A Sampling of Nations

A sampling of visitors from around the world. The VBA winners represent our world very well. 

Country	Views
United Kingdom	54
United States	40
Spain	16
Canada	14
Italy	13
Philippines	9
Germany	9
Pakistan	8
Australia	4
Greece	4
Netherlands	3
Brazil	3
France	3

 

“Everybody is a…

“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

— Albert Einstein

More than just a Chocolate tart

Oh my! Chocolate Tart! ( Well, actually, more than just a Chocolate tart )…

ice cream magazines

This recipe offers all the elegance of fine dining and a dream for a food stylist

Ingredients for the Chocolate tart:

A short crust pastry base home made or store bought –
roughly 400g pastry, baked blind and painted with egg yolk to seal.

For the filling of the Chocolate tart:

375 g Dark chocolate – 70% Cocoa minimum
875 ml double cream
70 g sugar
4 egg yolks, 5 if they are small
a decent pinch salt

Consider substituting one of the tablespoons of sugar for lavender sugar or chilli orange vanilla sugar

Method for the Chocolate tart

Preheat oven to 130° c

Mix together cream and sugar in a saucepan and bring to the boil on a moderate heat. Once boiled, remove from heat and mix in chocolate. Stir gently until all chocolate has dissolved and mixture is smooth and glossy.

Mix…

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The transcendence of humor

Sometimes, a simple post soars in my heart. I like this one!

Beauty Exploration: The Neutral Zone.

And the neutral zone for eyes…

The 7 habits of highly effective autodidacts

Better look up the word…then find out the 7 habits of highly effective autodidacts… okay, right.

Blank Canvas Living

Are you a member of AA? We get no respect. No one understands us. We’re forced to sneak off alone to little shadowy (wi-fi equipped) corners to indulge our habits. We don’t get any sympathy, let alone accreditation, for our addictions. Don’t bother hiding your insatiables behind denial. Come on in and pull up a chair. Welcome to Autodidacts Anonymous.

Throughout history, self-directed learners have been responsible for many of our greatest leaps forward in math, science, literature, architecture… etc. I keep this impressive list of self-taught innovators in my back pocket to defend myself against everyone who has called me crazy for choosing to leave university one year into my degree, when I had a 4.0 (as in perfect) GPA and full scholarships for all four years. I know you’re reading this probably thinking, “Idiot!” Shock, disbelief, pure unadulterated horror – the reactions I got were akin to if…

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My passions, getting crafty part 14

Something a little crafty…

Littleprettymess

Gooood morning beautiful people! How you all doing? I’m so happy with this weather, its not too hot and its fresh, I get up with a big smile on my face and of course my 2 year old boy, also smiling in my face hahahahahah such a joy :).
Since I have been so busy with our holidays and school holidays, I haven’t really have time to get crafty so, I keep saving projects that I want to do on my folder on my computer, and I thought yesterday, why not sharing that ‘whish list’ of projects and when I actually get to do them I will for sure show you 🙂 for now here are two ideas of things I want to learn how to do, and if you have a little time on your hands get crafty and do them, if you want to share email me your…

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PORTRAITS IN AFRICA- THEN AND NOW / Young Gallery – (redif) – www.belafrikamedia.com – WEBTV

Portraits in Africa – Then and Now ( Young Gallery ) – video.

Heavy Floe Day

I am officially nominating your blog for the Versatile Blogger Award. Congrats.

thehistorytwins

I had this idea when I was reading a book about the explorer Ernest Shackleton. This kind of humor will always find a home. Too bad huh? FT 🙂

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