katealizadeh:

I’m going to Croatia from 5th-26th July with BLESS who are rad,

and I need your help to get there!

£5 donation gets you a unique black and white doodle,

£10 donation gets you a unique colour doodle.

Read more and donate here.

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lauraamyliderth:

Hey friends, this is what I’m up to, and why I need your help..

WINTER TWENTY TWELVE

I interned with Bless, a charity established to train and inspire young people to ‘Live for Others’.  I moved out to Bethanie (their HQ) in France, a missional community serving a network of missional churches across Europe.

SUMMER TWENTY THIRTEEN

I was asked to join the Bless team.  My role here is mainly in Media and Communications.  I am really excited by the things we are doing.  I love it.

Bless is a non profit charity.  All the team are unpaid and so reliant on support from churches and individuals.

RAISING SUPPORT

Up until this point I have tried to pay my own way by interspersing my time in France with work in the UK.  However this is no longer possible as I am now working full time for Bless.

Would you consider sponsoring me with either a one off donation or monthly payment?

It costs me approx. £300 a month to live here, which includes rent, utilities, food, travel (this takes into account living simply, eating eggs from our chickens, veggies from the patch, etc).  ANY AMOUNT big or small would be a MASSIVE help.

I feel so cheeky asking, thanks for being patient and taking the time to read this.  I tried to keep it short, so if you would like more information about what I do, or how to sponsor me, contact: lauraamyliderth (@) gmail.com

Have a great summer.

Laura x

Popped by lydiard park for some lovely space

Cutting out cardboard has given me a blister and hand cramp. Why art, why?!

FLIPPING FINISHED! Mahhhhhhhhhhgajdksbeu. Yes yes yes! I just hope I never have to see them again!

Lord of the rings is my friend when planning essays

twloha:

Here’s a little inspiration to look up today: Street art becomes sky art in the hands of Thomas Lamadieu, filling in that big empty canvas between buildings.

nomilknozucker:

Here is my lovely chicken noodle soup!

This morning i was craving this dish, and as I ALWAYS make too much, mom and my sister decided to have some too. 

They loved it! It’s so simple, so yummy, and a great way to use veggies that are getting a bit wrinkly, or chicken that would almost get fed to the cats. It uses up left overs, so it’s a great ‘bung it all together’ meal or even when you or a friend is feeling ill. It will make your stomachs blush with how yummy it is.

So here is the recipe…. Just to let you know, my recipe changes every time i make it, sometimes i put in a little more veggies, sometimes more ginger or garlic, it all depends on what your feeling like cooking, how spicy you like your food or the amount you need to make! So here goes:

CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP (makes enough for 4 people)

ingredients

2 Chicken breasts, chopped up (or any left over chicken), or if your veggie, then you can have your quorn!
2 crushed cloves of garlic
a good deal of grated ginger (to your taste… i love the stuff!)
mixed herbs (to your taste)
2  diced shallots
2 tbsp sesame oil
2 tbsp sunflower oil
salt & pepper (season to your taste)

1 leek chopped
1 carrot halved and sliced into slithers
a bunch of peas
1-2 coloured chopped peppers (i advise anything but the green ones)
2 portions of noodles (these can be egg, rice, thai, normal, what ever you fancy)
1 litre of chicken stock

method

1. put the sesame and sunflower oil into a large pan with the salt, pepper, mixed herbs, garlic, shallots and ginger. Cook until the shallots start browning.

2. Add the chicken, if it’s already been cooked then FAB! If not, then cut or slice to whatever shape you like your chicken to be. Cook this until it’s still a little pink in the middle of the chunks.

3. Add all the veggies, stir and cook for approx 8mins, until they start to soften.

4. Add the chicken stock into the pan, and give it a stir

5. Once it starts boiling add the noodles and cook until they are soft.

6. EAT. ENJOY. GO FOR SECONDS.

nomilknozucker:

CHOCOLATE + NECTARINE CUPCAKES

First post on No Milk No Sugar!

Woooo

So today cupcakes were calling.

This is a great recipe I’ve been using and changing all the time. It’ll probably pop up again some time in a different flavour!

This recipe is also super great dairy free. Just follow the substitutes in the recipe!

CAKE

1/2 cup Butter (can be replaced with Olive Oil)

1 cup Sugar

2 Eggs

1 1/4 cups Flour

1/4 cup Cocoa

2 1/4 teaspoons Baking Powder

3/4 teaspoon Salt

1/2 cup Milk (can be replaced with Oat Milk, Soya Milk, Almond Milk etc)

ICING

1 ripe Nektarines

2 cups Icing Sugar

1/4 cup softened Butter (more or less or none according to your taste/lactose intolerance!)

