Summer Is For Plans

Okay so we all have those Pinterest dreamy sun kissed images in our head when we think of an epic summer right? Well this years goal is to try and not only experience such adventures but to also record them; photographs, writing it all down, video montages, little watercolours, anything like that. So that by the end I have a collection of stuff that I can delve back into whenever I forget what the sun feels like. 

A little game plan I guess you could call it; a rambling list of everything unnecessary I want to do this summer..

Carry my camera everywhere and capture little moments 

Buy a cheap disposable camera and get it developed right at the end of summer 

Long board along the beach without going anywhere in particular 

Hop in a friends car and toss a coin to go right or left - get lost 

Get lost again

Buy a Moleskine and use it as a creative outlet / travel journal 

Go on long long walks

Paint and sketch and draw and paint some more

Lie in the grass and listen to music

Go outside as much as possible

Thrown myself into this blog

Actually print photos instead of letting them sit on my computer

Take some pencils/watercolours sit somewhere outside and sketch what I see

Go on day trips to new places

Have a movie marathon and roll on all those films I keep meaning to watch

DIY tie-dye a t-shirt, or three 

I’m not sure how many of these I’ll accomplish by the end of summer, bearing in mind July is engulfed with a month abroad and a-levely things and trips with friends seemed to have mopped up the days in august. I love a good challenge though, one that I hope to be recording and sharing right here on this blog. 

watercolour stripe

Georgina 

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