After a really lovely couple of days, I thought it’d be nice
to collate the best bits in a little blog post :) Now, I realise that Valentines
day has become a pretty controversial day, which is a bit sad really as it’s
not totally necessary to engage in all the gimmicks… it’s
just a good excuse to do something extra special for someone, whether it be on
the 14th of February or any other day :) Anyway, some of you might
have already seen if we’re friends on Facebook, but this year I decided to do
something a little bit different for Matthew! I wanted to do something memorable
just to say a very important little message… so I made him a special cake : )
We’ve always been pretty big Disney fans, and we always have little adventures…
so there wasn’t much doubt in my mind as to what cake I was going to make. It
took me a good few days, but I was really proud of the end result and Matthew
could not believe it! So, in this post I’ll share a few “in the making”
pictures along with some of the highlights of our Valentines Day :)
I'd been drawing up and planning this cake for a couple of weeks, gathering all the little supplies that I'd need etc. And, because I'm at uni full time I had to cram it all in on Wednesday day time, and Thursday evening... in between both of which I had to dart back and forth to Nottingham... not ideal but nonetheless it didn't stop me haha. For the sponge, I did cheat and use boxes of chocolate cake mix... but still, it tasted good! Also, I'm by no means whatsoever a talented baker, my icing technique is terrible but I just enjoy making funky cakes, especially one like this that actually meant so much :)
Essential part... about to lick the spoon haha!
Quick lunch break to eat my gran's home made shepards pie... yummy!
The roof is made from card board and icing over the top :) (it was leaking! haha but it dried well over night)
This is how I left the cake on Thursday evening... ready to quickly finish off on Friday morning :)
When I went up to bed that night, I found these beautiful little treats from my Mumsy :)
Ta-daaa! All finished :) This is my Disney's Up inspired cake, to thank Matthew for all our perfect adventures, big or small...
For the balloons, I just used 5" ones and only blew them up a small amount (well, mum did... despite trying with all my mite I could not even slightly blow up a balloon! ridiculous haha) and I bought latex glue from ebay to stick them together :) They were just air filled so they wouldn't last particularly long, or float, but I was really pleased with how they looked :)
When Matthew arrived, I put the theme tune from the film on (Married Life) as I guided him into the kitchen with my hands over his eyes haha... and he was so amazed when he saw the cake!! It was so worth it to see his face haha... although he was not looking forward to cutting it!
With all my hard work done... it was a beautiful surprise when the doorbell rang and these gorgeous flowers were delivered! I've never had flowers sent to me before, but it was sooo nice... when I opened the door, the postman said "somebody loves you!" haha! :D
Now can anybody guess what Matthew's present from me was??? The clue is in the message!
It's a telescope! He'd been going on about wanting one for a while, so I was planning on getting one for him just as a gift, not specifically for Valentines Day... but going by my student loan installments, it meant that I could buy it towards the end of January, so I thought why not wait and give it to him as a Valentine :) He was super-happy and can't wait to get it set up and go star gazing! Not that we'll be any good budding astronomers, but nevertheless it'll be cool to see the moon up close! :)
So... with all the spoiling each other out of the way... what did we do? More spoiling! haha... we took a drive into Nottingham and had a shop around so I'll share what I came back with...
I actually bought some trainers?! I tried these on in Footasylum and thought they'd be good for long walks around the uni campus... they were also reduced to £40 :)
Then, in Urban Outfitters I seen this and it has a turtle on the front!!! So me and Matthew took one look at each other and thought it was a must!
Whilst in there, I also chose the top that I'm wearing in the picture above (taken the next day... today) which is just nice and comefy, and dare I say it, very "me"! And, a little necklace which is a kind of rose gold/brassy colour :)
The last thing, was a bath bomb from Lush which Matthew chose as it smells delicious!! I think it's called Avobath?
With a happy morning and lots of shopping done, both of us felt a bit tired out, so we decided not to go out for dinner as planned... but to stay in instead. Matthew cooked my favourite dinner and did it just how I like it (spaghetti bolognaise with broccoli in it) ... it was sooo yummy! We also watched a commedy called 'into the jungle' which was really good :)
That night, we just had a cosy night in with lots of love heart chocolates, cuddled up watching some of our favourite YouTubers (Jesse and Jeana! haha) It was so nice just spending time together and having a good laugh as always! :D
The next day, I found a "sorry you missed it" card at the door saying I'd missed an important parcel, so we drove down to the post office to collect it... and inside were these from Matthew!!! They were supposed to arrive on Valentines Day but unfortunately arrived the day after, but that didn't bother me... I was just so happy and excited haha... Whipsnade zoo had been on our little 'to do' list for a while so I am soooo excited to go there! Also, my favourite part of the present... is what Matthew had written inside. It said "our adventure continues... <3" which I thought was so uncanny (seeing as what I wrote on the cake!) but it honestly made me smile from the inside out. I think gifts that really mean something, are just a cut above the rest!
With a heart full of smiles, that was our Valentines day :) We didn't do anything particularly fancy, but I had such a lovely weekend! I also decided, among all the romance... I am going to try and do some more little romantic things, just at random! So, watch out Matthew... I'm going to try my hand at cooking a bit more often haha... Anyway, I hope everyone had a lovely Valentines Day and doesn't feel too gushy with all the love in the air haha!
:)
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