Hannah Mearns » christmas

Currently listening to

hannahmearns — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:10:55 +0000

I’m giving myself a break from Christmas music. Not that I don’t love it. The Phil Spector Christmas album still sounds good.

Monarchy ft Britt Love - You Don’t Want to Dance With Me
Foster the People - Call It What You Want (Treasure Fingers Edit)
Dev ft Fabolous - Kiss My Lips (DJ Kue Remix)
Lana Del Rey – Born to Die
Nicky Romero & Avicii - ID D.A.N.C.E.

Filed under: Music Tagged: alternative, christmas, house, progressive house

Christmas cupcakes

hannahmearns — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:51:31 +0000

I’ve come out of baking retirement to make these Christmassy cupcakes. I’ve got a Christmas dinner tonight and couldn’t not turn up with something pretty for dessert.

These are my basic vanilla recipe with plain buttercream icing. I found a really amazing silver glitter spray in the supermarket so have used that to make them look extra snow like.

The piping skills are starting to slide but considering I’ve had a break of nearly a year, these don’t look too bad. More Christmas baking on the way!

Filed under: Cupcakes Tagged: baking, christmas, snow, vanilla

Settling in for Autumn

hannahmearns — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:23:41 +0000

It’s defintiely Autumn in London now. The leaves are turning orange and I’m planning a trip down to Kew Gardens to check out the gorgeous colours there.

I’m one of those people who love every season. Apart from when it rains – that makes me miserable. Luckily, it hasn’t rained much yet.

This week, without even realising, I’ve made that shift in my head. So far I’ve:

Moved over from summer berries, muesli and yogurt breakfasts to cinnamon and date porridge. I’m eating it with apple, hazelnuts and almonds too.
Got me some Adventure tea from Yumchaa. It’s a gorgeous caffeine free red tea blend of rooibos, rose hips, apple, almond, kiwi, hibiscus, caramel and spices.
Moved over to red wine. The rosé and white are done for a while.
Put the window insulation up. I have two sets of french doors in my room so they need some work to help keep me toasty.
Turned the heating on.
Put away the summer sandals and short sleeve blouses and bought out the thermals and heavy duty knits.
Started wearing knee socks, leggings and a sweatshirt to bed.
Well and truly killed off my plants. I was rubbish at looking after them anyway but now the cold snap has finished them off.
Started thinking about making Christmas chutney. It needs some time to get better so I’ll do this soon.

Bring on winter! Mulled wine, ginger and orange tea and ice skating. Amazing.

Filed under: Weird musings Tagged: autumn, christmas, chutney, knitwear, London, winter food

Christmas lights 2

hannahmearns — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:37:43 +0000

Leadenhall Market, the City

Filed under: Lights Tagged: christmas, London, markets, photographs, The City

Christmas lights 1

hannahmearns — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:50:07 +0000

I get all kinds of excited about Christmas and one of my favourite things are the amazingly pretty displays of fairy lights that pop up. I’d love to see them all year round but concede that they do make London especially pretty in months that can be quite dark and gloomy.

I’ve been taking photos all over town and will be uploading them as I go. I’ve even created a new ‘Lights’ category and started it off by moving a few old posts over.

I’m not sure anyone else will enjoy looking at them as much as I do but I’ll try none the less!

The first is on Watling Street in Moorgate. I love that the lights are hanging off the scafolding and that there are chandeliers to top it off. Strange but gorgeous.

Watling Street, Moorgate

Filed under: Lights Tagged: christmas, lights, London, photographs, The City