The Blend Active Smoothie Maker, Health Booster

  

  Considering the minute price and the easypeasy-ness of this contraption I couldn’t help but pick one up when my friend Ciara started making it her morning ritual and bringing a bottle of berried goodness to sixth form every morning. 

  I have to say since picking it up I’m one step closer to fulfilling that "5-a-day” habit we were told about as kids. It now sits on out kitchen counter and I try to have one once a day, whether that’s as my breakfast where I fill it full of oats and peanut butter or when I get home in the afternoon as a little energy booster. Below I’ve listed my favourite combination, with a few tweaks to the original recipe that came with it, for both taste and also because who has fresh berries in their fridge all day everyday right?!

  

   

  Now these are just the basic ingredients, go ahead and add porridge oats, peanut butter or anything else a little more substantial for a more breakfast appropriate smoothie. Plus excuse the unnecessarily fancy glass photo at the end, but where else do you get to crack out snazzy glasses and pop blackberries on top!? 

Any smoothies you've been gulping down, I'd love to hear about them  

Georgina

Mid-Month Motivation || May

  I love a good few hours slapping paint on a canvas, not something I have been doing much of lately. With exam season upon us, a whole lot’a time is being spent hunched over a desk, not giving much time for anything else.

  I took this little snapshot of some oil paints a few months back when I was in the thick of my fine-art course work and churning out canvases like no tomorrow. I love the way the light is bouncing off the creases of the paint tubes and thought it paired quite well with this Picasso quote. It's perhaps not an expected ‘motivational’ quote but painting and creating always reminds me of the freedom to express, something maths papers and revision timetables aren’t quite allowing me right now. With all this supposed ‘doom and gloom’ I thought I’d remind myself and anyone with similar feelings, that a smattering of perspective never hurts plus nothing lasts forever. 

Georgina