so we found a world food buffet and spent a bit too long in there but it was AMAZING! I do recommend it if your stuck for something to eat in Newcastle :) we were too stuffed and it was getting a bit late to do much more after that, so we got back in the car and headed off home. We stopped off at the biscuit factory, a cute little artsy shop thing, on the way and it was lovely to look at all of the paintings and sculptures, I even got an illustrated children's book. It’s so cute!

A bit of a blurry photo of me in the comic shop :) 

The amazing Buffet with food from all over the world

So yeah at the end of the week I went to see my friend Candice in Washington I had a nice little shopping afternoon with her, a well needed catch up and a chilled night with good old Saturday night TV. 

And that was my week off over :(. Back to my little messy desk or as some people call it the Mel cave :') Here are some photos, say hello to my desk it will probably feature a lot in my blog its my home away from home.

My desk is a mess but i love it and wouldn't have it any other way

Close up of some cute things that i see right in front of me.

My working mess :) 

So yeah I hope you liked this post sorry its a bit long I always get carried away and write WAY too much... oh well. I hope you enjoyed it anyways 

Thanks a lot

 Mel xx