Combine Butter and Sugar

Add Eggs one at a time

Mix dry ingredients together

Combine wet and dry

Add Milk

Bake in cupcake papers or tins

350°F/170°C for 15 mins. Maybe 20 mins.

Get ‘em out and leave them to cool while you mix all the icing ingredients together.

Go get that Nektarine and just crush it in you hand until all the juice is in the icing bowl. Then wash your hands because that’s just gross.

Mix the Icing Sugar and Butter in to the juice then whack it on those cupcakes.

Make a cup of tea and invite your pal round! 

Holly and I have started a food blog for people who have intolerances. It’s going to be amazing! Watch out for more recipes and beautiful photos!

liveforothers:

Bless: Introduce yourself

Imo: HEY! I’m Imo, i’m 22 and i currently live in Swindon. I love doodling, cooking, volunteering, singing out of tune, films that are so bad that they are so good, warm weather and red wine.

Bless: What are you up to at the moment?

Imo: I am currently studying Youth and Community Work with Practical Theology with Bristol CYM at the university of Gloucestershire (just a bit of a mouthful). I’m in my second year and my placement is working for 5 churches in the west Swindon area. It’s hard work, but it’s bringing great opportunities for the future. I’ve met some great people through the course, and when it finishes i hope to open a community cafe with a friend in a place just outside of Swindon. Ideas are brewing and doors are opening daily, we haven’t hit a brick wall yet which is amazing. In my spare time i enjoy cooking way too much, sleeping, great conversations, little mystery trips and over planning my free time.

Bless: Describe Bless in 3 words?

Imo: Community Cohesion (i’m having that as one word!), Persevering Prayer and Marvellous Meals.

Bless: What is your experience of being a part of the Bless Family?

Imo: I was originally introduced to Bless when i was 17, and decided to do a gap year in Slavonski Brod, Croatia when i finished my A levels. I was there for a year, building relationships, drinking a lot of coffee in cafes, praying for the area, helping the church in any way possible, running youth groups and exploring the wider area. I believe that doing the gap year with Bless has led me onto what i’m doing now. It exposed my passion for building relationships and showing God’s love to the young people I will come in contact with, from Croatia and to this current day. I remember people praying for specific things for me, and God has blessed those prayers and they have revealed themselves in me which is flipping mental. I also went back the year after for summer missions, and continued to raise some ££ for Bless when i couldn’t go. Bless have not only challenged me, but they have supported me, prayed for me and fed me amazing food when needed.

Bless are a lovely bunch of people who don’t give up on God’s mission for them. It shines through with the connections that they make with the people that they meet on a daily basis. I would encourage anyone to invest some time, money and prayers in Bless because the amount that they have to give is minuscule to what we can see at the moment.

Bless: What are your dreams for the next 12 months (or so)?

Imo: To finish my degree without having to re-do any essays, and to find relevant books for my dissertation question (How ipads have influenced blind young people in their lives, both physically and mentally.. something along those lines, but will probably change at some point!) To get the building for our cafe that we want and we get the funding for that. To continue to use my creative stuff positively and to continue to inspire and encourage the people i meet through it. I dream to keep my room tidy, sounds lame, but i can’t find the majority of my books or paper work as it’s all hiding on my shelves. To make new recipes and to have some free time!

Bless: How can we pray for you?

Imo: For my final year at uni, that i won’t stress out, that my deadlines are completed swiftly and with confidence, and i continue to find and get the support i need for it.

To be healthy, it seems the past 2 years i’m doing fine and then i crash and burn, so i really pray that won’t happen for the next year.

For the cafe! (We have a brief name which is ‘Enaid’) Flippin, i can’t even write down how excited i am for the opportunity that is so prominent and so God given, the timing is just… amazing and right. Once it’s up and running, you will all be getting an invite!

Also pray for the young people i work with (a lot of them are struggling with family issues, education..), and the ‘famous’ culture which is totally whack at the mo thats having a heavy influence on them.

Read Imo’s latest update HERE. Join the Bless Family HERE.

Small update, no biggie.

malformalady:

Located in Japan’s Tomamu Resort,  on the island of Hokkaido, the Unkai Terrace is a unique scenic spot perched high atop a mountain peak that is often above the clouds, offering tourists breathtaking views of the white, fluffy sea beneath them. The “unkai” or sea of clouds phenomenon has been attracting tourists to the resort town on Tomamu for years. The natural hot springs in the area and the differences in temperature during the few hours when night turns into day determine the formation of an immaculate white blanket of clouds over the mountainous region.

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Advice from Adventure Time (x)

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Robs attire for the evening